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(CNN) -- The stock market crashed. Wall Street panicked. People stashed silver and gold under mattresses while businesses shut doors across America.

People in Detroit, Michigan, line up for food at the Capuchin Soup Kitchen.

We're talking, of course, about the Great Depression ... of 1873.

That's the event that Scott Reynolds Nelson cites when asked to give an historical perspective on today's sputtering economy. The historian says the economic panic of 1873 started with the same toxic mix as today's crisis: risky mortgages, a stock market dive and the use of complex financial instruments that few understood.

"Until 1929, when people used the word[s] Great Depression they referred to 1873," says Nelson, a professor of history at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia.

"That was a worldwide international depression that started with the banks. That's what we're seeing now. This looks like 1873."

The nation's economic crisis is not only causing people to look more closely at their 401(k) account statements. They're also turning to their history books. Politicians and commentators routinely invoke the Great Depression and other historical events to describe today's economic crisis.  Watch the debate over 'Depression' talk Â»

But how fair is that historical analogy?

Why Great Depression comparisons may be unfair

James Kolari, an economist at Texas A&M University, says the nation experienced two "rough" recessions in the mid-1970s and the early 1980s. A recession is generally defined as a decline in the Gross Domestic Product for two or more consecutive quarters.

He says it's not fair to compare the current economic crisis to the Great Depression, because the federal government was far more passive in the 1920s.

"We let 15,000 out of 30,000 banks fail," he says. "Government efforts to jump-start the economy were slow and relatively weak until President [Franklin] Roosevelt came along with the New Deal."

Kolari says people can learn more by looking at Japan. He says the U.S. economy is facing the same crisis as Japan in the 1990s when the Japanese economy collapsed from a real estate bubble and never fully recovered.

"The Japanese government moved too slowly and not aggressively enough," he says. "The problems festered."

David George, a professor of economics at La Salle University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, says the federal government better protects ordinary people from financial ruin today than during the first stages of the Great Depression. Today we reap the benefits of policies created during that era, George says.

Roosevelt helped create New Deal legislation to insure bank deposits and enacted other modern relief efforts like unemployment compensation to help those in distress.

"By any measure, incomes were lower then than now, and the worst imaginable loss of output today would still keep the nation well above where we were back then," George says.

Marjorye Heeney is not an economist, but she definitely knows something about the Great Depression. Heeney, 83, grew up on an Oklahoma farm during the Great Depression and lived through the 1930s Dust Bowl storms. For much of that decade, "black blizzards" -- formed by a prolonged drought and poor farming techniques -- ravaged the southern Plains.

Heeney, who now lives in Topeka, Kansas, snorted when told that today's conditions remind some of the Great Depression. During the Depression, crops failed, and few had a job, car or clothes, she says.

"Everyone had one nail for themselves in the clothes closet," Henney says.

Henney says the Great Depression toughened people up. People grew and canned their own food, sewed their own clothes and learned how to make possessions last.

"No one really came from wealth, and nothing was easy," she says. "But people got by because they had a wonderful spirit of survival. We're not as gutsy. I don't know if we have that today."

Why this economic period is still frightening

Victor Matheson, an economist at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts, says the nation's most recent recession was the dot-com bust, which hit around March of 2001.

"This recession has already eclipsed the dot-com bust in every fashion," he says. "During that time, the GDP did not fall much, and unemployment did not rise much."

Matheson offers one bit of good news, though. He says today's unemployment rate is not as bad as in previous eras. The unemployment rate reached 10.8 percent during the early 1980s and 25 percent during the Great Depression, he says.

Yet Matheson says there is an ominous feature to the current situation: The Federal Reserve has already lowered interest rates as far as they can go, to around zero percent, but the recession marches on.

The current recession is so "scary" that Matheson says he has reversed his attitude on Obama's $787 billion stimulus plan. He once opposed it but now supports it because he can't think of anything that might work better. He says the economy will not bounce back on its own anytime soon

"You gotta go with what you got," he says. "The Federal Reserve has loosed all of its cannons, and it has nothing left. Now we're down to fiscal policy."

Nelson, the historian who has studied the panic of 1873, says today's economy might even be worse than the American economy in 1873.

"This is a perfect storm: banks failing, stock markets declining and commodity prices dropping," Nelson says.

Nelson says it took America four years to recover from the 1873 panic. Tens of thousands of workers -- many Civil War veterans -- became homeless. Thousands lined up for food and shelter in major cities. The Gilded Age, where wealth was concentrated in the hands of a few "robber barons like John D. Rockefeller," followed the panic.

America, of course, pulled out of the panic. Nelson is just not quite sure how the nation is going to do it now. His ultimate assessment of today's economy is blunt:

"It looks grim."

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question: What did the Nation have another of?

answer: Great Depression

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question: Did the Nation remember another Great Depression?

answer: the Great Depression ... of 1873.

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question: What did a depression survivor say about the Great Depression?

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question: What type of spirit did people have?

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question: What is being compared to the Great Depression?

answer: today's economic crisis.

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question: Who says the nation had another great depression?

answer: Scott Reynolds Nelson

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question: When was the Great Depression?

answer: 1873.

question: Who says the comparison is ovreblown?

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LONDON, England (CNN) -- London commuters crammed onto buses, scrambled for taxis, cycled or simply walked on Wednesday as a strike by Tube workers shut down most of the subway network.

Commuters queue for packed buses in London on Wednesday morning.

The strike began Tuesday at 7 p.m. (2 p.m. ET) but the first full effects were felt during Wednesday's morning commute. The strike was set to last for 48 hours with a normal service resuming Friday morning, according to Transport for London (TfL), which runs the city's transportation network.

The RMT trade union called the strike after talks with management over pay, job cuts, and disciplinary issues broke down.

"RMT doesn't resort to industrial action lightly," General Secretary Bob Crow said in a statement. "The fact is that Tube workers have been driven into walking out today."

Transport Commissioner Peter Hardy said the talks had been making progress on all issues and he urged the RMT to return to the table.

"The RMT leadership says we were close to a deal," Hardy said in a statement. "If that is the case, then they should call off the strike, return to talks ... and resolve this issue without any more disruption to Londoners."

TfL was running extra buses and free shuttle services across the River Thames during the strike. Electronic travel cards used for the TfL network were temporarily being allowed on all train lines in greater London, it said.

While most services on the Tube were shut because of the strike, one line -- the Northern line -- was running normally and five others were running on a reduced schedule, TfL said.

"It's been really good," a girl on Oxford Street told CNN about her commute. "The Northern line is running perfectly."

Still, some bus services were packed with commuters who normally ride the underground trains or who failed to find a taxi.

"I think we'd all like to strike for more money, but unfortunately we can't," said one woman at Oxford Circus, where the Tube is closed.

Others hit the pavement and walked.

"It's OK -- quite refreshing," said a man on Regent Street. He said he had just walked from Liverpool Street Station, a train station as well as a Tube stop that is more than 2.5 miles away.

The RMT represents about half of the 20,000 employees on the Tube, a TfL spokeswoman said. Other unions including Unite and TSSA represent the rest, she said, and were not on strike.

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question: Who called a strike?

answer: RMT trade union

text: RMT trade union

question: When will normal service resume?

answer: Friday morning,

text: Friday morning,

question: Who went on strike?

answer: Tube workers

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question: When does normal service resume?

answer: Friday morning,

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question: What is in dispute?

answer: pay, job cuts, and disciplinary issues

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(CNN) -- The Rev. Rick Warren, often called America's most influential pastor, will be hosting Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain for what's being called the civil forum on the presidency.

Rick Warren will be hosting the civil forum on the presidency

Warren, who heads up the country's fourth largest church, is also an author whose books have sold more than 30 million copies.

The candidates will appear together at Warren's 20,000-member Saddleback mega-church in southern California where they each will be interviewed for an hour.

Warren spoke with John Roberts on CNN's American Morning about what he hopes to accomplish at the forum.

John Roberts: What do you want to hear from candidates Saturday night?

Rick Warren: You know, John, we're going to look at four different segments. One is a segment on leadership. What is the personal character, competence, and experience of each of these guys.

One section will be on what I call stewardship -- the role and responsibility of presidency, what they believe about the constitution, the role of America.

We're going to look at a section on world view -- all of the minefield questions that no matter how you answer them, somebody's not going to like it. Then we're going to look at America's role internationally. How we've been a blessed nation and how should we bless others.

Roberts: Are you going to ask them about issues like abortion and same-sex marriage? Pro-life advocates are hoping you do. There has been some criticism in some corners you have been soft-pedaling political issues that are central to evangelicals.

Warren: I think everybody will be surprised. I'm going to ask all of the tough questions. I just intend to ask them in a civil way. This is called a civil forum, which means you can disagree without demonizing the opposition. I think everybody wants to hear questions not just about those "moral issues," but also about a lot of other things, too. I'm trying to stake out a common ground for the common good.

Roberts: When you take a look at the evangelical vote in 2004, George Bush captured more than 75 percent of people who identify themselves as either born again or evangelical.

Our recent polling, CNN Opinion Research Corporation polls, found when it comes to John McCain, only 67 percent of evangelicals say they'll support him. Are you surprised at the shift?

Warren: It's interesting to me. Both of these men have been around for some time. Obama's written two books. Still a lot of people say, I'd like to know the real person. What are they really like? I'm hoping that'll happen in this forum.

Evangelicals have never been a monolithic voting base. Never. And the people who try to predict which way they're going to go in this election I think may be surprised after Election Day. You don't really know. I don't know, and I don't think anybody knows.

Roberts: As you know, John McCain in 2000 during the primaries ran afoul of evangelicals when he criticized Pat Robinson. He's tried to repair the relationship. Has he gone far enough?

Warren: The religious right, fundamentalists and evangelic evangelicals aren't synonyms for each other. I think John may have been talking about certain groups that he was worried about at that time. But he certainly rebuilt bridges among them today. It's just a question of whether they're going to vote on his issues or if they're going to vote on Obama's, and we'll see.

Roberts: As for you yourself in the most recent edition of Time magazine on which you're the cover, they've suggested you're evolving into the "superpolitical." Others have suggested you're becoming a spiritual entrepreneur. What do you make of the titles people are ascribing to you?

Warren: When you try to line out a middle ground -- common ground for the common good of America -- you get pot shots from both sides.

If I were just the left, I'd only get it from the right. If I were just the right, I'd only get it from the left. Because I believe in the monogood and don't happen to think either party gets it right all the time. I don't think anybody bats 1,000. I get it from both sides. That's to be expected.

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question: What does the pastor plan to ask candidates?

answer: all of the tough questions.

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question: What kind of questions will be asked?

answer: all of the tough

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question: Whose vote does Rick Warren say may surprise predictions?

answer: Evangelicals

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question: What kind of questions will be asked in a civil way?

answer: tough

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question: Who may be surprised?

answer: everybody

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question: The forum won't just focus on what kind of issues?

answer: "moral issues,"

text: "moral issues,"

question: What is the pastor's name?

answer: Rev. Rick Warren,

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London (CNN) -- They can fly 300 yards through the air and have helped turn the likes of Tiger Woods into multi-millionaires, but it seems the powers of the golf ball don't end there.

For the last few days, BP have been using golf balls in an audacious attempt to plug the disastrous Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, which has been described by the Obama administration as probably "the biggest environmental disaster" the country has ever faced.

BP press officer Sheila Williams told CNN that the balls had been used part of a "junk shot" including shredded tires and knotted rope that were pumped into the well at high pressure to plug the leak. Mud and cement was then injected into the well to keep the junk in place.

Williams revealed that this process was carried out "a number of times" in conjunction with the U.S. coast guard before the oil giant admitted that the experiment had failed.

Golf balls were selected as part of the 'junk shot' because they are small enough to plug gaps between the rope and tires and strong enough to withstand the pressure of the oil which is gushing out with significant force.

Whether Titleist, Callaway or any other make (BP were unable to confirm either the brand or numbers used) golf balls are designed to withstand 2,000 pounds of force from a club making them a good candidate to withstand the high pressure oil leak.

Engineers first used the 'junk shot' to quell the 1991 Kuwait oil fires but never at such depths. The fact that the Deepwater Horizon leak is 5,000 feet below the surface of the ocean is thought to be the reason the technique did not succeed. "I don't think we'll be using golf balls again," commented Williams. US President Barack Obama said the failure of the earlier "top kill" plan was "heartbreaking".

The spill started over a month ago when the Deepwater Horizon rig caught fire and exploded, killing 11 workers. Over 40 days on and BP have still to stop the leak. BP has spent more than Â£600m trying to stem the estimated 5,000 barrels of oil per day flowing out from the wellhead.

Previous failed attempts have included a coffer dam, a tube to suck the oil up to the surface and top kill. BP will next try to cap the well using an underwater robot that will try to cut the leaking pipe and place a cap over it -- a process known as deploying the Lower Marine Riser Package Cap Containment System.

BP said that the cost of tackling the spill had increased to $930 million. The final cost, including legal damages arising from the accident, is still uncertain. The US Government recently released data showing that the oil was leaking at up to 19,000 barrels per day, nearly four times higher than BP's previous estimate of 5,000 barrels.

The oil giant initially claimed after the Deepwater Horizon rig sank on April 22 that just 1,000 barrels per day were leaking from the well. The latest figures indicate that between 18.6 million gallons and 29.5 million gallons of crude oil have leaked into the sea, outstripping the 11 million gallons spilled in the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster.

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(CNN) -- Just like some U.S. officials looking into the mystery, the man who captured video of an apparent fireball plunging from the sky over Texas on Sunday is perplexed about what it was.

Video captured in Austin, Texas, shows a meteor-like object in the sky Sunday morning.

"I don't know what I saw in the sky. It was something burning and falling really fast," Eddie Garcia, a videographer for News 8 Austin, told CNN Monday.

"I'm looking in the viewfinder and I see, just, something flying through the sky. And it kind of looks like it could be dust, it could be something, and then I look up and, no, it was something burning in the sky," he said.

"And you know, this is something that you see at night clearly during a meteor shower or something like that, but you don't see something like that during the day."

Authorities in Texas said there were reports of sonic booms in the area Sunday as well.  Watch video of meteor-like fireball Â»

Early speculation was that it might have been debris from two satellites -- one American, one Russian -- that rammed into each other in space a week ago.

But the U.S. Strategic Command, which tracks satellite debris, said it was not. "There is no correlation between those reports and any of that debris from the collision," command spokeswoman Maj. Regina Winchester told CNN Monday.

So what was it? "I don't know," she responded. "It's possible it was some kind of natural phenomenon, maybe a meteor."

Meteor fireballs bright enough to be seen in the daytime are rare but not unheard of. Two of the most recent fell in October in the Alice Springs region of Australia and last June just west of Salt Lake City, Utah.

The one over Australia was unique because the asteroid that caused it was discovered and tracked before it reached Earth's atmosphere, according to the Sydney Observatory's Web site. It says the asteroid was about 6.5 feet wide.

A sonic boom also was heard in connection with that event, the Australian observatory says.

On Friday, the National Weather Service reported that its office in Jackson, Kentucky, had received calls about "possible explosions" or "earthquakes" in that area.

"The Federal Aviation Administration has reported to local law enforcement that these events are being caused by falling satellite debris," the service said Friday. "These pieces of debris have been causing sonic booms, resulting in the vibrations being felt by some residents, as well as flashes of light across the sky. The cloud of debris is likely the result of the recent in-orbit collision of two satellites on Tuesday February 10, when Kosmos 2251 crashed into Iridium 33."

CNN's call Monday to NASA to get its take on the fireball over Texas was not immediately returned. Garcia said he had been told NASA may have called him.

The FAA had asked pilots Saturday to keep an eye out for "falling space debris," warning that "a potential hazard may occur due to re-entry of satellite debris into the Earth's atmosphere."

FAA spokesman Roland Herwig said Sunday there had been no reports of ground strikes or interference with aircraft in flight. He said the FAA had received no reports from pilots in the air of any sightings, but had gotten "numerous" calls from people on the ground in Texas, from Dallas south to Austin.

As of Monday morning, Herwig said his agency had no information about what the fireball was. iReport.com: Did you see the fireball? Send photos, video

He also said the FAA had rescinded its warning to pilots to look out for space debris.

Garcia, the videographer, was out covering a marathon race Sunday morning when he caught a glimpse of the blaze. In the video, it appear as a meteor-like white fireball blazing across the clear sky.

"I remember shooting it and wondering what I shot, and then looking around and seeing if anyone saw it with me, and everyone was just focused on that marathon that we were shooting at the time," he told CNN Newsroom.

Whatever it was, Garcia said he's "just grateful I got a shot of it. And, hopefully, that'll help" people figure out what it was.

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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Marine Lance Cpl. Joshua Bleill lost both his legs above the knees when a bomb exploded under his Humvee while on patrol in Iraq on October 15, 2006. He has 32 pins in his hip and a 6-inch screw holding his pelvis together.

Joshua Bleill, pictured here with his girlfriend, is walking again with the aid of prosthetics outfitted with Bluetooth.

Now, he's starting to walk again with the help of prosthetic legs outfitted with Bluetooth technology more commonly associated with hands-free cell phones.

"They're the latest and greatest," Bleill said, referring to his groundbreaking artificial legs.

Bleill, 30, is one of two Iraq war veterans, both double leg amputees, to use the Bluetooth prosthetics. Computer chips in each leg send signals to motors in the artificial joints so the knees and ankles move in a coordinated fashion.

Bleill's set of prosthetics have Bluetooth receivers strapped to the ankle area. The Bluetooth device on each leg tells the other leg what it's doing, how it's moving, whether walking, standing or climbing steps, for example.

"They mimic each other, so for stride length, for amount of force coming up, going uphill, downhill and such, they can vary speed and then to stop them again," Bleill told CNN from Walter Reed Army Medical Center, where he's undergoing rehab.

"I will put resistance with my own thigh muscles to slow them down, so I can stop walking, which is always nice."  Watch Bleill demonstrate his legs Â»

Bluetooth is the name for short-range wireless technology that can connect computers to printers, MP3 players to speakers and -- perhaps the most well-known use -- cell phones to ear pieces.

Older models of computer-controlled legs have to be "programmed" via wire by laptop computers before the amputee can use them. Those legs required more movement from the amputee's remaining thigh muscle to generate motion in the prosthetic leg.

Because of built-in motors, the Bluetooth legs allow Bleill to walk longer before he tires.

"We've compared walking several laps in both sets of legs and one, your legs come out burning and tired and these, you know, you sometimes are not even breaking a sweat yet."

Bleill says the technology also means he spends less time in a wheelchair. The Marine uses canes to walk with them. He's hoping to get to the point where he can use one cane regularly, and eventually lose the cane altogether.

"I can walk without canes, but it's not real pretty," he said.

This new generation of prosthetic technology was originally conceived to help amputees who had lost only one leg. But it's working for Bleill and Army Lt.Col. Gregory Gadson, who is also using the Bluetooth devices in his legs.

What they are experiencing will help future amputees.

"We are the first ever to try this, so it's learning day-to-day. The [prosthetics] company comes down on a regular basis and checks in with us," Bleill said.

Gadson, a former linebacker at West Point, said they are breaking new ground for amputees. "I think we are kind of pioneering and hopefully blazing a trail for others to try the technology also," he said.

But the technology is not without some problems.

"It's only going to react to how I move," Bleill said. "Unfortunately, sometimes I don't know those reactions, I don't know what I'm doing to make it react. So sometimes the leg kicks harder than I want it to, or farther, and then I start perpetuating, and I start moving faster than I really want to."

Aside from the Bluetooth technology, Bleill's legs have one other thing in common with a cell phone. They need to be charged overnight. Currently, there are no spare batteries available.

What are his long-range plans?

He just wants to make it back to his home state of Indiana and work for a charity or even help the NFL's Indianapolis Colts.

"They do a lot for the community," he said.

He added he simply wants "to give back."

"To, you know, just carry on a normal life. Go home, see my girlfriend, see my family." E-mail to a friend

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text: Army

text: Medical

text: Center

text: where

text: he

text: 's

text: undergoing

text: rehab

text: I

text: will

text: put

text: resistance

text: with

text: my

text: own

text: thigh

text: muscles

text: to

text: slow

text: them

text: down

text: so

text: I

text: can

text: stop

text: walking

text: which

text: is

text: always

text: nice

text: Watch

text: Bleill

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text: his

text: legs

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text: Bluetooth

text: is

text: the

text: name

text: for

text: short

text: range

text: wireless

text: technology

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text: can

text: connect

text: computers

text: to

text: printers

text: players

text: to

text: speakers

text: and

text: perhaps

text: the

text: most

text: well

text: known

text: use

text: cell

text: phones

text: to

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text: Older

text: models

text: of

text: computer

text: controlled

text: legs

text: have

text: to

text: be

text: programmed

text: via

text: wire

text: by

text: laptop

text: computers

text: before

text: the

text: amputee

text: can

text: use

text: them

text: Those

text: legs

text: required

text: more

text: movement

text: from

text: the

text: amputee

text: 's

text: remaining

text: thigh

text: muscle

text: to

text: generate

text: motion

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text: the

text: prosthetic

text: leg

text: Because

text: of

text: built

text: in

text: motors

text: the

text: Bluetooth

text: legs

text: allow

text: Bleill

text: to

text: walk

text: longer

text: before

text: he

text: tires

text: We

text: 've

text: compared

text: walking

text: several

text: laps

text: in

text: both

text: sets

text: of

text: legs

text: and

text: one

text: your

text: legs

text: come

text: out

text: burning

text: and

text: tired

text: and

text: these

text: you

text: know

text: you

text: sometimes

text: are

text: not

text: even

text: breaking

text: a

text: sweat

text: yet

text: Bleill

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text: the

text: technology

text: also

text: means

text: he

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text: less

text: time

text: in

text: a

text: wheelchair

text: The

text: Marine

text: uses

text: canes

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text: them

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text: to

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text: point

text: where

text: he

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text: one

text: cane

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text: eventually

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text: the

text: cane

text: altogether

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text: can

text: walk

text: without

text: canes

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text: it

text: 's

text: not

text: real

text: pretty

text: he

text: said

text: This

text: new

text: generation

text: of

text: prosthetic

text: technology

text: was

text: originally

text: conceived

text: to

text: help

text: amputees

text: who

text: had

text: lost

text: only

text: one

text: leg

text: But

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text: 's

text: working

text: for

text: Bleill

text: and

text: Army

text: Lt

text: Col

text: Gregory

text: Gadson

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text: is

text: also

text: using

text: the

text: Bluetooth

text: devices

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text: his

text: legs

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text: they

text: are

text: experiencing

text: will

text: help

text: future

text: amputees

text: We

text: are

text: the

text: first

text: ever

text: to

text: try

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text: so

text: it

text: 's

text: learning

text: day

text: to

text: day

text: The

text: prosthetics

text: company

text: comes

text: down

text: on

text: a

text: regular

text: basis

text: and

text: checks

text: in

text: with

text: us

text: Bleill

text: said

text: Gadson

text: a

text: former

text: linebacker

text: at

text: West

text: Point

text: said

text: they

text: are

text: breaking

text: new

text: ground

text: for

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text: I

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text: are

text: kind

text: of

text: pioneering

text: and

text: hopefully

text: blazing

text: a

text: trail

text: for

text: others

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text: the

text: technology

text: also

text: he

text: said

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text: the

text: technology

text: is

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text: problems

text: It

text: 's

text: only

text: going

text: to

text: react

text: to

text: how

text: I

text: move

text: Bleill

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text: sometimes

text: I

text: do

text: n't

text: know

text: those

text: reactions

text: I

text: do

text: n't

text: know

text: what

text: I

text: 'm

text: doing

text: to

text: make

text: it

text: react

text: So

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text: the

text: leg

text: kicks

text: harder

text: than

text: I

text: want

text: it

text: to

text: or

text: farther

text: and

text: then

text: I

text: start

text: perpetuating

text: and

text: I

text: start

text: moving

text: faster

text: than

text: I

text: really

text: want

text: to

text: Aside

text: from

text: the

text: Bluetooth

text: technology

text: Bleill

text: 's

text: legs

text: have

text: one

text: other

text: thing

text: in

text: common

text: with

text: a

text: cell

text: phone

text: They

text: need

text: to

text: be

text: charged

text: overnight

text: Currently

text: there

text: are

text: no

text: spare

text: batteries

text: available

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text: his

text: long

text: range

text: plans

text: He

text: just

text: wants

text: to

text: make

text: it

text: back

text: to

text: his

text: home

text: state

text: of

text: Indiana

text: and

text: work

text: for

text: a

text: charity

text: or

text: even

text: help

text: the

text: NFL

text: 's

text: Indianapolis

text: Colts

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text: do

text: a

text: lot

text: for

text: the

text: community

text: he

text: said

text: He

text: added

text: he

text: simply

text: wants

text: to

text: give

text: back

text: To

text: you

text: know

text: just

text: carry

text: on

text: a

text: normal

text: life

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text: home

text: see

text: my

text: girlfriend

text: see

text: my

text: family

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text: mail

text: to

text: a

text: friend

question: What kind of legs do they have?

answer: prosthetics outfitted with Bluetooth.

text: prosthetics outfitted with Bluetooth.

question: Who are using prosthetics outfitted with bluetooth?

answer: Joshua Bleill,

text: Joshua Bleill,

question: For what reason do they use bluetooth?

answer: prosthetics

text: prosthetics

question: Altogether how many artificial legs do the two vets have?

answer: Iraq war veterans, both double

text: Iraq war veterans, both double

question: What is Bluetooth?

answer: short-range wireless technology that can connect computers to printers, MP3 players to speakers and

text: short-range wireless technology that can connect computers to printers, MP3 players to speakers and


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Berlin, Germany (CNN) -- Four men were convicted in Germany on Thursday in connection with a foiled terrorist plot against Western targets, court officials said.

The men had begun mixing a huge amount of explosive material that could have resulted in a strong blast, bigger than attacks in 2005 on London's public transport network and the 2004 Madrid railway bombings, authorities said.

Three of the men -- two Germans and a Turk -- were arrested in September 2007. The other was arrested later.

The Germans -- Fritz Gelowicz and Daniel Schneider -- were sentenced to 12 years in prison. Turkish citizen Adem Yilmaz received 11 years. Attila Selek, a German citizen of Turkish descent, received five years.

Gelowicz, Schneider and Yilmaz were convicted of, among other things, being members of a terrorist organization, court officials said.

The men had joined the Islamic Jihad Union in 2006.

Selek received a shorter sentence because he was convicted only of supporting the organization.

Three of the men had trained at camps in northern Pakistan with the group that had ties to al Qaeda, German authorities said.

The group said it wanted to target the Ramstein Air Base and other U.S. and Uzbek military and diplomatic installations in Germany, German authorities said.

The group also wanted to force Germany to stop using an air base in Uzbekistan as a stopover point for moving equipment and personnel in and out of northern Afghanistan.

-- CNN's Frederik Pleitgen contributed to this report.

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text: Germany

text: on

text: Thursday

text: in

text: connection

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text: a

text: foiled

text: terrorist

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text: Western

text: targets

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text: Uzbekistan

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text: stopover

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text: personnel

text: in

text: and

text: out

text: of

text: northern

text: Afghanistan

text: CNN

text: 's

text: Frederik

text: Pleitgen

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text: to

text: this

text: report

question: How many men were convicted?

answer: Four

text: Four

question: how many convicted are?

answer: Four men

text: Four men

question: what says Authorities?

answer: The men had begun mixing a huge amount of explosive material that could have resulted in a strong blast, bigger than attacks in 2005 on London's public transport network and the 2004 Madrid railway bombings,

text: The men had begun mixing a huge amount of explosive material that could have resulted in a strong blast, bigger than attacks in 2005 on London's public transport network and the 2004 Madrid railway bombings,

question: who are convicted as terrorist

answer: Four men were

text: Four men were

question: What was the group linked to?

answer: al Qaeda,

text: al Qaeda,

question: Where did they train

answer: camps in northern Pakistan

text: camps in northern Pakistan


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(CNN) -- Peru declared a state of emergency in parts of the country after weeks of protests against a mining project, the Andina news agency reported.

The state of emergency, which begins Monday, which will last for 60 days in four areas of Cajamarca department, according to Andina. President Ollanta Humala Tasso announced the decision, described as an attempt to re-establish peace in the area, Andina reported.

The announcement Sunday came after protests against the construction of a $4.8 billion gold mining project called Conga. The decision came as union leaders refused to stop ongoing protests, Andina reported.

Eighteen people were hurt, several by gunshots, following protests on Wednesday, the department's director of health said.

The protests took place despite an announcement Tuesday by U.S.-based Newmont Mining Corp. that work on the project would be suspended.

Newmont, which is based in Denver, Colorado, and describes itself as one of the world's largest oil companies, said it had suspended construction on the project "for the safety of employees and community members."

It noted that operations there and at the nearby Yanacocha mine "have experienced intermittent work stoppages as a result of ongoing protests in the region."

The protests began when anti-mining activists expressed concern about the possible impact of the project on the local water supply, the company said in a statement on its website. "The Conga Environmental Impact Assessment was approved in 2010 after extensive review by the Peruvian government, which included significant engagement and consultation with local communities," it said.

Critics say the mining project would adversely affect the area's ecosystem and would leave cattle in the zone without access to water.

CNN's Helena DeMoura and journalist Maria Belaunde contributed to this report.

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text: state

text: of

text: emergency

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text: parts

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text: country

text: after

text: weeks

text: of

text: protests

text: against

text: a

text: mining

text: project

text: the

text: Andina

text: news

text: agency

text: reported

text: The

text: state

text: of

text: emergency

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text: begins

text: Monday

text: which

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text: days

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text: four

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text: President

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text: Humala

text: Tasso

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text: decision

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text: peace

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text: area

text: Andina

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text: after

text: protests

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text: construction

text: of

text: a

text: billion

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text: mining

text: project

text: called

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text: decision

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text: union

text: leaders

text: refused

text: to

text: stop

text: ongoing

text: protests

text: Andina

text: reported

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text: hurt

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text: by

text: gunshots

text: following

text: protests

text: on

text: Wednesday

text: the

text: department

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text: director

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text: health

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text: project

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text: world

text: 's

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text: oil

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text: said

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text: project

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text: safety

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text: employees

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text: nearby

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text: project

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text: statement

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text: website

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text: review

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text: Peruvian

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text: consultation

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text: it

text: said

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text: mining

text: project

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text: area

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text: ecosystem

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text: would

text: leave

text: cattle

text: in

text: the

text: zone

text: without

text: access

text: to

text: water

text: CNN

text: 's

text: Helena

text: DeMoura

text: and

text: journalist

text: Maria

text: Belaunde

text: contributed

text: to

text: this

text: report

question: how many people were injured in protests?

answer: Eighteen

text: Eighteen

question: What do critics say would be affected by the project?

answer: leave cattle in the zone without access to water.

text: leave cattle in the zone without access to water.

question: How many protestors were injured last week?

answer: Eighteen people

text: Eighteen people

question: when were the people injured in protests?

answer: Wednesday,

text: Wednesday,

question: How many people were hurt?

answer: Eighteen

text: Eighteen

question: When did state of emergency come?

answer: after weeks of protests

text: after weeks of protests

question: What do critics say?

answer: the mining project would adversely affect the area's ecosystem and would leave cattle in the zone without access to water.

text: the mining project would adversely affect the area's ecosystem and would leave cattle in the zone without access to water.

question: what is the name of the gold mining project?

answer: Conga.

text: Conga.