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ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN)  -- Ann Nixon Cooper sits back in her dining room chair, her eyes closed tight and her lips clenched, when asked if she will attend Barack Obama's inauguration in January.

Ann Nixon Cooper was born in 1902, a time when women and black people were denied the right to vote.

"I could go and maybe would go, but I'm not looking forward to it," says the 106-year-old former socialite.

What if Obama came to her house and asked her in person to attend?

Cooper perks up and a big smile spreads across her face.

"Oh, yes, of course I'm ready to go!"

It's been a whirlwind ever since Obama mentioned the African-American centenarian in his victory speech Tuesday night. Throngs of media -- from the BBC to a Japanese station to national news outlets -- have descended on her Atlanta house. Strangers have stopped by too.

She's taking it all in stride. She stayed up later than usual, until about 3 a.m., after Obama's speech and the phone began ringing off the hook. She had been tipped off by the Obama campaign that he'd say something.

"Somebody told him what to say and what to do and he followed through," she says.  Watch "I'd be proud to meet him as anybody else" Â»

Cooper -- who was born during a time when women and black people couldn't vote -- fully understands the significance of Obama's victory.

"Things are changing, changing, changing, and I look for more change now that it's the first black president in victory of faith over fear," she says. "Don't you know, that's quite something to be proud of."

What would she tell Obama if she ever meets him?

"I wouldn't have anything special to say about Obama. I enjoyed listening to him, but that's all," she says. "I would be proud to meet him as anyone else."

She and her late husband, prominent dentist Dr. Albert Cooper, raised four children in her house. The home was a center of Atlanta's black society and the scene of many parties. She knew Martin Luther King Jr. when he was just a boy and was close with his mother.

She sometimes refers to Obama as "that young man."

In his victory speech, Obama praised Cooper's fight. The president-elect had learned of her story two weeks earlier after CNN profiled her when she went to the polls to vote early. Obama called her soon afterward.  Watch Obama talk about Cooper in his victory speech Â»

"This election had many firsts and many stories that will be told for generations," Obama told the tens of thousands of supporters who had gathered in Chicago on Tuesday night. "But one that's on my mind tonight is about a woman who cast her ballot in Atlanta. She's a lot like the millions of others who stood in line to make their voice heard in this election except for one thing -- Ann Nixon Cooper is 106 years old.

"She was born just a generation past slavery; a time when there were no cars on the road or planes in the sky; when someone like her couldn't vote for two reasons -- because she was a woman and because of the color of her skin.

"And tonight, I think about all that she's seen throughout her century in America -- the heartache and the hope; the struggle and the progress; the times we were told that we can't, and the people who pressed on with that American creed: Yes we can."

Cooper watched Obama's speech from her home. "Yeah, I knew he was talking about me -- I had been told that he would be saying these things."  See images of Cooper's early voting extravaganza Â»

She added that her late husband "would be elated" a black man will be president.

"Yeah, he'd be so tickled to death," she said. "We looked forward to changes. Everybody looked forward to a better life."

One of her grandsons, Albert B. Cooper, said the family has been overwhelmed with pride since Tuesday.

"It was a bigger honor than you could ever imagine to be mentioned in Obama's speech. For her to be used as an example of the strength -- and all the changes that have gone on within the black community -- is stunning. We were touched and proud and I can't come up with the words," he says. "It's an amazing thing."

Ann Cooper has called Atlanta home since the 1920s. She co-founded a Girls Club for African-American youth and taught community residents to read in a tutoring program at Ebenezer Baptist Church, where King preached.

Celebrities, including the late singer Nat King Cole, often dropped in to visit. One time many years ago, a young student from Morehouse College stopped to visit. He spoke of dreams to become a filmmaker. That man, it turns out, was Spike Lee.

"It's been a house with a heap of living going on in it," Cooper said.

Born in 1902 in Shelbyville, Tennessee, Cooper danced the electric slide up until the age of 103. She has recently slowed down after suffering several heart attacks and a fractured hip.

On a typical day, Cooper spends hours watching television in her wood-paneled sitting room. Her favorite shows are "The Price is Right," "Oprah" and "Dancing with the Stars."

Three of Cooper's four children have died; her surviving daughter is 83. She has 14 grandchildren living and many great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren.

When CNN first interviewed her in October, she said she only had one thing left to see in this world.

"I ain't got time to die 'cause I've got to see a black president," she said, giggling with excitement. "I've got to see that."

Now, she says, "I would be very proud if I could just meet and shake his hand."

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(CNET)  -- At a hacker conference no one is safe.

Demographic of Defcon conference for hackers is older, wiser and employed.

When I first went to Defcon in 1995, the halls were mobbed with teenagers and attendees seemed more concerned with freeing Kevin Mitnick and seeing strippers than hacking each others' computers.

Jump forward to Defcon 17 this year, which was held over the weekend in Las Vegas, things certainly have changed. The attendees are older and wiser and employed, most of the feds aren't in stealth mode, and even the most savvy of hackers is justifiably paranoid.

"Welcome to the hacker world," said Defcon founder Jeff Moss.

The evolving demographic of Defcon attendees shows that the hacker community, like all of us, is aging. But it's also a reflection of how the threat landscape has changed. Web site defacements have given way to much more serious risks like financial fraud and unaddressed critical infrastructure weaknesses.

It's a cornucopia of phishing e-mails, cross-site scripting attacks that poke holes in trusted Web sites, and criminals harvesting credit card numbers and selling them on the underground equivalent of eBay with guarantees of service and support.

Defcon and Black Hat, the pricier and more corporate sister confab held the two days preceding Defcon ($120 for Defcon registration versus $1,395 to $2,095 for phased registration at Black Hat), offer a forum for researchers to share information about vulnerabilities they find in software, hardware and systems.

Targeted this year were everything from the iPhone and surveillance video feeds to e-parking meters and security underlying the Domain Name System.

Vendors and users weren't the only ones who need worry. Attendees had plenty to fear and security experts themselves weren't spared.

On July 27, Web sites belonging to a handful of security researchers and groups were hacked and passwords, private e-mails, IM chats, and potentially sensitive documents were exposed on the vandalized site of security golden boy Dan Kaminsky. (Mitnick, whose jailing in the '90s for computer crimes made him a cause celebre at "Free Kevin" benefits at Defcon at the time, was among those attacked.)

There were more widespread threats at the shows, too. Anyone using the Wi-Fi networks at the events had better be careful lest they get their password sniffed and posted on the Wall of Sheep. Then there was the USB thumb drive that was passed around among attendees of Black Hat that was found to be infected with the Conficker virus.

Reporters who aren't nearly as geeky as the sources they interview are always easy prey. One reporter was concerned about being hacked via the local area network in the press room after a rare Blue Screen of Death crashed his laptop.

Last year, three French men were expelled for sniffing the press room LAN at Black Hat. They said they had obtained eWeek's and CNET's passwords but failed to prove the CNET allegation.

This year, three South Koreans registered as press were ejected for asking questions that led organizers to believe were on an intelligence-gathering mission instead of merely reporting, according to the IDG News Service.

I had a panic of my own at Defcon this year. I was connected to the Internet using an EVDO wireless card and a virtual private network and was startled a short while later when a Web page opened up out of the blue and I noticed the VPN was disconnected. Granted it looked like a legitimate page for my wireless carrier, but not wanting to take any chances I immediately logged off.

(See "Defcon: What to leave at home and other do's and don'ts" for tips on how to best protect yourself.) Unfortunately, I had neglected to disable the Wi-Fi on the laptop.

Because Windows XP event logging is lacking, it's not clear whether someone may have spoofed the name of a wireless network the laptop is configured to automatically connect to. Time to call the help desk.

At least I didn't use any automatic teller machines at the hotel. Defcon organizers confirmed on Monday that a fake ATM was discovered in a lobby of the Riviera Hotel where the event was held, right near the hotel security office. The ruse was up after someone looked through the camera hole using a flashlight and saw a PC inside.

Meanwhile, Chris Paget, a security expert who works at Google, reported on Twitter that he lost $200 from a compromised ATM at the Rio Hotel over the weekend. There are multiple Diebold ATMs with the skimmers inside at the Rio casino, he tweeted, later adding: "Secret Service just called back. They're taking it seriously, reading between the lines it seem(s) like there's more going on here."

There is no evidence that the fake Riviera ATM was planted by anyone at Defcon, and in all likelihood the hacked Rio ATM was not associated with the hacker show.

Heightening the paranoia at Defcon was the report from event organizers on Saturday that there was a confirmed Trojan on the CD the conference hands out to all attendees. The report turned out to be false.

Also arousing suspicion were the Defcon badges, which featured a built-in microphone, LED, digital signal processor, and custom circuit boards designed to be hacked as part of a contest. I prudently popped the battery out of my badge after discussing the microphone capability with another journalist. Some attendees chose not to wear the badges at all, even without the battery, tucking them in satchels and digging them out every time they needed to display them.

As it does every year, Defcon also had its share of stupid attendee tricks--one arrest reportedly for carrying a concealed weapon and another for bungee jumping off the hotel roof.

But those are par for the course when you mix booze and rebellious youth trying to out-impress each other. It was the other stuff--the hacking and viruses and sniffing--that made me and others at the show jumpy.

Security guru Bruce Schneier, however, brushed it off as the mere cost of doing business.

"This is the way hackers play," he said. "This is the experimental battlefield. It's not bad; it is just what it is. Defcon has an important place in computer security."

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(Tribune Media Services) -- Be forewarned, Ireland is seductive. Traditions are strong and stress is a foreign word. I fell in love with the friendliest land this side of Sicily. It all happened in a Gaeltacht.

As you explore the lush Dingle Peninsula, you'll see how the Emerald Isle got its name.

Gaeltachts are national parks for the traditional culture, where the government protects the old Irish ways. Shaded green on many maps, these regions brighten the west coast of the Emerald Isle. Gaeltacht means a place where Gaelic (or Irish) is spoken. But the Irish culture is more than just the language. You'll find it tilling the rocky fields, singing in the pubs, and lingering in the pride of the small-town preschool that brags "All Gaelic."

The Dingle Peninsula -- green, rugged, and untouched -- is my favorite Gaeltacht. While the big tour buses clog the neighboring Ring of Kerry before heading east to kiss the Blarney Stone, in Dingle it still feels like the fish and the farm actually matter.

Fishing boats still sail from Dingle, and a nostalgic whiff of peat scents its nighttime air, offering visitors an escape into pure Ireland. For 30 years my Irish dreams have been set here, on this sparse but lush peninsula where locals are fond of saying, "The next parish is Boston."

Of the peninsula's 10,000 residents, 1,500 live in Dingle Town. Its few streets, lined with ramshackle but gaily painted shops and pubs, run up from a rain-stung harbor, home to a friendly dolphin. You'll see teenagers -- already working on ruddy beer-glow cheeks -- roll kegs up the streets and into the pubs in preparation for another night of music and craic (fun conversation and atmosphere).

The Dingle Peninsula is worth exploring by bike or car. It's 10 miles wide and runs 40 miles from Tralee to Slea Head. The top of its mountainous spine is Mount Brandon, at 3,130 feet, the second-tallest mountain in Ireland. While only tiny villages lie west of Dingle Town, the peninsula is home to 500,000 sheep. The weather on this distant tip of Ireland is often misty, foggy, and rainy. But don't complain -- as locals will explain, there is no bad weather ... only inappropriate clothing.

Leaving Dingle Town by car or bike, it becomes clear that the peninsula is an open-air museum. It's littered with monuments reminding visitors that the town has been the choice of Bronze Age settlers, Dark Age monks, English landlords, and Hollywood directors ("Ryan's Daughter," and "Far and Away"). The Milestone B&B decorates its front yard not with a pink flamingo, but with an ancient pillar stone -- one of more than 2,000 stony pieces in the puzzle of prehistoric life here.

Near the red, two-room schoolhouse, a street sign warns Taisteal go Mall -- Slow Down. Near the playground, students hide out in circular remains of a late Stone Age ring fort. In 500 B.C. it was a petty Celtic chieftain's headquarters, a stone-and-earth stockade filled with little stone houses. Many of these ring forts survived the centuries because of superstitious beliefs that they were "fairy forts."

The wet sod of Dingle is soaked with medieval history. In the darkest depths of the Dark Ages, when literate life almost died in Europe, peace-loving, bookwormish monks fled the chaos of barbarian raids on the continent. They sailed to this drizzly fringe of the known world and lived their monastic lives in lonely stone igloos or "beehive huts," which you'll see dotting the landscape.

Several groups of these mysterious huts, called clochans, line the road. Built without mortar by seventh-century monks, these huts take you back. Climb into one. You're all alone, surrounded by dank mist and the realization that it was these monks who kept literacy alive in Europe. To give you an idea of their importance, Charlemagne, who ruled much of Europe in the year 800, imported Irish monks to be his scribes.

Rounding Slea Head, the point in Europe closest to America, the rugged coastline offers smashing views of deadly black-rock cliffs and the distant Blasket Islands. The crashing surf races in like white horses, while longhaired sheep graze peacefully on the green hillside.

Study the highest fields, untouched since the planting of 1845, when the potatoes never matured and rotted in the ground.

The great famine of that year, through starvation or emigration, nearly halved Ireland's population. Because its endearing people have endured so much, Ireland is called "The Terrible Beauty."

Take your time at the Gallaras Oratory, circa A.D. 800, the sightseeing highlight of your peninsula tour. One of Ireland's best-preserved early Christian churches, its shape is reminiscent of an upturned boat. Its watertight dry-stone walls have sheltered travelers and pilgrims for 1,200 years.

From the Oratory, continue up the rugged one-lane road to the crest of the hill and then coast back to Dingle Town -- hungry, thirsty, and ready for a pint.

Rick Steves writes European travel guidebooks and hosts travel shows on public television and public radio. E-mail him at rick@ricksteves.com, or write to him c/o P.O. Box 2009, Edmonds, Wash. 98020.

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MOGADISHU, Somalia (CNN) -- At least 39 civilians were killed in Somalia's capital Monday after a convoy of African Union peacekeepers was hit by a roadside bomb, causing the troops to open fire, officials and eyewitnesses said.

Islamist militia display weapons Monday in defiance of newly elected President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed.

Maj. Ba-Huko Barigye, spokesman to the African Union Mission to Somalia (AMISON), said an explosion targeted a contingent of Ugandan troops. At least one soldier was injured and one of the vehicles damaged, Barigye said.

Ahmed Dirie Ali, spokesman of Hawiye Traditional Elders -- a major group of local clan leaders -- condemned the civilian deaths. And Mogadishu's deputy mayor, Abdifatah Ibrahim Shaweye, accused AMISOM of killing innocent civilians deliberately during a "brutal attack," an allegation Barigye denied.

"The deputy mayor has got the wrong information," he said. "They are targeting AMISOM, but the people who have died are all Somali civilians, who have nothing, whatsoever to do with AMISOM."

Officials say the incident happened on Maka al-Mukarama road, which connects the presidential palace and the airport in southern Mogadishu. The incident occurred on the same day that the new Somali president, Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed, was attending an African Union summit in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa.

Ethiopia invaded Somalia in 2006, to depose an Islamic government led by Ahmed that had taken control of Mogadishu. But at the summit, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged continued support for national reconciliation efforts in Somalia, which has been without an effective central government since 1991.

"It is important that these efforts should have a tangible effect in improving the security environment for the Somali people and humanitarian actors," Ban said in a statement released by his office. "The United Nations will provide strong logistical support to the African Union's AMISOM force and help develop Somali security forces."

He also encouraged AU leaders to consider a plan that will incorporate AMISOM into a larger U.N. peacekeeping force in the months ahead.

AMISOM was set up to take over from Ethiopian forces, which were supposed to be withdrawn soon after the December 2006 invasion that deposed the Islamic Courts Union, which Ahmed once led. But the Ethiopians and the country's U.N.-backed transitional government were soon battling Islamist guerrillas, including the militia al-Shabaab -- which the United States has designated as a terrorist group with links to al Qaeda.

The transitional government eventually signed a peace agreement with a new movement led by Ahmed, the Alliance for the Re-Liberation of Somalia. But al-Shabaab has rejected the deal and continued fighting.

The militia overran the town of Baidoa, the seat of the transitional government, within hours of the withdrawal of Ethiopian troops last week. Ahmed was elected president Saturday by lawmakers in Djibouti, and many Somalis view him as a final hope to challenge the militia and its extremist ideology.

CNN's Amir Ahmed and Ahmednor Mohamed Farah for CNN contributed to this report.

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answer: U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon

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question: Where did the deaths occur?

answer: MOGADISHU, Somalia

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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The Senate voted Wednesday to move forward on a bill meant to crack down on oil speculators.

Democrats say speculation in oil futures is a significant reason why oil prices have risen this year.

But Republicans vowed to block the Senate from taking up any other measure until the Democratic leadership agrees to vote on other energy-related issues.

Republicans want to offer up to 28 amendments to the bill on a wide range of energy topics, including increasing domestic oil production.

The Democrats want to limit them to two amendments.

"This is not some arcane subject; this is the biggest issue in the country," said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky. "It's on the floor now. We say, let's deal with it. We're not afraid to vote on their amendments, they shouldn't be afraid to vote on ours. Let the Senate work its will on the No. 1 issue in the country."

The Republicans said they would not prevent the Senate from taking up the housing bill passed earlier in the day by the House, although a final vote on that bill is not expected before the end of the week.

Democrats oppose Republican measures to lift bans on offshore drilling and oil exploration in the Arctic National Wildlife Reserve. See how gas prices have risen across the country Â»

Republicans say the process would not be fair unless they can offer all of their amendments.

Sen. Robert Menendez, a New Jersey Democrat, accused the Republicans of wanting to score political points rather than pass legislation.

"The problem with our Republican colleagues is that they want to debate, not act. ... Even when they are offered what they want, they say no."

Menendez suggested there was bipartisan support for measures meant to limit speculation, encourage conservation and provide tax credits for renewable energy.

"Why would you not move forward on the items that you have consensus?" he asked.

The disagreement between Republicans and Democrats could result in Congress leaving Washington for its monthlong recess in August without passing any measures to lower gas prices, which are averaging above $4 a gallon at the pump.

Experts have said lifting bans on drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and offshore would not affect the oil market for several years, but Republicans have argued that the psychological effect of opening more areas for oil exploration would bring prices down.

Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-North Dakota, one of the main sponsors of the bill, pleaded for Republicans to help "wring excessive speculation" from the oil markets. He says speculation is responsible for 71 percent of the increase in a price of a barrel of oil this year.

Some analysts say speculation has added between $40 to $60 dollars to a barrel of oil.

But other experts have questioned the extent to which speculators -- rather than basic market principles of supply and demand -- have driven up the price of oil.

Wednesday morning, a barrel of light, sweet crude was priced around $128 on the New York Mercantile Exchange, down from the $147 a barrel record set July 11 and the lowest price since June 5.

Dorgan said ending speculation in the oil market would be a sensible first step toward lowering gas prices that both sides of the aisle could agree to.

Republicans "have come up with a hundred excuses why they don't want to do that," he said.

But Republicans say they want the opportunity to offer "real" solutions that will lower energy prices, which includes more drilling to expand domestic production.  See what factors are driving up the price of oil Â»

"The Republicans know that American people want us to do something real, something big, something important about the price of gasoline," said Sen. Pete Dominici, R-New Mexico. "And the only thing that we can do that is important is to release large quantities of crude oil and natural gas that are owned by American people and that have been locked up for 27 years in moratoria."

Dorgan, however, said the Republicans are trying to suggest Democrats are against additional domestic oil production, noting that there are millions of acres of federally controlled land and off-shore drilling sites that are open to exploration but have not been used by oil companies.

"It's a false choice that the minority side says we should drill and that the majority side doesn't," Dorgan said.

The bill in the Senate would provide more resources and authority to the Commodities Futures Trading Commission to detect and punish speculation.

It would help stop speculators from using foreign markets to manipulate the price of oil in the United States, require more transparency in oil markets and limit the trading of market players who do not intend to receive the oil they purchase.

CNN's Ted Barrett, Debra Krajnak and Scott Anderson contributed to this report.

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text: It

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text: floor

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text: vote

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text: Senate

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text: country

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text: Republicans

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text: would

text: not

text: prevent

text: the

text: Senate

text: from

text: taking

text: up

text: the

text: housing

text: bill

text: passed

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text: day

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text: House

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text: final

text: vote

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text: bill

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text: before

text: the

text: end

text: of

text: the

text: week

text: Democrats

text: oppose

text: Republican

text: measures

text: to

text: lift

text: bans

text: on

text: offshore

text: drilling

text: and

text: oil

text: exploration

text: in

text: the

text: Arctic

text: National

text: Wildlife

text: Reserve

text: See

text: how

text: gas

text: prices

text: have

text: risen

text: across

text: the

text: country

text: Â

text: Republicans

text: say

text: the

text: process

text: would

text: not

text: be

text: fair

text: unless

text: they

text: can

text: offer

text: all

text: of

text: their

text: amendments

text: Sen.

text: Robert

text: Menendez

text: a

text: New

text: Jersey

text: Democrat

text: accused

text: the

text: Republicans

text: of

text: wanting

text: to

text: score

text: political

text: points

text: rather

text: than

text: pass

text: legislation

text: The

text: problem

text: with

text: our

text: Republican

text: colleagues

text: is

text: that

text: they

text: want

text: to

text: debate

text: not

text: act

text: Even

text: when

text: they

text: are

text: offered

text: what

text: they

text: want

text: they

text: say

text: no

text: Menendez

text: suggested

text: there

text: was

text: bipartisan

text: support

text: for

text: measures

text: meant

text: to

text: limit

text: speculation

text: encourage

text: conservation

text: and

text: provide

text: tax

text: credits

text: for

text: renewable

text: energy

text: Why

text: would

text: you

text: not

text: move

text: forward

text: on

text: the

text: items

text: that

text: you

text: have

text: consensus

text: he

text: asked

text: The

text: disagreement

text: between

text: Republicans

text: and

text: Democrats

text: could

text: result

text: in

text: Congress

text: leaving

text: Washington

text: for

text: its

text: monthlong

text: recess

text: in

text: August

text: without

text: passing

text: any

text: measures

text: to

text: lower

text: gas

text: prices

text: which

text: are

text: averaging

text: above

text: a

text: gallon

text: at

text: the

text: pump

text: Experts

text: have

text: said

text: lifting

text: bans

text: on

text: drilling

text: in

text: the

text: Arctic

text: National

text: Wildlife

text: Refuge

text: and

text: offshore

text: would

text: not

text: affect

text: the

text: oil

text: market

text: for

text: several

text: years

text: but

text: Republicans

text: have

text: argued

text: that

text: the

text: psychological

text: effect

text: of

text: opening

text: more

text: areas

text: for

text: oil

text: exploration

text: would

text: bring

text: prices

text: down

text: Sen.

text: Byron

text: Dorgan

text: D

text: North

text: Dakota

text: one

text: of

text: the

text: main

text: sponsors

text: of

text: the

text: bill

text: pleaded

text: for

text: Republicans

text: to

text: help

text: wring

text: excessive

text: speculation

text: from

text: the

text: oil

text: markets

text: He

text: says

text: speculation

text: is

text: responsible

text: for

text: percent

text: of

text: the

text: increase

text: in

text: a

text: price

text: of

text: a

text: barrel

text: of

text: oil

text: this

text: year

text: Some

text: analysts

text: say

text: speculation

text: has

text: added

text: between

text: to

text: dollars

text: to

text: a

text: barrel

text: of

text: oil

text: But

text: other

text: experts

text: have

text: questioned

text: the

text: extent

text: to

text: which

text: speculators

text: rather

text: than

text: basic

text: market

text: principles

text: of

text: supply

text: and

text: demand

text: have

text: driven

text: up

text: the

text: price

text: of

text: oil

text: Wednesday

text: morning

text: a

text: barrel

text: of

text: light

text: sweet

text: crude

text: was

text: priced

text: around

text: on

text: the

text: New

text: York

text: Mercantile

text: Exchange

text: down

text: from

text: the

text: a

text: barrel

text: record

text: set

text: July

text: and

text: the

text: lowest

text: price

text: since

text: June

text: Dorgan

text: said

text: ending

text: speculation

text: in

text: the

text: oil

text: market

text: would

text: be

text: a

text: sensible

text: first

text: step

text: toward

text: lowering

text: gas

text: prices

text: that

text: both

text: sides

text: of

text: the

text: aisle

text: could

text: agree

text: to

text: Republicans

text: have

text: come

text: up

text: with

text: a

text: hundred

text: excuses

text: why

text: they

text: do

text: n't

text: want

text: to

text: do

text: that

text: he

text: said

text: But

text: Republicans

text: say

text: they

text: want

text: the

text: opportunity

text: to

text: offer

text: real

text: solutions

text: that

text: will

text: lower

text: energy

text: prices

text: which

text: includes

text: more

text: drilling

text: to

text: expand

text: domestic

text: production

text: See

text: what

text: factors

text: are

text: driving

text: up

text: the

text: price

text: of

text: oil

text: Â

text: The

text: Republicans

text: know

text: that

text: American

text: people

text: want

text: us

text: to

text: do

text: something

text: real

text: something

text: big

text: something

text: important

text: about

text: the

text: price

text: of

text: gasoline

text: said

text: Sen.

text: Pete

text: Dominici

text: R

text: New

text: Mexico

text: And

text: the

text: only

text: thing

text: that

text: we

text: can

text: do

text: that

text: is

text: important

text: is

text: to

text: release

text: large

text: quantities

text: of

text: crude

text: oil

text: and

text: natural

text: gas

text: that

text: are

text: owned

text: by

text: American

text: people

text: and

text: that

text: have

text: been

text: locked

text: up

text: for

text: years

text: in

text: moratoria

text: Dorgan

text: however

text: said

text: the

text: Republicans

text: are

text: trying

text: to

text: suggest

text: Democrats

text: are

text: against

text: additional

text: domestic

text: oil

text: production

text: noting

text: that

text: there

text: are

text: millions

text: of

text: acres

text: of

text: federally

text: controlled

text: land

text: and

text: off

text: shore

text: drilling

text: sites

text: that

text: are

text: open

text: to

text: exploration

text: but

text: have

text: not

text: been

text: used

text: by

text: oil

text: companies

text: It

text: 's

text: a

text: false

text: choice

text: that

text: the

text: minority

text: side

text: says

text: we

text: should

text: drill

text: and

text: that

text: the

text: majority

text: side

text: does

text: n't

text: Dorgan

text: said

text: The

text: bill

text: in

text: the

text: Senate

text: would

text: provide

text: more

text: resources

text: and

text: authority

text: to

text: the

text: Commodities

text: Futures

text: Trading

text: Commission

text: to

text: detect

text: and

text: punish

text: speculation

text: It

text: would

text: help

text: stop

text: speculators

text: from

text: using

text: foreign

text: markets

text: to

text: manipulate

text: the

text: price

text: of

text: oil

text: in

text: the

text: United

text: States

text: require

text: more

text: transparency

text: in

text: oil

text: markets

text: and

text: limit

text: the

text: trading

text: of

text: market

text: players

text: who

text: do

text: not

text: intend

text: to

text: receive

text: the

text: oil

text: they

text: purchase

text: CNN

text: 's

text: Ted

text: Barrett

text: Debra

text: Krajnak

text: and

text: Scott

text: Anderson

text: contributed

text: to

text: this

text: report

question: What would allow regulators to crack down on speculation in oil markets?

answer: a bill

text: a bill

question: What do Republicans say Americans want?

answer: o something real, something big, something important about the price of gasoline,

text: o something real, something big, something important about the price of gasoline,

question: Who is involved?

answer: The Senate

text: The Senate

question: What is the amount of amendments that the Republicans and Democrats want to add to the bill?

answer: 28

question: What did the bill allow?

answer: speculators.

text: speculators.

question: What is being added?

answer: $40 to $60 dollars to a barrel of oil.

text: $40 to $60 dollars to a barrel of oil.

question: What number of amendments does the GOP want to add to bill?

answer: 28

question: What does the GOB want to add?

answer: 28 amendments

text: 28 amendments

question: What number of amendments do the Democrats want to allow?

answer: two

text: two

question: What would the bill  allow regulators to crack down on?

answer: oil

text: oil


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LEONE, American Samoa (CNN) -- Another earthquake struck Wednesday near the Samoan islands, an area already devastated by earthquake and tsunami damage which killed more than 130 people.

A traditional Samoan fale is destroyed Wednesday in the devastated village of Leone.

The 5.5-magnitude earthquake occurred at 6:13 p.m. Wednesday evening (1:13 a.m. Thursday ET), according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The quake's epicenter was 10 km (6 miles) deep in the Pacific Ocean about 121 miles (194 km) from the city of Apia, Samoa.

The quake did not trigger a tsunami warning, according to the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center.

It followed an 8.0-magnitude earthquake which hit the small cluster of Samoan islands early Tuesday triggering a tsunami.

At least 139 people are confirmed dead as a consequence of Tuesday's quake and tsunami. They include 22 people killed in American Samoa, 110 in Samoa and seven in Tonga, according to officials on the islands.

A huge emergency effort was continuing late Wednesday in the Samoan islands and officials warned that the death toll could rise as rescue workers start to reach outlying villages and discover new casualties. Watch the tsunami take over the street Â»

Survivors like Ropati Opa were trying to find ways to cope. The massive waves had destroyed his home, store and gas station in the village of Leone on the southwest coast of American Samoa.

With tears in his eyes, he said "I don't have a house. I don't have a car. I don't have money. I lost everything yesterday. But thank God I am alive." iReport.com: Witness describes tsunami hitting land

U.S. President Barack Obama addressed the disaster at an event Wednesday in Washington.

"To aid in the response," he said, "I've declared this a major disaster to speed the deployment of resources and FEMA ... is working closely with emergency responders on the ground, and the Coast Guard is working to provide immediate help to those in need.

"We also stand ready to help our friends in neighboring Samoa and throughout the region, and we'll continue to monitor this situation closely as we keep the many people who have been touched by this tragedy in our thoughts and in our prayers," Obama said.

Journalist Jeff DePonte contributed to this report.

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question: Latest death toll from Tuesday's quake, tsunami stands at how many?

answer: 139

question: How many were killed by the quake?

answer: At least 139 people

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question: where did it happen?

answer: near the Samoan islands,

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question: Where is the rescue effort underway?

answer: Samoan islands

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question: what was the magnitude?

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(CNN) -- Lewis Hamilton won his first Formula One grand prix in almost four months as world champion Sebastian Vettel spun out of the race in Abu Dhabi during the opening lap.

McLaren's British driver took full advantage of Vettel's slip up -- the first time the 2010 and 2011 title holder has retired from a race since the Korean Grand Prix last year.

Hamilton fended off the challenge of Fernando Alonso's Ferrari while Jenson Button clung onto third in the face of fierce competition initially from Red Bull's Mark Webber and then from Alonso's teammate Felipe Massa.

Vettel, who secured the 2011 crown last month, had his lead at the top of the drivers' championship cut to 119 points by Button, who sits on 255. Hamilton stays fifth on 227 points but closed on Alonso in third (245) and Webber (233).

Latest F1 standings after Abu Dhabi GP

It marked Hamilton's third victory in what has been a difficult season for the 2008 world champion, who admitted before the race that personal problems had contributed to his below-par campaign.

"I feel fantastic," Hamilton said in a post-race press conference. "It was one of my best races. To hold off one of the best drivers in the world is very tough to do.

"I'm just happy. This is great. It's early days but this is definitely the start of something. We've got another great race ahead of us in Brazil. I've just got to keep my mind on the game."

Starting second on the grid, Hamilton watched Vettel beat him into the first corner but at the second a puncture to the German's back right tire sent him spinning off the track.

Vettel trundled round the circuit and made it back to the pit lane but Red Bull's mechanics decreed the damage too severe for him to rejoin the battle.

After the race he told reporters: "I don't know what happened. We lost pressure all of a sudden out of the exit of turn one. I don't why. There is nothing that I did differently to any of the other laps.

"We need to find out why, maybe I cut the kerb at a funny angle. It is tough, but I used the opportunity to learn a bit on the pit wall."

In his absence Hamilton maintained a two-second gap over Alonso for most of the race, while Webber and Button's battle saw them swap third and fourth place regularly.

Alonso did hold the lead for four laps after Hamilton's second pit stop but he couldn't build up enough of a cushion to rejoin the race ahead of his former McLaren teammate.

The Spaniard said: "It was a fantastic race for me as well. We fight most of the race three-five seconds distance to Lewis.

"We were close but we had some traffic in the pit entry behind a HRT and in the last stint they had a little bit more pace so it would have been difficult to win the race even if we had got into the lead.

"I'm happy with second."

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question: Who retired after the first lap?

answer: Sebastian Vettel

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question: How many grand prix has Hamilton won?

answer: third

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question: Who is the world champion?

answer: Sebastian Vettel

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question: world champion name?

answer: Sebastian Vettel

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question: Who won in Abu Dhabi?

answer: Lewis

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question: Who is in third?

answer: Jenson Button

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question: What was the lead reduced to?

answer: 119 points

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