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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.

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"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."

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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.

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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."

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(CNN) -- Paul O'Neill, who was appointed treasury secretary in 2001 by President Bush, says the federal government is not doing enough to fix the U.S. financial system.

Former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill says he's hoping for a "V-shaped" recession.

O'Neill appeared on CNN's "Fareed Zakaria GPS" on Sunday to talk about his outlook on the recession and what the Treasury Department should demand of major financial institutions in order to get the U.S. economy back on track.

Following is an edited transcript of their conversation.

Fareed Zakaria: Looking at the current economic crisis, do you think there is any prospect of what people call a "V-shaped recession," that is, a quick recovery? Or are we in for a long, perhaps years of sluggish growth, what economists call an "L-shaped recession"?

Paul O'Neill: You know, I've got to tell you, I'm praying for a V- shape. But I'm one who doesn't believe we're going to start moving back up until there is a credible fix for our financial system. And I think, in spite of all of the things that have been done now by the federal government, we're not quite there.

If I were secretary, I would do this. I would order the 19 major financial institutions to put on the Internet the classifications of their assets by investment grade rating, beginning with AAAs down through BBB-minuses, which is the final level of investment grade ratings.

And for those parts of their asset holdings that can't be rated investment grade -- or, in fact, as they say, can't be valued or can't be fairly valued -- I would create a new device which I call a "quarantine account."

One could make a judgment about the value of these institutions, and the institutions could make a self-judgment, about how much more lending capacity they had, if the quarantined assets are set aside.  Watch O'Neill offer his advice to Obama administration Â»

Zakaria: The basic idea -- the basic proposal you're making is transparency. Let everyone understand what's on the banks' books.

O'Neill: Right.

Zakaria: Isn't that a lot like Tim Geithner's stress test?

O'Neill: Well, I don't think so. Let me ask you a question. How do you think it's possible to do a so-called "stress test," if 30 or 40 percent of the assets in the institution can't be valued?

Here's another plea I have: If you can't value the assets, please don't buy them with my money.

Zakaria: You mean the government shouldn't be buying these toxic -- these assets. So you think the Treasury Department's proposals so far are all wrong. I mean, it sounds like you think they're doing all of the wrong things.

O'Neill: Well, you know, excuse me, but I'm not one who cares much for the notion of separating the idea of the government as some disembodied entity that has a life independent of me.

The money that they're committing and spending is at least in part mine. I'm a substantial taxpayer, and I don't want my representative to buy assets with my money that I wouldn't buy.

Why would I want to do that, Fareed? Why should we want them to do that?

Zakaria: But this is a pretty frontal assault then on the Treasury's bank plan so far.

O'Neill: Well, you know, I don't mean to be offensive to this administration or the last one, but it seems to me, if you're an intelligent investor, you invest in things where there is truth and transparency. And you have a shot, if you're a good leader, at earning the cost of capital and maybe even something more.

And I think that basic principle ought to apply to how our government thinks about what it's doing in the name of "we, the people."

You know, I really don't like this idea that somehow the government can do things that intelligent people wouldn't do, and we don't notice.

Zakaria: One of the other things the government is doing is running up large deficits. There's this large fiscal expansion.

Now, you were opposed to the Bush tax cuts, because of your concern about what they would do to the deficit. At that time, the deficit projection was $500 billion, and to you that seemed just too much. The deficit projections now are going to be in the $1.75 trillion range.

There are many people who say, you know what, this is that once-in-a-75-year moment where the government has to spend money because nobody else is spending money. Do you buy that?

O'Neill: I think, honestly, I'm not so much worried about the stimulus and its components as I am about what I consider to be an essential job -- to get a floor under the financial system, so that we can go back to economic growth in this country and around the world, because there is no hope until we do that.

There's not enough ink in the printing presses at the Federal Reserve to print enough money to fill the void created by the absence of real economic growth in our society and around the world.

Zakaria: When you were treasury secretary, you were famously suspicious of the financial sector. I mean, you thought there was a little too much attention being paid to it. You looked around at all those Bloomberg screens in the Treasury Department and said, you know, what do these guys make? In a way, reflecting your background in Alcoa.

Do you look at this unraveling and feel like the financial sector and the financial system got overweight and fat? I mean, what happened here?

O'Neill: We had a whole lot of people who were the public face of all of this financial activity that got ever more exotic. And I think, in truth, very few of them understood the detailed business activity that was going on underneath them. They were all kind of floating up here in the ether.

And I think it's true, if you listen to the commentary, even today, what some of these people are saying, they had no idea what was going on. It just felt really good, and it seemed like they were making a lot of money.

Zakaria: And do you think that, on the bank issue, are you hopeful that Geithner may, when he unveils the plan, have some of the components that you're suggesting? Or is it your sense they're just headed in the wrong direction?

O'Neill: You know, show us the money. Let us see for ourselves.

If I was buying a company, I would not put up with someone else giving me a certification that the assets were worth something. I'd go and look in the boiler room and find out if there's rust on the valves.

You know, we're talking about providing the wherewithal for intelligent investors to make decisions that they can rely on the facts. And I think the administration hasn't gotten to the point yet of insisting that the big 19 financial institutions put their facts on the table, and for that matter, a place like General Electric put all of its facts on the table, so investors can make an informed decision.

I've said this to some people, and they've said -- some of them have said, "We'd be happy to do that, and we would be OK with that." Some other major financial institutions have said, "Oh, my God, if we did that, people would see how bad it really is."

I think knowing how bad it really is, is the only way we're going to create a foundation for going forward, Fareed.

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text: money

text: that

text: I

text: would

text: n't

text: buy

text: Why

text: would

text: I

text: want

text: to

text: do

text: that

text: Fareed

text: Why

text: should

text: we

text: want

text: them

text: to

text: do

text: that

text: Zakaria

text: But

text: this

text: is

text: a

text: pretty

text: frontal

text: assault

text: then

text: on

text: the

text: Treasury

text: 's

text: bank

text: plan

text: so

text: far

text: O'Neill

text: Well

text: you

text: know

text: I

text: do

text: n't

text: mean

text: to

text: be

text: offensive

text: to

text: this

text: administration

text: or

text: the

text: last

text: one

text: but

text: it

text: seems

text: to

text: me

text: if

text: you

text: 're

text: an

text: intelligent

text: investor

text: you

text: invest

text: in

text: things

text: where

text: there

text: is

text: truth

text: and

text: transparency

text: And

text: you

text: have

text: a

text: shot

text: if

text: you

text: 're

text: a

text: good

text: leader

text: at

text: earning

text: the

text: cost

text: of

text: capital

text: and

text: maybe

text: even

text: something

text: more

text: And

text: I

text: think

text: that

text: basic

text: principle

text: ought

text: to

text: apply

text: to

text: how

text: our

text: government

text: thinks

text: about

text: what

text: it

text: 's

text: doing

text: in

text: the

text: name

text: of

text: we

text: the

text: people

text: You

text: know

text: I

text: really

text: do

text: n't

text: like

text: this

text: idea

text: that

text: somehow

text: the

text: government

text: can

text: do

text: things

text: that

text: intelligent

text: people

text: would

text: n't

text: do

text: and

text: we

text: do

text: n't

text: notice

text: Zakaria

text: One

text: of

text: the

text: other

text: things

text: the

text: government

text: is

text: doing

text: is

text: running

text: up

text: large

text: deficits

text: There

text: 's

text: this

text: large

text: fiscal

text: expansion

text: Now

text: you

text: were

text: opposed

text: to

text: the

text: Bush

text: tax

text: cuts

text: because

text: of

text: your

text: concern

text: about

text: what

text: they

text: would

text: do

text: to

text: the

text: deficit

text: At

text: that

text: time

text: the

text: deficit

text: projection

text: was

text: billion

text: and

text: to

text: you

text: that

text: seemed

text: just

text: too

text: much

text: The

text: deficit

text: projections

text: now

text: are

text: going

text: to

text: be

text: in

text: the

text: trillion

text: range

text: There

text: are

text: many

text: people

text: who

text: say

text: you

text: know

text: what

text: this

text: is

text: that

text: once

text: in

text: moment

text: where

text: the

text: government

text: has

text: to

text: spend

text: money

text: because

text: nobody

text: else

text: is

text: spending

text: money

text: Do

text: you

text: buy

text: that

text: O'Neill

text: I

text: think

text: honestly

text: I

text: 'm

text: not

text: so

text: much

text: worried

text: about

text: the

text: stimulus

text: and

text: its

text: components

text: as

text: I

text: am

text: about

text: what

text: I

text: consider

text: to

text: be

text: an

text: essential

text: job

text: to

text: get

text: a

text: floor

text: under

text: the

text: financial

text: system

text: so

text: that

text: we

text: can

text: go

text: back

text: to

text: economic

text: growth

text: in

text: this

text: country

text: and

text: around

text: the

text: world

text: because

text: there

text: is

text: no

text: hope

text: until

text: we

text: do

text: that

text: There

text: 's

text: not

text: enough

text: ink

text: in

text: the

text: printing

text: presses

text: at

text: the

text: Federal

text: Reserve

text: to

text: print

text: enough

text: money

text: to

text: fill

text: the

text: void

text: created

text: by

text: the

text: absence

text: of

text: real

text: economic

text: growth

text: in

text: our

text: society

text: and

text: around

text: the

text: world

text: Zakaria

text: When

text: you

text: were

text: treasury

text: secretary

text: you

text: were

text: famously

text: suspicious

text: of

text: the

text: financial

text: sector

text: I

text: mean

text: you

text: thought

text: there

text: was

text: a

text: little

text: too

text: much

text: attention

text: being

text: paid

text: to

text: it

text: You

text: looked

text: around

text: at

text: all

text: those

text: Bloomberg

text: screens

text: in

text: the

text: Treasury

text: Department

text: and

text: said

text: you

text: know

text: what

text: do

text: these

text: guys

text: make

text: In

text: a

text: way

text: reflecting

text: your

text: background

text: in

text: Alcoa

text: Do

text: you

text: look

text: at

text: this

text: unraveling

text: and

text: feel

text: like

text: the

text: financial

text: sector

text: and

text: the

text: financial

text: system

text: got

text: overweight

text: and

text: fat

text: I

text: mean

text: what

text: happened

text: here

text: O'Neill

text: We

text: had

text: a

text: whole

text: lot

text: of

text: people

text: who

text: were

text: the

text: public

text: face

text: of

text: all

text: of

text: this

text: financial

text: activity

text: that

text: got

text: ever

text: more

text: exotic

text: And

text: I

text: think

text: in

text: truth

text: very

text: few

text: of

text: them

text: understood

text: the

text: detailed

text: business

text: activity

text: that

text: was

text: going

text: on

text: underneath

text: them

text: They

text: were

text: all

text: kind

text: of

text: floating

text: up

text: here

text: in

text: the

text: ether

text: And

text: I

text: think

text: it

text: 's

text: true

text: if

text: you

text: listen

text: to

text: the

text: commentary

text: even

text: today

text: what

text: some

text: of

text: these

text: people

text: are

text: saying

text: they

text: had

text: no

text: idea

text: what

text: was

text: going

text: on

text: It

text: just

text: felt

text: really

text: good

text: and

text: it

text: seemed

text: like

text: they

text: were

text: making

text: a

text: lot

text: of

text: money

text: Zakaria

text: And

text: do

text: you

text: think

text: that

text: on

text: the

text: bank

text: issue

text: are

text: you

text: hopeful

text: that

text: Geithner

text: may

text: when

text: he

text: unveils

text: the

text: plan

text: have

text: some

text: of

text: the

text: components

text: that

text: you

text: 're

text: suggesting

text: Or

text: is

text: it

text: your

text: sense

text: they

text: 're

text: just

text: headed

text: in

text: the

text: wrong

text: direction

text: O'Neill

text: You

text: know

text: show

text: us

text: the

text: money

text: Let

text: us

text: see

text: for

text: ourselves

text: If

text: I

text: was

text: buying

text: a

text: company

text: I

text: would

text: not

text: put

text: up

text: with

text: someone

text: else

text: giving

text: me

text: a

text: certification

text: that

text: the

text: assets

text: were

text: worth

text: something

text: I

text: 'd

text: go

text: and

text: look

text: in

text: the

text: boiler

text: room

text: and

text: find

text: out

text: if

text: there

text: 's

text: rust

text: on

text: the

text: valves

text: You

text: know

text: we

text: 're

text: talking

text: about

text: providing

text: the

text: wherewithal

text: for

text: intelligent

text: investors

text: to

text: make

text: decisions

text: that

text: they

text: can

text: rely

text: on

text: the

text: facts

text: And

text: I

text: think

text: the

text: administration

text: has

text: n't

text: gotten

text: to

text: the

text: point

text: yet

text: of

text: insisting

text: that

text: the

text: big

text: financial

text: institutions

text: put

text: their

text: facts

text: on

text: the

text: table

text: and

text: for

text: that

text: matter

text: a

text: place

text: like

text: General

text: Electric

text: put

text: all

text: of

text: its

text: facts

text: on

text: the

text: table

text: so

text: investors

text: can

text: make

text: an

text: informed

text: decision

text: I

text: 've

text: said

text: this

text: to

text: some

text: people

text: and

text: they

text: 've

text: said

text: some

text: of

text: them

text: have

text: said

text: We

text: 'd

text: be

text: happy

text: to

text: do

text: that

text: and

text: we

text: would

text: be

text: OK

text: with

text: that

text: Some

text: other

text: major

text: financial

text: institutions

text: have

text: said

text: Oh

text: my

text: God

text: if

text: we

text: did

text: that

text: people

text: would

text: see

text: how

text: bad

text: it

text: really

text: is

text: I

text: think

text: knowing

text: how

text: bad

text: it

text: really

text: is

text: is

text: the

text: only

text: way

text: we

text: 're

text: going

text: to

text: create

text: a

text: foundation

text: for

text: going

text: forward

text: Fareed

question: what does O'Neill say

answer: he's hoping for a "V-shaped" recession.

text: he's hoping for a "V-shaped" recession.

question: What is there no hope for?

answer: economic growth

text: economic growth

question: What should the US demand?

answer: major financial institutions in order to get the U.S. economy back on track.

text: major financial institutions in order to get the U.S. economy back on track.

question: Who is saying this?

answer: Former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill

text: Former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill


text:
KATHMANDU, Nepal (CNN) -- Lawmakers in Nepal will vote Saturday to pick the country's first president since it became a republic.

Nepal became a republic after the deposal of King Gyanendra Shah earlier this year.

The country's newly elected Constituent Assembly abolished a 239-year monarchy following elections in April.

But with no one party winning a majority of the seats, it is unclear who may become president.

The position is largely ceremonial. But a president will swear in whoever is picked as the new prime minister.

The three main political parties continued to negotiate over whom to name president.

The Nepali Congress wants outgoing prime minister and party president Girija Prasad Koirala for the position. The Communist Party of Nepal (United Marxist-Leninist) wants its leader.

But the Maoists -- which won the largest number of seats but fell short of a majority -- do not favor either of the two men. They want a non-political figure as president.

Journalist Manesh Shrestha contributed to this report

text: KATHMANDU

text: Nepal

text: CNN

text: Lawmakers

text: in

text: Nepal

text: will

text: vote

text: Saturday

text: to

text: pick

text: the

text: country

text: 's

text: first

text: president

text: since

text: it

text: became

text: a

text: republic

text: Nepal

text: became

text: a

text: republic

text: after

text: the

text: deposal

text: of

text: King

text: Gyanendra

text: Shah

text: earlier

text: this

text: year

text: The

text: country

text: 's

text: newly

text: elected

text: Constituent

text: Assembly

text: abolished

text: a

text: monarchy

text: following

text: elections

text: in

text: April

text: But

text: with

text: no

text: one

text: party

text: winning

text: a

text: majority

text: of

text: the

text: seats

text: it

text: is

text: unclear

text: who

text: may

text: become

text: president

text: The

text: position

text: is

text: largely

text: ceremonial

text: But

text: a

text: president

text: will

text: swear

text: in

text: whoever

text: is

text: picked

text: as

text: the

text: new

text: prime

text: minister

text: The

text: three

text: main

text: political

text: parties

text: continued

text: to

text: negotiate

text: over

text: whom

text: to

text: name

text: president

text: The

text: Nepali

text: Congress

text: wants

text: outgoing

text: prime

text: minister

text: and

text: party

text: president

text: Girija

text: Prasad

text: Koirala

text: for

text: the

text: position

text: The

text: Communist

text: Party

text: of

text: Nepal

text: United

text: Marxist

text: Leninist

text: wants

text: its

text: leader

text: But

text: the

text: Maoists

text: which

text: won

text: the

text: largest

text: number

text: of

text: seats

text: but

text: fell

text: short

text: of

text: a

text: majority

text: do

text: not

text: favor

text: either

text: of

text: the

text: two

text: men

text: They

text: want

text: a

text: non

text: political

text: figure

text: as

text: president

text: Journalist

text: Manesh

text: Shrestha

text: contributed

text: to

text: this

text: report

question: Who is picking their country's first president?

answer: Nepal

text: Nepal

question: Who wants a non-political figure as president?

answer: Maoists

text: Maoists

question: Where are the lawmakers?

answer: Nepal

text: Nepal

question: What has no party had?

answer: majority of the seats,

text: majority of the seats,

question: Who won the most seats?

answer: Maoists

text: Maoists


text:
BEIJING, China (CNN)  -- China's worst winter in more than half a century showed no signs of abating Wednesday as forecasters warned of three more days of snow and sleet.

Stranded passengers wait to get into the railway station at Wuhan in central China's Hubei province

The weather has paralyzed transportation, frozen the power grid and delivered a $4.5 billion hit to the economy, according to figures released Wednesday by the Civil Affairs Ministry.

The situation is compounding economic problems for China. Destroyed crops have resulted in increased food prices, while the inability to transport goods has further inflated prices and led to shortages at stores.

China's railways and roads are the lifeblood for its manufacturing sector, one of the fastest growing in the world.

"Being a manufacturer, we are so worried," said marketing manager Calvina Chan, who works for a Hong Kong-based firm that relies on a factory in mainland China to produce luggage for brands such as Samsonite.

"Because of the snowstorm, the transportation isn't very good and so there might be a late delivery."

Automakers Toyota and Ford halted their China-based production this week.

The transportation stoppage has had a domino effect, preventing the delivery of coal, which is vital to China's power plants. That is amplifying China's energy problems.

"Most of the coal is produced in the north and northeast, (while) the users are along the coast," said economist Nicholas Kwan.

"This time the snowstorm's problem is not so much freezing the production but freezing the transportation line which makes transportation of coal to those power plants more difficult."

Kwan said some of the power plants have already depleted their coal reserves.

All this comes during the Lunar New Year holiday, the country's busiest shopping season.

In Guangzhou, hundreds of factory workers who had saved money all year to visit their families during China's Lunar New Year filled the city's train station, waiting for trains that were not expected to arrive for days.

Up to half a million people have camped out in the southern city for nearly a week, hoping to get home for the holiday.

Factories in the province of Guangzhou shut down Wednesday ahead of the February 7 holiday with workers joining the masses around the train station -- hoping the government would deliver on its promise of quick action and immediate relief for those trying to make it home.

"I have been sleeping out here for six days. I have spent all my money. I don't know how I will get home," one man said.

Another man told CNN's Hugh Riminton he had tried to get out of Guangzhou every way possible -- by airplane, bus and his own car -- but could not make it because of the weather conditions.

"Now he's in the queue with everyone else trying to get on a train," Riminton said. "And the trains simply aren't going at the moment and it's unlikely they'll be going really in sufficient numbers for days to come"

Security is tight at the railway station as people occasionally stampeded the barricade in an attempt to get closer to the train platforms, to no avail. Armed riot police entered the station on Wednesday to regain control of the situation.

So far, Chinese authorities have managed to persuade nearly 470,000 people to abandon their travel plans and accept a refund for their train tickets.

Prime Minister Wen Jiabao apologized Tuesday to the hundreds of thousands of people stranded in train stations across his country -- a rare move by a Chinese politician.

"First we'll fix the electric grid. After that, the trains will run again. ... Then all of you can go home for the Chinese New Year," the premier said.

President Hu Jintao called an emergency meeting of the policy-making politburo and vowed a quick government response.

More than 177 million Chinese were expected to travel by train, and 22 million more by plane, for Chinese Lunar New Year, also known as the Spring Festival.

"Going home every year is an obligation," one Chinese woman explained. "It is family reunion, and no matter how difficult it is, we have to do it."

Brian Blackwell of Chicago was stranded for two days at Shanghai's Hongqiao International Airport. "There were thousands of people there and they were pushing toward the counter. You had no idea what the status of your flight was."

Brutal winter weather has pounded China's central, eastern and southern sections. In its 10-day forecast, the China Meteorological Administration said Wednesday that southwestern, eastern and southern China can expect more snow and sleet with freezing temperatures, while northern China will stay clear but windy.

The winter precipitation had caused at least 49 deaths due to collapsed roofs and treacherous travel conditions, the Ministry of Civil Affairs and local officials said.

Nearly a million police have been dispatched to help keep roadways open as thousands of vehicles have become stranded in the snow and ice, according to Chinese Ministry of Public Safety spokesman Wu Heping. E-mail to a friend

text: BEIJING

text: China

text: CNN

text: China

text: 's

text: worst

text: winter

text: in

text: more

text: than

text: half

text: a

text: century

text: showed

text: no

text: signs

text: of

text: abating

text: Wednesday

text: as

text: forecasters

text: warned

text: of

text: three

text: more

text: days

text: of

text: snow

text: and

text: sleet

text: Stranded

text: passengers

text: wait

text: to

text: get

text: into

text: the

text: railway

text: station

text: at

text: Wuhan

text: in

text: central

text: China

text: 's

text: Hubei

text: province

text: The

text: weather

text: has

text: paralyzed

text: transportation

text: frozen

text: the

text: power

text: grid

text: and

text: delivered

text: a

text: billion

text: hit

text: to

text: the

text: economy

text: according

text: to

text: figures

text: released

text: Wednesday

text: by

text: the

text: Civil

text: Affairs

text: Ministry

text: The

text: situation

text: is

text: compounding

text: economic

text: problems

text: for

text: China

text: Destroyed

text: crops

text: have

text: resulted

text: in

text: increased

text: food

text: prices

text: while

text: the

text: inability

text: to

text: transport

text: goods

text: has

text: further

text: inflated

text: prices

text: and

text: led

text: to

text: shortages

text: at

text: stores

text: China

text: 's

text: railways

text: and

text: roads

text: are

text: the

text: lifeblood

text: for

text: its

text: manufacturing

text: sector

text: one

text: of

text: the

text: fastest

text: growing

text: in

text: the

text: world

text: Being

text: a

text: manufacturer

text: we

text: are

text: so

text: worried

text: said

text: marketing

text: manager

text: Calvina

text: Chan

text: who

text: works

text: for

text: a

text: Hong

text: Kong

text: based

text: firm

text: that

text: relies

text: on

text: a

text: factory

text: in

text: mainland

text: China

text: to

text: produce

text: luggage

text: for

text: brands

text: such

text: as

text: Samsonite

text: Because

text: of

text: the

text: snowstorm

text: the

text: transportation

text: is

text: n't

text: very

text: good

text: and

text: so

text: there

text: might

text: be

text: a

text: late

text: delivery

text: Automakers

text: Toyota

text: and

text: Ford

text: halted

text: their

text: China

text: based

text: production

text: this

text: week

text: The

text: transportation

text: stoppage

text: has

text: had

text: a

text: domino

text: effect

text: preventing

text: the

text: delivery

text: of

text: coal

text: which

text: is

text: vital

text: to

text: China

text: 's

text: power

text: plants

text: That

text: is

text: amplifying

text: China

text: 's

text: energy

text: problems

text: Most

text: of

text: the

text: coal

text: is

text: produced

text: in

text: the

text: north

text: and

text: northeast

text: while

text: the

text: users

text: are

text: along

text: the

text: coast

text: said

text: economist

text: Nicholas

text: Kwan

text: This

text: time

text: the

text: snowstorm

text: 's

text: problem

text: is

text: not

text: so

text: much

text: freezing

text: the

text: production

text: but

text: freezing

text: the

text: transportation

text: line

text: which

text: makes

text: transportation

text: of

text: coal

text: to

text: those

text: power

text: plants

text: more

text: difficult

text: Kwan

text: said

text: some

text: of

text: the

text: power

text: plants

text: have

text: already

text: depleted

text: their

text: coal

text: reserves

text: All

text: this

text: comes

text: during

text: the

text: Lunar

text: New

text: Year

text: holiday

text: the

text: country

text: 's

text: busiest

text: shopping

text: season

text: In

text: Guangzhou

text: hundreds

text: of

text: factory

text: workers

text: who

text: had

text: saved

text: money

text: all

text: year

text: to

text: visit

text: their

text: families

text: during

text: China

text: 's

text: Lunar

text: New

text: Year

text: filled

text: the

text: city

text: 's

text: train

text: station

text: waiting

text: for

text: trains

text: that

text: were

text: not

text: expected

text: to

text: arrive

text: for

text: days

text: Up

text: to

text: half

text: a

text: million

text: people

text: have

text: camped

text: out

text: in

text: the

text: southern

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text: home

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text: holiday

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text: in

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text: province

text: of

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text: shut

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text: the

text: February

text: holiday

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text: workers

text: joining

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text: masses

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text: train

text: station

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text: government

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text: deliver

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text: promise

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text: quick

text: action

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text: immediate

text: relief

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text: make

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text: I

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text: days

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text: have

text: spent

text: all

text: my

text: money

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text: n't

text: know

text: how

text: I

text: will

text: get

text: home

text: one

text: man

text: said

text: Another

text: man

text: told

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text: 's

text: Hugh

text: Riminton

text: he

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text: tried

text: to

text: get

text: out

text: of

text: Guangzhou

text: every

text: way

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text: by

text: airplane

text: bus

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text: his

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text: but

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text: weather

text: conditions

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text: to

text: get

text: on

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text: train

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text: trains

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text: moment

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text: it

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text: closer

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text: train

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text: to

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text: avail

text: Armed

text: riot

text: police

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text: the

text: station

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text: regain

text: control

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text: the

text: situation

text: So

text: far

text: Chinese

text: authorities

text: have

text: managed

text: to

text: persuade

text: nearly

text: people

text: to

text: abandon

text: their

text: travel

text: plans

text: and

text: accept

text: a

text: refund

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text: Prime

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text: electric

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text: trains

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text: Chinese

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text: premier

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text: travel

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text: train

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text: million

text: more

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text: Spring

text: Festival

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text: year

text: is

text: an

text: obligation

text: one

text: Chinese

text: woman

text: explained

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text: family

text: reunion

text: and

text: no

text: matter

text: how

text: difficult

text: it

text: is

text: we

text: have

text: to

text: do

text: it

text: Brian

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text: Chicago

text: was

text: stranded

text: for

text: two

text: days

text: at

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text: 's

text: Hongqiao

text: International

text: Airport

text: There

text: were

text: thousands

text: of

text: people

text: there

text: and

text: they

text: were

text: pushing

text: toward

text: the

text: counter

text: You

text: had

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text: idea

text: what

text: the

text: status

text: of

text: your

text: flight

text: was

text: Brutal

text: winter

text: weather

text: has

text: pounded

text: China

text: 's

text: central

text: eastern

text: and

text: southern

text: sections

text: In

text: its

text: forecast

text: the

text: China

text: Meteorological

text: Administration

text: said

text: Wednesday

text: that

text: southwestern

text: eastern

text: and

text: southern

text: China

text: can

text: expect

text: more

text: snow

text: and

text: sleet

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text: temperatures

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text: northern

text: China

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text: stay

text: clear

text: but

text: windy

text: The

text: winter

text: precipitation

text: had

text: caused

text: at

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text: deaths

text: due

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text: collapsed

text: roofs

text: and

text: treacherous

text: travel

text: conditions

text: the

text: Ministry

text: of

text: Civil

text: Affairs

text: and

text: local

text: officials

text: said

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text: a

text: million

text: police

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text: dispatched

text: to

text: help

text: keep

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text: open

text: as

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text: of

text: vehicles

text: have

text: become

text: stranded

text: in

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text: snow

text: and

text: ice

text: according

text: to

text: Chinese

text: Ministry

text: of

text: Public

text: Safety

text: spokesman

text: Wu

text: Heping

text: E

text: mail

text: to

text: a

text: friend

question: how many more days of bad weather

answer: three

text: three

question: What is the economic cost?

answer: $4.5 billion

text: $4.5 billion

question: who stopped production

answer: Automakers Toyota and Ford

text: Automakers Toyota and Ford

question: Who halted Chinese production?

answer: Toyota and Ford

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(CNN) -- The oldest-known hominid skeleton was a 4-foot-tall female who walked upright more than 4 million years ago and offers new clues to how humans may have evolved, scientists say.

This sketch shows what a 4 million-year-old hominid, nicknamed Ardi, may have looked like.

Scientists believe that the fossilized remains, which were discovered in 1994 in Ethiopia and studied for years by an international team of researchers, support beliefs that humans and chimpanzees evolved separately from a common ancestor.

"This is not an ordinary fossil. It's not a chimp. It's not a human. It shows us what we used to be," said project co-director Tim White, a paleontologist at the University of California, Berkeley.

Ardipithecus ramidus, nicknamed "Ardi," is a hominid species that lived 4.4 million years ago in what is now Aramis, Ethiopia. That makes Ardi more than a million years older than the celebrated Lucy, the partial ape-human skeleton found in Africa in 1974.

Ardi's 125-piece skeleton includes the skull, teeth, pelvis, hands and feet bones. Scientists say the data collected from Ardi's bone fragments over the past 17 years push back the story of human evolution further than previously believed.

"In fact, what Ardipithecus tells us is that we as humans have been evolving to what we are today for at least 6 million years," C. Owen Lovejoy, an evolutionary biologist at Kent State University and project anatomist, said Thursday.

Analysis of Ardi's skeleton reveals that she weighed about 110 pounds, had very long arms and fingers, and possessed an opposable big toe that would have helped her grasp branches while moving through trees.

Ardi's brain was believed to be the size of a chimp's, but she also had many human-like features, such as the ability to walk upright on two legs. Her "all-purpose type" teeth indicate that she probably ate a combination of plants, fruits and small mammals, scientists say.

"The anatomy behind this behavioral combination is very unexpected and is certain to cause considerable rethinking of not only our evolutionary past, but also that of our living relatives: the great apes," said Alan Walker, professor of biological anthropology at Pennsylvania State University.

Many scientists hypothesize that humans took a different evolutionary trajectory from those of chimpanzees, bonobos and gorillas. Ardi's findings help challenge earlier beliefs that humans evolved from chimpanzees, their closest genetic relatives, scientists say.

Researchers are still trying to pinpoint when the two lineages -- chimps and humans -- split from their common ancestor.

Digging up the past has not been easy.

Scientists stumbled upon the Ardipithecus fossil in 1994 when a graduate student found a single upper molar tooth. The rest of Ardi's fossilized bones, sandwiched between layers of volcanic rock, took three years to be recovered and many more to be analyzed.

"In many ways, the discovery of Ardipithecus has been like a marathon," White said.

"Ardipithecus ramidus and its prevailing anatomy revolutionize the way most of us understood the earlier part of our evolutionary history," said team member Yohannes Haile-Selassie, paleontologist at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History.

The Ardi findings are the work of 47 paleontologists and geologists representing 10 countries. The results will be published Friday in 11 articles in a special edition of the journal Science.

Until now, Australopithecus, nicknamed "Lucy," was the oldest fossil studied by scientists seeking to explain human evolution. Lucy is believed to have lived about 3.2 million years ago in what is now Ethiopia.

Many scientists credit Ethiopia with taking the lead in helping the world better understand the origins of humans.

"This finding points to a deeper sense of our [humans'] interconnectedness," Samuel Assefa, Ethiopian ambassador to the United States, said Thursday. "We are all Ethiopians at heart."

Ardi's skeleton resides in the National Museum of Ethiopia in Addis Ababa.

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question: What has been unveiled?

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question: What has the fossil been nicknamed?

answer: Ardi,

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question: What did humans and chimps evolve from?

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question: who replaces lucy?

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question: Whar is the fossil's nickname?

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(CNN)  -- Two former Blackwater employees have made statements against Blackwater Worldwide and its founder Erik Prince, accusing the security company and its former CEO of murder and other serious crimes in Iraq, according to court documents filed this week.

Blackwater founder Erik Prince, shown here before a congressional panel in 2007, recently left the company.

The sworn affidavits by an ex-Marine who joined Blackwater and another employee -- listed in the documents as "John Doe No. 1" and "John Doe No. 2" -- are part of a civil lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Virginia against Prince on behalf of Iraqi families who say they lost loved ones at the hands of his company.

Blackwater, recently renamed Xe, issued a statement Tuesday, saying it would respond "to the anonymous unsubstantiated and offensive assertions put forward by the plaintiffs," in a brief to be filed August 17.

The company had a security contract for operations in Iraq under the U.S. State Department until May, when the federal government declined to renew the contract. The decision did not affect other contracts Blackwater has with the State Department, a senior State department official told CNN earlier this year.

Several of the plaintiffs are connected to a September 2007 shooting incident in Baghdad in which the Iraqi government says security guards, then employed by Blackwater, fired upon and killed 17 Iraqi civilians.

The affidavits by the two witnesses, who did not want to be identified in the court documents filed Monday for fear of retaliatory "violence,"  paint a menacing portrait of Prince, who recently resigned from his company.

"First, he views himself as a Christian crusader tasked with eliminating Muslims and the Islamic faith from the globe. ... Second, Mr. Prince is motivated by greed," says John Doe No. 2. "He sought every opportunity to deploy men to Iraq in order to earn more money from the United States government."

He refers to another incident when he "first arrived in Baghdad" in which he saw fellow employees pulling weapons out of a shipment of dog food -- the allegation being smuggling.

John Doe No. 1 describes witnessing one incident in Baquba, where a Blackwater employee allegedly fired into a passing single-passenger vehicle without provocation. He says he's heard of similar instances of excessive or deadly force from other Blackwater employees.

However, neither gives clear details about the incidents they describe, such as specific dates or locations.

The court documents filed Tuesday are in response to a defense motion to dismiss the suit. The suit says the affidavits were also submitted to the Justice Department, which is engaged in an ongoing investigation into the Blackwater case. No criminal charges have been filed against Prince.

"It is obvious that Plaintiffs have chosen to slander Mr. Prince rather than raise legal arguments or actual facts that will be considered by a court of law. We are happy to engage them there," the company statement said. "We question the judgment of anyone who relies upon and [reiterates] anonymous declarations."

Earlier this year, five former Blackwater security guards pleaded not guilty to federal charges of manslaughter and other serious crimes stemming from a September 16, 2007, shooting. Their trial is set for February 2010.

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text: company

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text: a

text: statement

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text: legal

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text: judgment

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text: anyone

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text: year

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text: Blackwater

text: security

text: guards

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text: to

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text: charges

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text: other

text: serious

text: crimes

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text: from

text: a

text: September

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text: Their

text: trial

text: is

text: set

text: for

text: February

question: Who has brought the civil suit

answer: Two former Blackwater employees

text: Two former Blackwater employees

question: What does the company statement say

answer: "We question the judgment of anyone who relies upon and [reiterates] anonymous declarations."

text: "We question the judgment of anyone who relies upon and [reiterates] anonymous declarations."

question: what do the witnesses fear

answer: retaliatory "violence,"

text: retaliatory "violence,"

question: What do John Doe 1 and John Doe 2 fear?

answer: retaliatory "violence,"

text: retaliatory "violence,"

question: What did Erik Prince view himself as?

answer: Christian crusader

text: Christian crusader

question: who is the founder

answer: Erik Prince,

text: Erik Prince,


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WASHINGTON (CNN)  -- The State Department on Monday continued to publicly downplay the threat North Korea presents to the United States with spokesman P.J. Crowley telling reporters North Korea "represents an infinitesimal threat to the United States directly."

A North Korean soldier looks at the South Korean side of the demilitarized zone earlier this month.

The spokesman's statement followed comments from Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in an interview with ABC, broadcast Monday, in which she said the reason for the United States' low-key reaction to North Korea's recent missile test was that the United States wasn't "going to give the North Koreans the satisfaction they were looking for, which was to elevate them to center stage."

In that interview, Clinton said North Korea has a "constant demand for attention," and she added, "maybe it's the mother in me, the experience I've had with small children and teenagers and people who are demanding attention: Don't give it to them."

After calling the direct threat to the U.S. "infinitesimal," Crowley went on to say that "North Korea, and its provocative actions, does represent a significant threat to the region and its actions recently have been unhelpful and potentially destabilizing."

A senior U.S. official, who did not want to be identified, said there is a "theoretical" question of whether a North Korean missile could hit the United States. "There's nothing in their recent development," he said, "which would suggest that their technology is becoming more accurate."

The United States says its primary concerns about North Korea's actions are its impact on security in the region and the risk of nuclear proliferation.

Last week the United Nations imposed sanctions on a number of individuals, companies and goods connected with North Korea's nuclear and missile programs. Taking aim at several key North Korean officials, it subjected them to a freeze on their assets and an international travel ban.

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question: Who had low-key reaction to missile tests?

answer: United States'

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question: Who is the Secretary of State?

answer: Hillary Clinton

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question: What does North Korea have?

answer: nuclear and missile programs.

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question: What did U.S have low key reaction to?

answer: North Korea's recent missile test

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question: What is potentially destabilizing to the region?

answer: "North Korea, and its provocative actions,

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question: Who does Secretary Clinton say has "constant demand for attention'?

answer: North Korea

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question: What country had a low-key reaction to missile tests?

answer: United States'

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