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"(CNN) -- Mount Redoubt, the Alaskan volcano expected to erupt at any time, is getting a bit more edgy.",
"Dark areas show a mudflow from the peak of Mount Redoubt earlier this week.",
"The Alaska Volcano Observatory said in a statement Friday \"volcanic tremor\" has increased in \"amplitude.\"",
"The activity on the 10,197-foot peak is \"more energetic than that of the previous several days.",
"However, it is still less vigorous than that observed last weekend,\" the observatory said.",
"Peter Cervelli, a research geophysicist with the observatory, told CNN that \"every indication is that we're heading toward an eruption.\"",
"Cervelli said scientists don't know exactly when it will happen, but if it does happen, it could be days or weeks -- or even hours.",
"\"I would not be surprised to see it erupt at anytime,\" Cervelli said.",
"\"We're going to know it when we see it.\"",
"Learn more about Redoubt and its history » .",
"Scientists raised the alert status Sunday to a \"watch\" level, the second-highest, based on seismic activity detected January 23.",
"The peak is about 100 miles southwest of Anchorage, the state's most populous city.",
"Mount Redoubt last erupted nearly 20 years ago, in December 1989, and that eruption lasted until April 1990.",
"Geologists think there could be an eruption \"similar to or smaller than the one that occurred in 1989-90.\"",
"PopSci.com: Predicting eruptions .",
"That eruption spread ash in Kenai and Anchorage, where it disrupted air traffic operations.",
"Cervelli said the ash plumes caused engine failure on a jet.",
"The 1989-90 eruption also spurred volcanic mudflows, or lahars, that flowed east down the Drift River.",
"The ash fall was seen as far away as Fairbanks and the Yukon Territory border.",
"PopSci.com: Prehistoric explosions wiped out ocean life -- and created petroleum .",
"The observatory has set up a Web camera near the summit of the volcano and another within Cook Inlet.",
"It plans to do continuous visual surveillance, measure gas output and analyze satellite and weather-radar data."
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"NEW: \"Volcanic tremor\" increasing in \"amplitude,\" observatory says .",
"The 10,200-foot Mount Redoubt is about 100 miles southwest of Anchorage, Alaska .",
"Volcano last erupted in December 1989 .",
"Eruption could spawn huge mudflows, disrupt flights with ash ."
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"(CNN) -- World No. 1 Serena Williams' preparations for her Australian Open title defense suffered a late blip when she was beaten in the final of the Sydney International by Elena Dementieva on Friday.",
"The American, who had struggled past unseeded Frenchwoman Aravane Rezai in three sets in the semifinals when she appeared to injure her left leg, lost 6-3 6-2 to suffer her fifth defeat in her last eight clashes with the Russian.",
"\"I was struggling a little bit, but she definitely deserves all the credit,\" Williams told reporters.",
"\"It's definitely not ligament problems.",
"It's just a little pain but the strapping usually helps the pain go away.\"",
"Dementieva, who beat world No.",
"2 Dinara Safina in the quarterfinals, successfully defended her title in the final event before the first Grand Slam tournament of this decade starts on Monday.",
"\"It's great to play against the best players in the world, especially going into a Grand Slam.",
"It was a great experience and it'll help me next week at the Australian Open,\" she told the WTA Tour's official Web site .",
"Dementieva went into the match against Williams having been handed a potential second-round clash with former world No.",
"1 Justine Henin, who pulled out of the Sydney event as a precaution after suffering a leg injury in her comeback tournament in Brisbane.",
"Seven-time Grand Slam winner Henin, handed a wildcard after a 20-month retirement, will start against unseeded fellow Belgian Kirsten Flipkens on Monday while fifth seed Dementieva plays fellow Russian Vera Dushevina .",
"Both have avoided the Williams sisters, who are in the top half of the draw with Serena opening against Poland's Urszula Radwanska on Tuesday and sixth seed Venus taking on Czech Lucie Safarova.",
"Four-time winner Serena could face seventh seed Victoria Azarenka in the last eight, with a possible semifinal against her older sibling looming.",
"Last year's losing finalist Safina opens against world No.",
"44 Magdalena Rybarikova of Slovakia, and could face fellow Russian Maria Sharapova in the fourth round.",
"Sharapova, the 2008 champion but seeded 14th after struggling with shoulder problems last year, begins with a glamour clash against compatriot and fellow pin-up girl Maria Kirilenko.",
"U.S. Open champion Kim Clijsters could face fellow comeback queen Henin in the quarterfinals, having been seeded 15th and facing a qualifier first up.",
"But to set up a rematch of the recent final in Brisbane, which she won, Clijsters is likely to have to overcome third seed Svetlana Kuznetsova in the fourth round.",
"The Russian, who has never got past the last eight in Melbourne, takes on unseeded compatriot Anastasia Rodionova in her first match.",
"Australian Open women's singles draw (seeds in bold): .",
"1-Serena Williams (USA) v Urszula Radwanska (Pol) Petra Kvitova (Cze) v Jill Craybas (USA) Qualifier v Andrea Petkovic (Ger) Ayumi Morita (Jpn) v 32-Carla Suarez-Navarro (Spa) 21-Sabine Lisicki (Ger) v Petra Martic (Cro) Varvara Lepchenko (USA) v Alberta Brianti (Ita) Kristina Barrois (Ger) v Akgul Amanmuradova (Uzb) Qualifier v Samantha Stosur (Aus) (13) 9-Vera Zvonareva (Rus) v Kristina Kucova (Svk) Kai Chen Chang (Tpe) v Iveta Benesova (Cze) Qualifier v Gisela Dulko (Arg) Qualifier v 20-Ana Ivanovic (Ser) 28-Elena Vesnina (Rus) v Tathiana Garbin (Ita) Kimiko Date Krumm (Jpn) v Yaroslava Shvedova (Kaz) Stefanie Voegele (Swi) v Melinda Czink (Hun) Stephanie Cohen Aloro (Fra) v 7-Victoria Azarenka (Blr) 4-Caroline Wozniacki (Den) v Aleksandra Wozniak (Can) Tamira Paszek (Aut) v Julia Goerges (Ger) Galina Voskoboeva (Kaz) v Tsvetana Pironkova (Bul) Lucie Hradecka (Cze) v 29-Shahar Peer (Isr) 22-Daniela Hantuchova (Svk) v Viktoriya Kutuzova (Ukr) Jarmila Groth (Svk) v Qualifier Stephanie Dubois (Can) v Agnes Szavay (Hun) Marina Erakovic (Nzl) v 16-Na Li (Chn) 10-Agnieszka Radwanska (Pol) v Tatjana Malek (Ger) Melanie Oudin (USA) v Alla Kudryavtseva (Rus) Julie Coin (Fra) v Alicia Molik (Aus) Alize Cornet (Fra) v 17-Francesca Schiavone (Ita) 25-Anabel Medina Garrigues (Spa) v Karolina Sprem (Cro) Anastasiya Yakimova (Blr) v Casey Dellacqua (Aus) Arantxa Parra Santonja (Spa) v Sybille Bammer (Aut) Lucie Safarova (Cze) v 6-Venus Williams (USA) 5-Elena Dementieva (Rus) v Vera Dushevina (Rus) Kirsten Flipkens (Bel) v Justine Henin (Bel) Sorana-Mihaela Cirstea (Rom) v Olivia Rogowska (Aus) Jelena Dokic (Aus) v 27-Alisa Kleybanova (Rus) 18-Virginie Razzano (Fra) v Ekaterina Makarova (Rus) Klara Zakopalova (Cze) v Sara Errani (Ita) Qualifier v Alexandra Dulgheru (Rom) Anna Chakvetadze (Rus) v 12-Flavia Pennetta (Ita) 15-Kim Clijsters (Bel) v Qualifier Sesil Karatantcheva (Kaz) v Tamarine Tanasugarn (Tha) Yung-Jan Chan (Tpe) v Kaia Kanepi (Est) Edina Gallovits (Rom) v 19-Nadia Petrova (Rus) 26-Aravane Rezai (Fra) v Sania Mirza (Ind) Olga Govortsova (Blr) v Qualifier Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (Rus) v Anastasija Sevastova (Lat) Anastasia Rodionova (Rus) v 3-Svetlana Kuznetsova (Rus) 8-Jelena Jankovic (Ser) v Monica Niculescu (Rom) Patricia Mayr (Aut) v Katie O'Brien (GB) Qualifier v Polona Hercog (Slo) Qualifier v 31-Alona Bondarenko (Ukr) 24-Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez (Spa) v Evgeniya Rodina (Rus) Jie Zheng (Chn) v Shuai Peng (Chn) Coco Vandeweghe (USA) v Sandra Zahlavova (Cze) Rossana De los Rios (Par) v 11-Marion Bartoli (Fra) 14-Maria Sharapova (Rus) v Maria Kirilenko (Rus) Qualifier v Timea Bacsinszky (Swi) Anna-Lena Groenefeld (Ger) v Roberta Vinci (Ita) Vania King (USA) v 23-Dominika Cibulkova (Svk) 30-Kateryna Bondarenko (Ukr) v Ioana Raluca Olaru (Rom) Pauline Parmentier (Fra) v Elena Baltacha (GB) Barbora Zahlavova-Strycova (Cze) v Qualifier Magdalena Rybarikova (Svk) v Dinara Safina (Rus) (2)"
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"World No.",
"1 Serena Williams beaten in final of Sydney International by Elena Dementieva .",
"Williams was playing with injured leg ahead of Australian Open title defense .",
"American in same half of draw as sister Venus for the first Grand Slam of decade .",
"Dementieva could face former world No.",
"1 Justine Henin in second round in Melbourne ."
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"Editor's note: Clark Howard, the Atlanta, Georgia-based host of a nationally syndicated radio show, hosts a television show designed to help viewers save more, spend less and avoid getting ripped off during these tough economic times.",
"The show airs at noon and 4 p.m.",
"ET Saturdays and Sundays on HLN.",
"Clark Howard says, \"The only smart move is to pay your debt down or pay it off entirely.\"",
"ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- I've been getting many calls from listeners who are outraged or perplexed by the actions of their credit card issuer.",
"The issuing banks are raising interest rates by 20 percent or more -- even if the individual has good credit, has never been late on a payment or hasn't even had any change in their credit standing.",
"This is happening across all income levels.",
"It's even affecting successful business owners and moderate to wealthy individuals.",
"Fortune magazine recently spotlighted one small business owner who had a card that went from nearly 8 percent to 26 percent, even though nothing changed with his finances or payment history.",
"Bank of America, Citibank and Capital One are among the big issuers arbitrarily jacking up rates in the face of what they often cite as a \"continually changing business environment.\"",
"In fact, the Federal Reserve reports 37 percent of banks have increased their interest rates.",
"The reality is that the banks are fearful of the high rate of credit card default, and they know they've got you if you're among the 70 percent of Americans who carry a month-to-month balance.",
"The good news here is that there are new rules coming that will stop the banks from retroactively raising the rate on existing balances you already carry.",
"The banks will still, however, be able to raise the rates if you stop paying as well as on all future purchases.",
"But what stinks is that these rules won't go into effect until July 2010.",
"That gives the banks plenty of time to lobby members of Congress and get this pending legislation overturned.",
"For right now, the problem with banks jacking up the rates is that they're making it tougher for someone who might have been able to pay at 5 percent but could never pay at 30 percent, for example.",
"So they're setting you up for failure, and they're shooting themselves in the foot at the same time.",
"The only smart move is to pay your debt down or pay it off entirely.",
"And don't assume you're a sitting duck if your credit standing is decent.",
"You can always shop around for a card that has a lower rate.",
"Try looking at Web sites such as CardWeb.com or CardTrak.com to find the best rates.",
"I also have a special warning for you if you're buried in debt and thinking about using one of those debt-negotiation firms that advertise all over the Internet and late-night TV.",
"Do not believe these people about their ability to negotiate with your credit card company and reduce your outstanding balance by 50 percent or more.",
"These con artists get you to pay them money as a retainer and then tell you to stop making all payments while they negotiate on your behalf.",
"But they're rip-off artists through and through.",
"Many banks won't even take a phone call from these people anymore because they're on to their game.",
"That leaves you scammed out of your retainer fee while your bills continue to pile up.",
"There is a better way to address your debt.",
"Try calling your credit card company and telling them you're in over your head.",
"You may get blown off, or they may work with you.",
"If you do get the cold shoulder, go to NFCC.org -- the National Foundation for Credit Counseling -- and find a local affiliate who can help you come up with a debt-conquering plan for free or very low cost.",
"You didn't get into credit card debt overnight, and you won't get out of it overnight; the recovery is going to be a slow step-by-step process."
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"Clark Howard: Banks raising interest rates on credit cards by 20 percent or more .",
"Even people with good credit ratings who pay on time are getting hit, Howard says .",
"In 2010, rules will stop banks from retroactively raising rate on existing balances .",
"Howard advises consumers to pay down or pay off credit card debt ."
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"(CNN) -- A Dutch man once considered a suspect in the 2005 disappearance of Alabama teenager Natalee Holloway has told a television station he dumped her body in a swamp, Aruba's chief prosecutor told CNN.",
"However, Joran van der Sloot's claims to Dutch station RTL-5 are \"unbelievable,\" prosecutor Peter Blanken said.",
"RTL-5 said Tuesday it had \"acquired exclusive material containing a statement by Joran van der Sloot\" regarding Holloway's disappearance.",
"\"This material was first offered to us in 2009,\" Remko van Westerloo, the station's director of programming, said in a statement.",
"\"Obviously, our initial response was skeptical,\" van Westerloo said.",
"\"However, we did feel that this interview required thorough research.",
"We've spoken to a variety of experts and several critics.",
"These findings resulted in a TV special which will air this Sunday.",
"It's up to the viewers to form their own opinions on the matter.\"",
"The statement did not divulge the contents of van der Sloot's interview.",
"However, Blanken told CNN on Tuesday that van der Sloot says in the interview that he dumped Holloway's body \"in a swamp on the north end of the island.\"",
"\"He was very unspecific,\" Blanken said.",
"Blanken said RTL contacted him about the interview last summer, and the station showed the interview to him to get his reaction.",
"He said his office and Aruban police investigated.",
"\"We tried to verify it,\" Blanken said.",
"\"It couldn't be true. We talked with several witnesses and reviewed several facts.",
"The story is unbelievable and not true, in my opinion.\"",
"He said his office told van der Sloot \"we'd like him to come in and speak with us about it.",
"He failed to respond.\"",
"Asked why van der Sloot gave the interview, Blanken said, \"You should ask him.",
"Maybe he wanted to be on camera or make some money.\"",
"Holloway was 18 when last seen in the early hours of May 30, 2005, leaving an Oranjestad, Aruba, nightclub with van der Sloot and two other men, brothers Deepak and Satish Kalpoe.",
"She was visiting Aruba with about 100 classmates celebrating their graduation from Mountain Brook High School in suburban Birmingham, Alabama.",
"Holloway failed to show up for her flight home the following day, and her packed bags were found in her hotel room.",
"Van der Sloot and the Kalpoes were arrested and released in 2005 in connection with the case.",
"In 2007, they were arrested a second time after Aruba's then-chief prosecutor, Hans Mos, said he had received new evidence in the case.",
"Van der Sloot, who was attending college in the Netherlands, was brought back to Aruba.",
"But judges ruled the new evidence -- which included an Internet chat the same day Holloway disappeared with one of the three youths saying she was dead -- was not enough to keep them jailed.",
"In 2008, prosecutors sought unsuccessfully to arrest van der Sloot a third time after a videotape surfaced on Dutch television.",
"In it, van der Sloot tells a man he considered to be his friend that he had sex with Holloway on the beach after leaving the nightclub, then she \"started shaking\" and lost consciousness.",
"He said he panicked when he could not resuscitate her and called a friend who had a boat.",
"The two put Holloway's body in the boat, he said, and then he went home.",
"The friend told him the next day that he had carried the body out and dumped it in the ocean.",
"\"I didn't lose a minute of sleep over it,\" van der Sloot said on the tape.",
"Holloway's mother, Beth Twitty, told ABC at the time that the video showed van der Sloot was \"not innocent.\"",
"But an Aruba court ruled there was not enough evidence to re-arrest him.",
"Aruban prosecutors said authorities had met with van der Sloot in the Netherlands, but in a two-hour interview he denied any role in Holloway's disappearance.",
"Van der Sloot acknowledged to a Dutch television program he made the comments, but said he was lying.",
"\"That is what he wanted to hear, so I told him what he wanted to hear,\" he said.",
"\"When [van der Sloot] really wants to tell the truth, [we hope] he will,\" said Blanken, who took over as chief prosecutor in September.",
"\"He didn't tell the truth [this time].\"",
"CNN's Susan Candiotti contributed to this report."
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"Ex-suspect tells TV station he dumped Alabama teen's body in swamp, Aruba prosecutor says .",
"But Joran van der Sloot's alleged confession \"unbelievable,\" prosecutor says .",
"Alabama teenager disappeared on trip to Aruba in May 2005 .",
"Nancy Grace has the latest breaking developments at 8 and 10 p.m.",
"ET Tuesday on HLN ."
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"Nairobi, Kenya (CNN) -- Sala saunters in the red soil, her wrinkled skin glistening in the sun as she tries to keep up with the rest of the herd.",
"It is hard to believe the 6-week-old, dwarfed by her human keeper, will grow up to be one of nature's biggest beasts.",
"Until then, she lives at a Nairobi orphanage that takes in baby elephants struggling to survive.",
"There, she walks around in the lush wilderness with her peers, drinks soy milk and waves her trunk playfully as her keeper applies sunscreen on her delicate skin.",
"A red garment tied around her back keeps it safe from the sun's glare.",
"Sala is one of scores of animals orphaned by drought, poaching and shrinking habitats, which have decimated wildlife across Kenya.",
"The baby elephant was found wandering, alone and confused, after her mother died of starvation, her caretaker said.",
"Conservation groups such as the David Sheldrick Foundation, where Sala is, have seen an influx of wildlife.",
"The foundation takes in orphaned elephants and rhinos from across the country, a popular tourist destination because of its animals.",
"\"You know if a human child came in need of care, you wouldn't put a bullet in or turn it away,\" said Daphne Sheldrick of the foundation.",
"\"Elephants are the same. ... Whatever comes in, we have to make space.\"",
"The facility has more than 20 elephants in Nairobi and more at another center in Tsavo National Park, where they are also rehabilitated.",
"Kenya depends on tourism as a main source of income.",
"Sala taps into that to help earn the $900 monthly cost for her upkeep.",
"She slushes and slides in a mud bath for throngs of tourists and uses her trunk to nudge the only other person she dwarfs -- a squirming toddler.",
"Sala and the other animals will be released back into the wilderness when they are old enough, which takes years.",
"Long after they are gone, their caretakers will still worry about the fragile animals they help nurture.",
"\"After working with these elephants, it's no longer just a job,\" said Edwin Lusichi, the chief keeper.",
"\"It is from inside your heart, the love that you have for these animals.\""
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"Conservation groups have seen an influx of wildlife .",
"Scores of animals are orphaned by drought, poaching and shrinking habitats .",
"David Sheldrick Foundation makes room for all the elephants that come its way ."
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"(CNN) -- Tokyo has a dynamic and varied nightlife, although, as with the city's restaurants, many of the best bars are tucked away off the beaten track.",
"Tokyo has a buzzing clubbing scene.",
"The ultra-stylish New York Bar is among the best rooftop bars in the world.",
"Located on the 52nd floor of the Park Hyatt hotel (3-7-1-2 Nishi Shinjuku) it offers spectacular views of the glowing, futuristic cityscape that is Tokyo after dark.",
"There's fantastic food and live jazz, and as an added bonus, you may recognize it as the bar where Bill Murray first meets Scarlett Johansson in \"Lost in Translation.\"",
"At Henry Good Seven it's the stunning interior that will catch your eye.",
"At once kitsch, cozy and classy, it's a truly unique space by Tokyo design gurus Wonderwall.",
"You'll find it tucked away on the seventh floor of the Shin-Marunouchi Building (1-5-1 Marunouchi) right across the street from Tokyo Station.",
"If you manage to locate it, you'll discover that Kita Aoyama Salon (Yamahazi Building, B1F, 2-7-18 Kita Aoyama, Minato-ku) is one of the city's coolest bars.",
"Take the metro to Gaienmae, leave by exit 2 and turn right.",
"An unmarked metal door will lead you to a barely-lit basement bar artfully kitted out in dark wood and antique furniture.",
"It's open until 5 a.m. and manages to feel laid back and indulgent at the same time.",
"Well worth seeking out.",
"Perennially popular with foreigners is the Roppongi area.",
"Full of bars and restaurants, it's always lively -- and a bit tacky.",
"Propaganda (Yua Roppongi Building 2F 3-14-9 Roppongi, Minato-ku) is an unfussy, affable shot bar with a good-value happy hour.",
"A world away from garish Roppongi is the Golden Gai area of Shinjuku.",
"A ghetto of dark alleyways crammed with tiny ramshackle bars, Golden Gai evokes a bygone bohemian Tokyo of the 1960s.",
"Some establishments aren't keen on foreign customers but La Jetee (1-1-8 Kabukicho, Shinjuku-ku) is a friendly little drinking den that's sure to offer a warm welcome.",
"A new arrival on the clubbing scene is the intimate Le Baron de Paris (Aoyama Center Building, Minami-Aoyama Minatu-ku), the Tokyo outpost of the Parisian night club.",
"Designed in part by Marc Newson, it attracts a trendy and glamorous international crowd.",
"More established, and much less intimate, is Tokyo's finest superclub, Womb (2-16 Maruyama-cho, Shibuya-ku).",
"More like the interior of a spaceship than a nightclub, Womb has dazzling lighting and attracts top international House and Techno DJs.",
"Where to stay | What to see | Where to be seen | Where to eat | Where to shop .",
"...................... Do you agree with our Tokyo picks?",
"Send us your comments and suggestions in the \"Sound Off\" box below and we'll print the best ."
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"Enjoy jazz, cocktails and mind-blowing views at the ultra-stylish New York Bar .",
"If you can find Kita Aoyama Salon you deserve the beer that's waiting for you .",
"The Golden Gai area is packed with ramshackle bars - check out La Jetee .",
"The legendary Womb is Tokyo's finest club, featuring incredible lighting ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- The FBI attained \"actionable intelligence\" from bombing suspect Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab in the first hours after his arrest on Christmas Day, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said Tuesday.",
"\"AbdulMutallab spent a number of hours with FBI investigators in which we gleaned useable, actionable intelligence,\" Gibbs told reporters.",
"According to authorities, Nigerian-born AbdulMutallab tried to detonate explosives hidden in his underwear as a flight from Amsterdam, Netherlands, made its final approach to Detroit, Michigan, December 25.",
"The device failed to fully detonate, instead setting off a fire at the man's seat.",
"Gibbs declined to elaborate on the nature of the intelligence.",
"AbdulMutallab, 23, has been tied to the Yemen-based group al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.",
"In a statement to reporters after meeting with his national security team, President Obama said U.S. officials had enough information in their possession before the failed bombing attack to have prevented the suspect from getting on the plane, but had been unable to \"connect the dots.\"",
"Obama said he could accept the imperfect nature of intelligence work, \"but it is increasingly clear that intelligence was not fully analyzed or fully leveraged,\" he said, adding: \"That's not acceptable, and I will not tolerate it.\"",
"\"Time and again we've learned that quickly piecing together information and taking swift action is critical to staying one step ahead of a nimble adversary,\" Obama said.",
"\"So we have to do better, and we will do better, and we have to do it quickly.",
"American lives are on the line.\"",
"In one step, senior State Department officials told CNN on Tuesday that new criteria for information collected on possible terrorists would make it easier to ban them from U.S.-bound flights.",
"Speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the material, the officials said the United States has lowered the threshold for information considered important enough to put suspicious individuals on a no-fly list or revoke their visas.",
"If the new criteria had been in place before Christmas, AbdulMutallab would have been added to the no-fly list, the officials said.",
"AbdulMutallab is being held at the Federal Correctional Institution in Milan, Michigan, where he's still being treated for the burn injuries he received in the failed bombing.",
"He faces charges of attempting to destroy an aircraft, and will face his first court hearings Friday.",
"The suspect apparently arrived in Amsterdam already carrying the explosives he planned to use, Dutch prosecutors said Tuesday.",
"\"The suspect traveled through Ghana before he arrived via Lagos [Nigeria] at Schiphol,\" prosecutors said, referring to the airport where AbdulMutallab boarded the flight to Detroit.",
"\"So far, it seems he already had the explosives with him before he landed at Schiphol.\"",
"Also Tuesday, British officials announced that London's Heathrow Airport will introduce more body scanners within weeks, and that all British airports must have equipment to detect explosives by the end of the year.",
"British Home Secretary Alan Johnson said the British government had no evidence AbdulMutallab had been planning an attack.",
"Johnson added that British authorities were directing airports to carry out more random searches of passengers because metal detectors cannot spot explosives without metal parts.",
"Last week, Obama blamed human error and security lapses for the failure by officials to act on information that AbdulMutallab was a possible terrorist threat.",
"He had a valid multiple-entry U.S. visa.",
"His father, a leading banker in Nigeria, had warned U.S. authorities before the attack that his son might be involved with Islamic extremists, but the information failed to prompt a response such as canceling the visa.",
"Tuesday's White House meetings were held just hours after the United States reopened its embassy in Yemen.",
"It's believed that AbdulMutallab may have received training in Yemen from the group al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.",
"The United States' decision to close the embassy came after intelligence suggested that four al Qaeda operatives could have been planning an attack on the compound, a senior administration official said Monday.",
"A statement posted on the Embassy's Web site said \"successful counter-terrorism operations\" conducted by Yemeni security forces Monday north of the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, addressed \"a specific area of concern and have contributed to the Embassy's decision to resume operations.\"",
"Yemen's state-run news agency, SABA, reported Monday that two al Qaeda suspects were killed and two others were injured in clashes with a Yemeni anti-terrorism unit.",
"CNN's Dan Lothian and Suzanne Malveaux in Washington, Per Nyberg in London, England, and Christian Purefoy in Lagos, Nigeria, contributed to this report."
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"Dutch authorities: Suspect apparently arrived already carrying explosives .",
"British officials: Heathrow to introduce more body scanners within weeks ."
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"(OPRAH.com) -- Shelly and her husband, Daren Forney, were the happily married parents of three beautiful girls, 13-year-old Jessica, 9-year-old Erica and 4-year-old Valerie.",
"\"Erica is my little sunshine because she lit up the house,\" Shelly says.",
"\"She was making us laugh before she was a year old.\"",
"Two days before Thanksgiving in 2008 , Shelly came back from a doctor's appointment to find emergency crews on her street.",
"\"There were all these people and a child lying on the ground,\" she says.",
"\"I had no idea it was my daughter.\"",
"Daren says Erica was riding her bike home from school.",
"\"Erica was just around the corner from our house,\" he says.",
"\"She was 30 seconds from being home safely.\"",
"Erica had been hit head-on by a 5,000-pound SUV.",
"Police say that the driver had recently finished a phone call at the time of the accident.",
"\"The driver said: 'I'm so sorry.",
"I didn't see her,'\" Shelly says.",
"\"I felt badly for the driver because I thought: 'Oh, she's unconscious.",
"She's going to be okay.'",
"... And they started cutting my daughter's clothes off and it was hitting me this is very, very, very serious.\"",
"Watch mom remember her daughter, the fatal day .",
"Erica was rushed to the local children's hospital, then airlifted to another facility.",
"\"The neurosurgeon made it very clear she was going to die,\" Shelly says.",
"\"I spent the night with her that night.",
"I held her. Cried. I kissed her. I sang to her. I just needed to have time with my girl.\"",
"The driver of the SUV, Michelle Smith, pleaded guilty last year to careless driving resulting in death and was sentenced to two years probation, a $300 fine and 150 hours of community service, according to the Denver Post.",
"Her sentence also required her to write a letter of apology to the Forney family and have the letter published in newspapers.",
"Since Erica's death, Shelly and Daren have been working to change the laws in Colorado.",
"\"I don't want any other parent to have to go through this, or a husband to lose his wife,\" she says.",
"\"We have been trying so hard to get this law changed, and we're going to continue until it happens.\"",
"In the meantime, Shelly and Daren say every single person who gets behind the wheel can make a difference.",
"\"Get off the phone. Save a life. Don't talk and drive,\" she says.",
"\"You've got precious cargo in that car.",
"Your life. Your children's life.",
"They are not worth a phone call, a text, an e-mail.",
"It's not worth it.\" Nearly 500,000 people are injured and 6,000 are killed each year because drivers are talking, texting and e-mailing behind the wheel, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation.",
"\"It is my prayer that this show, this day will be a seminal day in your life,\" Oprah Winfrey said on her show Tuesday.",
"\"Let it be the end, the end of you using a cell phone or sending a text message when you are behind the wheel of a moving vehicle.",
"And until we as a nation decide we're going to change that, those numbers are only going to go up.\"",
"Oprah.com: Take Oprah's no phone zone pledge .",
"Most European countries ban the use of handheld cell phones while driving, but not all U.S. states have laws restricting texting and driving.",
"So far, 19 states and the District of Columbia have banned texting while driving.",
"In seven states and the District of Columbia, drivers can only use their cell phones if they are hands-free.",
"Of the states with these laws, Utah's laws are among the strictest, due to one distracted driver and two grieving families.",
"Oprah.com: Why multitaskers should beware .",
"September 22, 2006, began like any other day for Jackie Furfaro.",
"She kissed her husband, Jim, goodbye as he left to pick up his colleague, Keith O'Dell, for work.",
"A few hours later, Jackie arrived at work, where police were waiting for her.",
"They told her Jim had been in an accident.",
"\"I saw Jim's license in the hands of one of the police officers, and I realized that he was dead,\" she says.",
"\"They told me that a 19-year-old who was driving a white Tahoe had crossed the center line and clipped my husband,\" she says.",
"\"He ended up in the oncoming traffic line and was broadsided by the vehicle behind the 19-year-old, and he was killed instantly, along with Keith.\"",
"An investigator at the crash site suspected texting was involved when he saw the 19-year-old, Reggie Shaw, texting on the way to a mandatory drug and alcohol screening.",
"No drugs or alcohol were found in his system, but cell phone records confirmed Reggie had been texting from the time he got into his car up until the moment of the crash.",
"Reggie was sentenced to 30 days in jail, community service and to honor a unique request from Jackie -- to watch a video of her husband's funeral.",
"\"I just wanted him to know who he killed,\" she says.",
"\"That was a way for him to get to know one of the men.\"",
"Before the accident, Reggie says he texted \"pretty close to 100 percent of the time\" while driving.",
"\"I just never thought about it,\" he says.",
"\"Growing up, going to high school, going to driver's ed, it was never taught to me how dangerous it was.\"",
"Reggie says he's haunted by what he's done.",
"\"This affects my life every day.",
"It's something that I can never really forgive myself for.",
"It was a poor choice that I made,\" he says.",
"\"I have trouble sleeping at night.",
"You drive down the road, you see accidents on the side of the road, and instantly that's the first thing that I think of.",
"It's hard every day.",
"It never gets easier.\"",
"When asked whether the jail time he served was enough, Reggie says he doesn't know.",
"\"I think about those 30 days in jail and what I went through and how hard that was for me -- and I think about the two lives that are lost,\" he says.",
"\"I don't know if it was enough.\"",
"Still, Reggie says it's important for him to share his story with others.",
"In fall 2008, Reggie spoke at a national summit in Washington, D.C., about the dangers of distracted driving.",
"He also speaks at high schools to give students the warning he never received.",
"\"A lot of them think along the lines like I thought: 'I can do this.",
"I'm safe,'\" he says. \"I explain to them: 'It's not safe.",
"Absolutely not. Look what it's done to me. Look what it's done to these two families.",
"You don't want to put anyone through that.",
"It's not worth it.'\" Oprah.com: Can cell phones put you at risk .",
"Subscribe to O, The Oprah Magazine for up to 75% off the newsstand price.",
"That's like getting 18 issues FREE.",
"Subscribe now! TM & © 2010 Harpo Productions, Inc. All Rights Reserved."
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"Shelly and Daren Forney lost their daughter in an accident .",
"They are campaigning for tougher laws against driving while using a phone .",
"Winfrey asks people to make cars a no-cell-phone-zone ."
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"(CNN) -- A pilot's sleep disorder and a string of early mornings helped cause the crew of a commuter jet to fall asleep during a flight over Hawaii in 2008, federal investigators reported Monday.",
"The pilot and co-pilot of a Go!",
"Airlines jet failed to respond to calls from air traffic controllers for 18 minutes during the February 2008 flight from Honolulu to Hilo and awoke to find they had overshot their destination by about 30 miles, the National Transportation Safety Board reported.",
"The plane landed safely once the pilots awoke and resumed contact with controllers.",
"The 53-year-old pilot was later diagnosed with obstructive sleep apnea, which can cause daytime sleepiness.",
"\"This condition likely caused him to experience chronic daytime fatigue and contributed to his falling asleep during the incident flight,\" according to the NTSB's report on the probable cause of the incident.",
"\"In addition, the day of the incident was the third consecutive day that both pilots started duty at 0540 (5:40 a.m.),\" the report continued.",
"\"This likely caused the pilots to receive less daily sleep than is needed to sustain optimal alertness and resulted in an accumulation of sleep debt and increased levels of daytime fatigue.\"",
"Go! is a subsidiary of Phoenix, Arizona-based Mesa Air Group.",
"The company had no immediate response to the findings.",
"The Hawaii incident and a 2007 runway landing accident in Michigan that investigators blamed on pilot fatigue prompted a call by federal safety experts to scale back the maximum workday allowed for airline pilots and implement other \"fatigue management\" programs."
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"(CNN) -- Veteran Australian paceman Brett Lee has confirmed that he is retiring from Test cricket after being plagued by injuries in recent years.",
"The 33-year-old, who won 76 Test caps, will still make himself available for one- day cricket once he has fully recovered from an elbow operation he underwent last December.",
"Lee, who claimed 310 wickets for Australia, missed last year's Ashes series against England after suffering a side strain on the eve of the first Test and has not played for his country since the 2008 Boxing Day Test against South Africa.",
"\"I am extremely proud to have played Test cricket for Australia,\" Lee told a news conference.",
"\"My reason for retiring from this form of the game is so that I can preserve my body and continue to represent my country in the other forms of the game.\"",
"Lee made his debut against India in Melbourne in 1999 and is fourth on Australia's all-time Test wicket-takers list, behind Shane Warne, Glenn McGrath and Dennis Lillee.",
"\"Brett has played a key role in helping the Australian team be one of the most successful Test teams in history,\" said Cricket Australia chief executive officer James Sutherland."
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"(CNN) -- Monday, January 18 .",
"10:32 p.m. -- The Haitian National Police force in Port-au-Prince, normally with 4,000 people, has dropped to about 1,500 people since last week's quake, according to National Police Chief Mario Andresol.",
"Many of those who haven't reported to work are dead or injured, he says.",
"9:56 p.m. -- The American Red Cross and UNICEF's United States Fund have raised nearly $5 million since 8 p.m.",
"ET, when \"Haiti How You Can Help,\" a special \"Larry King Live,\" started, according to CNN's Larry King.",
"The show ends at 10 p.m.",
"ET and is scheduled to repeat at midnight.",
"How you can help . 9:47 p.m. -- Maxine Fallon, the 23-year-old student rescued today in the rubble of a building at Universite G.O.C.",
"in Port-au-Prince, says she was pressed in the same position, with legs folded uncomfortably and very little wiggle room, for all six days she was trapped, CNN's Chris Lawrence reports.",
"Watch | Read .",
"9:39 p.m. -- The American Red Cross and UNICEF's United States Fund have raised $2.9 million since 8 p.m.",
"The show lasts until 10 p.m.",
"ET. 9:36 p.m. -- While visiting the injured at a U.N. clinic in Port-au-Prince, Haitian President Rene Preval says his country -- already the Western Hemisphere's poorest -- needs not only medicine and food, but also long-term reconstruction assistance.",
"\"The more we receive help, the more we can take care of them,\" he said.",
"9:12 p.m. -- A U.S. Air Force cargo plane on Monday, bypassing the gridlock at Haiti's main airport in Port-au-Prince, dropped 40 pallets of bottled water and ready-to-eat food on a field just north of the airport, CNN's Larry Shaughnessy reported.",
"\"There are so many relief agencies funneling through the airport that it has kind of created a bottleneck,\" U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Leon Strickland said en route to the drop point.",
"\"We're going to put things directly out of the air onto the ground and open up another distribution point north of the [Port-au-Prince] airfield.\"",
"8:31 p.m. -- The following video shows CNN's Anderson Cooper dragging a bleeding boy from a crowd as looting went on Monday in a Port-au-Prince street.",
"The video includes graphic content.",
"Viewer discretion is advised.",
"Watch . 7:39 p.m. -- The student saved today from the rubble of a Port-au-Prince university building, 23-year-old Maxine Fallon, says she prayed for someone to find her.",
"\"I had hoped I would be rescued,\" Fallon said.",
"Doctors told CNN that Fallon is suffering from severe lacerations and trauma to her organs, among other injuries.",
"She was drifting in and out of consciousness and was transported to a field hospital in the Port-au-Prince suburb of Petionville, CNN's Chris Lawrence and Arthur Brice reported.",
"Read . 6:41 p.m. -- A volunteer at Sacre Coeur Hospital in northern Haiti said the facility has large numbers of open beds, but no easy way to get patients there from Port-au-Prince.",
"\"My surgeons are sitting around looking at each other, wondering why they came,\" Tim Traynor told CNN.",
"The hospital, in Milot, has more than 200 beds but fewer than 30 patients, Traynor said.",
"He said the U.S. Coast Guard has flown some injured people up from Port-au-Prince, \"one or two or three or four people at a time.\"",
"Another volunteer, Carol Fipp, said: \"Shout it from the mountaintops: We need helicopters.\"",
"6:35 p.m. -- Limited runway space and battered telecommunications networks are hindering efforts to get food, water and medical aid into the hands of desperate Haitians, relief agencies say.",
"The U.S. Ambassador to Haiti, Kenneth Merten, says another big obstacle is Haiti's damaged infrastructure, which is making it difficult to move aid from the airport quickly.",
"5:41 p.m. -- A 12-year-old girl on whom CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta performed brain surgery on the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson this morning is \"doing very well,\" Gupta says.",
"Shrapnel had penetrated her brain.",
"A military helicopter flew Gupta from Port-au-Prince to the aircraft carrier for the procedure.",
"5:23 p.m. -- The people who've just rescued student Maxine Fallon from the crumbled university knew to go there because text messages had been sent from beneath the rubble, said paramedic Clever Sobrino, who added that more trapped survivors are believed to be inside.",
"Read . 5:20 p.m. -- The student who has just been rescued from the Port-au-Prince university rubble, Maxine Fallon, 23, was treated by an Israeli doctor and taken to a U.N. treatment center on the back of a CNN truck, CNN's Chris Lawrence reports.",
"A paramedic had flagged down the truck, which was passing through the area, and asked that the truck be used to take Fallon to the treatment center.",
"5:09 p.m. -- A university student has been pulled out of the rubble of a school in Port-au-Prince and taken to a hospital.",
"5:05 p.m. -- In his interview with CNN's Christiane Amanpour, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon couldn't give a timeline for how long it will take to get the abundance of aid collected for Haiti flowing freely into the country.",
"\"We are in an initial stage of this, coordinating and organizing effective way of delivering aid,\" Ban said.",
"Read . 4:27 p.m. -- U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon tells CNN's Christiane Amanpour that 46 U.N. staff members have died as a result of last week's earthquake, and he fears that number could rise.",
"The previous confirmed toll was 37.",
"The U.N.'s mission headquarters in Port-au-Prince collapsed in the earthquake.",
"Read . 4:11 p.m. -- Two South Florida residents talk to CNN affiliate WFOR about their mother's rescue from a Port-au-Prince grocery store 108 hours after the earthquake.",
"3:46 p.m. -- The U.S. State Department now says the number of Haitian children who have left Haiti to be with adoptive parents in the U.S. since last week's earthquake is 24, not 150 as officials said Sunday.",
"The State Department says it's working on nearly 300 cases of Americans who are waiting to adopt Haitian children, and 200 of those cases are being accelerated, CNN's Elise Labott reports.",
"3:30 p.m. -- A campaign using text messages to raise money for the Red Cross has tallied more than $21 million for relief efforts in Haiti, CNN's Doug Gross reports.",
"The total has obliterated the nearly $4 million that, according to the Red Cross, was donated to all charities by mobile texts in all of 2009.",
"Read . 3:25 p.m. -- At a press conference, Haitian-American musician Wyclef Jean tearfully denies recent allegations that he misappropriated funds from his Yele Haiti charity.",
"Meanwhile, experts on nonprofits say they can't find serious wrongdoing, except for a lapse of discipline in filing his taxes, CNNMoney.com reports.",
"Read . 3:17 p.m. -- CNN's Anderson Cooper provides more detail on the looting he saw in downtown Port-au-Prince on Monday: Several hundred people broke into a damaged supply store, and some of them -- young men holding two-by-fours with nails hammered into them -- began attacking each other.",
"One boy collapsed onto the street in a pool of blood.",
"Some people came with money, buying supplies from looters -- in some cases hoping to sell for more somewhere else.",
"1:50 p.m. -- Twenty-four Americans are confirmed dead in the Haiti quake, the State Department said.",
"About 25 other American deaths have been reported but not confirmed.",
"1:47 p.m. -- U.S. Muslims have raised more than $800,000 for Haiti's earthquake victims since a call to help went out at Friday prayers across the country, according to the group Islamic Relief USA.",
"\"We will probably reach our million dollar goal by this afternoon,\" spokesman Anwar Khan told CNN on Monday.",
"1:24 p.m. -- Former President Bill Clinton has arrived in Haiti, accompanied by his daughter, Chelsea, to check on relief efforts.",
"12:58 p.m. -- CNN's Anderson Cooper reports widespread looting in downtown Port-au-Prince.",
"\"People are actually stealing this, then will sell it later and then they'll use that money for their families,\" Cooper said.",
"12:40 p.m. -- The amphibious assault ship USS Bataan and accompanying ships with more than 2,200 Marines on board were arriving off Haiti on Monday, the Pentagon said.",
"The Marines bring with them heavy lift and earth-moving equipment, a dozen helicopters and additional medical support capabilities.",
"12:33 p.m. -- Rescue crews in Haiti have saved more than 75 people from the rubble, and continue to search for survivors six days after the earthquake, U.S.",
"Ambassador Kenneth Merten said Monday.",
"12:20 p.m. -- Former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, a medical doctor, arrived in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Monday to help in the relief effort.",
"The Tennessee Republican will be working at Baptist Mission Hospital in Haiti with the international relief agency Samaritan's Purse, according to a statement from Hope Through Healing Hands, Frist's nonprofit aid organization.",
"iReport.com: Looking for loved ones .",
"12:09 p.m. -- Military officials now say three Americans, not 30, were injured in an incident outside the Port-au-Prince airport.",
"They are being treated for injuries that are not life-threatening, CNN Pentagon correspondent Chris Lawrence reports.",
"11:40 a.m. -- Military officials in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, tell CNN Pentagon correspondent Chris Lawrence that 30 Americans have been hurt.",
"10:37 a.m. -- Rick Santos, president and CEO of the humanitarian organization IMA World Health, said he and a few of his colleagues survived 50 hours beneath the rubble of a hotel, sustained by a Tootsie Pop and a bit of chewing gum.",
"Read . Share your earthquake stories .",
"8:22 a.m. -- CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta is on board the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson assisting in the care of a 12-year-old girl with a serious head injury.",
"The military sought Gupta's help, and he was taken to the ship by helicopter.",
"CNN has been told that the girl's condition is stable.",
"8:15 a.m. -- Bill Clinton, the U.N. special envoy to Haiti, is set to meet with local officials to discuss how best to proceed with recovery operations in Haiti.",
"6:30 a.m. -- The Pentagon said it will have 7,000 personnel in Haiti on Monday working on earthquake relief.",
"U.S. military personnel have supplied 130,000 rations and 70,000 bottles of water as of Monday morning, it said.",
"Follow daily developments: .",
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"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A new national poll suggests a majority of Americans oppose legalizing same-sex marriages, but the survey indicates a vast generational divide on the issue.",
"The recent poll shows that those who have a gay friend or relative are more likely to support gay marriage.",
"Fifty-four percent of people questioned in a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll released Monday say marriages between gay or lesbian couples should not be recognized as valid, with 44 percent suggesting they should be considered legal.",
"But among those 18 to 34 years old, 58 percent said same-sex marriages should be legal.",
"That number drops to 42 percent among respondents aged 35 to 49, and to 41 percent for those aged 50 to 64.",
"Only 24 percent of Americans 65 and older support recognizing same-sex marriages, according to the poll.",
"While a majority of those polled oppose legalizing gay marriage, six of ten said states that do not recognize gay marriages should allow civil unions.",
"When it comes to supporting civil unions, the poll indicates a similar generational shift.",
"Three states -- Massachusetts, Connecticut and Iowa -- currently allow same-sex marriages.",
"A law passed by Vermont legislators that makes gay and lesbian marriages legal takes affect in September.",
"New Hampshire lawmakers are close to passing a similar bill.",
"\"It's not surprising that three Northeastern states are the first to take this step,\" says CNN Polling Director Keating Holland, referring to Massachusetts, Connecticut and Vermont.",
"\"A majority of people who live in the Northeast say they approve of same-sex marriage.",
"Solid majorities in the South, Midwest and West all oppose gay marriage.\"",
"Forty-nine percent of those questioned say they have a family member or close friend who is gay.",
"That's up eight points from 1998 and 17 points from 1992.",
"Fifty-eight percent of those aged 18 to 34 say they have a family member or close friend who's gay.",
"That drops to just one in three of people 65 or older.",
"\"People who say they have a gay friend or relative support same-sex marriage,\" Holland notes.",
"\"Most of those who say they don't know anyone who is gay, oppose gay marriage.\"",
"The poll's release comes just three days after Supreme Court Justice David Souter announced he would step down from the high court after this year's session ends in late June.",
"Any Supreme Court nomination battle between conservatives and progressives will most likely include hot-button social issues, like gay marriage.",
"\"Republicans don't have the votes to defeat President Obama's choice for the Supreme Court.",
"They have to get some Democrats to join them, possibly on a hot-button social issue,\" says Bill Schneider, CNN senior political analyst.",
"The poll indicates that close to 40 percent of Democrats oppose legalizing gay marriage.",
"But Schneider says there's a risk for conservatives if they make same-sex marriage an issue in the fight over a Supreme Court nomination.",
"\"Young voters strongly favor marriage equality.",
"They're the future of American politics,\" says Schneider.",
"The CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll was conducted April 23-26, with 2,019 adult Americans questioned by telephone.",
"The survey's sampling error is plus or minus three percentage points ."
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"Los Angeles, California (CNN) -- The beating of 12-year-old boy by a group of classmates at a Southern California middle school may be linked to a Facebook posting encouraging kids to target redheads, authorities say.",
"The redheaded boy was beaten up by a group of seventh and eighth graders at A.E.",
"Wright Middle School in Calabasas in two separate incidents Friday, according to a statement released Sunday by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.",
"A Facebook page stating that Friday was \"Kick a Ginger Day,\" referring to redheads and possibly inspired by an episode of the \"South Park\" series, may have sparked the injuries at the middle school, authorities said.",
"The boy's injuries were not serious, and no one has been arrested, authorities said Sunday."
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"Atlanta, Georgia (CNN) -- Jennifer Thomas was looking at life with renewed energy: She had just survived a serious operation, and she was at a crossroads in her career.",
"After 20 years as a producer in the stressful business of TV news, the challenge wasn't there for her anymore.",
"For eight weeks, as she recovered from the removal of a large noncancerous tumor from her uterus, Thomas thought about her next steps.",
"\"I told myself I was going to work to do the things that I enjoy, things that are related to the news,\" she said.",
"Thomas had recently conducted news production workshops for kids, so she already knew that she \"loved people and talking to people about the news.",
"That made me start thinking that if I could do it all the time and get paid for it, I'd really enjoy it.\"",
"Within a year, Thomas had left her job at CNN's HLN network to start a Georgia-based media consulting business with clients such as singer/actress Jennifer Holliday, former Bell Biv DeVoe singer Ron DeVoe, actor Boris Kodjoe, actress Nicole Ari Parker and former supermodel Beverly Johnson.",
"During her journey, Thomas learned that working for yourself often requires scary first steps, generous friends and mentors, and maintaining a healthy work-life balance.",
"She's the first to say that her story is not typical in any way, as she seemed to meet good luck at every turn.",
"After her surgery, Thomas, who also had worked at CNN and NBC, began saving money and planning her business.",
"As if on cue, HLN offered her a buyout to leave the company as part of a downsizing.",
"\"It was my light bulb 'a-ha' moment,\" Thomas said.",
"\"I was excited because in the back of my mind, it was what I had been praying for.\"",
"An opportunity to write a blog for a popular local women's magazine got her some local attention.",
"A journalist friend e-mailed Thomas, saying that he had connected with Johnson and suggesting that they meet.",
"\"She called out of the blue,\" Thomas said. \"",
"'Hi, Jennifer!",
"It's Beverly -- the model!'",
"I was shocked.\" Johnson needed no introduction.",
"Thomas was very familiar with the first African-American model to win a cover on American Vogue magazine.",
"In that year, 1974, Thomas said Johnson's beauty and status spoke volumes to her as a role model.",
"\"When she called, I was like, 'shut up!'",
"We were all like, 'no way!' I didn't think anything would come from it, but eventually, she said she would love to be my client.\"",
"Thomas made short work of helping Johnson successfully pitch her women's health campaign to CNN, NBC and ABC.",
"\"It was huge for me,\" Thomas said.",
"\"It showed me that the skills I may have taken for granted were very valuable to others.",
"Here I was doing what just came natural to me -- working with the media -- and I'm helping an iconic figure.",
"It gave me such a feeling of gratification, and it gave me so much more confidence.\"",
"But snagging Johnson as her first client wasn't easy.",
"She had to start with smaller steps -- and the first step was a doozy: dealing with the fear.",
"\"For me, it was fear of failure,\" she said.",
"\"Anyone who has worked with me knows I am driven to succeed, and failure is not an option.\"",
"\"But I'm a woman of faith,\" said Thomas, a preacher's daughter with strong ties to her church.",
"\"Friends told me that 'faith will give you the wings to fly when you jump off that cliff.'",
"\" One way new consultants can boost their confidence is by compiling a list of experience and skills they've gained during the past five years -- including successful projects, implementations and innovations.",
"Experts recommend referring to that list whenever confidence dips.",
"Thomas said she chose an area of consulting that was based on what she enjoys.",
"\"Ask yourself, 'What would I do if I had to work for free?'",
"\" she says. Another tip: Find a mentor.",
"\"Identify someone who's successful and ask for practical advice,\" she says.",
"\"I found my mentor at my church.\"",
"Set aside time and money for a vacation, and guard it like gold, Thomas advises.",
"Also, she says, determine how much income you need to stay afloat each month, and focus on that target like a laser.",
"To be safe, experts advise aspiring consultants to start small, as a side business, while continuing to work elsewhere full time.",
"But during a recession, keeping a full-time job and easing into consulting work isn't always possible.",
"Unemployment has prompted many experienced professionals to launch consultant operations simply to survive.",
"\"With the way the market has gone recently, there's no shortage of people who are now saying that they're consultants -- and many of them are not qualified to be consultants,\" said Les Rubenovitch, president of Toronto-based Winning Edge Consultants Inc. \"Working for a company as an employee is very different from working for a company as a consultant.",
"The credibility factor is critical if someone is going to engage you.\"",
"Those looking to quickly build credibility or credentials to accompany work experience may consider offering to do speaking engagements at a local college or university.",
"Thomas showed her initiative by teaching herself to organize and lead an online seminar -- a Webinar -- aimed at showing doctors how to better communicate on TV.",
"Financial planning is key to the success of a new consultant operation, according to experts.",
"Thomas set aside savings to live on during the initial phase of her business.",
"It took well into her first year for her business income to fully support her, Thomas says.",
"That's better than most new consultant businesses, experts say.",
"It's not unusual for new consultant businesses to take three years to make a profit.",
"Thomas says she's still not making as much money as she did in TV news, but she expects to reach that mark this year.",
"She works about the same number of hours now as she did as a journalist -- about 40 per week, if not more.",
"\"The big difference is, the hours aren't straight through -- they vary.\"",
"That's not to say that Thomas hasn't made mistakes.",
"\"Don't assume that things will come right away,\" she advises.",
"\"Realize that the opportunities that come to you may not be in the form of money -- but they're still valuable.\"",
"Also worth keeping in mind: Don't overwork yourself.",
"\"I'm still learning this,\" Thomas said.",
"\"I jumped in with both feet in the fire.",
"Don't burn yourself out.\" If she were launching her business all over again, she says, she would build more \"me\" time into her schedule.",
"\"I may take a day at the beginning of the week where I don't take clients and do paperwork -- or I just get a massage.\"",
"What's the best thing about being your own boss?",
"Thomas laughs sheepishly.",
"\"I can sleep in if I want to -- and schedule an appointment for lunch instead of early morning.\""
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"Clients include Beverly Johnson, Boris Kodjoe, Nicole Ari Parker, Ron DeVoe, Jennifer Holliday .",
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"(CNN) -- Ousted Honduran President Jose Manuel Zelaya will be granted safe passage to the Dominican Republic as a guest, resolving a diplomatic impasse that kept him trapped in Honduras, Dominican Republic President Leonel Fernandez said Wednesday.",
"Zelaya, who has been staying at the Brazilian embassy in Honduras, would leave for the Dominican Republic on Tuesday, Fernandez said.",
"The deal was reached with Honduran President-elect Porfirio \"Pepe\" Lobo, with the defeated presidential candidates in last November's election signing the accord as witnesses.",
"Lobo takes office next week.",
"Granting Zelaya safe conduct out of Honduras, where he is wanted on charges of abuse of power, is the first step toward re-engaging Honduras with the international community that repudiated the coup, Lobo said at a news conference Thursday.",
"Despite polls showing that amnesty for Zelaya remains unpopular, Lobo said that having an ex-president locked up inside an embassy is not the kind of image that will move the country forward.",
"The agreement will allow Zelaya, his family, and members of his inner circle to leave for the Dominican Republic as guests, rather than under political asylum, a fine point that derailed previous efforts at negotiating his exit.",
"\"This is an exit with dignity,\" Fernandez said, adding that Zelaya has indicated that his final destination likely will be Mexico.",
"Zelaya was ousted in a June 28 coup.",
"After spending months in exile, Zelaya sneaked back into Honduras in September, and has not left the Brazilian embassy.",
"His return was an effort to restart talks to negotiate his return as president.",
"That never happened.",
"An agreement was eventually signed, but its implementation has been half-hearted, and Zelaya later called the deal dead.",
"A previous effort for Zelaya's exit, a petition from Mexico last month, was rejected by the de facto government of Roberto Micheletti because it did not give Zelaya the status of having been granted political asylum."
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"Jose Manuel Zelaya has been at the Brazilian embassy in Honduras .",
"Zelaya, family, members of inner circle will head to the Dominican Republic as guests .",
"\"This is an exit with dignity,\" Dominican Republic president says .",
"Zelaya, ousted in a coup, indicated he may end up in Mexico ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- Americans overwhelmingly believe that the government is broken, according to a national poll released Sunday.",
"But the CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey also indicates that the public overwhelmingly holds out hope that what's broken can be fixed.",
"Eighty-six percent of people questioned say that the system of government is broken, with 14 percent saying no.",
"iReport: What one government program would you eliminate?",
"Of the 86 percent, 81 percent say that the government can be fixed, but 5 percent say it's beyond repair.",
"The percentage of Americans who believe the government is broken has increased by eight points since 2006.",
"Full results (pdf) \"That increase is highest among higher-income Americans and people who live in rural areas,\" said Keating Holland, CNN polling director.",
"\"Maybe it's just a coincidence, but those are the groups that make up the bulk of the Tea Party activists today.\"",
"Poll shows demographics of Tea Party activists .",
"The CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll was conducted February 12-15, with 1,023 adult Americans questioned by telephone.",
"The survey's sampling error is plus or minus 3 percentage points.",
"CNN deputy political director Paul Steinhauser contributed to this report."
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"That's up 8 percentage points since 2006 .",
"Of those people, 81 percent say the problems can be fixed ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- Three U.S. Navy SEALs face criminal charges after the alleged mastermind of one of the most notorious crimes against Americans in Iraq accused them of punching him after his capture, the military said Wednesday.",
"Ahmed Hashim Abed -- thought to be behind the slayings and mutilation of four U.S. contractors in Falluja in 2004 and captured in summer -- made the accusations against the three servicemen, said Lt. Col. Holly Silkman, a spokeswoman for U.S. Central Command.",
"A civilian lawyer for one of three SEALs said his client and the other SEALs declined a nonjudicial resolution to the case, a step sometimes called a \"captain's mast.\"",
"The servicemen say they did not harm the detainee in any way and they want their names cleared in a court-martial so they can continue their careers in the Navy, said the attorney, Neil Puckett.",
"Because the charges against Petty Officer 2nd Class Matthew McCabe, Petty Officer Jonathan Keefe and Petty Officer Julio Heurtas are the military equivalent of misdemeanors, they will go before a special court-martial, which is for less serious offenses than those heard in a general court-martial.",
"If found guilty, they could be sentenced to a maximum of a year in a military prison, demotion to the lowest Navy rank, a cut in pay and a bad conduct discharge.",
"But if found innocent of all charges, they would be able to continue their careers with no record of the case in their personnel files.",
"The three SEALs are with their unit in Norfolk, Virginia.",
"They will make an initial appearance before a military judge on December 7.",
"The court-martial is scheduled to begin in January.",
"The attorney said he expects the SEALs will not waive their constitutional right to confront the accuser in court, which could cause a logistical challenge.",
"Abed is believed to be in a U.S. military detention center overseas, and it is unclear if the military would want him brought to the United States for the court-martial.",
"The four contractors, one of whom was a former Navy SEAL, were working for the Blackwater company when they were attacked in Falluja in 2004.",
"After they were killed with hand grenades and rifles, their bodies were set on fire and dragged through the streets.",
"The bodies of two of them were hung from a bridge in Falluja, an image that was broadcast around the world.",
"Four days after the attack, the U.S. Marines launched a major offensive inside Falluja, in part to help find the killers."
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"Ahmed Hashim Abed is accused of planning the '04 slayings and mutilations of 4 U.S. contractors .",
"Abed says SEALs punched him when he was captured in summer .",
"Contractors' bodies were set on fire and dragged through streets of Falluja ."
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"Santiago, Chile (CNN) -- Heavily populated parts of Chile still were without water service and electricity Sunday night because of Saturday's 8.8-magnitude earthquake, and reports of looting raised fears about security in some areas.",
"The nation's hardest-hit major city, Concepcion, declared an overnight curfew.",
"The death count from the earthquake doubled on Sunday from a day earlier, to 708 deaths.",
"Calling Saturday morning's quake an \"unthinkable disaster,\" Chilean President Michelle Bachelet said a state of catastrophe in the hardest-hit regions would continue, allowing for the restoration of order and speedy distribution of aid.",
"Looting broke out in parts of the country, including in Concepcion in central coastal Chile, about 70 miles (112 kilometers) from the earthquake's epicenter.",
"Desperate residents scrounged for water and supplies inside empty and damaged supermarkets.",
"On Sunday morning, authorities used tear gas and water cannons to disperse looters in some areas.",
"The quake struck before dawn Saturday, toppling thousands of houses and dealing a serious blow to one of Latin America's most stable economies.",
"The Chilean Red Cross reported that about 500,000 homes had considerable damage as a result of the quake.",
"Did you feel the quake?",
"Share photos, videos, info with CNN .",
"Chilean President-elect Sebastian Piñera, scheduled to take office in March, warned Sunday that looting could grow worse with nightfall.",
"He called for more government help in restoring order.",
"\"Tonight we will experience a very, very difficult situation with public order, particularly in the area of Concepcion,\" Piñera told Radio Bio Bio.",
"Concepcion, the capital of the Bio Bio region, didn't have enough police to control all those seeking food and supplies from stores.",
"Some became desperate as supermarkets closed and gasoline was unavailable, CNN Chile reported.",
"On Sunday afternoon, people were seen entering a mill looking for ingredients for bread.",
"In the evening, a CNN team passed a dozen gas stations that were being looted, with people siphoning gas.",
"Military officers were guarding a few gas stations, but few other signs of a government response could be seen.",
"Looting was being done not just by desperate residents, but by others who were merely opportunistic, said Concepcion mayor Van Rysselberghe.",
"\"They are robbing everything,\" she said, asking for a stronger military response to restore calm.",
"In addition to food, gas and emergency supplies, looters were targeting appliance and electronics stores, Van Rysselberghe said.",
"Watch chaotic scene in damaged supermarket .",
"Some small business owners resorted to protecting their shops with rifles and shotguns, said Rysselberghe, who also considered the current police force inadequate.",
"Concepcion is under curfew from 9 p.m. Sunday to 6 a.m. Monday because of the looting.",
"The city government is distributing water from the central plaza.",
"Concepcion and its adjacent sister city of Talcahuano, Chile, have a population of 840,000.",
"Video from Concepcion showed collapsed walls of buildings exposing twisted rebar.",
"Whole sides of buildings were sheared off, and at least two structures were on fire.",
"Chile's Office of Emergency Management launched a C130 helicopter Sunday with a contingent of 40 specialized firefighters and 10 search dogs for the rescue effort in Concepcion.",
"People in their homes lacked electricity.",
"Hundreds faced sleeping in tents on Sunday night.",
"Bachelet said her government reached an agreement with the country's major supermarkets that would allow them to give away basic foodstuffs to those affected by the quake.",
"The armed forces were available to help with security and the distribution of food, she said.",
"In Concepcion on Sunday, a long line of people waited for foodstuffs as military personnel stood watch.",
"\"I have nothing,\" one woman told CNN Chile.",
"\"I have no bread. I am a widow. I am 81 years old.\"",
"Of the 708 reported dead as of Sunday afternoon, 541 had died in Chile's Maule region, and 64 in the Bio Bio region, both in south-central Chile.",
"\"I am certain that these are numbers that will continue to grow,\" Bachelet said.",
"Bachelet said Saturday that some 2 million people had been affected in one way or another, but she did not elaborate.",
"More than 90 aftershocks had been recorded, ranging from 4.9 to 6.9 in magnitude.",
"A 6.2-magnitude aftershock was recorded near the earthquake's epicenter on Sunday.",
"Chile has received many offers of international aid and will accept the help that it needs, Bachelet said.",
"The U.S. military and the U.S. Agency for International Development were working to provide satellite phones, the State Department said Sunday.",
"\"The Chilean government has not yet accepted additional offers of assistance, pending the completion of an assessment of specific needs,\" State Department spokeswoman Megan Mattson said, noting the airport in Santiago, Chile, was closed to foreign aid.",
"\"As soon as the Chilean government establishes additional needs, the United States stands ready to assist in disaster response efforts,\" she said.",
"U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will be traveling to Santiago on Tuesday on a previously scheduled trip through Latin America.",
"She had originally been scheduled to arrive Monday.",
"Bachelet said she hoped that the airport in Santiago, the capital, would reopen soon to private, public and commercial air traffic.",
"The country's Department of Emergency Management said Sunday that repairs at the airport would take 48 hours.",
"The airline LAN Chile said that three flights left from Peru to Chile on Sunday, one of them landing in Santiago.",
"These flights were not commercial, but were transporting Chileans stranded in Peru back to their country, LAN Chile spokesman Roberto Davila told CNN en Español.",
"Piñera sought to rally spirits in nationally televised remarks Sunday night, announcing a reconstruction plan called \"Up With Chile.\"",
"\"We will raise Chile,\" he said.",
"\"It's not going to be a short task, it's not going to be easy.",
"It will require a lot of effort, a lot of resources, and a lot of time.\"",
"Saturday's quake was 700 to 800 times stronger than the 7.0-magnitude quake that struck Haiti in January, which left about 212,000 people dead and more than 1 million homeless.",
"Chile's quake also occurred at a greater depth -- 21.7 miles -- than the 8.1-mile depth of the Haiti quake, which contributed to much of the damage there.",
"Coastal Chile has a history of deadly earthquakes, with 13 temblors of magnitude 7.0 or higher since 1973, the U.S. Geological Survey said.",
"As a result, experts said that newer buildings are constructed to help withstand the shocks.",
"CNN's Rolando Santos, Brian Byrnes, Karen Smith, Saeed Ahmed, Patricio Martinez and Patty Lane contributed to this report."
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"Concepcion under curfew because of looting .",
"Death toll from Chilean quake rises to more than 700, president says .",
"Supermarkets will give away supplies on hand to quake victims, president says .",
"More than 90 aftershocks recorded, a day after massive quake shook Chile ."
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"(CNN) -- Looking for an affordable last-minute getaway?",
"JetBlue Airways is celebrating its 10th birthday with a $10 one-day fare sale Monday on flights from New York to the airline's original 10 destinations.",
"Travel must be booked on JetBlue's Web site by 11:59 p.m. CST Monday for travel on Tuesday or Wednesday, March 9 or 10.",
"Flights included in JetBlue's \"Thank You fare\" promotion go from the airline's home base at New York's John F. Kennedy International airport to Fort Lauderdale, Tampa, Orlando, West Palm Beach and Fort Myers, Florida; Buffalo and Rochester, New York; Oakland, California; Burlington, Vermont; and Salt Lake City, Utah.",
"The airline plans to roll out a series of monthly deals to mark the beginning of its second decade, a JetBlue announcement said.",
"On Wednesday, JetBlue will announce giveaways for New York-based customers on Twitter, the announcement said.",
"\"We are excited to kick things off in our own backyard with these $10 fares and Wednesday's giveaway in New York,\" said Robin Hayes, the airline's chief commercial officer, in a statement."
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"JetBlue Airways celebrating 10th birthday with one-day sale .",
"$10 fares offered on remaining seats from JFK to airline's original 10 destinations .",
"Sale ends Monday for travel Tuesday or Wednesday, March 9 or 10 ."
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"Princeton, New Jersey (CNN) -- When baseball slugger Mark McGwire admitted he had used steroids in his record-breaking 1998 season, he recalled refusing to talk about the subject in his 2005 testimony to Congress.",
"\"After all this time, I want to come clean,\" McGwire announced.",
"\"I was not in a position to do that five years ago in my congressional testimony, but now I feel an obligation to discuss this and to answer questions about it.",
"I'll do that, and then I just want to help my team.\"",
"McGwire's admission come as the House Judiciary Committee has been investigating the problem of brain injuries to football players, following heated discussions October 28, when the committee aggressively questioned NFL officials to figure out why the league had done so little to curb this well-known problem.",
"Any government inquiry of this kind draws the familiar charge that politicians should stay out of the business of sports -- even though the NFL and NCAA have in fact responded to congressional pressure by instituting rules to protect players from brain damage.",
"Still, Texas Rep. Lamar Smith said, we \"should also avoid the temptation to legislate in this area.",
"Football -- like soccer, rugby and even basketball and baseball -- involves contact that can produce injuries.",
"We cannot legislate the elimination of injuries from the games without eliminating the games themselves.\"",
"This is a familiar refrain.",
"Back in 2005, when several committees investigated the use of steroids in baseball, numerous sports officials warned this was not an issue with which Congress should concern itself.",
"Yet insisting on a firewall between sports and politics ignores the long-standing relationship between these two parts of American society.",
"At the state and local level, sports teams depend on government assistance.",
"There have been a large number of public subsidies, ranging from appropriations for stadium construction to the placement of public transportation near stadiums to tax breaks which the sports industry has depended on for growth.",
"At the federal level, sports owners have also benefited from government.",
"In 1922, the Supreme Court exempted baseball from the antitrust laws.",
"As a result of this, baseball owners were allowed to maintain their monopoly, stifling efforts to launch other leagues and using the exemption to collude on limiting the salaries of players.",
"Some legislators introduced bills trying to overturn the decision, but Congress never passed them.",
"When the Senate held hearings about the exemption in 1958, a number of famous players, including Mickey Mantle and Jackie Robinson, showed up to speak about how the \"reserve clause\" undermined the rights of players.",
"Congress refused to take any action.",
"Free agency did not start until the 1980s.",
"It was only in 1998 that Congress finally passed legislation declaring that some rules, such as restrictions on the movement of players from one team to another, were subject to antitrust laws.",
"Football has a political history of its own.",
"According to the sports historian Richard Davies, the National Football League started a team in New Orleans in 1966, right after Rep. Hale Boggs and Sen. Russell Long of Louisiana helped push through legislation that exempted the NFL from antitrust laws so that there could be a merger with the successful American Football League.",
"When New York Rep. Emanuel Celler insisted on long hearings to decide whether this was permissible, Sen. Long, desperate for a team, short-circuited the legislative process by having the Senate pass a bill by acclamation and attaching it to important anti-inflation tax legislation.",
"The House, under pressure, agreed to the bill at the last minute.",
"\"We couldn't have merged if Congress hadn't passed the law,\" said NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle.",
"\"And without a merger, we couldn't have had a Super Bowl.",
"If we'd tried to do it on our own, the antitrust people would have challenged us sooner than later.\"",
"There is also a long history of congressional investigations into sports.",
"In 1960, the Senate conducted hearings about the influence of organized crime in professional boxing.",
"Americans were shocked when former middleweight champion Jake LaMotta admitted that he had thrown a fight against Billy Fox in November 1947.",
"Members of the mafia threatened to kill LaMotta, but he testified anyway.",
"During similar hearings in 1961, the boxer Rocky Marciano told legislators that \"it seems absolutely essential that a federal czar be named to head the professional sport of boxing.\"",
"Many years later, in 2007, Congress looked into the pension and disability plans of the NFL after complaints by injured players that they were being denied coverage.",
"Congress has been willing to legislate.",
"On October 9, 1996, President Clinton signed the Professional Boxing Safety Act into law, which defined minimum health and safety standards for the sport.",
"The legislation aimed to strengthen the patchwork regulations used by states to monitor the sport.",
"But investigations usually don't produce legislation.",
"In 2005, Congress failed to pass the Clean Sports Act or the Drug Free Sports Act in response to revelations of drug use.",
"Even so, investigations do help raise public awareness about problems and create public pressure on the industry to reform.",
"\"When there is not any regulation,\" said former heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield, \"it can cause someone to lose their dream, their hopes....\" While some issues, such as the recent investigation into the college bowl system, are easy fodder for ridicule, others, such as brain damage to NFL players, show where the government has a legitimate role.",
"After all, sports is big business, and the playing field is a workplace where regulations are needed.",
"Unfortunately, the sports leagues themselves have not taken an aggressive approach to dealing with this problem.",
"In the same way that baseball owners understood that steroids produced more crowd-pleasing home runs, football owners know that the kind of hard-hitting football that creates injuries often brings crowds to their feet.",
"The government must help guide the industry toward better practices.",
"There is a precedent for investigation.",
"And sports has depended too much on government to now claim to be a free agent.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Julian Zelizer."
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"He says sports officials balk at oversight yet take government assistance .",
"Zelizer: Football head injury issue is a worthy subject for government investigation ."
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"Lagos, Nigeria (CNN) -- Nigeria's ailing president has broken two months of silence to assure his countrymen that contrary to speculation he is alive and intending to return to power soon.",
"President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua this week gave his first media interview since being admitted to a hospital in Saudi Arabia in late November where he is being treated for acute pericarditis, an inflammation of tissue around the heart.",
"His absence has created a power vacuum in Africa's most populous country, as Yar'Adua has not formally handed his presidential duties to Vice-president Goodluck Jonathan.",
"In a phone interview with the BBC from his hospital bed Tuesday, President Yar'Adua said he was recovering from his treatment.",
"\"At the moment I'm undergoing treatment.",
"I'm getting better from the treatment.",
"I hope that very soon there will be tremendous progress to allow me to get back home,\" he said.",
"\"As soon as my doctors discharge me I'll return to Nigeria to resume my duties,\" he added.",
"Yar'Adua's interview coincided with demonstrations in the nation's capital, Abuja, where protesters demanded a constitutional order on his absence and \"evidence about his true state of health,\" Voice of Nigeria reported.",
"The Nigerian Senate is seeking also information on the president's whereabouts and health.",
"It passed a resolution Tuesday asking Nigeria's \"secretary to the government of the federation\" to brief it on Yar'Adua's status, Voice of Nigeria reported.",
"The Senate had earlier considered sending a delegation to Saudi Arabia.",
"\"In arriving at its decision, the Senate expressed concern that there had been no formal communication to the National Assembly\" -- as required by the nation's constitution -- \"(to) empower the vice president to act and perform the functions of the president,\" Voice of Nigeria reported.",
"Some senators also pushed for an amendment to a law stating that a presidential letter to the National Assembly about an absence is optional, the news organization reported.",
"Foreign Minister Ojo Maduekwe told CNN he has not spoken to Yar'Adua since he left for Saudi Arabia.",
"But he also said he has no need to talk to the president while he is recovering.",
"Yar'Adua's illness was diagnosed in November after he complained of chest pain following prayers at a mosque in Abuja.",
"He was taken to King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre in Jeddah, where he had his last checkup in August, his doctor said.",
"He said at the time he did not intend to resign while in Saudi Arabia.",
"In addition to internal discord over its missing president, the oil-rich nation has faced some international heat after one of its citizens allegedly attempted to blow up a U.S.-bound flight on Christmas Day.",
"Nigeria was then cited as a country from which enhanced security measures would be enforced for passengers on U.S.-bound flights.",
"A senior U.S. administration official said Nigeria fell into the U.S. Transportation Security Administration category of \"state sponsors of terrorism or other countries of interest.\"",
"Another notable worry for the government is its handling of militants who have wrestled with the government over oil.",
"On Tuesday, police announced that four Shell contractors had been abducted.",
"Hundreds others have been kidnapped over recent years.",
"CNN's Christian Purefoy contributed to this report."
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"Nigeria's president says in a phone interview that he is alive and recovering from treatment .",
"Yar'Adua has not been seen since leaving Nigeria for treatment in Saudi Arabia in late November .",
"His absence has created a power vacuum in the African country .",
"Protesters, the Senate call for more information on his whereabouts and state of health ."
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"(CNN) -- Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo lifted martial law in the country's south, which she declared after the massacre of 57 people last month, Philippine news outlets reported Saturday.",
"The order lifting martial law was due to be effective at 9 p.m. (8 a.m.",
"ET) Saturday, the Philippines News Agency (PNA) and CNN affiliate ABS-CBN said.",
"Military troops will remain in Maguindanao province to keep the peace despite the move, said Victor Ibrado, chief of staff of the Philippine armed forces, PNA said.",
"Arroyo imposed martial law December 4 but lifted it Saturday after deciding it had achieved its objectives, Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita said, according to PNA.",
"Local government was now back in power and the justice system was functioning again, he said.",
"Authorities have said the November 23 massacre in Maguindanao province was a politically motivated attempt to keep an opponent of the politically powerful Ampatuan family from running for governor.",
"Thirty journalists were among those killed.",
"The martial law allowed arrests without warrants, and at least six members of the Ampatuan family -- including a local mayor -- were arrested, according to ABS-CBN.",
"Authorities raided a warehouse and ranch belonging to the family last weekend and confiscated firearms, ammunition and vehicles, Maj. Randolph Cabangbang, deputy of operations for the eastern Mindanao command, told CNN.",
"Ermita said Saturday that three charges of multiple murders were filed in court, and that 24 people were charged with rebellion.",
"The Philippine National Police has referred nearly 900 other cases to the Department of Justice, he said.",
"Violence in the run-up to elections is not uncommon in the Philippines.",
"The Maguindanao massacre, however, is the worst politically motivated violence in recent Philippine history, according to state media.",
"The victims included the wife and sister of political candidate Ismael \"Toto\" Mangudadatu, who had sent the women to file paperwork allowing him to run for governor of Maguindanao.",
"He said he had received threats from allies of Gov.",
"Andal Ampatuan Sr., the father of the accused mayor, saying he would be kidnapped if he filed the papers himself.",
"Maguindanao is part of an autonomous region in predominantly Muslim Mindanao, which was set up in the 1990s to quell armed uprisings by people seeking an independent Muslim homeland in the predominantly Christian Asian nation."
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"ET) Saturday .",
"Authorities have said the November 23 massacre in Maguindanao province was a politically motivated .",
"At least six members of politically-powerful Ampatuan family in the area were arrested .",
"Maguindanao is part of an autonomous region in predominantly Muslim Mindanao ."
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"Dubai, United Arab Emirates (CNN) -- Australia warned Israel Thursday of a possible diplomatic rift if Israel condoned the use of fraudulent Australian passports in the killing of a Hamas leader.",
"Israel's ambassador was given the warning after it was learned that three Australian passports were used by members of an alleged assassination crew connected to the recent slaying of a Hamas leader in a Dubai hotel room, Australia's Foreign Minister Stephen Smith said Thursday.",
"\"I made it crystal clear to the ambassador that if the results of that investigation cause us to come to the conclusion that the abuse of Australian passports was in any way sponsored or condoned by Israeli officials, then Australia would not regard that as the act of a friend, \"Smith said Thursday. \"",
"We would not regard that as the act of a friend.\"",
"The stern statement from Smith is part of the growing international diplomatic tiff stemming from the January 20 killing of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, a founding member of Hamas' military wing.",
"Al-Mabhouh was found dead in his hotel room January 20.",
"Police believe he was killed the night before and suspect the Mossad, the secretive Israeli foreign intelligence unit, was behind his slaying.",
"A total of 26 suspects have been identified by Dubai police.",
"The suspects are believed to have acquired faulty passports to arrive in Dubai for the killing and then fled to other far-flung locations, police said.",
"The 26 named suspects do not include two Palestinians previously arrested in Jordan and returned to the UAE.",
"Twelve of the suspects used British passports, police said.",
"Six suspects used Irish passports and four suspects used French passports.",
"Along with the three suspects who used Australian passports, another suspect used a German passport .",
"The European Union this week condemned the use of false EU passports in connection with the al-Mabhouh slaying.",
"Authorities have not said how he died, al-Mabhouh's family was told there were signs of electric shocks on his legs, behind his ears, on his genitals and over his heart.",
"Blood on a pillow led police to believe he was suffocated, the family was told.",
"The killers left some of al-Mabhouh's medicine next to his bed in an apparent effort to suggest his death was not suspicious, police said.",
"Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has said only \"media reports\" link Israel to al-Mabhouh's death.",
"CNN's Roya Shadravan contributed to this report."
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"Police say 26 people involved in killing of Hamas figure Mahmoud al-Mabhouh .",
"Al-Mabhouh was found dead in his hotel room January 20 ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- The U.S. military is gearing up for a possible influx of Haitians fleeing their earthquake-stricken country at an Army facility not widely known for its humanitarian missions: Guantanamo Bay.",
"Soldiers at the base have set up tents, beds and toilets, awaiting possible orders from the secretary of defense to proceed, according to Maj. Diana Haynie, a spokeswoman for Joint Task Force Guantanamo Bay.",
"\"There's no indication of any mass migration from Haiti,\" Haynie stressed.",
"\"We have not been told to conduct migrant operations.\"",
"But the base is getting ready \"as a prudent measure,\" Haynie said, since \"it takes some time to set things up.\"",
"Guantanamo Bay is about 200 miles from Haiti.",
"Currently, military personnel at the base are helping the earthquake relief effort by shipping bottled water and food from its warehouse.",
"In addition, Gen. Douglas Fraser, commander of U.S. Southern Command, said the Navy has set up a \"logistics field,\" an area to support bigger ships in the region.",
"The military can now use that as a \"lily pad\" to fly supplies from ships docked at Guantanamo over to Haiti, he said.",
"\"Guantanamo Bay proves its value as a strategic hub for the movement of supplies and personnel to the affected areas in Haiti,\" Haynie said.",
"As part of the precautionary measures to prepare for possible refugees, the Army has erected 100 tents, each holding 10 beds, according to Haynie.",
"Toilet facilities are nearby.",
"If needed, hundreds more tents are stored in Guantanamo Bay and can be erected, she said.",
"The refugees would be put on the leeward side of the island, more than 2 miles from some 200 detainees being held on the other side, Haynie said.",
"The refugees would not mix with the detainees.",
"Joint Task Force Guantanamo Bay is responsible for planning for any kind of Caribbean mass immigration, according to Haynie.",
"In the early 1990s, thousands of Haitian refugees took shelter on the island, she said."
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"Refugees would be placed more than 2 miles from detainees .",
"No current indication of a \"mass migration\" from Haiti ."
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"KRASNOYARSK, Russia (CNN) -- \"It kept you alive,\" a tearful Dwight Griffith told his adopted son as the two looked at an infant incubator during a tour of the Russian hospital where he was born.",
"Alex Griffith, 16, raised more than $60,000 for a new playground at the Russian hospital where he was born.",
"More than a decade after L.S. Berzon City Clinical Hospital No.",
"20 cared for him, 16-year-old Alex Griffith wanted to show his gratitude.",
"\"Russia is part of me and this hospital is part of me.",
"They gave me life, so I [wanted] to give back to them, to give them a fun place to play,\" said Alex, who lives in Forest Hill, Maryland.",
"As part of a Boy Scout project, Alex donated hundreds of hours and raised tens of thousands of dollars to build a new playground for the hospital.",
"Alex -- originally named Sergey -- was abandoned by his parents shortly after he was born at the hospital in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk.",
"He weighed less than 2 pounds and doctors said he had a mild case of cerebral palsy.",
"His condition improved slightly over the next 11 months, when Dwight and Jenny Griffith adopted him.",
"\"The first time we saw Alex, he had rickets and he was malnourished,\" remembered Dwight Griffith.",
"\"At first Alex did not smile and hardly moved.\"",
"Watch Alex visit the hospital for the first time in 15 years » .",
"Alex grew healthier throughout his childhood and became active in the Boy Scouts.",
"In 2007, he set out to build a new playground at Hospital 20 as his service project to become an Eagle Scout, the highest earned rank of the Boy Scouts of America.",
"But the teenager had his work cut out for him.",
"In photos his parents took when they traveled to Russia to adopt him, Alex saw that the existing playground had a single rusty swing with a rotten wooden seat and a sandbox that he described as \"a mud pit because of all the rain.\"",
"\"I was just like, 'Wow, that's a lot different,' \" he said.",
"Alex devoted 2 ½ years to his Krasnoyarsk Playground Project.",
"In addition to recruiting more than 500 volunteers in five countries, he raised more than $60,000 by soliciting help from local Rotary Clubs and joining forces with other Boy Scouts for candy sales, car washes and barbeque fundraisers.",
"Alex oversaw every aspect of production, from designing and purchasing the playground to shipping equipment overseas.",
"The project is a hit.",
"Young patients and their families now have at their disposal swings, a rock wall, a climbing bridge and 5-foot tall zip slides.",
"The playground is painted red, white and blue and the entrance has two totem poles: a bear for Russia and an eagle for America.",
"Watch children enjoy the state-of-the-art playground » .",
"Alex and a small group of volunteers traveled to Hospital 20 in early August to set up the playground.",
"A dedication ceremony was held there on August 12 -- Alex's birthday.",
"\"It makes me feel awesome opening the playground on my 16th birthday,\" he said.",
"\"It's just made me really happy just being here.\"",
"The people of Krasnoyarsk have embraced the teenager, especially the children.",
"\"I like this playground, because when you slide on it all the sadness goes away,\" said 11-year-old Sonja Sultanova.",
"\"I think that Alex is a noble person.\"",
"Alex no longer shows signs of cerebral palsy, but he does have attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, impulsivity and a frail frame.",
"His parents believe some of his conditions relate to his time in the hospital, due to a small staff with a lack of resources to provide enough care for the babies.",
"Still, he and his parents are thankful he is doing as well as he is, having grown into a typical suburban teenager alongside his four adopted siblings.",
"He enjoys riding his dirt bike and playing video games.",
"Alex anticipates finding out if he becomes an Eagle Scout within the next couple months, but he is already satisfied with the outcome.",
"\"This project has been a lot of fun and other kids who have been adopted are contacting me asking for advice,\" he said.",
"\"I am going to do whatever I can to help them.\"",
"Want to get involved?",
"Check out the Krasnoyarsk Playground Project and see how to help."
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"To give back to his birthplace, he raised $60,000 to build a new playground .",
"The project was part of Griffith's quest to become an Eagle Scout .",
"The top 10 CNN Heroes will be announced on October 1 ."
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"London, England (CNN) -- A British auction house plans to sell off newly discovered sketches done by Adolf Hitler when he was a struggling student trying desperately to get into art school.",
"The 12 charcoal and crayon sketches cover \"typical student subjects\" and don't display a great deal of promise, Mullock's Auctioneers said.",
"They include two drawings of an elderly woman thought to be Hitler's mother, as well as studies of objects, landscapes, models, and even a Roman senator.",
"All are signed and some even have Hitler's Vienna address, Mullock's said.",
"The sale also includes the original portfolio in which Hitler kept the sketches, which is signed and has his address, Mullock's said.",
"\"They look quite typical of an aspiring student hoping to get into art school -- tentative and not very certain about his perspective when he's using pencil and pen, making basic errors by getting the top and the bottom of a candlestick wrong in relation to each other, and so on,\" said Michael Liversidge, emeritus dean of arts at Bristol University in England.",
"Letter by Hitler to Britain sells at auction .",
"The sketches lack technical skill but are \"not so bad that one can't imagine him learning.",
"\"But there's not latent genius here, and not much beyond a moderate school grade,\" Liversidge said.",
"\"Probably if the artist was at school today you wouldn't encourage him to keep the subject up.\"",
"The sketches have been owned by a professional artist who had them for years in his own collection and for his own interest, said Richard Westwood-Brookes, the historical documents expert at Mullock's.",
"The artist brought the works to Mullock's attention.",
"Mullock's plans to auction the sketches April 15 in Ludlow, England, about 125 miles northwest of London.",
"They're expected to bring between £4,000 and £6,000 (about $6,100 and $9,100) each, the auction house said.",
"The drawings all date from around 1908 and 1909, when Hitler was a \"penniless dropout\" trying to get accepted into the prestigious Vienna Academy of Fine Arts to train as a professional artist, Mullock's said.",
"The school rejected him twice, so Hitler hung around the city, trying to make a living producing watercolors to sell to tourists, Mullock's said.",
"The rejection by the academy may have had huge implications for Hitler later in life, Westwood-Brookes said.",
"\"Many believe that it was this rejection that turned his mind and unleashed the monster within him, which was to bring forth so much evil on the world,\" he said. ...",
"In a sense, therefore, the academic decision of the art establishment in Vienna can go down as one of the most monumental decisions in all of history.\"",
"Nevertheless, Westwood-Brookes said, \"On the evidence of these sketches, you can see why the Vienna Academy turned him away.\""
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"The 12 sketches date from when Adolf Hitler was trying to get into art school .",
"All the sketches are signed and some even have Hitler's Vienna address .",
"They're expected to bring between $6,100 and $9,100 each at auction .",
"Drawings all date from around 1908 and 1909, when Hitler was a \"penniless dropout\""
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"(CNN) -- Mirror, mirror on the wall -- tell me my body faults, one and all.",
"That's what a lot of women ask their mirrors to tell them, at least until they get a boyfriend or a husband they can torture with the dreaded question, \"Does this dress (or blouse, pair of pants, skirt, etc.)",
"make me look fat?\"",
"But even when women get the answer to that no-win question, what can they do?",
"How do you disguise those thunder-thighs or flappy arms or muffin-top middles?",
"You might want to choose between high-fat and no-fat clothes.",
"That's right -- no-fat clothes.",
"They're the outfits that can take 10 pounds off your problem area, according to Charla Krupp, who wrote \"How to Never Look Fat Again.\"",
"Her mantra is: \"It's not you, it's your clothes.\"",
"\"All women know the language of food,\" says Krupp, so she describes how to look your best in food terms.",
"But not the old-fashioned terms of body shapes being either apple or pear, because women's \"body issues can range from a wide face all the way down to cankles.\"",
"It's not just a matter of vanity; the author cites research finding that fat can keep people from getting hired.",
"The ingredients to her \"never looking fat system\" are: fabric, fit, styles and colors.",
"High-fat clothes come in shiny metallic or sequin outfits in bright or neon colors that either fit too loose or too tight.",
"Low-fat clothes come in darker hues of silk or cotton or wool gabardine and fit perfectly.",
"\"I didn't want to sugar-coat anything,\" says Krupp.",
"She doesn't. She gives information not even your most blunt best friend would tell you about what will make you look your best or your worst.",
"There also is a Don't You Dare section in every chapter.",
"Krupp goes so far as to tell how the part in your hair or your eyewear choice can help you see a beautiful woman or Humpty-Dumpty in the mirror.",
"But there is hope. She says even women size 16 or 18 can look their best if they make the right choices.",
"Those begin with what's under the outfits.",
"\"You need good supportive shapewear.",
"It will slim you down,\" she says, adding a good one will have a high waist, right under the bra band, and will go down to whatever your problem area is.",
"To smooth out the dreaded back fat that can ruin your appearance, she suggests wearing a control camisole over your bra to \"compress and flatten\" the roll that could follow you everywhere.",
"She also advises to not fall head over heels in love with a trend that is bad for you.",
"\"I do see a lot of women walking around and I wonder, how did she go out of the house in the morning looking at that?\"",
"says Krupp.",
"\"They fall in love with a fashion trend even if it doesn't work for them.",
"... 'I know this is going to make me look fat, but I don't care.'",
"\" Krupp says the wrong trend can be brutal for a woman.",
"\"Transparency is big now, but if you have fat, you don't want the world to see that -- you want to cover it up.\"",
"She says the celebrities that always look good in their clothes are Sandra Bullock and Demi Moore.",
"But she notes that even if you're rich and famous and in great shape, you don't always make the best choices, even if you have a paid stylist to help.",
"She noted two such fashion mistakes from the recent Academy Awards.",
"Jennifer Lopez's gown with a big bustle and train was a bad, or \"high-fat,\" choice for a woman with a wide backside.",
"And she said Charlize Theron's Dior Haute Couture dress of amethyst and lilac with rosettes on her bust was just a \"really bad choice.\"",
"\"They really should sue their stylists for malpractice,\" says Krupp.",
"Or they could trade the stylist for Krupp's book.",
"Charla Krupp is married to Richard Zoglin, assistant managing editor of TIME, which, like CNN, is a division of Time Warner."
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"Charla Krupp's newest book explains \"How to Never Look Fat Again\"\nShe breaks clothing choices down into high-fat and low-fat options .",
"Ten chapters are devoted to body issues and how to cover them .",
"LIsts include butt-friendly guide to skirts, shoes and boots to avoid ."
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"(CNN) -- A Lebanese man charged with sorcery and sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia is scheduled to be beheaded on Friday, the man's lawyer said Wednesday.",
"May El Khansa, the attorney for Ali Hussain Sibat, told CNN that she and Sibat's family were informed about the upcoming execution.",
"She said she heard from a source in Saudi Arabia with knowledge of the case and the proceedings that Saudi authorities \"will carry out the execution.\"",
"The Saudi Ministry of Justice could not immediately be reached for comment on the matter.",
"El Khansa said she has appealed to Lebanon's prime minister, Saad Hariri, and president, Michel Suleiman, to stop the execution.",
"Amnesty International, the human rights group, has called on Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah to block it as well.",
"TV presenter gets death sentence for 'sorcery' Sibat is the former host of a popular call-in show that aired on Beirut-based satellite TV channel \"Sheherazade.\"",
"According to his lawyer, Sibat would predict the future on his show and give out advice to his audience.",
"El Khansa told CNN her client was arrested by Saudi Arabia's religious police (known as the Mutawa'een) and charged with sorcery while visiting the country in May 2008.",
"Sibat was in Saudi Arabia to perform the Islamic religious pilgrimage known as Umra.",
"Sibat was then put on trial, and in November 2009, a court in the Saudi city of Medina found him guilty and sentenced him to death.",
"According to El Khansa, Sibat appealed the verdict.",
"The case was taken up by the Court of Appeal in the Saudi city of Mecca on the grounds that the initial verdict was \"premature.\"",
"El Khansa tells CNN that the Mecca appeals court then sent the case back to the original court for reconsideration, stipulating that all charges made against Sibat needed to be verified and that he should be given a chance to repent.",
"On March 10, judges in Medina upheld their initial verdict, meaning Sibat is once again sentenced to be executed.",
"\"The Medina court refused the sentence of the appeals court,\" said El Khansa, adding her client will appeal the verdict once more."
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"Ali Hussain Sibat faces execution by beheading on Friday .",
"Convicted of 'sorcery' after claiming to predict future on TV show .",
"Sibat arrested, tried and sentenced during pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia .",
"Sibat expected to lodge another appeal against the ruling ."
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"Paris, France (CNN) -- A winter storm named \"Xynthia\" battered the western coast of Europe Sunday, its high winds downing trees and power lines and leaving as many as 55 people dead, authorities said.",
"Hardest hit was France, where at least 45 people were killed, French Prime Minister Francois Fillon announced.",
"The extra-tropical cyclone whipped the country's coastal regions and moved inland, bringing sometimes heavy flooding with it.",
"Are you affected by the storm?",
"Share images and information with CNN iReport.",
"\"It's a national catastrophe,\" Fillon said in a brief news conference following an emergency meeting on the situation.",
"\"Many people drowned, surprised by the rapid rise of the water.",
"\"Now the priority is to bring all the people left homeless and still threatened by the rising waters to safety,\" the prime minister explained.",
"\"All services are mobilized to reach that goal as soon as possible.\"",
"French President Nicolas Sarkozy will visit the department of Charente-Maritime Monday, Fillon said.",
"Charente-Maritime and Vendee, on the French coast west of Paris, had severe flooding when the strong winds whipped up the water at high tide.",
"\"At 3 o'clock in the morning, we heard the toilets backing up.",
"We got up to look and then we saw 80 cm (about 31 inches) of water in the garage,\" a resident of Aiguillon-Sur-Mer, in the department of Vendee, told CNN affiliate BFM-TV.",
"\"It was rushing in, it broke down the walls around the garden and the gate.\"",
"Hundreds of people had to be rescued from their rooftops overnight.",
"\"The water was up to the gutters,\" said one woman, who spent the night on the roof with her children.",
"Residents of the village of Aytre, in Charente-Maritime, saw a wave of water measuring 1 meter high (about 1 yard) come into the center of town.",
"One couple told BFM-TV their children were airlifted and they were taken out by boat.",
"\"It rose very high, very high, we were very scared,\" another man told the station.",
"\"It was unreal,\" Aytre Mayor Suzanne Tallard told BFM-TV.",
"At least 1 million households were without power Sunday afternoon, Bernard Lassus of Electricite de France said in an interview on BFM-TV.",
"French Interior Minister Brice Hortefeux told BFM-TV that 350 soldiers and 3,250 firefighters have been mobilized.",
"About 10 helicopters are being used to airlift people, he said, and draining operations were underway.",
"The high winds -- at times spiking to 200 km/h (124 mph) -- reached inland as far as Paris, where as many as 100 flights were canceled at the Paris-Charles de Gaulle International Airport, BFM reported.",
"Gusts up to 175 km/h (108 mph) were measured at the top of the Eiffel Tower Saturday, reported CNN International Meteorologist Eboni Deon.",
"The hurricane-strength winds stretched from Portugal northeast to the Netherlands.",
"The system was moving toward the Baltic Sea, Deon said, and a second front was moving into the region of Portugal and Spain later in the day.",
"In Spain, three people were killed in the first band of the storm, Spanish Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba said Sunday.",
"Two children died in a car accident and another person was killed in northwestern Spain, the minister said in a news conference on CNN sister station CNN+.",
"At least 17 provinces were on high alert due to the strong winds, CNN+ reported, and some flights and train services were canceled.",
"A 10-year-old child was killed by a falling tree in the high winds in Portugal, Patricia Gaspar, National Operations Assistant with the Portuguese National Authority for Civil Protection, confirmed to CNN.",
"There are also some power outages in the country, Gaspar said.",
"Some residents have reported roofs blown off and smaller houses collapsing, she added.",
"Four people were killed in Germany as a result of the storm, officials said -- all four when they or their cars were struck by falling trees.",
"One of them, a 69-year-old man, was a hiker in a group of about 20, police said, but the others were evacuated to safety.",
"A man was also killed by a falling tree in Belgium, Peter Mertens, a spokesman for Belgium's Interior Ministry, confirmed to CNN.",
"Eastern Belgium has seen the worst of the storm, Mertens said.",
"\"They've had problems with fallen trees, roofs blown off and electricity cables not working.",
"But it seems the worst part has passed now,\" he added.",
"The storm also reached England, where one woman was reported dead when the vehicle she was driving became submerged and washed down a swollen creek in the northeastern part of the country.",
"The body of the 53-year-old woman was recovered downstream, North Yorkshire Police said in a recorded phone message to the media.",
"CNN's Al Goodman in Madrid, Spain; Per Nyberg in London, England; Frederik Pleitgen in Berlin, Germany; and Estelle Eonnet and Lorraine Gublin in Paris, France contributed to this report ."
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"At least 55 deaths from extra-tropical cyclone, 45 of them in France .",
"High winds -- at times spiking to 200 km/h (124 mph) -- reached as far as Paris .",
"\"Many people drowned, surprised by the rapid rise of the water,\" French official says .",
"Deaths also reported in Spain, Portugal, Belgium, Germany and England ."
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"(CNN) -- Togo, who pulled out of the Africa Cup of Nations soccer competition after a terrorist attack on their team bus, have been suspended from taking part in the next two competitions.",
"The Confederation of African Football (CAF) also announced on Saturday that the team would be fined $50,000.",
"Why Togo ban rubs salt into open wounds .",
"Three people were killed in the attack, which took place while Togo travelled to the team hotel two days before their opening match earlier this month.",
"Communications chief Stanislas Ocloo and assistant coach Abalo Amnalete were shot dead and goalkeeper, Kodjovi Obilale, was among the injured.",
"Togo, captained by Manchester City star Emmanuel Adebayor, wanted to continue despite the attack but quit on their national government's orders.",
"The attack raised fears about security for the World Cup, which takes place in South Africa later this year.",
"CAF has decided the decision to recall the team was political interference, leading to Saturday's suspension for the tournaments in 2012 and 2014.",
"CAF said in a statement: \"The executive committee and its president renewed their sincere condolences to the families of victims involved in this tragic terrorist attack which happened January 8, 2010.",
"\"The attack was condemned by CAF and also a total support was given to the Togolese team.",
"\"At that time, CAF said they have understood perfectly the decision of players not to participate in the competition.",
"\"Meanwhile, following a decision taken by players to participate in the competition, the Togolese government decided to call back their national team.",
"\"The decision taken by the political authorities is infringing CAF and CAN (African Nations Cup) regulations.",
"\"Therefore, a decision has been taken to suspend the Togo national team for the next two editions of Africa Cup of Nations, with a fine of U.S. dollars 50,000 handed to the Togolese national football association, in conformity with article 78 of Africa Cup of Nations Angola 2010.\"",
"Two men arrested over the attack were said to be members of the Forces for Liberation of the State of Cabinda, an armed wing of a separatist group that has claimed responsibility for the attack and has threatened to strike again.",
"Cabinda is a disputed oil-rich enclave in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and was the site of eight matches in the African Cup of Nations tournament.",
"The Africa Cup of Nations tournament is one of the biggest sporting events in the world this year, and Angola's first since a 2002 peace deal ended decades of civil war in the southern African country."
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"Togo suspended from next two Africa Cup of Nations competitions by CAF .",
"Team pulled out of tournament this month after terrorist attack on their bus killed three .",
"African governing body CAF decided decision to recall team was political interference ."
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"(CNN) -- A Buffalo, New York-area man accused of beheading his estranged wife made his first appearance in court Wednesday to face murder charges, according to the district attorney.",
"Muzzammil Hassan has been charged with second-degree murder in the death of his wife, Aasiya Zubair Hassan.",
"Muzzammil Hassan, 44, is charged with second-degree murder in the death of his 37-year-old wife, Aasiya Zubair Hassan, days after she filed for divorce and was granted a restraining order against him.",
"In court Wednesday, Hassan waived his right to a felony hearing, according to Erie County District Attorney Frank Sedita III.",
"The case will go before a grand jury in the next 45 days.",
"In the meantime, Hassan will be jailed without bond.",
"If convicted, he faces a sentence of 15 years to life, WKBW reported, citing prosecutors.",
"Muzzammil Hassan went to the police station in the Buffalo suburb of Orchard Park on Thursday and told officers that his wife was dead, authorities have said.",
"He also led them to her body at the offices of Bridges TV.",
"The couple began the network in 2004 to counter negative Muslim stereotypes; Muzzammil Hassan is its chief executive officer, and Aasiya Hassan was general manager.",
"Aasiya Hassan filed for divorce February 6, police said, and Muzzammil Hassan was served with divorce papers at the station.",
"That night, he showed up at the couple's home, she notified authorities, and he was served with a restraining order.",
"Police had responded to several domestic violence calls at the couple's address, but no one was arrested, Orchard Park Police Chief Andrew Benz said Tuesday.",
"However, two women claiming to be Aasiya Hassan's sisters -- one in Pakistan and one in South Africa -- told reporters and posted in a blog that she lived in fear of him.",
"Bridges TV released a statement Monday saying its staff members were \"deeply shocked and saddened by the murder of Aasiya Hassan and the subsequent arrest of Muzzammil Hassan.",
"Our deepest condolences and prayers go out to the families of the victim.\""
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"Muzzammil Hassan, accused of beheading wife, waived right to felony hearing .",
"Hassan, founder of Bridges TV, charged with second-degree murder .",
"Hassan will be jailed without bail while case goes to grand jury .",
"If convicted, he faces a sentence of 15 years to life ."
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"(CNN) -- A federal court jury in Florida convicted seven people of participating in a global child pornography trafficking enterprise, according to the Department of Justice.",
"Jurors convicted the seven Wednesday of multiple counts of child exploitation, pornography and obstruction of justice.",
"Members of the organization used Internet news groups to swap and share \"illegal images and videos depicting prepubescent children, including toddlers, engaged in various sexual and sadistic acts,\" prosecutors said.",
"An indictment filed in the case detailed interactions between group members as they swapped and commented on images.",
"\"My thanks to you and all the others that together make this the greatest group of pedos to ever gather in one place,\" Freeman wrote in response to one posting, according to the indictment.",
"And a posting from Castleman, cited in the indictment, read, \"Thanks to all for the wonderful material that has been posted.\"",
"An Australian constable who infiltrated the group in August 2006 was among 50 witnesses testifying at trial.",
"He told the jury that the group traded more than 400,000 images and videos of child sexual abuse before being dismantled by law enforcement, according to the Justice Department statement.",
"Each defendant faces a sentence of 20 years to life in prison, fines and the possibility of supervised release for the rest of their lives, authorities said.",
"The seven will be sentenced April 14.",
"During the six-day trial, evidence showed the seven participated in what prosecutors called a \"well-organized criminal enterprise whose purpose was to proliferate child sex abuse images to its membership during a two-year period.\"",
"\"This was a wide-scale, high-volume, international trafficking enterprise that used sophisticated computer encryption technology and file-sharing techniques,\" Matthew Friedrich, acting assistant attorney general, said in the statement.",
"The seven defendants were James Freeman of Santa Rosa Beach, Florida; Gary Lakey of Anderson, Indiana; Marvin Lambert of Indianapolis, Indiana; Neville McGarity of Medina, Texas; Warren Mumpower of Spokane, Washington; Daniel Castleman of Lubbock, Texas; and Ronald White of Burlington, North Carolina, according to the Department of Justice.",
"The charges included engaging in a child exploitation enterprise; conspiracy to advertise, transport, ship, receive and possess child pornography; advertising child pornography, transporting child pornography, receiving child pornography and obstruction of justice, prosecutors said.",
"Seven additional American defendants previously entered guilty pleas, prosecutors said."
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"Jurors convict seven people of multiple child pornography charges .",
"Australian constable infiltrated porn ring, testified .",
"Members shared \"illegal images and videos\" of preteens engaged in sex acts .",
"The seven will be sentenced in April ."
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"LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Paint markings found on pieces of two planes that collided over suburban Los Angeles indicate the nose of one aircraft slammed into the middle fuselage of the other, according to a federal investigator.",
"Investigators on Monday walk past the tail section of a plane lying in a car dealership.",
"Five people died in the accident in Corona, California, including a man on the ground who was killed when one plane's engine crashed through the roof of a car dealership where he worked, said National Transportation Safety Board investigator Wayne Pollack.",
"The NTSB, assisted by FBI evidence experts, completed the cleanup of wreckage and body parts that were spread over a commercial area of car dealerships, restaurants and other businesses near the Riverside Freeway Monday afternoon.",
"Investigators don't yet know if both single-engine planes were approaching the nearby Corona airport for landing, but it was apparently a Sunday afternoon pleasure flight for each.",
"The two men in the Cessna 150 were ejected after the plane was struck broadside by the Cessna 172, Pollack said.",
"The bodies of the two men flying in the Cessna 172 were found inside the plane after it crashed to the ground, he said.",
"The FBI helped the NTSB mark where each piece was found, although the investigation does not involve any criminal aspect, Pollack said.",
"The wreckage was being trucked to Palmdale, California, Monday evening.",
"Aviation experts there will examine it for more clues about what caused the collision, he said.",
"There were two licensed pilots on board the Cessna 150, which was rented from a local flight school, Pollack said.",
"One of the two people on board the other plane -- a Cessna 172 -- was licensed to fly, he said.",
"The victims from one plane were identified as Scott Lawrence, 55, and Paul Carlson, 73, both from Cerritos, California.",
"The dead from the other aircraft were Brandon Johnson, 24, from Costa Mesa, California.",
"and Anthony Guzman, 20, from Hesperia, Calif., according to the Riverside County Coroner's Office.",
"The car dealership employee who died was Earl Smiddy, 58, from Moreno Valley, California, the coroner said.",
"Weather is not believed to have been a factor since it was clear and winds were calm at the time, Pollack said.",
"Corona is about 40 miles east of downtown Los Angeles.",
"E-mail to a friend ."
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"NTSB and FBI finish removing wreckage, body parts from commercial area .",
"Two men in Cessna 150 hit broadside by Cessna 172 and ejected .",
"Two planes apparently were on a Sunday afternoon pleasure flight ."
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"Braddock, Pennsylvania (CNN) -- In 2001, I came to Braddock, the poorest town in Western Pennsylvania, to serve the community's severely disenfranchised young people by starting an employment and GED program.",
"Their lives were the embodiment of what happened to Braddock and this region: chaos through abandonment.",
"However, tough times and severe hardship are nothing new.",
"It's been this way for decades.",
"Once one of the most important steel manufacturing centers in the world, Braddock -- what's left of it -- solemnly affirms one of the great economic maxims of our society: socialism for the rich, and capitalism for the poor.",
"Since the massive banking bailout of 2008, I have often wondered what Braddock would be today, if 35 years ago, the U.S. government also channeled hundreds of billions of dollars (and trillions in guarantees) to save the steel industry, the hundreds of thousands of manufacturing jobs it produced and the families it sustained.",
"Instead, places like Braddock were allowed to descend into decades of disorder, poverty and desertion.",
"Braddock went from a prosperous community of 20,000 residents, to a shattered town of fewer than 3,000 today.",
"Braddock looks every bit the deserted battlefield it truly is: 90 percent of our town's people, buildings, businesses, and homes are gone and what remains, bears witness to the torment.",
"In 2005, those same young people I was privileged to work for helped elect me mayor.",
"Senseless homicides long lost their ability to shock, so I began to tattoo the dates of the killings on my arm as a living document of our collective loss.",
"Upon taking office, we set out to help reinvent Braddock through diverse solutions ranging from effective policing and the arts, to urban agriculture and youth employment.",
"Today, buildings have been saved and repurposed.",
"We farm for organic produce from formerly overgrown land, and can offer full summer employment for our youth.",
"Perhaps most importantly, no dates have been added to my forearm in over 20 months.",
"However, at the start of my second term as mayor, we have decades of work ahead and we'll never come close to replacing what's been taken.",
"As the saying goes, we're not looking for a handout, but a hand up and the chance to ameliorate three decades of socioeconomic unraveling.",
"Towards those ends, the stimulus, known as American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, has been a true fiscal balm, especially since our community's hospital, and largest employer, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center announced it would be shutting Braddock Hospital later this month, taking jobs along with our residents' access to health care.",
"CNN iReport: Share your thoughts on the State of the Union .",
"Braddock received $250,000 in stimulus funding for the EPA compliance upgrade of our sewer system and $30,000 that enabled us to hire an additional 30 young people this past summer who would have otherwise been unemployed.",
"Without question, these stimulus funds were a needed infusion of resources.",
"However, I believe the greatest promise of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 remains untapped and now represents an unprecedented opportunity for growth and renewal.",
"In Braddock and in the surrounding areas, we have an abundance of quality, shovel-ready projects that range in complexity and scope from small-scale urban farming, and retrofitting a now-vacant 300,000 square foot hospital, to a $300 million-dollar repurposing of a former steel mill site into a green enterprise zone of economic redevelopment.",
"Investments like these will not only help reinvent communities like Braddock, but will also foster a boom in job creation and long-term growth.",
"These and similar projects across the country represent but a tiny fraction of the resources spent to save feckless bankers and Wall Street from their own unchecked greed and hubris.",
"Perhaps equally important, I believe this kind of investment will help restore a sense of social justice that is completely absent in today's public debates.",
"Consider the absurd juxtaposition of rescued banking executives defending multi-million-dollar bonuses, to our community at over 30 percent unemployment, widespread abandonment, and pervasive poverty while losing the area's only hospital and access to medical care.",
"The explanation of this circumstance is as simple as the contrast is stark: one got capitalism and the other, socialism.",
"Basic fairness and equity demand that the color of your collar should not dictate if you receive a bail-out or get bailed on.",
"For Americans living in places like Braddock, I believe the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act is perhaps the last, best chance to help overcome the injustice and harm that the decades steeped in a laissez-faire orthodoxy have wrought.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of John Fetterman."
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"Mayor John Fetterman says the population shrank from 20,000 to fewer than 3,000 .",
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"Editor's Note: The staff at CNN.com has recently been intrigued by the journalism of VICE, an independent media company and Web site based in Brooklyn, New York.",
"VBS.TV is Vice's broadband television network.",
"The reports, which are produced solely by VICE, reflect a very transparent approach to journalism, where viewers are taken along on every step of the reporting process.",
"We believe this unique reporting approach is worthy of sharing with our CNN.com readers.",
"Brooklyn, New York (VBS.TV) -- Several events converged recently that conspired to take me back to the summer of 2006, the summer I snuck into Iraq.",
"The first event was the Iraqi elections.",
"The second was the Oscars.",
"The third was a concert at a little bar tucked into a hip corner of the hippest neighborhood in the world -- Williamsburg, Brooklyn.",
"These events all brought me a little closer to that time, a little closer to recalling the way things were back then.",
"And I realized how much I had forgotten.",
"The summer/ fall of 2006 had a name -- at least it did in Iraq.",
"It was called the Battle for Baghdad.",
"It was one of the most bloody periods of the war.",
"The moment just before the Surge where hundreds of people -- hundreds of Iraqis -- were dying every day.",
"I say we snuck into the country because we did.",
"We had been trying to obtain permission to get into the country legally, but it was proving very difficult.",
"We heard through a friend that you could fly into Erbil through Germany.",
"So we did. Without any papers we bought one-way tickets in cash from Erbil to Baghdad.",
"To me it was a really bad sign: who was in charge of the (expletive) show down there?",
"There was a real feeling of desperation in the air when my friend Suroosh and I landed at the Baghdad International Airport.",
"Someone in Iraq even told us that there was a rumor floating around that the U.S. forces were seriously considering building a moat around the city.",
"Once inside, we aligned to our mission: to find and interview the only heavy metal band in the country, Acrassicauda.",
"It wasn't easy, but we found the guys -- Faisal and Firas -- and spent a week interviewing them in locations that would keep them safe from accusations of collaboration with the enemy.",
"We met two of the nicest, warmest, funniest dudes, and through them our perspective on this war, and all war, was fundamentally changed.",
"For the first time, I saw the war through the eyes of the oppressed, and saw it for what it was: (expletive) stupid.",
"It was a stupid, stupid war.",
"And the old men that conducted it, on both sides, were essentially the same ugly evil idiots; the same ideologues that championed their own particular visions of a new world order under the banner of their chosen gods -- money, freedom, oil, Allah -- take your pick.",
"See the rest of Heavy Metal in Baghdad at VBS.TV .",
"The recent elections saw a flare in the random violence that characterized the hottest periods of the war and reminded me that the desire to kill is still very much alive in Iraq.",
"That the cost of life is still very low.",
"The recent Oscars proved to me how myopic we still are about that war, about our role in it.",
"(Kathryn) Bigelow's champions film of champions (\"The Hurt Locker\") shows the Americans as the heroes, addicted to comradeship and the thrill of battle, and the Iraqis as the faceless aggressors resorting to cheap tactics and foul play.",
"A rather disgusting narrative point of view, especially unnerving when you consider how determined Bigelow et screaming actors al were to create an apolitical discursive cocoon around their film.",
"It's as though they were being willfully, culturally stupid, which is strange from a director that is considered, buy most accounts, to be an intelligent filmmaker.",
"Last night, I made my way to a little event at a little bar in Brooklyn.",
"Almost four years since my trip to Iraq, and those awesome dudes -- Faisal, Firas, Marwan and Tony -- now live in New York.",
"They made it out of Iraq, out of exile in Syria, out of the limbo of their refugee existences in Turkey, and they made it to the stage.",
"Last night Acrassicauda rocked out.",
"They are alive and well, and growing their hair long in peace.",
"As they played I couldn't help thinking that behind these four guys stands an entire generation of young Iraqis who had their lives torn apart for a truly stupid war that was built on lies and sustained by our inability to empathize.",
"The first decade of the century was a shame.",
"I just hope we learn something from it."
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"San Diego, California (CNN) -- In most high schools in America, they teach Shakespeare.",
"But at Central Falls High School in Rhode Island, they're acting out a Shakespearean drama.",
"Only instead of the famous line from Henry VI -- let's kill all the lawyers -- what we have is: \"Let's fire all the teachers.\"",
"That's exactly what Central Falls School District Superintendent Frances Gallo did in February.",
"In a move that was bold but also justified, Gallo fired 77 teachers at Central Falls High School in Rhode Island, along with the school's principal, three assistant principals and other administrators.",
"In all, the district said, 93 people were let go in the purge.",
"The school board later stood by Gallo and approved the action.",
"The mass firings, which take effect at the end of this school year, came after the district failed to reach an agreement with the local teachers' union on a plan that would have required teachers to spend more time with students to improve test scores -- with only a small increase in pay.",
"Consistent with federal guidelines designed to improve the educational system, Gallo asked teachers to work a longer school day of seven hours and tutor students weekly for one hour outside school time.",
"She proposed teachers have lunch with students often, meet for 90 minutes every week to discuss education and set aside two weeks during summer break for paid professional development.",
"Think of it as asking teachers to go back and fix what they didn't do right the first time.",
"Central Falls High School is one of the lowest-performing schools in Rhode Island.",
"It operates in a community where the median income is $22,000, according to census statistics.",
"Of the school's 800 students, 65 percent are Latino and most of them consider English a second language.",
"Half the student body is failing every subject, with 55 percent meeting requirements in reading and only 7 percent in math.",
"\"No thanks,\" said the teachers.",
"\"You're fired,\" said Gallo.",
"Upon hearing this story, my first thought was how do we get this woman out of Rhode Island -- and down to Washington to clean house by demanding results from the politicians?",
"Apologists for the public schools and other defenders of the status quo will hear those statistics, and say: \"Well, how do you expect educators to reach and teach a population like that?\"",
"Easy. I expect teachers to do it by putting aside the excuses, setting higher expectations, adhering to better standards, giving into common sense reforms and doing their jobs in a school that serves a vulnerable population that is especially in need of a quality education -- but also, and here's the good news, in many cases, extra motivated to get one.",
"Forget that poor-kids-can't-learn nonsense.",
"It wasn't true 100 years ago and it's not true now.",
"Besides, there is no ideal student population.",
"Whenever I write in support of education reform -- whether proposed by Democrats or Republicans -- or, for that matter, whenever I challenge teachers in any way, I get an earful from angry and defensive educators who demand to know if I have ever been in the classroom.",
"I interpret their comments to mean that if have never been a teacher, I ought to just pipe down and keep paying my taxes so they can grow their salaries at a respectful rate.",
"I will keep paying my taxes, but I will not pipe down.",
"Not that I think it matters, but, in fact, I have been in the classroom.",
"I taught for nearly five years at the K-12 level in Central California.",
"I've taught the kids of poor farm workers, but I've also taught the kids of doctors and lawyers.",
"Now guess which group was more respectful of authority and eager to learn, and which was more likely to think of itself as entitled and privileged?",
"In teachers' lounges, I've heard teachers complain about kids who are poor and disadvantaged.",
"But I've also heard other teachers complain about those who are spoiled and overly advantaged.",
"Why? Because that's what teachers do. They complain. They can't help it. It's in their professional DNA.",
"Everything is always someone else's fault.",
"They never want to accept responsibility for kids who drop out of school but they're the first in line to claim credit for the kids who wind up in the Ivy League.",
"One minute, they're arguing that the parents have all the power over how a child performs.",
"The next, they're denying those same parents the right to have more options and a greater say in their kids' education through charter schools and voucher programs.",
"The contradictions are astounding.",
"And now thanks to the Obama administration, whose approach to education reform is, interestingly enough, an exact replica of that of the Bush administration, teachers and teachers' unions have even more to complain about.",
"The American Federation of Teachers, one of the nation's largest teachers' unions, even complained about President Obama after the chief executive referenced the Rhode Island firings and praised the school district for taking the action.",
"\"Our kids get only one chance at an education and we need to get it right,\" Obama said in a speech this week to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.",
"This, AFT president Randi Weingarten insisted, was nothing more than an attempt by Obama to \"score political points by scapegoating teachers.\"",
"So, teachers' unions, how's that hope and change working out for you?",
"It seems to be working pretty well for the country, since Obama is obviously serious about education reform.",
"Back in Rhode Island, Gallo said this week that she is willing to negotiate now that the local teachers' union has agreed to support the changes she proposed.",
"You don't say? The firings worked.",
"Score one for accountability and common sense.",
"Now, Madame Superintendent, about that trip to Washington...",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Ruben Navarrette Jr."
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"He says reforming schools requires holding teachers accountable .",
"Blaming poor performance on the students doesn't accomplish anything, he says ."
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"(CNN) -- Authorities have officially dropped all charges against an American who tried to snatch back his children from his ex-wife in Japan, the Fukuoka prosecutor's office said Thursday.",
"Charges had been technically \"on hold\" since Christopher Savoie was released from jail in October, though legal experts had said the move essentially meant the charges had already been dropped.",
"The prosecutor's office said at the time that Savoie was released after he promised not to take his children back to the United States \"in this manner.\"",
"It was not clear whether he had a chance to see his children after his release.",
"Savoie, 38, a Tennessee native and naturalized Japanese citizen, allegedly abducted his children -- 8-year-old Isaac and 6-year-old Rebecca -- as his ex-wife walked them to school on September 28 in Yanagawa.",
"With the children, Savoie headed for the nearest U.S. consulate in Fukuoka to try to obtain passports for them.",
"Screaming at guards to let him in the compound, Savoie was steps from the front gate but still standing on Japanese soil when he was arrested.",
"Savoie and his first wife, Noriko Savoie, were married for 14 years before a bitter divorce in January.",
"The couple had lived in Japan, but moved to the United States before the divorce.",
"Noriko Savoie received custody of the children and agreed to remain in the United States.",
"Christopher Savoie had visitation rights.",
"On the day that the children were to start school in August, Savoie learned that his ex-wife had fled with them to Japan.",
"Savoie later filed for and received full custody of the children, and police in Franklin, Tennessee, issued an arrest warrant for his ex-wife.",
"But Japan is not a party to the 1980 Hague convention on international child abduction -- though the government has expressed interest in reconsidering -- so the warrant was not recognized by Tokyo.",
"Japanese law follows a tradition of sole-custody divorces.",
"When a couple splits, one parent typically makes a complete and lifelong break from the children.",
"Complicating the matter is the fact that the couple is still considered married in Japan, because they never divorced there, police said.",
"The children also hold Japanese passports, Japanese authorities have said.",
"Foreign parents have had little luck in regaining custody, the U.S. State Department said.",
"Savoie's current wife, Amy, said in October that her family has been ripped apart.",
"\"Isaac and Rebecca had a very, very happy situation here in Tennessee,\" she said.",
"\"They have people who love them here.\"",
"She said she did not think the parties could work out an agreeable arrangement regarding the children.",
"\"There are two parents who love these children and one of them has just been -- just cast aside.\"",
"CNN's Kyung Lah contributed to this report."
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"Noriko Savoie was granted custody of kids, later fled to Japan .",
"Christopher Savoie was steps away from U.S. consulate when he was arrested .",
"Authorities released Christopher Savoie after he said he would not take kids \"in this manner\""
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"(CNN) -- Missing Florida pilot Robert Wiles, who was believed kidnapped and held for ransom 21 months ago, now is believed to be dead, and a former co-worker is in custody, accused of his death, the FBI said Friday.",
"Authorities arrested Stobert \"Tobie\" Holt Jr., 42, Friday in Orlando, Florida, after he arrived from Colombia, where he was on a business trip, according to Tampa-based FBI spokesman David Couvertier.",
"Holt faces state charges of first degree murder, kidnapping, extortion, and intent to inflict death or serious bodily harm, the spokesman said.",
"The arrest was made by police from Lakeland, Florida, the Polk County Sheriff's Office and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, who were accompanied by FBI agents, he said.",
"Though authorities now believe Wiles was killed, they don't know where his body is, he said.",
"The arrest was uneventful, Couvertier said: \"Holt was advised of his rights and said nothing.\"",
"A four-count grand jury indictment was unsealed Friday in Polk County, where Wiles, then 26, ran a branch of his family's international aircraft maintenance business, National Flight Service, at Lakeland Linder Regional Airport.",
"The FBI said Holt worked for Wiles at the time he disappeared.",
"He was among several employees who told investigators they last saw Wiles on April 1, 2008, at the office and had no clue what happened to him.",
"The FBI won't reveal the suspected motive or why agents believe it was Holt who left a uniquely signed ransom note demanding money two days after Wiles disappeared.",
"At the time, agents said Wiles' father tried to comply with the demand to get back his son, but heard nothing.",
"Holt is described as an employee who, at least at one time, had a supervisory role at the company.",
"Authorities say he now works as a contract employee doing similar flight maintenance work at Patrick Air Force base near Cape Canaveral in Florida.",
"Wiles was single.",
"When he vanished without a trace, fellow employees said they were stunned.",
"\"All that he ever worked on was customer relations.",
"Making things better for the company,\" co-worker Jerry Grief said at the time.",
"\"Make the customer happy and make them come back.\"",
"The FBI said it traveled to six countries and three states tracing Wiles' trips and interviewing business associates.",
"Without disclosing details, agents said the investigation led them back to Holt and his whereabouts the day Wiles disappeared.",
"Several agencies, including the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and the Polk County Sheriff's Department joined the investigation.",
"The case will be prosecuted by state authorities in Polk County.",
"Wiles' parents, who live in Ohio, had offered a $250,000 reward for their son's safe return.",
"They are said to be in seclusion after being notified about Holt's arrest.",
"When CNN interviewed them last year, Wiles' mother, Pamela, said, \"We're willing to work with them and do anything to get him back.",
"We just want Robert back.",
"And they can just go and live their life, and we just want him back.\"",
"The FBI will not reveal what makes agents believe Wiles is dead.",
"\"Our investigation and evidence obtained to date indicate he's dead, \" Couvertier said.",
"CNN Senior Producer Rich Phillips contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) -- If one California lawmaker has his way, his cash-strapped state may have an arresting real estate listing on the market: San Quentin State Prison.",
"San Quentin prison houses more than 5,300 inmates, including Scott Peterson.",
"State Sen. Jeff Denham is proposing selling the 432-acre prison, which offers a breathtaking view of San Francisco Bay, to garner money for California.",
"\"Our inmates just don't need an ocean view.",
"Let's level it off,\" said Denham, a Republican.",
"\"Let's rebuild something for the community there and reap the benefit for the state by having that money come in,\" he added.",
"Denham estimates that the property could sell for as much as $2 billion, even amid a down market.",
"On Tuesday, lawmakers put the proposal to sell the prison in a \"holding pattern,\" said Jann Taber, a spokeswoman for Denham.",
"Watch CNN's Dan Simon report from San Quentin » .",
"State Sen. Mark Leno, who chairs the state's public safety committee, said the committee was holding the proposal under a policy that allowed lawmakers and residents to give further thought to legislation that could exacerbate overcrowding in California's prisons.",
"Taber said it could be brought up again this year or next.",
"The prison houses more than 5,300 inmates, including Scott Peterson, according to the department of corrections.",
"However, even with the waterfront property, putting the prison on the market may be a hard sell, especially if a new prison had to be built.",
"\"This is a really good facility,\" Bob Sleppy of the California Department of Corrections said.",
"\"It's existing; it's operating; it's well-operated over the years by custody staff.",
"It serves an immediate need.\"",
"He said that building another facility to house the inmates might be troublesome.",
"\"Communities seldom welcome a new prison,\" he said, adding that constructing a prison to replace San Quentin could cost $2 billion, the very price tag Denham suggested.",
"The idea of selling San Quentin, which opened its doors in 1852, has been raised before, but it never received much support because of California's chronic problem of overcrowded prisons.",
"California is near 200 percent capacity in its prisons, and selling San Quentin could make the problem worse, said Leno, a Democrat.",
"He said there were no precise numbers available showing the value of San Quentin's property or what it would cost to build a prison to replace it.",
"\"Again, we have no actual numbers right now,\" he said, adding, \"I would guess, at best, it would come out a wash.\" Real estate consultant Stephen Roulac said San Quentin's land could be used for condominiums, parks or community-type buildings.",
"\"We would love to see a performing arts center prospectively here, possibly a museum, possibly a tie-in with a university,\" he said.",
"Lawmakers have approved $356 million to build a death row facility to replace the existing one at San Quentin, and some say that is another reason to consider selling the prison.",
"\"Does it make sense anymore in the year 2009 to continue to invest in expanding this prison facility on the most prime piece of real estate in Northern California, or should we finally start to think about some non-correctional uses for this unique property?\"",
"asked state Assembly member Jared Huffman, a Democrat.",
"Denham has tried twice to pass legislation to sell San Quentin.",
"His efforts in 2007 and in 2005 never made it out of committee, his office said."
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"(CNN) -- Moldova's president Wednesday accused Romania of involvement in a huge anti-communist protest, much of it coordinated on Facebook and Twitter, which saw government buildings ransacked and police arrest scores of demonstrators.",
"Protests over Moldova's election have gathered pace, fueled by Facebook and Twitter.",
"Vladimir Voronin described riots in the Moldovan capital Chisinau against his ruling Communist party's victory in Sunday elections as \"very serious\" and pledged to take action in response.",
"\"Romania is involved in everything that has happened,\" he said, according to the RIA-Novosti news agency.",
"\"Patience also has its limits.\"",
"An estimated 10,000 mainly students gathered Tuesday to protest what they say was a rigged election.",
"Many in the crowd were summoned using social networking tools, particularly Twitter.",
"IReport: Send your photos and emails.",
"Protesters threw bricks at riot police who responded with batons and water cannon.",
"Outnumbered, police retreated, leaving rioters to enter the parliament building and presidential offices where they smashed windows and started fires.",
"See images of the chaos » .",
"Demonstrators claim Voronin's ruling Communist Party manipulated Sunday's election results to make it appear that it had won 50 percent of the vote, a majority that would allow the party to and amend the Constitution to allow Voronin to rule for a third term.",
"Although election observers from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe found the voting largely free, many in the former Soviet state disagreed.",
"\"There were too many frauds,\" said Alina Radu, director of the weekly newspaper Ziarul de Garda.",
"Her newspaper's Web site asked readers Wednesday morning to send in instances of voter abuse.",
"\"In just half an hour, we had tens and hundreds of cases,\" Radu said.",
"Voronin said he was expelling the Romanian ambassador to Moldova and imposing visa restrictions on Romanians in response to the violence, RIA-Novosti said.",
"The agency reported that Romania has denied involvement and was threatening retaliatory measures.",
"Analysts saw Tuesday's demonstrations as a student-led action that \"caught the opposition political leaders by surprise.\"",
"\"Because I think that after talking to the Western observers, they didn't expect they would get any support for protests,\" said Tammy Lynch, senior fellow at Boston University's Institute for the Study of Conflict, Ideology and Policy.",
"\"It seemed to be undirected,\" Lynch said.",
"\"A lot of students felt angry they were being ignored and took out their anger on buildings.\"",
"Moldova's ties with Romania have become increasingly strained under Voronin, who has steered his country diplomatically closer to Russia since taking power in 2005.",
"The president has repeatedly accused Romania of wanting to absorb his country.",
"-- CNN's Saeed Ahmed contributed to this report ."
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"(CNN) -- Jewish organizations called for a Romanian official to resign and face a criminal investigation after he wore a Nazi uniform during a fashion show over the weekend.",
"Radu Mazare, the mayor of the town of Constanta, wore a Nazi uniform during a fashion show over the weekend.",
"Radu Mazare, the mayor of the town of Constanta, and his 15-year-old son \"entered the stage marching the clearly identifiable Nazi 'goose step,'\" the Center for Monitoring and Combating anti-Semitism in Romania said in a letter to the country's prosecutor general.",
"The organization's director, Marco Katz, said Mazare had broken Romanian law and encouraged his son to do the same, \"educating him to treat the law with contempt.\"",
"Katz said Mazare was sending a message \"that to wear Nazi uniforms and to march the Nazi steps is legal and 'in vogue' in Romania.\"",
"He urged the authorities and the head of Mazare's Social Democrat party to show that message \"will be strongly countermanded.\"",
"Mazare, 41, said he had not noticed the Nazi swastika symbol on the uniform before he wore it, according to the Romanian Times newspaper.",
"\"I checked it before I put it on but the swastika was very small and I didn't see it,\" he said.",
"\"I really liked the look of the uniform after seeing it in the Tom Cruise film 'Valkyrie.'",
"I bought it from a costume hire shop in Germany.\"",
"A top Nazi hunter said Mazare should quit.",
"\"The proper thing for you to do is to admit your mistake, apologize for it and resign your position,\" Efraim Zuroff of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Jerusalem wrote to Mazare.",
"Zuroff sent CNN a copy of the letter.",
"He said it was no defense that the uniform was that of the Wehrmacht -- the army -- rather than the SS, the elite Nazi guard which took the lead in killing Jews during the Holocaust.",
"\"The Wehrmacht played an active role in the mass murder of European Jewry and many other innocent victims.",
"By dressing in a Wehrmacht uniform, you are expressing totally unwarranted support and nostalgia for an army which committed the most terrible war crimes and acts of genocide,\" the letter said.",
"\"It would hard to adequately describe the depth of the pain that your appearance caused, not only to Jews and other victims of Nazism, but to any person of moral integrity who knows the history of World War II,\" Zuroff wrote.",
"Zuroff told CNN he did not expect Mazare to resign, or even to respond to the letter.",
"But he said he hoped the mayor might act on Zuroff's suggestion that Mazare create a Romanian-language edition of an acclaimed exhibition on the crimes of the Wehrmacht.",
"The Nazi uniform incident, which took place Sunday, was the first time Zuroff heard of Mazare, he said.",
"\"He has a history of being outrageous, but his antics have never included something that I would deal with,\" Zuroff said.",
"\"He's a real character, apparently.",
"He's also very popular, which makes this much more difficult.\"",
"CNN attempts to contact Mazare were unsuccessful.",
"Romania was a Nazi ally from 1940 to 1944, under the leadership of a right-wing military government led by General Ion Antonescu.",
"At least 270,000 Romanian Jews were killed or died from mistreatment during the Holocaust, according to the Holocaust Encyclopedia.",
"The 1930 Romanian census recorded 728,115 people who identified themselves as Jewish, comprising approximately 4 percent of the population, the reference work says.",
"Antonescu was deposed in 1944 and Romania switched sides in World War II."
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"LONDON, England (CNN) -- Social networking, Martin Scorsese and cinema classics on demand: this is the enticing mix on offer at new movie Web site The Auteurs.",
"The Auteurs mastermind Efe Cakarel (center) at Cannes with Celluloid Dreams' Hengameh Panahi (left) and Martin Scorsese.",
"The self-styled \"online cinematheque\" allows users to watch art house films from directors like Michael Winterbottom, Francois Ozon and Walter Salles, while Facebook-style profile pages and discussion forums encourage movie debate.",
"With their innovative approach, The Auteurs hope to introduce art house cinema to a whole new audience.",
"Recently, The Auteurs announced a prestigious partnership with another more widely known auteur: Scorsese.",
"The site is collaborating with Scorsese's World Cinema Foundation (WCF) -- an organization dedicated to restoring lost cinema classics from around the world -- to exhibit the refurbished masterpieces online.",
"The first four rescued works from Scorsese's project are currently available to watch for free on The Auteurs Web site.",
"Among them are Korean domestic thriller \"The Housemaid\" (1960) and \"Transes\" (1973), a documentary about pioneering Moroccan band Nass El Ghiwan, famously described by Scorsese as \"the Rolling Stones of North Africa.\"",
"Watch a clip from \"The Housemaid\" Watch a clip from \"Transes\" \"It is really exciting and important to have Scorsese preserving the films he is preserving,\" said one of the masterminds behind The Auteurs, Eduardo Costantini, over the phone from New York.",
"\"As he said, it's not only important to preserve, but to show -- and he chose The Auteurs because of our look and feel and our philosophy and concept.",
"We are really proud.\"",
"The basic ambition behind The Auteurs is to make high quality cinema accessible to a young, global audience by making it available on demand cheaply.",
"\"If you are not in LA, London, New York, San Francisco, Tokyo, Paris, or Berlin, forget it,\" Efe Cakarel told CNN over the phone from Palo Alto, California.",
"\"Many of these films you cannot get even on DVD if you are living in Warsaw, in Istanbul, in Seoul or Buenos Aires.\"",
"The Auteurs is Cakarel's brainchild: an ambitious former Goldman Sachs banker with a head for technology, he came up with the idea back in 2007 in Tokyo when, with some spare time on his hands, he tried to watch Wong Kar-wai's \"In the Mood for Love\" on the Internet.",
"\"It was very simple. I went online and I did not find a place that I could use,\" he says.",
"He started writing his business plan there and then.",
"Cakarel says he knew that if he was going to succeed in his quest to bring quality cinema to the global village he would have to enlist some of the industry's top brass.",
"Enter Argentine millionaire, Eduardo Costantini of Costa Films, the company behind 2007 Berlinale winner \"Elite Troop,\" and Hengameh Panahi of Paris-based distributor Celluloid Dreams which represents films like Jacques Audiard's \"A Prophet,\" which won the Grand Prize at Cannes Film Festival this year.",
"Costantini and Panahi have instilled the site with their film knowledge, and paved the way for the site's other major collaboration with masters of the vintage re-release, the Criterion Collection.",
"Each month, the Criterion Collection curates a free online film festival making available classic films from its large library on The Auteurs.",
"This month, users can watch Michelangelo Antonioni's 1960 classic \"L'Avventura\" or \"Harakiri\" (1962) by Japanese master Masaki Kobayashi.",
"Of course, all this begs the question: is there really a big appetite for auteur-driven feature films outside the lofty but limited cinephile circles -- especially at a time when studio-driven blockbuster fodder like \"X-Men Origins: Wolverine\" and \"Angels & Demons\" dominate at the box office?",
"\"I want to create an entirely new audience for these films,\" says Cakarel.",
"\"Because the only thing people in much of the world are exposed to is \"Spiderman 3\" or \"Pirates of the Caribbean\" in their local multiplex.\"",
"The Auteurs is one of a number of Web sites, like jaman.com, making previously hard-to-find films available on the Internet since the YouTube revolution paved the way for new ways of consuming video on the Web.",
"The Auteurs' particular niche is auteur-driven cinema combined with social networking: \"Putting the films online is only part of it.",
"The moment you put the film in the existing conversation between people that know each other, then you create a platform for discovery.",
"According to Cakarel, what sets the site apart from the others is quality: each film is individually encoded (compared to most sites, which batch encode films) for the Web which he says gives a higher quality of sound and vision than anywhere else on the Web.",
"\"Being the best in the world has a huge premium and I know that we can be the best in the world,\" said Cakarel.",
"The site is cleanly designed, easy to navigate and you can pay to watch films like 1998 Dogme 95 classic \"Festen\" by Danish director Thomas Vinterberg and \"The Corporation,\" (2003) an unsettling examination of the pre-eminence of big business.",
"Currently there are 200 films available to watch, some free, but mostly for around $5.",
"Costantini says he hopes to increase the number of films to 1,000.",
"Despite the unabashedly highbrow aims of the site, both Cakarel and Costantini realize they will need to include more commercial fare if they want to increase membership of the site which currently stands at around 80,000.",
"\"It is important we start getting some major films,\" said Costantini.",
"\"Not only treasures that Scorsese restores but also some films that are more commercial.\"",
"Cakarel says he would love to host quality studio films like the Coen's \"No Country for Old Men,\" Oscar-winner \"There Will be Blood,\" and Tarantino's \"Inglourious Basterds.\"",
"But there are limits: \"I will never put a mainstream film that is purely for entertainment; that has no soul on the site.",
"\"You will never see 'Knocked Up' or 'Spiderman 3.'\""
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"The movie masterpieces were restored by Scorsese's World Cinema Foundation .",
"They include Korean film \"The Housemaid\" and Moroccan documentary \"Transes\"\nThe Auteurs is an innovative mix of social networking and video on demand ."
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"(CNN) -- Pope John Paul II used to beat himself with a belt and sleep on a bare floor to bring himself closer to Christ, a book published Wednesday says.",
"The late pope had a particular belt for self-flagellation and brought it with him to his summer residence, according to the book, \"Why he is a Saint: The True story of John Paul II.\"",
"\"As some members of his own entourage were able to hear with their own ears, both in Poland and in the Vatican, Karol Wojtyla flagellated himself,\" the book says, using the name the pope was given at birth.",
"\"In the closet, among the cloaks, a particular pant-belt hung from a hook, which he utilized as a whip and one which he always had brought to Castel Gandolfo,\" the book says.",
"The book was written by a Vatican insider, Slawomir Oder, with Italian journalist Saverio Gaeta of the Catholic weekly Christian Family.",
"Oder is head of the Vatican committee investigating whether John Paul II should be declared a saint.",
"John Paul died in 2005.",
"The evil albino monk in Dan Brown's \"The Da Vinci Code\" may be the best-known example of self-flagellation these days, but the practice is not unusual in Catholicism -- or nearly as extreme as it is shown in the movie.",
"\"When members or former members [of Opus Dei] see the monk go at it in the movie, they just burst out laughing, it's so nutty,\" said the Rev.",
"Michael Barrett, a priest of the Catholic Opus Dei sect.",
"In actual Catholic self-flagellation, \"there is no blood, no injury, nothing to harm a person's health, nothing traumatic.",
"If it caused any harm, the Church would not allow it,\" he wrote on Opus Dei's Web site when the movie came out in 2006.",
"\"This voluntarily accepted discomfort is a way of joining oneself to Jesus Christ and the sufferings he voluntarily accepted in order to redeem us from sin.",
"'The Da Vinci Code's' masochist monk, who loves pain for its own sake, has nothing to do with real Christian mortification,\" Barrett said.",
"Mother Teresa is among famous Catholics who self-flagellated in some way, Barrett said.",
"Catholics are not alone in choosing to inflict pain on themselves for religion reasons.",
"Some Shiite Muslims lash themselves until they bleed when marking the mourning period of Ashura, while fasting is practiced by people in several religions, including Jews on Yom Kippur, the day of atonement.",
"David Gibson, a journalist who worked for Vatican Radio when John Paul II was pope, pointed out that the pontiff wrote an apostolic letter -- essentially a papal position paper -- on suffering in 1984.",
"\"Christ did not conceal from his listeners the need for suffering.",
"He said very clearly: 'If any man would come after me ... let him take up his cross daily,' \" the pope wrote, quoting the Gospel of Luke.",
"Jesus, the pope wrote, \"suffered in place of man and for man.",
"Every man has his own share in the Redemption.",
"Each one is also called to share in that suffering through which the Redemption was accomplished.",
"\"In bringing about the Redemption through suffering, Christ has also raised human suffering to the level of the Redemption.",
"Thus each man, in his suffering, can also become a sharer in the redemptive suffering of Christ,\" says the letter, Salvifici Doloris, On the Christian Meaning of Human Suffering.",
"\"John Paul was a product of a very Old World Polish Catholicism,\" said Gibson, who now writes on religion for Politics Daily.",
"\"He was a very disciplined man and a very rigorous man in his personal spirituality,\" he said.",
"The authors of the new book clearly approve of any whipping the pope did of himself, he added.",
"\"Even though it's going to weird people out, it's obviously seen by his postulators as a sign of his holiness,\" he said, using the technical term for the person who investigates a person's qualifications for sainthood.",
"He said the idea is not as bizarre as it might sound to contemporary ears.",
"\"The idea of fasting, renouncing something, giving up your Starbucks latte so you can send money to Haiti -- you can't simply look down your nose at it without rejecting a lot of other ideas about self-sacrifice,\" he said.",
"The authors of the book based it on interviews with 114 \"witnesses\" and access to unedited documents in the Vatican's archives, according to the publisher, Rizzoli.",
"The book is available only in Italian, but the publisher is having it translated into Polish and other languages."
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"Solana Beach, California (CNN) -- I dont tlk on th fone.",
"txt im fb me. I tried to reach my teenage daughter the other day.",
"I left a voice mail, sent an e-mail message and finally texted her and told her to check both and call me back.",
"Seconds later, she texted back one letter: \"K.\" She is 19 and has been sending and receiving upwards of 3,000 texts per month.",
"One month, she hit 7,500!",
"She is not unusual at all. According to Nielsen Mobile, in the first quarter of 2009, the average U.S. teen made and received an average of 191 phone calls and sent and received 2,899 text messages per month.",
"By the third quarter, the number of texts had jumped to a whopping 3,146 messages per month, which equals more than 10 texts per every waking non-school hour.",
"(At the beginning of 2007, those numbers were 255 phone calls and 435 text messages.)",
"Preteens sent and received 1,146 texts per month.",
"My daughter doesn't answer her phone because to her, it is no longer a phone.",
"We are in the midst of four distinct generations of Americans: Baby Boomers (born 1946-64), Generation X (1965-79), Net Generation (1980-89) and the new iGeneration (born in the 1990s and beyond and given the \"i\" designation to represent media such as iPods and the Wii but also to reflect the \"individualized\" nature of their media).",
"Until recently, \"communicate\" meant to talk face-to-face or on the phone.",
"But both the Net Generation and the iGeneration have turned the concept of communication upside down.",
"The old ways are, well, old.",
"It is now all about texting, IMing, Facebooking, Skype-ing -- pretty much anything but talking live or on the phone.",
"I know that this is alarming to many, but quite honestly, people must recognize that this is the way it is now and is going to be -- at least until the next new form of e-communication bursts into our world.",
"If you have a teenager (or even a preteen), for example, you must learn how to text, or you two will never \"connect.\"",
"To this generation, it is all about connection, but those connections are, for the most part, electronic.",
"It is important to note that although experts agree about the two older generations, not everyone agrees on \"defining\" the last two generations.",
"They are called Generation Y and Millennials by some and, as far as their demarcation dates, well, that is open to fierce discussion.",
"From my research with 3,000 Americans, the final two generations are defined not by a letter or by their birth year but by their use of technology and media, their need and ability to multitask, their rapid acceptance of anything new and their view of the meaning of technology.",
"All of which lead to differences in personal and work values and often to disharmony in the family, school and the workplace.",
"In my research, we query people about daily media activities as well as those they choose during free time.",
"We find striking generational differences.",
"Older teens and Net Geners spend more than 20 hours per day using media.",
"This is accomplished not by not sleeping but with considerable multitasking, which peaks at seven simultaneous activities for older teens.",
"Setting aside music (with its omnipresent ear buds), preferred media choices differ dramatically across generations: For children, it's television; for tweens, it's video games; for teens, it's texting and social networking; and for Net Geners and Gen Xers, it's being online.",
"And for Boomers, it's, of course, back to television.",
"The roots of these differences lie in the origin and pace of technological change, particularly among the most recent generations.",
"Net Geners were early adopters of the Internet, which they came to view as a valuable tool.",
"iGeners, however, are different.",
"They know no other world than that of the Web, texting and social networking.",
"They were online when they could sit up and sent an e-mail to Grandma; they made MySpace a household name by their early teens.",
"They live in their own bedroom \"TechnoCocoons,\" where new technologies appear and penetrate society in months rather than years.",
"Although the telephone took 20 years to reach 50 million users, the Web took four years, iPods three and MySpace two, and YouTube hit 50 million users in one year.",
"The iGeneration is driving these consumer trends.",
"Individuals in this group watch more than 100 YouTube videos a month, download apps, MySpace and Facebook (now verbs), and text the night away.",
"They don't see technology as a tool.",
"For them, it is just life. These generational differences have tremendous ramifications for the family, education and the workplace.",
"Parents are upset that their children multitask and yet are perplexed that they can balance all their technology and do well in school.",
"Teachers struggle to reconcile their need to have students read books, do worksheets and pay attention in class (unitasking) while students want multitasking technologies.",
"Bosses want meetings (more unitasking), goals and progress reports, while their Gen X and Net Gen employees want to do it their way through multitasking and flex time.",
"These differences permeate every system and cause parents, teachers and bosses to tear their hair out.",
"Yet those pesky multitasking kids are the smartest generation ever, with high professional aspirations.",
"Some may call them narcissistic, but they are really a highly social generation (albeit with much of the socializing done online); they value family, revere friendship (some \"virtual\"), consume massive quantities of information (again, much of it online) and are the most \"communicating\" generation yet.",
"But to us \"old fogies,\" it seems like they are just chatting aimlessly, sending brief tweets with funny acronyms that make no sense (could you decipher the text message at the beginning of this article?).",
"They text while they walk (sometimes into trees) and keep their cell phones on vibrate while they sleep.",
"No one really has a choice but to accept their world and learn to adapt.",
"The Net Geners and iGeners will soon be the country's parents, teachers, bosses and political leaders, and their techie style will become the norm.",
"We may not like it, but we have to admit that they are happy, successful and engaged with all their media and technology.",
"I may have to text my daughter to get her attention, but I am also bewildered and awed by her mastery of anything new and amazed at how she can balance her media and college and maintain an A average at Yale.",
"It is their world. Watch out for the young ones who are already surfing the Net at 2.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Larry Rosen."
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"There are four generations now, he says; oldest use phones, youngest anything but .",
"For young people, electronic communication is not about technology, it's just life, he says .",
"Rosen: Next generation is highly social, successful and plugged in.",
"It's time to get used to it ."
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"(CNN) -- Investigators continued their search Tuesday for a 7-year-old girl who was reported missing after her mother was found dead in Oklahoma.",
"\"We've got to find that little girl,\" Special Agent Ray Homer of the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation said.",
"\"We're doing what we can.\" The girl -- Aja Daniell Johnson -- was reported missing from Geronimo, Oklahoma, late Sunday, the bureau said.",
"Her 37-year-old mother, Tonya Hobbs, was found dead inside a parked RV.",
"They also are trying to find the dead woman's estranged husband, Lester William Hobbs, 46, the bureau has said.",
"Lester Hobbs and Aja are presumed to be in Hobbs' car -- a white 1992 Toyota Paseo with Oklahoma tag No.",
"577-BPW, police said.",
"Police were looking for Hobbs and Aja in Oklahoma and Texas.",
"Authorities were working with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children on Tuesday to set up a toll-free phone line and put Aja's photo on a Web site of missing children, Homer said.",
"They have had no communication with Lester Hobbs or anyone else that would indicate Aja's location, he said.",
"Tonya Hobbs and her daughter visited Lester Hobbs at his sister's home, the bureau said.",
"Lester Hobbs is not Aja's biological father, police said.",
"Texas authorities also issued an Amber Alert, Texas Department of Public Safety spokeswoman Lisa Block said.",
"Authorities believe Hobbs has connections to Rockport, Texas, and the alert was issued preemptively, she said.",
"Tonya Hobbs and her daughter were last seen Saturday night.",
"Authorities did not say how Hobbs died, but the bureau said investigators believe someone killed her.",
"The RV belonged to Lester Hobbs and was parked at his relatives' home, Richard Goss, agent in charge of the bureau's Lawton, Oklahoma, office, told reporters.",
"Hobbs' relatives became suspicious Sunday after they did not see Tonya Hobbs or Aja.",
"One of them pried open the RV door and discovered Tonya Hobbs' body, he said.",
"Lester Hobbs and Aja were gone, Goss said.",
"The Hobbses were separated, but apparently Tonya Hobbs was visiting Lester Hobbs in an attempt to reconcile, Goss said.",
"The couple had been together for about five years.",
"The Comanche County, Oklahoma, Sheriff's Office said Aja has a medical condition that requires medication.",
"\"Our main concern at this time is to find the little girl,\" Comanche County Sheriff Kenny Stradley told reporters.",
"\"We know that she does need some medication,\" and authorities were checking leads regarding that, he said.",
"He did not specify Aja's medical condition.",
"Goss said Lester Hobbs has an extensive criminal history, but did not elaborate.",
"The sheriff's office said he had prior felony convictions.",
"Lester Hobbs was supposed to appear in court in Lincoln County, Oklahoma, on a DUI charge, Goss said, and did not appear, so a warrant has been issued for him.",
"Aja'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 Aja and keep the girl away from Lester Hobbs, the documents said.",
"Aja is 4 feet tall and weighs 59 pounds, Goss said.",
"She has brown eyes, and her hair is brown with the ends dyed black.",
"Lester Hobbs is about 6-foot-1 and 190 pounds, with hazel eyes and brown hair, according to the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation.",
"The agency released a picture of him and said he has a mustache but no longer has a goatee.",
"Geronimo is about 12 miles south of Lawton, Oklahoma, in the south-central part of the state."
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"Sheriff's Office said girl has a medical condition that requires medication ."
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"Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (CNN) -- More than 50 Haitian children -- rescued from an orphanage damaged by last week's earthquake --arrived Tuesday in Pennsylvania, most of them headed eventually to adoptive homes.",
"Gov. Edward Rendell, who traveled to Haiti to accompany the orphans back to his state, said the 53 children from the Bresma Orphanage in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince were flown to Florida on an Air Force C-17 transport plane.",
"The group was then transferred to another plane to fly to Pittsburgh International Airport, he said at a news conference at the airport.",
"Another child is to arrive in Pittsburgh late Tuesday or Wednesday, Rendell said.",
"Ali McMutrie, a Pittsburgh-area woman who ran the orphanage with her sister, Jamie, said her sister will accompany the 54th orphan.",
"\"The children are incredible.",
"They're doing so great. I was more upset at the airplane ride than any of them,\" said McMutrie, who also was at the briefing.",
"Most of the children's adoption cases were at the end of the bureaucratic process before the 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck.",
"Search for loved ones, see who's found .",
"According to Rendell, adoption cases are under way for 47 of the children.",
"Of these, 40 will be U.S. adoptions, four children will go to Spain and three to Canada.",
"Adoptive parents will be sought for the remaining seven children.",
"The orphans almost stayed in Haiti.",
"Rep. Jason Altmire, D-Pennsylvania, who was traveling with the group, said it had been understood that all the children were cleared to leave.",
"However, 14 of them had no papers because they were destroyed in the quake, and the U.S. Embassy said they couldn't leave the country, Altmire said.",
"\"We were frantically calling the State Department, the White House and everyone else\" to get the clearance, he said.",
"In addition, the McMutrie sisters, who live in Altmire's congressional district, refused to allow just a portion of the children to leave, Altmire said.",
"\"So now, everything is up in the air.",
"You're just arguing about paperwork,\" the congressman said.",
"Finally, with intervention from several agencies and the White House, the embassy approved humanitarian waivers, or paroles, for the 14 children.",
"\"All of a sudden, after four or five hours of struggle, we got the go that all 54 orphans could come to the U.S.,\" Rendell said.",
"By then, the plane that was to take everyone to the United States had left.",
"The military and embassy arranged for them to fly in a military cargo plane.",
"Altmire said that despite their trauma, the children adjusted well to the flight.",
"\"They were polite and either slept or were quiet or just played among themselves,\" he said.",
"\"We are all grateful the kids are here and safe, but this was a very unusual situation,\" an Obama administration official, who did not want to be identified, told CNN.",
"\"We will continue to grant, in special cases, humanitarian parole for orphans and medical evacuees, but our position is clear that people from Haiti attempting to enter the country illegally will be repatriated.\"",
"The children were taken by bus to Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh.",
"Allegheny County spokesman Kevin Evanto told CNN that the children will be placed in foster homes until details of their adoptions are finalized.",
"On Monday, the U.S. government said it had eased the requirements for orphaned children from Haiti to enter the United States on a temporary basis.",
"In a separate statement, the State Department said Monday it is working with the Department of Homeland Security 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.",
"At least 24 of those children have left Haiti and have joined their adoptive families since the embassy expedited processing for immigrant visas, said Michele Bond, deputy assistant secretary for American citizen services.",
"Janet Napolitano, secretary of homeland security, can allow otherwise inadmissible people into the country for urgent humanitarian reasons or other emergencies.",
"Before the earthquake, Haiti was home to about 380,000 orphans, according to the most recent data from the United Nations Children's Fund.",
"Rendell's plane flew into Haiti on Monday with a shipment of medical aid and several doctors.",
"It arrived after aid organizations had complained that their planes bound for Port-au-Prince had been delayed.",
"The agency Doctors Without Borders says several of its flights were delayed or diverted for long spells, including a plane carrying supplies for an inflatable hospital.",
"That plane could not land in Port-au-Prince on Saturday and instead was rerouted to the neighboring Dominican Republic, it said.",
"Another medical supply flight was diverted to the Dominican Republic on Sunday, causing a 24-hour delay in delivering aid that had to be transported by truck as a result, the group said.",
"U.S. officials have attributed the delays to a crowded apron at Port-au-Prince's small airport, but say traffic conditions have considerably improved.",
"The airport handled 180 flights Monday, none of which were delayed, Lt. Gen. P. K. Keen told CNN.",
"One Doctors Without Borders flight was unable to land over the weekend, he said, because another aircraft's departure was delayed.",
"Instead of circling and burning fuel, the plane landed in the Dominican Republic, he said.",
"\"And clearly, we wanted that field hospital on the tarmac,\" Keen said.",
"\"But beyond landing them on the main runway and shutting down the entire airport for a couple of hours, there weren't many options because of the design of the airfield.\"",
"Keen added that planes turned back \"a number of times\" and \"quite a bit\" in the first few days after the quake.",
"While the field manages more than 100 flights a day now, before the quake, it handled slightly more than a dozen a day, he said.",
"CNN's Gary Tuchman, Adam Levine and Mary Snow contributed to this report."
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"Most of the adoption cases were at end of bureaucratic process before quake .",
"Adoption cases are under way for 47: 40 for U.S. adoptions, 4 for Spain, 3 for Canada .",
"Children were bused to hospital; they'll be in foster homes until adoption details finalized ."
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"Dubai, United Arab Emirates (CNN) -- Another person has been added to the list of suspects in the January killing of a Hamas leader in a Dubai hotel, bringing the number of identified suspects to 27, two sources told CNN on Monday.",
"Twenty-six of the 27 were carrying European and Australian passports, authorities have said.",
"The sources, an official familiar with the investigation and a police source, did not say which nation issued the passport the suspect used.",
"Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, a founding member of Hamas' military wing, was found dead January 20 in his Dubai hotel room.",
"Police believe he was slain the night before, allegedly by the secretive Israeli foreign intelligence unit Mossad.",
"Earlier Monday, sources in Dubai said two of the suspects ultimately entered the United States after al-Mabhouh's death, confirming a story originally reported by the Wall Street Journal.",
"But a national security source in the United States cast doubt on that report.",
"Federal authorities ran the two names -- Roy Allen Cannon and Evan Dennings -- through databases and found no indication that anyone with those names or using those names entered the United States after the Dubai killing, the U.S. source said.",
"The Dubai sources said the suspect identified as Dennings, carrying an Irish passport, went to Zurich, Switzerland, immediately after the slaying, then entered the United States on January 21.",
"The suspect identified as Cannon entered the United States on a British passport on February 14, the sources said.",
"Both should have been required to provide fingerprints and a picture upon arrival in America, the sources said.",
"On Sunday, Dubai's police chief said he is \"100 percent sure\" that the secretive Israeli foreign intelligence unit Mossad is behind al-Mabhouh's death.",
"\"The Mossad needs to be ashamed of its actions,\" said Lt. Gen. Dahi Khalfan Tamim.",
"\"They sent 26, 27 persons to assassinate one man who was involved in the capturing and killing of two Israeli soldiers.\"",
"Hamas has said al-Mabhouh was behind the 1989 deaths.",
"Israel has a stated policy on security matters of neither confirming nor denying involvement.",
"Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, however, told Israel Army Radio earlier this month, \"There is certainly no reason to think that the Mossad and not some other intelligence agency of another country operated there.\"",
"Lieberman has also said only \"media reports\" link Israel to the slaying.",
"Asked about the case Saturday by CNN's Christiane Amanpour, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak repeatedly declined to comment.",
"Earlier Sunday, police said toxicology results showed that al-Mabhouh was injected with succinylcholine, a drug used to relax muscles during surgery or as an anesthetic, before he was suffocated.",
"Signs indicated that al-Mabhouh resisted as he was being suffocated, police said.",
"Family members were told earlier that police had found blood on a pillow.",
"Authorities have also said the killers left some of al-Mabhouh's medication next to him in an apparent effort to make the death appear natural.",
"But \"the medication left next to him in the room has nothing to do with the killing,\" Tamim said Sunday.",
"However, authorities have recovered evidence including DNA, he said.",
"\"The DNA evidence is quite important and will help us with the investigation.\"",
"The 27 suspects are believed to have acquired false passports to travel to Dubai for the killing, then scattered to several far-flung locations afterward.",
"Tamim said Sunday not all the suspects have fraudulent passports -- \"We know some of the names are real.\"",
"The total of 27 does not include two Palestinians previously arrested in Jordan and returned to Dubai.",
"Tamim said one is not believed to be directly involved in al-Mabhouh's death, but \"he is wanted by one of the Palestinian factions in the Palestinian territories and he is sentenced to death and that's why we will extradite him.\"",
"He declined to discuss anything about the other Palestinian.",
"Twelve of the suspects used British passports, police said.",
"Six suspects used Irish passports, four used French passports, three used Australian and one used a German passport.",
"Also Monday, the sources said the UAE central bank is working with other nations to track funding and 14 credit cards -- issued mostly by a United States bank -- used by the suspects in different places, including the United States.",
"CNN's Caroline Faraj and Saad Abedine contributed to this report."
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"Port-au-Prince, Haiti (CNN) -- Haiti's capital seemed to spring back to life Wednesday, more than a week after a 7.0-magnitude earthquake flattened many parts of the city and killed tens of thousands.",
"Electrical power was still out most places, but traffic lights were functioning and chaotic traffic clogged many streets.",
"Aid trucks, some guarded by blue-helmeted United Nations peacekeepers, were seen leaving the airport.",
"Water trucks also were spotted in parts of Port-au-Prince.",
"\"There's energy in the air,\" said Haitian-born J.B. Diederich, who lives in Miami but returned to Haiti for a few days after the earthquake.",
"More U.N. convoys were seen moving through the city than in previous days, and so could vehicles for large nongovernmental organizations.",
"Latest updates | Twitter | Full coverage .",
"Haitian police seemed to take a more active role, directing traffic and getting out of their vehicles to deal with some problem or other.",
"For several days after the earthquake, heavily armed police officers were often seen speeding by in their trucks but did not seem to stop or do much.",
"There also seemed to be more street vendors Wednesday.",
"Some banks and wire-transfer companies plan to open Thursday, as do some stores, Diederich said.",
"To be certain, Port-au-Prince still has a ways to go.",
"But on Wednesday, the city seemed ready to leave the tragedy behind.",
"A way out for U.S. citizens .",
"Any U.S. citizen who wants to leave Haiti on a U.S. military transport aircraft can do so simply by going to the airport and applying for voluntary departure at a State Department office placed on the tarmac.",
"About 5,000 people have left in the past week, an official said.",
"iReport: Search list for missing and found .",
"The service is available to U.S. citizens or anyone escorting a U.S. citizen who is a minor.",
"Although the flights are initially free, the U.S. will try to recoup costs from individual passengers.",
"The cargo planes would return to the United States empty if they weren't transporting citizens.",
"Cubans wait with no way out .",
"A handful of Cuban citizens stood in a line next to the U.S. State Department tent at the airport while about 100 U.S. citizens were processed for a flight Wednesday afternoon.",
"The Cubans wanted out, too, but there were no waiting planes.",
"There weren't even any indications that a Cuban plane would arrive at all.",
"Impact Your World .",
"\"Here everyone resolves their problems, and we don't even have a way to get home,\" said a woman who did not want to give her name.",
"None of the three people interviewed by a CNN reporter would give their names.",
"They laughed nervously when first asked and then said it would be too dangerous for them to comment openly."
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"\"There's energy in the air,\" Haitian-born man says .",
"Convoys, more police, aid, military presence on streets of Port-au-Prince .",
"More street vendors open; some banks scheduled to open Thursday .",
"Americans leaving by U.S. military transport aircraft, Cubans still waiting ."
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"Port-au-Prince, Haiti (CNN) -- A large crane used to load and unload containers from cargo vessels, was bent, twisted and leaning toward the water at the main port for Haiti's capital city on Thursday.",
"Roads leading toward the city from a dock normally used for offloading ships were impassable, buckled about 5 feet high by Tuesday's 7.0-magnitude earthquake.",
"Three vessels loaded down with medical supplies, food, clothing and water for earthquake victims had nowhere to dock and offload, according to a Haitian shipping company who provided them.",
"Meanwhile, so many aid planes had landed at the Port-au-Prince's airport that a bottleneck was created, and space to unload aid items was at a premium.",
"Some planes were held in the air because there was no space to land and unload them.",
"The Haitian government stopped accepting flights Thursday because ramp space at the airport in Port-au-Prince was saturated and no fuel was available, said Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Laura Brown.",
"The FAA put a ground stop in effect, meaning the United States was not granting takeoff clearances for Haiti until it was notified space was available.",
"\"There is one big problem,\" said Raymond Joseph, Haitian ambassador to the United States, on CNN's \"Amanpour.\"",
"\"The aid is coming now and getting to the Port-au-Prince airport.",
"And it's not getting out, because of the road system.\"",
"He said he hoped the United States and other nations would bring in equipment to help clear the roads.",
"In addition, he said, the airport was overcrowded.",
"\"And that is due, probably, to the fact that the control tower fell ... but we understand that the U.S., especially the Defense Department, was putting up an emergency control tower.\"",
"Weary Haiti continues search for survivors .",
"State Department spokesman P.J.",
"Crowley said Thursday afternoon that U.S. military air traffic controllers were running Port-au-Prince's airport, per an agreement with the Haitian government.",
"However, the government was in charge of airspace, Crowley said.",
"Earlier Thursday, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon said the quake's aftermath represented \"a major humanitarian disaster.\"",
"He said the international goal is to save as many lives as possible within the first 72 hours following the quake.",
"Ban called the outpouring of global support \"one of the most heartening facts in this otherwise heartbreaking story.\"",
"Nations worldwide were sending doctors, medical supplies, medicine, food and water, as well as security personnel and troops.",
"French President Nicolas Sarkozy suggested the world use the crisis in Haiti as an opportunity to help the nation move out of its difficult economic situation, and is calling on leaders of several nations to set up a conference to discuss Haitian reconstruction and rehabilitation.",
"One of two U.S. military cargo planes carrying a 30-member assessment team arrived at Port-au-Prince airport Wednesday evening to assess Haiti's needs.",
"One of the team's first jobs is to get the airport working enough to handle aid flights from around the world.",
"Also Thursday, the United Kingdom announced it would provide $10 million for relief efforts.",
"Belize, Brazil, China, Chile, Spain, Canada, Israel, Iceland, Ireland, the United States and Morocco were among the many other countries offering aid.",
"Global agencies also were assisting.",
"The World Bank pledged $100 million in emergency funds.",
"The World Health Organization was dispatching personnel to Haiti Thursday morning, with a priority of identifying hospitals functioning well enough to treat the injured and coordinate an international health response.",
"After relief organizations found themselves tripping over one another following the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, they decided to coordinate their efforts with those of non-United Nations organizations in what is called the \"U.N.",
"Cluster System.\"",
"In the system, the World Health Organization plays the lead coordinating role for health; the U.N. high commissioner for Refugees or the Red Cross does it for shelter; and the World Food Programme does it for food, according to Christy Feig, WHO's director of communications.",
"The United Nations was releasing $10 million from its Central Emergency Relief Fund, as well as mobilizing an emergency response team.",
"Ban said he had appointed Assistant Secretary-General Edmond Mulet to Haiti to direct the emergency response from Haiti.",
"One Chinese and two U.S. search and rescue teams were arriving Wednesday, he said, with more expected Thursday.",
"Impact Your World: How you can help .",
"Former U.S. President Bill Clinton urged people to donate to www.clintonfoundation.org/haitiearthquake.",
"\"Anybody who sends us money, we're just going to move it into those supplies quickly,\" he said.",
"He urged world leaders who have already made a commitment at a Clinton Foundation donors' conference to ensure they had fulfilled it.",
"\"Most countries are way behind on fulfilling it,\" he said.",
"\"They [Haitians] need your help now.\"",
"Ban said the United Nations will issue a \"flash appeal\" on Friday.",
"The U.N. defines a flash appeal as a tool for structuring a coordinated humanitarian response for the first three to six months of an emergency.",
"However, officials are trying to figure out how much to request, Ban said.",
"\"It is very hard at this time to have an exact estimate.\"",
"The Red Cross promised $10 million in aid, along with supplies such as tarps, mosquito nets and cooking sets.",
"The World Food Programme was airlifting 86 metric tons of food, enough for more than 500,000 meals, including ready-to-eat food and high-energy biscuits, it said.",
"Doctors Without Borders said in a statement it has treated more than 1,000 people since the earthquake, operating out of open-air hospitals, and its primary concern is \"the overwhelming numbers of people who need immediate treatment and major surgery.\"",
"Food, water and shelter materials are also in short supply, said the organization.",
"http://www.clintonfoundation.org/haitiearthquake/ .",
"Numerous other aid groups -- Islamic Relief USA, AmeriCares, UNICEF, the International Rescue Committee and the Salvation Army, among others -- were also contributing to relief efforts.",
"UNICEF relief worker Guido Cornale told CNN that in Jacmel, a city southwest of Port-au-Prince, UNICEF was providing clean drinking water to those affected by the quake and has distributed 2,500 kits that can be used to set up kitchens in camps set up by the government to house victims.",
"Aid also came from other, more unconventional sources.",
"The Jolie-Pitt Foundation, started by actors Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, donated $1 Million to Doctors Without Borders; the New York Yankees donated $500,000, Major League Baseball $1 million.",
"And the American Red Cross and musician Wyclef Jean's Yele foundation were accepting donations by text message -- $10 by texting \"Haiti\" to 90999, and $5 by texting \"Yele\" to 501501.",
"The donations will appear on cell phone bills.",
"And businesses including UPS, Google, Coca-Cola, Lowe's, the Bank of America Charitable Foundation and Wal-Mart each pledged at least $500,000 for relief efforts.",
"CNN's Eric Marrapodi and Chris Lawrence contributed to this report."
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"Relief agencies coordinate efforts after \"tripping over each other\" after 2004 tsunami .",
"World Bank promises $100 million in emergency funds .",
"Movie stars, Major League Baseball, corporations making large donations ."
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"London, England (CNN) -- The iconic Abbey Road music studios made famous by the Beatles are not for sale, the music label that owns them said Sunday, after days of speculation that they were.",
"It is seeking a partner to help pay for upgrades, according to Terra Firma, which controls EMI, owner of the recording studios.",
"\"EMI confirms that it is holding preliminary discussions for the revitalization of Abbey Road with interested and appropriate third parties,\" Terra Firma said.",
"But that does not mean the studios are for sale, it added.",
"\"In mid-2009, we did receive an offer to buy Abbey Road for in excess of £30 million (currently about $46 million), but this was rejected since we believe that Abbey Road should remain in EMI's ownership,\" the music company said in a statement.",
"The studios became world famous when the Beatles were photographed crossing the road there for the cover of their album \"Abbey Road.\"",
"But it's not only where the Beatles recorded \"All You Need is Love\" and numerous other songs, but where much of Britain's best known music of the 20th century was laid down.",
"Rock stars Pink Floyd and Cliff Richard, composer Sir Edward Elgar, and the movie soundtracks for \"Star Wars\" and the \"Harry Potter\" films were recorded there.",
"English Heritage, a cultural institution, is considering plans to list the studios as a site of national historic importance, Terra Firma said.",
"That would give it protected status.",
"\"EMI ... supports such a listing as an appropriate way of protecting our world famous music heritage site,\" the company said Sunday.",
"Terra Firma bought EMI in 2007.",
"Andrew Lloyd Webber, the composer of \"Phantom of the Opera\" and \"Cats\" and one of Britain's richest men, is \"very interested\" in buying the studios, a representative said Friday.",
"\"He first recorded there in 1967 with Tim Rice.",
"Andrew has since recorded most of his musicals there,\" said the representative, Jenni Pain.",
"\"He thinks it is vital that the studios are saved for the future of the music industry in the UK.",
"Abbey Road has such great facilities, with three major recording studios, and Andrew has probably brought more musicians to record there than anyone else, because it has the capacity to record large orchestral productions.\"",
"CNN's Per Nyberg and Morgan Neill contributed to this report."
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"EMI, the music label that owns studios, says it's holding talks for revitalizing them .",
"Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber had expressed interest in buying studios .",
"Beatles made studios famous with album \"Abbey Road\"\nMuch of Britain's best known music of 20 century has been recorded there ."
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"Baghdad, Iraq (CNN) -- The United States plans to appeal a federal judge's dismissal of charges against five Blackwater security guards accused of killing 17 people in Baghdad in 2007, Vice President Joe Biden announced Saturday.",
"Speaking at a joint appearance with Iraqi President Jalal Talabani in Baghdad, Biden said he was \"disappointed\" with the ruling, and that the Justice Department would file the appeal next week.",
"\"The United States is determined to hold accountable anyone who commits crimes against the Iraqi people,\" Biden told reporters.",
"The September 2007 shootout in Baghdad's Nusoor Square left 17 Iraqis dead and two dozen wounded.",
"The killings led Iraq's government to slap limits on security contractors hired by Blackwater, now known as Xe, and other firms.",
"An attorney representing one of the five defendants in the case said he was disappointed by Biden's announcement in Iraq, saying it was motivated by \"political purposes\" as opposed to legal reasoning.",
"\"This is not how the Justice Department announces its intentions in any case,\" said David Schertler, attorney for Dustin Heard.",
"\"We had no idea that the vice president was going to announce a political decision.\"",
"Last month, U.S. District Judge Ricardo Urbina found that the government's case was built largely on \"statements compelled under a threat of job loss in a subsequent criminal prosecution,\" a violation of the Fifth Amendment rights of the five men charged.",
"\"In their zeal to bring charges against the defendant in this case, the prosecutors and investigators aggressively sought out statements the defendants had been compelled to make to government investigators in the immediate aftermath of the shooting and in the subsequent investigation,\" Urbina wrote in a 90-page decision.",
"Federal prosecutors \"repeatedly disregarded the warnings of experienced, senior prosecutors assigned to the case\" in doing so, he found.",
"Urbina also sharply criticized prosecutors and federal agents who developed the case, calling their explanations for using the guards' statements \"all too often contradictory, unbelievable and lacking in credibility.\"",
"\"In short, the government has utterly failed to prove that it made no impermissible use of the defendants' statements or that such use was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt,\" he wrote.",
"Schertler, Heard's attorney, said Urbina's \"reasoning is sound and will hold up in appeal.\"",
"The men were guarding a State Department convoy moving through western Baghdad when the shooting began.",
"The company said its contractors came under attack, but Iraqi authorities called the gunfire unprovoked and indiscriminate.",
"Each of the now-former guards -- Paul Slough, Evan Liberty, Dustin Heard, Donald Ball and Nicholas Slatten -- faced 14 counts of manslaughter, 20 counts of attempted manslaughter and one count of using a firearm in the commission of a violent crime.",
"Prosecutors requested that charges against Slatten be dropped in November, but Thursday's ruling dismisses the counts against all five.",
"\"We're obviously pleased at the decision dismissing the entire indictment and are very happy that these courageous young men can begin the new year without this unfair cloud hanging over them,\" Slough's lawyer, Mark Hulkower, said at the time of the dismissal.",
"A sixth guard, Jeremy Ridgeway, pleaded guilty in 2008 to voluntary manslaughter and attempted manslaughter.",
"CNN's Dan Lothian and Samira Simone contributed to this report."
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"Company says contractors came under attack, Iraqis call gunfire unprovoked .",
"Judge found case was built largely on \"statements compelled under a threat of job loss\"\nJoe Biden said he is\"disappointed\" with the ruling, Justice Department will appeal ."
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"(Coastal Living) -- New Orleans without music?",
"That's like Venice without canals -- and just as hard to imagine.",
"Music weaves New Orleans' past with its present, and the infinite jazz variations -- from the ethereal warble of classic Dixieland to the tuba-powered street funk of brass bands -- serve as a soundtrack to this storied city.",
"The best way to keep New Orleans music alive?",
"Visit. New Orleans music sounds sweeter today, and here's why: In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, few were certain the streets would resound as they once did.",
"It's not that clubs flooded and venues were wiped out -- many were on high ground and survived just fine -- but the rising waters took out much of the city's affordable housing and its tourism industry.",
"That uncertain future made it unclear whether pass-the-hat musicians and hardworking club regulars would be able to regain their footing in the city.",
"But several groups took the lead to ensure that musicians would still have a home in New Orleans.",
"Locally revered nightclub Tipitina's earmarks its proceeds to help musicians return to town and to put musical instruments back into the flooded schools.",
"Harry Connick Jr. and Branford Marsalis, two New Orleans natives, partnered with Habitat for Humanity to build the Musicians' Village in the Upper Ninth Ward.",
"Today, this cluster of colorful shotgun-style cottages, located an easy bike ride from the French Quarter, is gradually being filled by musicians (and others) as volunteers continue to travel here to build the houses.",
"CoastalLiving.com: Beyond Bourbon Street .",
"While some still debate whether the music scene has fully regained its pre-storm luster, there's no denying that anyone who shows up hungry for the famous New Orleans sound will leave sated.",
"You can still stroll the French Quarter or nearby Frenchmen Street and pass dozens of clubs where languid notes wander out into the muffled, humid air, pause for a moment, and disappear into the night.",
"Visit. And bring your friends.",
"Go to clubs. Here are four not to miss. Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro has the feel of a speakeasy -- you enter through a low-ceilinged bar into an open performance space that's at once intimate and grand.",
"With live music nightly, this is a good spot for classic, straight-ahead jazz.",
"Expect talents such as Ellis Marsalis (father of Branford and Wynton), Charmaine Neville (a member of New Orleans' first family of music), and powerhouse trumpet player Irvin Mayfield with his New Orleans Jazz Orchestra.",
"CoastalLiving.com: Gulf Coast Eateries .",
"Three decades ago, a handful of local musicians was dismayed that piano legend Professor Longhair had no place to showcase his talents.",
"They acquired a bar Uptown (it's about a 10-minute cab ride from the French Quarter), and renamed the venue after the Professor's signature song.",
"Today Tipitina's, a spacious, two-level club in a boxy yellow building marked by a Dixie beer sign, attracts local and touring musicians ranging from inimitable songwriter-composer Allen Toussaint to rising stars such as Troy \"Trombone Shorty\" Andrews.",
"Seating is nonexistent -- assume you'll be standing the whole show --but the open space works to your advantage on Sunday evenings, when Tip's hosts a Cajun dance party, with the emphasis on dance.",
"For the gold standard of New Orleans performance venues, visit Preservation Hall.",
"Carved out of a 1750 Creole residence in the heart of the French Quarter, it's had the self-appointed mission of preserving local music since 1961.",
"The audience lines up on the sidewalk, crowds in (it's one of the few places in town to enjoy music without smoke), then taps their feet along with bands schooled in the old ways of New Orleans.",
"Great local musicians perform regularly, all linked by their devotion to traditional music.",
"Thursdays are typically brass-band nights, where the \"big\" gets put in \"big New Orleans sound.",
"When people imagine a laid-back New Orleans jazz club, they're thinking of a place like Donna's Bar and Grill.",
"Smoky and utterly un-self-conscious, the corner bar sits on a fringe of the French Quarter where few tourists happen by.",
"Inside, it's too hot in the summer and too cold in the winter.",
"Black-and-white photos of venerable New Orleans bands hang unevenly on the walls.",
"But the music! It showcases a revolving cast of local greats, with Monday gigs by George French and vocalist Germaine Bazzle, and rollicking appearances by barrelhouse piano player Tom McDermott.",
"Arrive before the show to get one of the handful of seats at the bar or in front of the low stage, grab a cold beer, then let the music take you away.",
"It's not too early to plan a trip to New Orleans for the French Quarter Festival, featuring more than 150 musical performances on 18 stages.",
"The event runs April 17-19, 2009.",
"For more info, visit fqfi.org.",
"Enter to win a monthly Room Makeover Giveaway from MyHomeIdeas.com .",
"Copyright © Coastal Living, 2009 ."
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"Tipitina's is a spacious, two-level club that attracts local and touring musicians .",
"Donna's Bar and Grill showcases a revolving cast of local greats ."
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"(CNN) -- There was a phrase, or so we have long been told, that was heard in occupied Europe during World War II.",
"It was often said as a whisper, the story goes.",
"It had the sound of a prayer.",
"The words were so simple, but to people who were feeling utterly abandoned and who needed help, those words meant so much.",
"Four words: .",
"\"The Americans are coming.\"",
"Sometimes we forget about the power of those words, and about how, for so long, they defined the real meaning of what this country, at its best, could be.",
"Sometimes, in the midst of all the bad news, in the midst of the mistakes this country inevitably makes, we lose sight of how much the people of the United States are counted on by those in need.",
"Which is why the humanitarian efforts in Haiti this month, in the wake of the earthquake, have been a reminder of who we are when we strive to find our finest selves.",
"The relief efforts have been an international undertaking; the heartache on the streets of Haiti has summoned compassionate and heroic assistance from around the globe, all of it deserving of praise and gratitude.",
"But the United States has been at the forefront, as it has so often seemed to be in so many places when hope was in short supply.",
"It is almost beyond imagining to think what has been in the terrified minds of the citizens of Haiti who have been without water, without food, without a way to rescue their trapped and dying children.",
"When there is nothing left to depend on, when all is desolation and despair, what must the hungry and the hurt wish for as they look into the empty distance?",
"Someone to care.",
"Someone to travel many miles, with the will and the means to heal.",
"The slowness with which medical supplies and water and heavy equipment have reached the people of Haiti has been thoroughly reported.",
"Some of the results of the relief effort have been troubling, beset by bottlenecks and breakdowns under arduous conditions.",
"But this is not about the frustrations in getting the job done.",
"It is about the American impulse to help.",
"There is nothing particularly controversial, these days, about pointing out the failings of the United States.",
"You can say just about any derogatory thing about the U.S., and it's not especially shocking.",
"We're used to hearing it.",
"Already, as the tragedy in Haiti continues to unfold, there have been pockets of harsh criticism of America's efforts to help.",
"French Cooperation Minister Alain Joyandet alluded to the United States \"occupying\" Haiti instead of assisting it.",
"It is not the first time the United States has been chastised, and it will not be the last.",
"The history of the U.S. involvement in Haiti has not always been a happy or unsullied one.",
"But perhaps we can take just a moment to think about the honor that is inherent in being the ones who, at junctures like this one, are counted on -- the ones who show up, every time.",
"During World War II, those four words -- \"The Americans are coming\" -- referred to the armed forces who had traveled across the ocean to liberate the people the Nazis had enslaved.",
"In times of natural disaster, the context is different.",
"In Haiti the words refer to the 82nd Airborne, yes, but they also refer to the American doctors who are volunteering their time and risking their own safety to soothe the pain of people they had never before met.",
"The words refer to the American volunteers assisting at Haitian orphanages, not giving up on the children who have no families to comfort them.",
"The words refer to the American search-and-rescue teams who work past the point of exhaustion as they seek signs of the living among the rubble, and they refer to the Americans back home who, during difficult economic times in the U.S., have donated their money to help people who, for now, have no way to say thank you.",
"The focus of the news will shift soon enough -- that shift has already started.",
"There will be other crises, other major stories.",
"We, as a country and as individuals, will continue to be imperfect.",
"There will be political squabbles and high-decibel partisan fights.",
"We will at times focus on the trivial and the coarse.",
"At such times, we might do well to pause and recall the sound of those four words.",
"And to let the words remind us that, when we set our souls to it, we still can aspire to be the hope of the world.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Bob Greene."
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"Haiti aid operation continues tradition of U.S. helping around the world, says Bob Greene .",
"He says there were criticisms of the speed of the aid .",
"Greene says that the response shows that Americans are eager to contribute and to help .",
"He says Americans can still aspire to be the hope of the world ."
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"A Chinese court has sentenced four people to death for their roles in last year's deadly riots in the western city of Urumqi, state media said Tuesday.",
"The sentences for the defendants were to be carried out immediately.",
"They were charged with \"extremely serious crimes,\" said state-run Xinjiang Daily.",
"The newspaper said a fifth person, who was also sentenced to death, was granted a two-year reprieve.",
"Several others were given varying jail sentences, including life imprisonment.",
"They were on trial for incidents of \"vandalism, burning and serious violence,\" the newspaper said.",
"Urumqi, the capital of the Xinjiang region, was shaken last July when long-simmering resentment between minority Uyghurs and majority Han Chinese erupted into riots and left more than 200 people dead.",
"The following month, a series of series of syringe stabbings added to the unrest."
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"July riots between minority Uyghurs and Han Chinese left more than 200 dead .",
"Four sentenced to death were charged with \"extremely serious crimes\"\nAnother person sentenced to death but given two-year reprieve .",
"Others given varying jail sentences, including life imprisonment ."
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"(CNN) -- Retired basketball icon Michael Jordan bought a majority share of the NBA's Charlotte Bobcats, officials said Saturday.",
"Jordan, who was already a minority owner of the team, headed a group that bought a majority share of the team from businessman Robert Johnson, Johnson said in a statement.",
"Johnson said he has signed a \"definitive agreement\" to sell majority interest of Bobcats Sports and Entertainment to Michael Jordan and MJ Basketball Holdings, LLC.",
"The deal is subject to NBA approval.",
"Details on the purchase price were not available.",
"Jordan has overseen the team's basketball operations in recent years.",
"He won six NBA titles with the Chicago Bulls.",
"Johnson, who founded BET and sold it to Viacom for $3 billion in 2001, announced that he had been looking for someone to buy earlier this year.",
"His fortune was depleted by an expensive divorce, but in a 2009 interview with CNN, Johnson estimated his net worth was still $1.1 billion.",
"Johnson's resume is full of firsts: BET was the first African-American owned company traded on the NYSE.",
"He was the first African-American billionaire in the United States.",
"And, in 2002, he became the first African-American majority owner of a professional sports franchise."
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"Jordan has been running team's basketball operations .",
"Businessman Robert Johnson had been looking to sell team ."
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"(CNN) -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Thursday that a new Middle East -- one \"without Zionists and without colonialists\" -- was quickly emerging as regional bonds grow stronger by the day.",
"The hard-line leader made the comments after a meeting with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Damascus on Thursday.",
"\"The whole world should know that Iran will stand behind the Syrian nation to the end,\" Ahmadinejad said in remarks aired on Iran's state-run Press TV.",
"\"Regional bonds are very strong.\"",
"His comments came during a two-day visit to Damascus that follows efforts by the United States to weaken ties between Iran and Syria.",
"President Obama recently nominated veteran diplomat Robert Ford to be the new ambassador in Damascus, ending a five-year diplomatic hiatus there and sparking talk of a renewed relationship.",
"But Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has tempered the thawing of relations by saying that Washington remains concerned with Syria's close ties to Iran.",
"\"No one has enlightened her to comment on regional issues,\" Ahmadinejad said, slamming Clinton's statements as interfering.",
"\"The whole U.S. government has no impact whatsoever on regional relations.\"",
"Tensions between Washington and Tehran have risen over Iran's nuclear program, which Iran insists is intended for civilian use but the United States believes is intended for developing weapons.",
"Assad voiced strong support for Iran and brushed off U.S. sentiment.",
"\"I find it strange how they talk about Middle East stability and at the same time talk about dividing two countries,\" he said.",
"The meeting between Assad and Ahmadinejad sparked a harsh reaction from Israeli President Shimon Peres.",
"\"The time has come to speak the truth,\" he said in a written statement.",
"\"The problem in the Middle East is not the Palestinians.",
"The Palestinian problem will be resolved through the peace process in Israel.",
"The central problem in the Middle East is Iran's attempt to reach hegemony over the Arab lands.\"",
"\"The source of the problem is Ahmadinejad's megalomania.",
"Assad must choose what he wants -- to join the Iranian camp of evil and terror or to make peace with Israel,\" he said.",
"He called on Assad to sit down with Israel to reach a peace agreement."
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"Iran's Ahmadinejad, Syria's Assad pledge mutual support .",
"U.S. recently sent ambassador to Syria for first time in five years .",
"Clinton interferes in the two nations' relations, Ahmadinejad says .",
"U.S. policy is contradictory, Assad says ."
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"(CNN) -- Sachin Tendulkar confirmed his status as one of cricket's all-time great batsmen on Wednesday, adding the highest individual one-day international score to his list of world records.",
"The 36-year-old became the first player to score a double-century in the 50-over format as India thrashed South Africa by 153 runs in the second match of the series in Gwalior to take an unassailable 2-0 lead.",
"Tendulkar surpassed the previous record of 194, which was jointly held by Pakistan's Saeed Anwar and Charles Coventry of Zimbabwe, to take his record total of runs to 17,598 in 442 one-day internationals played.",
"He passed three figures for the 46th time, and has now scored 17 more one-day centuries than his closest rival Ricky Ponting of Australia.",
"Tendulkar, one of India's most popular sporting heroes, also holds the records for most runs and most centuries in the five-day Test format.",
"\"I don't know how to react to this,\" he told reporters after being presented with a silver bat to mark his 20 years in the sport.",
"\"I would like to dedicate this double hundred to all the people of India who stood with me for the last 20 years.",
"I really appreciate their support.",
"This is for all the people in India.\"",
"Captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni hailed his teammate, with whom he added an unbroken 101 at breakneck pace.",
"\"Even when he's tired and can't play the big shots, he's very clever to use the pace of the bowler,\" Dhoni said.",
"\"It's very difficult for the bowlers, they don't know exactly where to bowl, so I think he batted really well.\"",
"Tendulkar made only four in India's victory in the first match on Sunday, but batted throughout the home team's innings of 401-3 as he made exactly 200.",
"Tendulkar put on 194 for the second wicket with Dinesh Karthik after the early departure of Virender Sehwag for nine with the score on 25.",
"Tendulkar scorched to his 50 from only 37 deliveries before Karthik became Wayne Parnell's second victim, having made 79 off 85 balls with three sixes.",
"Yusuf Pathan matched Tendulkar's ferocious scoring rate as he clubbed 36 off 23 deliveries, adding 81 with the man known as \"the Little Master.\"",
"Captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni then joined in with a rapid 68 off only 35 balls, hitting four sixes, while Tendulkar reached 200 with a single off Charl Langeveldt in the final over.",
"As well as three sixes, he hit 25 boundaries -- the most in any individual one-day innings -- in his 147-ball knock.",
"South Africa set the record for highest run chase of 438-9 against Australia in 2006, and needed to score the third biggest mark to overhaul India's total.",
"But the tourists did not get close, being dismissed for 248 with 7.1 overs left in their allocation.",
"A.B. De Villiers top-scored with an unbeaten 114, his fifth one-day century, but the Proteas' next best was 34 from opener Hashim Amla.",
"Recalled seam bowler Shanthakumaran Sreesanth took three wickets for India, while Ravindra Jadeja, Pathan and Ashish Nehra claimed two victims each."
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"The 36-year-old smashes exactly 200 as India thrash South Africa by 153 runs .",
"He surpasses previous record of 194 jointly held by Saeed Anwar and Charles Coventry .",
"Tendulkar scores 46th ton in 442 one-day outings as India take unbeatable 2-0 lead ."
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"(CNN) -- Rosie O'Donnell and spouse Kelli Carpenter \"are working through their issues\" and \"nothing else will be said\" about rumors the couple is splitting, according to O'Donnell's publicist.",
"Rumors have been swirling that Kelli Carpenter, left, and Rosie O'Donnell are splitting.",
"Online buzz about the Carpenter-O'Donnell marriage grew louder this week after O'Donnell did not give a clear-cut denial in a USA Today interview on Tuesday.",
"The former talk show host's publicist echoed her non-denial in a statement to CNN Wednesday.",
"\"They are a family and will remain a family forever and are working through their issues,\" publicist Cindi Berger said in an e-mailed response.",
"\"Nothing else will be said.\"",
"O'Donnell and Carpenter were married in a private ceremony in San Francisco, California, Mayor Gavin Newsom's office in February 2004.",
"The city of San Francisco issued the couple a marriage license two weeks after Newsom said his mayoral responsibility not to discriminate trumped a state law banning such marriages.",
"O'Donnell said on her wedding day that she was inspired to make her longtime relationship with Carpenter official by \"vile and vicious and hateful comments\" made by President George W. Bush that week.",
"Then-President Bush announced that week that he would seek a Constitutional amendment to mandate that same-sex couples not be allowed to marry.",
"O'Donnell and Carpenter are also business partners.",
"They started R Family Vacations, which organizes cruises tailored for gay couples.",
"Their family includes four children.",
"The three oldest -- Parker, 14, Chelsea, 12 and Blake, 9 -- are adopted.",
"Six-year-old Vivienne -- conceived through a sperm donation -- was born to Carpenter."
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"O'Donnell did not deny rumors to USA Today .",
"Publicist: Pair \"are working through their issues\"\nTwo were married in San Francisco in 2004 ."
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"ROME, Italy (CNN) -- American college student Amanda Knox told an Italian courtroom Friday that she was at the home of her boyfriend the night her roommate was killed two years ago, her attorney said.",
"American college student Amanda Knox, 21, testifies Friday at her murder trial in Perugia, Italy.",
"When she later was told that her roommate, British student Meredith Kercher, was found dead, Knox said in Italian, \"I was like, 'No, no, how can this be?'",
"\" Knox, a 21-year-old from Seattle, Washington, testified that she was at her boyfriend's apartment, smoking marijuana, on the night Kercher was killed.",
"Both Knox and the boyfriend are charged with murder and sexual assault in the case.",
"She said she later gave a confused and conflicting deposition to police because she was confused by the questioning and felt pressure from the investigators.",
"She testified that on the night of November 1, 2007, when Kercher was killed, she was at her boyfriend's house all night and not at home, where Kercher's body was found the next day.",
"Watch Knox take the stand » .",
"Knox is scheduled to resume testifying Saturday, when prosecutors plan to question her.",
"The trial opened January 16.",
"After her testimony Friday, Knox's father, Kurt Knox, said he thought his daughter did well on the stand and predicted that her innocence would become more apparent as the trial continues.",
"Kercher family attorney Francesco Maresca, however, said the Knox on the stand Friday was a different person from the Amanda Knox seen at a preliminary hearing.",
"She questioned who the real Amanda Knox is.",
"On the stand Friday, Knox said she was with her then-boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, on the night of November 1.",
"She said she checked her e-mails at his place before the couple had dinner, watched a movie, smoked a marijuana joint, made love and fell asleep.",
"In the morning, Knox testified, she went home to the villa she shared with Kercher to take a shower.",
"That's when she noticed a series of \"strange things,\" including dried blood in the sink and on the bath mat, unflushed feces in the toilet and a locked door to Kercher's room.",
"The door to the villa had been left open, too, but Knox said she figured one of her housemates had simply stepped out quickly for an errand or to go for a run.",
"She said she called out but nobody answered.",
"When Knox got back to Sollecito's house, she told him about the strange things, and he suggested they call the police, Knox testified.",
"Sollecito called his sister, a member of the Carabinieri, the Italian military police, Knox said.",
"They returned to the girls' villa to check whether anything had been stolen, Knox said.",
"Once there they met Knox's other roommate, Filomena Romanelli, and the Italian Postal Police.",
"Watch Knox in court » .",
"As Knox stood outside, police went in and began shouting and banging down Kercher's door, Knox said.",
"Between trying to understand what police were saying and having Sollecito translate for her, Knox testified that she got a confused picture of what was going on.",
"She sat in Romanelli's car to warm up, and that's when she heard Kercher was dead, Knox said.",
"\"I closed in inside myself,\" Knox testified in Italian.",
"Continuing in Italian, but using English phrasing, she said, \"I was like, 'No, no, how can this be?'",
"\" Kercher's body was found half-naked in her bed November 2, 2007.",
"Prosecutors have said Kercher, 21, died in a \"drug-fueled sex game\" with Knox and Sollecito, now 25.",
"An investigating judge found that Kercher died fighting off a sexual assault.",
"A third person, Ivory Coast native Rudy Hermann Guede, was convicted of murder in a fast-track trial in October and sentenced to 30 years in prison.",
"He is appealing the verdict.",
"Defense attorneys are expected to argue that sloppy police work tainted the physical evidence.",
"Kercher suffered a knife wound to the neck.",
"In court papers, prosecutors alleged that Sollecito held Kercher by her wrists while Knox poked her with a knife and Guede sexually assaulted her.",
"Prosecutors have said that they have physical evidence placing the defendants at the scene and that the suspects gave investigators confusing and contradictory statements about their whereabouts the night Kercher died.",
"Knox first said she was at the house she shared with Kercher but then changed her story, according to court records.",
"Sollecito said he was never at the house but was at his apartment, watching a movie on his computer with Knox.",
"Later, he told investigators he did not remember whether Knox was with him the entire night.",
"Knox, wearing a short-sleeve white top, beige trousers and a ponytail, testified that she gave a November 6 deposition to police that was confusing because she felt pressured and intimidated by the way police were conducting the investigation.",
"Another reason that Knox cited for giving a confused and conflicting deposition is that she did not realize that police planned to interrogate her that day.",
"\"The declarations were taken against my will, and they were taken in a state of confusion and pressure by the police,\" Knox testified before a packed courtroom, filled mostly with members of the media.",
"Knox testified that an interpreter was there and encouraged her to remember facts, which led her to say things that she later retracted.",
"She said police repeatedly called her a liar and mistreated her.",
"When an attorney pointed out that police offered her tea at the end of questioning, he said it indicated that they treated her well.",
"\"No,\" Knox replied firmly.",
"It was that confusion that led Knox to hand-write a statement November 7 laying out all that she knew and didn't about the slaying.",
"\"I know I didn't kill Meredith.",
"That's all I know for sure,\" Knox wrote in the statement, widely reported in the news.",
"\"That night, it seems to me I was in Raffaele's house,\" she wrote.",
"\"After dinner I noticed the blood on Raffaele's hands, but I was under the impression it was blood from the fish.\"",
"On the stand Friday, Knox said she wrote the statement of her own will.",
"\"I was not sure what was my imagination and what was my reality,\" she said.",
"\"Therefore I was confused.",
"I knew I had to write this statement, so I made it clear when I signed that I was confused.\"",
"Knox, who testified in both English and fluent Italian, is also being sued by local bar owner Patrick Lumumba for defamation of character.",
"He was arrested early in the case but was released for lack of evidence.",
"Knox worked at his bar and initially told police that Lumumba was present when Kercher was killed.",
"On November 10, more than a week after the slaying, Knox told her mother from jail that she felt bad and felt responsible for Lumumba being behind bars.",
"Asked by Lumumba's attorney Friday why she didn't share that information with police -- knowing it might cast doubt on his guilt -- Knox said it was because she didn't feel comfortable answering their questions.",
"\"Quite frankly, I didn't have a good relationship with either the police or the public [prosecutor], because even he tried to suggest the answers I should give,\" Knox testified.",
"The trial is taking place in Perugia, a university town about 115 miles (185 kilometers) north of Rome.",
"A panel of eight judges is hearing the case.",
"The trial has drawn more than 140 journalists from 86 news outlets to the courthouse in Perugia.",
"The presiding judge, Giancarlo Massei, has barred cameras from the courtroom and said he could completely close portions of the trial dealing with the most graphic sexual assault allegations."
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"American student Amanda Knox takes stand in well-publicized murder trial in Italy .",
"British student Meredith Kercher found dead in house shared with Knox in 2007 .",
"Prosecutors say they have evidence placing Knox, other defendants at scene .",
"Knox's former boyfriend, Italian Raffaele Sollecito, also faces murder charges ."
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"(CNN) -- Residents of a Belleville, Illinois, neighborhood were still shaken Monday after a small plane crashed the day before, killing two aboard and destroying a house.",
"\"I think everybody is still in shock,\" said Deah Bischoff, who lives near the site of the crash.",
"\"I think we're all just walking around and looking and trying to absorb what happened.\"",
"The single-engine plane crashed about 6:30 p.m. Sunday, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.",
"No one on the ground was hurt, the FAA said.",
"The National Transportation Safety Board had no comment on its investigation into the crash before a news conference Monday afternoon.",
"The wreckage site is adjacent to an airstrip, but the pilot was heading for St. Louis Downtown Airport, about six miles away, according to the FAA.",
"Residents near the airstrip are accustomed to planes in the neighborhood.",
"Many can park their private planes in hangars adjacent to their homes.",
"They're like garages for cars, except they're hangars for planes, said Bischoff, who, along with her husband, owns a few antique aircraft.",
"But the familiar sound of a plane overhead this time was menacing.",
"Bischoff said she was eating dinner with her husband and children when she heard a loud screeching.",
"\"It shook our house, and the next thing you knew, there was a large boom,\" she said.",
"The plane also hit the house's hangar, which sheltered two planes, Bischoff said.",
"Explosions erupted, and they watched as flames shot into the air.",
"Bischoff's husband, Roy, ran out with other neighbors to check on the couple living in the crushed house, she said.",
"The couple was out to dinner, she said.",
"Neighbors saved the three Labrador retrievers inside, Roy Bischoff said.",
"But he wished he could have saved the two people aboard the plane, he said.",
"\"There was almost nothing, there was no recognizable part of an airplane around,\" he said.",
"The crash could have been even worse, Deah Bischoff said.",
"Of the houses close by, the neighbor's home was the only one with no people inside at the time of the crash, she said.",
"CNN's Khadijah Rentas contributed to this report."
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"FAA: Wreckage site is near airstrip, but pilot was headed to airport about 6 miles away .",
"Neighborhood residents can park private planes in hangars adjacent to their homes .",
"Residents of house not at home at time of crash; 3 dogs rescued ."
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"Mission Viejo, California (CNN) -- When Marty Kubicki received a text message that his wife, Aahmes, and two teenage daughters, Olivia and Alexis, were alive in Haiti, he was overwhelmed with relief.",
"\"I felt like an enormous burden had been placed off me, but at the same time I knew that they were OK.",
"I always felt they made it,\" he said.",
"Groups of church members have been volunteering at an orphanage for nearly six years, since church members Bill Manassero, his wife Suzette, and Jim Duggan opened the center.",
"But by Friday there was chaos at the Maison De Lumiere Orphanage in Haiti as 11 American missionary volunteers were trying to find a way to leave after severe shortages of food, water and medicine sparked anger in people they had been trying to help.",
"\"People are becoming hostile at the missionary workers and we now find ourselves desperately trying to get them out,\" said Mike Maiolo, senior pastor of the volunteers' home church in Mission Viejo.",
"He said he had received urgent messages from Haiti that everyone wanted to leave.",
"The Kubickis and the others from Mission Viejo Christian Church arrived in Port-Au-Prince a week ago to help assist nearly 100 abused and abandoned children at the orphanage.",
"The facility sustained heavy damage in the earthquake but no one was killed, he said.",
"Within hours of the quake, the volunteers became de facto nursing assistants after word spread that Maison De Lumiere was serving as a makeshift triage center.",
"\"Lots of doctors and nurses have been coming by the facility because word's gotten out, so there's all these people being pulled out of rubble and they're assisting and attending to the injured as best as they can,\" Marty Kubicki said.",
"Judy Beltis left her husband, six daughters and five grandchildren in California when she came to Haiti on January 8.",
"Moments after the walls and shelves around her collapsed, she found herself attending the injured and working to save lives, said her husband, Paul.",
"\"This is a mom who couldn't put a Band-Aid on her kids when they had a cut finger because she was so squeamish, and now she's dealing with whatever needs to be done,\" he said.",
"On Thursday, the family was assured that Judy Beltis was safe and protected.",
"\"I'm going to urge her at some point to come back and get a little rest and restoration, but I know she'll want to head right back,\" said daughter Jaime.",
"But that was before Maiolo received the urgent messages late Thursday.",
"He said the situation had deteriorated to the extent that no one felt safe going outside the compound.",
"Contact with his missionary members in Haiti has been limited to occasional text messages, Internet streaming and e-mail, he said, and his volunteers have not been able to reach U.S. State Department officials.",
"\"The world around us is in such need when something like this happens and we've got to be there for them, but at the same time, there must be a quick way to get them out when there is nothing more to give,\" Maiolo said."
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"Volunteers are from Mission Viejo Christian Church in California ."
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"(CNN) -- Mourners packed into a church in Illinois Monday to remember a woman whose death made headlines worldwide.",
"At the St. Rita of Cascia Shrine Chapel in Chicago, a funeral was held for Dawn Brancheau, a SeaWorld trainer who died last week after a killer whale dragged her underwater at Shamu Stadium in Orlando, Florida.",
"A memorial service for the 40-year-old will take place in Orlando, Florida, at a future date, according to the Blake Lamb Funeral Home.",
"Brancheau had wanted to be an animal trainer from the time she visited SeaWorld as a 9-year-old, her sister Diane Gross said last week.",
"\"It was her dream job,\" Gross said.",
"\"She loved the animals like they were her own children.",
"... She loved what she did.\" Brancheau was pulled underwater Wednesday at SeaWorld Orlando, when a 6-ton killer whale named Tilikum grabbed her ponytail.",
"A source at SeaWorld said the whale dove deep underwater after seizing Brancheau.",
"Trainers had to wrangle the animal into a smaller pool before they could retrieve her body about 40 minutes later.",
"The same whale was linked previously to two other human deaths.",
"Tilikum and two other whales were involved in the 1991 drowning of a trainer at a marine park in Victoria, British Columbia.",
"The trainer fell into the whale tank at Sealand of the Pacific and was dragged underwater as park visitors watched.",
"In 1999, Tilikum was blamed for the death of a 27-year-old man whose body was found floating in a tank at SeaWorld, the apparent victim of the whale's \"horseplay,\" authorities said then.",
"Labor Department spokesman Mike Wald said the safety and health agency is looking into whether Occupational Safety and Health Administration workplace standards were violated in Brancheau's death.",
"The agency will complete a report within six months, he said.",
"If workplace infractions are found, OSHA will propose financial penalties, Wald said.",
"If that happens, the company could accept the penalties and make needed workplace changes or appeal the penalties before an OSHA review commission.",
"Inspectors also are looking into the incident from an animal-welfare perspective, said David Sacks, an Agriculture Department spokesman.",
"The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service wants to know whether federal standards were violated in the exhibiting of warm-blooded mammals.",
"SeaWorld shows with killer whales resumed on Saturday."
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"The animal trainer died last week after whale dragged her underwater at SeaWorld .",
"Memorial services to be held later in Orlando, Florida ."
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"Editor's note: Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, world-renowned HIV/AIDS researcher who has been on the forefront of battling the disease since it was discovered, previews his speech to this week's International AIDS Conference.",
"Dr. Anthony Fauci is cautiously optimistic that eventually some AIDS/HIV patients will be cured.",
"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- This week, more than 25,000 people from the global HIV/AIDS community are in Mexico City, Mexico, attending the XVII International AIDS Conference.",
"I am pleased to be among them.",
"This is the first International AIDS Conference to be held in Latin America, a region hard-hit by the HIV/AIDS pandemic, but also a place where exceptional scientific and public health advances have been made.",
"The theme of the conference is Universal Action Now, which stresses the need for scientists, policymakers, activists and other concerned citizens everywhere -- in rich countries and poor ones -- to work even harder to defeat a scourge that already has claimed more than 25 million lives.",
"We have made considerable progress against HIV/AIDS, not only on the scientific front, but also with regard to the political will, funding and essential public health efforts on the ground that are delivering medicine, care and prevention services.",
"However, much remains to be done, as 2.7 million people worldwide were infected with HIV in 2007.",
"Watch more on the International AIDS Conference » .",
"In the United States, the rate of new infections continues at an unacceptably high level, especially in the African-American community.",
"In my home city of Washington D.C., a staggering 5 percent of the population is infected with HIV, a rate that rivals those in sub-Saharan Africa.",
"Eighty percent of my infected neighbors in Washington, D.C., are African-American.",
"Throughout the United States, we are seeing a resurgence in HIV cases among men who have sex with men of all races, with African-Americans again hardest hit.",
"Despite what you might hear, the AIDS pandemic is still raging.",
"Many hundreds of presentations at the conference are dealing with important research on the basic biology of HIV and its disease-causing mechanisms; the complex immune responses to the virus; and advances in tools to diagnose, treat and prevent HIV.",
"My talk on Wednesday, is called \"Looking to the Future: New Directions in HIV/AIDS Research\" and will look at all these issues, and the many challenges (and opportunities) in AIDS science.",
"But I hope to leave the audience with at least a tentative answer to an important question I get all the time: Will we ever have a cure or a vaccine for HIV?",
"Despite our considerable success in managing HIV infection and improving the length and quality of life for people living with HIV, there is no well-documented case of anyone being truly cured of HIV disease.",
"This is because HIV is unlike virtually any other virus in its ability to hide from the immune system in protected cellular sanctuaries that we call \"latent reservoirs.\"",
"We know that these reservoirs are established within days of infection, and even our most potent combinations of anti-HIV drugs are unable to purge the virus from these hiding places, even in people who have been on therapy for a decade or more.",
"If you take a patient off his or her anti-HIV therapy, the virus hiding in these reservoirs springs back, and soon billions of viruses are renewing their assault on immune system cells and other organs.",
"Photos chronicle AIDS treatment worldwide .",
"Our best hope for eradicating HIV from the reservoirs may be to diagnose and treat people aggressively very early in infection, before the reservoirs have become too large.",
"Our laboratory and other groups are testing this approach with intensive regimens of new drugs that prevent the virus from entering cells or from inserting its genes into a cell's DNA.",
"Even if the virus is not completely eradicated, such early, intense treatment, perhaps with the help of immune-boosting drugs, might keep the reservoir small -- and the immune system strong -- thereby allowing a person to come off therapy.",
"This would be a \"functional\" cure.",
"Other approaches are being pursued as well.",
"A cure is critical to our attempts to ultimately contain the pandemic.",
"Currently, for every person put on therapy, two to three people are newly infected.",
"As antiretroviral therapy is at present a lifelong commitment, it is extremely unlikely that we will have the logistical or financial capacity to reach and treat -- indefinitely -- everyone who requires antiretroviral therapy.",
"As we search for a cure, we should of course continue our efforts to provide proven, lifesaving antiretroviral drugs to every person who needs them, regardless of where they live.",
"Many promising avenues of prevention are being discussed in Mexico City, but none is more essential than an HIV vaccine.",
"HIV vaccine development has been frustrating and challenging for a number of reasons, including the fact that the virus mutates rapidly, hides from the immune system, and targets and destroys the immune system cells that are successful in fighting and clearing most other viruses from the body.",
"With HIV we will have to do better than nature if we are to develop a vaccine; HIV is unlike the situation with other viral diseases such as measles and influenza, where we have been able to mimic natural infection and induce protective responses with vaccines.",
"My institute and many other organizations around the world are working on this problem, and advances are being made.",
"For example, we have made progress in identifying the structures on the virus to which infection-fighting proteins that can neutralize HIV -- so-called neutralizing antibodies -- bind.",
"Now, our challenge is to turn these structures into vaccines, and conduct the clinical trials that prove they work in people.",
"My complete talk will be available as a webcast at the conference Web site, but let me give you the quick bottom line: I am cautiously optimistic that we will be able to cure some patients under certain circumstances, and I am also cautiously optimistic that we will develop a vaccine that will protect some people against HIV infection, or slow the progression of disease in some patients who do get infected.",
"Meanwhile, we need Universal Action Now to accelerate the exceptional momentum of the past few years -- particularly during the past year -- in delivering proven tools of HIV prevention and therapy to communities around the globe.",
"Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., is director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health."
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"Progress made in science, political will, funding, public health, expert says .",
"For every person put on therapy, 2 to 3 people are newly infected, he says .",
"Cure critical to attempts to contain the pandemic, he says ."
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"(CNN) -- There was no space on the Inca Trail.",
"\"Estás seguro?\"",
"I pleaded with dormant Spanish, or \"Are you sure?\"",
"in English. I was sitting face to face with the ninth Peruvian salesman that day to offer the same answer.",
"He was positive. No space on the Inca Trail, entering Machu Picchu via the Sun Gate, but his alternative trek was the real deal, he said.",
"Machu Picchu was rediscovered in 1911 by Yale University professor Hiram Bingham.",
"I said, \"Gracias,\" grabbed my bag and went trudging out the door and back into the rain.",
"At this point, I could not remember the smile I wore just hours before as I boarded my New Year's Eve flight and watched Atlanta grow smaller below me -- four days trekking in the Andes, a new adventure!",
"That smile had vanished, the woman who grinned it, gone.",
"In its place, a miserable downtrodden troll with fiercely angled brows, standing in the middle of the Plaza de Armas in Cusco, Peru -- with no Inca Trail booked.",
"As a wind-follower, I always try to make travel arrangements as I go.",
"I lay out rough plans, cities and dates, and see what adventures may come.",
"The Inca Trail, however, does not afford such luxury.",
"Over the years, the Inca Trail has become more a sales feature for adventure companies than a tranquil or mystical journey.",
"The frat party of historic treks, it often comes fully equipped with booze, crowds and disgusting bathrooms.",
"Similarly, the Inca Trail also has a maximum capacity before doors to the public close.",
"Years of feet trampling Inca steps led the government to institute a 500 person per day limit in 2002 on the historic trail -- including trekkers, guides and porters -- to prevent over-saturation of the trail and to maintain the sanctity of the sites.",
"As I entered company after company, each promising slight variations of alternate treks for drastically different prices, I nearly hung up my poncho and headed home.",
"That is, until I finally swallowed my wind-follower pride, opened a guidebook and tracked down some of the recommended operators.",
"This proved a worthwhile endeavor, as Cusco is a maze of adventure agencies among a few trek operators.",
"Agencies sell customers to operators, collecting profits and, oftentimes, unsatisfied travelers.",
"Once I learned I couldn't have the journey, I grew even more set on keeping the destination.",
"Determined to stay Machu Picchu-bound and only able to squeeze in a short trek by this point, I opted for an alternate-Inca hybrid trek.",
"The two-day Inca joins the traditional Inca Trail a short distance from the Sun Gate, the path the Incas took into Machu Picchu.",
"Though it carries the Inca name - -and the 500-person regulation -- it arrives at the Sun Gate in the evening, sacrificing the most sought after sunrise view.",
"It also does not include camping or any of that delicious, trek-cooked food.",
"My two-person group ate bag lunches, spent the one night in Aguas Calientes, the base city to Machu Picchu, and looked on enviously at Inca Trail trekkers sharing beer, some grilled alpaca and a game of cards at the final rest stop where the trails unite.",
"If I had looked beyond my Inca-only vision, I would have discovered that the Inca Trail is just the tip of the Peru trekking iceberg -- literally iceberg if you go during low season.",
"Several alternate treks land right in Aguas Calientes that can be booked mere days in advance.",
"Though these treks do not enter Machu Picchu through the Sun Gate, many locals and travelers prefer alternate routes through quiet villages and isolated peaks, as they offer an often less expensive, more serene, untouched vision of Peru.",
"See a map of the area around Machu Picchu » .",
"Salkantay is the most frequented Inca Trail alternative.",
"This trek is usually recommended for people who can't get on the Inca Trail, but still want a similar experience.",
"Traditionally five days/four nights, it leads trekkers up Salkantay Mountain (one of the highest peaks in the Andes of Peru at over 20,000 feet) and passes by some Quechuan communities and lesser-known Inca ruins, traversing everything from snow-capped mountains to hot springs.",
"However, as it has become increasingly known as the alternate trek to the Inca Trail, the serene views of the trek often compete with crowded trails and camping sites.",
"While Salkantay offers a glimpse at Quechuan communities, the Lares trek offers a full panorama of the Quechuan lifestyle.",
"Against a picturesque landscape, this four-day/three-night trek is famous for the textile villages it enters along the way.",
"It ascends 13,000 feet, crosses two peaks, hot springs and lakes, and it offers a spectrum of regional animals to view, including llamas, vicuñas, alpacas and chinchillas.",
"However, since the trek gained popularity five years ago, \"It has become a little more touristy.",
"It has lost a little bit of its initial essence and purity,\" said Silvia Rico, general manager of Enigma Adventure Tour Operator.",
"For those seeking even more of an adventure, Choquequirao is the ideal trek.",
"This nine-day/eight-night trek passes the two largest Inca sites in the Cusco region: Machu Picchu and Choquequirao.",
"The latter is a huge archaeological complex that is only about 30 percent excavated and thus has endured minimal tourist foot traffic.",
"Surrounded by the Salkantay mountain, the trek dives into the Apurimac River canyon and passes waterfalls, villages, Inca ruins and frequently condors.",
"It does have one major drawback: before continuing on to Machu Picchu, trekkers must backtrack the two days' journey it takes to arrive at Choquequirao, resulting in some repeated views.",
"For solitude and serenity searchers, the Vilcabamba trek is ideal.",
"\"Total isolation.",
"There's nothing like doing a trek when there's no other people,\" says Michelle Graham of Llama Path Tours, as she describes why Vilcabamba is her favorite of the alternate treks.",
"This trek enters the last refuge of the Incas, Vilcabamba, and like Salkantay, offers spectacular diverse views ranging from tropical jungles to snowy peaks.",
"Unlike Salkantay, however, this trek combines Inca history with little interference from tourist passersby.",
"Families, older people, and travelers who simply don't have the time can arrive in Aguas Calientes by train and continue up to Machu Picchu either by bus or by ascending the five-mile trail.",
"Some companies offer jungle tours, in which cycling is combined with trekking.",
"However, as with all treks, be aware of agencies that set up tourist traps with dilapidated bikes that turn into broken bikes and extra charges on the bill.",
"Regardless of the trek you choose, the dry season -- from April through October -- is the ideal time to make the journey.",
"Many tour companies don't operate these treks during rainy summer months.",
"December through February are the worst (Excellent choice on my part).",
"Though I never intended to fly to Peru for a two-day trek, once I wiped away the fog on my optimism lenses, I realized that many of the alternate treks to Machu Picchu are just as worthy of fame as the legendary Inca Trail.",
"So I packed my backpack, laced my boots and wrapped myself in layers of water-resistant clothing.",
"I trekked into the landscape where history meets present day.",
"When I arrived at the hidden Inca city in all its breathtaking beauty, everything else was just icing on the llama."
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"Editor's note: Bishop T.D.",
"Jakes is founder and senior pastor of The Potter's House of Dallas, Texas, a multiracial, nondenominational church with more than 50 outreach ministries.",
"\"It is a victory for democracy that proves that our country provides possibilities for all people,\" writes Jakes.",
"(CNN) -- Last night, I like most Americans of all stripes, watched with visible goose bumps as history was made.",
"I sat with my 13-year-old son and looked from the screen to his eyes as Sen. Barack Obama became the first African American in history to lead a U.S. major-party ticket when he claimed the nomination for the Democratic Party for president of the United States.",
"I congratulate Sen. Obama on this historic accomplishment.",
"I thank him for accepting the torch that was lit by our forefathers and proudly carrying it through the darkness of our struggles, trials and tribulations, bringing light and hope to a new generation, and for facing all those who said \"No\" and \"You can't win,\" or \"It will never happen,\" and firmly, proudly, defiantly saying, \"Yes I can!\"",
"However, what I really hope people take away from that night is that this is not just a victory for African Americans, it is a victory for democracy that proves that our country provides possibilities for all people.",
"It is also a sign that a metamorphosis is in progress.",
"Today we saw that Americans respect experience, but are interested in change.",
"I hope that we can somehow merge the best ideas of our differences and emerge with a president who epitomizes our highest and best ideals.",
"While it remains unclear where we are going, last night proves that we as a people have moved beyond business as usual.",
"I congratulate not just Sen. Obama on his victory, but the country on this landmark event that has shattered a past all too often filled with reasons to separate us as opposed to a voice of reason to unite us.",
"The victory cup does not rest on the shoulders of the senator alone, but to all those who have been able to lift the conversation from petty racism, antiquated cut-throat politics, and fear-based campaigns to the larger issues of how we would like to see our country led into the future and ultimately how our country will be remembered.",
"As the days and discussions of this political season continue, it is my sincere hope and prayer that we do not sink back into the abyss of political pettiness that has plagued our country and our lives for so many years.",
"I am grateful to Sen. Hillary Clinton for giving, through this campaign, a chance for my daughters to see that their femininity is not a liability.",
"Today both my sons and daughters came to understand that their ethnicity isn't viewed by progressive Americans as a limitation or a liability.",
"iReport.com: Readers' feelings on Obama .",
"For me it was almost déjà vu as I sat with my son.",
"I remembered a little over 40 years ago watching the famous King speech with my dad.",
"Similarly, I watched with my youngest son last night as a historical moment unfolded.",
"He and I saw the dreams of slaves come true as the sons of slaves and the slave owners clapped their hands in one progressive sweep.",
"As I drifted into sleep, all I could see was the twinkle in my son's eyes.",
"His eyes were illuminated with possibilities, and his heart was filled with the potential of what is attainable for qualified, competent people of all types who prepare themselves intellectually and are well vested with a divine sensitivity to the \"fierce urgency of now!\"",
"Congratulations Sen. Obama."
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"Jakes: \"I congratulate Sen. Obama on this historic accomplishment\"\nJakes: \"Not just a victory for African Americans, it is a victory for democracy\"\nJakes: Nomination \"proves that our country provides possibilities for all people\"\nJakes congratulates \"the country on this landmark event\""
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"Hanford Nuclear Site, Washington (CNN) -- The federal government has set aside nearly $2 billion in stimulus funds to clean up Washington State's decommissioned Hanford nuclear site, once the center of the country's Cold War plutonium production.",
"That is more stimulus funding than some entire states have received, which has triggered a debate as to whether the money is being properly spent.",
"The facility sprawls across approximately 600 square miles of south-central Washington, an area roughly half the size of Rhode Island.",
"It was built in the 1940s as part of the \"Manhattan Project\" to develop the first atomic weapon during World War II.",
"Millions of dollars and thousands of jobs poured into the remote area about 75 miles east of Yakima where nine nuclear reactors were eventually built.",
"During the Cold War, Hanford was a buzzing hive of activity, eventually becoming the main source of plutonium production for the nation's nuclear weapons program.",
"Decades of improper radioactive waste disposal earned Hanford the notorious distinction of being most contaminated nuclear site in the Western Hemisphere.",
"Today, the Hanford site is a virtual ghost town and those involved in the clean-up project say they will need every dollar of the federal stimulus funds.",
"There are still millions of gallons of untreated contaminated groundwater, hundreds of buildings used for plutonium enrichment that need to be torn down, and underground tanks that are full of radioactive sludge.",
"The stimulus money will reduce the clean-up time by years, according to Jon Peschong, who oversees the federal project at Hanford.",
"\"It was perfect work, ready to go for the stimulus package,\" Peschong said.",
"\"Each day that passes the conditions worsen [and] the receipt of the federal stimulus money allows us to reduce the costs and also allows us to reduce the clean up footprint much sooner, years sooner.\"",
"The money is also created jobs for about 1,400 people at Hanford, including Joe Gill who manages a team that is tearing down equipment that is heavily contaminated by radiation.",
"Despite the dangers of his job, Gill said it came just at the right time.",
"\"I had managed a production warehouse facility for one of the largest companies in the world, [I] thought I'd be there for 20 years,\" Gill said.",
"\"We laid off 8,000 people in three months and they closed down our plant, [and] those jobs aren't jobs you just read the paper and get.\"",
"It is clear by watching Gill's team perform their time-consuming daily tasks that Hanford won't be decontanimated quickly.",
"The workers have to suit up three to four times a day in protective gear.",
"They break down contaminated equipment through a \"glove box,\" allowing them to disassemble the equipment a room away through lead-lined gloves.",
"Each time a worker removes their hands from the gloves, they must be wanded down by a colleague checking for any radiation exposure.",
"The large scale of the project and years of cost overruns have led critics to complain that stimulus money is being misdirected at Hanford.",
"A report by Sens.",
"John McCain, R-Arizona, and Tom Coburn, R-Oklahoma, listed Hanford as one of 100 sites where stimulus money may have been wasted.",
"The Hanford clean-up \"has been plagued by massive cost and schedule problems - and almost no progress,\" according to the report.",
"Gerry Pollet, who runs a Hanford watchdog organization, says he supports using stimulus money to rid the nuclear site of its radioactive waste.",
"But he questions whether the funds are going where they are most needed.",
"\"You are not seeing the value that we should be seeing for the clean-up and the environment,\" said Pollet, who heads Heart of America Northwest.",
"\"They are picking the low-hanging fruit, the easy projects that give very nice photo opportunities.",
"But that doesn't cost $2 billion.",
"\"Hanford is getting more money than many states in stimulus funds and you would expect to see real progress for clean-up [to] happen with those dollars.\"",
"While debate continues over whether and how stimulus dollars should be used, the Tri-Cities area that surrounds the Hanford site -- which includes Richland, Kennewick and Pasco -- is reaping the benefits of the clean-up boom.",
"Hanford began receiving stimulus dollars in March 2009, which helped the surrounding cities and towns avoid the catastrophe that has plagued other communities impacted by the recent economic downturn.",
"The Tri-Cities area has one of the lowest unemployment rates in Washington State, and the housing market has barely been affected by the recent economic downturn, according to the Tri-Cities Industrial Development council.",
"Ken Brutzman, who owns a local office furniture store, said his business was \"at a standstill\" last year before the orders from Hanford contractors started pouring in.",
"Brutzman had to hire six temporary workers, two of which he may keep on full time, to deal with the boom in business.",
"\"We are on track to have best year ever,\" Brutzman said.",
"His business has been in his family for three generations and will likely stay profitable for several more generations since the Hanford clean-up project is expected to take another 40 years.",
"\"It has my manufacturers raising their eyebrows saying, 'Wow how does that guy do that?'\""
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"(CNN) -- A two-time world lawn bowls champion has been banned from top-level competition and fined after being found guilty of match-fixing.",
"Gary Lawson, one of New Zealand's most successful bowlers with a joint-record 10 national titles, has been suspended for six months and fined $NZ5,000 ($3,500) following an incident at a tournament last year.",
"It means he is likely to miss out on selection for this year's Commonwealth Games in India.",
"The New Zealand fours team, of which Lawson was the leader, was accused by Canada of deliberately losing a match against Thailand at the Asia Pacific Championships in Kuala Lumpur last August.",
"New Zealand were defeated 17-15, having already qualified for post-section play, and Canada alleged the Kiwis lost on purpose to earn a more favorable quarterfinal draw.",
"The subsequent investigation has caused a furore in a genteel sport most often seen as a recreational pursuit for retirees.",
"Lawson's teammates Jamie Hill, Shayne Sincock and Shannon McIlroy were fined $NZ1,000 each ($700) but avoided a suspension.",
"A Bowls NZ judicial committee laid the blame at the 43-year-old Lawson's feet.",
"\"He was the skip and was literally and figuratively calling the shots.",
"We are satisfied that the idea to lose the 17th end would have come from him,\" it said in a statement on Wednesday.",
"\"From what evidence we have, it is our opinion that once the Canadian complaint was referred to it, Bowls NZ not only proceeded with due expedition with the only course available to it but also was at pains through its counsel to provide all other requirements in a timely manner.",
"\"The delays that occurred subsequently were to a very large degree brought about in an effort to make sure that the respondents, at each stage of the proceedings, were not denied natural justice.\"",
"Lawson, who won two world titles on home soil in 2009, last month blamed Bowls NZ chief executive Kerry Clark for blowing the incident out of proportion.",
"\"The Canadians needed to beat Thailand otherwise they were going to miss out on the quarters.",
"When it didn't happen, they put a protest in.",
"But it was always an informal protest and they didn't want it to go further,\" he told Radio Sport.",
"\"Kerry Clark turned up the next day, and he's the guy who pushed it -- he pushed it at World Bowls level with coach Dave Edwards, and at the end of the day it got blown way out of proportion.",
"\"This is about Kerry Clark himself -- he doesn't like me and I think he hasn't done a very good job.",
"It's just a shame he's used this to have a crack at me.\""
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"Lawson also fined after being found guilty of match-fixing at tournament last year .",
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"Canada complained that Kiwis had done so to earn a more favorable quarterfinal draw ."
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"Berlin, Germany (CNN) -- A bomb scare that affected about 100 flights at Munich Airport in Germany on Wednesday may have been a false alarm, German police told CNN.",
"Police launched a huge manhunt Wednesday after a passenger appeared to flee from security officers when his laptop computer bag tested positive for explosives, they said.",
"Police originally said authorities wanted to take the man in for further testing after his bag set off suspicions, but he ran.",
"They said a bomb squad was testing the bag to see if it really contained explosives.",
"But authorities later said the man may simply have been in a hurry, grabbed his things and left the airport.",
"They do not have the laptop case, they said.",
"They are still trying to find the man, they said, but are no longer describing the search as a huge manhunt.",
"Police earlier said they were reviewing airport security videos to try to figure out where the man went.",
"It was not clear if that was what caused them to change their evaluation of the situation.",
"Police did not know which flight the man was booked on.",
"Part of the airport was shut down after the suspect fled, but was later reopened.",
"All planes in the area of Terminal 2, where the incident took place, were evacuated and all luggage was removed, police said.",
"The passengers had to leave the secure area and be rescreened, an airport representative told CNN, adding that the airport was otherwise operating normally.",
"About 100 flights were affected by the security measures.",
"Some were canceled and others were delayed, the airport said, adding that activity has slowly begun to return to normal.",
"The airport Web site was still showing some delays to flights leaving Terminal 2 several hours after the incident.",
"The incident took place as a United States Senate committee debated the foiled Christmas Day attack aboard a plane bound from Amsterdam in the Netherlands to Detroit, Michigan.",
"The committee chairman, Sen. Joseph Lieberman, I-Connecticut, said it is \"infuriating\" that the December 25 suspect, Nigerian Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab, was able to board the plane in the Netherlands with a U.S. visa.",
"Janet Napolitano, secretary of homeland security, said AbdulMutallab \"was not on the no-fly list, which would've flagged him to be prevented from boarding, nor was he on the selectee list, which would've flagged him for secondary screening.\"",
"\"Furthermore, the physical screening performed by foreign authorities at airports in Nigeria and the Netherlands did not detect explosives on his body,\" Napolitano said.",
"\"As this incident underscores, aviation security is increasingly an international responsibility.\"",
"She said top Homeland Security Department officials are embarking on a multicontinent tour to meet with international counterparts about airline and airport security.",
"She said she would leave Wednesday evening for Spain and a meeting with European Union officials.",
"CNN's Frederik Pleitgen contributed to this report."
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"NEW: Police still seeking man, but search not being called big manhunt .",
"NEW: Passengers had to leave Terminal 2 for rescreening; about 100 flights affected .",
"Man left checkpoint after laptop bag tested positive for explosives ."
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"Lakewood, Washington (CNN) -- Whoever fatally shot four police officers Sunday in a coffee shop outside Tacoma, Washington, may have been wounded by one of the victims, police said.",
"Authorities are trying to determine who killed four Lakewood police officers in the shop in neighboring Parkland on Sunday morning.",
"Investigators are checking with area hospitals to determine whether the gunman sought treatment after the shooting, Pierce County sheriff's spokesman Ed Troyer said.",
"\"There's ... evidence that a Lakewood officer fired some shots, and we hope he hit him,\" Troyer said.",
"Troyer said authorities are seeking Maurice Clemmons, 37, of Pierce County as a \"person of interest.\"",
"He did not identify Clemens as a suspect.",
"Authorities identified the victims as Sgt.",
"Mark Renninger, 39; Officer Ronald Owens, 37; Officer Tina Griswold, 40; and Officer Greg Richards, 42.",
"The officers were sitting in the coffee shop before the start of their shifts when a gunman shot them at about 8 a.m. PT, Troyer said.",
"The shop is a place where area law enforcement officers regularly gather to share information, he said.",
"The attacker walked to the counter as if to order coffee before he pulled a gun out of his coat and fired, Troyer said.",
"Two of the officers were \"executed\" as they sat at a table, another was shot when he stood up, and the fourth was shot after struggling with the gunman all the way out the door, Troyer said.",
"\"After, we believe, some of the officers were shot, one of them managed to fight his way with the suspect ... all the way out the the doorway until he was shot and died of a gunshot wound,\" Troyer said.",
"Sunday's incident was the first time the Lakewood police department lost any officer to a shooting.",
"Two employees of the coffee shop and other customers inside Forza Coffee Company were unharmed, Troyer said.",
"One employee fled through the back door when she saw the shooter pull out his gun, he said.",
"\"As you can imagine, they are traumatized,\" he said of those inside the coffee shop.",
"\"Some are in shock.\" Investigators have not come up with possible motives, police said.",
"Families of the officers have been notified, Troyer said.",
"All of the officers were in uniform, wearing vests and had marked patrol cars parked outside, he said.",
"Police are looking for one man in connection with the attack, though authorities are not ruling out the possibility that a second person was involved, Troyer said.",
"A $10,000 reward was offered for information leading to an arrest, he said.",
"Surveillance tapes from multiple location are being reviewed.",
"Authorities were conducting searches in numerous locations, and dogs had been brought in to attempt to track the shooter, Troyer said.",
"Investigators believe Clemmons, the person of interest, \"is intentionally avoiding us,\" Troyer said.",
"Clemmons has \"extensive violent criminal history from Arkansas, including aggravated robbery and theft,\" the sheriff's department said in a statement.",
"He also was recently charged in Pierce County in connection with the assault of a police officer and the rape of a child, according to the statement.",
"According to a local prosecutor in Arkansas and past articles published by the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, a repeat offender named Maurice Clemmons had his 95-year prison sentence commuted in 2001 by then-Arkansas Gov.",
"Mike Huckabee.",
"Huckabee cited Clemmons' young age -- 17 at the time of his sentencing -- when he announced his decision, according to newspaper articles.",
"\"It was not something I was pleased with at the time,\" Larry Jegley, who prosecuted Clemmons for aggravated robbery and other charges in Pulaski County, Arkansas, told CNN Sunday.",
"\"I would be most distressed if this is the same guy.\"",
"Jegley said he was told Sunday by \"media and police agencies\" that the former Arkansas inmate was the same man being sought in Washington state.",
"Some tips have come in, and investigators were following leads, one of which turned out to be \"an unfortunate hoax,\" Troyer said.",
"A Tacoma man called \"multiple people\" claiming to be the gunman, though authorities determined the man was lying.",
"The man was arrested and now faces obstruction charges, Troyer said.",
"A couple of blocks surrounding the coffee shop were cordoned off.",
"Several other police agencies were on scene to assist.",
"Washington Gov.",
"Christine Gregoire, in a statement, said she was \"shocked and horrified\" at the shootings.",
"\"I offer whatever support is needed to the Pierce County Sheriff in their search for the perpetrator,\" Gregoire said.",
"Lakewood is about 40 miles south of Seattle and 10 miles southwest of Tacoma.",
"See a map of where the shootings took place .",
"Bystanders gathered outside the Forza Coffee Company, some of them in tears as they spoke to CNN affiliate KING.",
"The coffee shop is on the edge of McChord Air Force Base.",
"Spokesman Bud McKay said the base was not shut down, but security was ramped up around the perimeter as a precaution.",
"The military has offered assistance to police, he said, but it has not been requested.",
"CNN's Patrick Oppmann, Samira Simone, Dave Alsup and Dina Majoli contributed to this report."
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"Sargodha, Pakistan (CNN) -- The mother of one of the five young men arrested in Pakistan told CNN Thursday that her son was in that country to get married, not to plot terror attacks as Pakistani police have alleged.",
"The FBI was in Pakistan on Thursday interrogating the men, who some U.S. and Pakistani law enforcement officials have identified as Americans, according to Usman Anwar, head of the district police of Sargodha, about 120 miles south of Islamabad.",
"The five had been reported missing from Virginia, and police are confident they were planning terrorist acts, Tahir Gujjrar, deputy superintendent of police in Sargodha, told CNN on Wednesday.",
"Pakistani authorities said they believe the young men tried to connect with militant groups.",
"In an interview with CNN, Subira Farouk said her son, Umar, was one of the young men detained in the case.",
"She said her husband also was arrested, which would bring to six the number of people in custody.",
"Police confirmed they have six people in custody, not five, as was originally reported.",
"Farouk said her son would never plot a terror attack.",
"She described him as a business student at George Mason University in suburban Washington.",
"Farouk said she and her husband went to Pakistan to arrange a marriage for their son, who surprised her by traveling from the United States.",
"The arrests came after a raid Wednesday on a home in Sargodha, Gujjrar said.",
"Investigators found laptops and maps of Pakistan containing highlighted areas that correspond to regions where terrorists have been active, Anwar said.",
"It is too premature to link the men with any terrorist organizations, he said, but preliminary investigations suggest they had sought to link up with the Jaish-e-Mohammed and Jamaat ud Dawa militant organizations.",
"Neither group showed interest, he said.",
"President Obama said Thursday that he envisioned \"a series of investigations\" into the arrests.",
"\"I think the details are still forthcoming,\" Obama said.",
"\"There will undoubtedly be a series of investigations surrounding these events, so I'd prefer not to comment on them at this point.\"",
"Farouk said her son mentioned that he planned to go to a conference with friends.",
"She said she did not hear from him, grew concerned and began calling his friends' parents.",
"That's when she realized that he and his friends were missing.",
"She said she thought they had been kidnapped.",
"Their families contacted the Council on American Islamic Relations and U.S. law enforcement authorities.",
"Farouk said the authorities advised her to stay in Pakistan.",
"Later, Farouk said she got a call from a relative in Pakistan who said her son was in the country with several friends.",
"She said she was relieved, thinking her son had surprised her, but then authorities arrested her husband, her son and his friends.",
"The U.S. law enforcement official said none of the five missing men had shown up on law enforcement's radar before they were reported missing.",
"Authorities believe their intent was to wage jihad overseas rather than in terrorist acts in the United States, the official said, but \"there is still a lot of uncertainty about what they were up to.\"",
"CNN's Arwa Damon, Jeanne Meserve and Elise Labott contributed to this report ."
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"(CNN) -- That Australia is once again defending itself against claims of racism is not surprising.",
"Harry Connick Jr. gave the comedy skit a zero mark.",
"That the cause of the furor is a childish, inappropriate racial 'joke' is even less of a surprise.",
"Australian popular culture has a long held an often embarrassing tradition of wrapping racism in supposed humor.",
"Movie star and singer Harry Connick Jr. condemned on air an Australian television skit featuring a group of performers who wore blackface to impersonate the late pop star Michael Jackson and his brothers.",
"Connick was a judge on the Australian variety show \"Hey Hey It's Saturday,\" when the blackface group \"Jackson Jive\" performed \"Can You Feel It\" wearing huge black wigs, blackface and one spangled glove each.",
"The Michael Jackson impersonator wore whiteface.",
"In the 1950s a popular song lampooned a 'misfit' Aborigine whose 'boomerang won't come back.'",
"Popular entertainer Rolf Harris was even less sensitive in a verse of his song \"Tie me kangaroo down sport\" proclaiming that on his death one of his friends could free his captive Aborigines: \"Let my Abos go loose, they're of no further use, so let my Abos go loose.\"",
"A famous Australian illustrator known as Joliffe made his fame and fortune in a long-running cartoon depicting Aborigines as dim-witted, thick browed, naked, creatures from the stone age.",
"It is not just indigenous Australians who have borne the brunt of these so-called jokes.",
"Watch Connick's reaction to the 'blackface Jacksons' » .",
"After World War II a new wave of immigrants arrived from southern Europe.",
"Australians unused to such foreigners with odd sounding languages and strange smelling food quickly labeled the new comers 'wogs.'",
"In the 1960s a popular film \"They're A Weird Mob\" mocked one of these immigrants for his poor English and strange customs.",
"He finally wins approval by marrying his boss' daughter, a good Anglo Aussie, learning to swear and drink copious beers.",
"There are just a few quick examples -- there are many, many others -- of how Australians use mockery and humor to disguise their discomfort with so-called 'outsiders.'",
"The use of humor for a long time reflected official government policy that also scorned foreigners and Aborigines.",
"Australian settlement in the 18th century was rooted in racism.",
"Indigenous Australians were deemed not even to exist.",
"British law proclaimed the continent Terra Nullius or empty land, extinguishing in an instant tens of thousands of years of Aboriginal occupation and ownership.",
"Aborigines were dispossessed, often violently, and basic human freedoms, and rights to equal education, employment and welfare benefits denied.",
"It was not until 1967 -- almost 200 years after European settlement -- that the law was changed to officially count Aborigines in the census as human beings and no longer included amongst the flora and fauna!",
"For most of the last century Australia pursued a 'White Australia Policy.'",
"It was designed to limit immigration only to those of white skin.",
"In the first half of the century nearly 80 percent of all immigrants came from the United Kingdom.",
"Despite being geographically in Asia, Australians generally viewed Asian people with suspicion dubbing them the 'yellow peril.'",
"In the words of one of the prime ministers of the time Harold Holt \"Australia must be kept preponderantly British in its institutions and compositions of its people.\"",
"Immigrants, Holt conceded, \"offered much\" and in return they must simply \"become Australian.\"",
"For many that too often meant being forced to laugh along with jokes at their own expense.",
"Times though, thankfully, have changed.",
"The 'White Australia Policy' has long been consigned to history.",
"Aborigines have struggled for and won a measure of equality of law and opportunity.",
"Prime Minister Kevin Rudd last year apologized to Indigenous Australians for past mistreatment and injustice.",
"Humor too has changed.",
"A new generation of Australian comics from China, Vietnam, Italy, Greece and Lebanon have turned the tables; laughing at themselves and 'Anglo Aussies.'",
"Comedian Joe Dolce scored a worldwide hit with his song 'Shaddap-a-your-face' a ditty spoofing his Italian broken English.",
"A Greek-Australian comedy group filled theatres throughout the country with its play 'Wogs Out of Work.'",
"Humor can be a great leveler.",
"One of Australia's prouder traditions is egalitarianism, a nation where princes and paupers can on a simple human level meet each other as equals.",
"Humor, in the right spirit pricks our pomposity, makes a virtue of our differences and reveals our common humanity.",
"The ham-fisted 'Jackson Jive' routine achieved none of that.",
"Appearing in blackface belongs in Australia's own dark past, back there, with the 'White Australia Policy', silly songs about Aborigines and Joliffe cartoons.",
"Connick was right to give the comedy skit a zero.",
"Connick's homeland America, is itself not free of racial issues, but in this case it took an American to tell those Australians who still find such offensive skits funny: \"The Joke is on you!\""
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"Paris, France (CNN) -- A French judge has issued an arrest warrant for U.S. cyclist Floyd Landis for allegedly hacking into the computer system of the French anti-doping agency's laboratory, the agency's president said Tuesday.",
"Investigating Judge Thomas Cassuto issued the warrant January 28 for the alleged hacking of the lab's computer system in 2006, said Marie-Christine Daubigney, the assistant prosecutor of the tribunal in Nanterre, near Paris.",
"It was not immediately clear why the judge was issuing the warrant after more than three years.",
"Landis, 34, was stripped of his 2006 Tour de France win and suspended from cycling for two years after he tested positive for synthetic testosterone, a banned male sex hormone.",
"Oscar Pereiro of Spain inherited the 2006 title after Landis was disqualified.",
"Landis appealed, maintaining the French laboratory made errors in his case.",
"The Court of Arbitration for Sport, which handles international sports disputes, upheld the ban and the decision to strip him of his title in June 2008.",
"The warrant relates to the computer system of the AFLD, the French anti-doping agency that conducted drugs testing at the Tour, said AFLD President Pierre Bordry.",
"The International Cycling Union, which governs the sport worldwide, has dropped the AFLD as the anti-doping agency for this year's Tour de France, though the decision has nothing to do with the Landis case, union spokesman Enrico Carpani told CNN.",
"The decision had to do with comments Bordry made after the 2009 Tour, Carpani said.",
"A new anti-doping agency has yet to be chosen for the 2010 race, he said."
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"(CNN) -- In a rare move, a senior cardinal spoke before the pope's Easter Mass address at the Vatican on Sunday, saying the pontiff maintains the support of Catholics around the world \"who do not let themselves be influenced by the gossip.\"",
"\"Today, with you are the cardinals from the Roman Curia, all the bishops and priests around the world,\" said Cardinal Angelo Sodano, former Vatican secretary of state and the dean of the College of Cardinals.",
"Speaking at the beginning of the Easter Sunday ceremony, Sodano did not specifically mention the sexual abuse scandal that has engulfed the Catholic Church in recent months.",
"But his remarks clearly referred to those who have criticized Catholic leaders, including Pope Benedict XVI himself, for not having done much more during his years as a top official.",
"Sodano said the pope has the support of those who work in schools, hospitals and care centers, including 400,000 priests.",
"\"Also with you are the faithful who do not let themselves be influenced by gossip,\" Sodano said in Italian, using the word \"chiacchiericcio,\" which means chatter or gossip.",
"\"May the Lord continue to sustain your mission at the service of the church in the world.\"",
"In his Easter message, the pope did not address the scandal that encompasses high-profile abuse cases in several countries including Ireland, France, the United States, Mexico and his native Germany.",
"More and more people have come forward complaining that as children they were victims of abuse by religious leaders, and that the church did little or nothing to stop it.",
"Some Catholic leaders took the opportunity Sunday to condemn the Roman Catholic hierarchy.",
"\"The lives of survivors of child sexual abuse, the faith of members of the church, and the credibility of church leadership have all been wounded grievously by the evil deeds of priests and religious who exploited their position to wreak havoc on the lives of helpless children.",
"Those wounds were aggravated by serious mismanagement on the part of bishops and other leaders in the Church,\" said Irish Cardinal Sean Brady in his homily.",
"He apologized to victims and vowed to do his part to keep the safety of those in the church his overriding concern.",
"In a letter last month, the pope said he was \"truly sorry\" for the abuse suffered by victims at the hands of Catholic priests in Ireland.",
"Also Sunday, Belgium's top Roman Catholic bishop addressed the scandal.",
"\"Through a guilty silence, we often preferred the reputation of certain men of the church to the honor of these abused children,\" said Andre Joseph Leonard, archbishop of Mechelen-Brussel.",
"\"Here, as well, we must, by the force of truth, give dignity back to those who were so atrociously exploited.\"",
"German Archbishop Robert Zollitsch also brought up the scandal in his Easter address, saying, \"We need to go down the path together and take into full view the unfathomable occurrences, the horrible crimes, the dark sides of the church and the dark parts in ourselves.",
"But we cannot leave it at that alone.",
"We need a new beginning.\"",
"In a message Friday on the Web site of the Archdiocese of Freiburg, Zollitsch expressed \"sadness, horror and shame,\" as well as his \"disappointment over the painful failure of the offenders, and that the victims weren't helped enough because of the misplaced concern about the reputation of the church.\"",
"The Archdiocese of Munich and Freising -- once headed by Pope Benedict XVI -- has been criticized for ignoring warnings to keep one of its priests away from children despite the man having been convicted of pedophilia.",
"The priest, the Rev.",
"Peter Hullermann, was convicted of abusing minors in 1986, but was later allowed to continue his priestly work and to deal with children.",
"A new allegation of abuse recently surfaced against Hullermann, dating from 1998 in the town of Garching.",
"Cardinal Friedrich Wetter, archbishop at the time, has apologized for allowing Hullermann to work in the town after his conviction.",
"The German Diocese of Regensburg confirmed last month that four Catholic priests and two nuns have been accused of sexually abusing children.",
"Five of the cases are from the 1970s and one is from the 1980s.",
"German lawyers representing alleged victims say there are more than 300 cases across Germany.",
"Some of the cases date back to the 1950s.",
"A few priests have called for the pope to step down.",
"\"The ever growing sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic Church has now reached the doorstep of the Vatican.",
"Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI, knew -- or should have known -- about pedophile priests under his authority,\" the Rev.",
"Roy Bourgeois of Columbus, Georgia, said Friday.",
"While the Vatican has emphasized Benedict's concern about the scandal, the pontiff focused his Easter remarks on other issues.",
"Citing the story of the Exodus, he said, \"In our days too, humanity needs an 'exodus', not just superficial adjustment, but a spiritual and moral conversion.",
"It needs the salvation of the Gospel, so as to emerge from a profound crisis, one which requires deep change, beginning with consciences,\" Benedict said.",
"He mentioned several of the world's leading international crises, praying for an exodus from war and violence in the Middle East and an end to suffering for Christian communities, especially in Iraq.",
"\"May the risen Lord sustain the Christians who suffer persecution and even death for their faith, as for example in Pakistan,\" he said.",
"He cited the \"dangerous resurgence\" of drug crimes in Latin America and the Caribbean, the \"appalling tragedy\" of the earthquake in Haiti, and the \"grave catastrophe\" of the quake in Chile.",
"\"In the strength of the risen Jesus, may the conflicts in Africa come to an end, conflicts which continue to cause destruction and suffering,\" the pope said, adding, \"In particular I entrust to the Lord the future of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Guinea and Nigeria.\"",
"He prayed for all countries affected by terrorism and discrimination, and touched on the financial crisis as well.",
"\"To the leaders of nations, may Easter bring light and strength, so that economic and financial activity may finally be driven by the criteria of truth, justice and fraternal aid.\"",
"Concluding his annual \"Urbi et Orbi\" -- \"To the City and to the World\" -- address, Benedict added, \"Easter does not work magic.",
"Just as the Israelites found the desert awaiting them on the far side of the Red Sea, so the Church, after the resurrection, always finds history filled with joy and hope, grief and anguish.",
"And yet, this history is changed, it is marked by a new and eternal covenant, it is truly open to the future.\""
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"Bangkok, Thailand (CNN) -- Thousands of anti-government protesters defied an order Sunday to disperse from the capital's commercial center, but the government said it would use negotiation -- not force -- to get them to comply.",
"Police estimated that as many as 50,000 members of the group United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship were at the Rajprasong intersection in the heart of Bangkok.",
"They forced the closure of luxury shopping malls, blocked entrances to five-star hotels and made access to a holy shrine difficult.",
"A spokesman for the government's peacekeeping operations, Col. Sansern Kaewkamnerd, said that the protesters had \"incited and created a situation which has caused great inconvenience to the conduct of business and the pursuit of normal activity.\"",
"He said that the gathering was not considered to be a \"peaceful demonstration sanctioned by the constitution.\"",
"The government's Center for Administration of Peace and Order (CAPO) announced a clause to the country's Internal Security Act on Saturday night that makes unlawful gatherings punishable by up to a year in prison and a fine.",
"Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva took to the airwaves Sunday, urging people in the affected area to be patient.",
"He said his administration is negotiating with the protesters to peacefully disperse and that the government did not intend to use force.",
"The opposition group, also known as the \"red shirts,\" is demanding that the prime minister dissolve the parliament within 15 days.",
"Abhisit has said that doing so would not solve the country's political crisis.",
"Cheerful, dancing red shirt protests .",
"The two sides met for meetings on March 28 and 29, but they ended in a stalemate.",
"The demonstrators are supporters of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who was ousted in a bloodless military coup in 2006.",
"Thaksin was the only Thai prime minister to serve a full term and remains hugely popular.",
"He fled the country in 2008 while facing trial on corruption charges that he says were politically motivated.",
"The protesters say Abhisit was not democratically elected and have demanded that he call elections.",
"CNN's Kocha Olarn contributed to this report."
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"Opposition \"red shirts\" demand that PM Abhisit dissolve parliament soon .",
"Supporters of Thaksin Shinawatra say they will continue until demands are met ."
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"(CNN) -- Elizabeth Smart was not afraid to face Brian Mitchell in her first testimony detailing her 2002 abduction.",
"Elizabeth Smart, now 21 and in college, testified that Brian Mitchell raped her daily.",
"In fact, her father said, she wanted the man who allegedly kept her tethered to a tree in the Utah woods muzzled and forced to listen to her testimony.",
"Mitchell was in court Thursday for a competency hearing, but Smart never saw him because U.S. District Judge Dale Kimball ordered him removed from the court when he ignored requests to stop singing and disrupting the proceedings.",
"He watched via a closed-circuit camera from another room.",
"\"She actually wanted to face him,\" Ed Smart said.",
"\"I think she asked [U.S. Attorney Brett Tolman] if he could be muzzled and have to sit there and watch it.\"",
"Tolman, standing alongside Smart's father after Thursday's hearing in Salt Lake City, confirmed the 21-year-old woman's request: \"She did ask me whether or not [Mitchell] got to see that testimony and hear that testimony, and I indicated to her, to her relief, that he was there in a room with the audio and video and had nothing else to do but listen.\"",
"Mitchell is accused of abducting Smart from the bedroom of her Salt Lake City, Utah, home in June 2002.",
"She testified that she was kept captive in Utah and California until March 2003, when she was found walking down a street in Sandy, Utah, with Mitchell and his wife, Wanda Barzee.",
"Smart said that, during those nine months, no 24-hour period passed without Mitchell being able to rape her.",
"Public defender Robert Steele says Mitchell is mentally ill, but Tolman said he believes that Mitchell \"has attempted to fool or to deceive the system.\"",
"Ed Smart said he hopes his daughter's testimony nixes the notion that Mitchell cannot stand trial, \"and if this doesn't clinch the issue of competency, our nation is in really, really bad shape, because it means that anyone out there can manipulate and make the court do what it wants.\"",
"Watch Smart's father talk about the hearing » .",
"Mitchell and Barzee are charged with six felony counts, including aggravated burglary, aggravated kidnapping and aggravated sexual assault.",
"Smart's testimony began with details of how she was abducted at knife point while she slept next to her sister.",
"She was 14 at the time. She said Mitchell took her to a wooded area not far from her home, performed a marriage ceremony and began raping her.",
"Mitchell often sang about his intentions, she testified: \"He would come up the mountainside, yelling, 'I'm going to [expletive] your eyes out.'",
"\" Mitchell also threatened to kill her if she tried to escape, Smart said.",
"\"He said an angel would strike me down with a sword,\" she said, \"but he also told me that he would be that angel.\"",
"Mitchell gave her drugs and alcohol, showed her pornography and used religion to justify most of his actions, she testified.",
"He also said he was God's servant, a prophet, and would one day face and kill the Antichrist, she said.",
"On one occasion, Smart said, she vomited after Mitchell gave her too much to drink.",
"\"He let me lie face-down in my vomit for the entire night until I woke up the next day,\" she told the court.",
"\"He said that was showing my true state, that I was laying face-down in my vomit.\"",
"That morning illustrated a recurring theme, she said, explaining that Mitchell often rationalized his actions by saying they would ultimately yield greater spirituality.",
"\"He said that first I had to be humbled and to sink below all things before arising above all things,\" she recalled.",
"\"You have to experience the lowest form of humanity to experience the highest.\"",
"Smart, now a Brigham Young University student and a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, described Mitchell as \"evil, wicked, manipulative, sneaky, slimy, selfish, greedy, not spiritual, not religious, not close to God.\"",
"During her nine months in captivity, Mitchell kept her in Utah until the winter approached, at which point he transported her to San Diego, California, she said.",
"It's unclear when they returned to Utah, but Elizabeth Smart testified that she convinced Mitchell that they should hitchhike back to Salt Lake City.",
"She told the court her ulterior motive was to return to an area where she more easily could be recognized and rescued.",
"While in Utah, Mitchell kept her confined with a cable attached to her leg, she said.",
"The 10-foot tether was locked on to another cable that was 15 to 20 feet long.",
"\"He had a big cable bolted onto my leg, which was strung between two trees, and there was a lock that would slide between the two trees,\" she said.",
"\"He had the key around his neck the entire time.\"",
"Asked how often she was raped, she replied, \"On a daily basis, up to three or four times.\"",
"She resisted his advances several times, she said, once biting him as he tried to have sex with her.",
"\"He said that if I ever did that again, he would never have sex with me again, and I would be the most miserable woman in the world,\" she said.",
"\"It didn't make a difference that he said that.",
"I mean, it didn't stop him.\" After the hearing, Ed Smart said he was \"amazed at her strength\" and \"I don't know how she could have done a better job.\"",
"Asked about his daughter's reaction following her testimony, he said, \"Phew, it's over.\"",
"He bordered on tears when asked whether he had learned anything Thursday about his daughter's abduction.",
"\"There were certainly a lot of things that I had never heard before, and I had no idea what she had gone through -- so much out there,\" he said.",
"Prosecutor Tolman said Smart's \"powerful\" testimony demonstrated that Mitchell was manipulative and inclined to be deceptive, but defense attorney Steele said Mitchell's guile did not negate his mental illness.",
"\"Those things can exist side by side: manipulativeness and mental illness,\" he said.",
"Smart testified Thursday because she is scheduled to leave soon on a mission, customary of the Mormon religion.",
"The prosecution plans to call dozens of witnesses when the competency hearing continues at the end of November, Tolman said.",
"Included are people who have been incarcerated with Mitchell, he said.",
"\"The battle is not over. This is the very beginning of it,\" he said.",
"Asked whether he would be willing to accept a plea bargain, Tolman said there was no indication that one was imminent.",
"\"We're inclined to prosecute this case vigorously and present it to a jury,\" he said."
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"Smart, now 21, was abducted from her bedroom at knife point at age 14 .",
"Brian Mitchell sings in court and is ordered removed .",
"Mitchell's defense says he's not competent to stand trial; prosecutors disagree ."
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"(CNN) -- Jesse James was cited for vandalism after an incident last week with a photographer near his Long Beach, California, motorcycle shop, police said.",
"Celebrity photographer Ulises Rios also was cited for stalking James, Long Beach Police Sgt.",
"Dina Zapalski said.",
"Long Beach detectives were given a copy of the video of the March 25 run-in recorded by Rios, his lawyer said.",
"James, a motorcycle designer and reality TV star, has been the target of controversy and publicity since his separation with actress Sandra Bullock soon after she won a best actress Oscar earlier this month.",
"James is at a treatment facility \"to deal with personal issues\" in a bid to save his marriage to Bullock, a spokeswoman for James said Wednesday.",
"A citation is the equivalent of an arrest, Sgt.",
"Zapalski said.",
"The Long Beach city prosecutor will decide if the cases will be prosecuted, she said.",
"Detectives with the city's violent crimes section met with the lawyer for Rios Thursday morning to obtain a copy of the video, attorney Mark Haushalter said.",
"The video shows James confronting Rios, who is sitting in a vehicle park across the street from West Coast Choppers, a business owned by James, Haushalter said.",
"Two tires on the SUV were slashed, a door was dented and a window was scratched, he said.",
"The lawyer for James did not immediately respond to CNN requests for comment."
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"Sandra Bullock's husband, Jesse James, was cited for vandalism .",
"Photographer Ulises Rios was cited for stalking James .",
"Rios recorded the March 25th incident .",
"City prosecutors will decide if the cases will be prosecuted ."
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"(CNN) -- A major winter storm with heavy snow and ice was heading from Texas and Oklahoma to points east, with 8 to 10 inches of snow possible in some locales, the National Weather Service said Friday.",
"Forecasters warned of large accumulations of ice in places such as the north Georgia mountains, causing hazardous driving conditions.",
"Ice and heavy wet snow on power lines could cause power outages.",
"\"The precipitation will briefly transition back to light snow or flurries Saturday before ending Saturday afternoon,\" the weather service said.",
"By Friday afternoon the storm was either in or on its way to parts of Virginia, West Virginia, the Carolinas, Tennessee, Kentucky and Arkansas.",
"Forecasters issued severe storm warnings for these states.",
"It already was snowing in the afternoon in downtown Nashville, Tennessee.",
"Although the snow didn't appear to be sticking, it was expected to form ice in the evening on bridges and overpasses, said CNN meteorologist Chad Myers.",
"iReport: Share your photos and video .",
"\"This is actually an ice event more than a snow event, not so much for Nashville, but places south of there ... from Memphis [Tennessee] to Little Rock [Arkansas], and even over to Chattanooga [Tennessee],\" Myers said.",
"He said rain was on tap for Atlanta, Georgia, but the precipitation was to move northeastward and evolve into snow by the time it reaches Virginia and West Virginia.",
"The brunt of the storm stretched from Oklahoma to eastern Tennessee and down to southern Mississippi on Friday afternoon, bringing snow, sleet, freezing drizzle or rain.",
"Oklahoma City's Will Rogers World Airport closed all its runways at 2:30 p.m. local time because of \"deteriorating weather conditions.\"",
"\"While airport maintenance crews have been working nonstop clearing the runways, heavily falling snow and near zero visibility have kept them from being able to improve conditions,\" an airport news release said.",
"It gave no prediction of when the runways could be reopened."
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"There is snow and ice in Nashville and north Georgia mountains .",
"Oklahoma City closes runways Friday afternoon with near zero visibility ."
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"(CNN) -- Democrats and Republicans woke up this week with a fresh perspective on the midterm elections.",
"To many political observers, the election of Republican Scott Brown is a game changer.",
"He overcame what at one point was a 30-point deficit to defeat Democrat Martha Coakley in a special election to serve out the remainder of the late Ted Kennedy's Senate term.",
"Democrats are trying to calm frustrated voters and make sure that recent losses in Massachusetts, New Jersey and Virginia don't become a national trend.",
"Republicans, still jubilant from last week's win, are hoping to capitalize on the excitement brewing from a refueled base.",
"\"As a Frank Sinatra fan, I think of the great song 'New York, New York,' and really for Republicans right now, we think if we can make it there in Massachusetts and New Jersey, we can make it anywhere,\" Republican strategist Doug Heye said.",
"\"There's no state in the union right now that Republicans don't feel that they can be competitive in.\"",
"The passion awakened in Republicans could put Democrats at a disadvantage as the midterm elections near, experts say.",
"\"The problems for the Democrats will be remobilizing the enthusiasm that they had in 2008, and I think that is a serious problem.",
"Right now, the Republicans have the advantage of strong emotions, and that tends to pull their people to the polls, whereas weak emotions do not,\" said Curtis Gans, director of the Committee for the Study of the American Electorate at American University.",
"Dr. Elizabeth Ossoff, a psychology professor at Saint Anselm College who specializes in voting behavior, said voters start from an emotional perspective and then get rational.",
"\"If you can grab them emotionally, I think you've gone a long way toward getting them where you want them to be, voting either Democrat or Republican,\" said Ossoff, who is also the director of research for the New Hampshire Institute of Politics.",
"President Obama rode into the White House on a compelling message of change, inspiring his base while also winning over independent voters.",
"But a year after his inauguration, polls suggest that much of the excitement that followed him has disappeared.",
"Are you an independent voter?",
"Tell us why . A CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey released this month found that 39 percent of Democrats say they're extremely or very enthusiastic about voting this year, down 11 points from November.",
"Forty-nine percent of Republicans questioned in the poll say they're enthusiastic, up 6 points.",
"\"[Democrats] will try to mobilize more voters, but you have to overcome the enthusiasm gap.",
"The best grassroots, ground operation will only work if the territory is fertile,\" Gans said.",
"He predicted the economy will be the most important issue in the midterms.",
"The Obama administration has said it plans to emphasize job growth both in this week's State of the Union address and in the months to come.",
"\"He had a year in which he could blame the Bush administration for not dealing with the economic problems.",
"The economy is now his baby, as Afghanistan is his baby,\" Gans said.",
"But Republicans can't get too carried away.",
"If they swing too far to the right, they run the risk of alienating independent voters like those who swung the Massachusetts election for Brown.",
"\"If the 'birthers' and the Tea Party people win most of the primaries in the Republican Party, that may not yield as much of a Republican victory in the general election as if their more moderate elements win,\" he said.",
"This scenario played out last year in a special election for New York's 23rd Congressional District.",
"Local Republican leaders backed state assemblywoman Dede Scozzafava because they thought she would appeal to centrists and independents.",
"But more conservative party members revolted and instead backed Doug Hoffman, who ran on the Conservative Party line.",
"Scozzafava dropped out days before the race and endorsed Bill Owens, the Democratic candidate and eventual winner.",
"The split among Republicans contributed to Owens' win.",
"A similar battle could take place in Florida, where Republican Gov.",
"Charlie Crist and former state House Speaker Marco Rubio are competing to be their party's nominee for the Senate race.",
"Crist has the backing of mainstream Republicans, and Rubio is the darling of the right.",
"\"Rubio has the enthusiasm of the birthers and the Tea Party people and others like that, and that may propel him to the nomination, but it will be harder for the Republican Party to win in Florida under Rubio than it would be under a more moderate person,\" Gans said.",
"Going ahead, both parties need to clarify their messages and why their strategies are the best options in order to engage voters, Ossoff said.",
"\"What the Democrats have to do is get off the defensive if they want to win and start packaging themselves in a more positive light. ...",
"They need to not only say, 'This is what we are going to do because it is right,' but 'those guys over there don't want us to do that' and paint [the Republicans] as bad guys.",
"\"In turn, the Republicans have to keep doing what they're doing, which is, 'They're leading you astray, we're the ones who have the right idea.'",
"\" she said. CNN's Paul Steinhauser contributed to this report."
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"\"Republicans have the advantage of strong emotions,\" expert says .",
"GOP could hurt chances in midterms if primaries go to more extreme candidates, expert says .",
"Both parties need to clarify message, show why the other is wrong, psychologist says ."
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"(Travel + Leisure) -- You're sitting in a hip Tokyo cafe, having a fish cake and sake.",
"Your server has been especially attentive, so when the check arrives, you think nothing of pulling out some extra yen and leaving a healthy 20 percent tip.",
"But suddenly things go horribly wrong: the server turns wide-eyed, becomes agitated, and walks away.",
"What happened?! You'll likely come across more people at a hotel that need to be tipped than anywhere else as you travel.",
"Tipping in Japan and many other Asian countries is simply not a way of life.",
"In fact, it's usually regarded as a vulgar display of wealth and a disregard for the culture.",
"The same can be true in Europe and Latin America ... though not always.",
"And in the United States, of course, tipping is expected (and sometimes demanded).",
"With expectations all over the map, it's not surprising that anxiety and confusion about whom to tip -- and how much -- are commonplace for travelers.",
"So we've done the legwork for you, talking with concierges, tourist boards, and other travelers to find out the real protocol on when (and when not) to reach into your wallet and how much of a tip you should give to waiters, sky caps, maids, doormen, and cabbies all over the world.",
"Of course, tipping is confusing enough for Americans traveling domestically.",
"The expectation is to tip not only big but also often, from the kid handing you a Venti coffee at Starbucks to the multiple hotel hands that rush to open doors, carry bags, and offer an escort to the hotel room.",
"Go abroad and the situation changes.",
"The legion of skycaps, cab drivers, bellboys, and waiters may perform the same services as their U.S. counterparts, but they often have radically different expectations of a tip.",
"You can credit different customs, as well as a service industry with a different wage scale.",
"In the United States, tips usually abet low wages.",
"In other parts of the world, service employees are often paid a living wage.",
"If you're taking a taxi in Chile or New Zealand, for example, the driver won't give you the evil eye if you don't tip -- it's not expected.",
"Read Travel + Leisure's guide to tipping around the world .",
"At a hotel, you'll encounter more people who potentially need to be tipped than anywhere else during your travels.",
"In fact, there are so many people it can become confusing.",
"If a doorman opens the door of your cab, another takes your bag, and a third delivers it to your room, who gets the tip?",
"It should be the last person in the chain -- the one who actually brings the bags to your room.",
"And at checkout, only tip the one who loads your bags onto a cart and takes them out of the room.",
"Restaurants can be tricky, too: keep an eye out for the service charge.",
"In many European countries, this charge averages 10 percent, but it's usually included in the price of a meal.",
"If it is, then do as the European do, and leave a few extra coins or round up the bill -- in cash, even if you've paid for the meal with a credit card.",
"And if you're heading to Fiji, Malaysia, or South Korea, be aware that no tip is required in restaurants.",
"Here are some other scenarios: . Spa Therapists: Tipping 15 or 20 percent is common practice in the United States but rare at any spa abroad, where a service charge is typically added to the cost of the treatment.",
"Concierges: Situational.",
"If a concierge gets you theater or train tickets, or has been especially helpful during the course of your stay, then a $10 or $20 tip (in local currency) is in order.",
"Guides: Booking a ski guide to take you off-piste in Switzerland, a golf pro in Scotland, or a fishing guide in Ireland?",
"All should be compensated in the 10 to 15 percent range, as they would be in the United States.",
"A good tip on tipping?",
"Get small bills or coins from your hotel's front desk to make tipping easier.",
"But if you have only large bills, it's perfectly acceptable to ask a hotel porter or even a skycap for change when you give them a tip.",
"After all, tips are a part of their business.",
"They're not embarrassed, and you needn't be either.",
"And if you don't have local currency, U.S. greenbacks can work just as well as a \"thank you\" in London, Lombok, or Lahore.",
"E-mail to a friend .",
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"Don't miss Travel + Leisure's guide to Great American Beaches .",
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"(CNN) -- Jay Leno pulled no punches on his show Monday night, the first since NBC confirmed the TV host was being kicked out of his low-rated 10 p.m. slot after just three months.",
"\"Welcome to 'The Jay Leno Show.'",
"As you know, we're not just a show anymore, we are now a collector's item,\" he said to open the show, before launching into a string of scathing one-liners making not-so-light of the situation.",
"Jeff Gaspin, chairman of NBC Universal Television Entertainment, announced Sunday that the network was taking Leno -- formerly the host of \"The Tonight Show\" now helmed by Conan O'Brien -- out of the prime-time slot because the show \"didn't meet affiliates' needs\" despite performing at acceptable levels for the network.",
"The last show will air February 11 to make way for the 2010 Winter Olympics, which airs starting February 12.",
"\"NBC said the show performed exactly as they expected it would and then canceled us.",
"Don't confuse this when we were on at late night and performed better than expected and they canceled us.",
"That was totally different,\" Leno quipped.",
"Gaspin said the plan now is for Leno to host a new, half-hour show at 11:35 p.m.",
"ET, followed by \"Tonight\" with O'Brien at 12:05 a.m. and Jimmy Fallon's \"Late Night\" show moving to 1 a.m. O'Brien had his own zingers for NBC during his monologue Monday night.",
"Among them: . -- \"Good evening, I'm Conan O'Brien, the new host of 'Last Call with Carson Daly.'",
"\" -- \"This weekend no one was seriously hurt, but a 6.5 earthquake hit California.",
"The earthquake was so powerful that it knocked Jay Leno's show from 10:00 to 11:35.\"",
"-- \"On the positive side, I have learned a valuable lesson from all this: never sign a contract that ends with the word 'NOT.'",
"\" As of Sunday, NBC was still negotiating with the three hosts over the proposed line-up.",
"\"Supposedly we're moving to 11:30.",
"Even this is not for sure. My people are upset.",
"Conan's people are upset.",
"Hey, NBC said it wanted drama at 10:00 -- now they've got it!",
"Everyone's mad,\" Leno said Monday night.",
"Before turning his monologue to other current events, Leno had one last piece of mud to sling: .",
"\"I take pride in one thing.",
"I leave NBC prime time the same way I found it -- a complete disaster.\"",
"NBC moved Leno to the prime time slot in September with \"The Jay Leno Show,\" a decision that raised eyebrows in the industry.",
"In an unprecedented move, NBC was pitting a talk show up against the hourlong dramas that have typically done well at 10 p.m.",
"Although Leno's ratings were on target with NBC's expectations, the low average of nightly viewers left affiliates feeling the brunt of \"the Leno effect,\" causing the ratings for nightly news to drop.",
"This announcement fueled rumors that O'Brien, who took Leno's spot on \"The Tonight Show\" in 2009, is considering making an exit.",
"Scott Grogin, a spokesman for Fox, had no comment on whether the network had reached out to offer O'Brien his own show.",
"Fox reportedly went after him six years ago, which led to NBC offering him the \"Tonight Show\" chair after Leno's eventual departure.",
"\"This is still being sorted out,\" said Ben Grossman, editor in chief of the industry trade publication Broadcasting and Cable, who added that he expects the network to reach a conclusion over the next few days.",
"\"The bottom line is that NBC has decided -- correctly or incorrectly -- that they're going to try and keep all their late-night talent.",
"That's very expensive and a very questionable strategy.\"",
"Grossman thinks it's very likely Leno will remain at 11:30 post-negotiations.",
"\"I just don't know that you need to pay that much money in late-night.",
"I think you pick two hosts, one at 11:30 and one at 12:30.\"",
"Out of the three hosts, O'Brien is the clear loser, Grossman says.",
"Even if O'Brien were to stick it out with NBC, getting bumped back to 12:05 is not optimal, said Christopher Naughton, a 20-year TV veteran and attorney who produces \"The American Law Journal.\"",
"\"Pushing it back half an hour is huge,\" Naughton said.",
"\"The later in the night you go, the fewer people that are watching.",
"[That's] going back to a time slot where it's the 'Late Show' again.\"",
"The whole scenario recalls the precedent set by a similar NBC fiasco 17 years ago, Naughton said, when Leno and David Letterman were dueling over \"The Tonight Show.\"",
"After failing to secure the \"The Tonight Show\" position succeeding Johnny Carson, \"Letterman was able to break out of his contract [with NBC],\" Naughton said.",
"\"It set legal precedence because they wanted to keep Letterman, but he jumped ship through an escape clause.\"",
"NBC's talk shuffle: The right move?",
"Share your view .",
"The effect of that incident has been reverberating through NBC for years, he added.",
"\"It's a karmic thing for them,\" Naughton said.",
"\"You would think that NBC would have learned.\"",
"Jerry Seinfeld, however, doesn't believe people should be shedding tears for O'Brien.",
"\"Conan has a chance to destroy everybody,\" the comedian said while on a press tour for his new show, \"The Marriage Ref.\"",
"\"I don't think anyone's done anything to Conan.\""
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"Atlanta, Georgia (CNN) -- In some parts of the South, Friday's rare snowfall didn't pack the punch anticipated, but it still forced the closure of schools and the cancellation of flights.",
"Cities put emergency crews to work throughout much of the region while state offices and schools were shut down.",
"An estimated 8 inches fell in De Kalb in eastern Mississippi, while 200 miles south in metro Biloxi, snow fell but didn't stick, the National Weather Service reported.",
"\"We had flurries for about five minutes where I am, that's it,\" said John DeMiller, owner of the Petit Bois Grocery in Biloxi.",
"DeMiller's 10th-grade daughter stayed home from school Friday after the Mississippi Department of Education closed all schools due to inclement weather.",
"DeMiller hadn't expected much snow, and when schools were closed in his town without accumulations, he was flabbergasted.",
"\"I'm going, 'they just lost their mind,' \" he said.",
"Share your winter weather photos, stories .",
"Just north of metro Biloxi, though, 1-2 inches fell and black ice could pose a problem as wind chills drop, National Weather Service forecaster Phil Grigsby said.",
"Officials in Georgia were bracing for enough snow to paralyze parts of the state.",
"Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, which canceled hundreds of flights, had reported 4 inches of snow, National Weather Service meteorologist Dan Darbe said.",
"Numerous accidents have been attributed to the dangerous conditions, he said.",
"Temperatures were to fall to the mid- to upper-20s in the Atlanta area after the snow tapered off sometime between 9 p.m. and 10 p.m. Friday, he said.",
"Traffic accidents were expected to increase as slush turned to ice late Friday, he said.",
"The clear skies already over parts of western Alabama are expected to move into Georgia later this weekend, Darbe said.",
"In Louisiana, Commissioner of Administration Angele Davis announced state government offices were closed in 42 parishes.",
"Earlier in the day, iReporter Susan Sharman in Bastrop, Louisiana, said she couldn't believe snow was falling over her town.",
"\"I haven't seen snow like this in Bastrop in over eight years,\" she said.",
"Metro Baton Rouge, Louisiana, saw about an inch of snow on its streets, while the rest of the area got 1 to 3 inches, Grigsby said.",
"But Mardi Gras revelers don't have much to worry about.",
"The very early morning snow shouldn't interfere with parades Friday evening, he said.",
"Windchills in the 30s, however, mean paradegoers need to bundle up before the fun.",
"Drivers should also be wary of any black ice that may form on bridges and overpasses, he said.",
"Yasamie Richardson of Alabama Emergency Management said conditions could be \"very, very dangerous,\" in her state and the likelihood of power outages was \"very great.\"",
"She said authorities were encouraging people to prepare for the possibility of losing electricity.",
"\"My husband and I haven't seen snow since we were stationed in Massachusetts and my children have never seen it,\" Sara Johnson in Wilmer, Alabama, said in a CNN iReport as the first flakes began to fall Friday morning.",
"The weather system pounded parts of Texas on Thursday, leaving a record 12.5 inches in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.",
"The National Weather Service said the 24-hour total in the area topped the previous record of 12.1 inches set in 1964.",
"\"For the DFW Metroplex this is amazing,\" said iReporter Brent Dow.",
"See Dow's photo of a Texas-size snowman .",
"West of Dallas, in Irving, Texas, Michael Whiteside was awakened at 2:45 a.m. Friday \"to the sound of my patio roof collapsing from the weight\" of the snow, he said in a CNN iReport.",
"At Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, where American and American Eagle canceled about 230 flights, officials were working to ramp up departures Friday.",
"An Airport spokesman said Friday afternoon that most flights were running on time.",
"There was some relief in sight for the South.",
"Warmer weather was melting the snow Friday in Dallas, and temperatures in the 40s were expected to move through the rest of the region over the weekend.",
"The Southern states were getting a smaller dose of what their Northeastern and mid-Atlantic counterparts have experienced this week.",
"That area is digging out from a pair of record-setting blizzards.",
"The first storm dumped more than 30 inches of snow in some places last weekend, while the latest part of the one-two punch dropped 22.5 inches on Baltimore, Maryland; 15.8 inches on Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and about 10 inches on Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Arlington, Virginia; Central Park in New York; and Atlantic City, New Jersey, the National Weather Service said.",
"Records for total snowfall for the season have been set at Dulles International Airport west of Washington, with 72 inches; Philadelphia, with 70.3; Baltimore, with 70.1; Reagan Washington National Airport, with 55.6; and Atlantic City, with 48.7, according to the weather service.",
"CNN's Dan Gilgoff and Khadijah Rentas contributed to this report."
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"10:37 p.m. -- CNN's Brian Todd reports on a fire at what is believed to be a textile factory in Port-au-Prince.",
"Watch . 9:02 p.m. -- Israeli rescuers pulled a 22-year-old man from the ruins of a three-story building in Port-au-Prince on Friday, 10 days after the January 12 earthquake.",
"The man, who was not immediately identified, was rescued near the quake-ravaged presidential residence south of the capital, according to the Israel Defense Forces.",
"The rescuers \"were able to release him whole and healthy\" and take him to an IDF field hospital in stable condition for further treatment,\" Maj. Zohar Moshe said.",
"8:41 p.m. -- Thousands of earthquake victims' bodies have been buried in mass graves northwest of Port-au-Prince, a manager at the site tells CNN's Brian Todd.",
"Watch . 7:39 p.m. -- Haitians have to be in the driver's seat as they try to rebuild their country, the head of the International Monetary Fund says.",
"\"We can provide resources, but there must be ownership by the Haitians themselves and especially by the Haitian authorities,\" Dominique Strauss-Kahn told CNN's Christiane Amanpour.",
"He previously has called for some kind of Marshall Plan like the one that rebuilt Western Europe after World War II.",
"7:10 p.m. -- About 4 million pounds of food are being sent by barge from Puerto Rico to Haiti, CNN's Mike M. Ahlers reports.",
"Puerto Rican authorities say that when it arrives in Haiti on Monday morning, it will be the single largest shipment of aid to arrive there to date.",
"The food is said to be enough to feed the people of Port-au-Prince for a week.",
"Organizers say it would take 150 planes to carry as much cargo.",
"6:42 p.m. -- About 250,000 people in Haiti are in urgent need of aid and another 3 million have been affected, according to the European Union, whose commissioner for development and humanitarian aid, Karel De Gucht, got a firsthand view of the situation in Port-au-Prince this week.",
"The EU has estimated the death toll in Haiti to be at 200,000.",
"5:31 p.m. -- A Haitian woman who was trapped in her collapsed house for five days with her 20-year-old daughter talks about her desperate, unsuccessful attempts to keep the daughter alive.",
"Read . 5:13 p.m. -- A man was killed, apparently by someone striking him with a concrete block, on one of the busiest streets in Port-au-Prince today.",
"Witnesses say the man was trying to steal people's money.",
"One person called it \"citizen justice.\"",
"Read . 4:55 p.m. -- Yele Haiti, the nonprofit formed by musician Wyclef Jean, says it hired an accounting firm in the wake of increased public scrutiny of its finances, CNNMoney.com reports.",
"The announcement comes days after Jean tearfully denied allegations that he misappropriated funds from his charity.",
"The accusations emerged after the Haitian native returned to the U.S. following several days of relief work in Port-au-Prince in the wake of the January 12 earthquake.",
"Read . 1:39 p.m. -- The international aid organization Partners in Health reports it has 24 operating rooms established and working 24 hours a day in Haiti.",
"More than 140 surgeons, nurses, anesthetists and other specialists were involved in the organization's quake relief effort, it said.",
"1:20 p.m. -- CNN's Ivan Watson speaks to a fisherman in Petit Paradis, Haiti, who describes a tsunami from the 7.0-magnitude earthquake more than 12 feet high.",
"The water swept away his father and at least three other people in the fishing village, the fisherman tells Watson.",
"12:24 p.m. -- As of Thursday evening more than $355 million in donations had been raised for relief efforts, according to the Chronicle of Philanthropy, a newspaper covering nonprofit organizations.",
"The estimate is based on a survey of 35 charities contributing the largest amounts of money to Haiti.",
"11:57 a.m. -- Corporate donations to Haiti earthquake relief have surpassed $100 million, according to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Business Civic Leadership Center.",
"The center reports the $106 million donated so far is the fifth-largest corporate response to a natural disaster ever, trailing only hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005, the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, and earthquakes in Kashmir (2005) and China (2008).",
"11:25 a.m. -- Soccer stars Zinedine Zidane and Kaka will take part in a charity match to help raise money for the the victims of the Haiti earthquake.",
"They will be among 40 internationals lining up for the United Nations Development Program's annual game, which will be held in Lisbon, Portugal, on Monday.",
"Read . How you can help . 10:18 a.m. -- The International Organization for Migration reports that as of Friday 508 makeshift settlements have been identified in the area of Port-au Prince.",
"Surveys by the organization and the Haitian government of 314 of those settlements put their population at 472,000.",
"7:54 a.m. -- The U.S. Geological Survey reports a 4.4-magnitude aftershock strikes about 15 miles north-northwest of Port-au-Prince.",
"Depth was about 6 miles.",
"Share your earthquake stories .",
"6:40 a.m. -- Authorities pushing to clear earthquake-relief bottlenecks in Haiti continue to work Friday to improve the flow of relief supplies at the south pier in Port-au-Prince.",
"The January 12 quake damaged the capital's north and south piers.",
"Haitian authorities and the U.S. military had restored one-way traffic to the south pier, which is the smaller of the two, by Thursday.",
"Port-au-Prince's north pier remains unusable.",
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"Halle, Belgium (CNN) -- At least 18 people died and 162 were hurt when two trains collided in Halle on Monday, a government spokeswoman said.",
"The trains collided head-on at 8:30 a.m., the companies that run the Belgian railways and the train said.",
"The cause of the accident is not known, according to the railway operator, Infrabel, and SNCB, the train operator.",
"Authorities do not believe there is anyone else on the trains, said Anya De Wols, spokeswoman for the province of Flemish Brabant.",
"But they have not ruled out the possibility bodies could be pinned beneath the train cars, she said, and they plan to lift the cars from the track by Tuesday.",
"Also on Tuesday, investigators will collect personal effects, such as wallets, from the scene to help identify the victims, she said.",
"Send your pictures, videos, stories .",
"A Belgian government spokesman, Bart Ouvry, said it was snowing at the time of the crash, but not an unusual amount.",
"People were thrown against the walls of the trains by the impact, said Emily Divinagracia, whose husband, Stephan Riviere, was a passenger.",
"He was awakened by the impact, she said he told her by phone minutes after the accident.",
"It took about 30 minutes for rescue crews to arrive, and some passengers did not immediately know there had been a collision, she said.",
"\"He was actually getting the news from me, because they didn't know much on their side and it was all a bit disorganized, obviously, because nobody expected this sort of thing to happen,\" she said.",
"Riviere was not badly injured, his wife said.",
"The injured were being treated at a sports center near the scene of the accident, the Belga news agency reported.",
"Fifty-five of them were taken to hospitals, while more than a hundred others had minor injuries, De Wols said.",
"The crash took place during morning rush hour when people were on their way to work, Belga journalist Eric Vidal said from the scene.",
"Pictures showed people being taken from the crash site by stretcher as snow fell.",
"Passengers who were not hurt in the crash were taken away by bus, according to Vidal.",
"He said people had come to the station to try to find family members who may have been involved in the crash.",
"Belgian Prime Minister Yves Leterme is on his way back from Kosovo, Albania, and would visit the scene of the crash, his office said.",
"The Justice Ministry is in charge of the investigation, Leterme's office added.",
"The crash caused disruption to parts of the wider rail network in northern Europe.",
"Eurostar suspended high-speed train services between London, England, and Brussels, Belgium, the company announced, and did not expect the trains to run for the rest of the day.",
"London-to-Paris services were not affected, the company said, but there were delays on the service to Lille in northern France close to the border with Belgium.",
"Thalys, which operates high-speed trains across much of northern Europe, announced that services were fully suspended all day, affecting travel to Brussels from Paris, France; Amsterdam, Netherlands; and Cologne, Germany.",
"The company urged passengers planning to travel this week to check its Web site, www.thalys.com, before starting their trips.",
"The French high-speed train operator TGV Europe announced that its Brussels-bound services were going only as far as Lille.",
"Eight people died in a train crash in Belgium in March 2001, media reports said at the time, calling it the worst rail accident in the country in 25 years.",
"Investigators later suggested the two trains collided because of confusion between a French-speaking signalman and a Flemish-speaking one.",
"Belgium is divided between speakers of the two languages.",
"Monday's crash is one of the deadliest train accidents in Europe since at least 41 people were killed in the Balkan nation of Montenegro in 2006.",
"At least 180 passengers also were injured when a train derailed and plunged down an embankment outside the capital, Podgorica.",
"CNN's Jessica Hartogs, Cristina Lynch, Claudia Rebaza, Nick Hunt and Abey Benga contributed to this report."
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"Official: 18 people dead, 162 people injured by crash .",
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"(CNN) -- The Internet connection in Myanmar was cut Friday, limiting the free flow of information the nation's citizens were sharing with the world depicting the violent crackdown on monks and other peaceful demonstrators.",
"Ko Htike runs his Myanmar blog out of his London apartment and says he's trying to stop the violence.",
"Myanmar-based blogs went dark suddenly.",
"But London-based blogger Ko Htike -- who has been one of the most prominent bloggers posting information about the violence -- has vowed to keep up the fight, saying where \"there is a will, there is a way.\"",
"\"I sadly announce that the Burmese military junta has cut off the Internet connection throughout the country,\" he said on his blog Friday.",
"\"I, therefore, would not be able to feed in pictures of the brutality by the brutal Burmese military junta.\"",
"Ko Htike is a 28-year-old who left Myanmar, once known as Burma, seven years ago to study in England.",
"Watch a blogger's fight for Myanmar » .",
"He told CNN.com a day earlier that he has as many as 40 people in Myanmar sending him photos or calling him with information.",
"They often take the photos from windows from their homes, he said.",
"Myanmar's military junta has forbidden such images, and anyone who sends them is risking their lives.",
"\"If they get caught, you will never know their future.",
"Maybe just disappear or maybe life in prison or maybe dead,\" he told CNN.",
"Why would they take such risks?",
"\"They thought that this is their duty for the country,\" he said.",
"\"That's why they are doing it. It's like a mission.\"",
"Even with Friday's action by the government, he said he will continue to do all he can to get images of what's happening out for the world to see.",
"\"I will also try my best to feed in their demonic appetite of fear and paranoia by posting any pictures that I receive through other means,\" he said on his blog.",
"\"I will continue to live with the motto that 'if there is a will there is a way.'",
"\" With few Western journalists allowed in Myanmar, his blog has become one of the main information outlets.",
"More than 170,000 people from 175 countries have gone to the blog, according to a counter on the page.",
"On Friday, shots rang out in the streets of Myanmar's biggest city of Yangon, marking the third straight day of violence at the hands of the ruling military junta to suppress citizen protests.",
"See photos of the protests » .",
"One diplomat told CNN that a Western witness had reported seeing about 35 bodies lying in rows on a street near Sule Pagoda, with civilians praying over them.",
"CNN could not independently confirm the report, and it was not known if the bodies were from Friday or the result of earlier violence.",
"According to The Associated Press, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Friday he believes the loss of life in Myanmar has been \"far greater\" than is being reported.",
"In a country where Buddhist monks are revered, the violence against them could stir even more outrage among the people of Myanmar.",
"\"Now, there is blood shed on the monastery,\" Htike said.",
"The Internet has also spawned other Myanmar pages.",
"On the popular online community of Facebook, several Myanmar support pages were set up with links keeping a close eye on the latest developments.",
"One letter floating around the Internet from a group calling itself the \"Global Alliance of Burmese Students\" called on people abroad to stage protests.",
"\"We call on you to take action, to take the lead, and to show solidarity with our fellow countrymen back home,\" it said.",
"\"The streets of Yangon bleed red, and it will all be in vain if we do not act and mobilize for change.\"",
"Other people used technology as simple as the cell phone as a means to get the word out on what was happening.",
"\"We didn't do any terrorism, but they sharp-shoot us,\" one woman said by phone inside Myanmar Thursday.",
"\"I just want to say we have no weapons and no rights.\"",
"She added, \"Who can help us?\"",
"The last time the nation saw such widespread protests was in 1988, when today's instantaneous means of communication did not exist.",
"The government used brutal force to quash that democratic uprising, with few people seeing what happened.",
"View a timeline of events there » .",
"Today's technology allows anyone with the means to capture what is happening.",
"Despite the cutting of the Internet inside the country, people can still take pictures and videos with cell phones and send them to the outside world.",
"\"They are ready to die for that,\" Vincent Brossels with Reporters Without Borders said on Thursday.",
"\"I spoke with a Burmese journalist this morning in Rangoon and he told me that now I don't care about anything.",
"I'm ready to be in jail.",
"I'm ready to die for that.\" Benjamin Valk, a 25-year-old student from a university in Tokyo, Japan, sent CNN.com video of saffron-robed monks carrying out a peaceful protest earlier this week in Yangon, once known as Rangoon.",
"The video shows thousands of monks and civilians walking together and chanting.",
"He said he felt compelled to share the video because people \"should know what is happening in a country like Myanmar.\"",
"\"In a world where democracy is considered the better or perhaps the best political system, there is huge global support for a people who dare to openly challenge a military dictatorship and call for democracy,\" Valk said.",
"\"I think it's good for the world to see.\"",
"Htike agrees, saying he's just trying to stop the killing in his homeland.",
"\"If I can publish these kind of [photos] and this kind of news to the world, so maybe they may stop a little bit.\"",
"E-mail to a friend .",
"CNN's Phil Black contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) -- Virginia Gov.",
"Tim Kaine agreed Tuesday to review the report examining the deadly 2007 shootings at Virginia Tech and to correct any errors based on what has been learned since its publication.",
"Seung-Hui Cho killed 32 students and faculty members on April 16, 2007, then killed himself.",
"Relatives of some of the victims of the 2007 shootings issued a statement Tuesday asking Kaine to reinstate the panel that investigated the nation's deadliest shooting spree and prepared the report.",
"Gordon Hickey, Kaine's press secretary, said that \"re-convening the panel\" would be \"problematic\" because its members participated voluntarily and it seems unlikely they could gather again.",
"Hickey said Kaine has asked families to send his office corrections or changes that they feel need to be made.",
"And Kaine said on Washington-based WTOP's \"Ask the Governor\" program, \"I have made a commitment to the families of those who were injured and killed at Virginia Tech that the report that was done under my direction ... that we are going to open the factual narrative of that report and look at any information that has come in since.\"",
"The family members contend that the August 2007 report compiled by the independent Virginia Tech Review Panel contains \"grave errors, misinformation and glaring omissions,\" their statement says.",
"\"We feel an incomplete and inaccurate report does not respect our loved ones, or us, and is potentially harmful to the public,\" they wrote.",
"Thirty-two people, nearly all of them students or professors, died when 23-year-old Cho Seung-Hui went on a shooting spree on campus April 16, 2007.",
"He then turned a gun on himself.",
"Kaine announced last week that mental health records belonging to Cho were recently found at the home of Dr. Robert Miller, former director of Virginia Tech's Cook Counseling Center.",
"Miller has said that he mistakenly took the the files when he left his job there more than a year before the shootings.",
"Kaine said the absence of the records was a mystery and a concern during the investigation.",
"The files were discovered in connection with a civil lawsuit, he said without elaborating.",
"The governor said his office is asking Cho's family for permission to make the records public.",
"Lori Haas, whose daughter Emily was grazed by a bullet in a French class Cho attacked, said she and the other families are seeking answers to new issues.",
"\"New information leads to new questions,\" Haas said.",
"Haas, whose daughter survived and who was among those who received compensation in the settlement, said the report has errors in its timeline for the day of the shootings.",
"Nearly all the families, including Haas, pursued wrongful-death and personal injury claims against the state after the panel's report was published.",
"The study concluded that more timely and more specific information from university officials might have saved lives.",
"College officials at the Blacksburg campus were criticized for not immediately warning students and staff after two students were found dead in a dormitory at 7 a.m. on the day of the killings.",
"Police said they initially believed that the two had been involved in a romantic dispute but later determined that they were Cho's first victims.",
"It was almost 9:30 a.m. before authorities sent an e-mail to students and staff notifying them of the shootings and warning them to be cautious.",
"About 9:50 a.m., Cho began shooting people in Norris Hall, an engineering and classroom building.",
"While criticizing the university response, the panel -- which included former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge -- also said that quicker action by school officials may not have made a difference.",
"The report also noted that campus and state agencies might have taken a different approach to Cho had his middle- and high-school records followed him to Virginia Tech, officially Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.",
"Problems with Cho reportedly began to surface well before the shootings.",
"The records detailed his mental health issues, including a tendency to react to depression with violence."
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"(CNN) -- Former President Alfonso Portillo of Guatemala faces money-laundering charges in the United States, according to a federal indictment unsealed Monday.",
"The indictment charges Portillo with embezzling tens of millions of dollars in public funds, \"a portion of which he then laundered through bank accounts located, among other places, in the United States and Europe,\" the indictment says.",
"A grand jury indicted Portillo in U.S. District Court in New York.",
"Portillo engineered an embezzlement with co-conspirators that occurred from about 2000 through about 2003, the indictment says.",
"Prosecutors allege the money-laundering took place through at least 2006.",
"Portillo was the president of Guatemala from 2000 to 2004.",
"Authorities in Guatemala started searching for him after the United States requested his extradition, a spokesman for the International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala told CNN en Español on Sunday.",
"They executed search warrants in four locations but had not found him as of Sunday night, officials said.",
"Portillo came into power promising to clean up corruption, but found his own government mired in the same accusations as his predecessors.",
"According to the indictment, in one instance in 2000, Portillo funneled $1.5 million worth of donations for a literacy project from Taiwan into accounts in Europe controlled by his ex-wife and daughter.",
"In that case, the indictment alleges, Portillo endorsed three $500,000 checks destined for a program to purchase books for libraries, but diverted the funds into a bank in Miami, Florida.",
"That money was eventually laundered into his family's accounts in Europe, the court document states.",
"In short, \"this money was diverted, in a series of transactions and transfers designed to conceal the sources and origin of the funds,\" the indictment states.",
"There was a second instance where Portillo allegedly embezzled money given to Guatemala by the Taiwanese, according to the document.",
"In addition, Portillo is accused of embezzling money from his defense ministry in 2001.",
"With the help of others, Portillo made large cash transactions that ended up in accounts belonging to him and his co-conspirators, the document says.",
"Some of the money that Portillo took went to buy expensive watches and cars, the indictment says."
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"(CNN) -- There's never a bad time for a toga party, right?",
"The story of Perseus -- the bastard son of Zeus who takes on the mighty Kraken -- will endure long after Louis Leterrier's enjoyably cheesy movie has been forgotten (or, inevitably, remade in 4D).",
"But for now, and for young men especially, Leterrier's version is the one that counts, and it will just have to do.",
"It's a mixed bag: Three credited screenwriters have labored in the footsteps laid down by the 1981 Ray Harryhausen \"classic\" (hardly his finest hour) -- that is, they've taken the myth as an excuse to showcase as many special effects sequences as they can muster.",
"That's not a bad strategy when it's clear from the laughably clumsy opening that they haven't a clue how the ancient Greeks spoke to one another.",
"The clunky dialogue is delivered in various shades of tone deaf Antipodean, English, Irish and European by the likes of Sam Worthington (Perseus), Gemma Arterton (as his spiritual guru/love interest) and Liam Neeson (Zeus).",
"Neeson's old \"Schindler\" nemesis Ralph Fiennes brings a touch of class to Zeus's brother Hades, while the great, growly, scene-stealing Mads Mikkelsen (Le Chiffre in \"Casino Royale\") makes the strongest impression among the mortals.",
"Mikkelsen's only serious competition in the scenery-chewing stakes comes from the Kraken itself, a toothy sea monster who is built up for an hour and three quarters, then comes on for five minutes -- wisely doesn't say a word -- and walks away with the picture.",
"In Harryhausen's day, effects meant stop-motion photography of artfully modeled monsters, including a three-headed dog (excised here) and a golden mechanical owl (who makes a cameo appearance for old time's sake).",
"Today's CGI creatures may not have the same charm, but they're considerably more agile and fluid, and the action scenes have tremendous dynamism.",
"Leterrier comes from \"The Incredible Hulk\" and \"The Transporter,\" and he's evidently more comfortable running than walking.",
"A showdown with gigantic angry scorpions is the movie's first big set-piece, and it's exciting enough to make you forget you've seen these critters before -- or something very similar, in \"Transformers.\"",
"The three Graeae are ghastly, touchy-feely crones with one eye between them, and Medusa is a giant snake who slithers around her lair like a heat-seeking missile - though I preferred the aplomb Uma Thurman brought to the role in \"The Lightning Thief.\"",
"Like his namesake Percy Jackson, Perseus has daddy issues -- he's a demi-god who wants to prove he's all man.",
"After \"Avatar\" and \"Terminator Salvation\" Worthington has cast-iron credentials on that score.",
"We can see why Perseus would resist invitations to join the Immortals.",
"Mount Olympus looks like a colossal bore, a resting home for eternity.",
"You wonder what they find to talk about all day.",
"At least on Earth there are monsters to mash and quests to be quested.",
"iReport: Critic says \"Avoid at any cost\" If it's bad enough to be good in places, there's no excuse for the film's abominable retro-fitted 3D, a process that perversely flattens out the images into two planes, foreground and background, and renders this one of the ugliest epics in history.",
"It's a shame to see filmmakers jumping on a bandwagon like this, and missing.",
"You'd be well advised to seek out the picture's 2D venues -- or wait for the DVD."
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"Sam Worthington plays the role of Perseus in \"Clash of the Titans.\"",
"The story of Perseus, the bastard son of Zeus who takes on the mighty Kraken .",
"There's no excuse for the film's abominable retro-fitted 3D ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- Full-body imaging machines that see through clothes have significantly improved security in airports where they are deployed, and have revealed more than 60 \"artfully concealed\" illegal or prohibited items in the past year, the Transportation Security Administration says.",
"To date, no explosives have been detected by the machines, but their ability to spot even small concealed objects demonstrates their effectiveness as a security tool, officials said.",
"\"It is absolutely a tremendous improvement of what we can detect at the checkpoints,\" TSA Acting Administrator Gale Rossides said this week.",
"\"It is an excellent piece of technology that will significantly improve our detection capabilities.\"",
"As evidence of the machines' capabilities, the security agency released five photos of drugs or suspected drugs that airport screeners found after scans revealed anomalies on the ghost-like images of people's bodies.",
"The agency said metal detectors would not have revealed the items.",
"Screeners using the technology also found a knife hidden in the small of a person's back at the Richmond, Virginia, airport, a concealed razor blade on a passenger in Phoenix, Arizona, and other concealed items such as large bottles of lotion, which are prohibited as carry-on items.",
"In addition, the machines have revealed numerous prohibited items that passengers evidently inadvertently left in pockets.",
"Those items are confiscated but are not counted in the tally, a TSA spokesman said.",
"U.S. to implement new airport security measures .",
"The agency field-tested the full-body imagers for more than a year before announcing last month the deployment of machines to 11 airports nationwide.",
"Today, 46 machines are in place in 23 airports, and the agency is stepping up deployments and plans to have about 1,000 set up by the end of 2011.",
"Interest in the machines has heightened since the Christmas Day incident in which a man allegedly attempted to detonate an explosive concealed in his underwear.",
"In an appearance before Congress last month, Rossides declined to say whether the machines could have detected the underwear bomb.",
"But to illustrate the machines' effectiveness, Rossides showed a packet of white powder smaller than a tea bag, saying it was identical to a concealed bag detected by an imager.",
"\"The amazing thing is that our officers, as they get more and more familiar with this technology, are actually finding very, very small things that are being secreted on the body,\" she said.",
"But some passengers say the machine's capabilities are presenting new Fourth Amendment questions about the government's searches, saying the machines -- in detecting very small objects -- are subjecting passengers to scrutiny beyond what is needed to safeguard the plane.",
"\"I can't imaging an explosive that is powerful enough in that [tea-bag size] quantity to endanger an aircraft,\" said John Perry Barlow, a former Grateful Dead lyricist who once took the TSA to court after a search of his checked luggage revealed a small amount of drugs.",
"\"Every time technology makes another leap forward, we have to reclaim the Fourth Amendment, and often we have to reclaim the entire Bill of Rights, because technology gives us powers that were not envisioned by the Founding Fathers,\" Barlow said.",
"The security agency said that it searches only for prohibited items -- not illegal items such as drugs.",
"When it finds illegal items during a search, it refers the item to local law enforcement officers, it says.",
"\"What we're trying to resolve is the anomaly that we're seeing on the body,\" said Rossides.",
"\"If it's drugs, then we call in local law enforcement and they handle it from there.\"",
"Barlow predicted that the body scanner will lead to another court case to clarify the extent it can be used to search the body.",
"\"Eventually they're going to bust somebody for something that was clearly and obviously not a threat to the aircraft, and any reasonable person would have known that [while looking at the] body scan.",
"And at that point somebody is going to make it an issue,\" he said.",
"Rossides said the body imagers are especially useful because they can expose contraband on parts of the body that aren't fully explored in pat-downs, such as the groin.",
"\"I think what was so telling about the Christmas Day attack was that it exploited our cultural norms, that we don't frequently pat down persons in that part of the body.",
"This technology will give us the image of the entire body,\" she said.",
"But Rossides said the imagers are not a \"silver bullet\" because \"those who intend to do harm are constantly adapting.\"",
"\"We still have to have multiple layers of security,\" she said.",
"For all his reservations about scanners, Barlow said he does not hesitate going through one.",
"\"I've got nothing to hide,\" he said.",
"\"I go through the scanner.",
"If anybody wants to see me naked, they're welcome to the sight.\""
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"60 \"artfully concealed\" illegal or prohibited items discovered in past year, TSA says .",
"No explosives have been detected by the machines .",
"Found items include drugs, knife, bottle of lotion bigger than allowed ."
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"(CNN) -- A fire at a refinery in Washington state killed four people and injured three, a spokeswoman for a medical center said Friday.",
"The company that owns the refinery, the Tesoro Corp., earlier had announced three deaths from the fire.",
"A fourth person, a 29-year-old woman, died from her injuries at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, Washington, said medical center spokeswoman Susan Gregg-Hanson.",
"Three others -- a 36-year-old woman, a 34-year-old man and a 41-year-old man -- remain in critical condition at the medical center with major burns, Gregg-Hanson said.",
"None of the dead were identified.",
"The fire at the Anacortes, Washington, refinery occurred shortly after midnight at the naphtha unit of the refinery while maintenance work was being performed, the Tesoro Corp. said.",
"The fire was contained around 2 a.m. Friday and affected units have been shut down, Tesoro said on its Web site.",
"CNN affiliate KCPQ reported that three workers were missing, and that a search was under way.",
"The cause of the blaze was not immediately known.",
"KCPQ said that people reported feeling an explosion as far as five miles away.",
"\"This is a very sad time for our organization,\" said Bruce Smith, Tesoro's chairman, president and chief executive officer.",
"\"Everyone in the Tesoro family appreciates the impact that this will have on the families involved, and we are responding quickly to ensure the safety for our employees, contractors and the neighboring community,\" he said.",
"Tesoro did not immediately return phone calls requesting further information.",
"Tesoro Corp. is an independent refiner and marketer of petroleum products, according to its Web site.",
"Through its subsidiaries, it operates seven refineries in the Western United States with a combined capacity of approximately 665,000 barrels per day.",
"Anacortes is about 80 miles south of Vancouver, British Columbia."
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"Fire injures 3 at the Anacortes, Washington, refinery owned by Tesoro Corporation .",
"Cause of the blaze not immediately known .",
"Tesoro Corp. is refiner, marketer of petroleum products, says its Web site ."
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"Port-au-Prince, Haiti (CNN) -- French rescuers in Haiti on Wednesday pulled from rubble a girl who they believe could have been trapped since the January 12 earthquake.",
"The 16-year-old girl was found in poor condition but was stable and talking, French spokesman Marcel Orcel said.",
"One of her legs may have been broken, rescuers said.",
"After a 45-minute effort to extract her from the debris, the girl was transported in a helicopter to the French medical ship Sirocco.",
"iReport: Haiti's missing and found | Full coverage .",
"Rescuers found the girl after a group of Haitians approached the French embassy in Port-au-Prince and said they could hear a voice in the rubble.",
"The rescuers followed them to the site and made contact with the girl, rescuer Claude Futilla said.",
"They found the girl dehydrated, weak and with low blood pressure, leading the French crew to believe that she'd been buried since the earthquake struck Haiti 15 days ago, Futilla said.",
"It was believed that she had access to water where she was, in the bathroom of her house.",
"Finding shelter, aid, supplies .",
"The girl, whose name was not immediately available, said \"thank you\" in French as she was taken away from the debris on a stretcher, covered with a heating blanket.",
"CNN's Alec Miran, Justine Redman and Gary Tuchman contributed to this report."
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"French rescuers believe she'd been buried since the earthquake struck 15 days ago .",
"Girl was found in poor condition but was stable and talking .",
"It took six hours to extract her from the rubble .",
"It's believed that she had access to water in the bathroom of her house."
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"(CNN) -- Blind violinist Romel Joseph laid in what he called his \"grave\" for 18 hours.",
"The concrete support beams of his music school in Haiti pinned his legs and feet.",
"Buried in the rubble of the five-story building, Romel realized he was trapped and would not be able to get out on his own.",
"He was overwhelmed by the hot air.",
"He began to have a conversation with God.",
"\"I said, 'I would like to know if you are here.",
"I'm really hot ... and don't have much time to live so if you are here, I'm really hot and I need some cool air.'",
"And believe it or not, the next thing I know, there's cool air that got in.\"",
"He began to pray every hour, for 20 minutes or so, and then came his music.",
"First he pictured himself playing a Tchaikovsky concerto.",
"And then every hour another concerto.",
"\"I know I picked the Brahms, the Franz, the Sibelius.",
"I picked several,\" Romel remembers.",
"\"I know a lot of concertos for violins.",
"And I picked the longer ones.\"",
"iReport: Haiti's missing and found .",
"And so as the hours passed by, and his friends tried to rescue him from the concrete debris, another prayer, and another concerto took place below.",
"\"I pictured walking on stage and playing to a full hall.",
"And you start playing up to the end.\"",
"His friends were able to remove him from the rubble of the New Victorian School at 11 a.m. the day after the earthquake, about 18 hours later.",
"Later that week, he was airlifted out of Port-au-Prince by the American Embassy to Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami, Florida.",
"Full coverage .",
"He's being treated for not only the injuries he sustained to his legs, but also a fracture to his left hand.",
"The fracture has left doctors questioning whether Romel will ever be able to play a violin again.",
"Romel is certain he will.",
"\"I have to play so they can hear what I want them to play.\"",
"Finding shelter, aid, supplies .",
"Romel still has a few weeks left before he will be able to leave the hospital.",
"But once he does, he's already talking about going back to Haiti and wants to begin the rebuilding of the school.",
"On his remarkable story of survival, he says it's all in the way you look at things.",
"\"I'm really proud that I was able to be in a horrible place and survive in a constructive, positive way.\""
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"Support beams from his music school pinned legs, feet of blind violinist Romel Joseph .",
"Joseph was overwhelmed by hot air; his prayers answered with flow of cool air .",
"As he waited 18 hours for rescue, he played long violin concertos in his head .",
"Doctors worry fractured hand will end his playing days; Joseph believes he'll play again ."
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"(CNN) -- Lionel Messi produced a performance of stunning brilliance, scoring all four goals as holders Barcelona beat Arsenal 4-1 to reach the semifinals of the Champions League 6-3 on aggregate on Tuesday.",
"Messi turned on the style in the Nou Camp with one of the most devastating individual displays the competition has ever seen, as an injury-ravaged Arsenal side were torn apart.",
"The match started started brightly for the Londoners who actually took a shock 18th-minute lead.",
"Theo Walcott's pace had troubled Barca in the 2-2 first leg at The Emirates and the England winger created the opener with a break down the right.",
"His pass inside for Nicklas Bendtner was a poor one, but somehow the Dane managed to pounce at the second attempt to stab his shot past Victor Valdes in the Barca goal.",
"Arsenal's lead lasted barely three minutes before Messi began his one-man show.",
"Mickael Silvestre failed to clear the ball on the edge of the area and it fell to Messi, who curled home a superb equalizer.",
"Messi added his and Barca's second on 37 minutes.",
"Eric Abidal's cross from the right was cut out by Thomas Vermaelen.",
"However, the rest of the Arsenal defense were slow to react and Pedro found Messi, who smashed his shot past Manuel Almunia.",
"The striker completed his stunning hat-trick four minutes before the break when he raced onto a header from Abidal to sprint clear of the Arsenal defense before superbly chipping the ball over Almunia.",
"By now, Arsenal needed two goals to go through and, in truth, they never looked likely to get them.",
"Bendtner struck the post with a fierce header from Gael Clichy's cross, but he was flagged offside, and Tomas Rosicky fired over the bar when in a great position.",
"Messi completed the job three minutes from time, beating two defender on the left hand side of the area before firing the ball through Almunia's legs.",
"The result means Barcelona will now face Italian champions Inter Milan, who they were drawn against in the group stages, in a mouth-watering semifinal clash.",
"Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger was full of praise for Messi's performance.",
"\"For me, he is the best player in the world, and by a distance,\" he told Sky Sports.",
"\"When he's in the game, he's really dangerous.",
"Once he is on the run with the ball, he is unstoppable.",
"The Frenchman added: \"I believe that we lost against a team that is better than us and have the best player in the world.\""
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"Lionel Messi scores all four goals as Barcelona thrash Arsenal 4-1 at the Nou Camp .",
"Arsenal take the lead through Nicklas Bendtner before Barcelona fight back .",
"The result sees holders Barcelona through to the semifinals 6-3 on aggregate ."
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"(CNN) -- \"Usually when I mention suspended animation people will flash me the Vulcan sign and laugh,\" says scientist Mark Roth.",
"But he's not referring to the plot of a \"Star Trek\" episode.",
"Roth is completely serious about using lessons he's learned from putting some organisms into suspended animation to help people survive medical trauma.",
"He spoke at the TED2010 conference in Long Beach, California, in February.",
"The winner of a MacArthur genius fellowship in 2007, Roth described the thought process that led him and fellow researchers to explore ways to lower animals' metabolism to the point where they showed no signs of life -- and yet were not dead.",
"More remarkably, they were able to restore the animals to normal life, with no apparent damage.",
"Read more about Roth on TED.com .",
"The Web site of Roth's laboratory at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, Washington, describes the research this way: \"We use the term suspended animation to refer to a state where all observable life processes (using high resolution light microscopy) are stopped: The animals do not move nor breathe and the heart does not beat.",
"We have found that we are able to put a number of animals (yeast, nematodes, drosophila, frogs and zebrafish) into a state of suspended animation for up to 24 hours through one basic technique: reducing the concentration of oxygen.\"",
"Visit Mark Roth's laboratory .",
"Roth is investigating the use of small amounts of hydrogen sulfide, a gas that is toxic in larger quantities, to lower metabolism.",
"In his talk, he imagined that \"in the not too distant future, an EMT might give an injection of hydrogen sulfide, or some related compound, to a person suffering severe injuries, and that person might de-animate a bit ... their metabolism will fall as though you were dimming a switch on a lamp at home.",
"\"That will buy them the time to be transported to the hospital to get the care they need.",
"And then, after they get that care ... they'll wake up.",
"A miracle? We hope not, or maybe we just hope to make miracles a little more common.\""
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"Mark Roth is a scientist who is studying ways to put life into suspended animation .",
"In a TED Talk, he describes how his lab has put some organisms into a suspended state .",
"The animals are revived and appear to suffer no lasting damage, he says .",
"Such techniques may one day keep people from dying so they can get urgent care, he says ."
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"ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- The three surviving children of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. are moving forward after averting a public trial over the estates of their parents.",
"Bernice King and her brothers Martin Luther King III and Dexter King will split money they have been fighting over.",
"The settlement among Bernice King, Martin Luther King III and Dexter King was announced after 11:30 p.m. Monday, Fulton County Superior Court spokesman Don Plummer said.",
"\"We disagreed with each other, but we still always loved one another, and I think that's probably the most important factor,\" Martin Luther King III said.",
"Bernice King and Martin Luther King III sued Dexter King in July 2008, one month after accusing him of converting \"substantial funds from the estate's financial account at Bank of America\" for his own use, according to the lawsuit.",
"The lawsuit contended that Dexter King illegally and fraudulently converted estate funds and should be forced to repay the money and reimburse his siblings' legal costs.",
"The document does not say how much he was accused of taking.",
"The suit also accused Dexter King of failing to provide timely accountings of their father's estate and said he hadn't given his siblings an accounting of finances in years.",
"Dexter King denied the accusations.",
"He said shareholder meetings had not been held in the past few years because of family deaths that disrupted normal routines.",
"The Martin Luther King Jr. estate was also named as a defendant.",
"Dexter King is the corporation's president and chief executive, in addition to being the estate's administrator.",
"The three children are the only shareholders in the corporation.",
"Martin Luther King III and Bernice King hold 20 percent of its outstanding shares.",
"The two siblings also accused Dexter King of improperly removing money from the estate of their mother, Coretta Scott King, who died in 2006.",
"However, Superior Court Judge Ural D. Glanville determined that Dexter King was an authorized signatory on the checking account for his mother's estate, which is administered by Bernice King.",
"\"There was no improper conduct with respect to the removal of funds from Mrs. King's estate,\" the court said in its order for summary judgment.",
"The judge ordered that money withdrawn be equally divided among the siblings.",
"\"(It was a) very long day but also a very triumphant day in that we, as a family, I think, have amicably resolved our differences,\" Dexter King said.",
"\"Families love each other.",
"Families have disagreements,\" Bernice King said.",
"\"It doesn't mean as we go forward we will always agree because that would be a misnomer to say that.\"",
"The Kings have 14 days after the signing of Monday's settlement to each find three possible temporary custodians to manage the estate for at least one year.",
"After the names are submitted to the court, the judge will make a choice, the settlement says.",
"According to the settlement, the appointment of a custodian will give the three children time to heal their relationship as siblings, to develop procedures for managing the corporation that oversees the Martin Luther King Jr. estate and to assure third parties \"as to the validity and enforceability of any agreements.\"",
"One of the most bitter disagreements came over the private papers of Coretta Scott King.",
"Dexter King accused his sister of withholding love letters between their parents that he wanted for a proposed $1.4 million book deal.",
"The judge ordered that Coretta Scott King's papers be brought to Freedom Hall at the Martin Luther King Jr. Center in Atlanta, Georgia, for temporary storage.",
"Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in 1968.",
"HIs oldest child, Yolanda, died in 2007."
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"Children of slain civil rights leader decide to split contested money equally .",
"Settlement means siblings will avoid trial .",
"Bernice King, Martin Luther King III had accused brother of taking estate funds .",
"Dexter King, administrator of Martin Luther King Jr. estate, denied accusations ."
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"(CNN) -- Iran could see widespread protests this weekend, as a day of mourning for the most prominent cleric to oppose the regime coincides with the major Shiite holy day of Ashura.",
"Iran -- whose regime exists as an explicitly Shiite Muslim leadership -- may find it politically and culturally difficult to put a lid on the marking of Ashura this year.",
"It falls on Sunday -- which happens to be a week to the day since the death of Grand Ayatollah Hussein Ali Montazeri, a key figure in the 1979 Iranian revolution.",
"Montazeri, who went on to become one of the government's most vocal critics, died December 20.",
"The seventh day after a death is a traditional time for mourning in Islam, giving Iran's opposition two reasons to demonstrate on Sunday, both with impeccable religious justification.",
"But what exactly is Ashura and why does it draw such passionate crowds, some of whom beat themselves until they bleed?",
"The holy day commemorates the martyrdom of Imam Hussein, who died in 680 fighting to lead the religion based on the teachings of his grandfather, the Prophet Mohammed.",
"The battle is one of the defining points in the split between the two main branches of Islam, the majority Sunnis and the minority Shiites.",
"Hussein was badly outnumbered when he was killed fighting Yazeed near the city of Karbala, in modern-day Iraq.",
"Shiites commemorate the death of Hussein each year, climaxing on Ashura -- the 10th day of the month of Muharram -- after a 40-day mourning period.",
"While Shiites are a minority among Muslims worldwide, they are the majority in Iraq and Iran, where the day sees tens or even hundreds of thousands of faithful out on the streets.",
"Some of the most dramatic scenes take place in Karbala itself, as Shiites congregate to do symbolic penance for failing to come to Hussein's aid in his uprising against Yazeed.",
"Believers chant, beat their breasts, cut themselves with daggers or swords and whip themselves in synchronized moves.",
"In Iraq under Saddam Hussein, the marking of Ashura was banned for 30 years.",
"(The former dictator was a Sunni.)",
"The first public Ashura demonstrations in Karbala after his fall, in 2004, came under attack by Sunni militants."
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"Iran may find it difficult to put a lid on the marking of Ashura this year .",
"It falls one week to the day after the death of Grand Ayatollah Hussein Ali Montazeri .",
"Montazeri, a key figure from the 1979 revolution, was an opponent of the current regime .",
"Ashura marks the martyrdom of Imam Hussein, grandson of Mohammed ."
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"(CNN) -- A Swedish diplomat in Iran was arrested and accused of participating in Iranian protests during observances surrounding the Muslim holy day of Ashura, two semi-official news agencies reported Sunday, citing members of Iran's parliament.",
"Sweden denies that the diplomat was involved in the protests.",
"Swedish officials and the Mehr news agency reported that the diplomat was subsequently released.",
"\"Based on the law and international norms, diplomats cannot be detained or arrested,\" Alaedin Boroujerdi, a member of the Iranian parliamentary National Security Committee, told Mehr.",
"\"But since this person was among those who were disturbing the peace, he was initially arrested but then he was released when it was determined he was a diplomat.\"",
"The Swedish Foreign Office confirmed the arrest, but said the diplomat -- who was not named -- was not taking part in demonstrations.",
"\"A Swedish diplomat was arrested in Tehran about two weeks ago and detained overnight for between 10 and 20 hours before being released,\" said Anders Jorle, spokesman for the Foreign Office.",
"\"He was arrested after he was found to not be carrying ID, which is not required but is recommended in Iran.\"",
"\"He was not taking part in a protest,\" Jorle said.",
"\"He was passing one of the places where a protest had taken place, but the protest was not ongoing at the time of the arrest.",
"\"In hindsight, we would say that he should have been carrying ID,\" Jorle said.",
"\"As far as we're concerned, the matter is closed and there is nothing further to say.\"",
"The Fars news agency quoted Zohreh Elahian, a member of the security committee, as saying the Swedish chargé d'affaires was arrested on the day of Ashura, December 27.",
"He was arrested by Iranian officials who considered his presence at the demonstration to be an interference in international affairs, Elahian told Fars.",
"\"According to witnesses and evidence, several foreign embassies in Tehran played a role behind the scenes and were represented [on the scene on that day] by their chargés d'affaires and other diplomats,\" Elahian said.",
"Ashura is the major Shiite Muslim holy day.",
"It marks the death of Imam Hussein, grandson of the Prophet Mohammed, as a martyr.",
"Shiites commemorate the death of Hussein each year, climaxing on Ashura, after a 40-day mourning period.",
"Its observance in Iran was marked by anti-government protests.",
"President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad downplayed the reports, calling them \"a theater play by the Zionists and the Americans,\" according to state media.",
"An Iranian media blackout made it difficult to verify accounts of that weekend's violence, but videos that found their way west depicted bloodied and, in some cases, apparently dead protesters.",
"CNN's Jonathan Wald contributed to this report."
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"Two news reports said diplomat was participating in protests .",
"Official: Arrest happened two weeks ago; diplomat held for 10 hours, then released ."
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"Tehran, Iran (CNN) -- Iran's Intelligence Ministry has compiled a list of 60 groups -- several based in the United States -- saying it considers them \"soft war\" agents against the country, Iranian media reported Monday.",
"The semi-official Mehr news agency reported the following are on the list: .",
"-- U.S. philanthropist George Soros' Open Society Institute in New York.",
"-- The Washington-based nonprofit National Endowment for Democracy.",
"-- The National Democratic Institute and its GOP counterpart, the International Republican Institute.",
"-- Human Rights Watch.",
"-- The Washington-based Brookings Institution.",
"-- U.S. National Defense University.",
"Media outlets BBC and Voice of America are also on the list, as are the East European Democratic Center in Poland and British nonprofit Wilton Park, among dozens of others.",
"Iran's deputy intelligence minister urged Iranians to avoid any \"unusual relations\" with the groups and with foreign embassies and foreign nationals.",
"\"He stated that it is illegal to sign contracts with these organizations, and it is also against the law for groupings and political parties to receive financial assistance from foreign countries,\" Mehr reported.",
"Such crackdowns have become commonplace in Iran since the summer, when thousands of protesters were arrested in the aftermath of Iran's disputed president election in June.",
"The government has been trying to limit the flow of online information and other forms of communications in Iran, according to activists and human rights officials.",
"Amid the unrest, Iran's judicial chief in July ordered the the prosecution of individuals \"who cooperate with satellite television programming providers,\" according to reports by reformists.",
"Ayatollah Seyyed Mahmoud Hashemi-Shahroudi called on local judicial heads to work with investigators to determine \"intentions, objectives and their sources of financial, political and intelligence support\" of individuals who \"operate against the system,\" according to Hamshahri, a widely circulated pro-reform publication that has been in print for more than a decade.",
"At the time, Iranian-American Kian Tajbakhsh, an independent consultant and urban planner employed by Soros' Open Society Institute, was among roughly 100 people accused of participating in a \"velvet revolution\" against the Islamic republic.",
"Tajbakhsh, the only American on trial in Tehran at the time, resigned from his position with the foundation after he was arrested and detained for four months in 2007 on unspecified charges.",
"He holds dual citizenship in Iran and the United States.",
"Iran's election authority declared incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad the overwhelming winner of the June 12 race.",
"Opposition supporters accused the government of fraud."
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"Iran's Intelligence Ministry compiles list of 60 groups it considers enemy agents .",
"Human Rights Watch, Brookings Institution, BBC, Voice of America on list .",
"Official urges Iranians to avoid any \"unusual relations\" with the groups ."
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"Baghdad, Iraq (CNN) -- Both Iraq and Iran stood their ground Saturday over the reported seizure of a southern Iraqi oil well by Iranian forces.",
"Two days after Iraq said an Iranian \"armed group\" crossed the border into Iraq and seized the well, Iraqi Deputy Foreign Minister Labid Abawi said the occupation of well No.",
"4 in Maysan province's Fakka oil field continues.",
"But in a statement issued by its embassy in Iraq, Iran denied what it characterized as rumors of its forces crossing the border, and hinted that the claim was political because it comes ahead of next year's Iraqi parliamentary elections.",
"Both sides said they are in negotiations and have a joint committee dedicated to handling border disputes diplomatically.",
"On Friday, the Iraqi government issued a strong statement deploring the alleged seizure, after Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki headed an emergency meeting of Iraq's National Security Council to discuss the situation.",
"Iraq and Iran share a long border, and high-ranking committees from both countries handle all border matters, an Iranian Embassy official said.",
"Iraq and Iran fought a bloody eight-year war that ended in 1988 in a cease-fire with no clear victor and parts of the border under dispute.",
"Ties between Iran and Iraq -- both predominantly Shiite Muslim nations -- greatly improved after the overthrow of the Saddam Hussein regime in 2003.",
"At the same time, there has been widespread concern among Iraqi and U.S. officials that Iran has been providing Iraqi insurgents with material for roadside bombs during the Iraq war.",
"Drilled in 1979, the well is in Iraq's Maysan province, east of Amara, near the Iranian border.",
"It is within the province's Fakka oil field, the Iraqi government said.",
"The report of the oil well incident comes several days after the Oil Ministry's two-day auction of oil fields.",
"Aimed at increasing Iraqi oil production, deals were struck for seven of the 15 fields offered.",
"There also had been oil bidding in June.",
"CNN's Mohammed Tawfeeq and Yousif Bassil contributed to this report."
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"The two countries fought 8-year war that ended in 1988 with parts of border under dispute ."
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"(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.",
"\"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, Southern Mississippi State University 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.\""
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"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 ."
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"(CNN) -- Nearly a week after the bloody weekend crackdown on Iranian protesters, the issue is still generating thousands of posts on Twitter, YouTube, and Facebook.",
"CNN's Iran desk is analyzing dozens of Internet videos of the violent demonstrations on Dec. 23-24 in which at least seven protesters were killed.",
"Hundreds of \"tweets\" are still being posted onto Twitter every hour.",
"Each day, thousands of people are joining a Facebook page dedicated to supporting the anti-government protesters, called \"100 Million Facebook Members for Iran.\"",
"Here is a rundown of the latest social media trends that CNN has compiled: .",
"Twitter: Most Shared Articles on Iran .",
"• U.S. Iran standing in its own way with nuke plan .",
"• Iran gives West one-month ultimatum to accept uranium swap .",
"• Total wealth of Khamenei and family $36 billion .",
"• Iranian opposition grows beneath surface .",
"• Shah's son urges international protest over Iran .",
"Most Popular Iran Hashtags on Twitter .",
"#iran . #iranelections . #ashura . #hhrs . #news . #iranprotests . #sharia . #united4iran . #protests . #Tryant . #VivaLiberty . #Strike . #freedom . #protest . #Mousavi . #HumanRights . #Neda . Most popular Facebook accounts on Iran .",
"• 100 Million Facebook Members for Iran .",
"• Mir Hossein Moussavi personal page ."
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"Iran turmoil a hot topic on social media sites .",
"CNN's Iran Desk analyzing dozens of video posts .",
"Summary of latest trends on Twitter, Facebook ."
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