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[ "Montcoal, West Virginia (CNN) -- I am West Virginia born and raised, and I come from a long line of coal miners.", "My father, grandfather, brothers, husband and son-in-law either are or were coal miners.", "My husband spent 35 years as an underground union coal miner and he died of black lung.", "I live near Coal River Mountain and my community is experiencing a tragedy.", "The situation here, before this disaster, had already compelled me to become an environmental activist, committed to doing everything I can to stop the destructive practice of coal extraction known as mountaintop removal.", "I am not trying to stop all coal mining.", "I believe coal mining will be with us for a very long time, considering our enormous thirst for energy and our slow transition to renewable energy.", "Throughout Appalachia, 2,000 miles of headwater streams have been destroyed and over 500 mountains have been decapitated by mountaintop removal.", "I stood by and did nothing until Massey Energy brought this fight to my door.", "Three years ago, Massey applied for a permit to blow the top off the mountain behind my house.", "The company plans to level 6,600 acres of Coal River Mountain and turn it into a moonscape where no living, breathing thing can survive.", "I believe a higher and better use for this mountain is the Coal River Wind Project.", "On Monday, April 5, an enormous explosion went off at the Upper Big Branch mine at Performance Coal Co., a subsidiary of Massey Energy.", "Thirty-one men in our community didn't come home that day.", "We don't yet know the names of all of the deceased and I dread the day when the list is read and we, at last, know our connection to those who didn't make it.", "I felt extremely blessed when I knew that my family members who worked at this mine were home and safe.", "I know many friends and neighbors will be among those we lost and I grieve for all of the families involved.", "On April 6, many heartbroken and terrified families kissed their loved ones at the door and sent them off back to work underground.", "These very brave men enter these mines knowing their fate will probably be the same as their friends' on April 5 or the same as my husband's.", "Now, although these very proud, brave and strong men make about $70,000 a year, if they had a choice, many of them would never go underground again.", "The problem is that we live in a mono-economy and there are no choices.", "The coal industry has a death grip in the state of West Virginia and we have some of the best politicians money can buy.", "We also have some very honest, good and environmentally friendly politicians.", "Their numbers are small and it is considered to be political suicide to do anything in West Virginia that appears to be anti-coal.", "Many of our representatives have tunnel vision and refuse to advocate for job diversity in the coal fields.", "Coal is a finite resource, and no matter when you think, it will eventually run out -- someday we will have harvested all of the economically feasible coal.", "When that day comes, how will the people we love support their families?", "I live at ground zero for mountaintop removal and because of the stand that I and many other people have taken to stop it, tensions run high in the coal fields.", "We are all being used by an outlaw industry and corrupt politicians and we are all driven by fear.", "The men who work in surface mining are terrified they will lose their jobs.", "I am terrified that my granddaughter will not have clean drinking water when she is of child-bearing age if we don't stop this.", "Massey Energy's record speaks for itself.", "With an enormous amount of violations and previous deaths at this mine, I will leave it to you to decide if this company puts profits before the safety of its workers or views its employees as a disposable commodity.", "We are coping with this enormous tragedy, and sometimes tragedy brings communities together.", "I can only hope that something good will come out of all of this bad.", "The opinions in this commentary are solely those of Lorelei Scarbro." ]	[ "Lorelei Scarbro comes from a long line of coal miners; husband died of black lung .", "She says Montcoal is grieving and terrified, but brave men still went to work after tragedy .", "Scarbro fights for the rights of miners and tries to to stop mountaintop coal removal .", "Scarbro: Massey Energy had violations and previous deaths ." ]	[ 0, 2, 8, 27, 29 ]
[ "Washington (CNN) -- President Obama said Wednesday night he will work with Congress and the military to repeal the \"don't ask, don't tell\" policy that bars gays and lesbians from openly serving in the armed forces.", "Obama made the remark in his first State of the Union speech during a short litany of civil rights issues, which included his successful hate crimes bill, a move to \"crack down on equal-pay laws\" and improvement of the immigration system.", "\"We find unity in our incredible diversity, drawing on the promise enshrined in our Constitution: the notion that we are all created equal, that no matter who you are or what you look like, if you abide by the law you should be protected by it,\" he said.", "\"We must continually renew this promise.", "My administration has a Civil Rights Division that is once again prosecuting civil rights violations and employment discrimination.", "We finally strengthened our laws to protect against crimes driven by hate,\" he said.", "\"This year, I will work with Congress and our military to finally repeal the law that denies gay Americans the right to serve the country they love because of who they are.\"", "Weigh in on the president's address .", "Former Navy pilot Sen. John McCain said \"it would be a mistake\" to repeal the 1993 law that bars gay men and lesbians from revealing their sexual orientation, and prevents the military from asking about it.", "\"This successful policy has been in effect for over 15 years, and it is well understood and predominantly supported by our military at all levels,\" McCain said.", "\"We have the best-trained, best-equipped, and most professional force in the history of our country, and the men and women in uniform are performing heroically in two wars.", "At a time when our Armed Forces are fighting and sacrificing on the battlefield, now is not the time to abandon the policy.\"", "But in a message to Pentagon leadership, Gen. John Shalikashvili, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said it's time to repeal the law.", "\"As a nation built on the principal of equality, we should recognize and welcome change that will build a stronger more cohesive military,\" said Shalikashvili.", "His letter was sent to Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-New York, who supports repealing the policy.", "The Servicemembers Legal Defense Network, an organization that works with those affected by the \"don't ask, don't tell\" law, praised Obama's call for repeal.", "\"We very much need a sense of urgency to get this done in 2010,\" the group said.", "\"We call on the president to repeal the archaic 1993 law in his defense budget currently being drafted, that is probably the only and best moving bill where DADT can be killed this year. ...", "The American public, including conservatives, is overwhelmingly with the commander in chief on this one.\"", "House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, flatly disagreed with the idea of ending it.", "\"When it comes to 'don't ask don't tell,' frankly, I think it's worked very well.", "And we just ought to leave it alone,\" he said to reporters Wednesday morning.", "The policy prohibits openly gay men and women from serving in the U.S. armed forces.", "The policy bans military recruiters or authorities from asking about an individual's sexual orientation but also prohibits a service member from revealing that he or she is gay.", "Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin, D-Michigan, supports ending the practice but wants to go about it carefully.", "Levin said he did not have any details about what the president would say.", "\"If we do this in a way which isn't sensitive ... we could have exactly the opposite effect of what I hope will be the case -- which is to change the policy,\" he said Monday.", "Levin said the committee plans to hold hearings on the issue in early February, although the hearing may be with outside experts -- delaying a hearing with Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Joint Chiefs Chairman Adm. Michael Mullen, that had originally been promised, CNN was told by a congressional source.", "Obama campaigned on the promise that he would repeal the law in his first year of office.", "Speaking to the gay rights group Human Rights Campaign, in October, Obama admitted that \"our progress may be taking longer than we like,\" but he insisted his administration was still on track to overturn the policy.", "\"Do not doubt the direction we are heading and the destination we will reach,\" he said.", "Pentagon Spokesman Geoff Morrell deflected repeated questions about the policy at Wednesday's Pentagon briefing, directing reporters to take their questions to the White House.", "\"We continue to work on this problem,\" said Morrell.", "\"But I'm not going to get into it with more specificity than that.\"", "CNN's Ed Hornick and Laurie Ure contributed to this report." ]	[ "NEW: The Servicemembers Legal Defense Network praises Obama's call for repeal .", "NEW: Sen. John McCain says policy is \"understood and predominantly supported\" by servicemembers .", "Military policy prohibits openly gays and lesbians from serving .", "Former Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman has called for the policy's repeal ." ]	[ 9, 12, 15, 22 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Roger Federer suffered a surprise defeat to Czech Tomas Berdych in the fourth round of the Sony Ericsson Open in Miami.", "The Swiss top seed was a long way from his best as Berdych edged a tight battle 6-4 6-7 (3-7) 7-6 (8-6).", "Federer had a match point in the deciding tie-break but missed his chance with a wayward forehand, allowing Berdych to claim the victory three points later.", "Federer, who won the latest of his record 16 Grand Slam singles titles at the Australian Open in January, had only lost once to Berdych in nine previous meetings.", "\"It's no secret I've struggled the last five matches I've played here in the States,\" Federer told the official ATP Tour Web site.", "\"I'm definitely lacking timing.", "I don't know where that comes from because I played so nicely in Australia.", "So it's disappointing to not be able to back it up.\"", "They were joined in the quarterfinals by American Andy Roddick, who fought back from 4-1 down to defeat Germany's Benjamin Becker 7-6 (7-4) 6-3.", "Fourth seed Rafael Nadal beat fellow Spaniard and 15th seed David Ferrer 7-6 (7-5) 6-4 and will next face eighth seed Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, who trounced Juan Carlos Ferrero of Spain 6-2 6-2.", "Fifth seed Robin Soderling of Sweden progressed with a 6-0 6-7 (3-7) 6-2 victory over Chile's Fernando Gonzalez, while Mardy Fish of the U.S. was forced to retire while trailing 6-1 1-0 against 13th seed Mikhail Youzhny.", "In the women's tournament, Venus Williams advanced to the semi-finals with a 6-3 6-1 victory over Agnieszka Radwanska.", "She will face France's former Wimbledon finalist Marion Bartoli, who beat Yanina Wickmayer 6-4, 7-5.", "Williams, who had required three sets to defeat Daniela Hantuchova in the previous round, was delighted to have had an easier ride this time around.", "\"Getting through a match like yesterday makes me more confident because it wasn't exactly my best game,\" she told the tournament's official Web site.", "\"Today I was kind of eager to clean up my act.", "We had some really good rallies and really good points, but I just see me keep coming out on top, so of course I like that.\"" ]	[ "Roger Federer loses to Tomas Berdych at Sony Ericsson Open fourth round in Miami.", "Federer wastes a match point before losing deciding set on a tie-break.", "Venus Williams beats Agnieszka Radwanska to advance to women's semifinals." ]	[ 0, 2, 11 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Two top Iranian opposition leaders have called on supporters to protest on February 11, the anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution, an opposition Web site reported.", "According to The Green Way Web site, a meeting took place Saturday between opposition leaders Mehdi Karroubi and Mir Hossein Moussavi at Karroubi's home.", "They discussed the two executions that happened last week and the cases of 16 protesters who went on trial Saturday, the site reported.", "\"The widespread arrests of political activists and university students, the silencing of the media, and the forced confessions of prisoners are against the principles of Islam and the constitution of Iran,\" the leaders said in a statement.", "They also called for people to take to the streets on February 11 to demand their rights back as citizens of Iran, The Green Way reported.", "Meanwhile, state-run Press TV quoted Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Sunday as saying that the nation will deliver a harsh blow to \"global arrogance\" on February 11.", "Press TV offered no details on or explanation of the statement.", "Opposition protests were launched after the disputed June 12 presidential election that gave hardline Ahmadinejad a second term.", "The government denies accusations of fraud.", "About 4,000 people have been arrested in the post-election crackdown.", "As of January 24, the government had confirmed the deaths of at least 37 people in the protests or in detention, seven of those deaths happening on the religious holiday of Ashura.", "On Thursday, authorities hanged Mohammed Reza Ali Zamani, 37, and Arash Rahmanipour, 20, who had been convicted of being enemies of God and plotting to topple the Islamic regime.", "The two were convicted in mass trials of opposition supporters in August, but Rahmanipour's lawyer said the young man was arrested two months before the election." ]	[ "Top Iranian opposition leaders call for February 11 protest, opposition Web site reports .", "They called for people to take to the streets to demand their rights back as citizens of Iran .", "Mehdi Karroubi and Mir Hossein Moussavi also met to discuss last week's executions .", "The two executions followed mass trials of opposition supporters in August ." ]	[ 0, 1, 4 ]
[ "Cottage Grove, Minnesota (CNN) -- Unlike many other boys his age, 17-year-old Levi Dubov wakes up excited to go to class each day.", "\"There is no other place like this,\" he says, as he finishes up breakfast in his school's basement cafeteria.", "Dubov is talking about his Yeshiva school outside Minnesota's Twin Cities, known simply as MyYeshiva.", "The boys' school not only focuses on the study of Judaism.", "It's one of a few Yeshivas nationwide that combines religious teaching with a focus on students with special learning needs.", "The school aims to help kids who are \"stuck in the middle\" -- who can't keep up with the pace of regular schools, but haven't completely given up either.", "\"[It's] a place for kids that are struggling everywhere else,\" the school's director, Rabbi Moshe Weiss, said.", "\"There wasn't ever a place for those kids.\"", "Students come from all over the country to attend this boarding school, including many from low-income households.", "\"We wanted to try and help those kids out there that need more attention,\" Weiss said, sitting in his office after just returning with the students from a twice weekly hockey trip to the local ice rink.", "Since opening in 2006, the school has seen its enrollment double from its inaugural class of 18 students.", "Dubov, now in 11th grade, feels more at home here than he did at his previous Yeshiva in his hometown of Montreal, Canada.", "\"They told me I was a weak learner,\" he said.", "But he says at MyYeshiva he excels because of the different pace of teaching.", "Tzemi Zimmerman, a ninth-grader from Chicago, Illinois, says he struggles with attention deficit disorder (ADD) and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).", "\"In another school, if you can't keep up with the learning, they'll tell you ... 'We're going to have to suspend you,'\" Zimmerman said.", "He says the school's dedicated time for physical education -- another unique quality of this Yeshiva -- makes it easier for him to sit through classes.", "\"It makes you feel like people care,\" he said.", "\"It's just -- you're wanted. You're part of everybody.\"", "Victoria Livshutz, whose son attends the school, says he would be in a much different situation if it weren't for the school.", "\"They are just like a family, which, to me, is very important,\" she said.", "\"Because even though he is a big boy, he still needs a lot of attention.\"", "The school's co-founder Rabbi Mordechai Friedman calls MyYeshiva a place where \"there's a little bit less of the stress in learning, a little bit more relaxed in academics.\"", "\"We want to know how you are doing -- not just what your test scores look like,\" Friedman said.", "While the school may be unique in many ways, it's still a functioning business.", "The rough economy hasn't passed by unnoticed.", "Weiss acknowledges they've had difficulty making mortgage payments this past year.", "If they can't come up with the remainder of the building's cost in cash or five-year pledges by May 15 -- about $500,000 -- they'll be forced out.", "\"We're talking about these kids' home and the future kids that are going to come here,\" Weiss said.", "\"I believe that with God's help, the best case scenario is going to occur.\"", "While this year the school has set tuition at more than $18,000 a year, it typically operates with a \"pay what you can\" mentality.", "But this is the first time since the school opened four years ago that not one of the 36 enrolled students has been able to come up with the full amount.", "Weiss blames a combination of factors.", "\"Throughout last year, lots of our parents lost their jobs,\" Weiss said, adding that they also \"lost donations due to the economy, some large.\"", "Regardless, students and faculty are optimistic.", "\"What'd they say about Chrysler?", "Too big too fold. We're not as big as Chrysler -- yet.", "But we're too important,\" Friedman said.", "\"To see the kids we're helping, there is no way in my mind that this won't continue,\" Rabbi Weiss said.", "\"God is not that cynical.\"", "Levi Dubov says without this school, he'll likely end up moving to Israel where his family lives now.", "That means he'd have to join the Israeli army after his 18th birthday.", "But Tzemi Zimmerman offers a reassuring assessment: .", "\"Someone will pull us through,\" he said.", "\"We're going to keep going on like this for many more years, and one day maybe I can send my children here.\"" ]	[ "Boys' school is one of few Yeshivas to focus on students with special learning needs .", "MyYeshiva aims to help kids who are \"stuck in the middle\" but haven't given up .", "School has had difficulty making mortgage payments, needs $500,000 ." ]	[ 4, 5, 26 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Former first lady Barbara Bush was admitted Saturday to a hospital in Texas for routine tests, a spokeswoman said.", "\"Mrs Bush is in for some routine tests, not an emergency of any kind,\" said Jim Appleby, spokesman for former President George H.W.", "Bush. The former first lady was taken to Methodist Hospital in Houston, Texas.", "She had not been feeling well for about a week, said Jean Becker, the chief of staff for Bush's husband.", "Bush, 84, is expected to stay at the hospital for a day or two, Becker said.", "Details on the testing were not immediately available.", "Becker, the chief of staff for former President George H.W.", "Bush, said her hospitalization is \"not serious at all.\"", "Last year, Bush underwent open-heart surgery during which doctors replaced her aortic valve with a biologic valve.", "She spent nine days in the hospital afterward.", "Her recent hospitalization is \"not related\" to the surgery, Becker said.", "In November 2008, Bush underwent surgery for a perforated ulcer.", "CNN's Leslie Tripp and Ed Henry contributed to this report." ]	[ "Barbara Bush hospitalized in Houston after feeling ill for week, spokeswoman said .", "Former first lady to undergo routine tests, hospitalization not considered serious .", "Bush had open heart surgery last year ." ]	[ 0, 7, 8 ]
[ "Atlanta, Georgia (CNN) -- The optimism once held by many Americans has been \"beaten out\" of them amid a lagging economy, threat of terrorism and two ongoing wars, according to a professor at Emory University.", "\"All of those things ... have made people start to be much more doubtful than they used to be,\" says Patrick Allitt, a British citizen who teaches American history.", "Allitt recently wrote about what he describes as \"America the miserable\" -- the mood swing he has seen in his 30 years in the U.S. -- for The Spectator, a British magazine.", "Read the professor's full essay .", "Allitt spoke with CNN about his perspective.", "Below is a transcript of that conversation, which has been edited: .", "CNN: How would you describe the change in America since you first came to America?", "Allitt: The change is this: I don't get the same sense of intense self confidence as I used to feel when I first came to America, even though that was a period that's usually remembered as a pretty grim time -- the Jimmy Carter years when there was a lot of stagnation and inflation and a general feeling of malaise.", "Even so, to me, it seemed incredibly energetic here.", "People in America worked much, much harder than they did in Britain.", "They seemed more upbeat.", "They had faith in progress.", "And there was this feeling of being intensely wide awake for the first time.", "But now, I think some of that optimism has been beaten out.", "Counter: Why there's reason for optimism .", "It's been a very tough 10 years since 2001, hasn't it?", "The attack on the World Trade Center, the growing fear of terrorism, the difficulty of prevailing in the wars, obviously, more recently the recession.", "All of those things, collectively, have made people start to be much more doubtful than they used to be.", "CNN: Do you attribute it to a change in American mentality or are we exposed to an array of different beliefs through the ever-expanding media landscape?", "Allitt: It's certainly true there are far more media than there used to be ... that devote a lot of time to people who are dissatisfied.", "In other words, if somebody's happy, that isn't news.", "It's certainly news when they become dissatisfied in some way or they have some kind of problem to deal with.", "In that sense, I suppose there's an inherent bias in favor of bad news.", "But I think it's more than that. I've spent most of the last 30 years in the company of academics, who also tend to be pessimistic people.", "They tend to have very high ideals for America.", "When they see it doesn't live up to its ideals, it makes them disappointed and sometimes embittered.", "So it may be that, if I spent more time with less educated people, I wouldn't have this sense quite so acutely.", "I think that's quite possible.", "CNN: You write: \"The decline of American confidence isn't just a temporary blip on the screen brought on by the recession.\"", "Elaborate on that for me. Allitt: Even before this recession began, I guess it was in October and November 2008 when things really started to go bad.", "Already by then, I was having a feeling that the general national optimism was less emphatic than it used to be.", "In the first five or six years of the last decade, there was this feeling that things were going wrong, particularly that the wars were grinding on interminably and that it was very difficult to prevail.", "It wasn't the same kind of decisive conflict as World War II where you're fighting against a nation-state and you can clearly detect when you're winning.", "The dispersal of the enemy and the very shadowy character of terrorism tends to be very depressing to confront.", "You have to maintain a high degree of vigilance and sometimes you have to take comfort in thinking what's extraordinary is what didn't happen; there wasn't another major attack.", "That doesn't feel like a victory.", "... That kind of thing is what I was attentive to when I was writing this story.", "CNN: If we are in this funk as you describe, is there anything wrong with that?", "And how do we emerge from it? Allitt: The one thing I've always admired about Americans is their willingness to be self-critical.", "I do think you could take the view that the very fact that so many Americans are willing to scrutinize their own behavior and their nation's behavior is a sign that they do have these high ideals and they want to live up to them.", "So in that sense, you can take an optimistic view, even of pessimism -- that sooner or later, the sheer attention to it is going to cause people to recover.", "But I do think there are generational trends in American life.", "People who were brought up in the 1930s during the Great Depression -- the image of it stayed with them for a lifetime. ...", "In the same way, I expect the kids who have grown up in the last few years are also going to carry the marks of this with them through life.", "They'll come into conflict with their own children who have different generational experiences.", "It's impossible at this stage to say what's going to happen next. ...", "But it certainly is true studying the American past, you can see how various traumatic events through the nation's history leave a long-term impression on the people themselves.", "CNN: You kind of hint about this in your piece: Maybe you're just going through a midlife crisis and that's why you might have this view.", "Allitt: I think that's possible, but I think I'm describing something more real than that.", "My job is to study the American people in the past; but also to some extent in the present.", "I really do feel this kind of change has come about.", "But you can't quantify it. You can't say 8 out of 10 people are optimistic -- or at least if you try to you're really giving a false sense of definiteness.", "So what I'm trying to do is capture a mood and compare it to a mood that I saw previously. ...", "I still feel there's an enormous amount of hope and potential and capability here, so I don't share the feeling of gloom, which I see in the people around me.", "CNN: Describe the \"Avatar\" analogy for me?", "Allitt: The plot [of \"Avatar\"] is kind of incredibly depressing.", "The corporation is at the center of this planet.", "First of all, they have invaded the planet.", "And now they're sort of stomping on the homeland of the blue people who live there.", "And really the picture it gives you of America is incredibly depressing.", "It shows Americans to be greedy and incredibly violent and intolerant, and they haven't got time for this anthropological experiment that's going on.", "But obviously, the hero is one of the Americans.", "He's clearly an outsider. ...", "The main part of the story is a condemnation of America and its values.", "I was surprised how few reviewers said this picture is a grotesque distortion of what we're really like.", "CNN: Have you started receiving hate mail yet: Hey, Brit, get the hell out of our country?", "Allitt: No, not at all. ... It certainly isn't meant to be an attack on America; quite the opposite.", "As I say, I'm very, very pro-American.", "CNN: Any final thoughts?", "Allitt: To me, coming from Britain, one thing that is so inspiring about the United States is people really believe in human equality and they really take it seriously and they try to make it a reality.", "When I was growing up in Britain, nobody talked about equality.", "It's a very hierarchical society in Britain, and everyone has their own place within the hierarchy and others are below them -- and then, what you've got to do is stay in your place.", "So it felt very liberating for me to come to America.", "Although obviously, this isn't a society where everybody is equal in practice.", "But at least this is a place where everybody tries hard to make sure that every kid really does have the opportunities to make the most of their own abilities.", "And that's a great thing.", "There haven't been many societies in the entire history of the world that have been like that." ]	[ "British professor recently wrote about what he calls \"America the miserable\"\nPatrick Allitt says U.S. optimism has been \"beaten out\" of country in recent years .", "Allitt says mood is like \"Avatar,\" which showed Americans to be \"greedy and incredibly violent\"" ]	[ 0, 2, 55 ]
[ "(CNN) -- An overdose of a blood thinner may have contributed to the death of a Nebraska toddler, the Omaha hospital that treated her said Thursday.", "The Nebraska Medical Center is investigating the death Wednesday of 23-month-old Almariah Duque, said hospital spokesman Paul Baltes.", "The girl, who lived with her parents in Dallas, Texas, was born with a birth defect and in December had undergone a transplant at the hospital of her small intestine, pancreas and liver, Baltes said.", "The hospital has one of the nation's largest intestinal rehabilitation and transplant programs, he said.", "The girl was readmitted in February after an infection and died at 5 p.m. Wednesday, the hospital said in a statement.", "\"It appears an overdose of the blood thinner heparin may have contributed,\" said the statement, which called the death \"a deeply troubling and emotional incident\" for hospital personnel.", "\"We all want to extend our deepest apologies to the Duque family for their tragic loss,\" it added.", "Heparin is routinely used after a variety of medical procedures as an anticoagulant.", "\"The medical center strives to provide the highest level of care and will use this tragic event to continue to improve and find ways to prevent errors in the delivery of complex health care,\" the statement said.", "The medical center is paying for funeral and travel expenses for the girl's parents, Greg and Kenya Duque, who have no other children, Baltes said.", "\"We just want her voice to be heard and for this to never happen again to any child or adult,\" said the parents in a statement released by the hospital.", "\"We believe this was an honest mistake but one that needs to be corrected.", "We love her, we did everything we could for her and we don't want this to ever happen again.\"" ]	[ "23-month-old Almariah Duque died Wednesday .", "She had a transplant of her small intestine, pancreas and liver .", "The hospital says an overdose of heparin may have contributed to her death .", "Heparin is routinely used as an anticoagulant ." ]	[ 0, 1, 7 ]
[ "Port-au-Prince, Haiti (CNN) -- Haitians have to be in the driver's seat as they try to rebuild their shattered country after last week's devastating earthquake, the head of the International Monetary Fund told CNN Friday.", "\"We can provide resources, but there must be ownership by the Haitians themselves and especially by the Haitian authorities,\" Dominique Strauss-Kahn said during an exclusive interview with CNN's Christiane Amanpour.", "Repeating his call for some kind of Marshall Plan like the one that rebuilt Western Europe after World War II, Strauss-Kahn said, \"We need to have the entire international community working together -- I call it a Marshall Plan.\"", "His comments came three days before an international donors' conference in Montreal, Canada, that will raise money for Haiti and look at long-term prospects for recovery.", "Full coverage \| Twitter updates .", "\"I hope that the decision can be made not only to help for the immediate needs, but to help for the long term, and rebuild the Haitian economy,\" Strauss-Kahn said.", "\"We cannot just deal with some piecemeal thing, saying we're going to provide some resources here, some other resources here,\" he added.", "\"It has to be a comprehensive plan, and I think that the Haitian authorities agree with this view.\"", "Jeffrey Sachs, a special adviser to the U.N. secretary-general and head of Columbia University's Earth Institute, strongly supported Strauss-Kahn's view.", "Sachs said Haiti needs a sustained international effort coordinated not by the U.S. government but by an organization such as the Inter-American Development Bank.", "\"I would not subcontract to a lot of businesses the way we've done in Afghanistan and Iraq,\" he said, \"because we'll never see the money again.\"", "iReport: List of missing, found \| Are you there?", "A journalist who has spent decades covering Haiti , Mark Danner, expressed concern about the way the international aid effort may be handled.", "\"We should be a bit skeptical about the history of development and development organizations in Haiti,\" he said.", "\"If this rebuilding is going to be successful, it has to be done by Haitians.", "It has to put money in the hands of Haitians and not just the Haitian elite.\"", "The question, Danner said, \"is how you free the people from the grip of what has been, at least historically, quite a debilitating government and unleash the entrepreneurial energies of the people of Haiti.\"", "One of Haiti's most acclaimed novelists and poets, Lyonel Trouillot, agreed.", "Impact Your World .", "He said Haiti is not a failed state or a failed country.", "\"We need money.", "We need technology.", "We need support.", "But what we most need is to remain the ones who decide our own future,\" he said.", "\"It is time for us to come together and improve, stop thinking about only the few rich and think about the whole country,\" he added.", "Sachs said it is vital not to waste any time rebuilding.", "\"We shouldn't see this as people going into tent cities and then living there as displaced populations for months or years.", "That would be a disaster and tragedy,\" he said.", "\"We need to start on the recovery and development effort within weeks.\"" ]	[ "Head of IMF tells CNN's Christiane Amanpour that a Marshall Plan for Haiti is needed .", "Global leaders emphasize need for long-term, comprehensive plan .", "Skeptics are concerned that only Haiti's elite will benefit .", "Haitians say they must play a central role in rebuilding decisions ." ]	[ 0, 2, 3, 19 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Kim Clijsters continued her successful return to tennis by demolishing American third seed Venus Williams in the final of the Sony Ericsson Open in Miami on Saturday.", "The Belgian, a former world No.", "1 but seeded 14th for this event following her two-year absence from the women's circuit, will move up to 10th in the rankings next week following her one-sided 6-2 6-1 triumph at Key Biscayne.", "Williams had been hoping for a fourth title at the event, having won her last two tournaments, but was well below par as Clijsters added to her 2005 victory in Miami in just 58 minutes.", "The 26-year-old claimed her third title since making her comeback last year after giving birth to baby daughter Jada, who was watching her mum from the stands again on Saturday.", "The 2009 U.S. Open champion notched up her 37th triumph in WTA Tour events, 28 of those now on hardcourt surfaces.", "She passed $17 million in career earnings after taking home the $700,000 first prize -- which is almost $100,000 more than the winner of Sunday's men's final between Andy Roddick and Tomas Berdych will receive.", "Clijsters, who defeated fellow comeback queen Justine Henin in an epic semifinal on Friday, broke Williams to love to seal the title.", "\"It took a lot of hard work to get back into shape and I have a few people to thank, including my fitness coach and husband,\" Clijsters said on-court after the match.", "\"It feels really good to be back here, having won the title in 2005.", "It's always nice to come back to a place you have done well before, and to such a beautiful stadium.\"", "Williams, cheered on by injured younger sister and current No.", "1 Serena, made 29 unforced errors to Clijsters' 12 as she struggled to continue her recent good run of form.", "\"Sometimes when you hit a few bad shots it's not as easy to reel it in, and things start to go a little bit quicker,\" said Williams, who will rise to fourth in the rankings.", "\"Obviously against a player like Kim, if you make too many errors, the match can go quickly.", "I mean, I think she hit eight winners, so it wasn't that she played extremely solid -- it's not like I was blown off the court.", "Unfortunately I was my own worst enemy today.\"" ]	[ "Kim Clijsters demolishes Venus Williams in final of Sony Ericsson Open in Miami .", "Belgian beats American third seed 6-2 6-1 in only 58 minutes for 37th career title .", "It was the 26-year-old's third triumph since returning last year after having a baby .", "Williams had been seeking fourth Miami title but suffered first loss in three tournaments ." ]	[ 0, 3, 4 ]
[ "Washington (CNN) -- The Justice Department remained tightlipped Friday as criticism mounted over the decision to hold the the September 11 terrorist attack trial in a civilian court in lower Manhattan.", "Earlier, senior Obama administration officials confirmed that the White House is considering moving the site of the trial if the Justice Department sees fit.", "\"Conversations have occurred within the administration to discuss contingency options should the possibility of a trial in lower Manhattan be foreclosed upon by Congress or locally,\" a senior administration official said.", "Justice Department officials refused to acknowledge whether they are being pressed to find an alternative location, despite bipartisan concern that holding the trial in Manhattan would be too costly and disruptive.", "\"We're reviewing our options,\" said Justice Department spokesman Dean Boyd in a statement Friday.", "The administration's turnabout comes after New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and other politicians expressed great concern over the costs and disruption of holding the trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four accomplices at a courthouse near Ground Zero in lower Manhattan.", "White House officials said President Obama agrees with Attorney General Eric Holder's decision in November to try the suspects in a civilian criminal court in the United States, not a military tribunal.", "\"Currently our federal jails hold hundreds of convicted terrorists, and the president's opinion has not changed on that,\" White House spokesman Bill Burton said Thursday.", "White House officials say the decision about any possible alternate sites to try Mohammed and the others will come from the Justice Department.", "One government official close to the case said other New York locations, including a military site on New York Harbor's Governor's Island, are possibilities.", "And while Virginia sites also were mentioned as alternatives by former counterterrorism officials, Virginia Sen. Jim Webb, a Democrat, opposed moving the trial to his state.", "\"Bringing enemy combatants for detention or trial in Washington, D.C., or Northern Virginia would unnecessarily burden these communities from both a financial and security perspective,\" Webb said.", "New York police estimated the cost to the city would be over $200 million per year in what could be a multi-year trial and that over 2,000 checkpoints would need to be installed around Lower Manhattan.", "Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said additional protection would have to be deployed for the city, not just the core area of Manhattan.", "Residents like Pat Moore contemplated what it will be like to live through the trial.", "\"Those people would virtually be held prisoner in their homes,\" Moore said of New Yorkers who live near the courthouse.", "\"We've all been traumatized, any of us who were there that day\" referring to September 11.", "Bloomberg initially supported the move, saying \"it is fitting that 9/11 suspects face justice near the World Trade Center site where so many New Yorkers were murdered.\"", "But this week he used different rhetoric when asked about a community agency's proposal's to relocate the trial, saying he would prefer the trial be held elsewhere, perhaps at a military base where it would be easier and cheaper to provide security.", "\"It's going to cost an awful lot of money and disturb a lot of people,\" Bloomberg said.", "On Thursday, a group of New York politicians urged the Obama administration to thoroughly re-examine locating the trials in downtown Manhattan.", "\"We are concerned that the administration has not fully considered the impact that the trials would have on lower Manhattan in choosing the Moynihan Courthouse in Foley Square,\" U.S. Reps. Jerrold Nadler and Nydia Velazquez, both Democrats, and several state and local officials said in a letter dated Thursday to Holder.", "Also, a spokeswoman for Gov.", "David Paterson cited his \"hesitation\" with the decision, citing the burdens it would pose on city residents.", "A spokesman for U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand raised financial concerns, saying her \"single biggest concern is making sure that the federal government cover the hundreds of millions of dollars per year cost to New York City for security during the trials.\"", "Julie Menin, chairwoman of a city community advisory agency, proposed four alternative locations for the trial within the Southern District of Manhattan: Governors Island, Stewart Air National Guard Base in Newburgh, the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, and the Bureau of Prisons jail complex at FCI Otisville.", "A West Point spokesman said no one has officially requested a review of demands for such a trial, which would require in-depth study of legal and security concerns.", "Some U.S. senators -- including Homeland Security Committee chairman Joe Lieberman, I-Connecticut -- want the detainees tried in military commissions.", "A letter from one group of senators said a federal civilian trial would provide militants with \"one of the most visible platforms in the world to exalt their past acts and to rally others in support of further terrorism.\"", "One congressman, U.S. Rep. Frank Wolf, R-Virginia, is planning to introduce legislation that would cut off funding for the trial and block transfer of the September 11 suspects to New York.", "U.S. Attorney's Office spokesman Dean Boyd said the Justice Department \"can safely prosecute this case in the Southern District of New York while minimizing disruptions to the community to the greatest extent possible, consistent with security needs.\"", "President Obama is \"committed to seeing\" Mohammed, the mastermind of the attacks \"brought to justice,\" Burton said.", "\"Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is a murderous thug who has admitted to crimes ... some of the most heinous crimes ever committed against our country,\" he said.", "CNN's Suzanne Malveaux, Terry Frieden and Cassie Spodak contributed to this report." ]	[ "Moving site of 9/11 trial from Manhattan under consideration, administration officials say .", "New York lawmakers urging White House to re-examine plan to try terror suspects there .", "Justice Department will make decision about any alternate sites, officials say .", "Officials: Obama agrees with move to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in civilian court ." ]	[ 1, 6, 8, 20 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Thousands of people gathered Tuesday in Marrowbone, Kentucky, to lay to rest nine people who were killed in a crash in central Kentucky last week.", "John and Sadie Esh were killed when a tractor-trailer crossed the median on Interstate 65 and smashed into their van as they traveled to Iowa for a wedding.", "Four of the couple's children -- Leroy, Rachel, Rose and Anna -- were also killed, according to the Rev.", "Leroy Kauffman with the Marrowbone Christian Brotherhood.", "Leroy's wife, Naomi, and a baby the couple adopted were also killed, as was Rachel's fiance, Joel Gingerich, he said.", "A family friend, also in the van, was killed as well.", "The driver of the tractor-trailer also died.", "Two boys, age 3 and 5, whom Leroy and Naomi adopted, survived.", "\"They have lived their lives, God seemed fit to take them home, and we rest in that,\" said Michael Kauffman, a member of the Mennonite community.", "He said family and friends had traveled from all over the United States to attend the funeral.", "CNN affiliate WBKO, quoting a media liaison at the services, said about 3,000 people attended.", "\"The amount of people who came is overwhelming to say the least,\" Kauffman said.", "\"We have been very blessed with the amount of people who are here.\"", "The nine were to be buried in a grassy spot where John and Sadie's son Johnny was buried.", "He died while on a mission trip in the Ukraine three years ago, Leroy Kauffman said last week.", "\"I have not been to the grave site, but I feel like it's the way it should be,\" Michael Kauffman said.", "The family was traveling to the wedding of a woman who was on the mission trip with Johnny, Leroy Kauffman said.", "The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating the crash.", "No cause has been given." ]	[ "9 family members, friend were in van driving to wedding in Iowa .", "Tractor-trailer crossed median and hit van; its driver also died .", "Two boys, age 3 and 5, survived ." ]	[ 1, 5, 6, 7 ]
[ "Moorhead, Minnesota (CNN) -- He's been there for 30 years, and 85-year-old Lloyd Paulson isn't moving anytime soon.", "But on his stretch of Rivershore Drive in this city just east of Fargo, North Dakota, he's essentially the only one.", "\"I want to go feet-first out of here,\" Paulson said from his living room, which is now just feet from rising floodwaters.", "\"I don't want to leave.", "I want to stay here because I enjoy it so much.\"", "Last year, he and his family and friends saved his home from the record flooding that nearly ravaged the entire city -- but it took 30,000 sand bags.", "A farm boy since birth, Paulson said the sandbagging in 2009 saved his property from major damage, meaning another pleasant year of watching the wildlife in his backyard.", "\"I can see turkeys and squirrels and deer.", "They come up at night.\"", "But when the retired sporting goods store manager looks down the street now, what he sees is a mix of houses on stilts ready to be moved and vacant houses awaiting demolition.", "The neighbors in the 14 houses to his south and three to the north sold their homes to the city, accepting its offer to buy them out so that a more permanent levee can be built up in their place.", "Paulson says he's surprised that so many people made the decision, since some had \"beautiful homes.\"", "The buyouts were voluntary, but since Paulson decided to stay, he must foot the bill for his portion of that new levee himself.", "He hasn't received a bill yet, but he says whatever the cost, it should be worth it because that mountain of dirt will mean his days of sandbagging are over.", "Since the city's new levee isn't up yet, earthen levees surrounding Paulson's home are protecting it from this year's flood.", "\"The cupboards are all stocked up, the freezer is all stocked up, so I can stay here for weeks without having to go out,\" Paulson said, laughing.", "And those levees will protect him up to a 43-foot crest.", "The most recent forecast calls for a crest of 38 feet, so Paulson says he's \"not worried at all\" about staying in his home while the water is high.", "His wife of 57 years died shortly after the flood of 2009.", "But even though he now lives there solo, Paulson said he doesn't feel lonely.", "\"Not at all. I have so many friends in town, and every day, I'm out doing something.", "The phone rings regularly,\" he said.", "Are you there? Share photos, video of flood .", "When asked how he feels to be known as the last man standing in his neighborhood, the one who won't leave, Paulson said he \"didn't do this for publicity.\"", "\"I just want to enjoy my life,\" he said, \"and I can do it here.\"" ]	[ "Lloyd Paulson, 85, of Moorhead, Minnesota, refuses to sell his home to the city .", "The city wants to build a levee in his neighborhood .", "Volunteers staged a massive effort to rescue his home during last year's flooding ." ]	[ 0, 6, 10 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Roy Braswell was 9 years old when the flu pandemic of 1918 hit.", "Margaret Duchez, 94, sees some similarities to the 1918 situation, like the dozens of school closings.", "\"I know it's a bad feeling, 'cause I had it,\" said Braswell, 100, who now lives in Cobb County in Georgia.", "\"It makes you have headaches, you be out of your head, you don't know nothing.\"", "Margaret Duchez, 94, did not have the flu, but remembers that in 1918 her grandmother locked the door so that she couldn't go outside during the pandemic.", "In her community near Cleveland, Ohio, people were afraid to go to church, walk in the street or let children play outside, she said.", "An entire family died around the corner from her.", "\"People were dying so fast in our parish, which was old St. Patrick's, they could not bury them fast enough,\" Duchez said.", "A study in Nature last year showed survivors of the 1918 pandemic still have some immunity to that virus in the form of B cells, which are immune cells that produce antibodies.", "Now, researchers are taking the knowledge from that study to work toward an antibody treatment for swine flu, the 2009 H1N1 virus that has sickened hundreds of people worldwide.", "Learn about other influenza pandemics in history » .", "When a person gets infected with a virus, the body typically mounts an immune response to it.", "B cells produce antibodies, leaving the person at least partially immune to the disease, said Dr. James Crowe, professor at Vanderbilt University and lead study author.", "The levels of immune response tend to wane with time, he said.", "The response is strongest within the first several months, and then diminishes over the following years.", "In the Nature study, supported by the National Institutes of Health, Crowe and colleagues took these rare B cells from survivors' blood and cloned the antibody genes from these cells to produce antibodies in the laboratory.", "\"It's interesting because we had this technology, and we should be able to do this with survivors of any flu,\" he said.", "Applying this technique to the 2009 H1N1 virus, researchers could use blood from swine flu survivors to develop an antibody molecule, which is \"a biologic drug that we could give to people to protect them against the current swine flu, or possibly to treat them,\" he said.", "Crowe said he was shocked to find B cells that produce 1918 flu antibodies from the blood of flu survivor volunteers 90 years after they got the illness.", "\"Typically, it's thought that you have high levels of antibodies for about 10 years,\" he said.", "\"Our studies have shown in some cases you keep antibodies for the rest of your life.", "Crowe and collaborators are now in the process of working with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to get blood samples of survivors of 2009 H1N1.", "If a survivor of a virus maintains immunity for years, does this mean people should try to contract a mild case of a virus so that they will naturally develop antibodies?", "This used to be the logic with chicken pox, a far more serious illness for adults than children.", "Before there was a vaccine, people thought children ought to catch the disease to avoid complications later in life, he said.", "But Crowe does not advise that anyone purposely contract swine flu to develop immunity, even in the United States, where most cases appear mild.", "\"We don't know yet how severe this virus is going to be,\" he said.", "Duchez, who follows the news on television from her assisted living community in Westlake, Ohio, sees some similarities to the 1918 situation -- for example, the dozens of school closings nationwide.", "Watch another 1918 epidemic survivor share her memories » .", "Still, the swine flu does not seem as bad, she said.", "Duchez recalls that when she went to school at age 6, in 1920, the nuns told of how they became nurses and put sulfur in their shoes to protect themselves from catching diseases.", "People are worried now, but not like they were back then.", "And Duchez herself does not fear the swine flu.", "\"My life is in the hands of God.", "Why should I be afraid?\" she said." ]	[ "Study: Survivors of 1918 pandemic still have some immunity to that virus .", "Researchers are working with CDC on antibody treatment .", "Expert: Don't try to catch swine flu just to be immune to it later ." ]	[ 3, 8, 9 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The recent emergence in the United States of \"K2,\" sometimes called synthetic marijuana, is testing lawmakers to see if they've been paying attention to the failures of marijuana prohibition and will respond to K2 with enlightened policy.", "The first stories on K2, or \"Spice,\" broke out with headlines labeling the mixture of herbs and spices, which are treated with a synthetic compound, as \"fake pot.\"", "K2 was virtually unknown until the media hyped up its presence at tobacco and novelty shops.", "Under U.S. law, and in all 50 states, the herbal product is legal, and also unregulated.", "People who have tried K2 often report psychoactive effects that are comparable to marijuana, but notably less pleasurable.", "When lawmakers consider regulating K2, they should keep in mind that the government has waged a futile war against marijuana and people who use the drug for decades.", "For another opinion, click here .", "Elected officials have burned through billions of taxpayer dollars chasing marijuana sellers, bagging marijuana plants and jailing marijuana users.", "Government-funded media campaigns have sought to scare children and adults away from marijuana with grossly exaggerated claims that using the drug will lead to death and mayhem.", "Despite all of these efforts, the public has largely dismissed the myths and hysteria around marijuana and recognized that the drug has important medicinal benefits.", "Moreover, public opinion is leaning in favor of a regulated and taxed market for marijuana.", "Researchers who have tested K2 identified synthetic chemicals that are thought to mimic the psychoactive component in marijuana.", "These chemicals are thought to act on the cannabinoid receptors in the brain much the way that THC -- the principal psychoactive component in marijuana -- operates.", "What's notable about these synthetic chemicals is that very little is known about them, and this legal alternative designed to deliver an experience like marijuana may actually carry more risk.", "Thus we have a supreme irony of drug prohibition: The government continues to criminalize marijuana -- a drug with established medical value that has undergone exhaustive study -- and entrepreneurs introduce a legal alternative to marijuana with ingredients scientists know little about.", "Given this potential for harm, and the growing volume of sensational media portrayals of K2, some lawmakers have ignored the lessons learned from marijuana prohibition and moved to criminalize possession and sales of K2.", "Lawmakers in Kansas, Kentucky and Missouri have already written legislation to ban the herbal mix.", "It seems that a reporter need only write an article about an obscure bag of twigs to spur a lawmaker to criminalize more chemicals and the people who use them.", "Time and time again, elected officials have dropped the ball when it comes to regulating drugs.", "Lawmakers have preferred to lazily pass the responsibility of controlling a drug on to law enforcement and the criminal justice system.", "The problem is, we know from marijuana prohibition that law enforcement has no control over the drug market and the criminals who run it.", "Criminalizing K2 will only worsen the devastating harm our society already suffers under drug prohibition.", "Rather than regulation of the supply and ingredients of K2, criminalization leaves the question of what goes into the product up to drug dealers.", "Rather than passing regulations that bar K2 sales to minors, criminalizing K2 will essentially give dealers the green light to sell the product to whomever they please.", "By choosing to ban K2 outright, lawmakers will also forfeit badly needed state revenue from K2 sales and instead commit millions of taxpayer dollars to investigate, prosecute and jail K2 users.", "Plus, researchers point out that hundreds of other known synthetic chemicals will easily reach store shelves once K2 is banned.", "The sensible legislative response to K2 is to create effective regulatory controls on sale and possession.", "California and Maine have passed model legislation that formally regulates and taxes adult sales of salvia divinorium -- another product with psychoactive properties -- and criminalizes salvia sales to minors.", "Lawmakers should deliver a knockout to prohibition and pass laws that will actually regulate and control K2.", "The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Grant Smith." ]	[ "Grant Smith: \"K2,\" sometimes called synthetic marijuana, should be regulated for safety .", "But, he says, lawmakers must not duplicate costly, futile war against marijuana .", "Criminalizing the treated herbal mix K2 will turn trade over to drug dealers, Smith writes .", "Smith: Regulating K2 generates revenue, saves millions on prosecution of users ." ]	[ 0, 5 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention received a candidate vaccine virus for swine flu from one institution Friday, spokesman Thomas Skinner said in an e-mail.", "The CDC estimates more than 100,000 people have had swine flu in the United States.", "The CDC and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration have also created a candidate vaccine virus for swine flu, also known as 2009 H1N1, using reverse genetics, he said.", "\"Suitable viruses will hopefully be sent to manufacturers by end of next week,\" Skinner wrote.", "Once that happens, vaccine makers will tweak the virus and have \"pilot lots\" of vaccine ready to be tested by mid- to late June.", "Several thousand cases have been reported nationally, but the CDC estimates more than 100,000 people have had swine flu in the United States, said Dr. Anne Schuchat, interim deputy director for science and public health program at the CDC, in a news conference Friday.", "Most of these people probably have not been officially tested.", "The first sample virus came from a lab run by virologist Doris Bucher at New York Medical College, in Valhalla, New York.", "Bucher told CNN Thursday that she had just packaged four viruses that she considers vaccine candidates and sent the samples to the CDC's headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia, via courier.", "Earlier this week, a Korean scientist, Dr. Seo Sang-heui, also claimed to have produced a virus that might be used in a swine flu vaccine.", "But Skinner said the methods Sang-heui used were not suitable and that his virus was not considered a viable candidate.", "Bucher's samples will likely get more attention.", "For the past five years her lab in Valhalla has produced elements of the seasonal vaccine that's given to tens of millions of Americans each year.", "She says the process she's using with the H1N1 virus is virtually identical to the process her lab uses when working on that seasonal vaccine.", "The virus used in vaccines is not the actual virus that infects people, but rather a hybrid that's been genetically modified to make it safer, and to give it the ability to multiply more quickly -- a crucial factor when it comes to manufacturing large quantities.", "Bucher's method of achieving this has a decidedly old-fashioned feel.", "She first injects a sample of \"wild virus\"-- in this case, H1N1 virus she got from the CDC, originally culled from a child who was infected in California this spring -- and then injects a sample of another flu strain that's known for its ability to rapidly multiply in eggs.", "For that, Bucher is using a strain with the exotic sounding name of NYMC X-157.", "(That's NYMC as in \"New York Medical Center;\" it's a hybrid of an H3N2 seasonal virus and the so-called \"Puerto Rico strain,\" A/PR/8/34, that's used to speed the growth of seasonal flu vaccine).", "Together in the egg, the viruses swap genes.", "In a laborious series of steps, Bucher's team guides the changes by adding antibodies that eliminate the surface proteins of the H3N2 virus.", "The end result is a virus with the exterior proteins of the H1N1 swine flu -- so the immune system recognizes it -- but with the inner mechanics -- the fast-growth ability -- of X-157.", "Another method of creating a candidate virus also mixes wild virus with a second, fast-growing strain, but instead of growing them in eggs, lets the viruses mingle in a special solution while scientists manipulate them through a complex technique called reverse genetics.", "In 2005, Dr. Richard Webby and Dr. Robert Webster at St. Jude Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, used reverse genetics to produce a vaccine against the H5N1 avian flu virus.", "Webby has been working to produce a candidate virus against H1N1 as well, but told CNN the virus is growing slower than expected, and that it would likely be a few weeks before a suitable strain is ready to be sent to the CDC.", "With any candidate strain, CDC virologists will perform tests to see if the new virus can induce an immune response against the wild H1N1 strain.", "That's done by using a solution derived from the blood of ferrets, whose susceptibility to flu is similar to that of humans, and also by deliberately trying to infect live ferrets.", "If test results are acceptable, the CDC will forward samples of the virus to various manufacturers.", "Those companies will fine-tune the virus for their own production methods, and produce small \"pilot lots\" of vaccine that can be tested in animals, and possibly people, for effectiveness and safety.", "Only after those tests are complete would the CDC, World Health Organization and other government health authorities decide whether to recommend mass production.", "Even in the fastest-moving scenarios, that step isn't likely to occur before late June or even July.", "CNN's Elizabeth Landau contributed to this report." ]	[ "The CDC received a candidate vaccine virus for swine flu Friday .", "CDC: Suitable viruses will hopefully be sent to manufacturers by end of next week .", "In one vaccine method, viruses swap genes in egg .", "Another technique uses reverse genetics instead of growing viruses in eggs ." ]	[ 0, 3, 19, 22 ]
[ "New York (CNN) -- One wily coyote traveled a bit too far from home, and its resulting adventure through Harlem had alarmed residents doing a double take and scampering to get out of its way Wednesday morning.", "Police say frightened New Yorkers reported the coyote sighting around 9:30 a.m., and an emergency service unit was dispatched to find the animal.", "The little troublemaker was caught and tranquilized in Trinity Cemetery on 155th street and Broadway, and then taken to the Wildlife Conservation Society at the Bronx Zoo, authorities said.", "\"The coyote is under evaluation and observation,\" said Mary Dixon, spokesperson for the Wildlife Conservation Society.", "Dixon said the coyote is a female, between 1 and 2 years old.", "She said the Department of Environmental Conservation will either send the animal to a rescue center or put it back in the wild.", "According to Adrian Benepe, New York City Parks Commissioner, coyotes in Manhattan are rare, but not unheard of.", "\"This is actually the third coyote that has been seen in the last 10 years,\" Benepe said.", "Benepe said there is a theory the coyotes make their way to the city from suburban Westchester.", "He said they probably walk down the Amtrak rail corridor along the Hudson River or swim down the Hudson River until they get to the city." ]	[ "Harlem residents scamper to get out of the coyote's way Wednesday .", "Coyote caught, tranquilized in Trinity Cemetery on 155th street and Broadway .", "Speculation is coyote made its way to Harlem via Amtrak tracks or swam in Hudson ." ]	[ 0, 2 ]
[ "Port-au-Prince, Haiti (CNN) -- A sweet sadness blankets Hector Mendez's face, appropriate, perhaps, for a middle-age man who has seen suffering and miracles at once.", "Many other rescuers have left the Haitian capital, no hope left in their hearts 15 long days after the massive earthquake that ravaged this country and entombed so many in the rubble.", "But not Mendez. Every day for more than a week, he has stepped down into the dark crevices of a destroyed building to look for two people: Daniel Varese and his 4-year-old son Mateo.", "Mateo's mother, Marylinda Gonzalez Davi, a United Nations employee from Guatemala who has been living in Haiti for four years, was at work when the earth shook violently on January 12.", "Rescuers pulled her 1-year-old daughter Fabiana alive from the rubble, but there was no sign of her husband and son.", "She refused to believe they were dead.", "Word of her plight reached Mendez, who had arrived in Port-au-Prince with a team of 25 Mexican rescue workers.", "\"We told her we won't leave.", "We will stay by her side,\" Mendez said.", "He has a grandchild the same age as Mateo.", "His orange jumpsuit dulled by dust, Mendez and his crew made camp adjacent to the rubble of the landmark Hotel Montana.", "They slept out in the open, with Gonzalez and her friend.", "They took short naps to re-energize.", "Then they went back in to search.", "Each day, they pulled things from the place that Gonzalez called home: a stuffed animal, her husband's computer, a piece of carpet.", "It helped Mendez to know what room of the apartment they had entered.", "He kept moving, deeper and deeper.", "In search of smell.", "In search of the slightest sound.", "Of an infant's whimper, a man's weak cry for help.", "Mendez became convinced father and son might be alive.", "He knows well the science of rescue after doing it for a quarter century.", "\"There is no smell,\" he said.", "And that could mean they were alive.", "Even two weeks after the earth shook, people were being rescued.", "Each gave Gonzalez hope.", "And that propelled Mendez.", "He believes in the power of love.", "The strong bonds between a man and his child, trapped together.", "That link, he thought, could be enough to sustain them.", "A veteran of many disasters .", "After a killer earthquake struck his hometown of Mexico City in 1985, Mendez, 46, felt a need to give back the humanitarian gestures extended to his own people.", "He joined a team called the Topos, or moles, named so because the rescuers wriggled through the deepest darkest corners in search of life.", "He volunteered to rush to disasters: to Indonesian quakes, five times; to Latin American countries; to Iran, Turkey, India and Egypt; to New Orleans, Louisiana, after Hurricane Katrina and to New York after the 2001 terror attacks.", "Haiti, he said, is one of the worst situations he has seen.", "\"People are very, very poor here.\"", "Much of the infrastructure and construction was so shoddy.", "This was the first time government officials paid for his flight.", "Usually, he finds his own way.", "And that has left him penniless and jobless.", "\"Who will hire this old man now?\"", "he asked. \"People tell me I am mad.\"", "He does the work because he loves to help people.", "\"It's worth it to find one person alive.\"", "Behind him, the incessant sound of a jackhammer deafened the ear.", "Above him, the roar of jets taking off from the airport.", "But it was below where Mendez belonged.", "Time was ticking.", "Sometimes, in the darkness, when he was crawling like a mole, the earth trembled.", "\"Replica! Replica!\" some of his men shouted.", "There was always the fear that whatever was left standing would tumble in the many aftershocks this city has felt.", "\"We laugh,\" he said.", "\"We don't scream like ladies.", "There is nothing you can do inside.", "You only die once. It would be an honor to die in the rubble.\"", "From other people, the statement might seem trite.", "But Mendez's eyes make you believe.", "He is called Chino because people say he looks Chinese.", "He says he has the look of a fierce Mexican Indian.", "After so many days, Mendez was running on two hours sleep -- and hope.", "But late Wednesday his search finally ended.", "His men found two bodies buried deep in the apartment.", "Mateo was in his father's arms.", "In Haiti, Mendez had hoped for a miracle.", "Instead, he saw more suffering.", "This, too, will define the curves of his face." ]	[ "Rescuer searched every day for a woman's husband and 4-year-old son in Haiti .", "He believed father and son could be alive, that their bond could sustain them .", "The response to a quake in his own country inspired him to assist in disasters .", "His efforts ended not as he had hoped, but with the sight of more suffering ." ]	[ 2, 20, 29, 31, 62, 63 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The man closest to Tiger Woods when he plays golf says he had no idea about the extramarital affairs that have sidelined Woods from the game.", "Steve Williams, Woods' caddy and confidant for nearly a decade, talked to New Zealand's TV3 about the scandal.", "\"I knew nothing,\" Williams said in an interview posted on the station's Web site Thursday.", "\"I don't need to clarify it, extend that answer.", "I knew nothing.\"", "Williams said he's heard the calls from some that he should be fired for not preventing Woods' downfall.", "\"In some people's perception, I'm involved with it, and I've committed a crime or done wrong,\" he said.", "\"If the shoe was on somebody else, I would say the same thing, it would be very difficult for the caddy not to know,\" he said.", "\"But I'm 100 percent telling you, I knew nothing, and that's that.\"", "Williams' wife, Kirsty, defended her husband, insisting he would not have been able to keep the secret from her or Woods' wife, Elin Nordegren.", "\"The four of us are so close,\" she told TV3.", "\"Being so close, he couldn't know and not say something to Elin or myself.", "You know, it's just, that's the way it is.\" Woods, 34, apologized last month in a tightly controlled televised statement for his \"irresponsible and selfish\" behavior, which he said included infidelity.", "The February 19 statement was his first public appearance since he crashed his black Cadillac Escalade into a fire hydrant and a tree near his home in November.", "The crash and reports about why it happened sparked a barrage of infidelity allegations against the golfer, who has two children with his wife.", "Williams, who gets 10 percent of the millions Woods wins on the golf tour every year, said he would not have kept it secret just to protect his job.", "\"I'm a straight up sort of person, if I had known something was going on, the whistle would have been blown,\" Williams said.", "\"He knows that I'm straight up, that's the way I operate.\"", "He said he is disappointed with Woods.", "\"Of course, I'm mad at him,\" he said.", "\"Why would you not be? He's obviously let his family down.\"", "Williams said he and Woods will talk about the scandal eventually, but not now.", "\"When a guy's having a tough time, that's not the time,\" he said.", "\"It's not up to me to beat him with a stick right now.", "I mean, he's getting enough grilling from everybody else.\"", "Williams said his role now is to talk to Woods -- who he described as \"one of my closest friends\" -- about the future and help him get back on the golf tour.", "\"When you are friends with somebody, and you're a true friend to somebody, that's when somebody needs your support, and that's when they need you the most, that's when you don't walk away,\" he said.", "In his February 19 statement, Woods left open the possibility of returning to professional golf this year.", "Williams predicted that Woods would bounce back from his troubles.", "\"Tiger's biggest asset is his mental strength,\" he said.", "\"So, he's going to need all his mental strength to get out of this, no question about it.\"", "With Woods not playing, Williams is spending more time with his personal passion: speedway racing in New Zealand.", "\"When I'm not working on the tour, I don't miss it one bit,\" he said." ]	[ "Steve Williams says some think he should be fired for not preventing Woods' downfall .", "\"But I'm 100 percent telling you, I knew nothing, and that's that,\" he says in interview .", "Wife defends him, says he wouldn't have been able to keep secret from her or Woods' wife .", "Williams says he would not have kept scandal secret just to protect his job ." ]	[ 5, 8, 9 ]
[ "Port-au-Prince, Haiti (CNN) -- The steeple clock at Port-au-Prince's St. Pierre Catholic Church is stopped at 4:53, the hour at which a devastating earthquake struck Haiti nearly one week ago.", "The church gates were closed Sunday.", "The doors shuttered.", "But it seems Tuesday's quake has only strengthened the religious fervor many Haitians carry in their souls.", "\"A lot of people who never prayed or believed -- now they believe,\" said Cristina Bailey, a 24-year-old clerk.", "In parks and backyards, anywhere a group gathers, the prayers of the Haitians can be heard.", "Last week, the call-and-response chanting and clapping that accompany those prayers pierced the darkness of night and the pre-dawn hours -- sometimes as early as 4 a.m.", "The singing and praying was particularly intense in Champs de Mars plaza, where hundreds of people have taken refuge.", "But the scene was repeated throughout the city, with preachers on megaphones exhorting the faithful, who responded with lyrics like \"O Lord, keep me close to you\" and \"Forgive me, Jesus.\"", "Many preachers are telling followers not to lose faith, that God remains with them regardless of what's happened.", "Most Haitians don't feel abandoned, Bailey said.", "\"People don't blame Jesus for all these things,\" she said.", "\"They have faith. They believe that Jesus saved them and are thankful for that.\"", "Perhaps few personified that deep belief better than 11-year-old Anaika Saint Louis, who was pulled from the rubble Thursday night and later died.", "Her leg had been crushed, and doctors thought they might have to amputate her feet.", "She said she didn't care. \"Thank you, God, because he saved my life,\" she said.", "\"If I lose my feet, I always had my life.\"", "Jean Mackenle Verpre also suffered a crushing leg injury and was freed after 48 hours underground.", "Asked what kept him going, he answered without hesitation: He believes in Jesus Christ and put his life in God's hands.", "Colonized by France, Haiti is a strongly Catholic country.", "Christian motifs are everywhere in Port-au-Prince.", "Many vehicles bear signs like the one painted on the windshield of a truck on Rue Delmar: \"Merci Jesus,\" it said.", "A woman passing by on Avenue Christophe chanted softly: \"Accept Jesus.\"", "\"In Haiti, you have Protestants and Catholics, and you have your percentage of each,\" said J.B. Diederich, a native-born Haitian who now lives in Miami, Florida, but returned to the Caribbean for several days after the earthquake.", "\"But everybody is 100 percent voodoo.\"", "Voodoo is widely acknowledged but practiced only behind closed doors, with practitioners often placing candles and icons on the floor of a home and dancing to music and drums.", "Followers believe the world is under the power of loas -- spirits and deities who act as intermediaries between humans and God.", "In voodoo, disasters like Tuesday's quake are not the result of natural forces, but displeasure by a loa.", "See complete coverage of Haiti earthquake .", "\"It's in every apartment.", "The voodoo is our culture,\" 25-year-old Alex Gassan said.", "\"It's like the folklore.\"", "Gassan proudly calls himself a Catholic, pulling out a crucifix necklace from under his shirt to show a reporter.", "Many observers have a simple explanation for what makes Haitians so devout.", "\"Because in all poor countries, you have to believe in something,\" said Agnes Pierre-Louis, the Haitian-born manager of her family-owned hotel.", "\"If they don't have that, they don't have anything.\" Added Diederich: \"They leave everything in the hands of God.", "When you have so little, what else can you turn to?\"" ]	[ "Many preachers tell followers not to lose faith .", "Most Haitians don't feel abandoned by God, says one Hatian .", "Voodoo is widely acknowledged but practiced only behind closed doors ." ]	[ 9, 10, 25 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Indian tennis player Sania Mirza has used her Twitter page to thank well-wishers following the announcement of her marriage to Pakistan cricketer Shoaib Malik.", "The wedding, which will take place in April, brings together two nuclear powers historically divided by political and sporting rivalry.", "On Tuesday, the 23-year-old Mirza greeted her 13,205 followers with the message: .", "\"Hi Guys! Me & Shoaib are very happy in this new phase of our life.Want to thank the media & all you guys for the wishes.", "Lots of love to all.\" Mirza divides opinion in India, drawing criticism from strict Muslim groups for her short tennis skirts and jewellery, while gaining plaudits and fans for her achievements on the court.", "She became the first Indian to win a WTA Tour title in 2005, reached the fourth round of the U.S. Open later that year and won the Australian Open mixed doubles last year.", "The announcement of the marriage between the two Muslims comes two months after Mirza broke off her engagement to a childhood friend.", "\"I have been in the constant glare for too long and would appreciate the privacy at this very personal moment in my life,\" her statement said.", "Malik, 28, is a former national captain who is currently serving a year-long ban from the Pakistan Cricket Board due to indiscipline on a tour of Australia.", "He caused controversy in 2007 when, after losing to India in the World Twenty20 final, he thanked Muslims from \"all over the world\" for their support.", "India and Pakistan have fought three wars since their independence in 1947." ]	[ "Indian tennis player Sania Mirza to marry Pakistani cricketer Shoaib Malik .", "Union brings together two nuclear powers with years of bitter rivalry .", "Mirza's short tennis skirts have drawn criticizm from Muslim groups in India ." ]	[ 0, 1, 4 ]
[ "Lagos, Nigeria (CNN) -- A previously unknown armed group said Friday it attacked a Nigerian oil pipeline this week on the first full day in office for Nigeria's new acting president.", "The attempt by the Joint Revolutionary Council (JRC) of the Niger Delta was not successful, a spokesman for the military said.", "But it indicates not everyone in Nigeria is happy with the way the new president, who hails from the Niger Delta region, was given power.", "The JRC said that early Wednesday, one of its units attacked and \"exploded\" the Tura manifold owned by Royal Dutch Shell in Abonnema, near the coast.", "The manifold connects several pipelines to the Bonny Export Terminal.", "\"Our patriotic fighters fought and overpowered the military guards on duty (as all Shell manifolds are always heavily guarded) before going ahead to explode the Tura manifold,\" the group's statement said.", "But Lt. Col. Timothy Antigua, a spokesman for the Nigerian military, said the attack failed.", "\"On Wednesday night there was an attempt by criminals to sabotage a Shell pipeline,\" he told CNN.", "\"They were thwarted in their attempt by a community surveillance group assigned to protect the Shell pipeline.\"", "Antigua said the group's dynamite and other explosives were recovered and that there were no injuries or deaths.", "A spokesman for Shell in The Hague, Netherlands, said the company had received no report of an attack.", "The JRC said its attack Wednesday followed another last weekend, and that both are aimed at incapacitating the export terminal and fighting the \"occupation\" in Nigeria.", "\"The actions are continuous and are preparatory to the final war.", "Every little step we take today brings us closer to freedom,\" read the statement.", "Acting President Goodluck Jonathan was approved for the role Tuesday by Nigeria's House and Senate to fill the political void left after President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua departed in November for medical treatment in Saudi Arabia.", "Jonathan was previously the country's vice president.", "In his first address to the nation Tuesday, Jonathan praised the \"resilience and unity of purpose\" with which Nigerians reacted to the recent political upheaval, saying there were \"no winners and no losers\" and that it is now time to move forward.", "He called on all Nigerians and the country's political parties to \"tackle the various challenges which we face as a nation,\" including those in the areas of power, infrastructure, security and job creation.", "Jonathan also vowed to pursue the \"war against corruption\" more robustly.", "His appointment has stirred controversy in Nigeria, Africa's most populous nation, with some arguing that the articles of the Nigerian constitution were not followed with the transfer of power.", "Nigeria's constitution says the president must formally communicate to the National Assembly that he is empowering the vice president to act as president in his absence.", "While no such formal communication was given, the Senate declared Tuesday that a January 13 BBC interview with Yar'Adua from his hospital bed could constitute such a notice.", "In the interview, the president acknowledged that he could not perform the duties of his office and would not be able to return until his doctors declared him fit.", "In a separate statement, the JRC called Jonathan a \"lame-duck ruler\" and termed his acting presidency an \"illegality\" because of questions over the transfer of power.", "The group said Jonathan was appointed in a \"jungle manner.\"", "\"The purported interview granted the British Broadcasting Corporation by the deserter president can never (be) approximated to a (formal)/official letter which ought to be duly endorsed by the writer,\" the JRC said.", "\"The deserting act of Alhaji Umaru Musa Yar'Adua can only be appropriately categorized as gross misconduct and should naturally have attracted an impeachment.", "This ought to have been followed by the swearing in of the vice president as substantive president, not in an acting capacity.\"", "The group said the political events will not deter their \"resolve to wage a continuous revolutionary war to liberate all parts of our territory.\"", "CNN's Christian Purefoy contributed to this report." ]	[ "Joint Revolutionary Council (JRC) of the Niger Delta claims pipeline attack .", "JRC said one of its units attacked and \"exploded\" the Tura manifold .", "A spokesman for the Nigerian military said the attack failed .", "Acting President Goodluck Jonathan was approved for the role Tuesday ." ]	[ 1, 3 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Why is goal line technology not used by football?", "Is Africa's hosting of the 2010 World Cup a step in the right direction?", "Are the world's best players being asked to compete in too many global competitions?", "These are just some of the issues that may be puzzling you about the beautiful game.", "Well worry no more because here is your chance to quiz the man in charge of global soccer, Sepp Blatter, the head of world football's governing body FIFA.", "CNN will speak to Blatter in an exclusive interview at FIFA's headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland on Monday 29 March where we will ask him the questions you want answered -- just add your query to the bottom of the page.", "Are you a World Cup super fan?", "Represent your team .", "Joseph (Sepp) Blatter, a former Swiss amateur footballer, was voted in as the FIFA president in 1998 before securing a second term in office in 2002, and a third in 2007.", "His tenure has seen him lead world football through three World Cups -- the fourth will kick off on June 11 in Johannesburg's Soccer City stadium -- five Confederations Cups and the creation of the World Club Cup which has taken place annually since 2005.", "The 74-year-old has been heavily involved with charitable programs during his presidency.", "These include UNICEF's \"Say Yes for Children\" campaign, which aims to increase awareness of children's rights, and the more recent \"1Goal\" program, that seeks to increase education opportunities in Africa.", "Blatter was a key figure in securing Africa's inaugural World Cup for 2010 after he introduced a system which saw each regional confederation take turns in hosting the tournament.", "The soccer chief has also courted controversy during his 12 years in charge, most recently by ruling out the introduction of goal line technology into the game.", "\"The application of modern technologies can be very costly, and therefore not applicable on a global level,\" Blatter told FIFA's official Web site.", "\"Many matches, even at the highest level, are not even televised.", "The rules need to be the same for all association football matches worldwide.\"", "Blatter has views on the English Premier League's domination of the global game.", "\"In France they have an expression 'l'appetit vient mangeant' [the appetite comes with eating].", "It means when you are at a good table you like to eat more and more and more.", "And this is the success story of the Premier League,\" he told a FIFA meeting held in Northern Ireland in March 2009.", "The Swiss administrator has also condemned the hold big clubs have over star players.", "When Spanish side Real Madrid were negotiating with Manchester United over the transfer of Cristiano Ronaldo, Blatter told British broadcaster Sky News: \"I think in football there's too much modern slavery in transferring players or buying players here and there, and putting them somewhere.\"" ]	[ "Your chance to quiz the boss of global soccer, the head of FIFA, Sepp Blatter .", "Blatter, president of FIFA since 1998, is leading body through fourth World Cup .", "CNN will speak to Blatter in an exclusive interview in Zurich, on 29 March -- add your question ." ]	[ 4, 5 ]
[ "(CNN) -- A Taiwanese fishing vessel that was seized by pirates and anchored off the Somali coast for nearly 10 months was released Thursday night, the European Union Naval Force Somalia reported.", "The Win Far 161 was held off the coast of Harardheere until the pirates left the ship and allowed its commander to retake control, the naval force said.", "The vessel was hijacked April in the Somali Basin, about 184 miles north of the Seychelles islands.", "The vessel reported that all 28 crew members were safe.", "The boat was operating outside the EU NAVFOR area of operation and was therefore not registered with the Maritime Security Centre for the Horn of Africa, authorities said.", "The coordination center helps protect merchant ships from pirate attacks in the Gulf of Aden, Somali Basin and off the Horn of Africa.", "The ship's owner reported that the crew was released with food, fuel and water.", "The ship headed out to sea, where it was being monitored by EU NAVFOR.", "EU NAVFOR escorts Somalia vessels carrying humanitarian aid from the World Food Program to protect them in the Gulf of Aden and Indian Ocean and to deter and disrupt piracy." ]	[ "Taiwanese fishing vessel was held for 10 months off coast .", "Vessel reports that all 28 crew members are safe .", "Ship headed out to sea, being monitored by European naval forces ." ]	[ 0, 3, 7 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Host Zain Verjee takes viewers through Oman's diverse terrain -- sailing the seas in a sleek racing boat and driving through oasis towns en route to the rugged mountains of Jabal Al-Akhdar.", "Plus: . The 'Jewel of Muscat' Omanis' relationship with the sea goes back generations and sailors have traveled and traded on the water for centuries.", "Inside the Middle East watches the launch of the \"Jewel of Muscat,\" a reconstruction of a 9th century spice ship.", "The sewn-plank ship has been faithfully reconstructed from handmade coconut fiber ropes and wood -- and without a single nail.", "The \"Jewel of Muscat\" will follow old trading routes stopping in India, Sri Lanka and Malaysia before arriving in Singapore in July.", "Inside the Middle East goes on deck with the captain ahead of the ship's historic launch.", "Your IME diary We bring you highlights from the Tour of Oman where cyclists rode for six days on a 700 km route in a race that is the first of this kind in Oman.", "At a Muscat art gallery we meet contemporary artist Hassan Meer and he describes his abstract paintings and photography.", "We also explore the exotic scents at the House of Amouage where CEO David Crickmore gives us a tour of the luxury perfumery.", "From the UAE we bring you the flavors of Gourmet Abu Dhabi as we report from the kitchen.", "My Beirut with Zuhair Mourad Drawing inspiration from the blue of the Mediterranean and the green of Lebanon's valleys and mountains, fashion designer Zuhair Mourad has made his name internationally in couture.", "Mourad most recently made headlines at the Brit Awards red carpet with a gold corset mini-dress worn by singer Florence Welsh who went on to win Best Album.", "Mourad says he is inspired by the many civilizations that have left their mark on his country -- from Byzantine to Ottoman, from French to \"modern Lebanese\" -- he shows us around the city where he was raised, Beirut." ]	[ "Inside the Middle East is in Oman .", "On deck with the captain of a historic recreation of a 9th century Omani spice ship .", "Lebanese couturier Zuhair Murad explains how his home, Beirut, inspires his designs ." ]	[ 2, 5 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The French Foreign Ministry and a top African Union official have denounced a military coup in the west African nation of Niger.", "The ministry said France \"condemns all taking of power by nonconstitutional means\" and calls on people in Niger \"to show responsibility in the interest of the country,\" which gained its independence from France in 1960.", "Jean Ping, the chairman of the 53-nation African Union, meanwhile, called for a quick return of \"constitutional order\" and said the organization is ready to help facilitate the process.", "He said he had been following developments in the nation with concern after a Niger military official announced the constitution had been suspended.", "President Mamadou Tandja is said to be detained in a military camp.", "The violence may have been prompted by a collapse of talks between the government and the opposition over a recent referendum allowing the president to hold power indefinitely, according to the United Nations, which also called for a quick resolution.", "French journalist Diallo Doudacar said the situation in Niger was calm Friday.", "\"The children are going to school, the shops are open,\" he said.", "A \"demonstration of joy\" in support of the military was held Friday afternoon, Doudacar said.", "\"The people are very happy,\" he said.", "\"The coup ends a nine-month debate that blocked out all other subjects.", "We have gone through so many coups that it doesn't really affect us anymore.\"", "Ping condemned the coup.", "\"The chairperson of the commission stresses that the relevant AU instruments systematically condemn any unconstitutional change and, accordingly, he condemns the seizure of power by force that took place in Niger,\" said a statement from his office.", "\"The secretary-general has called on the stakeholders in Niger to swiftly revert to constitutional order in the settlement of the political crisis,\" said a statement from U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.", "Thursday's order to suspend the constitution was attributed to the Superior Council for the Restoration of Democracy.", "It also suspended all institutions, urged citizens to remain calm and called for support from the international community.", "Dana Palade, a spokeswoman for World Vision, who is in the capital, Niamey, said gunfire rang out in the streets Thursday.", "The French Embassy also reported hearing intermittent gunfire near the palace.", "Tensions have flared in Niger recently.", "Tandja, in office since December 1999, had been trying to stay in power beyond the time mandated by the constitution.", "\"That may well have been ... an act on his behalf that precipitated the act today,\" P.J.", "Crowley, assistant U.S. secretary of state, said Thursday.", "The United States does not condone violence, but \"clearly we think this underscores that Niger needs to move ahead with the elections and the formation of a new government,\" Crowley said.", "Niger, one of the poorest countries in Africa, has about 8 percent of the world's uranium.", "It has had lucrative uranium contracts, particularly with China.", "The west African nation has a population of about 15 million and lies between the Sahara Desert and Nigeria.", "CNN's Christian Purefoy contributed to this report." ]	[ "France, African Union condemn \"unconstitutional\" coup in Niger .", "Niger military official Thursday announced suspension of all institutions .", "President Mamadou Tandja is said to be detained in a military camp .", "Gunshots heard around Niger's presidential palace Thursday ." ]	[ 0, 4 ]
[ "Port-au-Prince, Haiti (CNN) -- Dr. Roberto Feliz and Dr. Hiba Georges were quickly jolted from the most modern of medical care in Boston, Massachusetts, to the most rudimentary of care when they flew to Haiti last week to work at a hospital housed in two tents run by the University of Miami.", "The doctors, who worked at the Boston Medical Center, quickly learned that when you have no technology -- not even the simplest blood test -- you have to make medical decisions in an entirely different way.", "The first death they witnessed taught them a valuable lesson.", "The patient was a boy who needed his leg amputated or else he would die of either an infection or rhabdomyolysis, a kidney disease that follows injuries where muscles are crushed.", "Find loved ones in Haiti \| Share your story .", "Feliz, Georges and the other doctors had nowhere to take the boy.", "Their own hospital had yet to open its operating room, so they spent hours trying to find a hospital that could do surgeries.", "Their search was in vain.", "Finally, the doctors decided to do the surgery themselves that night by the moonlight under a mango tree.", "\"We just sawed his foot off.", "We didn't have to use anesthesia because he was already unconscious and wasn't feeling a thing,\" Feliz says.", "But they'd waited too long.", "The boy took his last breath during the surgery.", "\"Some of the doctors cried,\" Feliz says.", "\"I told them, 'There is no crying in medicine.'\"", "As a direct result of the boy's death, a few hours later, at 3 in the morning, the surgeons at the University of Miami hospital decided to build their own operating room.", "They had no surgical lights, no oxygen, no blood, no ventilators and no monitors.", "For a tourniquet they used one of the doctor's belts.", "\"We'd been waiting to build the operating room until we received better equipment, but after that boy's death we became more aggressive.", "We said let's do it, because they're going to die anyway,\" Feliz says.", "The doctors continued to learn lessons about what one had called \"civil war medicine\" after the operating room went up.", "At one point, a 16-year-old boy needed an amputation, but the surgeons asked Feliz and Georges to make sure the boy's kidneys were working before they put him through surgery.", "Without any blood tests to assess kidney function, the only thing they could look for was urine as a sign that his kidneys were working.", "\"We tried to see if we could get some urine going, but there was not a drop.", "We filled him with fluids and gave him Lasix, a diuretic, to get him to pee, but nothing,\" Feliz says.", "The boy died as the doctors were treating him.", "\"I saw a lot of deaths there, but this one hit me the hardest,\" he says.", "\"I texted my wife back at home, 'I've had a bad day.'\"", "After that boy's death, surgeons were quicker to give permission to amputate, Feliz says.", "Feliz says if there's any silver lining to practicing such rudimentary medicine, it's that it made him a more humble doctor.", "\"Back in Boston, I'm a hot shot.", "The nurses have to respect me,\" Feliz says.", "\"Here, I'm just a worker bee.", "I cleaned the OR floor after surgery.", "I carried dead bodies down the street.", "I was in traffic carrying dead bodies.", "That makes you human.", "I came here a very fancy doctor, and I'm leaving here as a humble man.\"" ]	[ "Doctors arriving in Haiti learn there is no technology, no basic equipment .", "Doctors created operating room with no surgical lights, oxygen, blood or ventilators .", "After witnessing death of children, surgeons quicker to give permission to amputate ." ]	[ 13, 14, 16, 28 ]
[ "(CNN) -- A year after a nearly $800 billion stimulus package was passed, the U.S. economy still finds itself mired in mediocrity.", "Economic growth is stagnant, unemployment remains higher than almost any time since the Great Depression and millions of Americans are upset that trillions of taxpayer dollars have been committed to numerous government bailout programs with no improvement of the economy within sight.", "They question, rightfully, is where this money is going and why it hasn't been as helpful as the government has claimed.", "The problems with stimulus packages are manifold.", "The primary reason they fail is because they do not address the roots of the problem.", "If you are unable to identify the cause of your problem, then your solution is doomed to fail.", "In the case of the current economic crisis, it had its root in loose monetary policy and easy credit that skewed the allocation of resources within the economy.", "Combined with other measures to promote home ownership, these easy money policies caused a massive housing bubble.", "Money that would have been put to other uses was used to produce raw materials, hire workers and loaned to homebuyers, all while home prices spiked.", "The boom was, of course, unsustainable, as many prognosticators pointed out during the housing bubble's peak.", "But the damage was done, and now that the bubble has burst, we need to stand back and allow the mess to unwind.", "Yet the government does everything in its power to stave off true recovery and is attempting to re-inflate the bubble.", "Rather than allow prices to fall so that the housing market returns to a sustainable level, the government does everything in its power to try to keep housing prices elevated.", "The reasoning behind the stimulus package was that underconsumption was to blame for the collapse of the housing bubble and the resulting economic crisis.", "The government seems to think that if consumption can be spurred, then the economy will be return to normal.", "In reality, the collapse of the economy was not caused by a sudden lack of consumption but rather a malinvestment of resources into sectors of the economy that were unsustainable without easy credit.", "The rise in housing prices was not, in fact, indicative of the new normal but rather an indicator that something was seriously wrong.", "Government attempts to boost the economy through measures such as stimulus packages merely take money from hardworking taxpayers and throw that money into unproductive endeavors, into the sectors of the economy that already suffer from malinvestment or into make-work projects.", "Washington is throwing good money after bad, wasting hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars and accomplishing nothing.", "As the eminent economist Frederic Bastiat once pointed out, there is a difference between what is seen and unseen.", "The government likes to tout the number of jobs that have been created or saved by the stimulus.", "But even if these numbers are accurate, they do not count the number of jobs that are not created in other more productive or self-sustaining sectors of the economy.", "Nor do they count the jobs that will be lost in the future when tax rates will have to be increased to pay off the interest on the debt that is financing much of the stimulus package.", "Finally, the stimulus package enables the government, rather than the market, to pick winners and losers.", "Whenever the government doles out money, political factors come into play.", "Firms that are politically well-connected or located in important congressional districts will benefit, while those firms without political connections, the ability to navigate bureaucratic hurdles or that exist in isolated areas unimportant to Washington will lose out.", "Once the stimulus money runs out, the companies and jobs dependent on that handout will find themselves once again struggling.", "A company that cannot satisfy consumer needs in the marketplace and that requires a government stimulus to remain competitive is a company that should not be in business.", "The last thing this country needs is more government spending, especially on such wasteful measures as stimulus packages.", "We have wasted trillions of dollars in the past year and a half in stimulus packages, bailouts and guarantees to unsound companies.", "We have run up our national debt to unprecedented levels.", "We are destroying the dollar.", "And it seems as if there is no end in sight.", "Loose monetary policy, easy credit and too much debt created the bubble and got us into this economic crisis.", "Unless the government learns its lesson and opts for restrained monetary and fiscal policy, it risks a complete implosion of the U.S. economy.", "The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Ron Paul." ]	[ "Ron Paul: Stimulus hasn't boosted economy or staved off high unemployment .", "He says economy suffered from overconsumption and a housing bubble .", "He says stimulus seeks to reinflate bubble, takes money away from productive ventures .", "Paul: Bailouts and stimulus are running up the national debt and harming the dollar ." ]	[ 17, 29, 30, 31, 35 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Everyone has their favorite Girl Scout cookie: the popular Thin Mints, the coconuty caramel delight of the Samoas, the simple yet lovable Shortbreads.", "But for those who are eagerly running to their pantry to open a box of Lemon Chalet Cremes, a foul odor may dampen their cookie-eating experience.", "Little Brownie Bakers of Louisville, Kentucky, one of two bakeries in the United States that make Girl Scout cookies, posted a statement on its Web site Friday saying it had received several complaints from customers who encountered a foul smell and taste in boxes of Lemon Chalet Cremes.", "The bakery says it tested the cookies and determined that they are safe for consumers to eat.", "No sickness from the cookies has been reported.", "The company says that the odor is a result of oils improperly breaking down in the cookies that \"are not up to our quality standards.\"", "The Lemon Chalet Cremes were distributed in 24 states -- Alabama, California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, North Carolina, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Wisconsin -- and the District of Columbia.", "The number of potentially stinky boxes totals 636,000, according to a spokesperson for Little Brownie Bakers.", "The company is contacting each Girl Scout council that received a batch of the smelly cookies and says it will provide replacements.", "The National Girl Scout offices were closed Friday because of the snowstorm in the Northeast.", "A recording on its 800 number redirected callers to Little Brownie Bakers for assistance." ]	[ "Baker says it received complaints about bad smell, taste .", "Lemon Chalet Cremes are safe for consumers, they say .", "Some oils improperly break down in cookies .", "Girl Scout councils will receive replacement boxes ." ]	[ 2, 3 ]
[ "ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- A sealed envelope awaits in Rissi Palmer's Bible.", "Country singer Rissi Palmer performs for students in an after-school program at Atlanta's Parkside Elementary.", "It's her Grammy acceptance speech, the one she wrote as a 12-year-old.", "She vowed not to open it until she could read it from the stage accepting her award.", "Sixteen years later, the time may be nearer when Palmer can open the envelope.", "The road has been a long one, starting with her standing on a milk crate as a child so she could sing solos in the church choir.", "But these days, she is an up-and-comer in country music -- and a rare African-American performer in the genre.", "Palmer acknowledged this week to students in Atlanta that some people had told her she couldn't sing country because she was African-American.", "But she said, \"When you tell me I can't do something, it just makes me want to do it more.\"", "Palmer told CNN that no one in the music industry had discouraged her based on race but that people who loved her were concerned country stardom might be a tough goal.", "She said she doesn't believe her story is different from any other musician's: \"The music industry is just hard.\"", "Palmer told students at Parkside Elementary School that she grew up listening to all kinds of music, including country.", "\"My mother was a big country music fan,\" she recalled.", "The family also listened to R&B and classic soul, such as Sam Cooke, she said.", "\"I loved the way the country artists wrote songs,\" Palmer told about 50 students, most of them minorities, in an after-school program at Parkside.", "She liked the way that country songs told stories: \"I always liked telling stories.\"", "\"Country Girl,\" the first single off Palmer's self-titled 2007 debut album, made her the first African-American female in 20 years to hit Billboard's country chart, according to Country Music Television.", "Country music is home to a smattering of well-known African-American artists.", "Charley Pride is by far the most visible, but other artists have dabbled in country as well -- the Supremes, for instance, and Ray Charles.", "More recently, Darius Rucker, longtime lead singer for Hootie and the Blowfish, hit the top of the country charts as well.", "African-Americans always have been in the country music industry, said John Rumble, senior historian for the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville, Tennessee.", "However, it's rare for an artist -- of any race -- to reach the level of stardom attained by Pride, who had 67 records on the country chart between 1966 and 1990, more than 20 of them in the Top 10.", "\"Some people at the time, and since, called him the Jackie Robinson of country music, but nobody who followed him has yet reached that level,\" Rumble said. ...", "He's almost an impossible standard to match.\"", "However, given Rucker's recent success, he is showing \"superstar potential\" in the country industry, Rumble added.", "Palmer lost her mother at an early age but has said her parent's love for country music stayed with her.", "Still, she said she doubted she could break into the genre.", "\"When you're a child, you react to something that's familiar and looks like you,\" she told CMT in 2007.", "\"And there was nobody [in country music] who looked like me.", "Just being a kid, you don't see black country singers.", "So you don't think that's a possibility for you.", "You see black pop singers.", "You see black R&B singers.", "You see black rockers.", "So you say, 'If I'm black and I want to sing, then I probably have to sing R&B.'", "\" Rumble echoed Palmer's comments about the music industry being tough on new artists.", "More than ever, \"it takes a lot of money to put an artist out there on promotional tours,\" creating videos and the like, he said.", "Rumble said many African-American artists probably gravitate to other genres.", "And, for artists of any race, \"once you're in the door ... it's still a matter of catching on.\"", "\"There are a certain number of people who are just not used to seeing a black person on CMT or GAC [Great American Country],\" he said.", "\"It just doesn't compute, for whatever reason.\"", "Palmer's family moved to St. Louis, Missouri, when she was 13, according to her Web site.", "She took part in talent pageants there and joined an entertainment troupe.", "\"That is where a lot of my country influences started to come out,\" she said in the online biography.", "\"At the audition we were instructed to pick an artist that we admired and perform some of their songs.", "I chose LeAnn Rimes and Shania Twain.", "I was not the one they expected to walk out and sing 'Any Man of Mine' at those state fair shows, but they always liked it.\"", "She participated on the CBS show \"Star Search,\" reaching the finals, and credits judge Naomi Judd's manager with introducing her to the creators of \"Waiting in the Wings,\" a CMT documentary about African-Americans in country music, according to her Web site.", "She was also featured on CMT's \"Most Wanted Live.\"", "Her music reached Terry Johnson, president and CEO of 1720 Entertainment, who offered her a record deal.", "\"You guys are at an age where all the possibilities are open to you,\" she told the Atlanta students this week.", "\"Anything you want to do, you can do it.\"", "However, she cautioned them that being a singer is not always fun, even though she loves it.", "\"The best advice I can give you is that this is a job that I do,\" she said.", "\"... You have to take it very seriously.\"", "She fielded questions with a sense of humor, telling them some of her favorite songs (one is Bonnie Raitt's \"Nick of Time\") and her favorite instrument -- a guitar (\"Have you ever tried to push a piano around with you?\"", "she asked). She told the children that once they start dating, they will find plenty of material -- good and bad -- to write songs about.", "She said afterward she enjoyed talking with children and likely would have been a teacher if she had not pursued a music career.", "Palmer appeared as part of the Arts in Schools program at the Atlanta-based Threshing Floor Academy of Arts and Sciences Inc.", "The organization was founded in 2008 by Meisha Card, a former special education teacher.", "For her part, Palmer has said she hopes that one day, the discussion centers on her music rather than her ethnicity.", "\"I'm looking forward to the day when the only thing that's being discussed is the album -- the actual music -- as opposed to my race,\" she told CMT.", "\"I understand it is something rare, and it is something different, and it is something that's not happening every day.", "I get that. But if my career's as successful as I hope it will be, we're going to reach a lot more firsts.\"" ]	[ "Singer Rissi Palmer has had a Grammy acceptance speech ready since she was 12 .", "Song off debut album made her the first black female to hit country charts in 20 years .", "Palmer says her mother always loved country music and she likes telling stories .", "Performer tells Atlanta students: \"Anything you want to do, you can do it\"" ]	[ 2, 7, 16, 51 ]
[ "Atlanta, Georgia (CNN) -- Some southern states were getting a second round of unseasonal snow Tuesday, prompting airlines to cancel flights and schools to close for the day.", "Parts of several southern states remained under a winter storm warning Tuesday, as a developing low-pressure system threatened to spread snow and rain across portions of Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky and the Carolinas, the National Weather Service said.", "Snow fell north and west of metro Atlanta, Georgia, although the city, with a temperature hovering just above freezing, saw mostly rain.", "The weather prompted schools in several northern Georgia counties to close, according to CNN affiliates.", "Airlines also canceled flights.", "AirTran Airways has canceled 69 flights in and out of Atlanta, and is expected to cancel more this afternoon, spokesman Christopher White said.", "\"Should the [weather] event continue into the evening, there is a possibility of many more cancellations,\" he said.", "He said the airline is offering free rebooking and changes for anyone traveling to or from Atlanta.", "Delta Airlines said it has made about 250 cancellations for flights leaving Atlanta.", "\"Depending on the severity of the storm some additional thinning may be necessary,\" spokesman Anthony Black said.", "The airline is offering to reschedule Tuesday travel plans for those concerned about the weather, at no fee.", "Customers will have to pay any increase in fares, according to the Web site.", "The National Weather Service said snow will continue Tuesday afternoon across northeast Georgia and the western half of upstate South Carolina, although it will taper off later.", "Total snowfall accumulations of 2 to 4 inches are expected, mainly in areas along and north of I-85.", "The same amount of snow is expected from Shelby, North Carolina to Gaffney and Union in South Carolina, the National Weather Service said.", "Snow is also possible in Tennessee, Kentucky and northern Alabama, it said.", "CNN's Carolina Sanchez contributed to this report." ]	[ "Storm warnings and winter weather advisories issued for the Southeast .", "AirTran Airways has canceled 69 flights into and out of Atlanta for Tuesday .", "Delta Air Lines cancelled about 250 flights Tuesday ." ]	[ 5, 8 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The Israel Defense Forces called off a raid after one of its combat soldiers posted information about the operation, including the time and place, on Facebook, the IDF said Wednesday.", "\"On Wednesday, we are cleaning up (the village).", "Today - arrest.", "On Thursday, God willing, we will be home,\" the soldier, who was not identified, posted on the social networking site, according to IDF.", "The post was removed after other soldiers in the company saw it online and reported it to their commanders, IDF said.", "\"The division commander decided to cancel the operation out of concern that the information had reached hostile groups and would harm IDF forces,\" it said.", "The soldier was sentenced to 10 days imprisonment and was removed from his battalion and all combat postings, IDF said.", "His combat certificate also was revoked.", "IDF soldiers are prohibited from posting classified information online, including photographs of military interests." ]	[ "Soldier posted details about pending raid on Facebook, Israeli military says .", "Commander canceled operation, fearing enemies might have learned about it .", "Soldier sentenced to 10 days imprisonment, removed from his battalion ." ]	[ 0, 6 ]
[ "London, England (CNN) -- Britain's Labour Party suspended four members of Parliament -- including three former Cabinet ministers -- after they were secretly filmed offering to sell their government influence, the party said Tuesday.", "The party said it has launched an investigation of Geoff Hoon, Patricia Hewitt, Stephen Byers and Margaret Moran and suspended all four from the Parliamentary Labour Party.", "None of the four plans to run in the next election, expected to be held in May.", "\"The Labour Party expects the highest standards of its representatives and believes that they have a duty to be transparent and accountable servants to their constituents at all times,\" the party said in a statement.", "What the British media has now dubbed the \"cash-for-lobbying\" scandal comes just weeks before the expected general election in which Labour, the ruling party, faces a stiff challenge from the opposition Conservatives.", "Cabinet Secretary Gus O'Donnell, a non-partisan official, called the allegations \"extremely serious.\"", "The undercover filming was done by reporters for Channel 4's \"Dispatches\" program, which aired Monday night.", "They set up a fictional U.S. company that claimed to want to hire British politicians for an advisory board, and an undercover reporter then invited the MPs to a rented office in London to discuss the work.", "A hidden camera captured the politicians agreeing to use their experience and influence to lobby the government in exchange for thousands of pounds (dollars) in pay.", "\"I'd be very interested. I'm a bit like a sort of cab for hire, I suppose, at the moment,\" said Byers, who was the transport and business secretary under former Prime Minister Tony Blair.", "Byers said he usually charges a daily rate of between £3,000 and £5,000 ($4,500 and $7,500) for similar work.", "Among the services Byers offered was to try to get Blair to show up at a client's event.", "\"The three to five just depends a bit on the work, the clients, to be honest,\" Byers said on the tape.", "\"I mean, sometimes I can charge more.\"", "Hoon, who was British defense secretary during the invasion of Iraq in 2003, said he would request a similar amount.", "He said he could lead delegations to see certain ministers, or he could write letters to ministers to persuade them to see a client.", "\"One of the challenges, I think, which I'm really looking forward to is sort of translating my knowledge and contacts about (the) international scene into something that, bluntly, makes money,\" Hoon said.", "Lawmaker Margaret Moran, who was implicated in the parliamentary expenses scandal last May, was also shown on hidden camera to be interested in a possible job.", "Moran spent £22,500 ($33,700) of taxpayers' money for repairs on a seaside home far from her constituency, days after declaring it as her second home, records last year showed.", "Moran told the undercover reporter that she would be willing to approach parliamentary committees or special advisers on behalf of the company.", "Hewitt, who served as health secretary and trade and industry secretary in the cabinet, said she is looking for another \"major board position\" to employ her for three days a month.", "Asked how easy it would be for her to arrange meetings with Cabinet ministers or senior civil servants, Hewitt replied, \"It's very doable, but you have to be kind of quite careful, you know, about how you do it.", "And it partly depends on the individual minister.\"", "The Conservatives called on Prime Minister Gordon Brown to launch an investigation into the scandal.", "Peter Hoskin, a columnist for The Spectator magazine, described the revelations as \"dirty money and dirtier politics.\"", "\"Our democracy could hardly bear another major political scandal, but here we have one: as grubby, underhand and dispiriting as last year's expenses revelations,\" Hoskin wrote.", "\"The question now is whether it's as widespread.\"", "Daily Telegraph columnist Mary Riddell called it \"the week that could finish Labour\" and said it put the Conservatives, also called the Tories, in a good position ahead of the election.", "\"Any hope that the shadow of greed had lifted was crushed by accusations that former ministers sought money for favors,\" she wrote.", "\"The taped claim by Stephen 'Cash' Byers that 'I'm like a sort of cab for hire' is a remark geared to give the Tories a chauffeured drive to power.\"" ]	[ "Britain's Labour Party suspends four senior MPs in cash-for-lobbying scandal .", "Lawmakers were secretly filmed offering to sell their government influence .", "Geoff Hoon, Patricia Hewitt, Stephen Byers, Margaret Moran not standing in election .", "Politicians agreed to lobby government in exchange for thousands of pounds ." ]	[ 0, 1, 8 ]
[ "(CNN) -- It will take NATO-led military forces \"another 25 to 30 days to secure that which needs to be secured\" in Afghanistan's Helmand province, and a further three months after that to be sure insurgents are being kept out of the area, British Maj. Gen. Nick Carter said Thursday.", "But Operation Moshtarak has reached \"the end of the beginning,\" he said in a briefing from Afghanistan broadcast by the Pentagon Channel.", "\"The insurgent was entirely dislocated within 24 hours\" of the insertion of troops by helicopter, he said.", "The Nad Ali district is \"broadly secure,\" he said, but there is still Taliban resistance in Marjah.", "\"It will be some days before we can be completely confident that Marjah is secure,\" he said.", "Ten civilians were killed on the second day of the operation, he said.", "Reports at the time said 12 were killed.", "More coverage on Afghanistan Crossroads blog ." ]	[ "NATO troops need 25-30 days to secure areas in Helmand province, UK general says .", "Three more months needed to be sure insurgents stay out, says Maj. Gen. Nick Carter .", "But Afghan offensive has reached \"end of the beginning,\" he says ." ]	[ 0, 1 ]
[ "United Nations (CNN) -- The United Nations Security Council has approved a proposal to send an additional 2,000 soldiers and 1,500 police officers to quake-ravaged Haiti, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Tuesday.", "By its approval of the plan Monday, \"the council sends a clear signal: The world is with Haiti,\" Ban said.", "He said he was confident that member states would respond quickly in order to get the troops on the ground as soon as possible.", "\"I believe that the deployment of additional troops and police forces will be done quite quickly,\" Ban said. ...", "In every aspect of our operation there, we are running against time.\"", "Look for missing loved ones .", "The forces will bolster the approximately 7,000 U.N. soldiers and 2,200 police already assigned there, at least 22 of whom were killed in the January 12 earthquake.", "About 150 people affiliated with the U.N. remain unaccounted for.", "Although Tuesday marks a week since the magnitude 7.0 temblor struck, \"there are still lives to be saved,\" Ban said.", "Some 90 victims have been saved by 43 international rescue teams, made up of about 1,700 people.", "Relief operations and delivery of aid are increasing and becoming better organized, Ban said, although he added, \"For those who have lost everything, of course, help cannot come soon enough.\"", "Despite logistical challenges, the situation is improving, he said.", "New corridors have been cleared on land.", "Capacity at Port-au-Prince's airport is improving.", "And a main port -- rendered unusable by earthquake damage -- is expected to be reopened next week.", "\"There have been some difficulties and some bottlenecks in delivering our relief items,\" Ban said. ...", "The situation is overwhelming.\"", "But U.N. personnel are working day and night to overcome hurdles and increase the delivery of aid to Haitians, he said.", "\"On the ground, we have seen some difficulties when it comes to deliver[ing] actual relief items, because of the over-demand and the extraordinary situation.", "I have seen for myself how many people are without homes and shelters, and we have to work very hard, according to this cluster system,\" Ban said.", "He was referring to the U.N.", "Cluster System set up for disasters, under which the World Health Organization plays a lead coordinating role for health, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees or the Red Cross for shelter, and the World Food Programme for food.", "Watch how UNICEF is trying to help children .", "Twelve cluster systems are up and functioning, Ban said Tuesday, \"so you will see a much improved situation in terms of coordination, in terms of delivering aid to people who need it.\"", "On Monday, daily food rations for 200,000 people were distributed.", "The World Food Programme's goal is to reach 1 million people within a week and 2 million within two weeks, he said.", "\"Our chief priority right now is to get the relief distribution system in Port-au-Prince fully operational so that we may more efficiently distribute supplies -- food, water, medicine, tents and other essential items,\" Ban said.", "How you can help . Ban appealed to international nongovernmental organizations and aid groups to work closely with the U.N. in delivering aid.", "\"We are concerned ... that numbers of unsolicited and uncoordinated supplies and personnel entering the country will stretch limited logistical resources and interfere with the delivery of vital aid,\" he said.", "\"We have already turned our attention to outlying regions, as well as the capital city.", "As you know, in certain areas, such as Leogane, the situation is every bit as critical, if not more so, than in Port-au-Prince.\"", "See images of the need and relief efforts .", "Asked about a report that fuel for U.N. trucks was scarce, Ban said 10,000 gallons of fuel arrived from the Dominican Republic on Monday night.", "Alain Le Roy, U.N. peacekeeping director, was asked about reports of looting.", "It is occurring, Le Roy said, but is not widespread.", "\"Of course there is looting, but there has been looting in the country for many, many years, even before the earthquake,\" he said." ]	[ "2,000 soldiers, 1,500 police officers to be sent to quake zone .", "Relief operations' efficiency is improving, secretary-general says .", "World Food Programme hopes to reach 1 million people within a week .", "Ban Ki-moon asks other relief groups to coordinate with U.N." ]	[ 0, 25 ]
[ "NEW YORK (CNN) -- A New York nightclub hostess identified by a supermarket tabloid as Tiger Woods' mistress has called allegations that she is romantically involved with the golf superstar false and \"ridiculous.\"", "In an interview published Tuesday, Rachel Uchitel told The New York Post that a disgruntled acquaintance sold the story to the National Enquirer and that \"not a word of it is true.\"", "\"I work in clubs, and I am a businesswoman,\" Uchitel said.", "\"I do not have sex with celebrities, and I have not had an affair with Tiger Woods.\"", "Speculation has swirled around Woods since a wreck outside his Florida home early Friday left him with minor injuries and a citation for careless driving.", "The Florida Highway Patrol said Tuesday that its citation closes its investigation of the crash.", "Woods was not required to talk to state police about the wreck and did not sit for an interview with investigators.", "He issued a statement Sunday saying he alone was responsible for the crash and denouncing \"the many false, unfounded and malicious rumors that are currently circulating about my family and me.\"", "Opinion: Woods is only human .", "The 33-year-old golf phenomenon has won the Masters tournament and the PGA tournament each four times, as well as three U.S. Open titles.", "Investigators have said they don't have details on why Woods was driving away from his home at such an early hour.", "A police report says the wreck was not alcohol-related.", "Uchitel said she has met Woods twice, once in her capacity as the VIP director at a club in Manhattan's trendy Meatpacking District and another time through a mutual friend.", "\"That's my job: to know these people, to have a relationship with them, to hang out with them,\" she told the Post.", "\"It doesn't mean I am having sex with them or an affair with them.\"", "She said the allegations \"must feel horrible\" to Woods' wife, Elin Nordegren.", "\"The worst part of it, it's not true,\" Uchitel said." ]	[ "NEW: Rachel Uchitel to New York Post: I met Woods only twice .", "Nightclub hostess says tabloid allegations came from disgruntled acquaintance .", "False rumor \"must feel horrible\" to Woods' wife, Uchitel says ." ]	[ 0, 15 ]
[ "Washington (CNN) -- Look no further than the two warning flares shot up from Virginia and New Hampshire Tuesday evening to understand how concerned Democrats are about the political consequences of losing the late Sen. Edward Kennedy's seat to Republican Scott Brown.", "Sen. Jim Webb, D-Virginia, called on his Democratic colleagues to suspend votes on their controversial health care legislation, warning it would be wrong to try to muscle a bill through Congress before Brown was sworn into office.", "\"In many ways, the campaign in Massachusetts became a referendum not only on health care reform but also on the openness and integrity of our government process,\" Webb said in a statement.", "Some 500 miles to the north, New Hampshire Democratic Party Chairman Ray Buckley sent out an urgent plea for donations to help fund a special election next month for a state senate seat he fears losing.", "\"Over the past few weeks, radical right-wing activists turned Massachusetts into ground zero for the Tea Party movement, and we saw a taste of what's to come in 2010,\" Buckley wrote.", "Brown's victory has changed the political narrative in 2010.", "Weigh in on the election results .", "Traditionally, the president's party loses seats in the midterm elections.", "But now there is concern among some politically savvy Democrats who worry that the losses could be greater than originally anticipated in November all because of Brown's win.", "\"It makes it really hard,\" a senior Democratic operative, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said Tuesday evening.", "\"The frustrating thing for (Democratic) members is that it was preventable, it affects them and it was something that never should have gotten to this point.\"", "In a matter of two weeks, Democrats witnessed a sleeping Republican base come to life to rally around a little-known GOP candidate, who defied the odds to win the race to succeed the liberal lion from Massachusetts.", "And after watching two governorships slip from their grasp in November, many Democrats have come to realize that the American public is not particularly happy with their stewardship of the nation.", "Democrats have 10 months to try to regain the momentum, but the wind is now at the Republicans' backs, and their first legislative victory will likely be slamming the brakes on President Obama's signature domestic issue: health care reform.", "It is a mighty blow for a president, who just one year ago seemed unbreakable, unstoppable, unbeatable.", "Brown is an unlikely savior for the Republican Party, which one year ago was disoriented, disorganized and disillusioned.", "A Massachusetts Republican has successfully brought together -- for the time being -- a party at war over the ideological purity of its membership.", "There is still discord in the GOP, but Brown's win gives Republicans another case study in how to run a successful campaign after their two gubernatorial wins in New Jersey and Virginia.", "Martha Coakley's loss provides Democrats with yet another example of how not to run a campaign after their earlier losses in New Jersey and Virginia.", "One of the biggest challenges for Democrats is wooing back independent voters, who broke Brown's way Tuesday to help him beat Coakley.", "\"If we don't figure out a way to talk to independent voters, we are done,\" lamented another high-level Democratic staffer, speaking freely on the condition of anonymity.", "Republicans wake up Wednesday morning with a new vigor, and GOP strategists vow to try to use this win to broaden a playing field that one year ago seemed unrealistic.", "The GOP's top target is Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada, who is in danger of losing re-election, according to public polls.", "But Republicans hope Tuesday's victory also convinces some fence-sitting Democrats to follow the leads of Dennis Moore of Kansas or Rep. John Tanner of Tennessee and choose to retire instead of running for re-election.", "For Obama, the loss will likely force him to reconsider his legislative priorities, as his support on Capitol Hill wanes in this midterm election year.", "Conservative Democrats are less likely to back him on controversial issues such as health care and cap and trade, fearing that to do so would be political suicide.", "After all, Republicans were able to win Kennedy's seat by running against the Obama agenda." ]	[ "Analysis: Many Democrats now realize public isn't particularly happy with their stewardship .", "Wind is now at the Republicans' backs, and they may be able to put brakes on health bill .", "Scott Brown's win gives GOP another case study in how to run successful campaign .", "For President Obama, loss will likely force him to reconsider his legislative priorities ." ]	[ 13, 17, 24 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Bayern Munich capped a successful week by returning to the top of the German Bundesliga with a 2-1 victory away to title rivals Schalke on Saturday despite having a man sent off in the first half.", "Louis Van Gaal's team followed up the midweek Champions League victory over Manchester United with a win that puts them a point clear of previous leaders Schalke ahead of Wednesday's trip to England for the second leg of the quarterfinal.", "Bayern took a 2-0 lead after only 26 minutes as Franck Ribery and Thomas Muller scored within 60 seconds of each other, but Schalke's former Germany striker Kevin Kuranyi reduced the deficit soon after.", "The Bavarians had Hamit Altintop sent off for a second booking four minutes before halftime, but Schalke -- beaten by Bayern in the German Cup semifinals 10 days ago -- could not claim a point and had Marcelo Bordon dismissed at the end of the match.", "Bayern were again without Dutch forward Arjen Robben, who missed the United game with a calf problem, but surged into a two-goal lead when French playmaker Ribery fired home from a corner and Tuesday's match-winner Ivica Olic set up Muller.", "Kuranyi followed up his double from last weekend with another strike from a pass by Rafinha, who was fouled by Altintop to see the Turkey international an early bath.", "Kuranyi should have leveled just before the break but missed from close range, and Schalke failed to seriously threaten the Bayern goal in the second spell.", "Third-placed Bayer Leverkusen suffered another blow to their title hopes with a 3-2 defeat at Eintracht Frankfurt which left the former leaders six points adrift of Bayern after a run of just one win in seven league outings.", "Frankfurt, who upset Bayern two weeks ago, moved up to eighth with a third successive win thanks to Maik Franz's 89th-minute winner.", "Leverkusen led 2-1 straight after halftime through Stefan Kiessling's second goal, but had Daniel Schwaab sent off three minutes later for a rash tackle on Umit Korkmaz.", "Caio leveled on 62 with a super long-range effort, and Franz snatched victory from close range.", "Borussia Dortmund consolidated fourth place with a 2-1 victory at home to Werder Bremen, scoring both goals in the first half through Kevin Grosskreutz and Neven Subotic before Aaron Hunt pulled one back in the 65th minute.", "Dortmund closed to with a point of Leverkusen, who hold the final Champions League place, and went four clear of fifth-placed Bremen.", "Stuttgart moved up to seventh with a 2-1 victory at home to Borussia Moenchengladbach, while Nuremberg moved three points clear of the relegation zone with a 2-0 win at home to 10-man Mainz.", "Bochum joined Nuremberg on 28 points with a 1-1 draw at third-bottom Freiburg, while bottom side Hertha Berlin earned a surprise 3-0 win at Cologne in Saturday's late match thanks to two first-half goals from Raffael and a 75th-minute effort from fellow Brazilian Cicero." ]	[ "Bayern Munich return to top of German Bundesliga with 2-1 victory at title rivals Schalke .", "Bavarians beat previous leaders despite having Hamit Altintop sent off late in first half .", "Third-placed Bayer Leverkusen six points behind Bayern after losing at Eintracht Frankfurt .", "Borussia Dortmund close on Leverkusen with a 2-1 victory at home to Werder Bremen ." ]	[ 0, 7 ]
[ "Port-au-Prince, Haiti (CNN) -- The longest and most visible lines in Haiti's capital are not for food, water or gas.", "They are for money. Earthquake survivors need cash and are waiting hours outside wire transfer businesses, including Western Union, that are starting to reopen.", "\"I have no money,\" 32-year-old Anderson Bellegarde said Thursday, in his sixth hour standing outside a UniBank money wire branch.", "The business in Carrefour, near the epicenter of the earthquake and about eight miles from the capital of Port-au-Prince, was operating at a crawl.", "A line of Haitians loudly pleaded with guards, putting their hands around the blue iron gate and urging to be let in more quickly to access funds wired to them from beyond the disaster zone.", "Full coverage \| Twitter updates .", "Very little currency trickled into Haitian hands Thursday.", "There was little financial movement in the disaster zone, with most banks remaining shut.", "Bellegarde looked at the closed bank next to the money transfer station and squinted his eyes.", "\"That's where our money's at, and they're holding it,\" he told CNN Radio.", "\"We need it so we can buy food.\"", "Basic groceries are relatively easy to find for sale throughout the streets of Port-au-Prince.", "Those with canned goods, some produce and even ice and bread have formed a massive, impromptu market.", "But most quake survivors do not have the cash to buy any of it.", "iReport: List of missing, found \| Impact Your World .", "\"I have not eaten for two days,\" Bellegarde said, \"I'm only drinking water.\"", "Banks have been closed since the January 12 earthquake.", "There were widespread rumors that the Haitian government would force them to open Thursday, but that didn't happen.", "Now, officials say provincial banks will likely open Friday, and branches in Port-au-Prince will restart business Saturday." ]	[ "Quake survivors are waiting hours outside wire transfer businesses .", "Banks have remained closed since the January 12 earthquake .", "Basic groceries are easy to find, but people can't access their money to buy them .", "Officials say provincial banks will likely open Friday; Port-au-Prince branches Saturday ." ]	[ 1, 11, 16, 18 ]
[ "(Mental Floss) -- If you think comic book characters do amazing things in comic books, you won't believe what they can do off the page.", "For starters, Superman brought down the Ku Klux Klan, and Donald Duck raised ships from the ocean floor.", "1. Superman defeats the Ku Klux Klan .", "In the 1940s, \"The Adventures of Superman\" was a radio sensation.", "Kids across the country huddled around their sets as the Man of Steel leapt off the page and over the airwaves.", "Although Superman had been fighting crime in print since 1938, the weekly audio episodes fleshed out his storyline even further.", "It was on the radio that Superman first faced kryptonite, met The Daily Planet reporter Jimmy Olsen, and became associated with \"truth, justice, and the American way.\"", "So, it's no wonder that when a young writer and activist named Stetson Kennedy decided to expose the secrets of the Ku Klux Klan, he looked to a certain superhero for inspiration.", "In the post-World War II era, the Klan experienced a huge resurgence.", "Its membership was skyrocketing, and its political influence was increasing, so Kennedy went undercover to infiltrate the group.", "By regularly attending meetings, he became privy to the organization's secrets.", "But when he took the information to local authorities, they had little interest in using it.", "The Klan had become so powerful and intimidating that police were hesitant to build a case against them.", "Struggling to make use of his findings, Kennedy approached the writers of the Superman radio serial.", "It was perfect timing.", "With the war over and the Nazis no longer a threat, the producers were looking for a new villain for Superman to fight.", "The KKK was a great fit for the role.", "In a 16-episode series titled \"Clan of the Fiery Cross,\" the writers pitted the Man of Steel against the men in white hoods.", "As the storyline progressed, the shows exposed many of the KKK's most guarded secrets.", "By revealing everything from code words to rituals, the program completely stripped the Klan of its mystique.", "Within two weeks of the broadcast, KKK recruitment was down.", "And by 1948, people were showing up to Klan rallies just to mock them.", "Mental Floss: 5 memorable moments in comic book censorship .", "2. Donald Duck's scientific breakthrough .", "In 1966, Danish engineer Karl Krøyer developed a method for raising sunken ships off the ocean floor by injecting them with polystyrene foam balls.", "However, when Krøyer tried to license his invention with the Dutch patent office, he was denied.", "Donald Duck had beaten him to the punch by 22 years.", "Indeed, Krøyer's concept could be traced back to a Donald Duck comic conceived by Carl Barks.", "In addition to being the most celebrated artist of the Donald Duck comics, Barks was known for his scientific prowess.", "So in a 1944 story, when Donald got a bump on his head that turned him into a genius, the duck managed to mumble, \"If I mix CH2 [a methylene compound] with NH4 [ammonium] and boil the atoms in osmotic fog, I should get speckled nitrogen!\"", "Although it sounded like nonsense, it wasn't.", "In 1963, chemists P.P.", "Gaspar and G.S. Hammond wrote a technical article about methylene that included a reference to the Donald Duck story.", "The final paragraph read, \"Among experiments which have not, to our knowledge, been carried out as yet is one of a most intriguing nature suggested in the literature of no less than 19 years ago.\"", "A footnote revealed that \"literature\" as the Donald Duck comic.", "It seems the web-footed children's hero had deduced the chemical intermediate long before it had been proven to exist.", "Mental Floss: Musicians performing on Sesame Street .", "But why were these top American chemists looking to comics for inspiration?", "Apparently, Dr. Gaspar had been a lifelong Donald Duck fan, and he'd rediscovered Donald's early reference to methylene while collecting old copies of the classic adventures.", "Gaspar never disclosed how much his work owed to Duckburg's most famous resident, but then again, how many scientists would confess that they used comic books to bolster their research?", "3. A Spider-Man villain keeps folks out of jail .", "In a 1977 edition of Spider-Man, Peter Parker has the tables turned on him.", "The villain, Kingpin, tracks down Spidey using an electronic transmitter that he'd fastened to the superhero's wrist.", "Although Kingpin loses in the end (he always does), one New Mexico judge saw beauty in his plan.", "Inspired by the strip, Judge Jack Love turned to computer salesman Michael Goss and asked if he could create a similar device to keep track of crime suspects awaiting trial.", "In 1983, Goss produced his first batch of electronic monitors.", "Authorities in Albuquerque then tested the devices on five offenders, using the gadgets as an alternative to incarceration.", "Today, the transmitters are a common sight in courtrooms across the country, usually in the form of electronic ankle bracelets.", "Most famously, Martha Stewart donned one while she was under house arrest in 2004.", "Perhaps she would have felt better knowing that the gadget had once nabbed Spider-Man, too.", "Mental Floss: Truth about lie detectors (and Wonder Woman) 4.", "Captain Marvel Jr. saves the bad-hair day .", "Like most American kids in the 1940s, Elvis Presley fantasized about growing up to be like his favorite comic book superheroes.", "But it turns out that The King might have been more interested in their fashion statements than their special powers.", "During his early teen years, Elvis was obsessed with Captain Marvel Jr., known as \"America's most famous boy hero.\"", "A younger version of Captain Marvel, the character sported an unusual hairstyle that featured a curly tuft of hair falling over the side of his forehead.", "Sound familiar?", "When Elvis set out to conquer America with his rock 'n' roll ways, he copied the 'do, thus making it one of the most famous hairstyles of the 20th century.", "But that wasn't all. Captain Marvel also gets credit for the short capes Elvis wore on the back of his jumpsuits, as well as The King's famous TCB logo, which bears a striking resemblance to Marvel's lightning bolt insignia.", "Of course, Elvis never tried to hide his love for the Captain.", "A copy of Captain Marvel Jr. No.", "51 still sits in his preserved childhood bedroom in an apartment in Memphis, and his full comics collection remains intact in the attic at Graceland.", "Plus, the admiration was mutual.", "Captain Marvel Jr. paid tribute to The King in one issue, referring to the singer as \"the greatest modern-day philosopher.\"", "For more mental_floss articles, visit mentalfloss.com .", "Entire contents of this article copyright, Mental Floss LLC.", "All rights reserved." ]	[ "Several comic book heroes have affected people in real life .", "Superman battled the KKK in radio series \"Clan of the Fiery Cross\"\nSomething created in Spider-Man comic inspires device that keeps people out of jail .", "And Donald Duck blocked a scientist from getting a patent ." ]	[ 1, 3, 17, 22, 40 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Chelsea struck a major blow in the English Premier League title race with a controversial 2-1 victory over champions Manchester United on Saturday that put the London club two points clear at the top of the table with five matches to play.", "Carlo Ancelotti's team traveled to Old Trafford to face a side reeling from the loss of injured England star Wayne Rooney following the midweek European Champions League defeat by Bayern Munich.", "The Italian coach opted to leave his own key forward Didier Drogba on the substitutes' bench, but the Ivory Coast international scored a decisive goal with 11 minutes to play despite being clearly offside.", "United boss Alex Ferguson was left fuming at the decision.", "\"What I can't understand is the linesman's directly in front of it.", "He has no-one near him and he gets it wrong,\" the Scot told Sky Sports.", "\"A game of that magnitude, you really need quality officials and we didn't get them today.", "It was a poor, poor performance.", "\"Five games left, they're two points ahead and four goals better than us -- they're in the driving seat.", "Chelsea are favorites now, there's no question.", "I'm certain we'll respond but we could win the next five games and not win it.\"", "United hit back with a late bundled goal from young substitute Federico Macheda, which television replays showed came off the Italian's arm, but Bulgaria striker Dimitar Berbatov could not convert a chance to equalize in time added on.", "Chelsea, who had scored 12 goals in the two previous matches and did not have to play in midweek following last month's Champions League exit against Inter Milan, started the game in dominant form.", "Man of the match Florent Malouda set up the opening goal in the 20th minute, with the France winger surging past Darren Fletcher into the penalty area and providing a low cross that England midfielder Joe Cole cheekily backheeled past goalkeeper Edwin Van Der Sar.", "Both teams had penalty claims turned down before halftime, and Berbatov missed United's first real chance with a header after an hour.", "Drogba replaced Nicolas Anelka in the 69th minute, and 10 minutes later he had the ball in the net after collecting a pass from fellow substitute Salomon Kalou despite being further forward than United's last two defenders.", "United pulled a goal back with nine minutes to play as substitute Nani broke down the left and his cross rebounded off goalkeeper Petr Cech, onto Macheda and into the Chelsea net, with visiting captain John Terry appealing in vain for handball.", "Berbatov, who started on his own up front in place of Rooney, then tamely volleyed Gary Neville's cross into the arms of Cech as Chelsea held on for a deserved victory.", "Third-placed Arsenal kept their title hopes alive with a last-gasp 1-0 victory at 10-man Wolverhampton which left Arsene Wenger's team three points behind London rivals Chelsea.", "Wolves had captain Karl Henry sent off for a foul on Tomas Rosicky in the 66th minute, but Arsenal could not take advantage until deep into injury-time when substitute striker Nicklas Bendtner headed in Bacary Sagna's cross.", "Manchester City moved up to fourth place above Tottenham with a 6-1 thrashing of Burnley in Saturday's late match that left their near neighbors deep in relegation trouble.", "Roberto Mancini's team were 4-0 up after 20 minutes, and led 6-0 before an hour had been played as Emmanuel Adebayor scored twice along with goals from fellow strikers Craig Bellamy and Carlos Tevez.", "Patrick Vieira and Vincent Kompany were also on target before Steven Fletcher's 71st-minute consolation for the home side.", "Tottenham's hopes of qualifying for the Champions League took a big blow with a 3-1 defeat at Sunderland, for whom the London club's former striker Darren Bent scored twice -- the first after only 36 seconds and the second from the penalty spot.", "England World Cup hopeful Bent also had two spot-kicks saved by Tottenham goalkeeper Heurelho Gomes as he took his tally to 23 for the season.", "Sunderland also had a goal disallowed as Steve Bruce's team consolidated 13th place, a comfortable 11 points clear of the bottom three.", "Aston Villa bounced back from the 7-1 thrashing at Chelsea with a 1-0 win at Bolton to join sixth-placed Liverpool -- who travel to Birmingham on Sunday -- on 54 points.", "England international Ashley Young fired an 11th-minute winner to leave Bolton five points above the relegation zone.", "Stoke moved up to 10th with a 2-0 victory that left Hull in the bottom three, equal on points with West Ham, who travel to Everton on Sunday.", "Jamaica forward Ricardo Fuller gave Stoke a sixth-minute lead, and Hull were reduced to 10 minutes after Dutch midfielder George Boateng was carried off after being kicked in the head before Liam Lawrence scored a late second.", "Bottom club Portsmouth delayed their inevitable relegation with a 0-0 draw at home to Blackburn despite having defender Anthony Van den Borre sent off with half an hour to play.", "Avram Grant's team would have gone down if they had lost and Hull had won." ]	[ "Chelsea move two points clear at the top of the English Premier League with vital victory .", "London club defeat champions Manchester United in controversial match .", "Didier Drogba's second-half goal put Chelsea 2-0 up but substitute striker was offside .", "United hit back with goal by replacement Federico Macheda, who seemed to use his arm ." ]	[ 0, 11 ]
[ "(CNN) -- English Premier League side Liverpool were beaten by two penalties in Lisbon as Benfica came from behind to grasp the advantage in their Europa League quarterfinal.", "The Portuguese club suffered a nightmare start when Daniel Agger put the visitors in front after just nine minutes with a neat back heel from Steven Gerrard's free kick.", "But just after the half hour mark Liverpool were reduced to ten men when Ryan Babel clashed with defender Luisao after he had fouled Spanish striker Fernando Torres.", "Babel appeared to put his hands in Luisao's face and the referee produced a red card.", "It took Benfica less than 30 minutes to press home their advantage when Liverpool defender Emiliano Insua brought down Pablo Aimar inside the box and conceded a penalty.", "Oscar Cardozo converted the spot kick and was given the chance to put his side into the lead when the referee adjudged Jamie Carragher had handled in the area on 79 minutes.", "Again Cardozo made no mistake from the spot.", "The return leg is at Anfield next Thursday.", "Fulham vanquished seasoned European opponents again as they defeated German champions Wolfsburg 2-1 at Craven Cottage.", "Striker Bobby Zamora gave the English side the lead on 59 minutes with a precise curling shot from the edge of the area.", "Irish winger Damien Duff made it 2-0 just four minutes later as he converted Zamora's pass.", "But in the final minute Wolfsburg scored a vital away goal as Alexander Madlung emphatically headed home Zvjezdan Misimovic's cross.", "After the game Fulham manager Roy Hodgson told ESPN television: \"Wolfsburg are a good team but tonight I thought we made them look reasonably ordinary.\"", "The all-Spanish tie between Valencia and Atletico Madrid finished 2-2.", "Uruguayan striker Diego Forlan put Atletico in front on 59 minutes but Manuel Fernandes equalized shortly after for the home side.", "Atletico struck again through Antonio Lopez only for Spain forward David Villa to rescue a draw for Valencia.", "In the evening's other match Hamburg beat Belgian side Standard Liege 2-1 in Germany.", "A strike from Deiudonne Mbokani gave Liege an early advantage but goals from Mladen Petric and Dutch striker Ruud van Nistelrooy secured Hamburg a lead to take into the second leg." ]	[ "Portuguese club Benfica beat Liverpool 2-1 in their Europa League quarterfinal tie .", "Fulham beat German champions Wolfsburg 2-1 .", "All-Spanish tie between Valencia and Atletico Madrid ends 2-2 .", "German club Hamburg beat Belgian side Standard Liege 2-1 ." ]	[ 8, 13, 16 ]
[ "(The Frisky) -- I know you are really, really upset -- but can you stop crying for a second so we can talk about the fact that Katherine Heigl is finally leaving \"Grey's Anatomy?\"", "Long overdue, as far as I'm concerned.", "She has been annoying me since day one.", "How bad can the job really be?", "Hmmm, let's see.", "You get paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to show up on set for 12 episodes -- then you get half the year off.", "Yeah, I think I'd quit too.", "Her publicist claims she's out of there because she wants to spend more time with her newly adopted daughter, and that becoming a mother has \"changed [her] desire to work full-time.\"", "That's sounds like sunshine and moonbeams and all, but the truth is that she's been petitioning to get Dr. Izzie Stevens written off for the last three years.", "Since her BFF T.R.", "Knight left, I suspect.", "At least we can have some fun imagining how they might get rid of her.", "Drug overdose?", "Amnesia? Doctors Without Borders?", "Sex tape? Fun! Anyway, considering her last few movies were ludicrous rom-coms and she has a rep for biting the hand that feeds her, I'm thinking she may not be too popular in Hollywood after this.", "Plenty of other celebs have left cushy TV jobs for bigger and better things.", "Let's see how nine of them fared.", "The Frisky - Sandra Bullock and other celebs who ditched the dead weight .", "1. Amanda Seyfried thinks she's too big for the filming schedule of \"Big Love.\"", "That's why she's leaving the show -- to move back to New York City, pursue her film career, and live life to the fullest by eating spinach and seeds and popping pills.", "Mazel Tov, Amanda!", "But we're not sure how this is going to go for you.", "2. Fans went crazy when ABC announced that it was canceling \"My So-Called Life\" after just one season.", "But then it came out that Claire Danes was the one who wanted the show to end -- she was ready to move on to a film career.", "She's had some hits, \"Romeo & Juliet\" and \"Shopgirl,\" but she will always and forever be Angela Chase.", "3. She's never confirmed it, but when \"The O.C.\"", "killed off Marissa Cooper in the season finale of season three, most people assumed it was because Mischa Barton wanted to move on.", "The show trucked on without her -- for a season.", "Mischa's career, on the other hand: as dead as Marissa after the car wreck.", "Frisky - 8 female stars who dated their managers .", "4. Rose McGowan replaced Shannen Doherty when good witch Prue Halliwell was \"killed off\" of \"Charmed.\"", "Now she's working her magic on the judges of \"Dancing With the Stars.\"", "Abracadabra! Save my career!", "5. Never thought I'd say this, but I'm actually glad that Tina Fey left \"SNL\" to go on to write, produce, and star in \"30 Rock.\"", "Yeah, she's pretty much taking over the industry and making money with much more than her looks.", "The Frisky -- Britney and J.", "Lo did it: How a \"How I Met Your Mother\" cameo can turn a career around .", "6. Hunky George Clooney left \"ER\" in its fifth season to become the A-list movie star in the front row at the Oscars.", "A winning move?", "I'd say yes. 7. Nicollette Sheridan was so desperate to be polished like the jewel that she believed she was that she left \"Desperate Housewives.\"", "She called the show \"complacent,\" but creator Mark Cherry said her time was up because she had already slept with everyone on the show.", "Rumor has it that she has a new TV show coming out.", "Let's see if that jewel shines.", "The Frisky - 10 stars whose relationships went sour after they found fame .", "8. Viewers cried and stuff when Kal Penn's character on \"House\" committed suicide only to stop crying when they found out he'd accepted a position at the White House.", "Because it's nobler to actually help people than to play someone who does it on TV.", "9. While Kal Penn joined the real White House, Rob Lowe left the fictional one on \"The West Wing\" because he didn't think there was a place for his character, Democrat Sam Seaborn, anymore.", "And then he went on to play Republican politico Robert McCallister on \"Brothers & Sisters.\"", "Politics will eat you alive, man.", "TM & © 2010 TMV, Inc. \| All Rights Reserved ." ]	[ "Claire Danes was the one who wanted \"My So-Called Life\" to end .", "Mischa Barton has never confirmed she wanted \"The O.C.\"", "to kill off her character .", "Heigl's publicist says she's leaving the show to spend more time with her daughter ." ]	[ 7, 23, 25 ]
[ "San Francisco, California (CNN) -- Officials have agreed to pay $1.5 million to the daughter of a man fatally shot in the back by a transit police officer on New Year's Day 2009 in Oakland, California.", "A bystander's cell-phone video of the shooting on a transit platform was widely circulated on the Internet and on news shows.", "The Bay Area Rapid Transit train system late Wednesday announced the settlement over the killing of Oscar Grant, 22.", "\"It's been a little over a year since we experienced the tragic death of Oscar Grant,\" BART Board President James Fang said.", "\"No matter what anyone's opinion of the case may be, the sad fact remains this incident has left Tatiana without a father.", "The $1.5 million settlement will provide financial support for her.\"", "Grant's daughter, Tatiana, is 5.", "The video showed then-Officer Johannes Mehserle, 27, pulling his gun and shooting Grant in the back as another officer kneeled on Grant.", "Mehserle might have intended to draw and fire his Taser rather than his gun, according to a court filing by his attorney.", "The shooting sparked large protests in Oakland and led to Mehserle's arrest on a murder charge.", "The case against him is pending.", "Initially, attorney John Burris asked for $50 million in a wrongful-death lawsuit filed on behalf of Grant's daughter.", "Burris was not immediately available for comment on the settlement.", "The transit system's police department has made several changes since the shooting.", "The department has increased training hours for officers, is requiring them to report all \"use-of-force incidents,\" and is tapping the public's help in searching for a new police chief, the transit system said in a statement.", "\"This settlement is critical in our efforts to move forward,\" said Carole Ward Allen, a BART board member.", "\"We're working hard to make the police department the best it can be for our officers, our customers and our community.\"" ]	[ "San Francisco's BART to pay daughter of man shot by officer .", "Oscar Grant was shot in the back on New Year's Day 2009 .", "Officer may have thought he was firing Taser; he faces murder charge .", "Bystander's cell-phone video of incident widely seen on Internet, TV ." ]	[ 0, 1, 6 ]
[ "Mexico City, Mexico (CNN) -- Shootouts between drug suspects and the military in the Mexican northeastern border state of Tamaulipas have left seven dead and 11 wounded, the government reported.", "One of the dead and the 11 wounded were Mexican military who were ambushed while on patrol late Thursday night in the cities of Miguel Aleman, Mier and Valadeces, the Notimex news agency reported, citing the nation's National Defense Department.", "The cities are along the U.S. border, near McAllen, Texas.", "The cities also are near Reynosa, Mexico, where the United States closed its consulate Thursday because of recent increased drug violence.", "The U.S. Consulate also issued a warning \"to advise U.S. citizens of recent gun battles in Reynosa, Mexico, and cities surrounding Reynosa in the last week.\"", "Thursday night's firefights were the latest in a string of confrontations that some residents say have been going on for at least 10 days.", "Earlier this week, local news reports said, gunmen in as many as 20 vehicles clashed with members of the Mexican military and municipal police in Ciudad Mier, just west of Reynosa.", "The daytime gun battle Tuesday reportedly resulted in the abduction of 10 municipal police officers.", "Video from the scene showed abandoned police sport utility vehicles with bullet holes and broken windows.", "Shattered glass covered the street against a backdrop of palm trees.", "A damaged red truck with the insignia CDG -- the Spanish acronym for the Gulf Cartel -- was shown being towed from the shooting scene.", "In Reynosa, residents told CNN on Thursday that banners purportedly placed throughout the city by the rival Los Zetas drug cartel announced there would be a gunfight at 8 p.m.", "Residents reported hearing gunshots as early as 7:30 p.m. After Thursday night's gunfire, officials say they confiscated 14 vehicles, 29 firearms, 10 hand grenades and more than 1,700 rounds of ammunition of various caliber.", "On a tour of the border cities, Tamaulipas Gov.", "Eugenio Hernandez Flores sought to reassure residents that the government is committed to controlling the mayhem.", "Violence throughout Mexico has exploded since President Felipe Calderon declared war on the drug cartels shortly after assuming office in December 2006.", "More than 16,000 people have been killed in drug violence since then.", "Ciudad Juarez, across the border from El Paso, Texas, is the most violent city in Mexico and one of the deadliest on earth.", "The rival Juarez and Sinaloa cartels are fighting for control of the lucrative drug routes into the United States as well street sales within Ciudad Juarez.", "The cartels also are fighting the Mexican army and federal, state and local police.", "Mexican officials point out that most of the deaths involve criminals; few civilians have been killed.", "In Juarez earlier this month, however, 10 teenagers and five other people were gunned down at a party.", "Officials said the gunmen belonged to the Juarez cartel and mistakenly believed the partygoers were members of a gang affiliated with the Sinaloa cartel.", "CNN's Mariano Castillo and Nick Valencia contributed to this report." ]	[ "NEW: Firefights have been going on for 10 days, residents say .", "One Mexico soldier among the dead .", "Drug suspects ambushed military patrol .", "U.S. closed nearby consulate on Thursday ." ]	[ 1, 5 ]
[ "Miami, Florida (CNN) -- Commercial air service resumed Friday morning from the United States to Haiti.", "An American Airlines flight from Miami to Port-au-Prince, Haiti, left at 7:36 a.m.", "ET after about an hour's delay, according to the airline's Web site.", "The flight landed at 9:22 a.m.", "ET in Haiti, the company said.", "An Insel Air flight also left Miami on Friday morning with passengers bound for Haiti, including relief workers, said Heerem Zeen of the airline's international office.", "Commercial air service from the United States to Haiti had been suspended since the January 12 earthquake.", "The Haitian government says at least 212,000 people died in the magnitude-7.0 quake.", "The quake damaged many of the country's buildings, including some at Toussaint Louverture International Airport in the Haitian capital.", "Full coverage of the Haiti earthquake and aftermath .", "American has said it plans three flights a day from Florida to Haiti.", "\"This is that crack in the dam that we so badly needed and our passengers so badly wanted, to start moving regularly scheduled traffic into and out of Haiti,\" spokesman Tim Smith recently said.", "\"We'll start out with three main flights a day from South Florida, two from Miami and one from Fort Lauderdale.", "Then we'll also fly a JFK New York flight into Haiti four days a week.\"", "Haitian customs officials will work out of a cargo facility because of damage at the main terminal, Smith said.", "\"These flights serve as major milestones toward helping the country rebuild,\" Peter Dolara, American's senior vice president for Mexico, the Caribbean and Latin America, said in a recent news release.", "\"With commercial air service restored, we can better connect loved ones and provide consistent transportation to and from Haiti.\"", "Also beginning March 12, American Eagle -- American's commuter affiliate -- will commence new service into Port-au-Prince from San Juan, Puerto Rico, and daily flights from the Dominican Republic cities of Santo Domingo and Santiago.", "\"We have begun our journey to recover from the catastrophic earthquake, but with support from companies like American Airlines, we hope it won't be nearly as long,\" said Ralph Latortue, consul general of Haiti in Florida .", "American has served Haiti since 1971 and employs more than 100 people in Port-au-Prince, according to the airline.", "Since the day after the earthquake, American Airlines and American Eagle have continued flying into and out of Haiti, carrying relief workers, medical personnel, humanitarian aid and evacuating hundreds of people.", "Representatives of Spirit Airlines and Delta Air Lines said this week that they were working to restore air service to Haiti.", "CNN's Alden Mahler Levine contributed to this report." ]	[ "Commercial air service from U.S. to Haiti had been suspended since January 12 quake .", "American Airlines says it plans three flights daily from Florida to Haiti .", "Airline official: \"Flights serve as major milestones toward helping the country rebuild\"" ]	[ 6, 10, 15 ]
[ "(CNN) -- North Korea resumed firing near its sea border with South Korea on Thursday, South Korean media said, citing Seoul officials.", "Artillery shells were fired toward South Korean-controlled Yeonpyeong Island, Yonhap News Agency quoted the officials as saying, adding that the shells fell in waters north of the Northern Limit Line (NLL), the de facto inter-Korean maritime border.", "The North fired artillery shells on Wednesday in the same area, saying they were part of an annual training drill.", "\"We have confirmed North Korea's firing of several artillery shells, but they did not cross\" the two countries' maritime border, said Park Sung-woo, of Seoul's joint chiefs of staff, according to Yonhap.", "\"We are on high military alert.\"", "\"Following the firing by North Korea, South Korea responded by shooting vulcan canons into the air, a statement that it would not be intimidated by saber-rattling by the communist neighbor,\" Yonhap said.", "There were no reports of casualties.", "Also Thursday, a South Korean Unification Ministry spokesman said that despite the tension, talks slated for Monday with North Korea would still go forward in the North Korean border town of Kaesong, Yonhap reported.", "Seventeen South Korean officials are expected to attend those talks, Yonhap cited Chun Hae-sung, the official, as saying." ]	[ "NEW: Talks still on for Monday in North Korean border town, South Korean official says .", "North says firing of artillery shells is part of an annual training drill .", "Inter-Korean talks still set for Monday, Yonhap cites S. Korean official as saying ." ]	[ 2, 7 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The U.S. Department of Transportation slapped United Airlines with a $30,000 fine Friday for violating price advertising rules, and the airline also will have to pay the balance for a previous infraction.", "Under DOT rules, airlines must disclose the full price of air travel to consumers.", "\"Our fare advertising rules are designed to ensure that consumers know how much they will pay for a ticket and are able to compare prices when choosing which carrier to fly,\" Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said in a statement.", "The department found that United failed to disclose a 7.5 percent federal excise tax for 60 hours on the initial results page of its Web site.", "United said it is committed to advertising its fares clearly.", "\"In this unique case, due to a programming error, the initial fare display inadvertently placed the 7.5 percent federal excise tax in the 'taxes and fees' section, rather than in the base fare,\" said spokeswoman Sarah Massier in an e-mail.", "\"Immediately upon learning of the programming error United took action to move the tax to the base fare.\"", "Government taxes and fees per passenger are the only charges that are not required to be included in the published fare, according to the DOT.", "The new penalty means United also will have to pay the balance on a fine for a violation over the summer.", "In August, the DOT fined United $75,000 for not disclosing taxes and fees in the initial advertised fares on its Web site and for showing one-way fares that were only applicable for round-trip travel.", "The airline was required to pay $37,500 of that penalty, with the understanding that half would be forgiven if it had no further violations within the next 12 months.", "United now is required to pay the other half of the $75,000 fine." ]	[ "Under DOT rules, airlines must disclose the full price of air travel to consumers .", "United violated price advertising rules twice in five months .", "Government taxes and fees per passenger are the only exception to the rules ." ]	[ 1, 7 ]
[ "Istanbul, Turkey (CNN) -- Police have arrested Tarkan, Turkey's most famous pop music star, in a narcotics raid, Turkey's semi-official Anatolian Agency reported Friday.", "Police, Tarkan's publicist and relatives could not be reached for comment on the reported arrest.", "According to Anatolian, Tarkan was detained along with several other individuals who are \"important figures from the art and magazine world.\"", "Full coverage in Turkish: CNN Turk .", "Tarkan rose to international prominence in the late 1990s for singing playful hit songs like \"Simarik\" (Spoiled).", "The heartthrob has been described by some as a Turkish Ricky Martin, referring to the Latin pop singer from Puerto Rico who achieved popularity worldwide.", "German-born Tarkan, who uses only one name, also has made the pop charts around the world.", "In recent years, it was reported, he has been living in New York City.", "The arrest was carried out in Istanbul.", "Turkey is a key stop on a drug smuggling transit route between Asia and Europe.", "According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, it is a major hub for the trafficking of illegal heroin and opium from Afghanistan en route to European markets.", "Drug operations involving Turkish celebrities, including artists and models, are often carried out in Istanbul.", "Last month, Tarkan gave a concert in Istanbul's central Taksim square to celebrate the city's inauguration as Europe's 2010 Capital of Culture.", "Thousands watched as the artist performed along with a fireworks display." ]	[ "Tarkan has been Turkey's biggest pop star since the 1990s .", "Singer was arrested in narcotics raid in Istanbul, Anatolian Agency says .", "Others detained were \"important figures from the art and magazine world\"" ]	[ 0, 2, 8 ]
[ "(CNN) -- On January 12, a magnitude-7.0 quake struck Haiti just southwest of the capital, Port-au-Prince.", "On February 27, an 8.8-magnitude quake hit Chile near that nation's second largest city, Concepcion.", "That same day there was a 7.0 quake off the coast of Okinawa, Japan, and just this week a 6.4 quake hit southern Taiwan.", "The Fact Check Desk looked at whether all of the seismic activity could be related.", "Fact Check: Is there any connection between the recent deadly earthquakes?", "• Dr. Kurt Frankel of the Georgia Institute of Technology, who specializes in active tectonics, says that earthquakes are sporadic and unpredictable in nature.", "• According to Frankel, the fact that these relatively strong quakes would strike around the same time is merely coincidence.", "Because the quakes did happen one after another, earthquakes are on people's mind, Frankel explained.", "\"Had the quakes in Haiti and Chile not occurred recently, we might not have even been interested in the other quakes,\" he said.", "• CNN meteorologist Chad Myers said earthquakes can trigger other seismic activity, but added that those four aforementioned events were too far apart in both time and distance to be connected.", "• The U.S. Geological Survey on its Web site takes on the assertion that two major earthquakes in the same day must be related.", "Their answer: not likely.", "This is because Earth's surface is not rigid enough to transfer the stress over long distances.", "\"There is evidence to suggest that earthquakes in one area can trigger seismic activity within a few hundred miles,\" they write.", "\"There is also evidence that some major earthquakes manage to trigger seismicity over much greater distances (thousands of miles), but these triggered quakes are small and very short lived.\"", "• The USGS estimates there are several million earthquakes each year and the National Earthquake Information Center locates about 50 quakes per day.", "However, large quakes measuring 8.0 and higher occur only about once a year on average.", "Bottom Line: While earthquakes can, and do, trigger other seismic events, the recent earthquakes in Haiti, Chile, Japan and Taiwan are not thought by experts to be connected.", "Got something that needs checking?", "E-mail us at factcheck@cnn.com ." ]	[ "Fact Check: Is there any connection between the recent deadly earthquakes?", "Earthquakes are sporadic, unpredictable in nature, says Georgia Tech expert .", "CNN meteorologist: Great time intervals, distances indicate quakes aren't connected .", "While quakes often trigger other seismic events, recent events are thought to be unrelated ." ]	[ 4, 17 ]
[ "Washington (CNN) -- The North Korean government informed the State Department on Friday that it is holding a second American citizen who the North Koreans say entered the country from China, a State Department spokesman said.", "The American, who has not been identified, was detained Monday for trespassing on North Korea's border with China, state-run Korea Central News Agency reported Thursday.", "The incident is under investigation, according to the agency's report.", "Spokesman P.J.", "Crowley had said Thursday afternoon that the department had been unable to get information on the reported incident.", "North Korea announced December 29 that it was holding an American who had entered the country illegally from China on Christmas Eve.", "The news agency did not identify the man, who it said was \"now under investigation by a relevant organ.\"", "At the time, State Department spokesman Ian Kelly said Washington was concerned by reports that a Korean-American missionary, Robert Park, had gone into North Korea, but could not confirm them.", "Washington and Pyongyang have no diplomatic relations.", "The United States relies on the Swedish Embassy to look after U.S. interests in North Korea.", "Crowley has said the United States continues to seek consular access to Park." ]	[ "North Koreans say U.S. citizen entered the country from China .", "North Koreans also still holding American they say entered illegally on Christmas Eve .", "Neither person has been identified; U.S. worried about missionary Robert Park ." ]	[ 1, 5 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Twenty-eight suspected pirates were taken into custody Friday by the European Union Naval Force after a handful of failed attacks on fishing vessels in the Indian Ocean, the EU mission said.", "In the first incident, the mission intercepted a mother ship and two skiffs early Friday in the southern Indian Ocean between the Seycelles and Mombasa, Kenya.", "The mission said the suspected pirates were in an area where an earlier attack had occurred.", "A helicopter from the French warship FS Nivose then tracked the vessels and saw the suspects throwing things overboard, the mission said.", "When a French team arrived at the scene, it found 11 suspected pirates and \"pirate paraphernalia\" in the skiffs: a rocket launcher, grappling hooks and several fuel barrels.", "The forces destroyed the pirate ship and a skiff and took the suspected pirates into custody.", "The fate of the second skiff was not immediately known.", "Soon after, pirates tried to attack a French fishing vessel near two other fishing boats, said Cmdr.", "John Harbour, spokesman for the EU Naval Force.", "The French fishing vessel collided with the suspected pirates' vessel and sank it, Harbour said.", "Six suspected pirates were picked out of the water by the EU force, he said.", "It was not immediately clear if they had been transported to the FS Nivose, although that had been planned, he said.", "Later, pirates tried to attack a Spanish fishing vessel, Harbour said.", "The boat alerted the EU Naval Force, and air and naval units intervened, he said.", "Eleven suspected pirates were taken into custody and were on board the Nivose, Harbour said.", "Harbour said an increase in pirate attacks was likely over the next few weeks as the monsoon season was ending and the ocean was becoming calmer, he said.", "\"The pirates have been preparing for it.", "... We are prepared as well,\" he said.", "On Thursday, pirates on two skiffs in the Indian Ocean attacked the Spanish fishing vessel Albacan, the EU Naval Force said.", "The pirates fired a rocket-propelled grenade, which exploded on the Albacan's deck and burst into flames, force said.", "Armed guards on the Albacan fired shots at the skiffs and repelled the attack, it said.", "No crew members were injured, and the small fire was extinguished.", "The EU mission tries to deter and stop piracy off Somalia, which has been mired in chaos since the early 1990s.", "It escorts vessels in the Gulf of Aden and Indian Ocean carrying World Food Program humanitarian aid to displaced people in Somalia.", "It also seeks to protect \"vulnerable vessels\" in the Gulf of Aden and off the Somali coast, according to the mission's Web site." ]	[ "Pirates attack fishing vessels in Indian Ocean .", "28 suspected pirates and \"pirate paraphernalia\" seized by EU naval force .", "EU mission involved in trying to deter, stop piracy off Somalia .", "EU spokesman: The pirates have been preparing.", "We are prepared as well." ]	[ 0, 16, 17, 22 ]
[ "New York (CNN) -- Today's bipartisan health care meeting is being called a summit, a term that brings to mind diplomatic missions during wartime.", "That's a fitting description for the atmosphere in Washington.", "Political opponents are considered enemies.", "Health care is just the latest example of government dysfunction; it's been derailed by hyper-partisanship, over-spending and the disproportionate influence of special interests.", "Independent voters, the largest and fastest growing segment of the electorate, hold the balance of power in American politics, but they have once again been shut out of the debate.", "The professional partisans in Washington ignore them at their peril.", "Many Americans associate broken government with the chaos that followed Hurricane Katrina and the anxieties that accompany the current manic recession.", "But the roots of independent voters' frustration go deeper.", "For them, the first modern evidence of failure from the federal government came during the late 1960s, when the social spending of Democratic President Johnson's Great Society failed to stop urban blight by throwing taxpayer money at the problem.", "One presidency later, the country confronted the corruption of Watergate from Republican President Nixon.", "Washington grew more harshly partisan, with political opponents determined to delegitimize any president from day one of his term.", "As the two parties grew more polarized, power shifted from the center to the margins, and special interests increased their influence.", "In reaction, the ranks of independent voters grew from 20 percent of the electorate at the start of the 1960s to 30 percent after Watergate.", "When Ross Perot ran for president as an Independent in 1992, the self-made businessman presented himself as a nonideological problem solver.", "His campaign gained traction because both parties had lost credibility as stewards of fiscal responsibility, with overspending and then-record deficits.", "Perot briefly led in the polls, and independents spiked to 36 percent of the electorate.", "The divided government of President Clinton and House Speaker Newt Gingrich ultimately produced hard-won budget surpluses.", "But when President Bush and the Tom DeLay-led Republican Congress ruled Washington during the last decade, surpluses again turned to deficits and independents turned against the GOP.", "Independents listed the economy as their No.", "1 issue back in 2007, when Democrats said health care and Republicans said terrorism.", "Moderates and the middle class -- the people who determine who wins elections -- felt squeezed even before the fiscal crisis, with rising health care and energy costs absorbing whatever benefit they might have received from tax cuts.", "After watching the jet set excess of the Bernie Madoff class from afar, they were left with less and still asked to clean up the mess.", "Now, as they try to balance their own budgets at home, they see big government and big business --Washington and Wall Street -- piling up huge debts and passing the buck to the taxpayer.", "It was in this environment that independents began to break with President Obama last spring, after voting for him in 2008 by an eight-point margin.", "The change they voted for was rooted in candidate Obama's calls for an end to politics that \"played to the base\" and a restoration of fiscal responsibility.", "The liberal House leadership's private negotiations over the $787 billion stimulus bill seemed to contradict those promises.", "And the subsequent health care debate was derailed in part because it was seen as adding additional spending and leading to the growth of government.", "In reaction, independents reasserted themselves, their numbers growing quickly and reaching 43 percent by September 2009, according to a monthly Washington Post/ABC News poll.", "In Virginia, New Jersey and Massachusetts' elections, independents voted by at least a 2-to-1 margin for Republican candidates.", "Exit polls showed they were voting to send a message to Washington, not necessarily endorsing the Congressional Republicans' agenda.", "Independents' anger today is focused on familiar targets: hypocritical politicians, over-spending and a lack of agreement on solutions from Washington.", "Independents feel they are paying more and getting less.", "They believe the system has been rigged to benefit special interests at the expense of the national interest.", "As bitter partisanship increases government's dysfunction, more voters are declaring their independence from politics as usual.", "Today's bipartisan health care summit is a step in the right direction.", "Independent voters want to see the warring parties in Washington speaking to each other in the presence of television cameras, ensuring at least a degree of civility and accountability.", "It's more difficult to demonize the opposition when talking with them.", "But photo-op centrism is, of course, not enough.", "It must be followed by substance.", "To really change the culture of Washington, we need to change the rules that reinforce this predictable partisanship.", "The quickest policy cure would be to change the rigged system of redistricting that creates congressional 'safe seats' and replaces competitive general elections with closed primaries, where party activists reign supreme.", "Nonpartisan redistricting and open primaries would reward politicians who reach across the aisle, and would empower independent voters.", "Americans' sense that government is broken didn't happen overnight, and it won't be solved overnight.", "It will take time to restore trust in Washington.", "But substantive efforts to depolarize our politics will lead to the politics of problem solving.", "The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of John Avlon." ]	[ "John Avlon says health care summit comes amid a period of bipartisan dysfunction in government .", "Historically, frustrated independent voters increase in this climate, hold balance of power, he says .", "Let down by bipartisan gridlock, stalled agenda, faltering economy, independents have broken with Obama .", "Avlon: Health care meeting is chance for parties to show independents they can change ." ]	[ 4, 18, 23, 34 ]
[ "Washington (CNN) -- Desiree Rogers, the White House social secretary, plans to step down, the Obama administration announced Friday.", "Her office came under scrutiny after a couple who lacked an invitation were allowed into President Obama's first state dinner.", "\"We are enormously grateful to Desiree Rogers for the terrific job she's done as the White House social secretary,\" the president and first lady said in a statement released Friday.", "In an interview on Friday, Rogers said she was leaving voluntarily and that her decision was unrelated to the fallout over the security breach.", "\"It has nothing to do with that,\" she said.", "\"It's Secret Service's job to handle security.", "Not the social secretary's office.\"", "The Obamas' statement did not mention November's party-crashing incident .", "\"When she took this position, we asked Desiree to help make sure that the White House truly is the people's house, and she did that by welcoming scores of everyday Americans through its doors, from wounded warriors to local schoolchildren to NASCAR drivers.", "\"She organized hundreds of fun and creative events during her time here, and we will miss her.", "We thank her again for her service and wish her all the best in her future endeavors.\"", "Rogers said in an e-mail to CNN on Friday, \"It has been incredible setting the foundation for the [White House] for this historical presidency.", "Headed back to private sector.\"", "\"I accomplished initially what I came to do,\" Rogers said later.", "\"I like strategy.", "I like building something.", "It's built... the foundation of the [social secretary's] office is good and solid.\"", "Rogers would not say where she'll be working.", "She said she'll be \"around to work on the transition\" to a new social secretary at the White House.", "She summed up her experiences at the White House in another note: \"330 events.", "Halloween for 3,000.", "Easter egg roll for 30,000.", "Music series with performances and the performers teaching the students during the day.", "Latin, jazz, country, civil rights. \"", "In December, the White House was accused of stonewalling as Congress investigated the party-crasher security breach at Obama's first state dinner.", "At issue was whether the White House was protecting Rogers from testifying about how Tareq and Michaele Salahi were able to crash the first White House state dinner.", "The couple did not have an invite but were allowed in.", "Rogers' office planned the dinner.", "At the time, Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan said his agency would take the heat for the incident.", "\"This is our fault and our fault alone,\" he told federal lawmakers.", "\"There's no other people to blame here.", "... Look at me and blame me,\" he told members of the House Homeland Security Committee.", "CNN's Ed Henry, Suzanne Malveaux and John King contributed to this report ." ]	[ "Desiree Rogers came under scrutiny after White House state dinner .", "She says her decision is unrelated to the fallout over the security breach.", "\"Headed back to private sector,\" she says in e-mail .", "\"We are enormously grateful ... for the terrific job she's done,\" Obamas say ." ]	[ 1, 2, 3, 12 ]
[ "Baghdad, Iraq (CNN) -- Saddam Hussein's cousin Ali Hassan al-Majeed -- also known as Chemical Ali -- was executed Monday, an Iraqi government spokesman said.", "He was hanged after having been convicted on 13 counts of killings and genocide, Ali al-Dabagh said.", "Al-Majeed had been sentenced to death in four separate trials, including one that focused on his involvement in a poison gas attack against Iraqi Kurds that killed about 5,000 people.", "His execution had been delayed for political rather than legal reasons.", "It is not clear what change, if any, led to the reported execution.", "Al-Majeed had been held in United States custody since his capture in 2003.", "But he was handed over to the Iraqi authorities in the 24 hours before his execution, U.S.", "Ambassador Christopher Hill told CNN's Diana Magnay on Monday.", "The 1988 poison gas attack on the village of Halabja, which earned al-Majeed his nickname, was part of the Anfal campaign, in which the Hussein regime killed at least 100,000 Iraqi Kurds.", "The campaign is believed to be worst poison gas attack on civilians ever.", "Al-Majeed was sentenced to death separately for his role in putting down a Shiite uprising against Hussein in 1991, and for his part in putting down a Baghdad revolt in 1999.", "Estimates of the Shiite death toll in the 1991 rebellion range from 20,000 to 100,000.", "Al-Majeed was convicted of playing a key part in the slaughter during the revolt in southern Iraq that followed the 1991 Persian Gulf War.", "One of his co-defendants in the Anfal case, Sultan Hashem, is a prominent Sunni leader who is considered a key player in efforts to reconcile the country's once-dominant Sunni community with the Shiite majority that now wields political power.", "Hashem was also sentenced to death, but Iraq's Sunni Arab Vice-President Tariq al-Hashimi has long refused to sign his execution order.", "That delayed the execution of al-Majeed and another defendant as well.", "Iraqi law requires all three members of the Iraqi presidency council -- the president and two vice-presidents -- to sign execution orders.", "It does not say what happens if they do not sign.", "CNN's Yousif Bassil contributed to this report." ]	[ "NEW: U.S. handed al-Majeed over to Iraqi authorities shortly before execution, official says .", "Saddam Hussein's cousin Ali Hassan al-Majeed executed .", "Al-Majeed had been sentenced to death in four separate trials .", "Execution had been delayed by VP's refusal to OK another defendant's death sentence ." ]	[ 0, 2, 6, 15 ]
[ "New York (CNN) -- Former NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw and his wife were involved in a three-vehicle accident Friday in which one person died, a network spokeswoman said.", "The accident happened about 1 p.m. on New York's Bruckner Expressway in the Bronx, spokeswoman Jenny Tartikoff said in a statement.", "Brokaw and his wife, Meredith, were not injured, she said.", "The accident occurred when an SUV swerved to avoid a spool of wire that had fallen from a truck and slammed into a 7-ton U.S. postal truck, said Peter Rendina, a spokesman for the U.S.", "Postal Inspection Service.", "Brokaw, who was driving behind the postal truck, hit the rear of the truck, Rendina said.", "The driver of the SUV was thrown from her vehicle and killed, according to Rendina.", "The newsman and his wife waited at the crash scene until postal inspectors arrived, Rendina said.", "\"According to our inspectors, Brokaw did nothing wrong, just in the wrong place at the wrong time,\" he said.", "\"Tom and Meredith are greatly saddened by this loss of life,\" the Brokaw statement said.", "New York police confirmed that one person was killed in an accident on the expressway involving an SUV, a postal truck and a possible third vehicle.", "No other details were released." ]	[ "Brokaw not at fault, U.S.", "Postal Inspection Service spokesman says .", "Accident occurs when SUV swerves to avoid spool of cable on the road, hits postal truck .", "Brokaw, who was driving behind the postal truck, hit rear of that vehicle, spokesman says ." ]	[ 3, 4, 5 ]
[ "San Diego, California (CNN) -- There was a lot to appreciate in yesterday's bipartisan White House health care summit between President Obama and members of Congress.", "No really. This is the kind of thing that our leaders ought to do three or four times a year on a variety of issues -- from Social Security to education to immigration to job creation.", "Why not? Put aside the sound bites and partisan barbs.", "Get beyond the dueling appearances on the Sunday morning talk shows.", "And bring your best ideas and most constructive suggestions to the table.", "Obama deserves credit for convening the meeting.", "His opening remarks were good, especially when he talked about the rising costs of health insurance premiums, the \"exploding costs of Medicare and Medicaid,\" and how he wanted to \"make sure that this discussion is actually a discussion and not just us trading talking points.\"", "I also appreciated his candid discussion of health scares years ago involving his own daughters and how he wondered \"What would have happened if I didn't have reliable health care?\"", "And his acknowledgement that \"Everybody here understands the desperation that people feel when they're sick.\"", "That is, assuming everything that happened yesterday at Blair House was real -- and not merely a theatrical setup for a Democratic-led effort next week to push through, using reconciliation, what Democrats on the Hill call \"the big bill.\"", "That's Obama's comprehensive $950 billion plan to radically reform the nation's health care system -- the one opposed by every Republican in Congress and, according to polls, a majority of Americans.", "Reconciliation is a procedural maneuver that allows the Senate to pass the health care bill with 51 votes rather than the 60 votes required to end a filibuster.", "Yet, according to a recent Gallup poll, more than half of Americans -- 52 percent -- oppose Democrats resorting to reconciliation to pass a bill.", "And while Republicans are still holding out hope that Obama and congressional Democrats will go back to the drawing board and start with a blank piece of paper, that appears unlikely since Democrats seem to be \"all in\" on their piece of legislation.", "So what was the point of the summit?", "It might well have been to create a foil.", "According to what an unnamed Democratic official told Politico.com, the purpose of the event was to give a face to gridlock.", "Democrats intend over the next few weeks to spin this narrative suggesting that they tried, really tried, to work with Republicans but the \"party of no\" was just too obstinate and too uncompromising.", "So Democrats had no choice but to rely on the perfectly legitimate process known as reconciliation.", "So the summit was a fraud?", "A charade? I hope not. Even in Washington, there has to be a limit to cynicism.", "And I'd hope this would be it.", "I'd hope that Obama and Democratic lawmakers wouldn't toy with the American people on an issue as important as this one.", "Talk about broken government.", "The public wants solutions to our health care problems -- however they're defined -- and not partisan gimmicks that give \"a face to gridlock.\"", "Even many of those Americans who oppose the Democratic plan turn around to tell pollsters, in the next breath, that the current system has too much cost and not enough common sense.", "No one approves of the status quo.", "That's at least something to agree on.", "And while Obama got a lot of things right in his remarks, he also made a big mistake when -- at the very outset of the discussion -- he defined as the baseline \"the House and the Senate legislation that's already passed.\"", "That told Republicans that they were not getting their blank sheet of paper, and that the best they could hope for was to tweak but not substantially change the Democratic plans.", "It also did something else.", "It reminded the American people of who calls the shots in Washington.", "It's the party in power.", "Democrats control all the levers of government, at both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue.", "Remember that fact.", "Write it down. For President Obama and the Democratic congressional leadership, the real obstacles to reform aren't Republicans -- who don't have any power -- but fellow Democrats who are up for re-election and who are terrified of \"the big bill.\"", "They represent districts that either Obama lost to John McCain in 2008 or in which Obama barely squeaked out a victory.", "So they're not going anywhere near this unpopular piece of legislation.", "Who can blame them? Whatever happens on health care, Democrats alone deserve, depending on your view, either the credit or the blame.", "You see, the real face of gridlock is theirs.", "The opinions in this commentary are solely those of Ruben Navarette, Jr." ]	[ "Ruben Navarrette Jr. lauds the health care summit, says leaders ought to hold more such events .", "Navarrette: Let's hope it was real and not preparation for Democrats to pass unpopular health bill .", "Navarrette: Democrats control levers of government in Washington .", "Some Democrats up for re-election are terrified of passing \"the big bill,\" he writes ." ]	[ 0, 9, 33, 35 ]
[ "London, England -- He's no Wyclef Jean or George Clooney, but that hasn't stopped seven-year-old Charlie Simpson from raising more than £150,000 ($240,000) for the Haiti earthquake.", "Simpson from Fulham, west London had hoped to raise just £500 for UNICEF's earthquake appeal by cycling eight kilometers (five miles)around a local park.", "\"My name is Charlie Simpson.", "I want to do a sponsored bike ride for Haiti because there was a big earthquake and loads of people have lost their lives,\" said Simpson on his JustGiving page, a fundraising site which launched his efforts.", "\"I want to make some money to buy food, water and tents for everyone in Haiti,\" he said.", "Donate to Charlie Simpson's Haiti fundraising page .", "And with that simple call, messages of support flooded the site.", "\"Such a big heart for a young boy, you're a little star!\"", "wrote one supporter.", "\"Well done Charlie.", "A real celebrity,\" said another.", "More donations began pouring in after the story caught the attention of the British media -- with many cheering Simpson past the £100,000 mark.", "Even British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is spreading the message.", "His \"Downing Street\" Twitter alias said: \"Amazed by response to the great fundraising efforts of 7 yr old Charlie Simpson for the people of Haiti.\"", "David Bull, UNICEF's UK executive director described Simpson's efforts as \"very bold and innovative.\"", "\"It shows he connects with and not only understands what children his own age must be going through in Haiti,\" Bull said in a press statement.", "\"The little seed -- his idea -- that he has planted has grown rapidly and his is a place well deserved in the humanitarian world.", "\"On behalf of the many children in Haiti, I thank Charlie for his effort.\"", "Money raised by Simpson will go towards UNICEF's Haiti Earthquake Children's Appeal which will provide water, sanitation, education, nutrition as well as support child protection." ]	[ "Charlie Simpson has raised $240,000 for UNICEF's Haiti Earthquake Children's Appeal .", "Donations pour in amid media coverage with many cheering Simpson on .", "Funds raised will provide water, sanitation, education, nutrition and supporting child protection ." ]	[ 17, 18 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Ena Zizi was participating in a prayer group at the national cathedral in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, when the structure came down on her during the 7.0-magnitude earthquake that hit the island on January 12.", "In New York, meanwhile, her son, Maxim Janvier, had no way of knowing what befell her other than she was missing.", "Miraculously, the 70-year-old Zizi survived seven days trapped under the rubble before she was rescued by international search crews this week.", "A person can, give or take, expect to survive 72 hours trapped without water or food.", "Zizi managed to hold on for twice as long, something that experts say speaks to the body's resilience in times of danger.", "It is possible for a healthy person to survive more than 10 days in some cases, experts say.", "\"I wasn't surprised. I knew she would live through that.", "She is a tough woman,\" Janvier said, recalling when he heard the news, via a CNN tip, that his mother had been found.", "Earlier, he had used CNN's Web site to enter his mother's name, age and approximate location in hope of someone identifying her.", "Zizi has since been moved to a medical facility aboard the USS Bataan, and now her son is seeking help moving her to a hospital in Florida for further treatment.", "\"I haven't given up hope,\" Janvier told CNN.", "\"It's God's sign to me that I will have another chance to see my mom.\"", "A CNN crew captured video of Tuesday's rescue.", "After hours of careful extraction by rescue crews from Germany, South Africa and Mexico, Zizi was carried from the rubble on a wooden board as she grasped the edges, her face covered in dust.", "\"Thank God! Thank God!\" she exclaimed as she was pulled out, the video shows.", "\"Thanks to teamwork we were able to take this woman that prayed and prayed, and I believe that her faith that is so big was the thing that saved her,\" one of the Mexican rescuers said.", "iReport: Search list of the missing and the found .", "Janvier said he has no doubt that his mother's faith played a role in her survival.", "\"Definitely, no question.", "Everyone was praying,\" he said.", "By her side as Zizi was freed, her friends from the church cheered and prayed, Janvier said.", "The next step in Zizi's recovery, however, remains unclear.", "Full coverage l Twitter updates .", "The life-long Port-au-Prince resident was undergoing surgery aboard the USS Bataan, Janvier said.", "She was reported to have suffered a fractured femur in the quake." ]	[ "Ena Zizi, in her 70s, lasted seven days in rubble near national cathedral .", "Son, Maxim Janvier says he has no doubt that his mother's faith played a role in her survival .", "Zizi was undergoing surgery aboard the USS Bataan, Janvier said .", "Zizi was reported to have suffered a fractured femur in the quake ." ]	[ 17, 23, 24 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Al Qaeda's north African wing has released an audio message from an Italian man whom it says it has kidnapped and has set a 25-day deadline for the Italian government to meet its demands.", "The message was accompanied by a still photograph, posted on Islamist Web sites, showing a bearded man kneeling in front of a group of six armed and masked men.", "The group, Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, says the man is Cicala Sergio.", "The group says it has been holding the man and his wife for two months.", "The audio message, dated February 24, urges the Italian government to meet the group's demands in 25 days -- although it was unclear what those demands are.", "\"If you want to guarantee the safety of these two Italian captives, you need to pressure your government and urge them to respond to the legitimate demands,\" the statement said.", "CNN could not immediately determine the authenticity of the message.", "In June, Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb executed a British man after the British government did not give in to its demand to release Abu Qatada, a Jordanian considered to be al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden's right-hand man in Europe.", "The group began life as the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat with aspirations to overthrow the Algerian government.", "Around 2004, it joined forces with al Qaeda and extended its reach across North and West Africa.", "CNN's Saad Abedine contributed to this report." ]	[ "The group, Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, says man is Cicala Sergio .", "It was unclear what the group's demands were .", "In June the group executed a British man after UK refused to release Abu Qatada ." ]	[ 2, 7 ]
[ "(CNN) -- A Philippine government convoy was ambushed by gunmen Thursday in the same province that saw the bloody massacre of 57 people last month, a Philippine military spokesman said.", "The convoy was on its way back from a raid on the compound of former governor Andal Ampatuan Sr. in Maguindanao province, Maj. Randolph Cabangbang said.", "No one was injured in the attack, he said.", "\"They were about to take the evidence to General Santos City when they were ambushed in the same municipality (where) the massacre took place,\" Cabangbang said.", "\"The convoy was able to return fire and the gunmen scampered,\" he added.", "The attack occurred at 7:30 p.m. local time (6:30 a.m.", "ET) and Philippine military personnel were still in the area conducting search operations several hours later, he said.", "\"We surmise that these are men who are still loyal to the governor trying to recover what we took from the governor's compound,\" Cabangbang said.", "Thousands of rounds of ammunition and several firearms were recovered from the compound, Cabangbang said.", "Maguindanao province is the same place where 57 people, including 30 journalists, were massacred on November 23.", "That attack, authorities have said, was an apparent attempt to keep a political opponent of the Ampatuan clan from registering to run for governor.", "Philippine police say that at least two people who were at the scene of the massacre have implicated a mayor as being involved in the killings, state media reported Thursday.", "The two are among 161 suspects in the killings in the southern province.", "Some of the suspects are in custody; others are being sought, the Philippines News Agency said.", "Immediately after the killings, suspicion fell on Andal Ampatuan Jr., the mayor of Datu Unsay municipality and the son of the powerful governor of Maguindanao.", "Authorities have recommended that Ampatuan be charged with 25 counts of murder.", "\"We have two (witnesses).", "Because they were in the crime scene, these two have direct testimony linking the mayor to the crime,\" the country's National Police Director Raul Castaneda was quoted as saying by the news agency.", "Also on Thursday, 75 civilians, including children, were kidnapped in the region where the massacre took place, authorities said.", "Several rebel groups there are fighting for different causes.", "Seventeen children and an adult were freed soon after, and negotiations continued to secure the release of the rest, said Army Capt.", "Enrico Ileto.", "The abductions took place Thursday afternoon in Prosperidad, the capital of Agusan del Sur province.", "The November 23 massacre took place on the other side of the island.", "There are no indications that the two incidents are related.", "Alongside Muslim separatist groups that have been fighting for an independent Islamic state in the region, communist rebels are engaged in a 40-year insurgency there.", "The Philippine Congress met Thursday for a second day in a joint session as lawmakers questioned President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo's Cabinet members about a martial law that was imposed on the province Friday.", "The martial law allows arrests without a warrant.", "The army has said it is necessary to impose peace following what has been called a politically motivated massacre.", "Critics contend that it sets a dangerous precedent.", "Violence in the run-up to elections is not uncommon in the country.", "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.", "CNN's Nick Valencia, Joyce Joseph and Sarita Harilela contributed to this report." ]	[ "Philippine government convoy ambushed in same province as massacre .", "Convoy was returning from raid on compound of former provincial governor .", "57 people killed in Maguindanao in apparently politically-motivated attack .", "Separately, 75 civilians kidnapped from a region in southern Philippines ." ]	[ 0, 1, 18 ]
[ "(CNN) -- In a most public fashion, congressional lawmakers have been grilling Toyota officials this week about safety defects that have caused some of the automaker's vehicles to accelerate without warning.", "Accidents and deaths are being linked to these problems.", "This is prime political theater.", "Angry lawmakers are aggressively demanding answers, dressing down their corporate counterparts.", "Toyota officials are largely apologetic.", "Toyota President Akio Toyoda wept after the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing Wednesday.", "What's largely occluded from television cameras, however, are the long, deep ties between Toyota, former federal government employees and current lawmakers, some of whom are (or have been) tasked with providing oversight, upholding public safety and, at the moment, potentially recommending regulatory changes.", "Of course, ties do not mean tepid congressional questioning, nor do they mean tough regulations will not result from committee hearings.", "But as consumers -- and citizens -- watch the hearings transpire, it's worth remembering that Washington is a place where the public interest isn't always politicians' first or only interest.", "In 2009, Toyota employed 31 lobbyists, hired to exert influence and defend the company's interests before Congress, the White House and federal agencies, such as the Department of Transportation and Department of Energy.", "So who are these Toyota lobbyists working the back channels of government?", "Our research indicates that in many instances, they're former members of the U.S. government, earning handsome salaries lobbying on behalf of their corporate client.", "Among the leaders in this small army of lobbyists (and registered as such in 2009) are a former congressman, two former chiefs of staff for prominent senator currently serving, a former Department of Energy assistant secretary, a former assistant director of the National Commission on Air Quality and a former special events director for the Republican National Committee.", "This is a group that can't be easily dismissed by congressional leaders and their staffs.", "In politics, just like any social realm, it's simpler to say \"no\" to a stranger than someone who used to work for you or with you, or someone you may have even campaigned for.", "Now, in Toyota's period of political peril, the company will probably need the help of its lobbyists to mitigate damage to its corporate interests.", "By December, Toyota had spent about $5.4 million on federal lobbying efforts for 2009, more than Honda, Volkswagen, Nissan or any other foreign automaker.", "During the past five years, Toyota's federal lobbying expenditures total nearly $25 million, about enough to buy two new Prius hybrids for every member of Congress.", "Among automakers, only General Motors and Ford have each spent more money to lobby the federal government during that time.", "As for lawmakers themselves, they, too, have connections to Toyota.", "In 2008, the most recent year for which data are available, seven members of Congress reported owning Toyota stock.", "Rep. Jane Harman, D-California, who represents that district in which Toyota's U.S. headquarters is located, declared in her 2008 personal financial disclosure report that she and her husband owned $315,000 in Toyota assets.", "Harman, who serves on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, which is investigating Toyota, said this week that she'd recuse herself from committee proceedings and votes, an appropriate step to avoid any actual or apparent conflict of interest.", "No other member of Congress has publicly followed suit, including Rep. Michael Burgess, R-Texas, another Toyota stock owner in 2008 who also sits on the committee.", "Sen. Jay Rockefeller, a Democrat from West Virginia, doesn't own Toyota stock, but he was instrumental in wooing Toyota to build a factory in his state, once saying he \"felt like a full-fledged member\" of Toyota's site selection team.", "Rockefeller, chairman of the Senate's Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, is slated to serve as the Senate's lead investigator into Toyota's safety issues (hearings begin next week) and whether the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration properly monitored safety concerns about the company.", "The agency's new chief?", "He's David L. Strickland, a former lawyer and senior staff member for Rockefeller's Senate committee.", "(A spokeswoman for Rockefeller told the Washington Post this week that the senator fought \"for good-paying manufacturing jobs but never shirks from holding those same companies' feet to the fire when it comes to safety and consumer protection.\")", "Lawmakers are also the beneficiaries of money Toyota has directly donated to their political campaigns.", "Although Toyota itself cannot create a political action committee through which to make donations to politicians -- foreign firms are banned from doing so -- the U.S.-based Toyota distributor, Gulf States Toyota, faces no such restriction.", "Gulf States Toyota's political action committee has contributed at least $1,000 to each of 10 federal political candidates this election cycle after making donations to 29 federal candidates during the 2008 election cycle.", "Included on this list -- for 2007 and 2008 -- are members of the congressional committees investigating Toyota: Reps. Joe Barton, R-Texas; Gene Green, D-Texas; Charles Melancon, D-Louisiana; Steve Scalise, R-Louisiana; and John Sullivan, R-Oklahoma.", "Since 1999, Toyota employees in the United States have also individually donated more than $100,000 to congressional members.", "Taken separately, these associations may not amount to a smoking gun of profit and politics over people.", "But together, they represent a ruck of entanglements and potential conflicts of interest that must be adequately checked by the press.", "And the public must be mindful of these ties, lest they deliver on their potential to render safety subservient to a financial bottom line.", "The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Sheila Krumholz and Dave Levinthal." ]	[ "Toyota hearings were a major event on Capitol Hill .", "Less visible were ties between Toyota and current, former members of Congress, co-authors say .", "They say the public should be mindful of potential for abuses ." ]	[ 4, 20, 35, 36 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Johnny Lee Wicks, 66, was carrying a 12-gauge shotgun when he walked Monday into the Lloyd D. George Federal Courthouse and started firing, shooting court security officer Stanley W. Cooper and a deputy U.S. marshal, said Kevin Favreau, special agent in charge of the FBI's Las Vegas office.", "The two victims returned fire, driving Wicks out of the courthouse, and pursued him into the street along with two other marshals and three other court security officers -- a total of seven officers, authorities said.", "During the ensuing exchange of gunfire, Wicks fired a total of five rounds, authorities said, while the officers fired a total of 81.", "Wicks was shot in the stomach and fatally shot in the head, Favreau said.", "Cooper later died of his injuries.", "The deputy marshal's condition has stabilized and he was released from the hospital, said Gary Orton, U.S. marshal for Nevada.", "Authorities said the deputy marshal's name would be released after he recovers further.", "Orton said he was about 48 and had more than two decades of service with the U.S. marshals.", "Wicks had a lengthy criminal history, Favreau said, including arrests for murder in Memphis, Tennessee, in the 1970s; arrests for drug charges in the 1980s in Memphis; a 1995 arrest for sexual assault and domestic violence in Sacramento, California; and a 1996 arrest for robbery and domestic violence, also in Sacramento.", "It was unclear whether those arrests resulted in convictions, and authorities did not have information on whether Wicks had been incarcerated.", "In 2008, Wicks filed a race discrimination and civil rights claim against the Social Security Administration, alleging he was denied full benefits because he was African-American, according to court documents.", "A federal judge -- located in the Las Vegas courthouse -- ruled against him in September.", "Those who knew Wicks told authorities he had an \"overwhelming anger\" toward the government, Favreau said.", "However, he had made no threats that police were aware of, and investigators do not know why Monday was the day his rage boiled over.", "Evidence indicates Wicks intentionally set his apartment on fire about 5:05 a.m. Monday, then walked three miles to the courthouse, Favreau said, where the shooting took place about 8 a.m.", "Witnesses said Wicks was clad in black when he walked inside, pulled out the shotgun and opened fire.", "Police believe he acted alone.", "\"An act such as this cannot be predicted,\" said Doug Gillespie, sheriff of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police.", "He and other officials praised Wicks' victims for acting quickly to repel the gunman.", "Cooper, a former sergeant with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police who had been a contract security officer since 1994, \"dedicated his entire life to protecting others,\" Gillespie said.", "\"He was not only a good man, he was a great man.\"", "Cooper was able to fire one round while pursing Wicks, authorities said.", "The sheriff said he did not know whether funeral arrangements had been made for Cooper.", "Wicks fired three rounds inside the courthouse and two others outside, said Las Vegas police Lt. Lou Roberts.", "The last two were fired when Wicks turned to face the pursuing officers, and he was fatally shot shortly afterward, Roberts said.", "He died among the bushes in front of an old school that once housed a temporary police headquarters.", "Wicks had more rounds available, Roberts said, but would not elaborate, citing the ongoing investigation.", "The officers involved in the firefight have been placed on administrative leave, authorities said -- standard procedure for officer-involved shootings.", "Witnesses to the exchange of gunfire Monday estimated at least 40 shots were fired.", "A one-minute, 13-second video clip posted on YouTube includes at least 45 gunshots, many in rapid succession.", "Nicholas Gramenos, who recorded the clip, said he was leaving the courthouse when the shooting erupted.", "Another witness, Bobby Scottland, told CNN the shots \"sounded like popcorn.\"", "Cones were scattered across Las Vegas Boulevard Monday evening, with each representing a slug or shell casing from the gun battle." ]	[ "NEW: Suspect Johnny Wicks had a lengthy rap sheet .", "Wicks was shot and killed after opening fire in courthouse lobby .", "Slain guard identified as former Vegas police officer .", "FBI: Wicks pulled shotgun from underneath his jacket and began shooting ." ]	[ 0, 4, 15, 16 ]
[ "Liancourt, Haiti (CNN) -- She gingerly walked from the car and shuffled up the small hill, her eyes welled in tears.", "The first sight of her daughter's grave was too much for Beatrice Elan to bear.", "She began to scream and flail.", "\"Anna, Anna, Anna,\" Elan cried, while two family members struggled to restrain her.", "On Thursday, Elan's 11-year-old daughter, Anaika St. Louis, became another victim of a tragedy unforgiving to both the old and the young.", "Just hours earlier that day, CNN brought Anaika's story to the world.", "For 48 hours she had lain trapped under the rubble since a 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck Haiti on Tuesday.", "Her right leg was crushed and pinned by a steel beam.", "\"My lord God, save me!\"", "she cried. Her screams were chilling.", "Share your tributes to victims of the Haiti earthquake .", "No rescue teams could be found.", "Caring neighbors and family desperately tried to cut through steel using a hacksaw.", "CNN correspondent Ivan Watson and photojournalist Dominic Swann, climbed up into the crevice that trapped Anaika, and brought her water and granola bars.", "She reached out to hold their hands when she was scared.", "Volunteers gave Anaika a pair of glasses to protect her eyes from the dirt.", "\"She spent 3 days in the hole.", "All that time saying, 'My God, I don't want to die.", "I want to live,\" said her aunt Etiana Jean-Baptiste.", "On Thursday night, neighbors found a power saw and a portable generator.", "Soon after, Anaika was free.", "But a happy ending eluded this story.", "Anaika was rushed to a doctor, who could only offer some mild pain killers.", "The doctor told the family that they had to get Anaika to a hospital about three hours away.", "Her uncle said Anaika was bleeding internally.", "She was so incredibly strong, he said, and was willing to have her leg amputated, to live.", "\"She say, 'Thank you, God.", "Because He save my life,\" said Rodreffe Jean-Baptiste, in broken English.", "\"If I lose my feet. I always had my life,\" he recalled his niece saying.", "But before the night was over, Anaika was gone.", "Anaika's family called her the \"little lawyer,\" because she wanted to study law one day.", "She sang in the choir at church and at school, and seemed to have found a special place in each of her family members' heart.", "Her aunt said she was just beautiful.", "\"She said ... 'Bring me a Bible.", "There is a psalm I like a lot, which is Psalm 23,'\" recalled her aunt, Etiana Jean-Baptiste.", "\"She spent all her time reading the psalm.", "She said, 'My God, come help me.'\"", "Anaika's funeral was held in a church in Liancourt on Friday night and Anaika was buried -- wearing a Girl Scouts uniform and a veil in Liancourt.", "Liancourt, about two hours away from the devastated capital of Port-au-Prince, escaped the quake's fury.", "This is where Anaika's family has taken refuge -- and where they mourn the passing of a little girl with an angel's voice." ]	[ "Anaika St. Louis dies after being rescued .", "She had been trapped in the rubble for 48 hours days .", "CNN crew meets girl while rescue was underway, gives her water, food .", "Family buries girl known as the \"little lawyer\" on Friday ." ]	[ 6, 16, 20, 30 ]
[ "(CNN) -- It has become a commonplace that it is hard to comprehend the disaster in Haiti.", "If so, and if we hope to provide Haitians with anything like the help that they need, then we must understand where our minds fail us.", "One problem that we do not yet face is having our compassion numbed by the sheer magnitude of the calamity.", "Indeed, it has evoked a deep visceral response, as we see graphic images of individual suffering on a background of mass devastation.", "When our local tea store is devoting 20 percent of sales to relief and cell phone donations keep pouring in, the scope of the tragedy is mobilizing, not paralyzing.", "The threat to our compassion comes, rather, from feeling ineffective.", "We risk that failure if we cannot grasp the realities facing Haiti.", "Here, we face two deep mental challenges.", "One is that we must struggle to comprehend how many interdependent threads of Haiti's social fabric have been ripped apart.", "People lost family, friends and communities in an instant.", "Children were orphaned in a nation already struggling to care for many orphans.", "Hospitals, factories and government agencies disappeared.", "Essential aid organizations lost brave people and resources.", "Communications and transportation were ruined, including the port that brings almost all goods into the nation.", "Here, imagining ourselves in the Haitians' plight might help.", "Can we imagine trying to recover, if our country faced the most massive disaster in its history, without work, food, medicine, transportation, commerce or government?", "The second challenge is that our minds also struggle to reason quantitatively about events beyond our normal experience.", "Here, a back-of-the-envelope calculation might help.", "Assume, plausibly, that everything that 3 million Haitians need must be brought in from outside their country for a period of time.", "Assume that each Haitian needs 5 pounds of goods per day (food, water, medical supplies, soap, cooking fuel, the gasoline needed to distribute these supplies and more).", "Assume that everything must be flown in (at least until the port can be reopened).", "That means 15 million pounds (7,500 tons) of airfreight per day.", "If a cargo plane can carry 75 tons, then that means 100 flights per day, or one plane landing every 15 minutes, then having its goods unloaded and distributed to victims across the country.", "One way to understand what those numbers mean is by analogy.", "The Berlin Airlift was another crisis that required a massive mobilization to supply an isolated population in desperate need.", "Berlin was cut off by a hostile power, rather than by an ocean.", "It was devastated by war rather than by an earthquake.", "Its 2 million citizens needed roughly 5,000 tons of goods per day, delivered through limited entry points, over distances comparable to those of Haiti's island neighbors.", "The airlift required an unprecedented logistics operation, which Soviet and East German authorities believed impossible.", "It encountered serious organizational problems in coordinating American forces among themselves and with our allies.", "It drew resources from other military theaters.", "It was enormously expensive, in both money and the lives of aviators.", "In some ways, supplying Haiti is easier.", "Technology is vastly improved and the world much wealthier.", "But in other ways, supplying Haiti is even more difficult than the Berlin Airlift.", "Berlin was occupied territory, under Allied military rule; while Haiti has little functioning government, and those trying to help are struggling to work out their division of labor.", "If we are not thinking in terms of an effort as massive and risky as the Berlin Airlift, then we have not gotten our minds around the problem.", "Unless we grasp the complexity and magnitude of the task, then we may be expecting brave, dedicated relief workers to do the impossible -- and be disappointed when they cannot do it all.", "As a nation, we may fail to support our leaders in providing the sustained resources that the mission requires.", "If our collective imagination and our sense of history fail us, then we will not achieve the results that our compassion demands -- and will fail Haiti and its people in their long, difficult road to recovery.", "The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Baruch Fischhoff and Kathleen Tierney." ]	[ "The earthquake devastated Haiti's families, social networks and economy, authors say .", "They say it's difficult to conceive of the dimensions of the need .", "The U.S. and others will have to supply essentials of life for a time, they say .", "Authors: In some ways, the aid operation is equivalent to airlift that sustained Berlin in 1940s ." ]	[ 0, 8, 24, 26, 34, 37 ]
[ "New York (CNN) -- \"Unauthorized and unprofessional\" is how an internal memo describes the conduct of an air traffic controller, who allegedly allowed his two young children to speak with pilots on an air traffic control frequency, and his supervisor, who allegedly allowed it to happen.", "The memo, dated February 25, was written after the facilities manager for the air traffic control tower at New York's John F. Kennedy Airport learned about the incident, a source who has seen the memo told CNN.", "\"The display of professionalism in the past by the control personnel at this facility has been exemplary,\" the memo said.", "\"However, a lapse in judgment for what may seem a minor transgression diminishes our credibility and slights the high standards of professionalism.\"", "It was not immediately clear what prompted the manager to write the memo or how he found out about the incident, the source said.", "The incidents occurred on succeeding days last month at JFK, the Federal Aviation Administration said this week, and the controller and the supervisor have been placed on paid administrative leave.", "\"We have an incredible team of professionals who safely control our nation's skies every single day.", "This kind of behavior does not reflect the true caliber of our workforce,\" FAA Administrator Randy Babbitt said in the statement Wednesday.", "Babbitt was referring to the February 16 incident involving the controller's young son, who is heard in a recording -- posted on liveatc.net -- clearing a JetBlue flight for takeoff and later speaking to an apparent Aeromexico flight.", "Later, an FAA official, who asked not to be identified because of the ongoing investigation, said the controller brought his daughter into the same tower the following day, and the child was allowed to talk with pilots of two planes.", "A separate source said the supervisor \"should be making sure that things like this don't happen.\"", "Yet another source familiar with the investigation said the two children are twins.", "The controller who brought the children to work later reported that he had done so, the source said.", "The controller and supervisor involved are veteran employees, the official said.", "Dave Pascoe owner of the Web site where the recording of the air traffic communications is posted, told CNN he thinks the attention the incident has drawn is \"ridiculous\" and it has been \"blown out of proportion.\"", "In the recording, a child says, \"JetBlue 171, cleared for takeoff.\"", "A man then tells the plane, \"Here's what you get, guys, when the kids are out of school.\"", "The pilot chuckles and says, \"Wish I could bring my kid to work.\"", "The same pilot later tells the child, \"Awesome job.\"", "During the recording, which is dated February 17, the child also speaks to an apparent Aeromexico flight.", "A recording from the following day, when the daughter was reportedly in the tower, also was posted on the Web site.", "FAA spokeswoman Laura Brown later said the incident took place about 7:30 p.m. February 16.", "Pascoe said most people \"in the aviation community felt like this was (not) anything more than a noble thing, that a father would take his kid to work.\"", "\"It was one incident where a kid was up in the control tower,\" he said.", "\"If you know anything about aviation, you know that the air traffic control towers are highly supervised.", "... A father was taking a child to work and let the kid clear planes for takeoff and now the world thinks it's an unsafe place.\"", "The FAA has suspended all unofficial visits to air traffic control operational areas during its investigation into the incident.", "Babbitt has directed a team to review air traffic control policies and procedures related to facility visitors.", "The National Air Traffic Controllers Association, the union representing controllers, issued a statement, saying its members \"do not condone this type of behavior in any way.\"", "CNN's Susan Candiotti contributed to this report." ]	[ "Memo says conduct of control personnel in the past \"has been exemplary\"\nMemo goes on to say the \"lapse in judgment\" slights the agency's credibility .", "The FAA has suspended all unofficial visits to air traffic control operation areas ." ]	[ 2, 26 ]
[ "New York (CNN) -- Passengers of US Airways Flight 1549 could soon have a unique souvenir from their harrowing flight that ended in New York's Hudson River -- although it would be quite a large one.", "The plane famously landed with 155 people aboard in the frigid river waters by Capt.", "Chesley \"Sully\" Sullenberger last January after a bird strike disabled its engines is up for auction.", "The plane, an Airbus A320-214, is listed for sale \"AS IS/WHERE IS\" at a salvage yard in Kearny, New Jersey.", "The wings, included in the sale, have been separated from the body of the aircraft and the bid site for the aircraft lists \"severe water damage throughout the airframe\" and \"impact damage to underside of aircraft.\"", "The engines are not included.", "The auction, managed by Dan Akers of Chartis Insurance, is set to end on March 27 at 4:30 p.m.", "ET and is open to the public.", "Chartis is a division of the larger American International Group Inc. and insures US Airways.", "Marie Ali, a spokeswoman for Chartis, told CNN the plane is being auctioned \"as salvage\" but declined to provide further details about the auction.", "A spokesperson for Sullenberger said the captain is aware the plane is at a salvage yard.", "US Airways did not immediately return calls for comment about the auction." ]	[ "Airbus plane listed for sale \"AS IS/WHERE IS\" at a salvage yard in New Jersey .", "The wings, included in the sale, have been separated from the body of the aircraft .", "Plane, piloted by Capt.", "Chesley \"Sully\" Sullenberger, safely landed in Hudson .", "Auction set to end on March 27 at 4:30 p.m.", "ET and is open to the public ." ]	[ 3, 4, 6, 7 ]
[ "(CNN) -- When Bertrand Piccard came up with his audacious plan to fly around the world in an aircraft powered only by the sun, he found that airplane manufacturers were skeptical such a plane could be built.", "So who built the first model of \"Solar Impulse,\" Piccard's $72-million solar-powered craft?", "A company that makes ships.", "Piccard, who won the first transatlantic balloon race and commanded the first balloon flight around the world, told CNN, \"Each time we asked the aeronautical industry to build that airplane, they told us it's impossible.", "We cannot make an airplane so light and so big.", "So who did we ask for some help? A boat manufacturer.", "They had no idea it was impossible, so they built the pieces in carbon fiber and now we have an airplane.\"", "The plane is made by the Swiss company Decision SA, which made the America's Cup-winning Alinghi.", "\"People put limitations on their creativity, believing they have to rely on what they know and what they have done,\" Piccard says.", "He sees the Solar Impulse venture as a way to dramatically demonstrate that it's possible to make a sharp break with the past -- in this case, by showing that renewable energy can replace fossil fuel.", "\"A lot of industries say we have a society based on oil dependency, so let's continue.", "... We know how to deal with oil.", "The result is General Motors and Chrysler going bankrupt.", "It's a typical example of people who did not make the turnaround early enough.", "If GM made engines with much lower fuel consumption, they would not have gone bankrupt.\"", "\"We have to get rid of certainties, habits, paradigms, common assumptions,\" Piccard says.", "\"These are the limits to creativity.\"", "Piccard, who is 51, spoke about his new venture at the TED Global conference in July 2009 and elaborated on it in a recent interview with CNN.com.", "CNN: Why are you interested in attempting to fly around the world in a solar airplane?", "Bertrand Piccard: My life and the life of my family has to do with exploration, with adventure.", "My grandfather was the first man in the stratosphere, and my father was the first to touch the deepest point in the ocean.", "... For me adventure and exploration is something in the blood.", "So that's why I flew around the world in a balloon in 1999. ...", "It was considered to be impossible, I said, \"Let's try it.\"", "I succeeded after two failures, and I came to the middle of my life, thinking now that adventure has to go on, and a pioneering sprit has to go on, but how can the adventure be useful -- not a personal dream like flying around the world in a balloon -- but really useful?", "I came up with idea of a solar airplane flying around the world with no fuel -- that would be a beautiful message in terms of technology, the energy of the future and the environment.", "CNN: So what is the status of the effort right now?", "Piccard: So the airplane is built.", "The first flight was achieved on the third of December and in the spring and summer this year, we're going to make the high-altitude flights and the cycle of [flying] one day, one night and one day.", "We take off in the morning.", "We climb to 27,000 feet, and at the same time we load the batteries and run the engines on solar power only.", "Then we fly through the night on the batteries in order to reach the next sunrise and continue the following day.", "So this makes a complete cycle, with no fuel.", "When this will be achieved, we will build a second airplane that will be able to cross the Atlantic and fly around the world.", "The first airplane has to prove that it's possible to fly a complete cycle, one day, one night, one day. ...", "This little airplane is not a Piper or Cessna with a couple of solar cells.", "It's a really high-tech carbon fiber airplane which is 200 feet in wingspan.", "It weighs 1.6 tons.", "So it has basically the wingspan of a jumbo jet 747, it has the weight of a little car, and on average it can fly with the energy of a little motorcycle -- which is only provided by the sun. ...", "If an airplane like this can fly day and night with no fuel, then nobody can say in the future that it is impossible to use the same technology for cars, for heating systems, for air conditioning, for electronics and so on.", "CNN: How fast will the plane travel?", "Piccard: The plane will travel very slowly.", "Otherwise it would take too much energy.", "The average speed will be 40 knots, roughly 55 miles per hour.", "CNN: And so a flight around the world will take how long?", "Piccard: It would take around 20 days and because there is only one pilot at a time in the cockpit, we're going to land every five days and change the pilot. ...", "When Charles Lindbergh crossed the Atlantic in 1927, he was alone on board, and the airplane was full of gasoline and nobody thought than an airplane could take passengers over the Atlantic.", "And 30 years later, airplanes were taking 200 passengers across the Atlantic.", "So now we start the same thing over again, but with no fuel.", "We need an airplane that is very big, that is very light, and full of batteries, lithium polymer batteries, and it can take only one person.", "We have to see afterward if the technology can improve -- and transport people.", "But our goal is more to bring about a revolution in behavior than to bring a revolution in aviation.", "The goal is really to have people on ground who will follow this adventure and will start to use the same technologies, to save energy and to rely on renewable energy.", "CNN: What is the biggest technical challenge in building this airplane?", "Piccard: There are several challenges.", "One challenge is to have this airplane light enough despite its huge wingspan.", "The construction has to be done with carbon fiber with completely new technologies.", "The structure of Solar Impulse ... is 10 times lighter than the normal glider.", "It's a breakthrough in construction technologies.", "The second challenge is energy.", "It has to fly through the night with a battery that has been loaded the previous day.", "So it has to be extremely energy efficient.", "Another challenge is that it's difficult to ... control such a huge airplane that flies so slowly and is so light.", "CNN: Do you intend to be one of the pilots?", "Piccard: I will be one of the pilots, and Andre Borschberg will also be a pilot.", "CNN: What's the greatest risk on the flight?", "Piccard: The greatest risk is bad weather.", "If we cannot remain in sunny areas, we may have to land somewhere or ditch in the ocean.", "But we have very, very good weathermen, and I'm confident that it will work.", "CNN: So you will not be flying above the cloud cover?", "Piccard: We will be flying above the cloud cover, but during the night we have to fly lower because the efficiency of the batteries on the market is not yet sufficient for us to stay at high altitudes.", "So during the day we climb to 27,000 feet and then during the night, we go down to 10,000 feet to save energy.", "When we have sunlight, we go up again.", "Which means that in the morning we absolutely have to be clear of clouds, otherwise we cannot go up again.", "CNN: Why can't you go up through clouds?", "Piccard: Because we will have almost empty batteries every morning ... so if we have clouds in morning, we cannot load the batteries to go back up. ...", "This will be the big weather challenge for the team.", "CNN: Where will you land the plane?", "Piccard: We need an airport with a large runway.", "We don't need a long runway.", "We'll have one stop in the U.S. ... We have not yet decided where it will be.", "We'll have five legs, and each leg will be five days and five nights on average.", "So we'll stop in China, Hawaii, the U.S. mainland, Europe and one stop probably in the Arab Emirates and then back in China.", "CNN: What's your projected date for takeoff?", "Piccard: The schedule is like this: In 2010, we fly day and night.", "In 2011, we'll make international flights, several days and nights.", "In 2012, we'll cross the Atlantic, and in 2012 or 2013, we'll go around the world.", "CNN: How much does this project cost and who's paying for it?", "Piccard: The entire budget is 100 million U.S. dollars, coming from private sponsors.", "CNN: Do you have children?", "Piccard: Yes I have three kids.", "CNN: And are they adventurous?", "Piccard: Well, they fly with me with hang gliders, with balloons, paragliders, micro-lights.", "They like it very much. But I'd say they're a little too young to show really what they're going to do, they're 15, 17 and 19.", "... CNN: Are you hoping your children will take on adventures the way you have?", "Piccard: No, I hope they will take on the challenge of improving the quality of life, bringing a pioneering spirit and new ways to think about political issues, environmental issues, technological issues, charity issues.", "In the 20th century, the heroes were the ones who went to the North Pole, the South Pole, Everest, the bottom of the ocean, space and the moon.", "In the 21st century I think the heroes will be the people who will improve the quality of life, fight poverty and introduce more sustainability." ]	[ "Bertrand Piccard is a ballooning record-setter; wants to fly around the world in a solar plane .", "He says he wants to demonstrate the potential of renewable energy to replace fossil fuel .", "Piccard says in a TED Talk that thinking creatively requires the ability to jettison familiar ideas .", "He says, \"We have to get rid of certainties, habits, paradigms, common assumptions\"" ]	[ 0, 9, 15 ]
[ "ISTANBUL, Turkey (CNN) -- Two Iranians who were caught up in the waves of arrests that followed the disputed presidential elections in June have accused their captors of raping them.", "By telling his story, Ibrahim Sharifi says, he \"committed social suicide so this incident wouldn't happen to others.\"", "An Iranian man and a woman made the allegations in separate interviews with CNN.", "Both said they fled to Turkey from Iran after claiming to have been threatened by Iranian security services.", "While CNN does not normally use the names of alleged rape victims, their names are included here with their permission.", "CNN could not independently confirm their accounts.", "But the testimony of one of the alleged rape victims, Ibrahim Sharifi, was revealed last month by a prominent Iranian opposition leader who claimed to have gathered at least four accounts of sexual assault this summer in Iranian prisons.", "Sharifi's allegations were also included in a report published last week by two Western human rights organizations investigating reports of abuse in Iranian prisons.", "\"What we're encountering are numerous accounts of brutality, poor treatment, even torture, serious beatings, and a couple of cases, as you know, of alleged sexual assault -- rape,\" said Joe Stork, Middle East deputy director for Human Rights Watch.", "The Iranian government has launched two investigations into the allegations.", "Iran's judiciary concluded there was no evidence of rape.", "A parliamentary fact-finding committee is still working on the issue.", "Repeated calls by CNN to get reaction from Iranian officials to the claims of the alleged victims did not result in a response.", "\"Take him and get him pregnant\" Twenty-four-year-old Ibrahim Sharifi is a university student from Tehran who campaigned actively on the Internet for opposition presidential candidate Mehdi Karrubi in the run-up to the controversial June 12 vote.", "When incumbent president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was declared winner, Sharifi joined the throngs of angry protesters in the streets who accused the government of rigging the election.", "On June 22, Sharifi said, he was kidnapped, handcuffed, blindfolded and stuffed into a car by three unknown men while he was walking home from language lessons at the Italian Embassy.", "He said they drove him to an unknown location, where he was stripped to his underwear.", "There, he said, he endured several days of beatings and mock executions alongside other male prisoners, all the time tightly blindfolded.", "Watch Ibrahim Sharifi describe being tortured and sexually assaulted » .", "\"They took us and they put a noose around my neck in a way that I was forced to stand on my tiptoes, unable to breathe,\" Sharifi said.", "\"Somebody was constantly telling us ... 'You have received the oral sentence to be hanged, we are just waiting for the written order.'\"", "\"There was the stink of piss and blood.", "It smelled terrible,\" Sharifi recalled.", "\"I was beaten so much I didn't have any energy left to cry.\"", "On the fourth day of his detention, during one of these mock executions, Sharifi said he finally snapped.", "\"I said, if you want to kill us, go ahead.", "Why do you play such games with us?", "And the response was a kick in my stomach that made me fall.\"", "Sharifi said his captors kicked him repeatedly in the stomach until he started vomiting blood.", "He showed a pink scar on his belly from a previous car accident that he said was torn open by the blows.", "\"Then the guy told someone else, 'Take him and get him pregnant,'\" Sharifi said, his voice cracking with emotion.", "\"They tied my hands to the wall and tied my legs, and then did that thing to me.", "While doing it, he was telling me, \"You, who cannot even defend your you-know-what, you wanted to conduct a revolution?\"", "Sharifi said he blacked out during the rape and woke up later, handcuffed to a hospital bed.", "A day later, he said, his captors dumped him, blindfolded, on the side of a highway.", "\"I was raped. Raped four times\" Twenty-one-year-old Maryam Sabri spoke to CNN by telephone from a Turkish city where, like Sharifi, she is waiting for the U.N. High Commission for Refugees to process her request for asylum.", "She said she was arrested by men in plainclothes on July 30 while attending a ceremony at the grave of Neda Agha-Soltan, the Iranian woman whose death was captured by cell phone camera after she was shot during a protest in the streets of Tehran.", "\"When I asked them where was I being taken to, why have you arrested me, who are you?\"", "their response was a constant slap on my face,\" Sabri recounted.", "Sabri said she was interrogated several times after being detained.", "The sexual assault began during the third interrogation, she said.", "\"He said, 'OK, you wanted your vote back?", "Now I'm going to give back your vote.\"", "It was then that I was raped. Raped four times,\" she said.", "\"My hands were tied and my eyes were blindfolded,\" she said.", "\"He threw me on the ground while pressing my throat with one hand, and both my legs were under the weight of his legs so I couldn't move at all.\"", "Sabri said the last time she was raped, her assailant took off her blindfold and said he would release her on the condition that, once out of prison, she remain in contact with him and cooperate with him.", "Several days after her release, Sabri said the alleged rapist, described as a man in his late 30s with light eyes and several days' worth of stubble, began calling her on her cell phone and threatening her.", "She fled Iran several weeks later and applied for refugee status in Turkey.", "Rape as punishment?", "Human rights organizations Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran have expressed alarm about the reports of sexual assault in prison.", "\"The issue is, are the authorities using rape as a tool to pressure people, to punish people?\"", "asked Stork, the Middle East deputy director for Human Rights Watch.", "\"In the case of the one individual, Ibrahim Sharifi, it appears it was a punishment.\"", "Iran's parliament and judiciary launched investigations into the allegations.", "But last month, Iranian security forces raided the offices of Karrubi, the opposition presidential candidate and longtime advocate for prisoners' rights who first publicized the rape allegations.", "The offices of another opposition candidate, Mir Hossein Moussavi, were also raided in September.", "Iran's powerful conservative parliamentary speaker, Ali Larijani, said a special committee of Iran's parliament, or Majlis, conducted a \"precise and comprehensive inquiry\" into the treatment at Tehran's Evin and Kahrizak prisons and found \"no cases of rape or sexual abuse,\" government-funded Press TV reported last month.", "Larijani accused Karrubi of spreading \"sheer lies.\"", "However, not everyone was persuaded by the investigation.", "\"The Iranian authorities appear more intent on finding the identities of those who claim to have been tortured by security officials than in carrying out an impartial investigation,\" said Amnesty International Secretary General Irene Khan.", "Sabri and Sharifi are members of a growing population of expatriate Iranian dissidents in Turkey.", "Both face an uncertain future as refugees here and worry about the safety of their families back in Tehran.", "Sabri claims her father was arrested after she first went public with her rape testimony on the U.S. government-funded network Voice of America.", "Sharifi, meanwhile, said that before he fled Iran, government investigators accused him of lying about his prison experience for money ... charges he angrily denies.", "\"I broke a taboo in Iran,\" he said, weeping.", "\"I sat in front of the camera and committed social suicide so this incident wouldn't happen to others.\"", "\"I want the whole world to know that Iran's problems are not only limited to the nuclear issue,\" he said.", "\"The Iranian regime plays games with other countries of the world.", "It plays the same games with its own nation and people.\"" ]	[ "Two expatriate Iranians allege rapes in graphic detail .", "Male, female Iranian dissidents give separate interviews to CNN .", "Both are in Turkey, claiming they fled after threats from security services .", "They were arrested after disputed June 12 presidential election ." ]	[ 0, 3 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The Canadian government hopes to overturn a decision granting refugee status to a white South African who says he would face persecution at home, a spokesman for Canada's immigration minister said Friday.", "The Immigration and Refugee Board recently granted refugee status to Brandon Huntley, 31, a South African native who has been living illegally in Canada.", "The board decided to let him live and work legally in Canada after Huntley argued he had been the victim of racial violence and discrimination in South Africa.", "The board operates independently of the Canadian government.", "The ruling African National Congress in South Africa blasted the decision as racist and said it would \"only serve to perpetuate racism.\"", "Watch how the South African government has condemned the ruling » .", "Now the Canadian government plans to ask federal courts to overturn the decision, said Alykhan Velshi, a spokesman for Canadian Immigration Minister Jason Kenney.", "\"It's important to stress that this isn't the minister's decision nor that of the government,\" Velshi said in a statement Friday.", "\"It was a decision taken by the quasi-judicial, independent Immigration and Refugee Board.", "I will leave it to them to defend the quality of their decisions.\"", "He declined further comment \"because the matter is now before the courts.\"", "A spokesman for the Immigration and Refugee Board earlier also had declined to comment on the grounds that refugee claims are confidential.", "However, a member of the board's Refugee Protection Division, William Davis, has written in The Toronto Star that the board found that Huntley's case demonstrated \"a picture of indifference and inability or unwillingness\" by South Africa to protect \"white South Africans from persecution by African South Africans.\"", "About 79 percent of South Africans are black; 9.6 percent are white.", "Huntley's attorney, Russell Kaplan, said his client had been attacked seven times by black South Africans who called him a \"settler\" and a \"white dog.\"", "\"In each instance, there were racially motivated remarks that were made -- that's what distinguishes this case from ordinary criminality,\" Kaplan said.", "The African National Congress has a different view.", "\"We find the claim by Huntley to have been attacked seven times by Africans due to his skin color -- without any police intervention -- sensational and alarming,\" the ANC said in a statement this week.", "Kaplan is a human rights lawyer in Canada who left South Africa 20 years ago to escape the apartheid government's discrimination against black South Africans.", "\"Twenty years later, we have this case that involves the exact opposite,\" he said this week.", "Newspaper clippings were presented as evidence of life in South Africa during the August 18 hearing, South Africa's The Times reported.", "Kaplan's sister, who came to Canada last year, testified about \"the torture and murder\" of their brother, who was killed by robbers in 1997, the newspaper reported.", "The ANC said the current government under President Jacob Zuma is committed to fighting crime \"regardless of color or creed.\"", "The South African government would have preferred Canada seek its view \"before such a decision was made,\" South African Foreign Affairs spokesman Ronnie Mamoepa told The Times.", "\"Quite clearly, the allegations are as preposterous as they are laughable -- which they would be if they were not serious,\" he told the newspaper." ]	[ "Brandon Huntley says he faced racial violence and discrimination in South Africa .", "Canadian immigration board recently granted refugee status to Huntley .", "South African government blasted decision as racist .", "Canadian government asks courts to overturn independent board's decision ." ]	[ 0, 1, 3 ]
[ "ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- Dressed head to toe in black, designer Isaac Mizrahi is wearing an outfit that seems to contradict his personality -- and his usual fashion flair.", "Isaac Mizrahi has earned four awards from the Council of Fashion Designers of America.", "\"I always start with color when I'm designing things.", "Always. If the color is right, I feel better,\" he touts on his Web site.", "But Mizrahi has an explanation for his less than colorful attire on a recent visit to CNN Center in Atlanta.", "\"We have this very quick trip, and we have to go right back and there's no time to pack and we can't check luggage ... so I focused it to black, gray and white.\"", "It's just one more style tip you can pick up from Mizrahi's new book \"How to Have Style\" (Gotham).", "Despite the slightly audacious title, Mizrahi, who has won four awards from the Council of Fashion Designers of America, has earned the right to tell women how to dress.", "For five years, the New York fashion designer has been selling low-priced clothing and home furnishings at Target.", "But with his new book comes a new job -- as the creative director of Liz Claiborne.", "CNN talked to Mizrahi about his love for theater, the most common fashion mistakes and why bad flowers are never OK.", "The following is an edited version of that interview: .", "CNN: You started in acting at the High School of the Performing Arts.", "How do you combine that love and your love for design?", "Isaac Mizrahi: Well, you know what, I think it's all theater.", "I think that fashion is a form of entertainment.", "And I think that these days, as a fashion designer, it's almost like you represent a political party or something.", "Like women say, \"Oh, that's a brand name I associate with because I've worn it before.", "I love it. It seems to fulfill who I am really easily.\"", "Whatever it is, she knows that it just makes her life really easy so she associates with it, you know?", "And in the end, I am like this personality that represents that.", "Watch Mizrahi talk about his new book » .", "But more than that, I have designs [in] the entertainment business.", "There's a movie called \"Unzipped\" about me that was a really successful movie.", "I had two TV series.", "I design costumes constantly for theater and ballet and opera.", "So to me it's all one big world.", "It's seamless to me. CNN: What's your daily schedule like?", "It has to be crazy with all that you do. Mizrahi: It changes every day, and I really like that.", "There's a base to it. I wake up, I go swimming every day, and I eat the same breakfast almost every single day.", "But when I get to work is when it changes up.", "Some days I work in the showroom; some days I work in the design room; some days I actually work in my own private studio, where I just do sketches and sketches and sketches.", "Other days I work in the TV studio taping segments and my Web show.", "I don't really love travel.", "I feel like it really disrupts what I love doing most, which is this creation, you know what I mean?", "When I finally let myself enjoy it, I can enjoy traveling.", "But it takes a great agony for me to separate from New York City and my studios and the people that I work with.", "CNN: Say you're walking down the street.", "What's the most common style error that you see in people?", "Mizrahi: I see a lot, a lot, a lot of bad hair.", "I would say that's the most common style error I see is bad hair.", "You know people have excuses for bad shoes -- because you know some people have back problems, it is the street and they're walking and walking and walking -- but I do think that people have no excuse for bad hair.", "Because you know what? There's a hat, if your hair is really that bad that day.", "But I always think that women should be encouraged to spend a lot of money on their hair.", "It's like you should spend your most money ... on your hair.", "You'd think I had a chain of hair salons, but I don't.", "[Laughter]. CNN: What about in home furnishing?", "You do a line for Target that's ending this year.", "What's the most common mistake people make there?", "Mizrahi: You know what it is with people?", "I think people get lazy when it comes to being at home -- they leave things around.", "I like to think about cabinets.", "I like to put things away as much as possible.", "It's like salt shakers on the table?", "No. You put the salt shakers in a cabinet, and the table looks so much better when it's plain.", "You know what I mean? And people just think that bad flowers are better than nothing, but I disagree with that.", "I think that nothing is way better than bad flowers.", "You either have gorgeous, gorgeous flowers, or you have no flowers.", "Like at a dinner party, I prefer no flowers usually to the flowers that people have on the table.", "That's awful, but it's true.", "CNN: How has your personal style evolved over time?", "Mizrahi: It's gotten a lot quieter, my personal style.", "I used to dress, dress, dress, dress, dress, and I don't know, I dress in a very particular way now and it's almost like clockwork.", "And every once in a while I break out and do something crazy.", "CNN: Can you describe your personality for me, and how it affects your style?", "Mizrahi: I don't know.", "It's very hard to describe one's personality.", "I can't say about my personality, but I like to think that I'm very exposed to what's going on out there in the world culturally, and that's what influences my design.", "It's kind of like here's the 360 degrees of what's going on [in] the world culturally, you know?", "Socioeconomically, culturally, and here's my response to it.", "Here's what the clothes look like; here's what you should be wearing.", "And it's kind of like a wonderful edge, you're standing, and yet there's room enough in there for your own interpretation or to move in one direction or another.", "Oh! Here's a good description of my personality: claustrophobic.", "I am very claustrophobic. I don't like to commit to one thing necessarily, but when I do commit to it, it's whole and complete." ]	[ "Designer Isaac Mizrahi moving from Target to creative director at Liz Claiborne .", "Mizrahi says he believes \"bad hair\" is the most common style mistake Designer says he prefers no flowers to \"bad\" ones .", "Mizrahi admits he has a \"claustrophobic\" personality ." ]	[ 0, 1, 9, 10, 40 ]
[ "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 became a 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 one of the most contaminated nuclear sites in the Western Hemisphere.", "Today, the Hanford site is a virtual ghost town, and those involved in the cleanup 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 cleanup 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 cleanup footprint much sooner, years sooner.\"", "The money has 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.\"", "Hanford won't be decontaminated 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 the gloves, a colleague must check for 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 cleanup \"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 cleanup 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 cleanup [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 cleanup 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, 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 the best year ever,\" Brutzman said.", "His business has been in his family for three generations and will likely stay profitable since the Hanford cleanup project is expected to take another 40 years.", "\"It has my manufacturers raising their eyebrows saying, 'Wow how does that guy do that?'\"" ]	[ "$2 billion in stimulus funds set aside to clean up Washington's Hanford nuclear site .", "Money has created jobs for about 1,400 people .", "Critics say funds are being misdirected, wasted at Hanford .", "Cleanup \"has been plagued by massive cost and schedule problems,\" their report says ." ]	[ 0, 12, 23 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Tuesday, January 19 .", "10:37 p.m. -- Two children were pulled alive Tuesday night from the rubble of a two-story building in Port-au-Prince.", "The 8-year-old boy and 10-year-old girl, rescued by a team from the New York City fire and police departments, were taken to an Israeli tent hospital.", "10:31 p.m. -- Rescue teams on Tuesday stopped searching the rubble of Port-au-Prince's Caribbean Supermarket, where five people were rescued over the weekend.", "\"You have to accept the realization that the potential for survivability is extremely low,\" said Capt.", "Joe Zahralban of the South Florida Urban Search and Rescue team.", "\"It gets to a point where you can only risk the rescuers' life so much before you say, we don't think there is anybody left.\"", "10:25 p.m. -- Heavy traffic is making the 200-mile drive from the Dominican capital of Santo Domingo to the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince take as long as 18 hours, a United Nations situation report says.", "This is hampering groups' ability to send aid from the Dominican Republic to areas in need in Haiti.", "8:53 p.m. -- Although aid organization Doctors Without Borders is \"facing huge problems\" in receiving supplies, it is doing what it can to get work done, said Renzo Fricke, the group's chief of Haiti operations.", "\"This morning we had to buy a saw in the market, in the city ... for our surgeons to do amputations,\" he told CNN's Christiane Amanpour on Tuesday.", "\"We had to buy a saw because our materials -- the medical equipment is not coming as it should arrive.\"", "Bottlenecks at Port-au-Prince's small airport has been a problem for aid groups since the earthquake; Doctors Without Borders says that five of its supply planes have been diverted from Haiti to the Dominican Republic since January 14.", "8:40 p.m. -- Ena Zizi, the woman in her 70s who was rescued from rubble in Port-au-Prince today, has been airlifted by a U.S. Coast Guard helicopter to the USS Bataan, CNN's Ivan Watson reports.", "Earlier, she was being treated at a clinic, but it didn't have the operating facilities she needed.", "8:24 p.m. -- At a candlelight vigil outside the Haitian Embassy in Washington, D.C., Haitian Ambassador Raymond Joseph urges people to donate money for Haiti as opposed to supplies.", "\"It is more cumbersome to transport all these things from here in Washington, D.C., all the way to Port-au-Prince,\" he said.", "7:26 p.m. -- Retired U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Russel Honore, who led relief efforts for Hurricane Katrina in 2005, says \"we need to start talking about evacuating the vulnerable population\" -- including those who are injured, elderly, pregnant and disabled.", "\"We need to talk about a mass evacuation, and we need to tell the United States military to open two more airports.", "... We've got the capability to do it, we need somebody in Washington to wake up and make it happen, and we can't wait for the U.N. to figure out it needs to be done,\" Honore said on CNN's \"The Situation Room.\"", "5:44 p.m. -- Doctors at a makeshift, outdoor hospital in Jacmel, Haiti, say they need more specialists, including orthopedic doctors and anesthesiologists, CNN's Soledad O'Brien reports.", "The doctors currently there say they're approaching the limits of what they can do for the 75 patients, some of whom have broken limbs and head injuries that need further treatment.", "5:25 p.m. -- The mayor of Washington, D.C., says the city will help the Haitian Embassy there handle the flood of phone calls and donations it has been receiving since the January 12 earthquake in Haiti.", "Mayor Adrian Fenty says the city is opening a \"command center\" at the embassy that will add 20 phone lines and laptop computers to assist with communication efforts, CNN's Greg Clary reports.", "5:07 p.m. -- Medical personnel treating Ena Zizi, who was rescued today from rubble in Port-au-Prince, say she needs surgery but they don't know where to send her for one, CNN's Anderson Cooper reports.", "The people at the clinic where she's being treated are trying to find a surgical unit.", "Zizi, believed to be in her 70s, did not have access to food or water in the seven days since the quake, Cooper reports.", "4:51 p.m. -- A U.S. Air Force plane is broadcasting radio messages urging Haitians not to attempt ocean voyages to the United States, saying they will be intercepted and turned back home if they do, CNN's Mike M. Ahlers and Mike Mount report.", "\"It is part of the U.S. effort to help keep Haitians safe.", "We don't want people to endanger their lives by taking risk to try to get to the U.S. at this time,\" State Department deputy spokesman Gordon Duguid said.", "Haitians who have valid visas can come to the United States on commercial flights.", "Read . 4:36 p.m. -- About 2,000 U.S. troops are in Haiti, and more than 5,000 are just off-shore on U.S. ships, said Maj. Gen. Daniel Allyn, the deputy commander of Joint Task Force Unified Response.", "He said the U.S. military anticipated eventually having an \"aggregate strength\" about 10,000 troops.", "4:33 p.m. -- Regarding the scores of U.S. soldiers who landed on the grounds of the ruined presidential palace in Port-au-Prince today: Some of them moved to the capital's general hospital, which is without electricity or running water.", "\"Our primary purpose is in getting to the population, whether it be the distribution of water, food, or, in this case, where they've got medical treatment going on and they're overwhelmed,\" Lt. Gen. P.K.", "Keen, head of U.S. Southern Command, told CNN at the hospital.", "He said the troops were providing some security there.", "4:11 p.m. -- A clarification on the death toll: At least 72,000 bodies have been recovered since the earthquake, and that doesn't include bodies buried by families or collected by the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Haiti, Haitian Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive says.", "Some death toll estimates range from 100,000 to 150,000 in the capital alone.", "3:58 p.m. -- In rubble not far from where Zizi was rescued today, a German team is looking for two people it believes are still alive, CNN's Anderson Cooper reports.", "The team was drawn there by a text message that was believed sent from beneath the debris.", "Watch . 3:54 p.m. -- The newly rescued woman, Ena Zizi, said, \"Thank God, thank God,\" after being rescued, CNN's Anderson Cooper reports.", "She was taken to a nearby medical center in Port-au-Prince.", "A Mexican search-and-rescue team pulled her from the rubble.", "3:24 p.m. -- The woman rescued Tuesday (see 3:08 p.m. entry) is Ena Zizi.", "Her son, Maxime Janvier, told CNN that he never gave up hope that she'd be found.", "\"We were praying a lot for that to happen,\" he said.", "Watch . 3:08 p.m. -- A woman was rescued Tuesday from rubble at or near the national cathedral in Port-au-Prince, seven days after the earthquake struck, CNN's Anderson Cooper reports.", "Rescuers believe two other people might be alive in the rubble, Cooper reports.", "3:03 p.m. -- Twenty-eight Americans have been confirmed dead in Haiti since last week's earthquake, according to U.S. State Department spokesman P.J.", "Crowley. \"We have an additional number that are presumed dead, but ... we're still looking for specific confirmation,\" he said.", "About 4,500 U.S. citizens have been evacuated from Haiti, he said.", "2:58 p.m. -- Haitian authorities have recorded 70,000 deaths since last week's magnitude 7 earthquake outside Port-au-Prince, its prime minister says.", "12:53 p.m. -- A 2-year-old girl named Carla opened her eyes Tuesday while being treated at a Cuban-run field hospital after being rescued from rubble on Monday, six days after Haiti's earthquake.", "12:50 p.m. -- U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said the United Nations Security Council has approved a proposal to send an additional 2,000 soldiers and 1,500 police officers to Haiti.", "11:05 a.m. -- As of Monday, charities had raised more than $210 million in donations for Haiti earthquake relief, according to the Chronicle of Philanthropy, a newspaper covering nonprofit organizations.", "The estimate is based on a survey of 25 charities contributing the largest amounts of money to Haiti.", "How you can help . 10:23 a.m. -- Several helicopters from the U.S. Army's 82nd Airborne Division landed Tuesday on the grounds of the ruined presidential palace in Port-au-Prince.", "It was not immediately clear what their mission was.", "Share your earthquake stories .", "9:58 a.m. -- A magnitude 5.8 earthquake struck off the coast of the Cayman Islands, 600 miles west of Haiti, on Tuesday morning, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.", "There were reports of weak to light shaking on Grand Cayman Island, according to the USGS.", "9:50 a.m. -- About 50 Haitian orphans, including infants, arrived Tuesday at a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, airport and will be taken to Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, where adoptive parents are expected to greet them.", "The children were accompanied on the flight by Pennsylvania Gov.", "Edward Rendell, several doctors and a few members of Congress.", "Read more . 9:20 a.m. -- Haiti's fledgling tourism industry was showing glimmers of promise before the earthquake struck.", "Story . 7:36 a.m. -- The American Red Cross and UNICEF's United States Fund raised about $7.3 million in donations from 8 p.m. to midnight, while \"Haiti: How You Can Help,\" a special \"Larry King Live,\" aired on CNN.", "7:13 a.m. -- Nearly 500,000 people have encamped in a tent city in the Champs de Mars square in downtown Port-au-Prince, the largest of numerous tent cities scattered throughout the ruined city.", "iReport.com: Looking for loved ones .", "6:02 a.m. -- About 50 orphans who survived last week's earthquake are expected to arrive in Pennsylvania aboard a military transport plane at 9 a.m.", "ET. In Florida, where evacuees have been ferried in since Saturday, more flights from Haiti are scheduled for Tuesday.", "Officials at Orlando Sanford International Airport expect arrivals for the next two weeks.", "Follow daily developments: .", "January 12 .", "Wednesday . Thursday . Friday . Saturday . Sunday . Monday ." ]	[ "Read Twitter feeds to stay up to date on the latest in Haiti .", "Read CNN.com's complete special coverage of the Haiti earthquake .", "iReport: Looking for loved ones ." ]	[ 10, 59, 68 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Denny's restaurants served about 2 million free Grand Slam breakfasts during its eight-hour promotional giveaway on Tuesday, the company reported Wednesday.", "Cooks fill the pass-through window with Grand Slam breakfasts Tuesday at a Denny's in Emeryville, California.", "The company used a commercial during the third quarter of Sunday's Super Bowl to announce it would give away its signature breakfast from 6 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tuesday, and the response was spectacular.", "Media outlets across North America reported lines of customers stretching outside and around restaurants and strangers crowding together into booths to take advantage of the special.", "The restaurant chain's approximately 1,500 stores served an average of 130 Grand Slams per hour to customers who waited an average of 60 minutes for their free pancakes, eggs, bacon and sausage, the company said.", "\"We had an extraordinary day,\" Denny's CEO Nelson Marchioli said when the promotion was over.", "\"We were hoping to reconnect with millions of Americans today, and we did.", "\"We have received the most heartwarming comments from our servers, our managers and above all our customers.", "This Free Slam Day has exceeded our expectations in every way.\"", "iReport.com: Miami customers line up for Denny's meal .", "Denny's doesn't disclose specific cost information, but including the cost of the food, the Super Bowl spot and other production costs, the promotion cost the company roughly $5 million, it said.", "The Grand Slam started as a baseball-related promotion in Atlanta, Georgia, in the mid-1970s and has been served chainwide since 1977.", "Its normal price varies by market but averages around $5.99.", "Denny's said it sells 12.5 million Grand Slams a year.", "At the normal average price of $5.99, Denny's gave away meals Tuesday with a retail value of $11.9 million.", "But the goodwill value could be priceless.", "iReport.com: Vouchers run out at Georgia Denny's .", "\"The key is to get the guest to come back,\" Troy Morgan, a Denny's franchisee in Sacramento, California, told CNN affiliate KCRA-TV.", "\"So, we show them great hospitality and we're confident we're going to win guests and get them to return again and again.\"", "A Denny's competitor, IHOP, is planning its own giveaway.", "The chain promises to give a short stack of three pancakes to all comers on \"National Pancake Day,\" February 24.", "IHOP requests a donation to Children's Miracle Network or other local charities in exchange." ]	[ "Restaurant chain says it served 2 million free breakfasts in eight hours .", "Each of 1,500 eateries served about 130 Slams per hour, company says .", "Cost of promotion, including Super Bowl ad, was $5 million, Denny's says .", "Competitor IHOP to give away pancakes on February 24 ." ]	[ 0, 4, 10 ]
[ "Tehran, Iran (CNN) -- Iranian authorities will observe and control text messages and e-mails that encourage protesters, an Iranian semi-official news agency reported Friday.", "Messages that encourage demonstrations will be screened, and organizers of illegal protests will face heavy penalties, the Iranian Labor News Agency reported, citing Tehran Police Chief Ahmadi Mogadham.", "Iran has clamped down on protests nationwide since mass demonstrations erupted after a disputed presidential election last June.", "Hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was declared the winner over main opposition candidate Mir Hossein Moussavi.", "Full coverage of the protests in Iran .", "Many of the protesters e-mailed images worldwide of demonstrators clashing with police, filling the void created by strict government controls on foreign media outlets.", "Protesters were also active on social networking sites including Twitter and Facebook where one pro-democracy page has more than one quarter of a million members.", "The mass arrests that followed the protests have led to widespread accusations of authorities torturing and otherwise abusing prisoners.", "A report released Sunday by an Iranian fact-finding committee found that 147 detainees held after last summer's post-election protests were stuffed into a small room, deprived of adequate food and subjected to other mistreatment, Iranian media reported.", "The 147 detainees at Kahrizak Detention Center were held with 30 additional inmates for four days in a 750-square-foot room lacking proper ventilation, the parliamentary report found, according to the semi-official Mehr News Agency.", "The fact-finding committee blamed former Tehran prosecutor Saeed Mortazavi for the decision to send the detainees to Kahrizak -- usually reserved for rapists and other dangerous criminals -- instead of Evin prison, which had informed Mortazavi that it had the space for them.", "\"Even if Evin prison had been full, it was not justified to send other offenders to this special site,\" the investigation found, according to Mehr.", "Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, ordered the Kahrizak facility shut down after reports of mistreatment surfaced.", "Three prison officials have been charged with premeditated murder in the beating deaths of three imprisoned protesters.", "According to the investigation, Mortazavi had claimed the three died of meningitis, Mehr said.", "Sunday's report found that the 147 detainees arrested July 9 suffered \"harsh corporal punishment, humiliating and insulting techniques,\" and other mistreatment, Mehr said.", "\"The deaths of some detainees were a result of beatings and neglect of the physical condition of the injured by the detention center's officials,\" an excerpt of the report said on the Mehr Web site.", "The investigation did not reveal evidence of rape or sexual abuse, as alleged by reformist Mehdi Karrubi, Mehr and state-run Press TV reported.", "Karrubi, a former parliamentary speaker, and fellow reformist Moussavi, had publicly accused the government of allowing rape, torture, wrongful deaths and secret burials of several detainees.", "Karrubi had been especially vocal about the claims of detainee rape -- even publishing a first-hand account of one alleged victim on his Web site in October.", "The parliamentary committee met with Karrubi about the claims, but he \"did not present any convincing evidence or reliable documentation of the alleged abuse,\" Mehr said the report found." ]	[ "Iranian press agency reports Iranian government to screen e-mails, texts .", "Government trying to discourage protests that erupted after disputed presidential election .", "Organizers of illegal protests warned they will face hefty fines .", "Authorities alleged to have tortured and abused prisoners arrested as a result of the protests ." ]	[ 1, 2, 7 ]
[ "New York (CNN) -- A New York man accused in an alleged terrorist plot pleaded guilty Thursday to lying to federal agents.", "Ahmad Wais Afzali, a Muslim cleric and funeral director from the New York borough of Queens, was one of the first people charged in what authorities have described as a plot to detonate bombs on New York subways.", "Afzali was accused of lying about whether he tipped off suspect Najibullah Zazi that the FBI had been asking questions about his activities.", "Zazi subsequently pleaded guilty to conspiring to detonate explosives in the United States.", "On Thursday, Afzali told the court that police had asked him to help provide information about Zazi and two other suspects, Adis Medujanian, and Zarein Ahmedzay.", "He said he knew Zazi and Medujanian fairly well from when they were teenagers and attended his mosque for prayers and to play volleyball.", "\"The police interest in these men led me to believe that they were involved in some criminal activity, but I had no idea of its seriousness,\" Afzali said Thursday, at times choking up during his statement.", "He said he called Zazi on September 11, 2009, a day after he was contacted by authorities.", "\"I told him that our phone call was being monitored.", "I told Zazi, 'Don't get involved in Afghanistan garbage and Iraq garbage, that's my advice to you.'\"", "\"On September 13 ...", "I was interrogated by FBI agents for the first time.", "I believed that the FBI was angry at me for calling Zazi,\" he added.", "\"When I was asked whether I had told Zazi about law enforcement being interested in him, I lied and said I did not.", "My intention was not to protect Zazi, but to protect myself.\"", "He admitted to repeating the lie during another interview with prosecutors a few days later.", "\"In doing so, I failed to live up to my obligation to this country, my community, my family, and my religion.", "I am truly sorry.\"", "Afzali's plea deal reduced the charge from lying to federal agents \"during the course of a terror investigation\" -- which carries a maximum sentence of eight years in prison.", "The basic charge of lying to feds carries a maximum sentence of five years.", "His plea deal recommends that Afzali be sentenced anywhere from zero to six months in prison.", "His sentencing hearing was tentatively scheduled for April 8.", "Under the terms of the agreement, Afzali agreed to leave the United States within 90 days of completing any sentence he receives.", "Before entering his plea, the 38-year-old imam placed a scarf down on the floor outside the courtroom and prayed.", "He later told reporters that he \"just signed his death sentence\" by accepting the plea deal, saying he didn't want to the leave the United States.", "Afzali is a native of Afghanistan, but has no idea where he will go upon leaving the United States .", "\"I hardly speak my own language,\" he said.", "Afzali also said he is concerned for his health; he has diabetes and is anemic, and said his wife has a pelvic tumor.", "\"I was helping the government and this is what I get,\" Afzali said.", "The two others suspects in the case, Ahmedzay and Medunjanin, pleaded not guilty in February to new charges of conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction against persons or property in the United States, as well as several other counts.", "The two had previously faced lesser charges.", "Prosecutors say the two 25-year-old U.S. citizens and residents of Queens conspired with Zazi \"to attack the New York subway system in mid-September 2009.\"", "CNN's Jennifer Rizzo contributed to this report." ]	[ "Ahmad Wais Afzali admits that he lied about alerting bomb suspect to investigation .", "The Muslim cleric says he lied about warning Najibullah Zazi \"to protect myself\"\nPlea deal recommends zero to six months, immediate deportation after time served .", "Zazi has pleaded guilty in plot to detonate bombs on New York subways ." ]	[ 1, 2, 3, 20 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Hours after January 12's earthquake in Haiti, Drs.", "Claude and Yolene Surena were treating more than 100 wounded people -- not in a medical facility but outside their own Port-au-Prince home.", "City medical facilities were decimated or overwhelmed, and makeshift triage areas like the one in the Surenas' yard tried to keep patients alive long enough to get the next available hospital bed.", "Yolene called her daughter in Maryland to assure her the couple was fine and to make a request.", "\"She was overwhelmed with patients,\" said Fabiola Surena, a 28-year-old U.S. Army staff sergeant studying to be a physician's assistant.", "\"She needed me to come help.\"", "Surena and eight U.S.-based relatives and friends -- all of whom were raised in or have relatives in Haiti -- went to the Surenas' Haiti home to assist the doctors, deliver food and first-aid supplies, and to see how their loved ones fared.", "Surena, who was granted time off from the Army, and her cousin Anne-Rene Louis have been documenting their trip on CNN's iReport.com.", "They talked to CNN.com by phone on Thursday, their seventh day in Haiti; the group planned to return to the United States this weekend.", "iReport.com: Fabiola and Anne-Rene's journey to Haiti .", "The nine, none of whom had any medical experience except for Surena, flew to the Dominican Republic and traveled by bus to Haiti's capital on January 15.", "At the Surenas' house, one of the few in the neighborhood that didn't collapse, patients were in bad shape.", "\"I've seen crushed bones, fractures, dislocations, a lot of lacerations.", "We've had kids who lost digits,\" Fabiola Surena said.", "\"We've also had people just suffering from just diabetes or high blood pressure, whose medication was stuck in their [destroyed] house, so they're going into diabetic comas.\"", "Many patients needed surgery, but the one surgeon assisting the couple had no post-school experience.", "The Surenas' home, stocked mostly with first aid and suture kits and over-the-counter medications, had \"no surgical capabilities outside of sutures,\" Fabiola Surena said.", "Because surgeries couldn't be done immediately and infection was setting in, many patients would need amputation later.", "A few people died before Surena's group arrived, and one has died since, after being moved to a hospital, she said.", "iReport: List of missing, found \| Are you there?", "Fabiola Surena dressed bandages and took vital signs.", "The other eight from the U.S. made sure patients took medication, sterilized tools and did small dressing changes.", "The crew also tried to find hospitals that could take the critical patients, she said.", "Patients rest on mattresses in the yard, covered by tents.", "Food, water and medical supplies, though bolstered by trips to the Dominican Republic and aid brought by others, are constantly low.", "The family eats whatever it serves to the patients -- perhaps rice, beans and tuna -- and sometimes it's just one meal, Surena said.", "\"We're basically out of painkillers.", "We receive a lot of medication for adults, but not for kids, so children are barely getting painkillers at all,\" she said.", "Surena, who was born in New York but was raised in Haiti, says her feelings are difficult to put in words.", "\"It can be very depressing,\" she said in Port-au-Prince, in and around which tens of thousands were killed in the quake.", "\"After a while, you're looking at the things you can't do. ...", "Some people beg for water, and we don't have water for us to drink.\"", "\"People look calm and try to go on with life and joke, but then a scared, panicked look comes over their faces when a helicopter flies overhead, because it sounds like an aftershock,\" she added.", "Full coverage \| Twitter updates .", "Haitians took the wounded to the Surenas' house after the quake because they knew they were doctors.", "They also knew that Claude Surena, a pediatrician who heads the Haitian Medical Association and directs Rotary International's disaster preparedness committee for Haiti, sometimes sees patients at his home, Rotary spokeswoman Elizabeth Dwyer said.", "Besides tending to patients, the U.S. nine have connected with relatives to find out who survived.", "Not all the news was good. Louis, 25, of Orlando, Florida, said her parents' Port-au-Prince-area house collapsed during the quake, killing her grandfather and a maid.", "Also killed was the best friend of Louis' 18-year-old sister, she said.", "The sister, Soraya Louis, a U.S. college student visiting her parents' home, was trapped for a few hours in the rubble.", "She passed out briefly during the collapse, and she awoke to \"everybody screaming,\" she said.", "\"I heard footsteps overhead.", "People were walking on the bricks,\" Soraya Louis, a student at Connecticut's University of Bridgeport, said by phone from Port-au-Prince on Thursday.", "\"I was crying and screaming for help.\"", "People dug her out after she helped them find her.", "She found a piece of wood, stuck it between bricks and moved it until someone saw it, she said.", "Impact Your World .", "Soraya Louis and her cousin were injured but are OK. Also escaping the collapse were one of her sisters and another friend; her parents were at work.", "Anne-Rene Louis arrived in Haiti in time for her grandfather's funeral January 15.", "By Thursday, many of the Surenas' patients had been sent to hospitals.", "Only about 20 remained in the yard.", "Claude and Yolene no longer tend to the patients during the day -- Claude was just named the country's coordinator for disaster medical care, and Yolene, who already worked for Haiti's government, is helping determine which hospitals are running and where more can be set up, Fabiola Surena said.", "Some of the U.S. nine went to work with Claude Surena on Thursday, helping to direct hospital workers to medical supplies, Anne-Rene Louis said.", "Though the nine plan to leave Haiti this weekend, some may return soon.", "Soraya Louis said it was a relief to see the group.", "\"It's been hard for us here, and it feels good to know people are supporting us,\" she said.", "\"Now our whole family is together. ...", "They give us strength every day.\"", "CNN's Katie Hawkins-Gaar, Nicole Saidi and Christina Zdanowicz contributed to this report." ]	[ "Two doctors in Port-au-Prince turn their home into a makeshift clinic after quake .", "Doctors' relatives in U.S., including their Army daughter, arrive to help .", "Food, medical supplies remain constantly low, they say .", "Survivor on being trapped: \"I heard footsteps overhead\" -- searchers walking on rubble ." ]	[ 1, 6, 34, 41 ]
[ "Washington (CNN) -- Fears that Haitian earthquake survivors would engage in a massive and deadly ocean migration to South Florida have thus far been unfounded, according to federal and local government officials, who say they continue to plan for such an exodus only as a precaution.", "The U.S. Coast Guard said it has witnessed only normal maritime traffic around Haiti, and it has not intercepted any Haitians attempting illegal crossings into U.S. waters.", "Nor does it see people preparing for voyages .", "Florida officials have asked for federal government funding to shelter 10,000 refugees, but said that was done only as a precaution.", "Meanwhile, the U.S. Air Force continues daily flights of its EC-130J Commando Solo aircraft -- a radio station in the sky -- which is broadcasting warnings to would-be migrants, as well as information about where people can find food and aid.", "List of missing, found people in Haiti .", "The plane is broadcasting a recorded message from Raymond Joseph, Haiti's ambassador to the United States, saying: \"Listen, don't rush on boats to leave the country.", "Because I'll be honest with you: If you think you will reach the U.S. and all the doors will be wide open to you, that's not at all the case.", "And they will intercept you right on the water and send you back home where you came from.\"", "State Department deputy spokesman Gordon Duguid said the message is \"part of the U.S. effort to help keep Haitians safe.\"", "\"We don't want people to endanger their lives by taking risk to try to get to the U.S. at this time,\" he said.", "The U.S. military will be distributing special radios to Haitians this week in an effort to get messages and news spread as far as possible.", "Some 50,000 portable solar-powered and windup radios will be distributed by the U.S. military joint task force that is deploying troops in Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince, and other severely stricken parts of the country.", "Government officials say past migrations from Cuba and Haiti were the result of large geopolitical events, circumstances that differ significantly from those in Haiti now.", "Further, there is a large U.S. government presence in Haiti and offshore -- factors that will make any migration easier for the government to detect.", "\"At this point, we are not expecting a massive influx of Haitian individuals,\" said Mike Stone, spokesman for the Florida Emergency Operations Center.", "Immediately after the January 12 quake, the state \"dusted off\" a preparedness plan known as Operation Vigilant Sentry \"just in case,\" he said.", "The plan has been in place since 2003.", "David Halstead, director of Florida's Division of Emergency Management, said the state's request for \"safe housing\" for 10,000 Haitian survivors was based on the plan.", "That is the maximum number Florida officials believe the state could support in any mass migration, and only for a limited period, he said.", "It is based on the expectation that people would first be housed at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba and federal immigration detention centers.", "\"I think right now, with everyone watching Haiti ... for any boat or ship to be able to get out of there illegally would be a miracle upon itself,\" Halstead said Tuesday.", "The U.S. Coast Guard said it has seen \"nothing out of the ordinary\" off Haiti's coast in recent days.", "Ferry vessels have been crowded, \"but they're not going anyplace we wouldn't expect them to,\" Lt. Cmdr.", "Christopher O'Neil said.", "Haitians have migrated to the United States by boat in relatively small numbers for at least the past 30 years, with several notable spikes.", "An estimated 25,000 Haitians were among the mass migration of more than 150,000 asylum seekers, primarily Cubans, during the Mariel boatlift in 1980.", "In the early 1990s, tens of thousands of Haitians migrated to the United States after the coup d'etat deposing President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.", "CNN Pentagon Producer Mike Mount contributed to this report." ]	[ "U.S. Coast Guard: Maritime traffic around Haiti normal .", "Coast Guard says it hasn't intercepted Haitians trying illegal crossings into U.S. waters .", "Florida has asked for federal funding to shelter 10,000 as a precaution .", "U.S. Air Force plane broadcasts message: Don't try to reach U.S. on boats ." ]	[ 1, 3 ]
[ "(CNN) -- A 22-year-old woman whose claims that she was abused in a trailer in rural West Virginia in 2007 helped send six people to prison now says she made up the story, her lawyer said Wednesday.", "Attorney Byron Potts says his client is not being pressured to recant her story.", "\"She is recanting her entire story,\" attorney Byron Potts told reporters in Columbus, Ohio, about his client, Megan Williams, who moved there after the incident.", "\"She says it did not happen.", "She fabricated it.\" He added, \"She wanted to get back at her boyfriend.", "She was mad at him.\" In 2007, police acting on a tip found the black woman in a trailer with cuts and bruises.", "She said she had been stabbed in the leg and beaten, sexually assaulted, forced to eat feces and subjected to a racial slur by her white captors.", "The suspects included a mother and son, a separate mother and daughter, and two men.", "All are still jailed, according to the prosecutor who handled the case.", "The incident, which drew extensive media coverage, stirred outrage around the country.", "Civil rights activist the Rev.", "Al Sharpton called for the incident to be investigated as a hate crime.", "Last year, all six defendants pleaded guilty and were given terms of up to 40 years in prison.", "Potts said his client was coming forward \"to right the wrong perpetrated on these six individuals.\"", "He added that she told him all her injuries except for the bruises on her face were self-inflicted.", "The bruises, he said, were from an altercation she had had with her then-boyfriend before the incident in question.", "Potts described Williams' feelings as \"total remorse; that's why she's coming forward.", "She is remorseful for having these people spend time in jail.\"", "Asked if she was being pressured to recant, he said, \"No, she's not being pressured into this.\"", "Williams had been expected to speak herself, but Potts said she would not appear before the news media because she was afraid for her safety.", "He said she was \"fully aware\" that she might face criminal charges, \"but she still wanted to go forward with this.\"", "Brian Abraham, the former Logan County prosecutor who handled the case, defended the convictions.", "\"The case wasn't based on her statements,\" he said, noting that Williams never testified in the case.", "\"The case was based on the evidence discovered by the police, including the confessions of the six defendants.\"", "He added, \"All six of them have been in jail without filing appeals.", "If they file something afterwards, the evidence was pretty overwhelming for the charges on which they were convicted.\"", "The current county prosecutor, John Bennett, said he could not comment on whether the case would be reopened.", "He said he represented one of the suspects in 2007 and so would let a judge decide how to handle the potential conflict of interest.", "Sharpton said, \"If they are being held under false information and she misled authorities, and if the authorities went solely on her testimony, then they should be released.\"", "But he added, \"If there are other circumstances around the recanting, we should know what they are.\"" ]	[ "6 people in prison for beating, sexual assault of Megan Williams .", "Williams' lawyer says she made story up to hurt ex-boyfriend .", "6 defendants pleaded guilty, were given terms of up to 40 years .", "Williams alleged she was forced to eat feces and subjected to a racial slur ." ]	[ 6, 12 ]
[ "London, England (CNN) -- Britain's involvement in the invasion of Iraq \"was the right decision and it was for the right reasons,\" Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Friday in his first response at an inquiry into country's role in the March 2003 conflict.", "Brown was answering a question from the chairman of the inquiry, John Chilcot, about whether he thought taking military action in March 2003 was the right decision, especially given that it led to such a great loss of life among military personnel and civilians.", "The prime minister said he respects members of the armed forces \"who served with great distinction in Iraq\" and lost their lives, and to civilians who died.", "\"I think any loss of life is something that makes us very sad indeed,\" Brown said.", "The inquiry began last year and is expected to be the most thorough investigation yet into decisions that led up to the war and governed Britain's involvement, analysts have said.", "It is not a court of law, so the inquiry cannot find anyone criminally responsible or apportion blame.", "But inquiry members will be able to judge the legality of the conflict.", "Brown spent much of Friday defending military spending allowances, which have come under harsh scrutiny in Britain.", "Earlier witnesses have said Brown, as head of the British Treasury leading up to and after the Iraq invasion, did not allow the Ministry of Defence to spend as much as was needed.", "Such cuts would have restricted the military's ability to buy helicopters, body armor and weapons that would have subsequently been used in Afghanistan.", "Brown said as chancellor, he never ruled out a military option on the basis of cost.", "\"I said that every single request that was made for [military] equipment had to be met, and every request was met, and at any point military commanders were able to ask for equipment that they needed, and I know of no occasion when they were turned down for it,\" Brown testified.", "Tony Blair testifies at Iraq inquiry .", "Geoff Hoon, defence secretary at the time of the 2003 invasion, testified that Brown forced cuts that limited military spending.", "\"We then had to look hard at our budget and make some rather difficult cuts in the future equipment program as a result,\" Hoon testified.", "Brown had faced increasing pressure to testify before Britain holds general elections, widely expected to be held May 6.", "His Labour Party faces a tight race with the opposition Conservatives.", "Chilcot, the inquiry chairman, said committee members previously decided not to call any government ministers who are still serving in posts relevant to Iraq, but Brown offered to testify.", "Chilcot announced in January that Brown had agreed to appear in the next two months.", "Susan Smith, whose son, Pvt.", "Phillip Hewett, died in Iraq in 2005, said she doesn't believe Brown did everything possible to equip British troops.", "\"Was it needed? Was it asked for? If it was, why was it not funded?\" she said. \"At the moment, you've got no answers.", "It's all speculation. It would be nice just to know the truth.\"", "Brown has faced repeated criticism for the level of equipment for the 9,000 British troops in Afghanistan, which some have said is too low.", "The prime minister has defended equipment levels and said he seeks assurances from military officers in the field that troops have the supplies they need.", "A military memo, sent in June but released in October, contained a warning from a British officer that a shortage of helicopters was putting troops at risk because they were forced to travel on the ground, increasing the chances a roadside bomb could kill them.", "The memo was written by Lt. Col. Rupert Thorneloe, who died a month later in a roadside bombing.", "At the time, he was the highest-ranking British serviceman to die in combat since the 1982 Falklands War.", "Gen. Michael Walker previously testified the Treasury gave defence officials a spending target that they found hard to reach.", "\"It was [a budget for] some of the stuff that was related to some of the longer-term equipment programs, including infantry battalions,\" he testified February 1.", "\"I think it included helicopter money.", "I think it included things like aircraft carriers.", "It was all big-ticket items that were being threatened.\"", "Defence officials made as many cuts as they could before they had to stop, Walker said.", "\"I think we drew a line somewhere halfway down the page and said, 'If you go any further than that, you'll probably have to look for a new set of chiefs,' \" he said.", "Hoon and others have testified that the Defence Ministry's budgeting structure in 2002, the year before the Iraq invasion, allowed officials to save money by using and maintaining existing equipment.", "Officials used the cash saved for other spending, Hoon said.", "That spending ability changed a year later and caused big problems for the ministry, they have testified.", "\"We asked for significantly more money than we eventually received\" in subsequent spending programs, Hoon said.", "Kevin Tebbit, who was permanent secretary to the Defence Ministry at the time of the invasion, said Brown did not want the ministry to have as much cash as it eventually received.", "\"The Treasury felt that we were using far too much cash, and in September 2003, the chancellor of the day instituted a complete guillotine on our [ability to spend],\" he said.", "\"It meant that we had to go in for a very major savings exercise in order to cope with what was effectively a billion pounds reduction in our finances.\"", "Brown testified that military options took precedence over financial concerns.", "\"There was no time from June [2002] when the Treasury said, 'This is a better military option because it's cheaper and less costly,' \" Brown said.", "\"At every point I made it clear that we would support whatever option the military decided upon with the prime minister and the Cabinet, and there would be no financial barrier to us doing what was necessary to be done.\"", "He also testified the Treasury granted \"every application\" for equipment made by the Defence Ministry.", "Brown was chancellor, or head of the Treasury, from 1997 until 2007 when Prime Minister Tony Blair stepped down and Brown took over the top post.", "Alistair Campbell, Blair's former spokesman, testified in January that Brown was part of Blair's inner circle, discussing questions about the Iraq war.", "Blair testified in January." ]	[ "Gordon Brown served as Chancellor, or head of the Treasury, from 1997 until 2007 .", "Brown: \"Financial concerns played no part in military planning for the Iraq\"\nBrown: \"I made it clear we would support whatever option the military decided upon\"\nThe decision to go to war in Iraq was made for the right reasons, he said ." ]	[ 10, 44, 46 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Len Gengel cries between sentences.", "\"It's my daughter's birthday today,\" he says, choking back tears.", "\"We should be celebrating,\" he says.", "\"Instead, I'm talking to people all day long, making sure they continue on the search and rescue.", "That's my objective today: to keep that search and rescue going.\"", "Gengel's daughter, Britney, is one of four students from South Florida's Lynn University who are missing amid the rubble of Haiti's Hotel Montana.", "Two faculty members from the university also remain missing.", "Britney, a sophomore journalism major with jet black hair and a bright smile, turned 20 Thursday.", "She had traveled to Haiti with 12 Lynn University students on a humanitarian mission to feed the poor.", "Eight of the students were rescued last week.", "An hour before the magnitude-7.0 quake, Britney called her mother.", "\"Brit said she found her calling, that she knew what she wanted to do for the rest of her life,\" her father said, pausing to catch his breath.", "\"Who knew an hour later that was going to happen?", "It's so hard to talk about. ... Think of the worst day of your life and then times that by 1,000.\"", "Crews have spent days searching mounds of rubble, 30 feet high in places, that was the Hotel Montana, popular with tourists and visiting officials.", "Lynn University, which hired a search crew immediately after the quake, initially told the Gengel family that their daughter had been rescued.", "The family then flew from their Massachusetts home to South Florida for what they thought was going to be a reunion.", "\"We have spent a week here in Florida in a living hell,\" the father said.", "\"It's just one of the dirtiest tricks life can play on you, to take someone from you and then call and say they found her and she's on a helicopter and she's gonna be OK. And then to be told 10 hours later ... that they had bad intel -- they don't have her.\"", "Lynn President Kevin M. Ross said Thursday evening that he is still optimistic \"that a miracle is found.\"", "\"We still have hope at Lynn University,\" he said.", "\"The search and rescue will continue.\"", "He also called upon the U.S. government to ensure that every person \"lost in this tragedy are returned to their loved ones.\"", "\"We need a commitment to return the missing to the families,\" Ross said.", "The university has been updating families regularly on the search efforts.", "Students have also rallied on campus, raising money for relief efforts in Haiti.", "T-shirts for sale have a simple message: \"Lynn United.\"", "Len Gengel said that his daughter was in Room 300 and that a CBS news crew showed him photographs of what was believed to be the room.", "\"She's in the back right-hand corner,\" Len Gengel said.", "\"Her roommate was at the pool when this happened.", "My daughter was either showering or resting.\"", "On a Facebook page dedicated to Britney, one message says, \"Everyday miracles happen, I think today would be a perfect day to have one.\"", "Her father says his family has been touched by the thousands of messages they have received: \"The outpouring of support and love has just been amazing.\"", "He says he's heartened that eight of the Lynn students were rescued.", "He continues to pray for others missing at Hotel Montana and across Haiti.", "But on this day, his thoughts are focused on the girl who brought him so much joy when she entered this world 20 years ago today.", "\"At this moment, we're trying to prepare ourselves for the worst, but we're hoping and praying for the best,\" he said.", "\"We're devastated. Our hearts are broken. They're just broken.\"" ]	[ "Today is Britney Gengel's 20th birthday; she remains missing in Haiti .", "\"Think of the worst day of your life and then times that by 1,000,\" father says .", "Britney was among 12 college students in Haiti on humanitarian trip .", "Her family was initially told Britney was rescued ." ]	[ 1, 5, 8, 13 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The faithful prayed -- for relief, for mercy, for safety -- as aftershocks rumbled across Haiti on Tuesday evening.", "\"It's 8:44 p.m. and we're still getting aftershocks!", "Can hear people gathered in the distance singing prayers,\" wrote Richard Morse, hotel manager at the Oloffson Hotel in the capital, Port-au-Prince.", "On Twitter, he captured the aftermath of a 7.0-magnitude earthquake that struck off the coast of Haiti, causing widespread destruction.", "The quake, which happened shortly before 5 p.m., was followed by at least 18 aftershocks, averaging a magnitude of 5.0, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.", "As the night went on, the singing and praying intensified and then waned, Morse wrote.", "What he didn't hear in all the commotion were helicopters or ambulances.", "The panic that engulfed Haiti, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, could be witnessed on an online Haitian entertainment channel called Haitipal, which suddenly became an essential communication tool.", "Frantic callers broadcast pleas for help.", "\"My cousin has a broken leg and she's trying to get to the hospital,\" one caller said.", "\"She has two kids. ... How can she get to the hospital?\"", "Are you there? Submit an iReport .", "The man gave his cousin's address, and the channel's commentator asked anyone listening who lived nearby to see whether he could help.", "Many callers expressed their sympathies and prayers for the people of Haiti, while others told of fallen buildings and damaged homes.", "The first photographs from the area showed collapsed walls and sidewalks covered with cinder block-size chunks of debris.", "One photograph, taken by members of a American church mission group, showed a dead man in a gray T-shirt and jeans, hunched on the ground.", "Another broadcaster, Radio-Tele Ginen, collected and posted photographs on its Web site that hinted at the damage and deaths caused by the earthquake.", "One showed two bodies, completely covered in dust, inside the bed of a pickup.", "Others showed men and women bloodied by rubble.", "The building that houses Citibank's offices in Port-au-Prince, one of the most modern in the city, collapsed, bank spokeswoman Liliana Mejia told CNN.", "There were 12 employees unaccounted for after the three-story building fell, she said.", "Are you looking for loved ones in Haiti?", "Jonathan de la Durantaye was in a car when the quake hit.", "His initial thought was that a tire had come loose, he told CNN.", "Then he noticed that the power lines were moving above, and then a fence or wall next the car started to fall.", "That was in the northwest part of the city, in an area called Croix des Bouquets.", "Appeals for aid after quake strikes .", "Reports of exactly how widespread the damage was, or how many people had perished, was hard to gather because of limited communication with the island.", "Phyllis Bass, an American missionary in Haiti, was able to reach her son-in-law via text message.", "Using texts, she told of how she saw dead bodies on the road, and how she and four other missionaries were helping the injured.", "CNN's Alanne Orjoux contributed to this report." ]	[ "People in Haiti using social media to help tell of earthquake, aftershocks .", "Online entertainment channel in Haiti becomes vital communications tool .", "People use text messages to contact relatives, friends in earthquake zone ." ]	[ 7, 8, 28 ]
[ "(CNN) -- While millions of Christians worldwide will celebrate Easter this weekend, David Silverman has other plans.", "Silverman will join about 300 atheists in a Newark, New Jersey, hotel ballroom to proclaim another message: The atheist movement in America is growing.", "Silverman will participate in the 36th annual American Atheists National Convention at the Newark Liberty Renaissance Hotel.", "He'll also try to clear up a misconception: Atheists aren't immoral, and they don't worship Satan.", "That's what many people assume when he tells them that he belongs to an atheist group, Silverman says.", "\"We have a lot of wonderful people,\" he said.", "\"I haven't sacrificed any Christian babies.", "I haven't danced naked under the stars.", "I haven't stolen anything.\"", "What Silverman is doing instead is talking up the \"resurgence\" among atheists.", "He says atheists once felt isolated and misunderstood.", "Two events changed that, he says: the rise of the Internet and the election of George W. Bush.", "Bush's polarizing presidency showed people how bad things could turn \"if religion was in charge,\" he said.", "The Internet showed atheists that they weren't alone, as they sought out and encouraged one another.", "\"Closet atheists are coming out all over the country,\" Silverman said, estimating that his group has 4,000 members.", "\"Anybody can go on the Internet and read blogs, Facebook pages, and know that there are millions like them.\"", "Those who ask why people need God are also raising their public profile in other ways.", "Richard Dawkins, author of \"The God Delusion,\" and Sam Harris, author of \"The End of Faith,\" have best-selling books questioning the need for religion.", "Silverman says a coalition of groups, including American Atheists, met with White House officials in February to discuss more tolerance for nonbelievers.", "He takes pains to say that atheists respect those who believe otherwise.", "But if that's so, why hold a convention on Easter weekend?", "Silverman chuckled at the question.", "\"It's not a slam against Easter,\" he said.", "\"We always have our national convention on Easter weekend.", "The hotels are cheap, and everybody has time off.\"" ]	[ "American Atheists group meets Easter weekend .", "Group seeks to debunk stereotypes about atheists .", "Leader says atheists are becoming more accepted .", "\"I haven't danced naked under the stars,\" he says ." ]	[ 7, 10, 18 ]
[ "(CNN) -- British billionaire Richard Branson's dream of space travel that thousands of people can afford took a leap toward reality with the maiden flight of the world's first commercial spacecraft over California's Mojave Desert.", "Branson's company Virgin Galactic announced Monday that the VSS Enterprise had successfully completed what it called a captive carry flight attached to a carrier plane.", "The spacecraft's developer called it a \"momentous day.\"", "\"The captive carry flight signifies the start of what we believe will be extremely exciting and successful spaceship flight test program,\" said Burt Rutan, founder of Scaled Composites, which built the spacecraft.", "The VSS Enterprise remained attached to its carrier aircraft for the duration of the 2-hour, 54-minute flight, reaching an altitude of 45,000 feet, according to a statement from Virgin.", "Eventually, the 60-foot long rocket plane will be taken 60,000 feet above the Earth by its carrier and fire rockets to propel itself into space.", "The test-flight program is expected to continue through 2011, going first to a free glide and then to a powered flight before commercial flights begin.", "\"Seeing the finished spaceship in December was a major day for us but watching VSS Enterprise fly for the first time really brings home what beautiful, ground-breaking vehicles Burt and his team have developed for us,\" Branson said.", "\"Today was another major step along that road and a testament to U.S. engineering and innovation,\" he said.", "Virgin Galactic has envisioned one flight a week, with six tourists aboard.", "Each will pay $200,000 for the ride and train for at least three days before going.", "About 80,000 people have placed their names on the waiting list for seats.", "\"What we want to be able to do is bring space travel down to a price range where hundreds of thousands of people would be able to experience space, and they never dreamed that [they] could,\" Branson said last year.", "He has said he hopes the technology will lead to a new form of Earth travel, jetting people across oceans and continents faster through suborbital routes." ]	[ "VSS Enterprise remained attached to carrier aircraft for duration of near 3-hour flight .", "Test-flight program is expected to continue through 2011 before commercial flights start .", "Virgin Galactic has envisioned one flight a week, with six tourists aboard .", "Each will pay $200,000 for the ride and train for at least three days before going ." ]	[ 4, 6, 9, 10 ]
[ "Tucson, Arizona (CNN) -- Last week during the day, some kids in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, were playing soccer in a park when a car slowed down, guys got out and executed a 13-year-old boy.", "And then they drove away, unmolested in a city with 11,000 army and police officers.", "The Mexican government repeatedly states that 90 percent of the deaths in the current drug war are of people who are dirty; that is, criminals involved in the drug business.", "The killings of reporters and of innocent women, men and children continually belie that statement.", "The child was not a cartel member in disguise.", "Nor were the 15 high school kids killed at a party in a small house in a poor barrio.", "Their parents had made them hold the celebration of a sports victory at home because it was too dangerous to be out in the city.", "I went to Juarez in June of 1995 and never seem to escape the pull of the place.", "The city then was controlled by Amado Carrillo Fuentes, then the head of the Juarez cartel.", "Drug Enforcement Agency intelligence told me he was raking in $250 million a week.", "American factories were erupting out of the ground in the wake of the passage of NAFTA.", "Huge districts of shacks made out of stolen pallets and cardboard boxes were growing faster than the city could map.", "These shacks were filled with people working full time in those American-owned factories.", "Murders ran around 250 a year and sometimes the cartel left bodies on the street wrapped in yellow ribbon.", "Carrillo ran the city and yet his name never appeared in the newspapers nor was mentioned on radio and television.", "I thought I'd stumbled into hell.", "Now the city is dying.", "About 5,000 people have been slaughtered in Ciudad Juarez in 27 months.", "It is a destroyed city where 25 percent of the houses are abandoned and 40 percent of the businesses have closed.", "There were 2,600 murders last year and killings are going on at a faster clip this year.", "At night, no one is on the streets.", "I realize that I was a fool in 1995.", "I had not stumbled into hell.", "That was the golden age.", "But one constant remains: No matter how many die in Juarez, no matter how low the pay in the American factories, the U.S. government insists the War on Drugs is being won and that NAFTA is a big success.", "The Mexican War on Drugs is not lost: it never seriously began.", "The drug industry is an essential prop under a faltering Mexican economy and has been so for more than 20 years, since the peso crisis of the early 1980s.", "The money flows into the hands of countless government officials, into the banking industry and into many investments in Mexico.", "More people die each day as the government of President Felipe Calderon uses the Mexican army and the federal police to try to get the illegal drug industry under control.", "Calderon was elected by a razor-thin margin and followed the custom of Mexican presidents by immediately making a show of force.", "But he badly underestimated the power of the drug industry.", "The profits are estimated by many analysts to be between $30 billion and $50 billion a year, although it's notoriously difficult to track.", "But it is not a piddling sum in a country where oil is the official highest earner of foreign currency and supplies 40 percent of the federal budget.", "But the oil is running out.", "Calderon has publicly stated that the oil fields will be gone in 10 years or less.", "The next big earner is human flesh, the millions of Mexicans who have fled the economic doom of their nation and send more than $20 billion a year home from the United States.", "But the recession and job losses in the U.S. have cut into that source.", "Tourism ranks third in legitimate sources of money for Mexico, but in a nation where heads keep getting lopped off, tourism isn't thriving.", "The illegal drug industry in Mexico employs hundreds of thousands of people.", "No one knows the payroll, but certainly it includes many people in the army, the 3,500 separate police forces and the government from top to bottom.", "It's difficult to make a living wage legitimately here.", "The pay varies, but in Ciudad Juarez, one of the most violent cities on Earth, the starting salary in the 400 foreign-owned factories, mainly American, is about 40 bucks a week.", "There are 500 to 900 street gangs.", "No one can live on the pay offered by these factories.", "In a country with 50 percent of the population living in poverty, the turnover in these plants runs from 100 to 200 percent a year.", "No one can live long in a gang -- but for a while, a kid can live well and feel that his life is a dream of money and power.", "The U.S. approach to the killings in Mexico never looks at an economic reason, just as the consequences of our free trade treaty (NAFTA) are never brought up.", "The effects wrought by NAFTA launched one of the largest human migrations in the world as poor Mexicans fled collapsing industry and agriculture.", "Border Patrol statistics show that the number of Mexicans entering the U.S. illegally skyrocketed within two years of the passage of NAFTA.", "We also never question our four-decades-old War on Drugs, which has produced cheaper drugs of higher quality at lower prices in thousands of U.S. cities and towns.", "It has helped create one of the largest prison populations in the world.", "If our drug policy were a ship, it would be called the Titanic.", "Anyone who questions the propaganda of the U.S. government on the violence in Mexico, on our War on Drugs or on our free trade agreement is told to come up with a solution, some silver bullet that instantly slays the dragon.", "But our policies over the decades have created a disaster, and it will take years to reverse the damage these acts of government have inflicted.", "The time to start is now.", "Let's address the true and lethal nature of Mexico's war on drugs -- one we are in part bankrolling under the Merida Initiative to the tune of half a billion dollars per year, often tossed into the murderous hands of many in the Mexican army.", "We need to have a public discussion of the obvious: Legalize drugs or keep caging Americans for taking drugs -- unless of course they are booze, tobacco or happy pills from the doctor -- and keep financing the murders of Mexicans.", "The first thing to do if we want to come clean about the slaughter in Mexico is start smelling the coffee.", "We share a 1,900-mile border.", "We share a history and people.", "At least 10 percent of the Mexican people now live in the United States as economic or political fugitives.", "Recently, the secretaries of State, Homeland Security and Defense flew to Mexico City and promised the Mexican government we would continue exactly the same polices as in the past.", "I have been told I should be reasonable.", "I am. And I expect the same of my government.", "Building prisons and lending support to a murderous war on drugs must stop, and digging deep into the economics and politics behind the hellish state of affairs must begin.", "It's a testament to the Mexican people that no matter how hard life is in Juarez, they seem to endure, raise families, smile and try to create a better future.", "As a Mexican friend told me, \"I love Juarez, it is such a needy city.\"", "It is poor and dangerous, a tapestry of one-story buildings.", "But once you know Juarez it haunts you no matter how you try to flee.", "The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Charles Bowden." ]	[ "Charles Bowden: 5,000 killed in Juarez in 27 months, one of most violent cities on Earth .", "Bowden: Innocents die in crossfire among cartels, army, police .", "He says drug trade is a source of money for the Mexican economy .", "Bowden: U.S. must face NAFTA's failures and the lethal results of \"war on drugs\"" ]	[ 17, 24, 30, 55 ]
[ "(CNN) -- \"Media must cease reporting on the discovery of a body at a psychiatric hospital in Dongguan.\"", "\"Media must not report on corruption allegations relating to the eldest son of President Hu Jintao.\"", "\"Media must not report on a lawsuit against China Eastern Airlines by victims of a plane crash in 2004 in which 52 passengers were killed.\"", "Those are just a few of more than 60 restrictions the Chinese government slapped on the media in 2009, often secretly, according to the International Federation of Journalists.", "The press freedom group said it obtained written media-related orders which are published in its report, \"China Clings to Control: Press Freedoms in 2009.\"", "Tight controls were put on reporting of ethnic riots in the west of the country in July, and clear orders were issued for how to report President Barack Obama's visit to the country in November, the IFJ said in the report released Sunday.", "The press was instructed not to organize questions for the public to ask Obama at a town-hall style event he did in the country and was banned from reporting on \"protests or spontaneous news during Obama's visit,\" the IFJ report said.", "It all added up to a year of increased censorship in China, on the heels of a period of relative openness around the Beijing Olympics in 2008, the group charged.", "CNN's calls to the Chinese Foreign Ministry and the Chinese Embassy in Washington were not immediately returned.", "The IFJ report said that Chinese media were ordered not to report prominently on protests in Iran following the country's controversial presidential election in June.", "They were barred from reporting at all on elections for the chief executive of Macau, a region of China, and were waved off stories about refugees entering China, threats to public health, political protests and corruption, the report said.", "They were allowed to report about some stories in English but not Mandarin, and others in newspapers but not online, said the report, which was compiled with the help of a group called Chinese Human Rights Defenders.", "That's not to mention self-censorship in the press around two key anniversaries last year: the Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests and the Tibetan uprising of 1959, the IFJ said.", "\"Media did not need to be ordered how to report these matters -- they were very aware there was to be no independent reporting on these topics,\" the report said.", "\"Most journalists and media outlets would self-censor and there would be no need for regulations or orders... self-censorship remains a matter of self-preservation.\"", "Direct orders from the government -- sometimes containing the explicit threat of \"punishment from the Central Propaganda Department\" -- was only one element in Beijing's arsenal against the press, the report said.", "China is clearly concerned about the Internet, the IFJ suggested.", "\"Online surveillance was stepped up, Web sites were entirely or partially closed, online social networks were shut down, online news portals were censored, online journalists and bloggers were detained and arrested.\"", "Press \"accreditation rules tightened further in 2009... making it difficult for online journalists to gain accreditation,\" the report said.", "And foreign journalists encountered \"acts of violence, destruction of work materials and equipment... surveillance and reprimands,\" the report said.", "But \"despite the difficulties, many journalists try to go out of the way to get the news,\" the IFJ said.", "China hosted a World Media Summit in October, drawing the heads of some of the world's largest news organizations, including the Associated Press, Reuters, News Corporation, Russia's Itar-Tass, Kyodo of Japan and China's own Xinhua.", "President Hu addressed the conference, saying \"it is more important than ever before that the media should establish and uphold social responsibilities,\" according to Xinhua.", "Hu pledged the Chinese government would safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of foreign news media and continue to facilitate foreign media coverage of China in accordance with the law, Xinhua reported.", "It is not clear that he made a similar promise regarding Chinese media.", "Obama criticized censorship in his November visit to China, responding to questions from the Chinese public about restrictions on the Internet.", "\"Because in the United States information is free, and I have a lot of critics in the United States who can say all kinds of things about me, I actually think that that makes our democracy stronger and it makes me a better leader because it forces me to hear opinions that I don't want to hear,\" he said.", "Earlier this month, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called on China to investigate alleged hacking of Google in the country -- prompting the Internet search giant to threaten to pull out of China.", "\"We look to the Chinese authorities to conduct a thorough review of the cyber intrusions that led Google to make its announcement.", "And we also look for that investigation and its results to be transparent,\" Clinton said.", "Five years ago, Google agreed to allow some censorship by China, in exchange for the right to operate in that country's massive emerging technology market.", "The company now says censorship and the hacking of Chinese dissidents' Google e-mail accounts have prompted it to reconsider.", "The IFJ calls itself \"a non-governmental, non-profit organization that promotes coordinated international action to defend press freedom and social justice through the development of strong, free and independent trade unions of journalists.\"" ]	[ "Press group notes more than 60 government restrictions on media in 2009 .", "Report: Press was told not to organize questions for public to ask Obama during visit .", "Chinese media barred from reporting on elections for chief executive in Macau, report says .", "CNN's calls to Chinese Foreign Ministry, Embassy in Washington not returned ." ]	[ 3, 6, 8 ]
[ "(CNN) -- American sixth seed Andy Roddick denied Rafael Nadal a third final appearance at the Sony Ericsson Open in Miami after another sensational serving performance on Friday.", "Roddick, the tournament's 2004 champion, will face Tomas Berdych in Sunday's title match after coming from behind to defeat Spanish fourth seed Nadal 4-6 6-3 6-3 in the semis at Key Biscayne.", "He has won an incredible 62 of his last 64 service games, reaching the final of two successive Masters 1000 events for the first time since 2003, when he went on to win the U.S. Open.", "Roddick, beaten in the Indian Wells title match by Ivan Ljubicic two weeks ago, broke Nadal's serve at 4-3 up in the second set with three forehand winners and then held to love to level the match.", "He again broke his fellow former world No.", "1 in the third game of the decider and held serve to claim his first win in the last four meetings between the two.", "\"I knew I had to be more aggressive.", "My heavy forehand doesn't work against him, so I had to hit it flatter, which is higher risk.", "I took really, really ridiculous cuts at a lot of forehands,\" Roddick told the ATP Tour Web site.", "\"I took a lot of risk there in the last two sets.", "My comfort zone of moving the ball around and maybe chipping it around a little bit doesn't work against Rafa.", "I had to try to come up with something that at least took him out of his comfort zone a little bit, and it paid off.\"", "Nadal was not too disheartened, having reached the semifinals in his two outings since suffering a knee injury at the Australian Open in January.", "\"Two semifinals in a row, first two Masters 1000 of the season for me is positive,\" Nadal said.", "\"Positive American hardcourt season, first part.", "So, yeah, happy for that.\"", "Berdych continued his giantkilling run as he followed up his victories over world No.", "1 Roger Federer and 10th seed Fernando Verdasco by crushing Swedish fifth seed Robin Soderling 6-2 6-2.", "The Czech, seeded 16th, has gone one better than his last-four achievement in Miami last year as he qualified for only his second Masters final.", "\"In all my matches with Robin in the past I've been too defensive.", "If you give him time to hit the ball hard it's really tough,\" Berdych said.", "\"I wanted to play more aggressive, but without making mistakes.\"" ]	[ "Andy Roddick reaches final in Miami, coming from behind to beat fourth seed Rafael Nadal .", "American sixth seed triumphs 4-6 6-3 6-3 as he seeks to follow up title from 2004 .", "He will face Tomas Berdych in Sunday's final after Czech upset fifth seed Robin Soderling .", "The 16th seed followed up his fourth-round triumph over world No.", "1 Roger Federer ." ]	[ 0, 1, 16, 17 ]
[ "WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The State Department's chief of diplomatic security has resigned amid scrutiny of the use of private military contractors to guard the department's staff in Iraq, a spokesman said Wednesday.", "Richard Griffin testifies before a House committee looking into private security contractors earlier this month.", "Richard Griffin, a 36-year career official, gave no explanation for his decision in his resignation letter to President Bush.", "\"I am grateful that I had the opportunity to serve as the assistant secretary for the Bureau of Diplomatic Security, whose brave men and women serve on the front lines of the Global War on Terror,\" he wrote in his resignation letter, a copy of which was obtained by CNN.", "\"Without their courage and commitment, the State Department could not possibly carry out its foreign policy mission.\"", "Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice accepted Griffin's resignation, State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said.", "Griffin's decision to step down follows weeks of investigations into the September 16 killings of Iraqi civilians by Blackwater USA, a North Carolina-based firm hired by the State Department to protect American diplomats in Baghdad.", "Meanwhile, a survivor of the September 16 incident told CNN on Wednesday that he and a number of other victims were summoned to a meeting with U.S. Embassy officials and were offered money.", "Mohammed Abdul Razzaq, whose 9-year-old son died, said the embassy offered him $12,500 -- which he said he refused because \"they didn't acknowledge their crime.\"", "\"Don't they need to acknowledge my son's blood first so I can forgive them?", "Now I can't. How can I take compensation and they never acknowledge the crime?\"", "he said. The father is demanding a formal apology from Blackwater CEO Erik Prince, prosecution of those responsible for his son's death and political asylum in the United States so he can pursue the case in American courts.", "Another survivor, taxi driver Sami Hawas, told CNN he received $7,500 from the embassy, a payment he described as \"aid.\"", "Hawas was shot a number of times in the back and leg.", "He said he is unable to work now and complained about the high cost of medication.", "He took the money, he said, because he needs help paying for medical treatment and supporting his family.", "\"Even if they compensate me with millions, it will not make up for the lost blood and the pain I live every day,\" he told CNN.", "U.S. Embassy spokeswoman Mirembe Natango said the payments were \"part of a standard procedure\" and would continue.", "She described them as \"short-term and speedy aid and support\" but said they were not an admission of guilt.", "She said those receiving the money do not waive any right to future compensation.", "The State Department and the FBI are conducting their own investigation into the killings, and a joint U.S.-Iraqi commission is reviewing the results of both probes.", "Prince has said that Blackwater guards came under fire while protecting a State Department convoy and acted properly in self-defense.", "Watch Blackwater chief talk about his company » .", "But Iraqi authorities have called the killings \"premeditated murder\" and demanded Blackwater leave Iraq.", "A State Department report of its own operations, released Tuesday, found lax oversight of security contractors, who are under the supervision of the Bureau of Diplomatic Security.", "It recommended tightening the rules of engagement for contractors to bring them in line with those used by the U.S. military, and Rice appointed a top U.S. diplomat to oversee all security operations in Iraq.", "Blackwater is the most prominent of the military contractors working in Iraq, where an estimated 25,000 private contractors guard diplomats, reconstruction workers and government officials.", "Company officials urged subscribers to its e-mailed newsletter Wednesday to help fight its public-relations battle.", "\"In this tumultuous political climate, Blackwater Worldwide has taken center stage, our services and ethics aggressively challenged with misinformation and fabrications.", "Letters, e-mails and calls to your elected congressional representatives can and will create a positive impact by influencing the manner in which they gather and present information,\" the company wrote.", "The message, titled \"A Request for Your Support,\" urged readers to contact members of Congress \"and tell them to stand by the truth.\"", "It recommended that constituents emphasize that the company hires U.S. military veterans and the fact that no one under Blackwater's protection has been killed in Iraq.", "It also asked that supporters stress what the company termed the \"cost efficiency\" of its services, for which the State Department has paid more than $800 million since 2004.", "Blackwater spokeswoman Anne Tyrrell said the company had received \"hundreds of positive responses\" to its appeal by Wednesday afternoon.", "The contractors are immune from prosecution under Iraqi law, under an order issued by the American-led occupation government in 2004.", "Iraq's government has agreed to ask the country's parliament to consider changing that directive, an adviser to Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki told CNN on Wednesday.", "E-mail to a friend .", "CNN's Jomana Karadsheh, Elise Labott, Ingrid Formanek, Jim Clancy and Saad Abedine contributed to this report." ]	[ "Assistant secretary of state for diplomatic security announces decision to resign .", "Richard Griffin gave no specific reason for resignation or offered timetable .", "Blackwater issues appeal to supporters to stand up for company .", "NEW: Blackwater shooting survivor says U.S. Embassy offered victims money ." ]	[ 2, 7, 33 ]
[ "Washington (CNN) -- When President Obama threw out the first pitch at the Washington Nationals' season opener on Monday, he kicked off not only a new baseball season but also a new round of fundraisers at Nationals Park.", "Though Obama wasn't raising any cash himself on game day, his appearance was the backdrop for at least one ballpark fundraiser Monday, the first of what Nationals President Stan Kasten hopes will be many political events held at the stadium this season.", "Since Nationals Park first opened in March 2008, Kasten has actively encouraged political operatives of all ideological stripes to hold their fundraisers and receptions at the ballpark, as opposed to more conventional venues such as restaurants or hotel ballrooms.", "\"I am absolutely bipartisan when it comes to business, or even multi-partisan,\" said Kasten in an interview with CNN.", "\"We welcome all, and we've had all come to the ballpark.", "Republicans, Democrats, and I'm sure other parties as well.\"", "Kasten helped bring major-league baseball back to Washington in 2005 after a 34-year absence.", "Since then, federal candidates, major political parties, and political action committees have spent at least $432,000 on fundraising events either at Nationals games or at their facility, according to campaign finance documents filed with the Federal Election Commission.", "Although campaigns did spend money on Nationals-related fundraising events when the team played at RFK Stadium, the records show that spending skyrocketed once the gates opened at Nationals Park.", "Campaign disbursements to the Nationals for fundraising expenses averaged $11,000 per year from 2005 to 2007, but that increased by twelvefold, to about $131,000, in 2008, the year the park opened.", "That amount doubled to $264,000 in 2009.", "The total dollar amount spent on all fundraisers at Nationals Park is likely to be much higher than FEC records indicate, since lax federal disclosure rules allow campaigns to pay corporations directly for use of their luxury suites at the ballpark, without having to specify how the money was spent.", "However, regulations do require that campaigns pay full price for all expenses, such as tickets, suite rentals and concessions.", "Much of the Nationals' success in wooing the campaign crowd can be attributed to a relative lack of variety available on the Washington fundraising circuit.", "One Democratic fundraiser who has held two events at the ballpark told CNN that both candidates and donors enjoy the change of scenery.", "\"It's different. It's a good time to interact with people but also have fun while doing something non-politically related,\" she said, speaking on the condition of anonymity.", "\"There is a little bit of monotony in fundraisers in D.C.", "There's a formula to it, so this is a little out of the ordinary.\"", "Kasten could not agree more.", "\"The key to fundraisers is to get people to come,\" he said.", "\"We have the added element of holding an event at our ballpark and having a fun evening going on alongside the fundraiser with lots of other things to do.\"", "\"It's just so much more appealing to potential contributors than just coming to some hotel ballroom,\" he added.", "The ballpark hosted over 40 fundraisers in 2009, and Kasten expects that number to increase this year with the midterm elections looming.", "The team advertises its facilities to individual campaign committees, congressional offices, and to national party organizations, including both the Democratic and Republican National Committees.", "Special outreach is made to the members and candidates representing whichever visiting team happens to be in town.", "Although holding fundraisers at baseball games is not new, the Nationals have capitalized on being uniquely positioned in a city with a year-round political industry unrivaled by other baseball towns.", "Records show that several teams with national fan bases have not received nearly as much in campaign expenditures as the $432,000 the Nationals have garnered so far.", "Since 2003, the Boston Red Sox have received about $207,000, the New York Yankees have received about $157,000, and the Chicago Cubs have brought in just over $36,000.", "The Baltimore Orioles, which had been Washington's venue of choice for baseball-themed political fundraisers prior to the arrival of the Nationals, received $134,000 during the same time period.", "But not everyone is sold on Nationals Park as a fundraising venue, at least as long as the team continues to perform poorly on the field.", "\"The allure of doing events at their games has worn off, since the home team isn't good.", "We usually struggle to sell tickets for Nationals games,\" said one Republican fundraiser, who asked not to be identified.", "\"We generally advise our clients to have other types of fundraising events that are cheaper and more successful.", "[Washington Capitals hockey] games sell very well right now.\"", "On that point, Kasten, who has also headed up professional hockey and basketball franchises, says that baseball is the most conducive sport for political fundraisers.", "\"The pace is a little slower,\" he said.", "\"It gives people more of a chance to sit and think and talk typically than there is at a basketball or hockey game.\"", "Despite his efforts to lure partisan fundraisers to his ballpark, the Nationals' top executive sees baseball as an inherently nonpartisan activity.", "According to Kasten, \"A ballpark is a controversy-free zone, a politics-free zone, where everyone can unify behind the idea of just having fun.\"" ]	[ "Nationals President Stan Kasten encourages political operatives to hold fundraisers at ballpark .", "Spending on fundraisers skyrocketed once gates opened at Nationals Park in 2008 .", "Ballpark is much more appealing \"than just coming to some hotel ballroom,\" Kasten said .", "One Republican says ballpark isn't a good fundraising spot because team isn't playing well ." ]	[ 2, 8, 19, 21 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The maternal grandmother of a 7-month-old Florida girl found hidden in a small cedar box under her baby sitter's bed says her daughter, who was charged in the case, is troubled and needs help.", "Police think Chrystina Lynn Mercer gave Shannon Lee Dedrick to the sitter -- who is the baby's paternal aunt, Susan Baker -- and 10 hours later reported the girl missing.", "\"As confused as Tina is, I have to tell you, she has emphatically stated that she did not and would not ever harm her child,\" Mercer's mother, Kandis Boyer, said Thursday on HLN's \"Nancy Grace.\"", "Without elaborating, Boyer said she thinks her daughter \"was manipulated into this situation.\"", "Baker, whose home Shannon was found in, was also charged in connection with the incident, Washington County Sheriff Bobby Haddock has said.", "The baby is in protective custody with the state and is in good health despite her ordeal, according to Boyer, who says she drove nearly 900 miles in 14 hours from Texas to Florida when Shannon disappeared.", "According to Haddock, Baker took custody of Shannon from her mother on Saturday.", "Boyer said her daughter told her she only let Baker care for the child, nothing more.", "Asked why Mercer reported the child missing to police, Boyer said she did not know.", "Boyer said her daughter has said \"so many different things\" and that \"she seems to be very confused.", "That's what I've gathered from talking to her myself since I have been here from Texas.\"", "She said her daughter has had counseling over the years, and \"she's going to get the help she needs now.\"", "Clothes and baking powder to hide the smell of soiled diapers were found inside the 2-foot-by-3-foot box.", "Shannon had been inside the box for about half a day before authorities found her late Wednesday, but she might have been in and out of the box for several days, investigators said." ]	[ "7-month-old Florida girl reported missing, found in small box under baby sitter's bed .", "Police say mom gave baby to sitter, who is baby's paternal aunt .", "Mom, aunt both charged in case; baby in state custody .", "Mother \"seems to be very confused,\" baby's grandmother says ." ]	[ 0, 1, 9 ]
[ "Jerusalem (CNN) -- Two barrels filled with explosives washed up on beaches in Israel on Monday, according to Israeli authorities.", "Authorities disposed of both without injury.", "Islamic Jihad, the Fatah Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade and the Nasser Salah al-Din Brigades issued a leaflet in Gaza claiming responsibility for sending three explosive devices to Ashkelon and Ashdod.", "A large barrel filled with explosives was found on a beach in the Ashkelon area Monday morning.", "The beach was closed.", "Policemen and bomb disposal experts neutralized the explosives, according to police spokesman Miki Rosenfeld.", "A second barrel filled with explosives was discovered later in the day on the shore of the city of Ashdod.", "Authorities conducted a controlled explosion on the second barrel.", "Police were combing the beaches, and nearby areas were closed to the public.", "Authorities have not discussed a third device.", "The Israel Defense Forces, in a statement Monday, said several Palestinian groups had claimed responsibility January 29 for a maritime terrorist attack after the detonation of two sea-born explosive devices about two kilometers (1.24 miles) off the coast of Gaza.", "Hamas, the movement controlling Gaza, has been vowing retaliation since one of the founding members of its military wing, Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, died last week in Dubai.", "Al-Mabhouh's brother, Fayek al-Mabhouh, said that preliminary results of Hamas' investigation of the death showed his brother was killed by electrocution and strangulation with a piece of cloth.", "Hamas officials accused Israel of assassinating Mahmoud al-Mabhouh.", "Israeli officials have not responded to those charges." ]	[ "Authorities dispose of two barrels filled with explosives; no injuries reported .", "Islamic Jihad among groups claiming responsibility for barrels in Ashkelon, Ashdod .", "Police close the beach, nearby areas to the public ." ]	[ 0, 2, 4, 8 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Cristiano Ronaldo and Gonzalo Higuain scored the goals that gave Real Madrid a 2-0 win at Racing Santander on Sunday -- a result that sees Manuel Pelegrini's side return to the top of the Spanish Primera Liga.", "Real's 12 consecutive league victory ensured that Real will face title rivals Barcelona in next weekend's crunch league match in pole position on goal difference.", "Barcelona's 4-1 victory at home to Athletic Bilbao on Saturday ensured that Real needed another win to regain top spot and they took the lead in the 24th minute.", "Ronaldo teased a foul out of Jose Moraton in the penalty area and from the resulting spot-kick, the Portuguese international fired home his 18th league goal of the season.", "Despite dominating the match, Madrid had to wait until the 76th minute for their second goal, Higuain sliding the ball home from Guti's pass for his 24th goal of the season, two behind Lionel Messi at the top of the scoring charts.", "Meanwhile, Spanish international striker David Villa took his season's goal tally to 20 with two late goals as Valencia defeated Osasuna 3-0, to take a firm grip on third position.", "Joaquin opened the scoring in the 47th minute before Villa netted his first with a minute to go -- and then doubled his tally with an injury-time penalty." ]	[ "Real Madrid defeat Racing Santander 2-0 to return to the top of Spanish table .", "Cristiano Ronaldo and Gonzalo Higuain score the goals that lift Real above Barcelona .", "Valencia consolidate third place in the table with a comfortable 3-0 win over Osasuna." ]	[ 0 ]
[ "Atlanta, Georgia (CNN) -- Love it or hate it, the Hummer came to symbolize American might over the years -- tires the size of Texas, a chrome grill that looked primed to eat up wimpy cars in its path, and its drivers with egos to match their mammoth-mobiles.", "But the iconic vehicle -- a symbol for macho men like Arnold Schwarzenegger and ridiculed worldwide by environmentalists -- is headed toward the auto graveyard.", "General Motors last week announced the likely end of the Hummer after a deal with a Chinese automaker fell through.", "The news thrilled many who have protested the guzzler for years: Good riddance!", "But for Hummer owners, the reaction remains mixed.", "Most mourn the impending death of their beloved behemoths but celebrate the fact that the Hummer won't be outsourced to China: Whose harebrained idea was that anyway?!", "Ain't no Hummer meant to be made in China!", "Owners are hoping for a last-minute buyer to emerge before the Hummer joins the maligned Pinto in the scrapyard.", "GM has said it is trying to salvage the Hummer, setting May 1 as a deadline for other possible deals to be made.", "A single sticky note, left on Russ Builta's 2005 Hummer, sums up the emotion stirred by the super-sized SUVs.", "\"You are polluting our air and abusing our national resources,\" the unsigned note said.", "\"And all because of greed and selfishness.", "You should be very ashamed of yourself.\" Builta, who served in the Marine Corps, still gets mad: \"It was not even on recycled paper!\"", "Builta installed a supercharger that gave his Hummer a whopping 600 horsepower.", "When he really mashed the pedal, it got 1 mile per gallon.", "\"It would just move,\" he told CNN iReport.", "Check out Builta's mega-ride .", "After the HMMWV rolled off the AM General assembly line in Indiana on January 2, 1985, it represented a new breed of American military might and toughness.", "In 1992, production of the civilian Hummer began, instantly creating a fraternity among owners of the SUV-on-growth hormone.", "They exchange photos of their trucks, chat over the Internet and plan for their next muddin' sessions.", "They laugh at tree huggers who give them the finger as they cruise down the road.", "\"I hate to see it die,\" says iReporter Michael Tawdy of Tennessee, who owns a 2006 H3.", "\"You can go anywhere you want.\"", "Hummer: What might have been .", "The Hummer even shares its name with a sexual term.", "How many cars can stake that claim?", "And the vehicle became fodder for late-night comedians and Internet jokes.", "\"You might be driving a Hummer,\" says one joke on a Web site devoted to the vehicle, \"if you can't reach far enough to slap the person sitting in the passenger seat.\"", "The grass-roots social justice group CodePink created an anti-Hummer campaign during the height of the Bush administration, including a Top Ten Reasons Not To Buy A Hummer.", "At the top of the list: \"The Gas Mileage Alone Will Kill You.\"", "Billy Paniaha of North Carolina gets speechless when talking about his chrome-and-gray-mobile.", "\"I love my Hummer,\" he told iReport.", "In one photo, he's leaning against his mud-caked Hummer, which looks like it just wallowed in a pigpen.", "\"Trust me, these tree huggers in their Priuses. ...", "If a Prius hits me, I won't get hurt.", "They will.\" Paniaha hot-dogs in mud .", "Raymond Winbush isn't your ordinary Hummer owner.", "A lover of his giant SUV, he also owns -- are you ready for this?", "-- a Toyota Prius.", "\"People think I'm kidding when I say I have both cars, but I do,\" said Winbush, an author and the director of the Institute for Urban Research at Morgan State University.", "\"If you combine my carbon footprint ...", "I don't feel real guilty about it.\"", "A resident of Baltimore, Maryland, he uses the Hummer to get through the East Coast's brutal winters.", "During last month's storm, which left the region under a couple of feet of snow, he helped get doctors and nurses to and from a hospital, thanks to his Hummer.", "When winter ends, his machismo-meter goes down.", "He grabs his man purse and hops into his Prius.", "\"My son calls it the nerd-mobile,\" he said.", "\"I've had more people razz me about the Prius than I have the Hummer.\"", "\"It's my yin and yang. I think they balance each other out.\"", "Winbush: Why I own a Hummer and Prius .", "Candi Angotti of Texas is just the opposite.", "She wouldn't be caught dead in a Prius.", "The president of the Texas chapter of Club Hummer Offroad, she's been driving her solar-flare metallic orange Hummer for three years.", "\"I use it what it was built for -- off-roading and adventures -- and it has never let me down,\" she said.", "\"I have met a great group of guys and girls, and we're like a big family.\"", "See Texas woman catch air in Hummer .", "The owners now have one more thing in common: They're sporting a likely collector's item.", "But Builta's the exception.", "He got rid of his Hummer.", "And he still misses it.", "CNN's Christina Zdanowicz contributed to this report." ]	[ "Hummer came to define machismo in America .", "\"You should be very ashamed of yourself,\" sticky note left on Hummer said .", "Hummer owners rally behind their beloved behemoths ." ]	[ 4, 5, 9, 12 ]
[ "In our Behind the Scenes series, CNN correspondents share their experiences in covering news and analyze the stories behind the events.", "CNN's Christiane Amanpour meets the Dalai Lama and some of his unruly flock in \"Buddha's Warriors\" airing Saturday and Sunday, 8 and 11 p.m.", "ET . The Dalai Lama cracked jokes and chatted when a storm knocked out power during his interview with CNN.", "DHARAMSALA, India (CNN) -- I never knew much about Buddhism, and was not expecting much, spiritually, from covering the Dalai Lama.", "But what happened just goes to show how the unlikeliest events can affect you at the unlikeliest times.", "I flew from covering the historic visit of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra in North Korea to Dharamsala, India.", "This is the home-in-exile of the Dalai Lama and his government, as well as thousands of Tibetan monks and supporters.", "Our visit coincided with the events that commemorate each March 10, the date the Dalai Lama fled Tibet on horseback in 1959.", "He managed to evade the Chinese Communist forces, disguised as a soldier and escaping at night.", "The somber remembrance is a little like what the Palestinians do every year.", "They call it al-Nakba, or \"catastrophe,\" which marks 1948 when they lost much of their land as the state of Israel was founded.", "This year, however, the March 10 anniversary took on a more ominous tone.", "It was the first time the growing split among Tibetan exiles burst into the open.", "Some of the younger generation of exiles are losing faith in the Dalai Lama's abandonment of the dream of Tibetan independence.", "Some want action, even if it might mean abandoning their peaceful Buddhist way.", "I wanted to ask the Dalai Lama about this and where he thought it would lead.", "The day we visited, we attended a \"Long Life Ceremony\" in which thousands of Tibetans come from all over India and across the Himalayas from Tibet to catch a glimpse of their spiritual leader, to pray for his continued health and long life and to bestow their most precious gifts upon him, including cubes of dried cheese wrapped in muslin, textiles and tapestries.", "It went on for more than two hours.", "I never thought I would sit through the whole thing, but something about the chanting, the incense and the vital connection between the Dalai Lama and his adoring flock was mesmerizing.", "Watch: Amanpour investigates new breed of Buddhists » .", "As a journalist and an observer, I was transfixed.", "Even though the Dalai Lama has spent nearly 60 years in exile, people are still so faithful to him, so respectful, weeping, bowing low as they pass him sitting high above on his throne-like dais.", "He towers over them, and yet there is nothing removed or dictatorial about him.", "See behind-the-scenes photos from Buddha's Warriors » .", "Afterwards we prepared for our interview.", "He gives many, and I wondered what we could elicit from him that would be new or noteworthy.", "As our cameramen were setting up, I hung around outside to quietly watch as he received the first of many visitors that day: dignitaries, ordinary tourists, prayer groups and school groups.", "I've found you can tell almost everything about a person by observing the way they deal with others.", "He was kind, witty, warm, laugh-out-loud funny and deeply moved by some of the personal tales he heard from those visitors seeking his advice and blessing.", "I thought about how he must do this so many hundreds of thousands of times and yet he had time for everyone, treating each one like a VIP.", "Once we sat down, I was immediately slightly thrown off by his style.", "He told us very clearly that what the Chinese are doing in Tibet amounts to \"cultural genocide.\"", "And then he burst into his trademark giggles.", "I couldn't fully understand why, but it is apparently the Buddhist way to laugh off life's horrors, and thus survive.", "Learn about Tibet's history of conflict » .", "He went on to tell us, with great earnestness, how he approves of the Olympic Games being held in Beijing and how he is not trying to seek full independence from China, just what he calls cultural autonomy.", "This man, who is lionized for his quiet spirituality and for being a one-man movement of conscience, who had won a Nobel Peace Prize, calls himself a simple Buddhist monk.", "As we sat there, suddenly a thunderstorm broke and all our lights went out and we were plunged into darkness.", "Any other important interviewee would have swept out to rest while we dealt with it.", "Not the Dalai Lama.", "He sat there with us in the dark, cracking jokes and chatting, as we waited for the generator to kick in.", "The Chinese government says the Dalai Lama is lying when he says he does not want independence from China.", "They call him a wolf in sheep's clothing.", "So why, I wondered, would he not overtly support the young generation of Tibetans who want a more proactive policy of confronting China?", "Over and again I asked him about the split among his ranks.", "He said he would not condemn them as he believed in democracy and free speech.", "But nor would he support their tactics or their goals.", "He just kept asking (rhetorically) a simple question: With what are we going to fight them?", "Are we 6 million Tibetans going to confront the army of 1.2 billion people?", "How? The Chinese government refused repeatedly to talk to us and accused us of trying to \"beatify\" the Dalai Lama.", "I couldn't help wondering why they won't talk to him or meet him halfway.", "They may be trying to wait out the 74-year-old Dalai Lama.", "But they must know they'll have much more trouble on their hands once he is gone and the angry younger generation takes over." ]	[ "Christiane Amanpour traveled to India to meet with the exiled Dalai Lama .", "In 1959, the Dalai Lama fled Tibet on horseback to evade China's communist forces .", "Amanpour says the Dalai Lama's connection to his adoring flock is \"mesmerizing\"\nDalai Lama says what the Chinese are doing in Tibet amounts to \"cultural genocide\"" ]	[ 1, 7, 31, 39, 41 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Former 2004 Democratic vice presidential nominee John Edwards, who admitted last week that he fathered a child with a videographer who worked on his campaign, has legally separated from his wife, Elizabeth, a source close to her said Wednesday.", "The source would not say when the separation occurred, only that it happened a while ago.", "The source said he or she spoke to Elizabeth Edwards in recent days, and would not speak on the record because of the sensitivity of the situation.", "John Edwards issued a statement Wednesday, calling it \"an extraordinarily sad moment, but I love my children more than anything and still care deeply about Elizabeth.\"", "Elizabeth Edwards' publisher, Random House, released a statement saying, \"Elizabeth is moving on with her life and wants to put this difficult chapter behind her.", "It was an excruciatingly painful period for her and she [has] no interest in rehashing the past.\"", "News of the separation comes a week before a tell-all book by Andrew Young, a one-time close confidante of John Edwards, is set to hit bookstores.", "\"Based on the limited portions of the book that have been made available, it is clear it contains many falsehoods and exaggerations,\" the statement from Random House said.", "\"[Elizabeth Edwards] will not engage in a dialogue on each of the false charges, but would like to set the record straight on two key points.", "\"First, the allegation that she sought to politicize her cancer is unconscionable, hurtful and patently false.", "Second, she believed Andrew Young to be the father of this child until her husband confessed his paternity to her this past summer.", "She will have nothing further to say.\"", "Edwards, 56, had denied he was the father of his mistress Rielle Hunter's infant for more than a year, saying his self-admitted affair with her was over before she became pregnant.", "People magazine, a CNN sister organization, first reported the story.", "Elizabeth Edwards' sister, Nancy Anania, told People magazine in an article dated Wednesday that Elizabeth Edwards told her, \"I've had it.", "I can't do this. I want my life back.\"", "The sister told the magazine, \"She's got cancer and has young children and totally believes in marriage ... but she can only do so much.\"", "Read the People story .", "John Edwards, a former U.S. senator from North Carolina, sought his party's presidential nomination in 2004 and 2008.", "On November 3, 2004, the day her husband and Sen. John Kerry, D-Massachusetts, conceded the presidential race, Elizabeth Edwards revealed she had been diagnosed with breast cancer.", "She discovered a lump in her right breast the last week of the campaign, but said she withheld the diagnosis from her husband to spare him the distraction during the campaign.", "She announced in 2007 that the cancer had recurred.", "Last year, she told CNN's Larry King that the medicine she was taking seemed to be working.", "However, she said the situation was \"up and down.\"", "Elizabeth Edwards, 60, and her husband have been married for 32 years.", "They had four children together.", "The oldest , Wade, died in a car accident in 1996.", "Spokesmen for both of the Edwardses did not return CNN calls seeking comment.", "CNN's Deb Krajnak contributed to this report." ]	[ "Ex-Sen. John Edwards admitted last week to fathering child with videographer .", "Source close to Elizabeth Edwards says ex-senator and wife have separated .", "Sister tells magazine that Elizabeth Edwards said, \"I've had it.", "I can't do this\"" ]	[ 0, 11, 14, 15 ]
[ "Washington (CNN) -- Rep. Charlie Rangel temporarily stepped down as chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee on Wednesday, a decision forced by a growing storm of ethics controversies threatening the longtime congressman.", "The 20-term New York Democrat told reporters he had submitted a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi requesting a temporary leave of absence until a broad-reaching House ethics committee investigation concludes.", "\"In order to avoid my colleagues' having to defend me during their elections, I have this morning sent a letter to Speaker Pelosi asking her to grant me a leave of absence until such time as the ethics committee completes its work,\" Rangel said Wednesday.", "In a statement, Pelosi said she had accepted Rangel's request and praised the congressman for \"his decades of leadership on jobs, health care and the most significant economic issues of the day.\"", "Read Rangel's letter to Pelosi .", "The night before Rangel said he had no plans to step aside from his powerful post.", "The Ways and Means Committee is responsible for drafting the nation's tax policies.", "Rangel is being investigated for, among other things, failing to pay taxes on a home in the Dominican Republic.", "The congressman also has admitted failing to report several hundred thousand dollars in assets on federal disclosure forms.", "In addition, he is under scrutiny for the purported misuse of a rent-controlled apartment for political purposes, as well as for allegedly preserving tax benefits for an oil-drilling company in exchange for donations to a project he supported at the City College of New York.", "Rangel was formally admonished Friday by the House ethics committee for violating rules on receiving gifts.", "Specifically, the committee found that Rangel violated House gift rules by accepting reimbursement payments for travel to conferences in the Caribbean in 2007 and 2008.", "Rangel's staff, according to the committee, knew that corporations had given money to the Carib News, which sponsored the events.", "That fact had not been divulged to the ethics committee when Rangel asked for and received approval to attend the trips, according to the committee's report.", "The committee found that while Rangel did not know about the contributions, he was nevertheless responsible.", "A source told CNN on Tuesday that if Rangel stepped aside, senior Ways and Means Democrat Pete Stark would take over as the committee's chairman \"on a temporary basis.\"", "House Republicans plan to introduce a resolution Wednesday calling on Rangel to permanently step down and again force House Democrats to go on record defending him.", "They issued a statement after Rangel's announcement, calling his decision to temporarily step aside an \"embarrassing episode\" for the Democratic majority.", "\"Nancy Pelosi's promise to run the 'most ethical Congress in history' has been reduced to a punch line, and as a result she is presiding over a caucus in chaos,\" said GOP spokesman Ken Spain.", "\"The Democrats -- under Speaker Pelosi's leadership -- are incapable of leading the United States Congress.\"", "House Democrats have blocked previous GOP resolutions on the House floor, but several Democrats in competitive districts have come out publicly in recent days, saying they thought it was time for Rangel to step down.", "Rangel is a founding member of the Congressional Black Caucus, which has 42 members in the House.", "CNN's Brianna Keilar and Deirdre Walsh contributed to this report ." ]	[ "NEW: Republicans plan to call for Rep. Charlie Rangel to step aside permanently .", "Rangel investigated for failing to pay taxes on Dominican Republic home .", "House ethics committee admonished him for violating rules on receiving gifts .", "House Ways and Means Committee responsible for drafting nation's tax policies ." ]	[ 6, 7, 10, 16 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Jessica Simpson's name dominated headlines for months in 2009 as critics picked apart everything from her weight to her romantic relationships.", "The onslaught of attention was so extreme, Simpson said on Wednesday's \"The Oprah Winfrey Show,\" she couldn't escape it.", "\"The judgment of people.", "... Those voices are sometimes in my head when I fall asleep,\" the singer said.", "Even when she's walking through an airport, she isn't free from people's opinions, she said.", "\"I was going through security getting a pat down, and the woman goes, 'Oh, you're really not that big,' \" Simpson recalled.", "\"I walk away from a moment like that thinking that people really think that I'm 245 pounds.\"", "But the numbers on her scale haven't been her only public embarrassment.", "Simpson's romantic life also became fodder for the media after former boyfriend John Mayer told Playboy magazine that having sex with her was like being exposed to \"sexual napalm.\"", "\"I couldn't read the John Mayer article,\" Simpson said.", "\"I heard about it and I saw some of the clips.", "I tried to read it, and I was so disappointed in him ... it made me so sad.", "It was so discouraging, because that's not the John I knew.\"", "While Simpson doesn't want people to know the intimate details of her personal life, she admits it could've been a lot worse.", "\"My phone is ringing off the hook, I must say,\" she laughed.", "All jokes aside, Simpson said she did feel betrayed by her ex-boyfriend, whom she dated on and off for two years, and has yet to accept his apology.", "\"I don't resent him,\" she said, \"but I'm just going to let that part of my life go.\"", "Yet of all the events in the past few years that have affected Simpson, the now infamous pair of \"mom jeans\" she wore while performing at a chili cook-off in January 2009 have taken the greatest toll.", "\"The sad part about it is that when everything came out, I didn't want to sit down and talk to anyone about it because I felt guilty,\" she said.", "\"I felt like if people look at me and they're a size bigger, they think they're fat because of what the media was saying.", "I didn't want to feed into it.\" Now, Simpson said she's found self-acceptance.", "\"I'm comfortable with me. I love my curves.", "I'm not ever going to be a size 0 and weigh 90 pounds,\" she said.", "Simpson dropped weight for her 2005 film, \"The Dukes of Hazzard,\" but insisted it was just for a role.", "The constant chatter about her dress size was part of the inspiration for Simpson's VH1 show, \"The Price of Beauty,\" in which she visits seven countries to learn the lengths that women go to for beauty.", "Cameras follow Simpson -- accompanied by friends Ken Paves, a celebrity hairstylist, and CaCee Cobb -- as she tries a flesh-eating fish pedicure in Japan and a detoxifying drink made from cow urine in India.", "Simpson says filming the show has given her a new outlook on what it means to feel beautiful.", "\"No one else can define beauty but me,\" she said.", "\"Nobody's words, nobody's compliments, nobody's love -- it's all what I have within myself.", "I finally relaxed, and I don't care what people have to say about my weight.", "I think I look great.\"" ]	[ "Jessica Simpson has been silent about the gossip surrounding her weight and relationships .", "On Wednesday, she told Oprah Winfrey how difficult the criticism has been .", "The negative attention to her weight inspired her to do a show about global beauty .", "Now, Simpson has found self-acceptance, she told Winfrey ." ]	[ 0, 1, 20, 24, 29 ]
[ "SACRAMENTO, California (CNN) -- For more than two years, undercover cops on the Sacramento Police Department's vice squad have been working one of the most draining beats: trying to crack down on online child prostitution.", "Sacramento police have nabbed nearly 70 underage girls for child prostitution since 2005.", "Police have nabbed nearly 70 girls under the age of 18 since 2005.", "Most of the girls were released to foster or group homes.", "Those are just the official figures; investigators think there are many more child prostitutes out there.", "It is no easy task. \"We're asking these girls to do a big thing ... which is to stop what they're doing,\" said Sgt.", "Pam Seyffert of the Sacramento Police Department.", "\"Stop what's working for them.", "Surviving is basically what they're doing.\"", "Sacramento police are working with the FBI as part of a nationwide campaign to combat underage prostitution called Innocence Lost.", "The goal of the program, which is now in almost 30 U.S. cities, is to decriminalize the girls and concentrate on catching the pimps who control them.", "\"It really makes me angry,\" Seyffert said.", "\"I think everybody on the team has different reactions to it, but I just flat out get really angry that some guy thinks he can take this girl and basically deprive her of her freedom.\"", "It is not uncommon for the officers on the unit to put in 30-hour shifts.", "Oftentimes, their work is heart-wrenching.", "Watch how investigators work to catch pimps » .", "Child prostitution is even tougher on the parents of these girls.", "Roslyn and Sergio's daughter had been missing for more than two weeks.", "They waited for hours at police headquarters in hopes that their daughter would be found.", "Vice squad officers found her in a downtown apartment with Bruce William Carter, a 21-year-old man who police said had posed on the Internet holding fistfuls of cash.", "He pleaded not guilty to charges of statutory rape and was held in lieu of $35,000 bail.", "The couple's daughter, who had just turned 17, was detained but not arrested.", "\"It hurt,\" said Roslyn, who appeared weary and a bit shell-shocked.", "\"Because you don't want to see your children involved in things like this.", "You don't realize how dangerous the Internet is.", "Now, we got to keep her away from the Internet.\"", "Police say most of the ads appear on Craigslist, the popular and free Internet classifieds site, under a category named \"Erotic Services.\"", "Even though Craigslist has posted a bold disclaimer warning against human trafficking and the exploitation of children, law enforcement officials said it doesn't seem to deter girls from posting the ads or men who are searching for sex.", "But why would a girl sell her body online?", "To help answer that question, Sacramento police made arrangements for CNN to interview a 14-year-old girl who said she'd started selling herself as a prostitute at the age of 11.", "\"I wanted to feel loved. ...", "I wanted to feel important,\" said the teen, who did not want to be identified.", "She said she used Craigslist because it was free and she could post dozens of ads a day.", "Even though she understood the seriousness of what she was doing, she said she didn't care.", "\"You could put stuff in your ad like 'wet and wild,' 'fun and sassy,' things like that to catch their attention, to make them want you,\" she said.", "Craigslist executives said they abhor the fact that their site is being used for child prostitution but believe that the problem could be harder to track if they removed the category.", "\"It would be a bigger problem if we removed that category and had those ads spread throughout the site,\" said Jim Buckmaster, chief executive officer of Craigslist.", "Both legal experts and police say Craigslist bears no legal responsibility.", "Undercover officers said the fact that the listings can be traced helps them pinpoint the girls and sometimes leads them to pimps.", "For her part, Roslyn has a strong message for the man arrested in connection with her daughter's detention.", "\"I want him to stay away from my daughter,\" she said.", "\"I'm going to put a restraining order on him.", "Every time he goes near my daughter, I'm going to call the police and have him put in jail.\"", "Even though they have more work than they can handle, vice officers hold out hope that they can save more girls from a life of prostitution." ]	[ "Underage girls are selling sex in free Internet classifieds, police say .", "Sacramento police have nabbed nearly 70 underage girls since 2005 .", "\"I wanted to feel loved ... important,\" says girl who began posting ads at age 11 .", "Craigslist posts disclaimers warning against child exploitation, human trafficking ." ]	[ 1, 2, 27, 30 ]
[ "NEW YORK (CNN) -- Hip-hop artist Lil Wayne pleaded guilty Thursday to attempted criminal possession of a weapon, the Manhattan district attorney's office said.", "Lil Wayne is expected to receive a one-year jail sentence for his guilty plea.", "He is expected to receive a one-year jail sentence, the office said.", "The Grammy Award-winning artist, whose real name is Dwayne Carter, is due for sentencing in February.", "His trial had been scheduled to begin in January.", "When he was indicted in February 2008, Carter pleaded not guilty to a charge of criminal possession of a weapon, the district attorney's office said.", "His guilty plea Thursday was to a reduced charge.", "He was arrested in July 2007.", "Police officers said Carter and another man were smoking marijuana on a street, and the officers found a .40-caliber pistol in Carter's possession.", "Born and raised in New Orleans, Carter launched his solo career at age 16 with the release of \"Tha Block is Hot\" in 1999.", "He won two BET Awards in 2007 and four Grammy Awards in 2009." ]	[ "Lil Wayne was arrested in July 2007 on weapons charge .", "Hip-hop artist pleaded guilty to reduced charge Thursday; sentencing due in February .", "Lil Wayne launched solo career at age 16 with release of \"Tha Block is Hot\" in 1999 .", "He won two BET Awards in 2007 and four Grammy Awards in 2009 ." ]	[ 0, 7, 9, 10 ]
[ "Vancouver, British Columbia (CNN) -- Holding the Olympic medal she and her mom always wanted, Joannie Rochette finally smiled and talked about when she was a young skater and desperately wanted to make her mother proud.", "Her mom, Therese, was her biggest supporter and sometimes her biggest critic, she said.", "She wasn't the best \"coach,\" and she was kind of picky, but she had such a good eye, Rochette said.", "She was always encouraging, too, even when she was finding fault.", "\"And even though she's not here anymore, I'm not afraid to say it, sometimes she was a pain in the ass,\" Rochette said laughing, probably for the first time in days.", "Rochette made her mom very proud Thursday night, winning a bronze medal in the women's figure skating final, just four days after Therese Rochette died of a heart attack.", "Without her mother to support her, Joannie Rochette skated into Canada's collective heart by relying on all those years of training, all those years of committing jumps and spins to muscle memory.", "And when she needed it most, she relied on the memory of how her mom would always convince her that she was going to be on the Olympic medals podium.", "\"It feels good for me to talk about her,\" she said, joyfully recounting the many times her mom took her to practice and stay when the other moms left.", "She laughed when she told how her mom would assess a school test score of 98 with a \"What about those other two points?\"", "\"She was my biggest fan, my best friend.", "She was with me every step of the way,\" she said.", "When things weren't going so well in the first week Rochette was here for Olympics training, she called her mom, seeking her advice on what to do about her triple Lutz.", "Her mom assured her it would be all right, that she just needed to visualize doing it well in her head, that this was something she had done for years.", "But doing what she did this week was something no person can ever be prepared for.", "To compete in the spotlight of the Olympics' marquee event, in front of an expectant and hopeful home crowd, with the heartache of her mother's death so present would take strength most of us cannot imagine.", "But the people closest to her knew she had that strength.", "Her coach, Manon Perron, said there was never any doubt that Rochette would skate and never a doubt that she wouldn't be standing on the medals podium.", "\"Never ... because she was so ready and the goal was so strong,\" Perron said, just like a proud mom.", "\"I've been with her since she was 12 so we just have to look into each other's eyes and we know right away.", "It was really hard on her because her mom was the biggest thing in her life, but she's not a quitter.\"", "Rochette said she struggled more than she showed during Tuesday night's short program that captivated the skating world.", "When she stepped on the ice, her legs were shaking, she said.", "With mom in 'heart and soul,' Rochette goes for medal .", "\"I don't know how I ever got through this whole program.", "I'm sure my mom was there with me,\" she said.", "Rochette was third after the short program -- 7.14 points behind Kim Yu-Na of South Korea and 2.42 points behind Mao Asada of Japan -- who skated just before her.", "The free skate scores are weighted more and account for roughly two-thirds of a skater's total.", "Kim made it impossible for Rochette to dream of gold with an amazing free skate that was the best ever under the 6-year-old scoring system -- 150.06.", "The score was so high it would have beaten seven skaters' combined marks on its own.", "Her total of 228.56 is also a record.", "Asada then put up a 131.72, virtually clinching silver.", "Rochette came on the ice, looking determined, to the hockey-like cheers of the 14,000 at Pacific Coliseum.", "She needed a perfect skate for silver but on a triple flip, she stumbled and her chance for second place slipped away.", "Later in the program she had a bit of a shaky landing after another jump, but she stayed on her feet.", "After she finished she blew a kiss into the air, and came to the waiting area where she, in French, covered her heart with her right hand and spoke to her mother.", "Joannie Rochette opted to stay in the games, and two days later stirred a crowd with a courageous performance.", "\"Her mother is inside her heart and soul, so she'll be there for her,\" her agent Dave Baden told CNN on Wednesday, \"and [Joannie] will draw from that strength.\"", "Therese Rochette herself wrote of the bond she had with her daughter in an e-mail interview with The Christian Science Monitor in January.", "She said that she was the first person her daughter called whenever a problem occurred, though Joannie didn't need a great amount of support, the Monitor reported this week.", "\"The hurdles she faces motivate her to rise above them,\" Therese Rochette wrote to the Monitor.", "\"Joannie has always been naturally determined and persevering.\"", "Joannie Rochette rose through the ranks of Canadian skaters, winning junior national titles before winning six straight senior national championships from 2005 to 2010.", "In 2006, she placed fifth at the Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy, and last year she finished second at the World Figure Skating Championships in Los Angeles, California.", "Liz Manley was the last skater to medal for Canada, earning silver at the 1988 Calgary Games." ]	[ "Joannie Rochette earns bronze medal in women's figure skating .", "She skated four days after mother had heart attack and died .", "\"It feels good for me to talk about her,\" Rochette says of her mother .", "Kim Yu-Na of South Korea won the gold medal with best free skate score ever ." ]	[ 5, 8, 28 ]

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