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(CNN) -- Health care reform should mean all Americans can get coverage while allowing doctors to heal patients instead of being bureaucrats, President Obama told the American Medical Association on Monday.

The AMA agrees with Obama on the need for health care reform but not how to go about it.

In a speech to the 158th annual meeting of the doctors' advocacy organization, Obama called an overhaul of the ailing health care system the most important issue for the nation's long-term economic stability.

He acknowledged the concerns of doctors that reforms could bring a government-heavy system that would dictate how patients get treated and how much physicians get paid. But he called such thinking wrong.

Obama urged all players -- doctors, patients, insurance companies, drug companies and the government -- to contribute to a workable system that would provide coverage for the 46 million uninsured Americans while reducing costs and increasing efficiency.

"You did not enter this profession to be bean-counters and paper-pushers," Obama said to a standing ovation at the conference in Chicago, Illinois. "You entered this profession to be healers, and that's what our health care system should let you be."

Obama has made health care reform a top priority of his young administration, and Congress will consider at least three proposals in coming weeks to address an issue that deeply divides Democrats and Republicans.  Watch Sen. John McCain discuss health care reform Â»

The AMA represents a powerful constituency of U.S. physicians, and its support is considered important in getting a bill through Congress. Dr. J. James Rohack, president-elect of the AMA, welcomed Obama's speech for acknowledging the challenges facing doctors, including excessive bureaucracy, the threat of malpractice lawsuits and medical students' debt burdens.

The president's 50-minute speech detailed the problems of the U.S. health care system and presented his plans for confronting them.

He blamed some of the spiraling costs on a reimbursement system that he said pays for the number of tests and services provided, regardless of what is needed.

"It is a model that rewards the quantity of care rather than the quality of care; that pushes you, the doctor, to see more and more patients even if you can't spend much time with each; and gives you every incentive to order that extra MRI or EKG, even if it's not truly necessary," Obama said. "It is a model that has taken the pursuit of medicine from a profession -- a calling -- to a business."

He also cited unnecessary tests and procedures as part of a "defensive" medicine culture created in part by the risk of medical malpractice lawsuits. To loud applause, he said ending unnecessary procedures could require restrictions on malpractice liability to protect doctors.

"I'm not advocating caps on malpractice awards, which I personally believe can be unfair to people who've been wrongfully harmed, but I do think we need to explore a range of ideas about how to put patient safety first, how to let doctors focus on practicing medicine, how to encourage broader use of evidence-based guidelines," Obama said.  Watch the Health and Human Services chief talk about the administration's plan Â»

Rohack called for a "safe harbor" for doctors to determine treatment, warning that "unless we have protection in a courtroom for not ordering a test, we're going to order that additional test."

Obama's speech advocated an end to health care insurance providers denying coverage for pre-existing conditions, with an emotional reference to his mother's battle against cancer amid concerns of whether her treatment would be covered.

"Changing the current approach to pre-existing conditions is the least we can do -- for my mother and every other mother, father, son and daughter who has suffered under this practice, who've been paying premiums and don't get care," he said to another ovation.

Any health care bill must include measures to modernize record-keeping with an electronic system that reduces paperwork and increases efficiency, and to emphasize preventive treatment to reduce overall illness and chronic conditions that sap the health care system, Obama said.

He defended his call for a government-funded health insurance option for people who are uninsured or cannot afford full coverage. Obama repeated a promise that reforms will not require anyone to change from existing coverage but said an overhaul should include mandates for individuals to obtain coverage or employers to provide it.

A proposal from Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Massachusetts, a longtime health care reform proponent, includes a public option as one choice for consumers. Republican leaders adamantly oppose any public option, complaining it would lead to an eventual government takeover of health care similar to the cradle-to-grave coverage in Canada and England.

Kennedy's health-care bill would cost $1 trillion over a decade and reduce the number of uninsured by about 16 million, according to a preliminary analysis released Monday on the the unfinished bill.

The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, which examined the unfinished bill with the the help of the Joint Committee on Taxation, said that the health-care bill would cost about $1 trillion over fiscal years 2010 to 2019.

The AMA acknowledges the need for reforms but opposes any public option plan that forces physicians to participate, expands the fiscally challenged Medicare program for senior citizens or pays Medicare rates.

Obama outlined a series of steps to lower current costs and raise taxes to pay for an overhaul of the health care system. His actions would realize almost $1 billion over the next 10 years in cost reductions, new revenue and other funding, which is roughly the amount that health care reforms would cost, the president said.

His plan includes reducing tax deductions for high-income Americans. Another funding idea under consideration is taxing the medical benefits of employer-provided health coverage, which the Obama administration opposes but has not ruled out entirely.  Watch more about who pays for health care Â»

A national survey released last week by Diageo/Hotline found that 68 percent of those questioned opposed taxing health insurance benefits to provide funding for the enormous cost of expanding health care coverage to all Americans.

Possible alternatives to a public health insurance option include private cooperatives, like electricity cooperatives, owned and paid for by communities that would compete with existing insurance programs.

Supporters say such a program would require initial government support, but eventually would provide the kind of competition Obama seeks without creating a new government bureaucracy.  Watch Rep. Ron Paul weigh in on health care reform Â»

Obama said Monday that the nation is ready to overhaul the health care system after decades of debate with no substantive action.

"What makes this moment different is that this time -- for the first time -- key stakeholders are aligning not against, but in favor of reform," he said. "They are coming together out of a recognition that while reform will take everyone in our health care community doing their part, ultimately, everyone will benefit."

As Obama spoke to doctors in Chicago, Senate Republican leaders in Washington intensified their attacks on the proposals, with one predicting "momentum will inevitably slow" as Americans learn the details of the complicated overhaul.

Sen. Jon Kyl of Arizona, the No. 2 Republican in the Senate, also said it's "fairly unlikely" Republicans will back a Finance Committee bill that has been seen as the most likely measure in Congress to gain bipartisan support.

In speeches and press events on Capitol Hill, Republican leaders highlighted controversial aspects of the proposals that have drawn criticism from key doctor and hospital groups.

"Over the weekend, the administration proposed making cuts to Medicare as a way of deferring costs of a new government plan. That is exactly the wrong approach," Republican Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky said in speech on the Senate floor. "America's seniors expect Congress to stabilize Medicare so it continues to serve their needs, not drain its resources to pay for another even bigger government plan."

Kyl said Obama's proposals would lead to higher taxes, rationing of health care and too much government control of a sector that needs vibrant private sector involvement to thrive.

Kyl and McConnell introduced a bill Monday that would prevent the government from using comparative medical analysis to ration health care.

The stepped-up criticism came days before two Senate committees begin the process of formally passing their bills. While GOP support for the Obama reforms has never been strong, Democrats have been negotiating with Republicans for months in hopes of bringing some on board.

CNN's Paul Steinhauser and Ted Barrett contributed to this report.

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(Entertainment Weekly) -- They have come to glimpse the miracle. They have come to witness the revolution. They have come for "Watchmen" -- the allegedly unfilmable superhero movie, the long-awaited adaptation of the comic book that changed the face of comic books forever.

Billy Crudup plays Dr. Manhattan, a powerful superhero in "Watchmen."

On this warm July morning, over 5,000 fans attending the annual geek pop summit known as Comic-Con have assembled inside the San Diego Convention Center for a first look. Many spent the night on the sidewalk. Some have come in costumes. Behind the stage, indie-movie icon Kevin Smith parks himself in front of a closed-circuit TV, a happy grin on his bearded mug.

"You have to understand, I've been waiting for this moment for years," says Smith. "This is it, man. This is the pinnacle."

All this, for a violent, ironic superhero epic that doesn't like superheroes in the first place. Directed by "300's" Zack Snyder, "Watchmen" presents a set of familiar superhero archetypes -- and then subverts them completely. Rorschach (Jackie Earl Haley) is like the Spirit ... except he's a joyless, hard-line misanthrope. The Comedian (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) is like Captain America ... but loyal only to sadistic thrills and a corrupt worldview. Nite Owl (Patrick Wilson) is part Batman, part Iron Man ... except he's also a schlubby, impotent coward. Ozymandias (Matthew Goode) is the resident genius ... who's built an empire on superhero toys. (You see what we mean by irony.)

Says Billy Crudup, whose blue, naked Dr. Manhattan is an almighty Superman dangerously detached from his own humanity: " 'Watchmen' is a kind of thrilling thought experiment. What would people who dress up in costumes to fight crime actually be like? Well, they'd probably be fetishists who lived on the fringes of society. They'd all be a bunch of freaking lunatics."

Yet for all its self-awareness and cynicism, "Watchmen" isn't some cheap-and-silly "Scary Movie" parody. Adapted faithfully, if not completely, from the celebrated 1986 comic-book series, Snyder's film is visually and intellectually ambitious, filled with heady ruminations about savior figures, pop culture, and the politics of fear. At a time when superhero stories are commonplace and our shaken country is pinning its recovery on an idealistic new president, "Watchmen's" director believes his movie can serve as a bracing blast of healthy skepticism.

"Someone asked me if I thought that because Barack Obama had been elected president, the movie was no longer relevant. I said, 'Wow, that's a very optimistic view of the future!' " says Snyder. "The movie, like the comic, says, 'These superhero stories you've been feasting on? What if we took them seriously?' ... That's the fun."

But fun for whom? When "Watchmen" hits theaters on March 6, the comic-book cognoscenti will be there in droves -- although some are already sweating the heresy of dramatic changes. EW: What didn't make it?

And, for mainstream moviegoers, such talk of "subverting superhero archetypes" is liable to elicit a great big "Huh?" EW: A "Watchmen" primer

"Watchmen's" financial backers are clearly hoping the success of "The Dark Knight" has primed the market for sophisticated superhero films -- especially one that's two hours and 41 minutes long. But where "The Dark Knight" transcended genre conventions, "Watchmen" wallows in them. Violently.

Created by writer Alan Moore and artist Dave Gibbons, "Watchmen" is most often praised as the comic book that brought respect and maturity to a medium long dismissed as juvenile. It was the fanboys' "Catcher in the Rye" -- and maybe their first Playboy, too.

"I was 13 when I read 'Watchmen,' and it came to represent my coming of age," says "Lost" co-creator Damon Lindelof. "I felt like 'Watchmen' was this very, very bad thing that I shouldn't be reading, and if my mom caught me with it I'd be f---ing doomed."

Hollywood was similarly struck by "Watchmen," but has been much less successful at avoiding the doom.

In 1986, Twentieth Century Fox acquired the comic's rights for producer Larry Gordon, but could never get an adaptation rolling. Over the next decade, "Watchmen" bounced among many studios and between many before finding what appeared to be a happy ending at Paramount. But in 2005, with helmer Paul Greengrass deep into preproduction, a Paramount regime change killed the project.

Certainly, it's a hard project to get your head around. "Watchmen" is set in the year 1985. The U.S. and the Soviet Union are on the brink of nuclear war, and the president is Richard Nixon, whose success at ending the Vietnam War (he asked Dr. Manhattan to blow up the Vietcong) has earned him five terms of office from a grateful nation. Conservative politics are popular, as are Indian fast food and pirate comics. But costumed heroes, once all the rage, are now outlawed.

When the Comedian gets murdered, Rorschach tries to round up his old allies to investigate. They eventually uncover an insidious conspiracy hatched by an unlikely villain, one whose grand ambition isn't world domination but something else altogether. iReport.com: Will you watch 'Watchmen'?

And that's only half the comic. Hence, "Watchmen's" rep as the Unfilmable Graphic Novel. But tides changed in late 2005 when Warner Bros. acquired the property from Paramount (or at least they thought they did) with the hope of rolling on "Watchmen" ASAP. (Warner Bros. is a unit of Time Warner, as is CNN and Entertainment Weekly.)

The studio turned to Snyder. At that point, the director had only done stylish TV commercials and the 2003 zombie remake "Dawn of the Dead." But he was also deep in the middle of shooting the studio's action epic "300," another adaptation of a brilliantly brutal comic, and the execs liked what they were seeing.

Snyder's approach was simple: He would remain religiously faithful to the comic.

"We treated that thing like a freakin' illuminated text," says the director, who embraced all the peculiar idiosyncrasies, from the Nixonian alternative America to the deep-dive digressions into character origin stories. (None of this faithfulness can please Moore, who feels that no adaptation can do his work justice and has taken his name off the film.)

The director also believed that an "adult" superhero epic needed to be explicit about its "adult" content. He wanted to hear the characters' philosophical musings. He wanted to see the blood spurt. And instead of the chaste kisses of most superhero movie romances, he wanted to see some naked getting-it-on.

"I wanted to make sure everyone understood: This is not a kid movie," says Snyder. "Violence has consequences. And doing that with a PG-13 just dilutes that message."

And then there was the worry that all that effort was all for naught. Last February, Twentieth Century Fox sought to stop Warner Bros. from moving forward with "Watchmen's" release, claiming via lawsuit that Warner Bros. had not properly acquired the distribution rights. The dispute exploded in the media last August when a judge declared that Fox's lawsuit had merit.

"How do you not know whether or not you have the right to make a movie?" says Crudup. "Hilarious."

But after months of intense press coverage that put "Watchmen" in the mainstream eye, the two studios reached a settlement. (Warner Bros. and Fox both declined to comment. As for producer Gordon: "It was unfortunate," he says simply.)

Now Team "Watchmen" waits to see if any of that notoriety can help make them some money. With a $100 million-plus budget and a running time of 161 minutes, "Watchmen" will need to launch with a big opening weekend and strong reviews.

So, will geek love -- and geek dollars -- be enough? Snyder hopes so. He says he made the film for that crowd. "I don't think there ever has been a movie more custom-made for them. Not at this scale," he says. "And now they have an opportunity to really influence pop culture in a serious way, just as the comic influenced comics. They can say: 'These stories can be used to say something about the world. Give us more of them.' "

This is an edited version of Entertainment Weekly's cover story on "Watchmen." For the complete story, click here.

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(CNN) -- A car bomb exploded Saturday in Somalia's capital, killing 15 people and wounding 24, a government spokesman said.

Gunfighting has plagued the streets of Somalia's capital in recent months, stalling efforts to restore order.

The car was heading toward headquarters of the African Union Mission in Somalia in late morning when a bomb went off before it reached the building, which is guarded by police, Abdi Gobdon said.

The attack also threatened a group of nearby African Union peacekeepers.

African Union Commission Chairman Jean Ping condemned the "cowardly and terrorist" suicide attack in Mogadishu, which he said comes during a time of "renewed efforts to further peace and reconciliation" to the troubled nation.

Somalia has been wracked by violence and lawlessness since the government was overthrown in 1991. A drought and high food and fuel prices also have increased the need for humanitarian assistance. iReport.com: Are you there? Share your story

On Saturday, various officials met in Djibouti with the aim of expanding the Somalian parliament and electing a president for the Transitional Federal Government, Ping said.

The United Nations Security Council adopted a resolution January 16 expressing its intent to send U.N. peacekeeping forces back to the unstable nation, and the AU plans to send additional troops to Somalia in coming weeks, Ping said.

The United Nations' World Food Programme considered suspending delivery of food to Somalia after the killings of two aid workers in early January but then decided that would hurt the very people the program is trying to help.

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Orlando, Florida (CNN)  -- A former astronaut who was accused of assaulting a romantic rival in the parking lot of the Orlando airport will avoid prison after pleading guilty to lesser charges as part of a plea agreement.

Citing Lisa Marie Nowak's lack of a criminal history, Orange County Circuit Judge Marc Lubet sentenced her to a year of probation. She was given credit for the two days she served in the county jail after her arrest.

Nowak, 46, must also perform 50 hours of community service and have no contact with the victim in the case, former Air Force Capt. Colleen Shipman.

She must also send Shipman a letter of apology within 10 days, "a sincere letter of apology, not one of these vanilla things that I see from other defendants," Lubet told Nowak. "It's been almost three years since the events took place that caused this nightmare for Ms. Shipman, and you are 100 percent responsible."

In addition, Nowak must complete an eight-hour anger management course within her first 30 days of probation, Lubet said. Nowak told the judge she had undergone counseling for 1Â½ years and the counseling is complete, so the judge said he would not order more.

Lubet said he was treating Nowak as any defendant would be treated, saying he doubts any judge would send a defendant to prison on a first offense.

Shipman delivered an emotional victim statement before Nowak's sentencing, telling the court she remains convinced Nowak planned to kill her.

"Shortly after I turned 30 years old, Lisa Nowak hunted me down and attacked me in a dark parking lot," she said, adding that she is "still reeling from her vicious attack" and attempting to piece her life back together.

"The world as I knew it before Lisa Nowak is gone," Shipman said. "Every stranger I see is a potential attacker. Going out in public is exhausting." She said she has undergone nearly three years of counseling, but suffers from nightmares, anxiety and health problems such as high blood pressure and chest pains because of the incident.

Nowak initially was charged with attempted kidnapping with intent to inflict bodily harm, battery and burglary of a vehicle using a weapon. If convicted, she could have faced a sentence of up to life in prison.

Prosecutors accused Nowak of driving nearly 900 miles from Houston, Texas, to Orlando -- wearing NASA diapers to cut down on the number of stops she needed to make -- and donning a disguise before following Shipman from the airport's baggage claim to the parking lot in February 2007. Nowak's attorney, Don Lykkebak, has denied that she wore the diapers.

Nowak has said she went to the airport to talk to Shipman, who had begun dating Nowak's former love interest, Navy Cmdr. Bill Oefelein.

But Shipman, in her comments Tuesday, called that claim "at best, ridiculous," saying that Nowak, whom she did not know, had ample opportunity to talk to her, as she "stealthily followed me for hours."

"I'm a very friendly person, your honor," Shipman said, adding that she would have welcomed Nowak's company "over some hot chocolate, while I was waiting for my suitcase to arrive."

She recounted the incident and her terror as she realized Nowak was following her in the dark parking lot, as she could hear the swishing of Nowak's pants as she walked. She said she sprinted to her car, and Nowak attempted to open the car door and beat on her window, then spun a tale of being a helpless traveler who was afraid of being in a dark parking lot. Shipman said she cracked her window, and Nowak sprayed her in the face with pepper spray.

"She blasted me with what felt like acid," Shipman said. "... I stomped on the gas and wondered if there was a gun pointed at my head."

At a hearing in November 2007, Orlando Police Detective William Becton testified that in a search of Nowak's car, he found maps showing how to reach the airport and its layout, a buck knife and papers, including a letter Nowak appeared to have written to Oefelein's mother. He testified he found used and clean diapers in the car. Police previously had said they also found a BB gun, a steel mallet, a 4-inch knife and rubber tubing in the vehicle.

Shipman said Tuesday she thought she had escaped a carjacking. "I had no idea that a highly paid, high-ranking military officer had just attacked me." When she found out she had been attacked by a "sister in arms," she said, she was heartbroken.

Shipman said the resulting media attention and scrutiny has placed additional stress on her and her family.

Before sentencing, Nowak turned to Shipman and apologized. "I am sincerely sorry for causing fear and misunderstanding and all of the intense public exposure that you have suffered," Nowak said. "I hope very much that we can all move forward from this with privacy and peace."

Lubet said he accepted her apology as sincere, but in sentencing her he noted that he was certain her conviction would affect her Navy career and retirement. Still, the judge told Nowak, "you brought this on yourself, and I don't have any sympathy for you in that respect."

Shipman has left the military and Oefelein has left the astronaut corps, and the two live in Anchorage, Alaska, where they run a company called Adventure Write as freelance writers and photographers. People.com reported in July the two were engaged.

Lubet also ordered Nowak to stay away from Oefelein after Shipman alleged in her remarks she found a book with suggestive notes inside that Nowak had sent Oefelein after the incident despite a no-contact order.

"No books, no messages, no poems, nothing," Lubet said.

"It's not a problem," Nowak responded.

CNN's John Couwels contributed to this report.

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text: your

text: honor

text: Shipman

text: said

text: adding

text: that

text: she

text: would

text: have

text: welcomed

text: Nowak

text: 's

text: company

text: over

text: some

text: hot

text: chocolate

text: while

text: I

text: was

text: waiting

text: for

text: my

text: suitcase

text: to

text: arrive

text: She

text: recounted

text: the

text: incident

text: and

text: her

text: terror

text: as

text: she

text: realized

text: Nowak

text: was

text: following

text: her

text: in

text: the

text: dark

text: parking

text: lot

text: as

text: she

text: could

text: hear

text: the

text: swishing

text: of

text: Nowak

text: 's

text: pants

text: as

text: she

text: walked

text: She

text: said

text: she

text: sprinted

text: to

text: her

text: car

text: and

text: Nowak

text: attempted

text: to

text: open

text: the

text: car

text: door

text: and

text: beat

text: on

text: her

text: window

text: then

text: spun

text: a

text: tale

text: of

text: being

text: a

text: helpless

text: traveler

text: who

text: was

text: afraid

text: of

text: being

text: in

text: a

text: dark

text: parking

text: lot

text: Shipman

text: said

text: she

text: cracked

text: her

text: window

text: and

text: Nowak

text: sprayed

text: her

text: in

text: the

text: face

text: with

text: pepper

text: spray

text: She

text: blasted

text: me

text: with

text: what

text: felt

text: like

text: acid

text: Shipman

text: said

text: I

text: stomped

text: on

text: the

text: gas

text: and

text: wondered

text: if

text: there

text: was

text: a

text: gun

text: pointed

text: at

text: my

text: head

text: At

text: a

text: hearing

text: in

text: November

text: Orlando

text: Police

text: Detective

text: William

text: Becton

text: testified

text: that

text: in

text: a

text: search

text: of

text: Nowak

text: 's

text: car

text: he

text: found

text: maps

text: showing

text: how

text: to

text: reach

text: the

text: airport

text: and

text: its

text: layout

text: a

text: buck

text: knife

text: and

text: papers

text: including

text: a

text: letter

text: Nowak

text: appeared

text: to

text: have

text: written

text: to

text: Oefelein

text: 's

text: mother

text: He

text: testified

text: he

text: found

text: used

text: and

text: clean

text: diapers

text: in

text: the

text: car

text: Police

text: previously

text: had

text: said

text: they

text: also

text: found

text: a

text: BB

text: gun

text: a

text: steel

text: mallet

text: a

text: knife

text: and

text: rubber

text: tubing

text: in

text: the

text: vehicle

text: Shipman

text: said

text: Tuesday

text: she

text: thought

text: she

text: had

text: escaped

text: a

text: carjacking

text: I

text: had

text: no

text: idea

text: that

text: a

text: highly

text: paid

text: high

text: ranking

text: military

text: officer

text: had

text: just

text: attacked

text: me

text: When

text: she

text: found

text: out

text: she

text: had

text: been

text: attacked

text: by

text: a

text: sister

text: in

text: arms

text: she

text: said

text: she

text: was

text: heartbroken

text: Shipman

text: said

text: the

text: resulting

text: media

text: attention

text: and

text: scrutiny

text: has

text: placed

text: additional

text: stress

text: on

text: her

text: and

text: her

text: family

text: Before

text: sentencing

text: Nowak

text: turned

text: to

text: Shipman

text: and

text: apologized

text: I

text: am

text: sincerely

text: sorry

text: for

text: causing

text: fear

text: and

text: misunderstanding

text: and

text: all

text: of

text: the

text: intense

text: public

text: exposure

text: that

text: you

text: have

text: suffered

text: Nowak

text: said

text: I

text: hope

text: very

text: much

text: that

text: we

text: can

text: all

text: move

text: forward

text: from

text: this

text: with

text: privacy

text: and

text: peace

text: Lubet

text: said

text: he

text: accepted

text: her

text: apology

text: as

text: sincere

text: but

text: in

text: sentencing

text: her

text: he

text: noted

text: that

text: he

text: was

text: certain

text: her

text: conviction

text: would

text: affect

text: her

text: Navy

text: career

text: and

text: retirement

text: Still

text: the

text: judge

text: told

text: Nowak

text: you

text: brought

text: this

text: on

text: yourself

text: and

text: I

text: do

text: n't

text: have

text: any

text: sympathy

text: for

text: you

text: in

text: that

text: respect

text: Shipman

text: has

text: left

text: the

text: military

text: and

text: Oefelein

text: has

text: left

text: the

text: astronaut

text: corps

text: and

text: the

text: two

text: live

text: in

text: Anchorage

text: Alaska

text: where

text: they

text: run

text: a

text: company

text: called

text: Adventure

text: Write

text: as

text: freelance

text: writers

text: and

text: photographers

text: People.com

text: reported

text: in

text: July

text: the

text: two

text: were

text: engaged

text: Lubet

text: also

text: ordered

text: Nowak

text: to

text: stay

text: away

text: from

text: Oefelein

text: after

text: Shipman

text: alleged

text: in

text: her

text: remarks

text: she

text: found

text: a

text: book

text: with

text: suggestive

text: notes

text: inside

text: that

text: Nowak

text: had

text: sent

text: Oefelein

text: after

text: the

text: incident

text: despite

text: a

text: no

text: contact

text: order

text: No

text: books

text: no

text: messages

text: no

text: poems

text: nothing

text: Lubet

text: said

text: It

text: 's

text: not

text: a

text: problem

text: Nowak

text: responded

text: CNN

text: 's

text: John

text: Couwels

text: contributed

text: to

text: this

text: report

question: Who was a former astronaut?

answer: Lisa Marie Nowak's

text: Lisa Marie Nowak's

question: What is Lisa Marie Nowak accused for?

answer: assaulting a romantic rival

text: assaulting a romantic rival

question: How many miles she drove in diapers?

answer: 900

question: Who is accused of assaulting a romantic rival?

answer: A former astronaut

text: A former astronaut

question: Where was the Judge?

answer: Orange County Circuit

text: Orange County Circuit

question: What was Nowak's sentence?

answer: a year of probation.

text: a year of probation.

question: How many miles did she drive?

answer: 900

question: Who say she drove 900 miles in diapers?

answer: Prosecutors

text: Prosecutors