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(CNN) -- When Brian Burton, a little known DJ operating under the name of Danger Mouse, released "The Grey Album" in 2003, he brought to mainstream attention a new form of musical genre made possible by the advance of modern technology and the Internet. He also inadvertently sparked a debate about record labels' monopoly of music ownership.

"The Grey Album" consists of a series of "mash-ups," songs made by splicing together elements from two or more separate tracks, the vocals from one, the music from others. Burton used the vocal tracks from rapper Jay Z's "Black Album" and music from The Beatles' "White Album".

The album was well received. His decision to bring together the world's biggest hip hop star with the best-selling band of all time probably contributed to its positive reception by the critics. It was described as "the most creatively captivating" album of the year by The Boston Globe and voted best album of 2004 by Entertainment Weekly.

But its success probably owes just as much to the controversy it caused. While Jay Z had released his "a capella" vocal tracks with the intention that they could be used as sampling material, Burton had borrowed the Beatles' music without permission from the copyright holders, EMI Music.

EMI moved swiftly to block sales of the album but anti-copyright activists stepped in, and battle lines were drawn. Downhill Battle, a group that campaigns for a fairer music industry, organized an online protest, dubbed "Grey Tuesday" in which they offered up the album to download for free on approximately 170 Web sites as a form of deliberate civil disobedience. With over 100,000 downloads, Downhill Battle claims that "The Grey Album" was the number one album in the United States on the day.

The two groups represented polar opposite points of view. EMI's position was that they earn a livelihood out of the music. By blocking the sale of this album they were simply protecting their investment.

Downhill Battle, on the other hand, argued that while copyright holders should get a cut of the proceeds from the sale of music, the licence fees were far too high and too large a proportion goes to the music label and not to individual artists. Moreover, they argued, music was built on a tradition of sharing and much that is good has come from one artist passing the baton to another, who might give a different interpretation, even improve, on an original work.

"The reason we have copyright is to ensure that creators are able to benefit from the things that they do so that they can keep creating," says Nicholas Reville, Director at Downhill Battle. "What's happened to copyright with music recently is that it has been used as a way to restrict creativity, limit art and censor what people are allowed to do.

"What made 'The Grey Album' so significant was that it brought together two of the most popular musical acts from two different eras into a totally new piece of art that was considered by everybody as culturally significant. There's no reason why any society would not want that creation to exist."

Reville says that Downhill Battle's argument is that copyright should exist but that laws should be reviewed so that bedroom musicians everywhere can have access to sample music without needing a lawyer to guide them through the legal quagmire.

The "mash-up" is not a new phenomenon. In Indian music there is a tradition of borrowing tunes and melodies and incorporating them into new compositions. Western folk music also encouraged the practice of passing on songs for reinterpretation by new generations.

As a musical genre, the "mash-up's" origins lie in the birth of hip hop, when DJs such as Kool Herc and Grandmaster Flash began using the drum sections form vinyl records as a back-beat for MC's to rap over.

The development of the Internet has simply fast-forwarded the culture of borrowing by making it all that much easier -- "mash-up" artists have access to so much more music than their forebears. And peer-to-peer and social networking sites mean that "mash-ups" have found a distribution system that by-passes the usual gate-keepers - record companies and music stores.

"There are elements of this idea that have been around for a long time," says Rupert Evans of yourspins.com. "Mozart wrote a piano concerto where every time you finished a bar you're meant to roll a dice to see what it was you played next.

"People have always been into the idea of how you can break things down and put them back together and I think it's something that's been highlighted recently due to technology and the hip hop 'vibe' has taken it and tried to twist it around.

"When people first started recording music it meant you were stuck with just one version. There isn't supposed to be a definitive version."

It would seem that artists are beginning to cotton on. At yourspins.com musicians such as Moby, Robbie Williams, Roots Manuva and Natasha Bedingfield have released their work for remixing by the public. The musicians provide the user with a selection of variations on the different elements of a song -- bass line, drum, vocals, etc. -- which can be put together in any order. The result is "as many versions of the song as there are atoms in the universe," says Evans.

There is one large distinction between what Danger Mouse was doing with "The Grey Album" and the music produced by remixers on yourspins.com. While "The Grey Album" was championed as an original work of art, Evans does not believe that the same can be said of yourspins.com's remixes.

"It's a hard distinction to defend but [Danger Mouse] picked a couple of things himself. There was some creativity in saying: 'I can put this and that together', whereas we are giving people a toolkit," says Evans.

In yourspins.com's legal framework, the copyright still belongs to the artist who can even sell on the remix if they wish.

Evans says that the laws have relaxed since he first set up yourspins.com. "At the beginning a lawyer was telling me that every time someone wanted to go on my Web site they would have to sign a paper saying that they weren't going to claim copyright over what they had created, and the artist was going to have to sign a paper giving permission every time, which obviously wouldn't have worked," he says.

Technology is breaking down the barriers between musicians and their audiences, allowing both sides to interact in ways that would have been unimaginable thirty years ago, but the record companies are still holding on stubbornly to their monopoly of the market, and it seems there is still a fair way to go before musical culture becomes truly democratic. E-mail to a friend

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question: who released The Grey Album

answer: a little known DJ operating under the name of Danger Mouse,

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question: in what year was the album released

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question: what pioneered a new genre?

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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (CNN)  -- The deafening roar of drums and horns rose as thousands of people took to the streets in Sri Lanka Friday for a victory parade marking the end of the decades-long civil war.

Sri Lankan youth celebrate on the street in Colombo on May 20, 2009.

Enthusiastic revelers danced in the street, carried yellow and red flags and some even carried hand-crafted puppets depicting the dead body of the leader of the rebel Tamil Tigers.  Watch the victory parade Â»

Sri Lanka's government declared victory Tuesday in the country's 25-year civil war against the Tamil Tiger rebels. The announcement brought celebrations to some parts of the country.

President Mahinda Rajapaksa announced that Tamil Tiger leader Velupillai Prabhakaran had been killed and local media released footage of the fallen leader's body.

But while thousands partied Friday, humanitarian organizations worried about the estimated 250,000 refugees the war created in northeast Sri Lanka. Many have had their homes destroyed are struggling for food, clean water, emergency health kits, cooking pots and school supplies, relief agencies say.   Watch aid agencies fear for Sri Lanka Â»

A U.N. spokesman has said the country's government has not adequately helped refugees and has started to restrict U.N. relief agencies from providing aid.  Watch Sri Lanka dispell allegations Â»

"The process of national reconciliation we feel must be all inclusive so that in can fully address the legitimate aspirations of the Tamil as well as other minorities. It is important that the victory becomes a victory for all Sri Lankans," said Vijay Nambiar, a U.N. special envoy.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is expected to visit the area this week.

CNN's Sara Sidner contributed to this story.

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answer: victory Tuesday in the country's 25-year civil war against the Tamil Tiger rebels.

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(CNN) -- Oklahoma State University women's basketball coach Kurt Budke and assistant coach Miranda Serna were killed when their plane crashed on the way to a recruiting trip in Arkansas, university officials said Friday.

Former Oklahoma state Sen. Olin Branstetter and his wife, Paula, also died in the crash Thursday, university spokesman Gary Schutt said.

"It's a terribly sad day," he said.

The crash occurred in Perry County, Arkansas, leaving no survivors.

The plane, a Piper Cherokee PA-28, according to FAA records, crashed under "unknown circumstances" in a wooded area about four miles south of Perryville, Arkansas, about 4:30 p.m. CT on Thursday, agency spokesman Lynn Lunsford said Friday.

No additional information about the crash was immediately available.

The National Transportation Safety Board has sent investigators to the crash site, the agency said Friday.

Budke and Serna were on a recruiting trip to Little Rock, Arkansas, the university said.

"For any coaching community to lose bright stars like Kurt and Miranda is tragic," NCAA President Mark Emmert said in a statement. "This is a profound loss for the Oklahoma State women's basketball family, the entire university and future women's basketball players as well."

University officials credited Budke for turning the school's women's basketball program around, culminating with a top-10 national ranking and an appearance in the second round of the NCAA tournament last season. He was in his seventh season with the school.

"Kurt was an exemplary leader and a man of character who had a profound impact on his student-athletes," Oklahoma State President Burns Hargis said. "He was an outstanding coach and a wonderful person. We send our deepest sympathies to his wife, Shelley, and their children, Sara, Alex and Brett."

Serna was also in her seventh season with OSU after coming to the school to work for Budke from Louisana Tech, where they both previously worked. She served as the program's recruiting coordinator, according to the school.

Hargis called her "an up-and-coming coach and an outstanding role model for our young ladies."

"Its our worst nightmare," he added.

The school called off games scheduled for Saturday and Sunday, and grief counselors were on hand for athletes and staff, the university said.

Jim Littell, the team's associate head coach, will take over as interim head coach, according to Mike Holder, OSU vice president for athletics.

The crash is the second fatal plane crash to strike the OSU basketball program in nearly 11 years.

Ten people, eight of them associated with the university's men's basketball program, died when their plane crashed in a Colorado snowstorm on January 28, 2001.

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(PEOPLE.com) -- For nearly three years, the hit TLC show "Toddlers & Tiaras" has captured the drama behind the scenes in the world of child beauty pageants.

The tantrums were extreme, and the pre-show prep of spray tanning and eyebrow waxing seemed perhaps premature for little kids.

But in the last few weeks, as footage of 3- and 4-year-olds dressed in overly adult costumes (like Dolly Parton, complete with padded breasts, or Julia Roberts's streetwalker from "Pretty Woman") hit the airwaves, viewers and pageant skeptics have been expressing horror at an industry that is now accused of "sexualizing" young girls.

"Little girls are supposed to play with dolls, not be dolls," New York-based licensed clinical social worker Mark Sichel tells PEOPLE in its new issue.

He adds that the extremes parents go to in order to prepare their children for competition -- using padding, fake hair, flippers (faux teeth) and spray tans -- "causes the children tremendous confusion, wondering why they are not okay without those things."

Now devoted pageant moms are speaking out in their own defense. Wendy Dickey, who dressed her daughter Paisley, 3, as Julia Roberts, tells PEOPLE the look was "tasteful and funny." Still, "If I knew there would be a reaction like this, I never would have used it," Dickey says. "Next time, she'll be dressed as an angel."

And Juana Myers, whose daughter MaKenzie has been featured on Tiaras, says unfair scrutiny has been placed on the pageant industry. "If this were a sport, no one would question it," she says. "This is her sport."

For more on the child pageant controversy, pick up the latest issue of PEOPLE, on newsstands Friday.

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(CNN) -- The Guatemalan army stole at least 333 children and sold them for adoption in other countries during the Central American nation's 36-year civil war, a government report has concluded.

Around 45,000 people are believed to have disappeared during Guatemala's civil war, 5,000 of them children.

Many of those children ended up in the United States, as well as Sweden, Italy and France, said the report's author and lead investigator, Marco Tulio Alvarez.

In some cases, the report said, parents were killed so the children could be taken and given to government-operated agencies to be adopted abroad. In other instances, the children were abducted without physical harm to the parents.

"This was a great abuse by the state," Alvarez told CNN on Friday.

Investigators started examining records in May 2008 for a period that spanned from 1977-89, said Alvarez, the director of the Guatemalan Peace Archive, a commission established by President Alvaro Colom.

Of 672 records investigators looked at, Alvarez said, they determined that 333 children had been stolen. The children were taken for financial and political reasons, he said.

Alvarez acknowledges that many more children possibly were taken. Investigators zeroed in on the 1977-89 period because peak adoptions occurred during that time frame, particularly in 1986. They will investigate through 1995 and hope to have another report ready by early next year, he said.

A presidential ministry has determined that about 45,000 people disappeared during the nation's civil war, which lasted from 1960 to 1996. About 5,000 of those were children, the ministry said. Another 200,000 people died in the conflict between the leftist guerrillas and right-wing governments.

The nation's public ministry and attorney general's office will determine whether anyone is prosecuted over the abductions, Alvarez said.

Asked if he would like to see prosecutions, Alvarez answered, "I hope so."

Alvarez said he has attended several reunions of abducted children -- now adults -- and family members.

"I can't tell you how happy that makes me," he said.

Adoption has served as a source of income in Guatemala for decades. The war just made it easier for abuses at the hands of soldiers to occur.

Guatemala has the world's highest per capita rate of adoption and is one of the leading providers of adoptive children for the United States. Nearly one in 100 babies born in Guatemala end up with adoptive parents in the United States, according to the U.S. consulate in Guatemala.

Adoptions can cost up to $30,000, providing a large financial incentive in a country where the World Bank says about 75 percent of the people live below the poverty level. Officials fear that often times mothers are paid -- or coerced -- into giving up their children.

Some unscrupulous lawyers and notaries, who have greater power in Guatemala than they do in the United States, have taken advantage of the extreme poverty and limited government oversight over adoptions to enrich themselves. Alvarez said corrupt lawyers and notaries were the driving force behind many of the army abductions of children.

The problem is confounded because many Guatemalan parents can't provide for their children. The United Nations' World Food Programme says Guatemala has the fourth highest rate of chronic malnutrition in the world and the highest in Latin America and the Caribbean. Chronic undernutrition affects about half of the nation's children under the age of 5, the U.N. agency said.

Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom Caballeros declared a state of national calamity this week because so many citizens do not have food or proper nutrition.

Despite the nation's problems, Alvarez hopes some good will come of the report, which was released Thursday.

"We have to tell the truth about what happened," he said. "Guatemalan society must know what happened and must never allow it to happen again."

CNN's Arthur Brice contributed to this report

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text: May

text: for

text: a

text: period

text: that

text: spanned

text: from

text: said

text: Alvarez

text: the

text: director

text: of

text: the

text: Guatemalan

text: Peace

text: Archive

text: a

text: commission

text: established

text: by

text: President

text: Alvaro

text: Colom

text: Of

text: records

text: investigators

text: looked

text: at

text: Alvarez

text: said

text: they

text: determined

text: that

text: children

text: had

text: been

text: stolen

text: The

text: children

text: were

text: taken

text: for

text: financial

text: and

text: political

text: reasons

text: he

text: said

text: Alvarez

text: acknowledges

text: that

text: many

text: more

text: children

text: possibly

text: were

text: taken

text: Investigators

text: zeroed

text: in

text: on

text: the

text: period

text: because

text: peak

text: adoptions

text: occurred

text: during

text: that

text: time

text: frame

text: particularly

text: in

text: They

text: will

text: investigate

text: through

text: and

text: hope

text: to

text: have

text: another

text: report

text: ready

text: by

text: early

text: next

text: year

text: he

text: said

text: A

text: presidential

text: ministry

text: has

text: determined

text: that

text: about

text: people

text: disappeared

text: during

text: the

text: nation

text: 's

text: civil

text: war

text: which

text: lasted

text: from

text: to

text: About

text: of

text: those

text: were

text: children

text: the

text: ministry

text: said

text: Another

text: people

text: died

text: in

text: the

text: conflict

text: between

text: the

text: leftist

text: guerrillas

text: and

text: right

text: wing

text: governments

text: The

text: nation

text: 's

text: public

text: ministry

text: and

text: attorney

text: general

text: 's

text: office

text: will

text: determine

text: whether

text: anyone

text: is

text: prosecuted

text: over

text: the

text: abductions

text: Alvarez

text: said

text: Asked

text: if

text: he

text: would

text: like

text: to

text: see

text: prosecutions

text: Alvarez

text: answered

text: I

text: hope

text: so

text: Alvarez

text: said

text: he

text: has

text: attended

text: several

text: reunions

text: of

text: abducted

text: children

text: now

text: adults

text: and

text: family

text: members

text: I

text: ca

text: n't

text: tell

text: you

text: how

text: happy

text: that

text: makes

text: me

text: he

text: said

text: Adoption

text: has

text: served

text: as

text: a

text: source

text: of

text: income

text: in

text: Guatemala

text: for

text: decades

text: The

text: war

text: just

text: made

text: it

text: easier

text: for

text: abuses

text: at

text: the

text: hands

text: of

text: soldiers

text: to

text: occur

text: Guatemala

text: has

text: the

text: world

text: 's

text: highest

text: per

text: capita

text: rate

text: of

text: adoption

text: and

text: is

text: one

text: of

text: the

text: leading

text: providers

text: of

text: adoptive

text: children

text: for

text: the

text: United

text: States

text: Nearly

text: one

text: in

text: babies

text: born

text: in

text: Guatemala

text: end

text: up

text: with

text: adoptive

text: parents

text: in

text: the

text: United

text: States

text: according

text: to

text: the

text: U.S.

text: consulate

text: in

text: Guatemala

text: Adoptions

text: can

text: cost

text: up

text: to

text: providing

text: a

text: large

text: financial

text: incentive

text: in

text: a

text: country

text: where

text: the

text: World

text: Bank

text: says

text: about

text: percent

text: of

text: the

text: people

text: live

text: below

text: the

text: poverty

text: level

text: Officials

text: fear

text: that

text: often

text: times

text: mothers

text: are

text: paid

text: or

text: coerced

text: into

text: giving

text: up

text: their

text: children

text: Some

text: unscrupulous

text: lawyers

text: and

text: notaries

text: who

text: have

text: greater

text: power

text: in

text: Guatemala

text: than

text: they

text: do

text: in

text: the

text: United

text: States

text: have

text: taken

text: advantage

text: of

text: the

text: extreme

text: poverty

text: and

text: limited

text: government

text: oversight

text: over

text: adoptions

text: to

text: enrich

text: themselves

text: Alvarez

text: said

text: corrupt

text: lawyers

text: and

text: notaries

text: were

text: the

text: driving

text: force

text: behind

text: many

text: of

text: the

text: army

text: abductions

text: of

text: children

text: The

text: problem

text: is

text: confounded

text: because

text: many

text: Guatemalan

text: parents

text: ca

text: n't

text: provide

text: for

text: their

text: children

text: The

text: United

text: Nations

text: World

text: Food

text: Programme

text: says

text: Guatemala

text: has

text: the

text: fourth

text: highest

text: rate

text: of

text: chronic

text: malnutrition

text: in

text: the

text: world

text: and

text: the

text: highest

text: in

text: Latin

text: America

text: and

text: the

text: Caribbean

text: Chronic

text: undernutrition

text: affects

text: about

text: half

text: of

text: the

text: nation

text: 's

text: children

text: under

text: the

text: age

text: of

text: the

text: U.N.

text: agency

text: said

text: Guatemalan

text: President

text: Alvaro

text: Colom

text: Caballeros

text: declared

text: a

text: state

text: of

text: national

text: calamity

text: this

text: week

text: because

text: so

text: many

text: citizens

text: do

text: not

text: have

text: food

text: or

text: proper

text: nutrition

text: Despite

text: the

text: nation

text: 's

text: problems

text: Alvarez

text: hopes

text: some

text: good

text: will

text: come

text: of

text: the

text: report

text: which

text: was

text: released

text: Thursday

text: We

text: have

text: to

text: tell

text: the

text: truth

text: about

text: what

text: happened

text: he

text: said

text: Guatemalan

text: society

text: must

text: know

text: what

text: happened

text: and

text: must

text: never

text: allow

text: it

text: to

text: happen

text: again

text: CNN

text: 's

text: Arthur

text: Brice

text: contributed

text: to

text: this

text: report

question: What are children stolen for?

answer: adoption

text: adoption

question: what is the period examined?

answer: 1977-89,

question: What do reports say?

answer: army stole at least 333 children and sold them for adoption in other countries

text: army stole at least 333 children and sold them for adoption in other countries

question: Who was stolen for adoption?

answer: 333 children

text: 333 children

question: When was the 'peak' adoption period?

answer: 1977-89


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(CNN) -- Peruvian authorities say they have arrested four members of a gang that specialized in selling to European labs fat obtained from dead humans.

Officials are investigating the disappearance of at least 60 people they believe were killed by gang members in two mountainous states in central Peru, lead prosecutor Jorge Sanz Quiroz said Friday.

The four suspects have been charged with murder in the September slaying of a Peruvian man, the prosecutor said.

"They killed to obtain human fat because there were European laboratories that would pay them," Sanz Quiroz said.

The suspects told authorities they were paid $15,000 for a liter (about 1 quart) of human fat.

Officials did not disclose what possible use laboratories could have for the human fat, but fat can be a component of cosmetics and is used in reconstructive or cosmetic surgery. The use of human fat for any purpose is extremely rare, however, physicians say.

Other suspects, including the Peruvian ringleader, have eluded capture, Sanz Quiroz said.

Authorities have the names of two Italian suspects who are being sought by Interpol, the 188-nation worldwide police agency, the prosecutor said. He declined to reveal their identities.

Sanz Quiroz acknowledged the uniqueness of the allegations.

"We are not making this up," he said. "They have confessed to this. That's what's coming out now."

One of the suspects told officials he had been committing the murders for five years.

According to a criminal complaint Sanz Quiroz filed November 18, officials discovered on September 22 a small container containing a fat-like substance that had been stored at the Bella Durmiente bus station in Lima, Peru's capital.

On November 3, the complaint says, suspect Serapio Marcos Veramendi Principe was arrested after he retrieved three bottles from the Estrella Polar bus station. The bottles contained a substance authorities believe is human fat, the complaint says. Lab tests are being performed to determine what the substance is.

Authorities identified the three other suspects as Elmer Segundo Castillejos Aguero, Hilario Cudena Simon and Enedina Estela Claudio. The suspects identified each other for police in photo lineups, the complaint says.

In addition to murder, Veramendi Principe and Castillejos Aguero face weapons charges. Castillejos Aguero, Veramendi Principe and Estela Claudio also face drug charges, authorities said.

They are accused in the September 16 killing of Abel Matos Aranda, the criminal complaint says. Authorities believe the substance found at the bus stations is body fat obtained from Matos Aranda.

Officials unearthed a partially buried male body November 13 in Huanuco state. They believe it was Matos Aranda.

Sanz Quiroz referred to the suspects as "brujos," the Spanish word for witches. He noted that the suspects are part of an Andean mountain culture that believes bodies can be used to ward off evil and prevent disasters.

For example, he said, bodies are often buried at the entrances to mine shafts and bridges in the belief they will keep the structures from collapsing.

Authorities are calling the suspects "pishtacos," which are Andean mythological creatures.

In his 1996 book "Death in the Andes," Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa mentions pishtacos extensively, saying they are half-white ghouls who live in caves, lurk along dark isolated roads and suck the fat out of anyone careless enough to travel Andean roads at night. Andean myth holds that the fat is used to make soaps, lubricants, healing potions and cosmetic creams.

Until the arrests, few believed that anything resembling pishtacos existed.

"It's an Andean myth that we've now been able to prove," said Miguel Jimenez Torres, a spokesman for the prosecutor's office.

Some physicians say human fat is used in some medical procedures, but a few products were taken off the market because they were considered unsafe.

The longevity of implants that use human tissue often is not as good, said Atlanta cosmetic surgeon Harold Brody. Nor is there any advantage, he said, to using human fat in cosmetic creams or lotions.

"They're a little behind the times," Brody said. "It makes a great moisturizer, but it has no advantages over good moisturizers that don't use human fat."

New York dermatologist Barry Goldman said he had never heard of human fat being sold on the black market.

"The idea that anybody would use an injectable where you didn't know where it came from would be laughable if it weren't unethical and potentially dangerous," he said.

Still, the notion of black market human fat seemed possible to him.

"They steal kidneys, so why not this?" he asked. "It is sick, but in the Holocaust they did use skin for lamps."

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text: gang

text: that

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text: Sanz

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text: Marcos

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text: Estela

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text: prosecutor

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text: market

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text: Brody

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text: n't

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text: human

text: fat

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text: York

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text: Barry

text: Goldman

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text: had

text: never

text: heard

text: of

text: human

text: fat

text: being

text: sold

text: on

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text: black

text: market

text: The

text: idea

text: that

text: anybody

text: would

text: use

text: an

text: injectable

text: where

text: you

text: did

text: n't

text: know

text: where

text: it

text: came

text: from

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text: be

text: laughable

text: if

text: it

text: were

text: n't

text: unethical

text: and

text: potentially

text: dangerous

text: he

text: said

text: Still

text: the

text: notion

text: of

text: black

text: market

text: human

text: fat

text: seemed

text: possible

text: to

text: him

text: They

text: steal

text: kidneys

text: so

text: why

text: not

text: this

text: he

text: asked

text: It

text: is

text: sick

text: but

text: in

text: the

text: Holocaust

text: they

text: did

text: use

text: skin

text: for

text: lamps

question: Where did the human fat come from?

answer: dead

text: dead

question: What was the gang selling?

answer: fat obtained from dead humans.

text: fat obtained from dead humans.

question: What number of people have disappeared?

answer: 60

question: What evidence was found with the suspects?

answer: human fat,

text: human fat,

question: How many suspects were arrested?

answer: four

text: four

question: How many people disappeared?

answer: at least 60

text: at least 60

question: How many people are believed to have disappeared?

answer: at least 60

text: at least 60

question: What was in the plastic container?

answer: fat-like substance

text: fat-like substance


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NEW YORK (CNN) -- In a dramatic reversal, the Florida state attorney's office announced Monday it will seek the death penalty against Casey Anthony, the 23-year-old woman charged in the death of her 2-year-old daughter Caylee.

Casey Anthony is charged with first-degree murder in the slaying of her daughter Caylee, 2,  Trial is set for October.

The state had previously said it would not ask for the death sentence for Anthony.

The development could have a major impact on how the case plays out at trial, including whether defense attorney Jose Baez can stay on the case.

Baez has not been certified by the court to defend capital punishment cases.

Prosecutors announced their change in strategy in a letter of intent. Read the letter of intent (pdf)

Meanwhile, Anthony's defense filed a motion on Friday with Orange County Circuit Court, seeking more phone records from a dozen people involved in the case. The motion asks for any and all records for "phone calls, text messages, P2P communications, Internet usage, WAP usage, and cell tower pings."

The defense wants records from the defendant's parents, George and Cindy Anthony; her former fiancÃ©, Jesse Grund; her brother, Lee Anthony; a friend, Amy Huizenga; and Roy Kronk, the meter reader who found Caylee's remains in December of last year.

Kronk had called authorities as early as last August to report he had seen a suspicious bag in the area.

Other names on the list include several former boyfriends, two private investigators, a volunteer searcher and Richard Cain, an Orange County Sheriff's deputy.

Cain was fired after an internal investigation found he failed to respond to repeated calls from Kronk about the suspicious bag. Cain has refused to leave the job and is awaiting an appeal.

"Various cell phone service providers are in possession of certain items which are material to the preparation of the defense in this cause,'' the motion says, adding, ''the items sought by this application cannot be obtained through normal discovery."

The motion says the release of these records could lead to admissible evidence in Anthony's trial, which is set to begin in October. Anthony is charged with first-degree murder of Caylee, whose remains were found in woods near her grandparents' home in Orlando.

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SEOUL, South Korea (CNN) -- One could say she has the determination ... but lacks the drive.

Driving agency estimates woman has spent more than $2,888 in exam fees.

A 68-year-old South Korean woman this week signed up to take her driving test once again -- after failing to earn a license the first 771 times.

The woman, identified only as Cha, first took the written portion of the exam in April 2005, said Choi Young-cheol of the Driver's License Agency in the southwestern city of Jeonju.

At the time, she made her living selling goods door-to-door and figured she would need a car to help her get around, Choi told CNN.

She failed the test. She retook the test the next day and failed again. And again. And again.

"You have to get at least 60 points to pass the written part," said Kim Rahn, who wrote about the unflappable woman in the Korea Times, an English-language daily. "She usually gets under 50."

In the beginning, Cha went to the license office almost every day. Now, she no longer works but still turns up once a week, Choi said.

The office estimates she has spent more than 4 million won ($2,888) in exam fees.

Cha's last failed attempt was Monday.

She tries for the 772nd time either Thursday or Friday.

-- CNN's Kathy Paik and Saeed Ahmed contributed to this report.

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NEW DELHI, India (CNN) -- President George W. Bush called India's prime minister Thursday to push a proposed nuclear partnership that sparked an unsuccessful no-confidence vote against the Indian leader this week, a White House spokesman said.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh won a confidence vote despite opposition to the nuclear deal.

"Both leaders expressed their desire to see the U.S.-India Civil Nuclear issue move forward as expeditiously as possible," Gordon Johndroe said.

The phone call took place two days after Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh narrowly survived the no-confidence vote in the lower house of Parliament. The vote was sparked by concerns from the opposition that India was kowtowing to the U.S.

The tentative deal was announced in 2006 and signed by Bush and Singh a year ago.

Under the agreement, which will need to be approved by the U.S. Congress, India would have access to U.S. nuclear fuel and technology for its civilian nuclear power plants. That would happen even though New Delhi, which tested nuclear weapons in 1974 and 1998, has declined to join international non-proliferation agreements.

In return, India has promised that it would not transfer the fuel and equipment to its weapons program, and it would allow the International Atomic Energy Agency to inspect at least 14 of its 22 nuclear plants.

The plan would also expand U.S.-Indian cooperation in energy and satellite technology.

The plan was approved by India's Cabinet last year, and does not have to be ratified by the parliament.

The leaders of India's two communist parties -- which hold about 60 seats in Parliament -- have accused Singh of surrendering India's sovereignty to the United States with the deal.

A no-confidence vote would have forced Singh to resign, and required the government to hold early elections unless a new coalition could have been formed. The Congress Party-led coalition has governed India since 2004.

Tuesday's 275-256 vote was so crucial to the survival of Singh's government that five members of parliament serving prison sentences were freed to cast votes -- under the watchful eyes of their jailers.

Shortly after Singh survived the vote, White House spokeswoman Dana Perino praised the deal as "a good one for everybody."

"It's good for India because it would help provide them a source for energy that they need, one that is nonpolluting and one that doesn't emit greenhouse gas emissions," she said.

"And we think that we can move forward with this. If their legislature lets it move forward, then we can do the same here and then we'll be able to get this wrapped up."

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question: What was the final vote count?

answer: 275-256

question: When did Bush call?

answer: Thursday

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question: How many serve prison sentences?

answer: five members of parliament serving

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question: Who  won confidence vote?

answer: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh

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question: What were they voting for?

answer: proposed nuclear partnership

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question: Who were freed to vote?

answer: five members of parliament serving prison sentences

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question: What did Bush want from Indian PM?

answer: proposed nuclear partnership

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question: Who  calls India's PM to push a proposed nuclear partnership?

answer: President George W. Bush

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