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(CNN) -- You might not have wanted to bet on Billy Joel in the summer of 1977.

If "The Stranger" hadn't been a success, Billy Joel suspects he would have been dropped from his label.

For a guy whose career had started out promisingly, he'd undergone more setbacks than a wild-armed pitcher. In his teen years he was a session pianist on Shadow Morton-produced records (including, allegedly, the Shangri-Las' "Leader of the Pack"), but failed with his groups, including a heavy-metal duo.

He followed his first Top 40 hit, "Piano Man," with a bitter second one, "The Entertainer" (in which he sang, "If I go cold/I won't get sold/I'll get put in the back/In the discount rack/Like another can of beans," over an incongruous synthesizer track). He was considered a singer-songwriter with great potential but bickered with his label and his producers.

Making 1976's "Turnstiles," he fired producer James William Guercio -- a consistent hitmaker with Chicago -- and took the helm himself, with uneven results.

And yet he still had something, remembered Phil Ramone, who was to produce Joel's 1977 breakthrough, "The Stranger."

At a 1976 Columbia Records convention in Toronto, Joel opened a musical showcase and "ripped the crowd up," Ramone recalls in a phone interview from Connecticut. "My friends said, 'Watch this guy.' "  Watch Joel perform "Piano Man" Â»

And then there was a series of concerts at New York's Carnegie Hall in early June 1977, featured on the new anniversary edition of "The Stranger" (Columbia/Legacy), out Tuesday. (A special edition of the release also includes a DVD of other Joel performances.) Known then, as now, as an exciting live performer, Joel and his band gave a series of performances that impressed Ramone -- though, he noted, the recorded versions paled in comparison.

"I watched what he had done and tracked his past records," he says. "Everything I'd seen hadn't been captured on record."

"The Stranger" turned out differently.

Joel came through with a top-notch set of songs, and four of them -- "Just the Way You Are," "Movin' Out," "She's Always a Woman" and "Only the Good Die Young" -- became hits. "The Stranger" established Joel as a best-selling artist -- reportedly, upon release, it was the biggest-selling Columbia album in history -- and propelled him to his Rock and Roll Hall of Fame career.  Watch Joel perform "Only the Good Die Young" in Russia Â»

At the time, he just wanted to make a consistent record.

"I don't recall feeling this was going to be the breakthrough. We were just happy with the album we were making at the time," Joel says in the press materials for the "Stranger" re-release. (Joel wasn't available for an interview with CNN.)

He acknowledges, though, that "The Stranger" could have been his last stand.

"I didn't know this at the time, but had it not been a successful album, the label probably would have dropped me. 'Cause you have to remember, this was my fifth album without having had a major hit," he says.

Joel interviewed several producers, Ramone recalls, including the Beatles' George Martin. Ramone, known for his graceful touch in the studio, was coming off Paul Simon's "Still Crazy After All These Years" and the Barbra Streisand "A Star Is Born" soundtrack. He and Joel hit it off at "an Italian lunch that took forever," Ramone says, and in July went into the studio to record. The album was recorded in three weeks -- very quickly, says Ramone.

The producer remembers the sessions as full of humor, with his most difficult task reining in the members of Joel's band. It was an accident that Ramone ended up included in the group portrait on the album's back cover, dressed in New York Yankee regalia -- "I only posed because I thought, 'They'll never use this,' " he says.

"The role I played was kind of like the captain of the team," he says. "I doled out punishments -- it was a crazy, lunatic group. There were times I'd throw out [ideas] and they'd say, 'No way.' They all had great opinions."

Then there was Joel, a forceful singer who, Ramone observes, is also "extremely vulnerable." The singer had a tendency to hide behind his song's characters; Ramone urged him to put more of himself into the vocals in "The Stranger," and continued the advice for succeeding albums.

"I would say, 'When is Billy Joel going to show up?' " Ramone says. "You have to adapt [the character] to you."

Running through the album's tracks more than 30 years later, Ramone says there's always something he'd like to change, but in general he's very satisfied with the record, particularly the songs "Scenes from an Italian Restaurant," "The Stranger" and "Just the Way You Are."

The latter, he notes, was supposed to have been spiked -- Joel, who wrote it for his then wife, thought it was too syrupy. ("A chick song," he's called it.) Moreover, Ramone's suggestions for the song met with resistance: Drummer Liberty DeVitto rebelled against the Brazilian baion beat, and the band was unhappy when Ramone tapped jazzman Phil Woods to play the alto sax solo.

But the song proved to be the album's big hit.

"They put out 'Movin' Out' [as the first single], and it [failed]. And then out of nowhere came 'Just the Way You Are,' " Ramone says. The song got a big boost when Joel appeared as the musical guest on "Saturday Night Live" in February 1978 and eventually won Grammys for song and record of the year.

"The Stranger" was the beginning of a fruitful run for Joel and Ramone. The pair made seven more albums together, including the No. 1 records "52nd Street" and "Glass Houses," and still maintain a warm relationship, says Ramone.

Joel, who will play the final two concerts at New York's soon-to-be-closed Shea Stadium July 16 and 18, has long since put the questions of "potential" to rest.

"I didn't necessarily set out to be a big worldwide, international super rock star kind of guy. I set out to make a living as a musician, and this is the way it happened," he said.

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SEOUL, South Korea (CNN)    -- Tens of thousands of South Koreans were demonstrating Saturday on the streets of the capital to protest the government's decision to import what they say is unsafe U.S. beef.

South Korean protesters protest against government's policy on U.S. beef imports on Saturday.

South Korean police estimate that the crowd in Seoul is about 50,000. No clashes were reported between the protesters and riot police, although ongoing protests have at times turned violent.

South Koreans have protested regularly since April when the government announced it would resume importing beef from the United States after a five-year ban. That ban was instituted over a case of mad cow disease in the United States in 2003.

The widespread public protests essentially paralyzed the government of President Lee Myung-bak, who replaced seven top aides this month and plans to reshuffle his Cabinet.

Tens of thousands of auto workers in South Korea went on strike Wednesday to oppose the government's lifting of the ban.

After a series of negotiations, Seoul and Washington came up with a revised agreement on June 21 -- one that limits imports to cattle younger than 30 months old.

Animals older than 30 months old are considered at a greater risk for mad cow disease, which can be transmitted to humans.

The revised agreement also excludes the import of certain parts believed more susceptible to mad cow disease. The initial deal would have allowed the import of all U.S. beef imports.

Scientists believe mad cow disease spreads when farmers feed cattle recycled meat and bones from infected animals. The U.S. banned recycled feeds in 1997.

Eating meat products contaminated with the illness has been linked to variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a rare and fatal malady in humans.

Until the 2003 ban, South Korea was the third-largest market for U.S. beef exporters.

South Korea's new pro-U.S. president agreed to lift the import ban in April before a summit with U.S. President George W. Bush.

But the move provoked a backlash over health concerns spurred in part by false media reports about risks, along with a sense that South Korea had backed down too easily to American pressure.

The government has vowed to get tough with the rallies.

In Washington, the White House announced that Bush would visit South Korea on August 5-6 before heading to the Beijing Olympics.

Bush had originally been expected to go to Seoul next week when he visits Japan for the G-8 summit, but the trip did not materialize amid the protests.

CNN's Sohn Jie-ae contributed to this report.

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question: What did South Koreans protest?

answer: unsafe U.S. beef.

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question: What were the South Korean protesting?

answer: government's decision to import

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question: Who protested the imports of US beef?

answer: Tens of thousands of South Koreans

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question: When was US beef banned?

answer: 2003.

question: For what reason were beef imports banned?

answer: case of mad cow disease in the United States

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question: Whose government was practically paralyzed?

answer: South Koreans

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question: What year were beef imports banned due to mad cow disease?

answer: 2003.

question: What paralyzed the government of President Lee Myung-bak?

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(CNN) -- Much of the United States was braced for severe winter weather on Monday, as a major storm hit California while an unrelated first round of wintry conditions snarled commutes in the Midwest.

The storm hitting California Monday afternoon was expected to affect weather across the country through Wednesday.

The wintry weather, caused by a weak disturbance over the Midwest, caused the deaths of three people in weather-related traffic accidents Sunday and Monday. The first two occurred Sunday in northern California, the area first hit by the weather.

A 14-year-old boy died on Interstate 80 about 11 a.m. Sunday when the truck he was traveling in skidded off the road on a steep snow-covered grade, said California Highway Patrol spokeswoman Jeanie Hoatson. A second person was killed on State Route 89 about 45 minutes later when the vehicle they were driving went out of control and collided with a second vehicle, she said.

In Indiana on Monday, a 21-year-old man died on Interstate 65, northwest of Indianapolis, state police said. The man was involved in one of two weather-related crashes on the road as snow fell, and was struck by a semitrailer truck when he stepped out of his car, Indiana State Police said.

Numerous traffic accidents were reported in states experiencing winter weather conditions as the disturbance moved across and into the Midwest, affecting Ohio and Wisconsin.

Forecasters warned that the approaching storm could cause widespread power outages through Wednesday and make travel nearly impossible in some areas. It may spread arctic air southward by midweek.

Some parts of Iowa could receive up to 10 inches of snow, according to CNN affiliate KCCI. The state already received up to 5 inches of snow from the disturbance Sunday.

Chicago, Illinois, received about an inch of snow through Monday morning, said CNN iReporter Alan Hawkins. The sun came out and began to melt the snow, but by late morning the sky was overcast again.

More cold temperatures and snow are forecast for Tuesday and Wednesday, he said. "Today's just kind of a taste of what we're going to get."

CNN iReporters in Kentucky and Indiana reported snow, but said it was melting as of late morning.

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Some snow also fell in mountainous areas of Arizona early Monday as the major storm moved in. Winter storm warnings stretched as far south as Tucson.

Blizzard warnings are in effect for parts of the central Rockies and the Mogollon Rim in Arizona, where up to 2 feet of snow and wind gusts of 50 mph could cause whiteouts, forecasters said.

Wind chills of 30 to 40 degrees below zero are forecast for the Midwest and the northern Plains, and afternoon temperatures may be in the single digits through Wednesday. The storm is forecast to intensify Monday as it strikes California and heads northeast toward the Rockies, forecasters said Sunday.

Winter storm warnings are in effect for the Sierra Range southward to the San Bernardino mountains in Southern California. The area was set to experience heavy snow on Monday, with up to 3 feet possible in the higher elevations.

Southern California may get wind gusts of 60 mph on Monday, which could damage trees, power lines and communication towers. Heavy rains were also forecast, triggering possibilities of mudslides and debris flows especially in burn areas.

The storm is expected to intensify Tuesday as it moves northeast into the Midwest and upper Great Lakes.

Winter storm watches are in effect for the regions, with blizzard conditions possible in northern Iowa and southern Minnesota on Tuesday.

On Wednesday, the storm will move into southern Canada as the coldest air of the season spills across the central United States, forecasters said.

Many temperatures will be below zero Thursday morning and daytime highs will struggle to make it out of the single digits across the upper Great Lakes, according to forecasters.

CNN's Sean Morris and Ashley Hayes contributed to this report.

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WASHINGTON (CNN)  -- Sheila Wash greets her son and daughter, 13-year-old Cecil and 9-year-old Sheliah, every day when their school buses arrive "home."

Sheila Wash says being homeless has been an "eye-opening experience" for her.

They talk about the school day, their homework and even joke that Sheliah can't remember what she ate for lunch. The fourth-grader wonders aloud, "What did we have? We had something good."

But it's hardly a homecoming for any of them.

The Wash family has been homeless since 2007, after Sheila lost her government job. She says unemployment benefits quickly ran out and, as she searched for a job, the family was forced to move six times in the last two years. They're now living in the Family Forward Shelter in Washington.

"I just thank God we have a roof over our head right now. You have to accept the things that come to you. You don't like them but, you know, until you can get your foot forward, you do what you have to do. We just keep going," Wash said.

Wash's situation was only made worse as the economic recession set in. Jobs became harder and harder to find with more competition for each position. She says she's still searching.

The Washes are part of the changing face of homelessness in America today. For years, homelessness has been depicted as that of an individual man or woman living on the street and begging for money. But with the perfect storm of the foreclosure crisis and the faltering economy, more and more families are becoming homeless. According to a recent count by the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments, the number of homeless families in the Washington region alone has jumped 15 percent since last year.

There are several national estimates of homelessness, but many are dated or based on dated information. TheU.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development points to a study done in 2007 -- before the brunt of the foreclosure crisis hit --which stated that about 3.5 million people, 1.35 million of them children, are likely to experience homelessness in a given year. That study was conducted by the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty

"People lose their jobs. Their monthly household expenses spiral out of control because maybe their car broke down that month, and when you have such a tight budget with high rental costs, there is no room for error. And so that is what really leads families to the shelter door," said Mary Cunningham, author of "Preventing and Ending Homelessness - Next Steps."

Reflecting on their struggles over the last few years, Sheila calls it "eye-opening." "It's like they say you never know [someone] until you walk in their shoes, so truly I know now and if I ever get out [of] this situation, I will always give back to people less fortunate than I am because I know their struggles," Wash said.

School officials in Prince George's County, Maryland, where the two Wash children go to school, say a day doesn't go by without the need to enroll another child as homeless. Denise Ross, supervisor for the school district's Homeless Education Office, said they've been inundated with requests.

"Some of them are embarrassed, some of them are scared, some of them are sad. They're just not sure what's going to happen next," Ross said. "Students who are displaced or homeless students feel that school is a safe haven. They really want to come to school. They really want to attend school."

For homeless students, Prince George's County Schools offers free transportation to and from school, free breakfast and lunch, help with school supplies and also clothing. "Either in the shuffle of being evicted or moving from shelter to shelter or place to place, their clothes may not have followed them. Or may have been set out and somebody may have taken them. So they may only have [the] clothes that are on their back. Our intent is always to provide them with at least three complete sets," Ross said.

Sheila Wash says school is not only important because of her children's education, but it has also been an important source of stability in their lives. "[A] very big help," she says. And help they still need with the obstacles ahead.  Watch Kate Bolduan's report on the Washes' plight Â»

The Family Forward Shelter is a hypothermia shelter, only open through the winter, which means the Wash family needs to find another temporary home, and they haven't had much luck.

But with a smile that seems to never fade, 9-year-old Sheliah describes the one wish that keeps her family going.

"I wish we had a house with a car," she says. "I pray that my mom, that we wake up in the morning and that [we] get a house and everything we wanted."

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text: Metropolitan

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question: What do school officials say?

answer: a day doesn't go by without the need to enroll another child as homeless.

text: a day doesn't go by without the need to enroll another child as homeless.

question: when have they been homeless since

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(CNN) -- The Oklahoma Senate voted Tuesday to override the governor's vetoes and pass two strong anti-abortion measures.

One law requires women to undergo an ultrasound examination and listen to a description of what it shows before getting an abortion.

Senate President Pro Tempore Glenn Coffee, a Republican, said Tuesday's vote shows lawmakers listened to Oklahoma's residents and "made a bold statement in support of the sanctity of life." But Democratic Gov. Brad Henry has called the legislation "an unconstitutional attempt by the Oklahoma legislature to insert government into the private lives and decisions of its citizens."

Henry vetoed the bill and another abortion-related measure Friday, but the state House on Monday overwhelmingly voted to override both vetoes, with House Speaker Chris Benge, a Republican, lauding his colleagues for moving quickly. The Senate's 36-12 vote Tuesday was the final step required to make the bills laws

"Those who rallied behind this cause reflected the core values of Oklahoma citizens, and I applaud my colleagues in providing more safeguards for the life of the unborn," Coffee said.

Henry said he was disappointed by Tuesday's vote.

"It signals the beginning of another costly and possibly futile legal battle for the state of Oklahoma. Both laws will be challenged and, in all likelihood, overturned by the courts as unconstitutional," he said. "I fear this entire exercise will ultimately be a waste of taxpayers' time and money."

In a statement issued after his vetoes Friday, Henry sharply criticized the laws.

"State policymakers should never mandate that a citizen be forced to undergo any medical procedure against his or her will, especially when such a procedure could cause physical or mental trauma," Henry said. "To do so amounts to an unconstitutional invasion of privacy."

Henry said one of the flaws of the ultrasound bill was that it lacked an exemption for rape and incest victims.

Henry vetoed similar legislation in 2008. His veto was overridden. The State Supreme Court struck down the legislation because it contained multiple subjects, a violation of the state Constitution requiring measures to deal with a single subject, Bennett said.

The Center for Reproductive Rights said it had filed a lawsuit challenging the new law after Tuesday's Senate vote.

"Oklahoma has now passed the most burdensome ultrasound law in the country," Nancy Northup, the organization's president, told CNN. "Until Oklahoma stops harassing women who are seeking abortions, we will continue to sue the state on these unconstitutional restrictions."

Coffee said challenging the new laws in court would go against what Oklahoma residents want.

"The voice of the people has spoken twice now this session in the Senate and twice in the House, and I sincerely hope those who would reverse the people's voice would think twice before acting," he said.

The other measure approved by legislators Tuesday prohibits pregnant women and their families from seeking legal damages if physicians "knowingly and negligently" withhold key information or provide inaccurate information about their pregnancies.

Henry, in opposing the bill, said it would be "unconscionable to grant a physician legal protection to mislead or misinform a pregnant woman in an effort to impose his or her personal beliefs on his patient."

Such an issue would be particularly relevant to fetuses with disabilities.

"By prohibiting recovery of damages in wrongful birth and life malpractice actions, the legislation would allow unscrupulous, reckless or negligent physicians to knowingly withhold information or negligently provide inaccurate information to pregnant women without facing the potential of legal consequences," the governor said.

The House voted to override the veto of the ultrasound bill by an 81 to 14 vote, well above the three-fourths majority required. State Rep. Lisa Billy, a Republican, said the bill "does nothing more than give women as much information as possible before they make the life-altering decision to have an abortion."

"I don't want a single woman to go through the lifelong torture of having an abortion without having all the relevant information," Billy said.

The House voted 84 to 12 to override the veto over the legal damages prohibition. State Rep. Dan Sullivan, a Republican, said the bill "simply states that a doctor cannot be sued based on the opinion after birth that a child would have been better off if he or she had been aborted."

"A bipartisan coalition of members supported this bill the first time, and I am pleased they did again today," Sullivan said.

Benge, the House speaker, said, "We must move to stop the degradation of human life seen in recent years and stand up for those who cannot defend themselves."

CNN's Joe Sterling and Catherine E. Shoichet contributed to this report.

text: CNN

text: The

text: Oklahoma

text: Senate

text: voted

text: Tuesday

text: to

text: override

text: the

text: governor

text: 's

text: vetoes

text: and

text: pass

text: two

text: strong

text: anti

text: abortion

text: measures

text: One

text: law

text: requires

text: women

text: to

text: undergo

text: an

text: ultrasound

text: examination

text: and

text: listen

text: to

text: a

text: description

text: of

text: what

text: it

text: shows

text: before

text: getting

text: an

text: abortion

text: Senate

text: President

text: Pro

text: Tempore

text: Glenn

text: Coffee

text: a

text: Republican

text: said

text: Tuesday

text: 's

text: vote

text: shows

text: lawmakers

text: listened

text: to

text: Oklahoma

text: 's

text: residents

text: and

text: made

text: a

text: bold

text: statement

text: in

text: support

text: of

text: the

text: sanctity

text: of

text: life

text: But

text: Democratic

text: Gov.

text: Brad

text: Henry

text: has

text: called

text: the

text: legislation

text: an

text: unconstitutional

text: attempt

text: by

text: the

text: Oklahoma

text: legislature

text: to

text: insert

text: government

text: into

text: the

text: private

text: lives

text: and

text: decisions

text: of

text: its

text: citizens

text: Henry

text: vetoed

text: the

text: bill

text: and

text: another

text: abortion

text: related

text: measure

text: Friday

text: but

text: the

text: state

text: House

text: on

text: Monday

text: overwhelmingly

text: voted

text: to

text: override

text: both

text: vetoes

text: with

text: House

text: Speaker

text: Chris

text: Benge

text: a

text: Republican

text: lauding

text: his

text: colleagues

text: for

text: moving

text: quickly

text: The

text: Senate

text: 's

text: vote

text: Tuesday

text: was

text: the

text: final

text: step

text: required

text: to

text: make

text: the

text: bills

text: laws

text: Those

text: who

text: rallied

text: behind

text: this

text: cause

text: reflected

text: the

text: core

text: values

text: of

text: Oklahoma

text: citizens

text: and

text: I

text: applaud

text: my

text: colleagues

text: in

text: providing

text: more

text: safeguards

text: for

text: the

text: life

text: of

text: the

text: unborn

text: Coffee

text: said

text: Henry

text: said

text: he

text: was

text: disappointed

text: by

text: Tuesday

text: 's

text: vote

text: It

text: signals

text: the

text: beginning

text: of

text: another

text: costly

text: and

text: possibly

text: futile

text: legal

text: battle

text: for

text: the

text: state

text: of

text: Oklahoma

text: Both

text: laws

text: will

text: be

text: challenged

text: and

text: in

text: all

text: likelihood

text: overturned

text: by

text: the

text: courts

text: as

text: unconstitutional

text: he

text: said

text: I

text: fear

text: this

text: entire

text: exercise

text: will

text: ultimately

text: be

text: a

text: waste

text: of

text: taxpayers

text: time

text: and

text: money

text: In

text: a

text: statement

text: issued

text: after

text: his

text: vetoes

text: Friday

text: Henry

text: sharply

text: criticized

text: the

text: laws

text: State

text: policymakers

text: should

text: never

text: mandate

text: that

text: a

text: citizen

text: be

text: forced

text: to

text: undergo

text: any

text: medical

text: procedure

text: against

text: his

text: or

text: her

text: will

text: especially

text: when

text: such

text: a

text: procedure

text: could

text: cause

text: physical

text: or

text: mental

text: trauma

text: Henry

text: said

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text: do

text: so

text: amounts

text: to

text: an

text: unconstitutional

text: invasion

text: of

text: privacy

text: Henry

text: said

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text: of

text: the

text: flaws

text: of

text: the

text: ultrasound

text: bill

text: was

text: that

text: it

text: lacked

text: an

text: exemption

text: for

text: rape

text: and

text: incest

text: victims

text: Henry

text: vetoed

text: similar

text: legislation

text: in

text: His

text: veto

text: was

text: overridden

text: The

text: State

text: Supreme

text: Court

text: struck

text: down

text: the

text: legislation

text: because

text: it

text: contained

text: multiple

text: subjects

text: a

text: violation

text: of

text: the

text: state

text: Constitution

text: requiring

text: measures

text: to

text: deal

text: with

text: a

text: single

text: subject

text: Bennett

text: said

text: The

text: Center

text: for

text: Reproductive

text: Rights

text: said

text: it

text: had

text: filed

text: a

text: lawsuit

text: challenging

text: the

text: new

text: law

text: after

text: Tuesday

text: 's

text: Senate

text: vote

text: Oklahoma

text: has

text: now

text: passed

text: the

text: most

text: burdensome

text: ultrasound

text: law

text: in

text: the

text: country

text: Nancy

text: Northup

text: the

text: organization

text: 's

text: president

text: told

text: CNN

text: Until

text: Oklahoma

text: stops

text: harassing

text: women

text: who

text: are

text: seeking

text: abortions

text: we

text: will

text: continue

text: to

text: sue

text: the

text: state

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text: unconstitutional

text: restrictions

text: Coffee

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text: the

text: new

text: laws

text: in

text: court

text: would

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text: against

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text: Oklahoma

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text: want

text: The

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text: of

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text: people

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text: twice

text: now

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text: session

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text: the

text: Senate

text: and

text: twice

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text: House

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text: the

text: people

text: 's

text: voice

text: would

text: think

text: twice

text: before

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text: said

text: The

text: other

text: measure

text: approved

text: by

text: legislators

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text: and

text: their

text: families

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text: legal

text: damages

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text: and

text: negligently

text: withhold

text: key

text: information

text: or

text: provide

text: inaccurate

text: information

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text: pregnancies

text: Henry

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text: opposing

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text: bill

text: said

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text: would

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text: a

text: physician

text: legal

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text: mislead

text: or

text: misinform

text: a

text: pregnant

text: woman

text: in

text: an

text: effort

text: to

text: impose

text: his

text: or

text: her

text: personal

text: beliefs

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text: his

text: patient

text: Such

text: an

text: issue

text: would

text: be

text: particularly

text: relevant

text: to

text: fetuses

text: with

text: disabilities

text: By

text: prohibiting

text: recovery

text: of

text: damages

text: in

text: wrongful

text: birth

text: and

text: life

text: malpractice

text: actions

text: the

text: legislation

text: would

text: allow

text: unscrupulous

text: reckless

text: or

text: negligent

text: physicians

text: to

text: knowingly

text: withhold

text: information

text: or

text: negligently

text: provide

text: inaccurate

text: information

text: to

text: pregnant

text: women

text: without

text: facing

text: the

text: potential

text: of

text: legal

text: consequences

text: the

text: governor

text: said

text: The

text: House

text: voted

text: to

text: override

text: the

text: veto

text: of

text: the

text: ultrasound

text: bill

text: by

text: an

text: to

text: vote

text: well

text: above

text: the

text: three

text: fourths

text: majority

text: required

text: State

text: Rep.

text: Lisa

text: Billy

text: a

text: Republican

text: said

text: the

text: bill

text: does

text: nothing

text: more

text: than

text: give

text: women

text: as

text: much

text: information

text: as

text: possible

text: before

text: they

text: make

text: the

text: life

text: altering

text: decision

text: to

text: have

text: an

text: abortion

text: I

text: do

text: n't

text: want

text: a

text: single

text: woman

text: to

text: go

text: through

text: the

text: lifelong

text: torture

text: of

text: having

text: an

text: abortion

text: without

text: having

text: all

text: the

text: relevant

text: information

text: Billy

text: said

text: The

text: House

text: voted

text: to

text: to

text: override

text: the

text: veto

text: over

text: the

text: legal

text: damages

text: prohibition

text: State

text: Rep.

text: Dan

text: Sullivan

text: a

text: Republican

text: said

text: the

text: bill

text: simply

text: states

text: that

text: a

text: doctor

text: can

text: not

text: be

text: sued

text: based

text: on

text: the

text: opinion

text: after

text: birth

text: that

text: a

text: child

text: would

text: have

text: been

text: better

text: off

text: if

text: he

text: or

text: she

text: had

text: been

text: aborted

text: A

text: bipartisan

text: coalition

text: of

text: members

text: supported

text: this

text: bill

text: the

text: first

text: time

text: and

text: I

text: am

text: pleased

text: they

text: did

text: again

text: today

text: Sullivan

text: said

text: Benge

text: the

text: House

text: speaker

text: said

text: We

text: must

text: move

text: to

text: stop

text: the

text: degradation

text: of

text: human

text: life

text: seen

text: in

text: recent

text: years

text: and

text: stand

text: up

text: for

text: those

text: who

text: can

text: not

text: defend

text: themselves

text: CNN

text: 's

text: Joe

text: Sterling

text: and

text: Catherine

text: E.

text: Shoichet

text: contributed

text: to

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Duncan, Oklahoma (CNN) -- Justin Boyles lay in bed, exhausted and depressed. His 385-pound body sank into the mattress with each breath he took. I have diabetes, he thought in disbelief.

His 6-year-old daughter, Autumn, crawled on top of the king-sized comforter and stared at him with bright blue eyes.

"Daddy, will you get up and play?"

"No, baby, I'm tired."

She sat back to think. Her mom had tried to explain why Justin was so sad, but Autumn didn't really understand diabetes or its dangerous implications.

"Daddy, are you ever going to be healthy enough to ride a bike with me?"

The question broke Justin's heart. Tears started to roll down his face. "Yes, very soon. I promise," he said.

"Do you pinky promise?" she asked, holding out her tiny finger.

Justin looped his last digit around hers and made the decision to change his life.

All kinds of excuses

Shanon and Justin Boyles were high school sweethearts. The first time they hung out at 16, Justin took Shanon to church. He was smart, polite and made her laugh -- three qualities that helped Shanon overlook his size.

"As long as I can remember, I've been overweight," Justin says. "I remember as a child coming home after school and having a stack of cookies and a giant glass of milk every day."

In high school Justin weighed close to 250 pounds; he was considered obese even at 6 feet 1. As an adult he lived on fast food and spent most of his nights as a security guard sitting down. He'd eat dinner at work -- frozen burritos, burgers and fries -- then stop off at Taco Bell on the way home for the advertised fourth meal.

"I was really kind of in my own little hole, and I didn't want to get out or do anything," he says.

Shanon became worried. Any time their extended family tried to get together for a birthday party or holiday, Justin refused to go.

"He would have all kinds of excuses," she says. "He was really depressed. He was down on himself real bad."

Most concerning was his lack of time with Autumn, who got upset when her father wouldn't play outside.

"She loves him. He's her hero," Shanon says. "I [knew] why he was feeling that way... but there was nothing I could do about it."

Small steps for a big change

Since his diagnosis with type 2 diabetes in March -- and his pinky promise to Autumn -- Justin has lost more than 65 pounds. He walks around his neighborhood whenever he can and makes sure to do the little things like taking the stairs and returning his shopping cart. The family is also eating better with more vegetables, leaner meats and less sugar. For example, at dinner Justin usually eats a spinach leaf salad with tuna or baked chicken with broccoli. Shanon joins in; she's lost 20 pounds in less than six months on the new diet.

The family recently took a trip to the Oklahoma State Fair and walked around all day, something they never would have done last year.

"I no longer lay in bed thinking that my weight is just too much to overcome," Justin says. "I enjoy being out with family and friends and having a good time."

He only weighs in once a month to avoid becoming obsessed with the numbers on the scale. He hopes to get down to 200 pounds, a weight at which his doctor said he would probably be able to go off his medications.

"I just want him to be healthy and happy. I don't care what weight he's at," Shanon says.

The couple raised more than $7,500 for the American Diabetes Association's "Step Out: Walk to Stop Diabetes" in Oklahoma City on September 14. Their team wore matching black T-shirts with a new slogan: "Do you pinky promise?"

On his website Justin has included a section where he asks readers to make their own promises -- to themselves or to their family -- to get healthy.

"[Autumn] taught me that you can do anything you put your mind to," he says. "It doesn't take a big giant step.It takes doing a little something."

Justin still has a long way to go in his weight loss journey. But rest assured that he'll keep going -- you just don't break a pinky promise, especially one made to your little girl.

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question: How many pounds has dropped boyles?

answer: 65

question: When did he learn he had diabetes?

answer: March

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question: How much money boyles raised?

answer: $7,500

question: He has lost more than how much?

answer: 65 pounds.

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question: How much pounds Boyles did lost?

answer: more than 65

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question: What did Justin Boyles learnt?

answer: you can do anything you put your mind to,"

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question: What amount of money did he raise?

answer: $7,500