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TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (CNN) -- He's no Julia Child, but Honduran President Manuel Zelaya showed Tuesday he can attack a cantaloupe and U.S. government claims in a single motion.

President Manuel Zelaya chews on a slice of Honduran melon to demonstrate its safety.

"It's not in our fruit," he said about last week's report by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration that some Honduran cantaloupes may be contaminated with salmonella. "It's not true what they are saying. Logically, we believe it is an error."

Then, the 55-year-old father of four asked the viewers of CNN en EspaÃ±ol to indulge him as he engaged in a show-and-tell demonstration. "Permit me a second," he said as he stretched his left arm across the tabletop and outside the view of the camera, then pulled into view a box of fruit.

"Here I have the box of melons that we are exporting to the United States; here are the protective bags," he said.

Zelaya lifted a cantaloupe from the box, placed it in front of him, then grabbed a knife and a fork.

"Permit me to make a demonstration," he said, then cut open the fruit, sliced off a chunk, put it in his mouth and chewed vigorously.

"I eat this fruit without any fear," he said with his mouth full. "It's a delicious fruit. Nothing happens to me!"

Though the symptoms of salmonella infection -- nausea, vomiting, fever, diarrhea and abdominal cramps -- typically do not occur for several hours after eating tainted food, the point was made.

The demonstration came three days after the FDA said it had linked 50 cases of salmonella in 16 states and nine in Canada to melons from Agropecuaria Montelibana, a grower and packer in San Lorenzo, Honduras.

Though there have been no reports of fatalities, 14 people have been hospitalized in Arizona, California, Colorado, Georgia, Illinois, Missouri, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Tennessee, Utah, Washington and Wisconsin, the FDA said.

While the company has continued exporting to Europe and Central America and has received no reports of illness, the daily export of 45 containers of melon to the United States has halted, a company official said Monday.

As a result, some 1,500 workers have been laid off, most of them single mothers, and company losses have exceeded $3 million, company officials said.

The FDA alert advised U.S. grocers, food-service operators and produce processors to remove from their stock any cantaloupes from the company.

The agency also recommended consumers throw away any cantaloupes determined to be from the company. E-mail to a friend

CNN's Elvin Sandoval contributed to this story.

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MEXICO CITY, Mexico (CNN)  -- Mexican authorities have detained the country's former drug czar on suspicion that he may have accepted $450,000 a month in bribes from drug traffickers, Mexico's attorney general said Friday.

Noe Ramirez Mandujano was in charge from 2006 through August of fighting organized crime in Mexico.

Noe Ramirez Mandujano was in charge from 2006 until this August of the attorney general's office that specializes in combatting organized crime.

Ramirez is accused of meeting with members of a drug cartel while he was in office and agreeing to provide information on investigations in exchange for the bribes, Attorney General Eduardo Medina Mora Icaza said at a news conference Friday.

The arrest was part of an ongoing investigation called "Operation Limpieza," or "Operation Cleanup," the attorney general said. The operation targets officials who may have passed information to drug cartels.

The arrest was announced Thursday night, four days after the house arrest of Ricardo Gutierrez Vargas, the director for International Police Affairs at Mexico's Federal Investigative Agency and the head of Mexico's Interpol office.

Authorities say more than 30 officials have been arrested since July in connection with the anti-corruption operation.

Interpol, which is based in France, announced Wednesday it is sending a team of investigators to Mexico to investigate the possibility that its communications systems and databases may have been compromised, a prospect raised by the arrest of Gutierrez, the top official working with the agency in Mexico.

"A war of master proportions" between authorities and narcotics traffickers and traffickers among themselves has left more than 4,300 dead so far this year, according to the Council on Hemispheric Affairs, an independent research and information organization. By comparison, the council said in a report this week, there were 2,700 drug-related deaths in 2007.

"Homegrown drug cartels operating from both within and outside the country are engaging in a vicious turf war to seize control of major trafficking corridors while engaging in almost open warfare against the mobilized forces of the state," the council said about what it calls "narco-fueled crime."

Mexican leaders have been trying to tamp down the violence by tightening controls on money-laundering and cracking down on corruption among local and municipal police forces infiltrated by drug traffickers. It may not be enough.

"Due to pervasive corruption at the highest levels of the Mexican government, and the almost effortless infiltration of the porous security forces by the cartel, an ultimate victory by the state is far from certain," the Hemispheric Council concludes.

Drug trafficking in Mexico is a $20 billion- to $50 billion-a-year industry, as much as the nation earns from tourism or remittances from Mexicans living in the United States, said Robert Pastor, a former National Security adviser to President Jimmy Carter and now a professor of international relations at American University in Washington. He has been studying Latin America for more than four decades.

"This is a huge industry with an extraordinary capacity to corrupt and intimidate the country. And they're doing both right now," said Pastor, also a former director of the Carter Center's Latin American and Caribbean Program.

The drug cartels are paying some Mexican officials bribes of $150,000 to $450,000 a month, authorities have said. This in a country where the per capita income is $12,500 a year and one of every seven Mexicans lives in poverty, according to the CIA World Factbook.

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(CNN) -- A woman who pleaded guilty to kidnapping Utah teenager Elizabeth Smart in 2002 -- and attempting to kidnap Smart's cousin a month later -- will be sentenced for both offenses in state and federal court Friday.

Wanda Eileen Barzee, 64, pleaded guilty in November to federal charges of kidnapping and unlawful transportation of a minor in Smart's kidnapping. As part of that plea agreement, she agreed to cooperate with the state and federal cases against her husband, Brian David Mitchell, federal prosecutors have said.

Barzee and Mitchell were accused of abducting Smart, then 14, at knifepoint from her bedroom in her family's Salt Lake City, Utah, home in June 2002. Smart was found nine months later, walking down a street in the Salt Lake City suburb of Sandy in the company of Barzee and Mitchell, a drifter and self-described prophet who calls himself Emmanuel and had done some handyman work at the Smarts' home.

Federal prosecutors have recommended Barzee be sentenced to 15 years in prison in exchange for cooperation against Mitchell.

In state court in February, Barzee pleaded guilty but mentally ill to one count of conspiracy to commit aggravated kidnapping in the attempted kidnapping of Smart's cousin. In exchange for her plea, prosecutors dropped state charges against her in Smart's abduction, said Nancy Volmer, spokeswoman for Utah state courts.

The month after Smart was kidnapped, prosecutors alleged, Barzee and Mitchell attempted to break into the home of her cousin, but were unsuccessful. The girl was 15 years old at the time, according to CNN affiliate KSL-TV. She is not named in court documents.

"Mr. Mitchell's attempt was thwarted when the minor child awakened, which caused Mr. Mitchell to flee," the court documents say.

After her arrest in 2003, Barzee told authorities that she and Mitchell went to the home to abduct the girl, and planned to hold her, along with Smart, in the couple's camp in the mountains, according to court documents.

Barzee faces between one and 15 years in state prison. But prosecutors have agreed to allow that sentence to run concurrently with her federal sentence if she cooperates with the case against Mitchell, said Mark Biljanic, spokesman for the Salt Lake County district attorney's office.

The federal sentencing will be held first Friday, at 10:30 a.m., followed by the state court sentencing at 1 p.m.

When she entered pleaded guilty to Smart's kidnapping in federal court, Barzee apologized to Smart, according to a transcript.

"I'm greatly humbled as I realize how much Elizabeth Smart has been victimized and the role I played in it," she said. "I'm so sorry, Elizabeth, for all the pain and suffering I have caused you and your family. It is my hope that you will be able to find it in your heart to forgive me one day."

Barzee had been housed at the Utah State Hospital while courts determined her competency as well as Mitchell's. After years of being declared incompetent, she recently was declared competent to stand trial, according to the Salt Lake Tribune newspaper. A state court had ruled she could be forcibly medicated, and that ruling led federal prosecutors to proceed with bringing a case against the couple, the Tribune said.

At a competency hearing for Mitchell in October, Smart, now 21, testified that she had been held captive in Utah and California. Just after her abduction, Mitchell took her to a wooded area behind her home and performed a mock marriage ceremony with her, she said. During the nine months of her captivity, Smart testified, no 24-hour period passed without her being raped by Mitchell.

In March, U.S. District Judge Dale Kimball ruled Mitchell competent to stand trial. His federal trial is set to begin November 1. State court proceedings against him are on hold pending the outcome of the federal case.

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Washington (CNN) -- As a young working mother in the the early 1980s, Diane Wood, like many of her generation, struggled to balance work and family.

The future judge and Supreme Court contender had just accepted a job teaching law in Chicago, Illinois, while pregnant with her second child.

Soon after David was born, the professor went into anaphylactic shock and was rushed to the hospital with post-pregnancy complications. Despite her serious condition, she recovered quickly, but really had no choice. Friends say that with two young kids and a new job, no maternity leave was offered, and her male colleagues at work were mostly clueless over how to deal with her.

"People had no idea what to do with the fact that I had these two tiny children," she told an interviewer last year. Overcoming institutional and social challenges to become a nationally recognized legal heavyweight and high court contender, colleagues say, is a testament to Wood's intellectual and personal fortitude.

Her long, relatively liberal judicial record presents both a measure of certainty about the kind of justice she would become, and a political challenge getting her confirmed.

"Diane Wood is among the most respected federal judges on the left," said Thomas Goldstein, a Supreme Court legal analyst and founder of scotusblog.com. "Being a woman is a political plus, but she has decided cases on abortion, affirmative action, religion, and the like. That will generate more of a political firestorm."

Wood has sat on the 7th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in Chicago since 1995. Considered one of the sharpest minds on that bench, she has known President Obama from their days as part-time instructors at the University of Chicago. They have remained casual friends since then. She will turn 60 in July and is among the oldest candidates being given serious scrutiny for the high court.

Aware of her liberalism, progressive groups have been quietly urging the White House to nominate Wood, saying she also enjoys the support of conservative members of her court, and would be confirmable.

Wood was born in 1950 in New Jersey, and as a teenager moved with her parents to Texas, where her father worked as an Exxon accountant. After finishing first in her class at Houston's Westchester High School, Wood had her choice of colleges, including the Ivy Leagues, but chose in-state University of Texas, mainly due to financial considerations. She was weeks from beginning graduate studies in literature at Yale when, on a whim, she pulled out and decided to take up law at UT, where her future husband was studying.

If nominated and confirmed to the high court, she would be the only person on that bench without an Ivy League law degree, and the only Protestant.

She clerked for Justice Harry Blackmun in 1976-77, just three years after he issued the landmark Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion. She was one of only three female Supreme Court law clerks that year. She later worked as a government lawyer in the administrations of Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton.

In between were brief stints in private practice and as a law professor at Georgetown and the University of Chicago, where she started in 1981 as the only full-time female faculty member. She later became associate dean and helped craft the school's first sexual harassment policy, which took several years to implement. "You put your batting helmet on when you go to work for the University of Chicago," Wood said last year. "It's a hard-hitting place."

The retiring Justice John Paul Stevens also attended the school as an undergraduate, and Wood still teaches a class in civil procedure on a part-time basis. Students privately describe her courses as tough but very fair, and say Professor Wood is a knowledgeable, hands-on teacher and good listener.

Twice divorced with three grown children, Wood is now married to a neurologist and lives in a Chicago suburb. Judge Richard Posner, a conservative member of the 7th Circuit and a close Wood friend, officiated at her 2006 wedding.

Friends describe her as keenly interested in world affairs, and she has traveled the globe extensively promoting American concepts of the rule of law. She has made international trade her legal specialty; she speaks French, German, and some Russian.

Among her many interests are the oboe and French horn, and she is good enough to play in several area orchestras.

Wood's judicial record reflects a mainstream liberal jurisprudence, tempered by a respect for precedent and a narrow focus on the facts at hand. Absent are any detours into ideological rants and asides. In her 15 years on the court, she has often served as an intellectual counterweight to leading conservative judges Frank Easterbrook and Richard Posner. She has written more than 50 dissents, and concurrences in dozens more. She became only the second woman at the time to sit on the 7th Circuit, recommended to the job by the late Sen. Paul Simon, D-Illinois.

Like many of the top contenders being considered by Obama, Wood has earned a reputation as a consensus-builder on her court.

Her rulings on abortion have attracted the most criticism from conservatives.

â¢ In 2002, she dissented from a court opinion upholding the constitutionality of an Indiana statute requiring women to wait 18 hours and receive counseling and additional information before obtaining an abortion (A Woman's Choice-East Side Women's Clinic vs. Newman, 2002).

â¢ In 1999, she dissented from a ruling upholding the constitutionality of Illinois and Wisconsin statutes banning a late-term procedure opponents call partial-birth abortion (Hope Clinic vs. Ryan, 1999). The high court a year later affirmed her views, throwing out a similar restriction on the procedure in Nebraska.

â¢ In 2001, Wood wrote the opinion upholding a lower court decision that applied anti-racketeering laws against a group of anti-abortion protesters. The case was reversed twice by the Supreme Court, 8-1 and 8-0. The only dissent by the high court in support of Wood's views was Stevens himself (National Organization for Women vs. Scheidler, 2001).

Wood has expressed admiration for her former boss's views on abortion. "Justice Blackmun articulated in Roe," she wrote in a 1993 law review article, "the important insight that a core set of individual rights exists that neither the states nor the federal government may trample."

Hours after Stevens announced his retirement in April, abortion opponents made their intentions clear:

"A Wood nomination would return the abortion wars to the Supreme Court," Americans United for Life announced in a statement.

"Judge Diane Wood would be a very polarizing and divisive nominee," said Carrie Severino, chief counsel at the conservative Judicial Crisis network. "She's got cases on abortion, the most extreme abortion cases out there, she's got some very difficult opinions just to square with the American people. And so she is pretty far out on the left. But if that is what the president wants to go for, we are ready for a fight."

Church-state disputes are another area that may cause difficulty if Wood is nominated.

â¢ She ruled against a church that claimed O'Hare International Airport's acquisition of church-owned land under eminent domain laws violated the free exercise clause of the First Amendment (St. John's United Church of Christ vs. City of Chicago, 2007).

â¢ She argued in a dissent that Indiana taxpayers had legal standing to challenge the legislative prayer practices in the Indiana General Assembly (Hinrichs vs. Speaker of the House, 2007).

â¢ She issued a dissent in favor of allowing a public university to revoke the charter of a Christian student organization that refused membership to gays and lesbians (Christian Legal Society vs. Walker). The high court last month heard a similar case from the same group, over denial of official recognition by a California law school.

And in 2008, she dissented in a ruling allowing a condominium association to prevent a Chicago family from putting up a Jewish decoration on their doorpost. The Blochs challenged the rule against placing "objects of any sort" in the hallways. Mezuzahs are often placed on doors, and contain a small parchment with biblical sayings.

Wood disagreed with the majority's conclusion the rule was neutral in respect to religion. In a long, detailed dissent, she wrote: "The [condo] Association might as well hang a sign outside saying 'No Observant Jews Allowed.'"

She also criticized the condo board for filing an appeal accusing the homeowners of trying to get a "pound of flesh" from the board. She noted the phrase comes from Shakespeare's "Merchant of Venice," and refers to the shady actions of Shylock, a Jewish moneylender. "This is hardly the reference someone should choose who is trying to show that the stand-off ... was not because of the Blochs' religion, but rather in spite of it." (Bloch v. Frischolz and Shoreline Towers Condominium Assn., 2008).

Amazingly, because of her powerful dissent, the entire appeals court agreed to rehear the case and reversed unanimously, adopting Wood's original position.

A 2005 law school lecture also raised concerns from conservatives over her views on whether current courts should broadly interpret the original text of the Constitution, and the rights and privileges it confers on citizens.

She said of the framers of the 1789 document, "There is no more reason to think that they expected the world to remain static than there is to think that any of us holds a crystal ball," she wrote. "The only way to create a foundational document that could stand the test of time was to build in enough flexibility that later generations would be able to adapt it to their own needs and uses."

Many conservatives believe judges should adhere to the strict wording of the Constitution, and not try to read into rights that do not exist, such as, they contend, the "right" to an abortion.

Wood was interviewed by the president last year, a finalist for the high court seat that went to Justice Sonia Sotomayor. Colleagues privately say Wood was pleased with the rapport she established in the one-on-one meeting in the Oval Office.

She has given few media interviews over the years, and has been generally reticent about stating her views off the bench. When approached by CNN last year in Washington, where she had gone to meet Obama, Wood was polite but firm about her chances. "I'm not answering anything on that," she said, smiling and apologizing she could not say more.

In an interview last fall with her alumni magazine, Wood said, "As a judge you don't campaign for such things. I'm in the luxurious position of knowing that the people who count know that I am here, and if they are interested, they'll let me know."

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text: as

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text: Professor

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text: a

text: Chicago

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text: of

text: the

text: Circuit

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text: a

text: close

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text: at

text: her

text: wedding

text: Friends

text: describe

text: her

text: as

text: keenly

text: interested

text: in

text: world

text: affairs

text: and

text: she

text: has

text: traveled

text: the

text: globe

text: extensively

text: promoting

text: American

text: concepts

text: of

text: the

text: rule

text: of

text: law

text: She

text: has

text: made

text: international

text: trade

text: her

text: legal

text: specialty

text: she

text: speaks

text: French

text: German

text: and

text: some

text: Russian

text: Among

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text: many

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text: enough

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text: a

text: mainstream

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text: by

text: a

text: respect

text: for

text: precedent

text: and

text: a

text: narrow

text: focus

text: on

text: the

text: facts

text: at

text: hand

text: Absent

text: are

text: any

text: detours

text: into

text: ideological

text: rants

text: and

text: asides

text: In

text: her

text: years

text: on

text: the

text: court

text: she

text: has

text: often

text: served

text: as

text: an

text: intellectual

text: counterweight

text: to

text: leading

text: conservative

text: judges

text: Frank

text: Easterbrook

text: and

text: Richard

text: Posner

text: She

text: has

text: written

text: more

text: than

text: dissents

text: and

text: concurrences

text: in

text: dozens

text: more

text: She

text: became

text: only

text: the

text: second

text: woman

text: at

text: the

text: time

text: to

text: sit

text: on

text: the

text: Circuit

text: recommended

text: to

text: the

text: job

text: by

text: the

text: late

text: Sen.

text: Paul

text: Simon

text: D

text: Illinois

text: Like

text: many

text: of

text: the

text: top

text: contenders

text: being

text: considered

text: by

text: Obama

text: Wood

text: has

text: earned

text: a

text: reputation

text: as

text: a

text: consensus

text: builder

text: on

text: her

text: court

text: Her

text: rulings

text: on

text: abortion

text: have

text: attracted

text: the

text: most

text: criticism

text: from

text: conservatives

text: â¢

text: In

text: she

text: dissented

text: from

text: a

text: court

text: opinion

text: upholding

text: the

text: constitutionality

text: of

text: an

text: Indiana

text: statute

text: requiring

text: women

text: to

text: wait

text: hours

text: and

text: receive

text: counseling

text: and

text: additional

text: information

text: before

text: obtaining

text: an

text: abortion

text: A

text: Woman

text: 's

text: Choice

text: East

text: Side

text: Women

text: 's

text: Clinic

text: vs.

text: Newman

text: â¢

text: In

text: she

text: dissented

text: from

text: a

text: ruling

text: upholding

text: the

text: constitutionality

text: of

text: Illinois

text: and

text: Wisconsin

text: statutes

text: banning

text: a

text: late

text: term

text: procedure

text: opponents

text: call

text: partial

text: birth

text: abortion

text: Hope

text: Clinic

text: vs.

text: Ryan

text: The

text: high

text: court

text: a

text: year

text: later

text: affirmed

text: her

text: views

text: throwing

text: out

text: a

text: similar

text: restriction

text: on

text: the

text: procedure

text: in

text: Nebraska

text: â¢

text: In

text: Wood

text: wrote

text: the

text: opinion

text: upholding

text: a

text: lower

text: court

text: decision

text: that

text: applied

text: anti

text: racketeering

text: laws

text: against

text: a

text: group

text: of

text: anti

text: abortion

text: protesters

text: The

text: case

text: was

text: reversed

text: twice

text: by

text: the

text: Supreme

text: Court

text: and

text: The

text: only

text: dissent

text: by

text: the

text: high

text: court

text: in

text: support

text: of

text: Wood

text: 's

text: views

text: was

text: Stevens

text: himself

text: National

text: Organization

text: for

text: Women

text: vs.

text: Scheidler

text: Wood

text: has

text: expressed

text: admiration

text: for

text: her

text: former

text: boss

text: 's

text: views

text: on

text: abortion

text: Justice

text: Blackmun

text: articulated

text: in

text: Roe

text: she

text: wrote

text: in

text: a

text: law

text: review

text: article

text: the

text: important

text: insight

text: that

text: a

text: core

text: set

text: of

text: individual

text: rights

text: exists

text: that

text: neither

text: the

text: states

text: nor

text: the

text: federal

text: government

text: may

text: trample

text: Hours

text: after

text: Stevens

text: announced

text: his

text: retirement

text: in

text: April

text: abortion

text: opponents

text: made

text: their

text: intentions

text: clear

text: A

text: Wood

text: nomination

text: would

text: return

text: the

text: abortion

text: wars

text: to

text: the

text: Supreme

text: Court

text: Americans

text: United

text: for

text: Life

text: announced

text: in

text: a

text: statement

text: Judge

text: Diane

text: Wood

text: would

text: be

text: a

text: very

text: polarizing

text: and

text: divisive

text: nominee

text: said

text: Carrie

text: Severino

text: chief

text: counsel

text: at

text: the

text: conservative

text: Judicial

text: Crisis

text: network

text: She

text: 's

text: got

text: cases

text: on

text: abortion

text: the

text: most

text: extreme

text: abortion

text: cases

text: out

text: there

text: she

text: 's

text: got

text: some

text: very

text: difficult

text: opinions

text: just

text: to

text: square

text: with

text: the

text: American

text: people

text: And

text: so

text: she

text: is

text: pretty

text: far

text: out

text: on

text: the

text: left

text: But

text: if

text: that

text: is

text: what

text: the

text: president

text: wants

text: to

text: go

text: for

text: we

text: are

text: ready

text: for

text: a

text: fight

text: Church

text: state

text: disputes

text: are

text: another

text: area

text: that

text: may

text: cause

text: difficulty

text: if

text: Wood

text: is

text: nominated

text: â¢

text: She

text: ruled

text: against

text: a

text: church

text: that

text: claimed

text: O'Hare

text: International

text: Airport

text: 's

text: acquisition

text: of

text: church

text: owned

text: land

text: under

text: eminent

text: domain

text: laws

text: violated

text: the

text: free

text: exercise

text: clause

text: of

text: the

text: First

text: Amendment

text: St.

text: John

text: 's

text: United

text: Church

text: of

text: Christ

text: vs.

text: City

text: of

text: Chicago

text: â¢

text: She

text: argued

text: in

text: a

text: dissent

text: that

text: Indiana

text: taxpayers

text: had

text: legal

text: standing

text: to

text: challenge

text: the

text: legislative

text: prayer

text: practices

text: in

text: the

text: Indiana

text: General

text: Assembly

text: Hinrichs

text: vs.

text: Speaker

text: of

text: the

text: House

text: â¢

text: She

text: issued

text: a

text: dissent

text: in

text: favor

text: of

text: allowing

text: a

text: public

text: university

text: to

text: revoke

text: the

text: charter

text: of

text: a

text: Christian

text: student

text: organization

text: that

text: refused

text: membership

text: to

text: gays

text: and

text: lesbians

text: Christian

text: Legal

text: Society

text: vs.

text: Walker

text: The

text: high

text: court

text: last

text: month

text: heard

text: a

text: similar

text: case

text: from

text: the

text: same

text: group

text: over

text: denial

text: of

text: official

text: recognition

text: by

text: a

text: California

text: law

text: school

text: And

text: in

text: she

text: dissented

text: in

text: a

text: ruling

text: allowing

text: a

text: condominium

text: association

text: to

text: prevent

text: a

text: Chicago

text: family

text: from

text: putting

text: up

text: a

text: Jewish

text: decoration

text: on

text: their

text: doorpost

text: The

text: Blochs

text: challenged

text: the

text: rule

text: against

text: placing

text: objects

text: of

text: any

text: sort

text: in

text: the

text: hallways

text: Mezuzahs

text: are

text: often

text: placed

text: on

text: doors

text: and

text: contain

text: a

text: small

text: parchment

text: with

text: biblical

text: sayings

text: Wood

text: disagreed

text: with

text: the

text: majority

text: 's

text: conclusion

text: the

text: rule

text: was

text: neutral

text: in

text: respect

text: to

text: religion

text: In

text: a

text: long

text: detailed

text: dissent

text: she

text: wrote

text: The

text: condo

text: Association

text: might

text: as

text: well

text: hang

text: a

text: sign

text: outside

text: saying

text: No

text: Observant

text: Jews

text: Allowed

text: She

text: also

text: criticized

text: the

text: condo

text: board

text: for

text: filing

text: an

text: appeal

text: accusing

text: the

text: homeowners

text: of

text: trying

text: to

text: get

text: a

text: pound

text: of

text: flesh

text: from

text: the

text: board

text: She

text: noted

text: the

text: phrase

text: comes

text: from

text: Shakespeare

text: 's

text: Merchant

text: of

text: Venice

text: and

text: refers

text: to

text: the

text: shady

text: actions

text: of

text: Shylock

text: a

text: Jewish

text: moneylender

text: This

text: is

text: hardly

text: the

text: reference

text: someone

text: should

text: choose

text: who

text: is

text: trying

text: to

text: show

text: that

text: the

text: stand

text: off

text: was

text: not

text: because

text: of

text: the

text: Blochs

text: religion

text: but

text: rather

text: in

text: spite

text: of

text: it

text: Bloch

text: v.

text: Frischolz

text: and

text: Shoreline

text: Towers

text: Condominium

text: Assn

text: Amazingly

text: because

text: of

text: her

text: powerful

text: dissent

text: the

text: entire

text: appeals

text: court

text: agreed

text: to

text: rehear

text: the

text: case

text: and

text: reversed

text: unanimously

text: adopting

text: Wood

text: 's

text: original

text: position

text: A

text: law

text: school

text: lecture

text: also

text: raised

text: concerns

text: from

text: conservatives

text: over

text: her

text: views

text: on

text: whether

text: current

text: courts

text: should

text: broadly

text: interpret

text: the

text: original

text: text

text: of

text: the

text: Constitution

text: and

text: the

text: rights

text: and

text: privileges

text: it

text: confers

text: on

text: citizens

text: She

text: said

text: of

text: the

text: framers

text: of

text: the

text: document

text: There

text: is

text: no

text: more

text: reason

text: to

text: think

text: that

text: they

text: expected

text: the

text: world

text: to

text: remain

text: static

text: than

text: there

text: is

text: to

text: think

text: that

text: any

text: of

text: us

text: holds

text: a

text: crystal

text: ball

text: she

text: wrote

text: The

text: only

text: way

text: to

text: create

text: a

text: foundational

text: document

text: that

text: could

text: stand

text: the

text: test

text: of

text: time

text: was

text: to

text: build

text: in

text: enough

text: flexibility

text: that

text: later

text: generations

text: would

text: be

text: able

text: to

text: adapt

text: it

text: to

text: their

text: own

text: needs

text: and

text: uses

text: Many

text: conservatives

text: believe

text: judges

text: should

text: adhere

text: to

text: the

text: strict

text: wording

text: of

text: the

text: Constitution

text: and

text: not

text: try

text: to

text: read

text: into

text: rights

text: that

text: do

text: not

text: exist

text: such

text: as

text: they

text: contend

text: the

text: right

text: to

text: an

text: abortion

text: Wood

text: was

text: interviewed

text: by

text: the

text: president

text: last

text: year

text: a

text: finalist

text: for

text: the

text: high

text: court

text: seat

text: that

text: went

text: to

text: Justice

text: Sonia

text: Sotomayor

text: Colleagues

text: privately

text: say

text: Wood

text: was

text: pleased

text: with

text: the

text: rapport

text: she

text: established

text: in

text: the

text: one

text: on

text: one

text: meeting

text: in

text: the

text: Oval

text: Office

text: She

text: has

text: given

text: few

text: media

text: interviews

text: over

text: the

text: years

text: and

text: has

text: been

text: generally

text: reticent

text: about

text: stating

text: her

text: views

text: off

text: the

text: bench

text: When

text: approached

text: by

text: CNN

text: last

text: year

text: in

text: Washington

text: where

text: she

text: had

text: gone

text: to

text: meet

text: Obama

text: Wood

text: was

text: polite

text: but

text: firm

text: about

text: her

text: chances

text: I

text: 'm

text: not

text: answering

text: anything

text: on

text: that

text: she

text: said

text: smiling

text: and

text: apologizing

text: she

text: could

text: not

text: say

text: more

text: In

text: an

text: interview

text: last

text: fall

text: with

text: her

text: alumni

text: magazine

text: Wood

text: said

text: As

text: a

text: judge

text: you

text: do

text: n't

text: campaign

text: for

text: such

text: things

text: I

text: 'm

text: in

text: the

text: luxurious

text: position

text: of

text: knowing

text: that

text: the

text: people

text: who

text: count

text: know

text: that

text: I

text: am

text: here

text: and

text: if

text: they

text: are

text: interested

text: they

text: 'll

text: let

text: me

text: know

question: What languages does she speak?

answer: French, German,

text: French, German,

question: Who has a long relatively liberal judical record

answer: Diane Wood,

text: Diane Wood,

question: what record does wood have

answer: long, relatively liberal judicial

text: long, relatively liberal judicial

question: Who has a long and relatively liberal judicial record?

answer: Diane Wood,

text: Diane Wood,

question: how long has she sat

answer: since 1995.

text: since 1995.


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(CNN)  -- An early-morning hazardous material spill has been contained, but officials in Morehead City, North Carolina have closed its port and recommended evacuation of its downtown area after nine containers of high-explosive materials were punctured.

The incident occurred when a forklift unloading a vessel punctured a large container and the drums inside it that contained the explosive compound PETN, said Morehead City Police spokeswoman Amy Thompson.

PETN was allegedly one of the components of the bomb concealed by Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab, accused of trying to set off an explosion aboard Northwest Airlines Flight 253 as it approached Detroit, Michigan, on December 25.

PETN is a highly explosive organic compound belonging to the same chemical family as nitroglycerin.

Thompson quoted Morehead City Fire Chief Wes Lail as saying the entire cleanup is a five-step process, and only the first step had been completed.

There have been no injuries or any environmental damage, according to Carteret County officials.

Some residents and business workers left the area, but Tompson said she didn't know how many.

"Right now our advice to everybody is if they're uncomfortable staying in downtown Morehead, to evacuate further west. And if they choose to stay home, stay away from windows and doors," Mayor Jerry Jones told CNN.

"Don't get out and sightsee and meander around. It is dangerous, and we need to ensure the safety of our public. As the day goes on and we feel like we have more information, we will pass that information on."

He said that emergency management officials "feel that everything is contained." But at the early stages in the cleanup, they advised keeping people from getting closed to the port.

Carteret County officials said U.S. 70 will be closed from 4th Street in Morehead City to the Morehead-Beaufort high-rise bridge for most of the day.

The Coast Guard has barred traffic to and from the zone. The Coast Guard captain of the port ordered the facility closed and a 300-yard safety zone has been established to exclude any vessels operating any closer.

Jones said the port called the city before 4:45 a.m. ET to say that a product spilled out of drums on the port property.

"We immediately identified it was a hazardous material, assessed that it was contained on the port and not (going) to go into our neighboring waters, into the waterway," he said. Police, fire and explosive ordnance crews from nearby Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point arrived at the scene, and an incident command center was set up nearby.

Jones confirmed that the material in the containers is PETN, allegedly one of the components of the bomb concealed by Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab, accused of trying to bomb Northwest Airlines Flight 253 in Amsterdam on December 25.

PETN is a high explosive organic compound belonging to the same chemical family as nitroglycerin.

Jones said PETN is a crystal packaged in water for stability. He said the people who transport "any highly flammable explosive devices" have to and did notify the port and local emergency and police officials. Coast Guard Lt. Cmdr. Chris O'Neil said the substance has industrial and medical uses.

"Being an international port, we handle highly flammable explosive material all the time. Jet fuel comes through here all the time, gasoline, propane. So it's not unusual to have explosive material coming through Morehead City," he said.

Also responding were the U.S. Customs and the Salvation Army.

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text: according

text: to

text: Carteret

text: County

text: officials

text: Some

text: residents

text: and

text: business

text: workers

text: left

text: the

text: area

text: but

text: Tompson

text: said

text: she

text: did

text: n't

text: know

text: how

text: many

text: Right

text: now

text: our

text: advice

text: to

text: everybody

text: is

text: if

text: they

text: 're

text: uncomfortable

text: staying

text: in

text: downtown

text: Morehead

text: to

text: evacuate

text: further

text: west

text: And

text: if

text: they

text: choose

text: to

text: stay

text: home

text: stay

text: away

text: from

text: windows

text: and

text: doors

text: Mayor

text: Jerry

text: Jones

text: told

text: CNN

text: Do

text: n't

text: get

text: out

text: and

text: sightsee

text: and

text: meander

text: around

text: It

text: is

text: dangerous

text: and

text: we

text: need

text: to

text: ensure

text: the

text: safety

text: of

text: our

text: public

text: As

text: the

text: day

text: goes

text: on

text: and

text: we

text: feel

text: like

text: we

text: have

text: more

text: information

text: we

text: will

text: pass

text: that

text: information

text: on

text: He

text: said

text: that

text: emergency

text: management

text: officials

text: feel

text: that

text: everything

text: is

text: contained

text: But

text: at

text: the

text: early

text: stages

text: in

text: the

text: cleanup

text: they

text: advised

text: keeping

text: people

text: from

text: getting

text: closed

text: to

text: the

text: port

text: Carteret

text: County

text: officials

text: said

text: U.S.

text: will

text: be

text: closed

text: from

text: Street

text: in

text: Morehead

text: City

text: to

text: the

text: Morehead

text: Beaufort

text: high

text: rise

text: bridge

text: for

text: most

text: of

text: the

text: day

text: The

text: Coast

text: Guard

text: has

text: barred

text: traffic

text: to

text: and

text: from

text: the

text: zone

text: The

text: Coast

text: Guard

text: captain

text: of

text: the

text: port

text: ordered

text: the

text: facility

text: closed

text: and

text: a

text: safety

text: zone

text: has

text: been

text: established

text: to

text: exclude

text: any

text: vessels

text: operating

text: any

text: closer

text: Jones

text: said

text: the

text: port

text: called

text: the

text: city

text: before

text: a.m.

text: ET

text: to

text: say

text: that

text: a

text: product

text: spilled

text: out

text: of

text: drums

text: on

text: the

text: port

text: property

text: We

text: immediately

text: identified

text: it

text: was

text: a

text: hazardous

text: material

text: assessed

text: that

text: it

text: was

text: contained

text: on

text: the

text: port

text: and

text: not

text: going

text: to

text: go

text: into

text: our

text: neighboring

text: waters

text: into

text: the

text: waterway

text: he

text: said

text: Police

text: fire

text: and

text: explosive

text: ordnance

text: crews

text: from

text: nearby

text: Marine

text: Corps

text: Air

text: Station

text: Cherry

text: Point

text: arrived

text: at

text: the

text: scene

text: and

text: an

text: incident

text: command

text: center

text: was

text: set

text: up

text: nearby

text: Jones

text: confirmed

text: that

text: the

text: material

text: in

text: the

text: containers

text: is

text: PETN

text: allegedly

text: one

text: of

text: the

text: components

text: of

text: the

text: bomb

text: concealed

text: by

text: Umar

text: Farouk

text: AbdulMutallab

text: accused

text: of

text: trying

text: to

text: bomb

text: Northwest

text: Airlines

text: Flight

text: in

text: Amsterdam

text: on

text: December

text: PETN

text: is

text: a

text: high

text: explosive

text: organic

text: compound

text: belonging

text: to

text: the

text: same

text: chemical

text: family

text: as

text: nitroglycerin

text: Jones

text: said

text: PETN

text: is

text: a

text: crystal

text: packaged

text: in

text: water

text: for

text: stability

text: He

text: said

text: the

text: people

text: who

text: transport

text: any

text: highly

text: flammable

text: explosive

text: devices

text: have

text: to

text: and

text: did

text: notify

text: the

text: port

text: and

text: local

text: emergency

text: and

text: police

text: officials

text: Coast

text: Guard

text: Lt

text: Cmdr

text: Chris

text: O'Neil

text: said

text: the

text: substance

text: has

text: industrial

text: and

text: medical

text: uses

text: Being

text: an

text: international

text: port

text: we

text: handle

text: highly

text: flammable

text: explosive

text: material

text: all

text: the

text: time

text: Jet

text: fuel

text: comes

text: through

text: here

text: all

text: the

text: time

text: gasoline

text: propane

text: So

text: it

text: 's

text: not

text: unusual

text: to

text: have

text: explosive

text: material

text: coming

text: through

text: Morehead

text: City

text: he

text: said

text: Also

text: responding

text: were

text: the

text: U.S.

text: Customs

text: and

text: the

text: Salvation

text: Army

question: according to the authorities, what is a "cleanup"?

answer: five-step process,

text: five-step process,

question: How many steps are in the process?

answer: five-step

text: five-step

question: What is contained?

answer: hazardous material spill

text: hazardous material spill

question: where were the Nine containers of PETN  went to?

answer: downtown area

text: downtown area

question: what number of containers where puntured at morehead city port?

answer: nine

text: nine

question: what is the number of steps for cleanup?

answer: five-step

text: five-step

question: How many containers were punctured?

answer: nine

text: nine

question: what does the police recommed about?

answer: evacuation of its downtown area

text: evacuation of its downtown area

question: what police recommend?

answer: evacuation of its downtown area

text: evacuation of its downtown area


text:
ALGIERS, Algeria (CNN) -- Rescuers are sifting through the rubble of the United Nations headquarters in Algiers hoping to find survivors after a powerful bomb ripped off the building's facade and leveled nearby U.N. offices.

Rescuers and bomb experts search for survivors in the rubble of a destroyed building.

It was one of two suspected car bombs that struck Algiers within 10 minutes of each other.

The death toll is unclear: the official government count is at least 26, but hospital sources in Algiers told CNN affiliate BFM-TV that 76 people were killed in the two blasts. A statement from the United Nations said 45 people were reported killed.

Algerian Interior Minister Noureddine Yazid Zerhouni blamed a militant Islamic group with ties to al Qaeda for the attacks, which also targeted a building housing Algeria's Constitutional Council and Supreme Court.

In a posting on an Islamist Web site, the group al Qaeda Islamic Maghreb claimed responsibility.

CNN could not immediately corroborate that claim, but the Web site is known to carry messages, claims and videos from al Qaeda and other militant groups.

In the posting, the bombers were identified as Sheikh Ibrahim Abu Othman and Abdel Rahman Abu Abdel Nasser al-Asimi. It said two trucks were filled with "no less than 800 kg (1,763 pounds) of explosives."

The group called the operation "another successful conquest and a second epic that the knights of faith have dictated with their blood, defending the wounded Islamic nation and in defiance to the Crusaders and their agents, the slaves of America and the sons of France."

At least 10 U.N. staffers were among those killed, according to U.N. spokeswoman Marie Okabe.

The offices of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees -- located across the street from the U.N. headquarters -- were leveled by a blast that struck about 9:30 a.m. (3:30 a.m. ET) Tuesday.

"Our offices are basically destroyed now, nothing works," UNHCR spokesman Ron Redmond said from its Geneva headquarters. Watch his full interview

He said rescuers are working into the night trying to get to the trapped U.N. workers. "It's a very serious situation still with the U.N. in Algiers," he said.

In a strongly worded statement, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon condemned what he called "an abjectly cowardly strike against civilian officials serving humanity's highest ideals under the U.N. banner."

"The perpetrators of these crimes will not escape the strongest possible condemnation -- and ultimate punishment -- by Algerian authorities and the international community," Ban said in the written statement.

He said he has sent senior advisers and other top U.N. officials to head to Algiers to assist in the investigation and rescue effort.

Most of those killed in the coordinated attacks were victims of the first suspected car bombing near the Constitutional Council -- which oversees elections -- and Supreme Court in the Algiers neighborhood of Ben Aknoun, according to the state-run Algeria Press Agency.

That blast struck a bus outside the targeted building, killing many of those on board, the news agency reported.

One man said he heard the first blast then the second exploded in front of him. "I saw the trees falling and the glass shattering in front of me. I had to run away from the car," he said.

Zerhouni said the attack was the work of the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC), the same group that took responsibility for an attack in April in downtown Algiers that killed 33 people.

That group also uses the name al Qaeda Islamic Maghreb after merging with al Qaeda earlier this year. It abandoned small-scale attacks in favor of headline-grabbing blasts after it joined with al Qaeda.

CNN International Security Correspondent Paula Newton said the merger combined the expertise of Algerian guerrillas with the operational ability of al Qaeda in North Africa, enabling the group to penetrate the usually extensive security in high-profile areas of Algiers.

She said the group's goal is to destabilize countries like Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia, which it sees as enemies of the Islamic state.

Zerhouni said police interrogations of GSPC members arrested in the wake of the April attack revealed that Algeria's Constitutional Council and Supreme Court were on a list of GSPC targets.

Algeria, which has a population of 33 million, is still recovering from more than a decade of violence that began after the military government called a halt to elections which an Islamist party was poised to win.

Tens of thousands of people died in the unrest. Although the country has remained relatively peaceful, recent terrorist attacks have raised fears of a slide back to violence. E-mail to a friend

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question: What is the official toll?

answer: at least 26,

text: at least 26,

question: Who did Algeria blame for the attack?

answer: a militant Islamic group with ties to al Qaeda

text: a militant Islamic group with ties to al Qaeda

question: Where did the bomb explode?

answer: United Nations headquarters

text: United Nations headquarters

question: Where did the two bombs explode?

answer: Algiers

text: Algiers

question: What is the official death toll?

answer: unclear:

text: unclear:

question: What is the group's name?

answer: al Qaeda Islamic Maghreb

text: al Qaeda Islamic Maghreb

question: Who did Algeria blame?

answer: a militant Islamic group with ties to al Qaeda

text: a militant Islamic group with ties to al Qaeda

question: What part of the U.N. did the staff work for?

answer: The offices of the UN High Commissioner

text: The offices of the UN High Commissioner