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SEOUL, South Korea (CNN) -- The U.N. Security Council called an emergency meeting Monday after world leaders reacted with outrage to North Korea's latest nuclear test.

This screen grab from North Korean television on April 9 shows leader Kim Jong Il in Pyongyang.

North Korea earlier said it had tested the weapon in an underground explosion, provoking an angry response from the world's governments.

It had threatened to conduct the test if the U.N. Security Council did not apologize for imposing sanctions on North Korea after it tested a rocket April 5.

The secretive communist state also apparently test-fired a short-range missile Monday, the White House said.

The Security Council called on its members to discuss the reported test Monday at 4 p.m. ET.  Watch how the test may have taken world by surprise Â»

The United States and many other countries denounced the test. Even China, North Korea's strongest ally, said it opposed the test.

The White House -- which less than three weeks ago announced a new diplomatic effort to restart stalled talks with North Korea about its nuclear program -- said the test was in "blatant defiance" of the Security Council.

"North Korea is directly and recklessly challenging the international community," the White House said. "The danger posed by North Korea's threatening activities warrants action by the international community."

While the test was not a surprise, Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said it showed Pyongyang was becoming "increasingly belligerent."

North Korea announced its underground nuclear test a little more than an hour after the U.S. Geological Survey reported a magnitude 4.7 seismic disturbance at the site of North Korea's first nuclear test.

There was no immediate information on the yield of the weapon used in Monday's test. The Russian Defense Ministry said the explosion was between 10 to 20 kilotons. The U.S. State Department said it was analyzing the data.

Mullen said it would take a couple of days to verify the reported test, but he added, "there's no indication that it wasn't as they say."

The North's state-run Korean Central News Agency would say only that the latest test was safely conducted "on a new higher level in terms of its explosive power and technology of its control."  Watch more analysis on test Â»

U.S. intelligence estimated the first North Korean test, in October 2006, produced an explosion equal to less than 1,000 tons of TNT. The low yield was a fraction of the size of the bombs the United States dropped on Japan at the end of World War II.

Intelligence analysts had predicted North Korea would conduct a second rocket or nuclear test.

The North threatened to do so after the Security Council voted unanimously to condemn its April launch as a violation of a 2006 resolution that bans North Korea's ballistic missile activity.  Watch how Pyongyang has used nuclear tests to gain concessions Â»

North Korea insisted the rocket was a communications satellite. It retaliated by threatening to walk away from the six-party talks aimed at disarming the country of nuclear weapons.

The talks -- involving China, Japan, North Korea, Russia, South Korea and the United States -- are intended to persuade North Korea to scrap its nuclear program.

The North also expelled international inspectors from its nuclear sites, announced plans to restart the reactor that produces plutonium for its nuclear weapons, and threatened to launch more rockets and another nuclear device.

Monday's test was conducted "as part of the measures to bolster up its nuclear deterrent for self-defense in every way," the North Korean news agency said.

"They think this will enhance and embolden their diplomatic capability to deal with the other countries," said Han Sung Joo, former South Korean ambassador to the United States. "Of course, it may be working the other way. But from their point of view, this is their lifeline, which they want to maintain."

China's government "expresses firm opposition" to the test, in which North Korea "disregarded the opposition of the international community," according to a statement from China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

North Korea's latest move could clear the way for the United States and the other members of the six-party talks, minus North Korea, to impose new punitive measures against a country desperate for food and energy assistance.

For now, however, the North's nuclear arms program is not a major security threat, analysts say. The country has yet to build an effective bomb or develop an effective delivery system to a target country.  Watch South Korea's reaction to the nuclear test Â»

Last year, North Korea acknowledged producing roughly 88 pounds (40 kilograms) of enriched plutonium -- enough for about seven nuclear bombs.

But analysts say North Korea is years from having a weapon it can put atop a long-range missile like those in the U.S., Chinese or Russian arsenals.

"I know a lot of people may think, 'Oh no, a nuclear test. Does that mean war, conflict in the Korean Peninsula?'" said Jim Walsh, an international security analyst at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

"The answer is 'no.'"

CNN's Sohn Jie-ae, Jaime Florcruz, Matthew Chance and Morgan Neill contributed to this report.

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Atlanta, Georgia (CNN) -- For all the ballyhoo about Black Friday, the crown jewel in the holiday shopping calendar has been something of a bust for retailers. That's led to a shift in how the day is being handled this season.

Historically, nobody outside the retail world was really familiar with the idea behind Black Friday. But sometime in the '90s, it suddenly became the thing to do to camp out overnight the day after Thanksgiving and wait for stores to open with their door-buster deals at 4 a.m. or 5 a.m.

But talk about inefficiency. The crowds that waited so long would thin out by 9 a.m., and stores were more like ghost towns the rest of the day. And retailers probably didn't make any money on the stuff they were selling anyway!

Then there have been the actual physical dangers of having large crowds of people mill around and then dash like mad to snatch up deals. During Black Friday 2008, a Wal-Mart employee was actually trampled to death by a mob of shoppers in New York.

All of these factors have prompted retailers to rethink Black Friday. And in a new development, the deals will be available from right now throughout the remainder of the holiday season. No need to freeze your butt off in a long line overnight!

For example, I picked up a laptop at Best Buy for $249 on November 11. It was part of a one-day sale that the electronics retailer held to kick off the holiday shopping season.

You can monitor the best deals out there on any number of Web sites dedicated to Black Friday deals. Some of the ones I've checked in the past have included blackfriday.info, gottadeal.com and bfads.net.

While we're on the topic of holiday shopping, you'll no doubt be asked to buy extended warranties on some of your purchases. I want to reiterate my annual refrain that they aren't necessary and are really just a waste of your money.

Modern electronics seldom fail. In fact, flat-panel LCD and plasma TVs fail at only a 3 percent rate during the first three years of ownership, according to Consumer Reports. Why would anyone buy a warranty when you have a 97 percent chance that your TV will work perfectly for that long?

Yet most people have a strange psychology about what they'll throw their money at. The Journal of Consumer Research found that people are more likely to buy a warranty on something they enjoy than on something they don't. So a business owner may not buy a warranty on operational equipment, but he or she will do so on a big-screen TV!

The reality is that extended warranties have massive costs and just aren't a good investment. For example, The New York Times found one popular Nikon camera where the warranty was 27 percent of the purchase price. For laptops, a warranty can be up to a third of the sale price.

Yet there is a free way to extend a manufacturer's warranty. Many credit card issuers will double the warranty up to one additional year if you use their card to make the purchase.

Now that's the Clark Smart approach to spreading some holiday cheer to your gift recipients and your own wallet!

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MINGORA, Pakistan (CNN) -- Gen. Nadeem Ahmad swirls the helicopter over Pakistan's ground zero. Below is the Swat Valley of North West Frontier Province.

A Pakistani soldier patrols a ruined street in Mingora.

From the air, the valley in the foothills of the Hindu Kush looks undisturbed. Green fields amid clusters of drab houses.

A closer look at Swat reveals how well the Pakistani Army fared in its military campaign to wipe out the militants.

The cost of success: massive destruction that is sure to hamper the lives of already suffering residents just starting to trickle back to the homes they fled.

A few months ago, ferocious battles between Pakistan's Army and Taliban fighters erupted here -- in Swat, Buner and Lower Dir districts. War's remnants serve as a constant reminder. A destroyed bridge. Pockmarked houses. Hotels that look like they've been abandoned for years.

Nadeem maneuvers the chopper to circle Mingora, the largest city in the Swat Valley. From the hilltop Army sentry posts that come into view, soldiers survey the ground below, hard won from Taliban fighters.

The militants, Nadeem says, have fled to nearby mountains.

On the ground, he shows off a cache of weapons seized in the fighting. The soldiers are keen to boast their victory.

Mingora remains on high alert. A curfew has been lifted for morning hours, although soldiers keep close watch on those who venture out.

The city's pain is plainly evident on its scarred, deserted streets. Many shops are shuttered or destroyed.  Watch Stan Grant tour the shattered streets of Mingora Â»

The United Nations estimates that 375,000 Swat Valley residents fled their homes during the fighting. In all, 2.5 million Pakistanis were displaced in what was said to be one of the largest human migrations in recent history.

About 260,000 people have been living in 21 refugee camps in neighboring Mardan, Swabi, Nowshera, Peshawar and Charssada districts, but the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees say the "vast majority" of internally displaced Pakistanis have been staying with host families, rented houses or in schools.

The government plans to return people first from the camps and then focus on those living elsewhere.

But this week, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) warned that as many as 1 million people could remain displaced until December because of the widespread destruction in their home towns, such as Mingora.

Relief agencies have reported dire humanitarian conditions in Mingora: hospitals without electricity that are inundated with patients, an erratic supply of water and natural gas. One resident, who identified himself only as Abdullah, told CNN that returning people are facing shortages in food, water and basic supplies for survival.

Some displaced families also expressed concerns about schooling for their children, reported the Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN), the U.N. news agency focusing on humanitarian issues.

Louis-Georges Arsenault, emergency office director for UNICEF, said 1 million children were at risk of not starting school by September, mainly due to the Taliban's widespread destruction of schools and that 4,000 existing schools continue to shelter displaced people.

Businessman Muhammad Khan, 40, who recently returned to Mingora, voiced the despair of returning residents. He told IRIN that "everything is in ruins."

"Everything is in ruins," IRIN quoted Khan as saying. "It will take months for life to return to normality."

But that normality will no longer include the Taliban, Pakistani soldiers say. The fight was hard, but it was victorious, they say. They point to an area in the city where they say the Taliban displayed the bodies of their victims, some beheaded. It became known as "Slaughter Square."

Slaughter Square's name may be outdated for the time being, but residents like Abdullah say it will be a long time before life in Mingora returns to what it once was.

"I don't like army. I don't like Taliban," Abdullah says, standing among the ruins of what used to be a thriving market. "I only want peace."

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BOSTON, Massachusetts (CNN) -- Friends and acquaintances of Philip Markoff, a medical student accused of killing a woman he may have met through a Craigslist online ad, described the 23-year-old as a model student.

Medical student Philip Markoff, 23, appears in court Tuesday in Boston, Massachusetts.

"My girlfriend actually rode the elevator with him a lot alone; it's kind of freaking her out now," said Patrick Sullivan, who lived in the same apartment building as Markoff in Quincy, Massachusetts, a Boston suburb.

"She thought he was kind of the all-American, good-looking guy," Sullivan said. "When she saw him on TV yesterday, she even remarked, 'I can't believe it's him. I always thought he had such a great smile, and he was so nice to me.'"

James Kehoe, a friend of Markoff's from the State University of New York at Albany, where both attended college, said Markoff was "one of the best students I've probably ever encountered."

"He would never put anything in front of his work," he said. "He had great aspirations to be a doctor."

Markoff, a second-year student at Boston University's School of Medicine, is charged with killing 26-year-old Julissa Brisman of New York on April 14 at Boston's Copley Marriott Hotel.  Watch acquaintances describe a smart, good-looking guy Â»

Markoff was arraigned Tuesday and is being held without bail.

His attorney, John Salsberg, told reporters after the hearing that Markoff is "not guilty of the charges. He has his family's support. I have not received any document or report or piece of evidence other than what I heard in the courtroom. All I have at the moment are words -- no proof of anything."

A Boston University spokeswoman said the school suspended Markoff, who has no criminal record, when it learned of the charges on Monday.

"This was a brutal, vicious crime. Savage," Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel Conley told reporters. "And it shows that Philip Markoff is a man who's willing to take advantage of women -- to hurt them, to beat them, to rob them."

A procedural not-guilty plea was entered on Markoff's behalf, Conley said.

Evidence from the scene suggests that Brisman "put up a fight," prosecutor Jennifer Hickman said during the hearing Tuesday. Police have said that Brisman, a model, advertised as a masseuse on Craigslist, a popular online classifieds service.

She suffered blunt head trauma, Hickman said, and was shot three times at close range. One of the bullets passed through her heart, killing her, she said.

Markoff is also charged in connection with the April 10 robbery of a woman at a Westin Hotel in Boston. In that case, the woman made arrangements to meet a man through Craigslist for a massage at the hotel, but was held at gunpoint and bound, Hickman said. She was robbed of $800 and personal items and left tied to a door handle with duct tape over her mouth, the prosecutor said in court Tuesday.

The victim was not identified.

Megan McAllister, who identified herself as Markoff's fiancee, maintained his innocence in an e-mail sent to ABC News. McAllister said Markoff "is the wrong man" and "was set up."

"Unfortunately, you were given wrong information as was the public," she wrote. "All I have to say to you is Philip is a beautiful person inside and out and could not hurt a fly!"

She accused Boston police of "trying to make big bucks by selling this false story to the TV stations. What else is new??"

Authorities believe the motive in Brisman's death was robbery, Conley told reporters. In executing a search warrant at Markoff's home, police found a firearm, along with restraints and duct tape, he said.

Surveillance videos from the hotel where Brisman was killed showed a tall, clean-cut young blond man in a black windbreaker leaving the property, according to Boston police, who had sought public assistance in identifying the man.

Police traced the Internet communications with Brisman to an e-mail account that had been opened the day before her death, Conley said. Using Internet provider information, they found the computer was at Markoff's residence in Quincy. Authorities put the home under surveillance, Conley said, and "the case just begins to build from there."

Markoff, meanwhile, is "bearing up," Salsberg said. "It's obviously a difficult time for anybody in these circumstances with the charges that have been brought against him. ... He's pleaded not guilty. He is not guilty."

Authorities in Boston are working with police in Warwick, Rhode Island, on what could be a related case. On April 16 at a Holiday Inn Express in Warwick, a man tied up and demanded money from a 26-year-old dancer who had posted a Craigslist advertisement, Warwick Police Chief Col. Stephen McCartney said.

The robbery was interrupted when the woman's husband entered the room. After pointing his gun at the husband, the suspect fled, McCartney said. He said the incident "may be related to similar crimes occurring in the Boston area," but that had not been determined.

Craigslist CEO Jim Buckmaster told CNN the company is "horrified and deeply saddened that our community services have been associated in any way whatsoever with a crime of violence." He promised that Craigslist will evaluate the incident to see whether additional measures could be introduced to protect users.

CNN's Mary Snow and Randi Kaye contributed to this report.

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text: the

text: moment

text: are

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text: Boston

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text: News

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text: public

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text: hotel

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text: man

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text: Internet

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text: mail

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text: day

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text: information

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text: computer

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text: home

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text: incident

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text: to

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text: in

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text: Boston

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text: but

text: that

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text: not

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text: determined

text: Craigslist

text: CEO

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text: Buckmaster

text: told

text: CNN

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text: company

text: is

text: horrified

text: and

text: deeply

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text: that

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text: community

text: services

text: have

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text: in

text: any

text: way

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text: measures

text: could

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text: to

text: protect

text: users

text: CNN

text: 's

text: Mary

text: Snow

text: and

text: Randi

text: Kaye

text: contributed

text: to

text: this

text: report

question: Who has been suspended?

answer: Philip Markoff,

text: Philip Markoff,

question: What does evidence suggest?

answer: Brisman "put up a fight,"

text: Brisman "put up a fight,"

question: when did the robbery take place?

answer: April 10

text: April 10

question: what is the name of the suspect?

answer: Markoff,

text: Markoff,

question: What plea was entered?

answer: A procedural not-guilty

text: A procedural not-guilty


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HONOLULU, Hawaii (CNN) -- Battered by the current economic recession, Hawaii's economy could get a strong boost from two key sporting events.

The Pro Bowl this year was played at Aloha Stadium in Honolulu. It will return there in 2011.

The National Football League's Pro Bowl Game will return to Honolulu in 2011 -- an event that is expected to bring millions of dollars in revenue.

Honolulu Mayor Mufi Hannemann is also hoping to lure the 31st Summer Olympic Games -- but not to his city. He's actively supporting Chicago's bid to host the 2016 Games.

"How does that play out for Hawaii? Well, obviously if we get the Olympics -- that is (the) USA -- we benefit from a Discover America campaign that we'd like to see with visitors coming prior to Chicago to Hawaii or after, and visiting other parts of our country," the mayor said.

"What I really want to do is promote Hawaii as a great place for some of these teams to come and do a little R&R (rest and relaxation) or training before they go on to the Olympics in Chicago."

Hannemann will head to Chicago, Illinois, this weekend to court International Olympics Committee members, who are in the Windy City to evaluate its plan to host the Games. On October 2, the IOC will choose among Chicago; Madrid, Spain; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; or Tokyo, Japan, as the 2016 host city.

Hannemann co-chairs the U.S. Conference of Mayors' Olympic Task Force, along with Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, which he said aims "to bring the Olympics to America in 2016."

Hawaii's economy is heavily dependent on tourism, and the economic recession means fewer people are visiting the island state.

With three-quarters of the state's population living in Honolulu, Hannemann said, workers are especially hit hard in the capital city.

"The slowdown in tourism has resulted in shorter hours, in some cases even a decrease in their wages, and hopefully a last resort is some of them are being laid off as a result of some of these businesses going out of business," he said.

"So our job is just to continue to do what we can to work with private industry to shore up the tourism industry. It is our No. 1 industry, nothing comes close."

Tourism accounts for between $10 billion and $12 billion each year compared to Hawaii's second-largest industry, which is military spending, according to Hannemann. That accounts for between $3 billion and $4 billion annually, the mayor said.

Last month, the Hawaii Tourism Authority voted to allow the NFL's Pro Bowl game to return to Hawaii in 2011 and 2012. The game has been held the week after the Super Bowl at Aloha Stadium in Honolulu since 1980, and has sold out every time. Next year, it will take place in Miami, Florida, before the Super Bowl -- raising concerns that it will not be as much of a draw because no Super Bowl players will participate in the game.

Hawaii authorities agreed to allow the game to return to the state under the condition that the NFL would consider returning the Pro Bowl to the Sunday after the Super Bowl "depending on the success, or failure, of the 2010 game in Miami," according to the NFL.

Hannemann said the tens of thousands of people who attend the game annually have then spent "at least $30 million" across the state of Hawaii. Losing the game would not only be an economic loss for the state, but a "major downer" for residents, he said.

"People (have) said, 'Oh, my goodness, now we lost the Pro Bowl. We've had it here for over 20 years, it's been a sell-out. What's going on here? ... Everything's going to go out of Hawaii,' " Hannemann said. "So I got involved, I went and talked to some of the commissioners there, I changed their votes, and we're able to keep the Pro Bowl here."

But hosting the Pro Bowl will come at a cost. Hawaii will have to pay $4 million each year it hosts the game. In a recent commentary in the East Oahu Sun newspaper, writer Joe Edwards questioned whether the cost of hosting the game would come at the expense of projects more vital to residents -- such as a long-awaited rail transit project.

"Don't get me wrong: I like the Pro Bowl. I've been to several. It's a great show. But our own citizens, and our own football team, should come well before the NFL," Edwards wrote.

Hannemann insists that despite the recession, he will be able to deliver on his campaign promise of a public rail system in Honolulu, which is scheduled to break ground this year.

"Even under the rubric of a stimulus package, we're going to get some monies there to push this out," Hannemann said, noting that Hawaii's senior U.S. senator, Daniel Inouye, is the chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee. He also said the measure is supported by President Barack Obama, who was born and grew up in Hawaii.

"These are tough times, but if there's a necessary project -- what I call a need-to-have versus a nice-to-have -- I'm going to make all the justification in the world and then we're going to do it," he said.

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text: Hawaii

text: CNN

text: Battered

text: by

text: the

text: current

text: economic

text: recession

text: Hawaii

text: 's

text: economy

text: could

text: get

text: a

text: strong

text: boost

text: from

text: two

text: key

text: sporting

text: events

text: The

text: Pro

text: Bowl

text: this

text: year

text: was

text: played

text: at

text: Aloha

text: Stadium

text: in

text: Honolulu

text: It

text: will

text: return

text: there

text: in

text: The

text: National

text: Football

text: League

text: 's

text: Pro

text: Bowl

text: Game

text: will

text: return

text: to

text: Honolulu

text: in

text: an

text: event

text: that

text: is

text: expected

text: to

text: bring

text: millions

text: of

text: dollars

text: in

text: revenue

text: Honolulu

text: Mayor

text: Mufi

text: Hannemann

text: is

text: also

text: hoping

text: to

text: lure

text: the

text: Summer

text: Olympic

text: Games

text: but

text: not

text: to

text: his

text: city

text: He

text: 's

text: actively

text: supporting

text: Chicago

text: 's

text: bid

text: to

text: host

text: the

text: Games

text: How

text: does

text: that

text: play

text: out

text: for

text: Hawaii

text: Well

text: obviously

text: if

text: we

text: get

text: the

text: Olympics

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text: is

text: the

text: USA

text: we

text: benefit

text: from

text: a

text: Discover

text: America

text: campaign

text: that

text: we

text: 'd

text: like

text: to

text: see

text: with

text: visitors

text: coming

text: prior

text: to

text: Chicago

text: to

text: Hawaii

text: or

text: after

text: and

text: visiting

text: other

text: parts

text: of

text: our

text: country

text: the

text: mayor

text: said

text: What

text: I

text: really

text: want

text: to

text: do

text: is

text: promote

text: Hawaii

text: as

text: a

text: great

text: place

text: for

text: some

text: of

text: these

text: teams

text: to

text: come

text: and

text: do

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text: little

text: R&R

text: rest

text: and

text: relaxation

text: or

text: training

text: before

text: they

text: go

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text: the

text: Olympics

text: in

text: Chicago

text: Hannemann

text: will

text: head

text: to

text: Chicago

text: Illinois

text: this

text: weekend

text: to

text: court

text: International

text: Olympics

text: Committee

text: members

text: who

text: are

text: in

text: the

text: Windy

text: City

text: to

text: evaluate

text: its

text: plan

text: to

text: host

text: the

text: Games

text: On

text: October

text: the

text: IOC

text: will

text: choose

text: among

text: Chicago

text: Madrid

text: Spain

text: Rio

text: de

text: Janeiro

text: Brazil

text: or

text: Tokyo

text: Japan

text: as

text: the

text: host

text: city

text: Hannemann

text: co

text: chairs

text: the

text: U.S.

text: Conference

text: of

text: Mayors

text: Olympic

text: Task

text: Force

text: along

text: with

text: Chicago

text: Mayor

text: Richard

text: Daley

text: which

text: he

text: said

text: aims

text: to

text: bring

text: the

text: Olympics

text: to

text: America

text: in

text: Hawaii

text: 's

text: economy

text: is

text: heavily

text: dependent

text: on

text: tourism

text: and

text: the

text: economic

text: recession

text: means

text: fewer

text: people

text: are

text: visiting

text: the

text: island

text: state

text: With

text: three

text: quarters

text: of

text: the

text: state

text: 's

text: population

text: living

text: in

text: Honolulu

text: Hannemann

text: said

text: workers

text: are

text: especially

text: hit

text: hard

text: in

text: the

text: capital

text: city

text: The

text: slowdown

text: in

text: tourism

text: has

text: resulted

text: in

text: shorter

text: hours

text: in

text: some

text: cases

text: even

text: a

text: decrease

text: in

text: their

text: wages

text: and

text: hopefully

text: a

text: last

text: resort

text: is

text: some

text: of

text: them

text: are

text: being

text: laid

text: off

text: as

text: a

text: result

text: of

text: some

text: of

text: these

text: businesses

text: going

text: out

text: of

text: business

text: he

text: said

text: So

text: our

text: job

text: is

text: just

text: to

text: continue

text: to

text: do

text: what

text: we

text: can

text: to

text: work

text: with

text: private

text: industry

text: to

text: shore

text: up

text: the

text: tourism

text: industry

text: It

text: is

text: our

text: No

text: industry

text: nothing

text: comes

text: close

text: Tourism

text: accounts

text: for

text: between

text: billion

text: and

text: billion

text: each

text: year

text: compared

text: to

text: Hawaii

text: 's

text: second

text: largest

text: industry

text: which

text: is

text: military

text: spending

text: according

text: to

text: Hannemann

text: That

text: accounts

text: for

text: between

text: billion

text: and

text: billion

text: annually

text: the

text: mayor

text: said

text: Last

text: month

text: the

text: Hawaii

text: Tourism

text: Authority

text: voted

text: to

text: allow

text: the

text: NFL

text: 's

text: Pro

text: Bowl

text: game

text: to

text: return

text: to

text: Hawaii

text: in

text: and

text: The

text: game

text: has

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text: the

text: week

text: after

text: the

text: Super

text: Bowl

text: at

text: Aloha

text: Stadium

text: in

text: Honolulu

text: since

text: and

text: has

text: sold

text: out

text: every

text: time

text: Next

text: year

text: it

text: will

text: take

text: place

text: in

text: Miami

text: Florida

text: before

text: the

text: Super

text: Bowl

text: raising

text: concerns

text: that

text: it

text: will

text: not

text: be

text: as

text: much

text: of

text: a

text: draw

text: because

text: no

text: Super

text: Bowl

text: players

text: will

text: participate

text: in

text: the

text: game

text: Hawaii

text: authorities

text: agreed

text: to

text: allow

text: the

text: game

text: to

text: return

text: to

text: the

text: state

text: under

text: the

text: condition

text: that

text: the

text: NFL

text: would

text: consider

text: returning

text: the

text: Pro

text: Bowl

text: to

text: the

text: Sunday

text: after

text: the

text: Super

text: Bowl

text: depending

text: on

text: the

text: success

text: or

text: failure

text: of

text: the

text: game

text: in

text: Miami

text: according

text: to

text: the

text: NFL

text: Hannemann

text: said

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text: tens

text: of

text: thousands

text: of

text: people

text: who

text: attend

text: the

text: game

text: annually

text: have

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text: spent

text: at

text: least

text: million

text: across

text: the

text: state

text: of

text: Hawaii

text: Losing

text: the

text: game

text: would

text: not

text: only

text: be

text: an

text: economic

text: loss

text: for

text: the

text: state

text: but

text: a

text: major

text: downer

text: for

text: residents

text: he

text: said

text: People

text: have

text: said

text: Oh

text: my

text: goodness

text: now

text: we

text: lost

text: the

text: Pro

text: Bowl

text: We

text: 've

text: had

text: it

text: here

text: for

text: over

text: years

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text: 's

text: been

text: a

text: sell

text: out

text: What

text: 's

text: going

text: on

text: here

text: Everything

text: 's

text: going

text: to

text: go

text: out

text: of

text: Hawaii

text: Hannemann

text: said

text: So

text: I

text: got

text: involved

text: I

text: went

text: and

text: talked

text: to

text: some

text: of

text: the

text: commissioners

text: there

text: I

text: changed

text: their

text: votes

text: and

text: we

text: 're

text: able

text: to

text: keep

text: the

text: Pro

text: Bowl

text: here

text: But

text: hosting

text: the

text: Pro

text: Bowl

text: will

text: come

text: at

text: a

text: cost

text: Hawaii

text: will

text: have

text: to

text: pay

text: million

text: each

text: year

text: it

text: hosts

text: the

text: game

text: In

text: a

text: recent

text: commentary

text: in

text: the

text: East

text: Oahu

text: Sun

text: newspaper

text: writer

text: Joe

text: Edwards

text: questioned

text: whether

text: the

text: cost

text: of

text: hosting

text: the

text: game

text: would

text: come

text: at

text: the

text: expense

text: of

text: projects

text: more

text: vital

text: to

text: residents

text: such

text: as

text: a

text: long

text: awaited

text: rail

text: transit

text: project

text: Do

text: n't

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question: What will return to Hawaii in 2011?

answer: The Pro Bowl

text: The Pro Bowl

question: When is it in Hawaii?

answer: 2011.

question: What is Hawaii's economy dependent on?

answer: tourism,

text: tourism,

question: Where is the NFL Pro Bowl?

answer: Aloha Stadium in Honolulu.

text: Aloha Stadium in Honolulu.

question: What does one writer question?

answer: whether the cost of hosting the game would come at the expense of projects more vital to residents

text: whether the cost of hosting the game would come at the expense of projects more vital to residents

question: What does Hawaii's economy depend on heavily?

answer: tourism,

text: tourism,

question: What are Mayreor's hopes for Chicago?

answer: host the 2016 Games.

text: host the 2016 Games.

question: When will NFL's Pro Bowl return to Hawaii?

answer: 2011.


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LONDON, England (CNN) -- Britain's Prince William is starting a two-month attachment with the Royal Navy on Monday, part of the future king's continued experience with various branches of the military, the Ministry of Defense said Saturday.

Prince William and his father, Prince Charles, at his graduation from the Royal Air Force in April.

William, 25, will spend the first part of his attachment on a basic sea safety course training in sea survival, firefighting and ship damage repair, according to the ministry.

If William passes the course, as expected, he will join the HMS Iron Duke in the Caribbean, the department said.

The ship's function is to support overseas British territories in the event of a hurricane and to carry out counter-narcotic operations.

The prince, who will be called Sub Lieutenant Wales in the Navy, is expected to spend time aboard a frigate, a mine hunter, a submarine and helicopters during his attachment, which ends August 1, the Ministry of Defense said.

William completed a four-month attachment with the Royal Air Force this year and received his pilot's wings upon graduating in April.

He learned to fly three different aircraft during the attachment and is known as Flying Officer Wales within the RAF.

William is also a second lieutenant in the British Army, where he serves in the Blues and Royals regiment of the Household Cavalry.

The attachments are designed to provide the prince with military experience for when he becomes head of the armed forces as king.

"When he becomes king, he needs to know his armed forces -- instinctively be very familiar with them -- and so he is doing this visit to the Royal Navy," said Rear Adm. Bob Cooling, the assistant chief of naval staff.

William's father, Prince Charles, had a five-year career in the navy in the 1970s. Charles served on the guided missile destroyer HMS Norfolk and two frigates before qualifying as a helicopter pilot and joining a naval air squadron that operated from the aircraft carrier HMS Hermes.

Prince Charles spent his last nine months in the navy in 1976 in command of the coastal minehunter HMS Bronington.

William's uncle Prince Andrew served 22 years in the Royal Navy as a helicopter pilot, seeing active service during the Falklands War between Britain and Argentina in 1982.

Queen Elizabeth II's husband, Prince Philip, William's grandfather, spent more than 13 years in the Royal Navy. He saw active service throughout World War II and was in Tokyo Harbor when Japan surrendered.

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question: How many months attachment will Britain's Prince William embark on?

answer: two-month

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question: who is the second lieutenant?

answer: Prince William

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question: What has William completed

answer: a four-month attachment with the Royal Air Force

text: a four-month attachment with the Royal Air Force

question: How long will the attachment last?

answer: two-month

text: two-month

question: Where did the Prince start working?

answer: Navy

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question: Who began an attachment

answer: Prince William

text: Prince William

question: Where is he second lieutenant in?

answer: in the British Army,

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