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LOS ANGELES, California (CNN)  -- They poured in to Los Angeles from places far-flung, an army of Michael Jackson fans hoping to collectively mourn their idol in a massive ceremony at the Staples Center downtown Tuesday.

A fan leaves a note on a Michael Jackson memorial outside the Staples Center in Los Angeles.

The singer's memorial service Tuesday will be a star-studded affair, with singers Mariah Carey, Usher and Stevie Wonder among the participants, according to an announcement released on behalf of the Jackson family.

Also participating in the event will be basketball stars Kobe Bryant and Magic Johnson, and singers Jennifer Hudson, John Mayer and Smokey Robinson, the family said.

The Rev. Al Sharpton and Martin Luther King III will be among others taking part.

Ken Ehrlich, known for producing the Grammy Awards, is producing the memorial show, his company said. Kenny Ortega, who was to have co-directed Jackson's series of concerts in London, England, this summer, will direct it.

Mayer posted on Twitter on Monday afternoon saying "I'm going not to 'perform' but to contribute."

"I'm honored to have been asked to play at MJ's memorial service. I will be representing all of us who can't be there," Mayer tweeted. "Going to say goodbye from all us kids."

One notable who won't be attending: longtime Jackson friend Elizabeth Taylor, who put out a message on Twitter that she "cannot be part of the public whoopla."

"I just don't believe that Michael would want me to share my grief with millions of others," Taylor tweeted. "How I feel is between us. Not a public event."

"I love him too much," she added, "and I cannot guarantee that I would be coherent to say a word."

Debbie Rowe, Jackson's former wife and the mother of his two oldest children, will not attend the memorial service, her lawyer Marta Almli said Monday.

"Although Debbie had originally planned to attend tomorrow's Staples Center memorial service, we have concluded with Debbie that she will not be attending," a statement from Almli said. "The onslaught of media attention has made it clear her attendance would be an unnecessary distraction to an event that should focus exclusively on Michael's legacy. Debbie will continue to celebrate Michael's memory privately."

Fans without tickets to the memorial are being asked to stay away from downtown Los Angeles and watch the service on television.   Details: See who will be there, map of area Â»

The family decided to provide a free live video feed to networks so it would be televised everywhere. "Everything about the memorial has to do with accommodating as many fans as possible," Ken Sunshine, the Jackson family spokesman, said.

While Jackson's family remains tight-lipped about the singer's burial arrangements, sources told CNN that relatives will hold a private gathering at the Forest Lawn cemetery in Los Angeles Tuesday morning ahead of the public service. The California Highway Patrol will escort their motorcade, the sources said.

The gathering is scheduled for 8 a.m. (11 a.m. ET) -- two hours before the service at the Staples Center arena.

Cemetery officials have not commented on the matter.

While there are five Forest Lawn cemeteries in the Los Angeles area, media trucks and crews have been parked at the gate of the Hollywood Hills facility for several days in anticipation of Jackson's possible interment there.

Fans claim tickets

On Monday, fans chosen by random lottery for Jackson's memorial began arriving at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles to pick up their tickets. Full story

Los Angeles Police Capt. Bill Murphy said the distribution process was going smoothly.

One person tried to pass off a photocopied voucher; he was ejected, Murphy said.

The 8,750 fans have until 6 p.m. PT to claim their tickets. iReport.com: "Surreal journey" to get Jackson tickets

Each winner gets two tickets, bringing the number awarded in the lottery to 17,500.

Just 11,000 of those are for seats inside the Staples Center. The other 6,500 would be for viewing the memorial telecast at the adjacent Nokia Theater. AEG Live, the promoter of Michael Jackson's London shows, owns and operates both venues.

Deka Motanya, 27, who works in a doctor's office in San Francisco, scrambled Sunday night to line up plane tickets so she and her boyfriend could fly to Los Angeles on Monday.

"Oh, yeah, I'm going," she said. "I'm e-mailing my boss saying I've got to leave early because I'm going to L.A."

Executors control Jackson's assets

A Los Angeles Superior Court judge granted control of Jackson's assets to the executors of his will Monday.

The executors -- John Branca, Jackson's longtime personal attorney, and John McClain, a music industry executive and longtime friend -- had sought immediate control of the entertainer's assets at a hearing before Judge Mitchell Beckloff.

The judge appointed the men as special administrators until another hearing August 3. He said they will be responsible for protecting the estate from immediate losses.

The men can enter into new ventures only with court approval, Beckloff said.

Jackson died June 25. Since the next day, his mother, Katherine, has been administering the assets.

Lawyers for Jackson's mother objected to Beckloff's decision, saying that "irreparable damage" could be done to the estate if Branca is allowed to take control.

"To award unfettered control to the other side would not serve justice," said attorney Burt Levitch.

Katherine Jackson's lawyers argued that Branca was removed from several critical roles by Jackson after the signing of the will. They argued that the removal from those business roles should also exclude Branca as executor.

"Quite frankly, Mrs. Jackson has concerns about handing over the keys to the kingdom," Levitch said.

But Branca's lawyer, Paul Hoffman, said Branca had represented Jackson off and on since he was 21, that he was his lawyer at the time the will was written and that he was rehired in mid-June.

Branca represented Jackson from 1980 until 2006 and was hired again before the singer's death. He helped acquire Jackson's music catalog, which is worth millions.

McClain is a longtime Jackson friend who has worked with him and his sister Janet.

The judge ruled that Michael Jackson felt strongly enough about these executors to name them in his will. He required the two men to acquire a $1 million bond to insure their work as executors.

The judge said he hopes the two sides can come to an agreement -- a "free flow of information" -- by August 3.

Hoffman said the two sides met for four hours over the weekend but were unable to reach "an acceptable accommodation."

In their filing for control of the estate, the men said it would allow them to tend to Jackson's numerous outstanding debts, legal cases and business obligations.

At a hearing Wednesday, Beckloff had appointed Katherine Jackson the temporary administrator.

Levitch said Monday that a second will has surfaced and that it was written in 1997.

The lawyer said that he hasn't looked at it and that it was given to the court for safekeeping. However, the 1997 document will have no bearing unless the later one is discredited, which the lawyers don't expect.

CNN's Linda Hall, Nicole Saidi and Henry Hanks contributed to this report.

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question: Whose memorial was Taylor and Rowe not attending?

answer: MJ's

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question: What is the relationship of Taylor and Rowe to Michael Jackson?

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question: who is not attending memorial

answer: Elizabeth Taylor,

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question: Who are Jackson's former wifes?

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question: When is a private gathering expected to be held?

answer: Tuesday morning ahead of the public service.

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question: When will the private gathering expected to be held at?

answer: the Staples Center downtown Tuesday.

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TBILISI, Georgia (CNN)  -- Russian forces appeared to be in control of two key Georgian cities early Friday, and there were reports of tanks on the move again.

A woman outside a bombed apartment block in Gori, Georgia, on Thursday.

Russia said Thursday that its withdrawal of Gori would be complete within hours, and the U.S. said it looked like the Russian military was gearing up to leave, but CNN's Michael Ware confirmed that Russian troops were comfortably in control of Gori in the early hours of Friday.

The town was a base for the Georgian military and is near the breakaway South Ossetia province where the conflict began.

Meanwhile, there are reports of Russian vehicles on the move towards Poti, a port city in the west of Georgia.

Georgia's President Mikheil Saakashvili said that more than 100 tanks and other vehicles are traveling in convoy between the cities of Senaki and Kutaisi. CNN has not independently confirmed the claim.

"I appeal for the help of every civilized person in the world to stop this uncivilized, barbarian, inhuman, treacherous, absolutely outrageous behavior, and to save innocent lives," Saakashvili said.

He estimated that Russian soldiers control about one-third of his country and said his government has received 1,400 reports of brutal attacks.

On Thursday, about 200 Russian troops were in Gori, just outside South Ossetia, the U.S. defense official said. A Russian general confirmed troops were in Gori, but said they should be withdrawn within hours.  Watch Russian troops on the road to Tbilisi Â»

The U.S. official said there were also troops in Poti, having been put ashore in the Black Sea port several days ago. Russians have been accused of bombing targets in Poti, including a military installation and ships.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov denied Wednesday that there were Russian troops in Poti. But a CNN crew that tried to drive to Poti on Thursday found the road blocked by Russian soldiers.

U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who has been charged with a major humanitarian mission to Georgia, warned that U.S.-Russian relations could be hurt "for years to come" but ruled out any U.S. military action in the region.

The conflict in Georgia began late last week, when Tbilisi launched a military incursion into South Ossetia in an effort to rout separatist rebels.  Watch some of the destruction in South Ossetia Â»

Russia -- which supports the separatists, many of whom claim Russian citizenship -- responded the next day, sending tanks across the border into the province.

The conflict quickly spread to parts of Georgia and to Abkhazia, another breakaway region.

Concern beyond Georgia's borders prompted European leaders, spearheaded by French President Nicolas Sarkozy, to mediate a cease-fire deal and U.S. President Bush to offer humanitarian support.

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is in France. A senior State Department official familiar with the negotiations said she will be going to Tbilisi with a cease-fire document that allows Russia to keep some troops in Georgia, but it will not be the final version of the document.  Watch the latest on Rice's mission Â»

International agreements signed in the early 1990s allow Russian peacekeepers to maintain a presence in South Ossetia and Abkhazia as part of a force including Georgians and South Ossetians.

Analysts see the conflict as a gamble initiated by Georgia, which is seeking EU and NATO membership, to test the strength of its Western allies in the face of Russia's unwillingness to see the West encroaching on its doorstep.

In five days of fighting, both sides accused the other of targeting civilians, with casualty reports in the thousands. Many more people have fled the fighting into Russia and Georgia, leaving heavily bombarded towns and cities deserted.

Despite Tuesday's cease-fire deal, accusations of ongoing hostilities have continued on both sides, and Russia's incursion into undisputed Georgian territory has adding to confusion fueled doubts that a quick solution to the conflict can be found.  Watch as a reporter is grazed by a bullet Â»

Russian Gen. Nikolai Uvarov said Russia had invaded Gori because it is Georgia's main military base and an arms munition storage there had been left unattended. iReport.com: Ask ex-Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev about the crisis

Meanwhile, Russia's deputy chief of general staff, Col. Gen. Anatoly Nogovitsyn, said that a withdrawal plan to pull troops from the breakaway region had yet to be approved by Russia's defense ministry or its president, Dmitry Medvedev.

During a Moscow visit by the leaders of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, Lavrov said that Georgia's current borders were "limited," an indication that the two breakaway regions may never agree to rejoin it.

All three voiced their unity against what Abkhazian leader Sergey Bagapsh called "those aggressors from Georgia."

South Ossetian leader Eduard Kokoity compared Georgia's initial assault on the region's capital Tskhinvali, which prompted the Russian invasion, to Germany's attempt to seize Stalingrad during World War II.  iReport.com: Are you reminded of past wars? Do you remember the Cold War?

"Tskhinvali has become the Stalingrad of the Caucusus," Kokoity said at a joint news conference.

Saakashvili suggested earlier that Russia invaded his country to establish control over the former Soviet republic, where a major oil pipeline passes through.  View a map of the region Â»

"The fact that the biggest number of bombs fell on purely economic and civilian targets clearly indicated that was a premeditated thing and it had nothing to do only with Abkhazia or South Ossetia," Saakashvili said.

Russian peacekeeping troops were also in the western Georgian city of Zugdidi, just outside Abkhazia. Video showed the Russians, clearly wearing the blue helmets that signify their peacekeeper status, at the official government residence in the town. iReport.com: How is the Russia-Georgia conflict affecting you?

U.S. officials said Russia is thought to have 15,000 or more troops in the region, between 5,000 and 7,000 more than when the fighting began.

Russia's Lavrov said Russia's operations were about "peace enforcement" in respect of Georgia, which "violates all of its obligations."

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(CNN) -- Donald Trump, businessman and CEO of The Trump Organization, knows a little something about money.

Donald Trump says President Obama is trying to solve the nation's economic woes, but it's "trial and error."

Trump spoke with CNN's Larry King about whether there should be executive pay limits, if there should be a stimulus plan and when there could be an end to the economic downturn. The following is an edited portion of the interview.

Larry King: Is Obama right or wrong to go after these executives with salary caps?

Donald Trump: Well, I think he's absolutely right. Billions of dollars is being given to banks and others. You know, once you start using taxpayer money, it's a whole new game. So I absolutely think he's right.

King: What about the whole concept of bailouts?

Trump: Well, it's a little bit different. A lot of people are not in favor of bailouts. You know, we talked about all the different things going on in this country. Let's face it, Larry, we are in a depression.

If they didn't do the bailout, you would be in depression No. 2 and maybe just as big as depression No. 1, so they really had to do something. The problem is they're giving millions and billions of dollars to banks and the banks aren't loaning it.

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King:  If you were in the Senate, would you vote for the stimulus plan?

Trump: Well, I'd vote for a stimulus plan. I'm not sure that all of the things in there are appropriate. Some of the little toys that they have are not really appropriate, and they're a little surprising that they seem to want it, because the publicity on it has been terrible.

I would certainly vote for a stimulus, but I would really vote for banks having to loan out the money because they're not doing that.

King: In your adult career, have you ever seen it worse?

Trump: No, this is the worst ever. This is the worst I've ever seen. 1990 was a bad period of time, but this is far worse, and this is worse on a really global basis. I'm looking at different countries. Every country is bad. Now they're blaming us because of what happened. You know, why not blame the United States? But every country is in trouble.

King:  Can you put the blame anywhere?

Trump: Well, look, it's something that, to a certain extent, happens. You go up, you go down. You have recessions. If you just look at the charts over the period of 150 years, you've had good times (and) you've had bad times.

Certainly, there's been a lot of greed. There's been a lot of stupidity. You know, like I say, today the banks don't have money, they don't loan money. But if you went to a bank two years ago and you wanted a $300 million loan, they'd say 'No, we don't want to do that, but we'll give you $400 million,' so I guess, to a certain extent, that's part of the problem.

King:  If you had the power, if you could wield, what would you do?

Trump: Well, the biggest problem we have is it's trial and error, Larry. I mean we've never had anything like this before. It is absolute trial and error. They're trying. The new president is trying. Bush left him with a mess -- a total mess in many different ways. I really think he's doing the best he can, but it is trial and error.

They try something, if it works, great. If it doesn't work -- and the problem is you don't really know if it's going to work for quite some time. If it's really wrong -- and it could be wrong -- we're going to really have a mess in two years.

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text: says

text: President

text: Obama

text: is

text: trying

text: to

text: solve

text: the

text: nation

text: 's

text: economic

text: woes

text: but

text: it

text: 's

text: trial

text: and

text: error

text: Trump

text: spoke

text: with

text: CNN

text: 's

text: Larry

text: King

text: about

text: whether

text: there

text: should

text: be

text: executive

text: pay

text: limits

text: if

text: there

text: should

text: be

text: a

text: stimulus

text: plan

text: and

text: when

text: there

text: could

text: be

text: an

text: end

text: to

text: the

text: economic

text: downturn

text: The

text: following

text: is

text: an

text: edited

text: portion

text: of

text: the

text: interview

text: Larry

text: King

text: Is

text: Obama

text: right

text: or

text: wrong

text: to

text: go

text: after

text: these

text: executives

text: with

text: salary

text: caps

text: Donald

text: Trump

text: Well

text: I

text: think

text: he

text: 's

text: absolutely

text: right

text: Billions

text: of

text: dollars

text: is

text: being

text: given

text: to

text: banks

text: and

text: others

text: You

text: know

text: once

text: you

text: start

text: using

text: taxpayer

text: money

text: it

text: 's

text: a

text: whole

text: new

text: game

text: So

text: I

text: absolutely

text: think

text: he

text: 's

text: right

text: King

text: What

text: about

text: the

text: whole

text: concept

text: of

text: bailouts

text: Trump

text: Well

text: it

text: 's

text: a

text: little

text: bit

text: different

text: A

text: lot

text: of

text: people

text: are

text: not

text: in

text: favor

text: of

text: bailouts

text: You

text: know

text: we

text: talked

text: about

text: all

text: the

text: different

text: things

text: going

text: on

text: in

text: this

text: country

text: Let

text: 's

text: face

text: it

text: Larry

text: we

text: are

text: in

text: a

text: depression

text: If

text: they

text: did

text: n't

text: do

text: the

text: bailout

text: you

text: would

text: be

text: in

text: depression

text: No

text: and

text: maybe

text: just

text: as

text: big

text: as

text: depression

text: No

text: so

text: they

text: really

text: had

text: to

text: do

text: something

text: The

text: problem

text: is

text: they

text: 're

text: giving

text: millions

text: and

text: billions

text: of

text: dollars

text: to

text: banks

text: and

text: the

text: banks

text: are

text: n't

text: loaning

text: it

text: If

text: you

text: are

text: a

text: prime

text: customer

text: of

text: a

text: bank

text: and

text: if

text: you

text: need

text: cents

text: you

text: ca

text: n't

text: get

text: it

text: The

text: banks

text: are

text: out

text: of

text: business

text: They

text: 're

text: not

text: loaning

text: Now

text: billions

text: of

text: dollars

text: has

text: been

text: given

text: They

text: 're

text: supposed

text: to

text: be

text: loaning

text: out

text: that

text: money

text: and

text: they

text: 're

text: using

text: it

text: for

text: other

text: purposes

text: so

text: it

text: is

text: a

text: real

text: mess

text: King

text: If

text: you

text: were

text: in

text: the

text: Senate

text: would

text: you

text: vote

text: for

text: the

text: stimulus

text: plan

text: Trump

text: Well

text: I

text: 'd

text: vote

text: for

text: a

text: stimulus

text: plan

text: I

text: 'm

text: not

text: sure

text: that

text: all

text: of

text: the

text: things

text: in

text: there

text: are

text: appropriate

text: Some

text: of

text: the

text: little

text: toys

text: that

text: they

text: have

text: are

text: not

text: really

text: appropriate

text: and

text: they

text: 're

text: a

text: little

text: surprising

text: that

text: they

text: seem

text: to

text: want

text: it

text: because

text: the

text: publicity

text: on

text: it

text: has

text: been

text: terrible

text: I

text: would

text: certainly

text: vote

text: for

text: a

text: stimulus

text: but

text: I

text: would

text: really

text: vote

text: for

text: banks

text: having

text: to

text: loan

text: out

text: the

text: money

text: because

text: they

text: 're

text: not

text: doing

text: that

text: King

text: In

text: your

text: adult

text: career

text: have

text: you

text: ever

text: seen

text: it

text: worse

text: Trump

text: No

text: this

text: is

text: the

text: worst

text: ever

text: This

text: is

text: the

text: worst

text: I

text: 've

text: ever

text: seen

text: was

text: a

text: bad

text: period

text: of

text: time

text: but

text: this

text: is

text: far

text: worse

text: and

text: this

text: is

text: worse

text: on

text: a

text: really

text: global

text: basis

text: I

text: 'm

text: looking

text: at

text: different

text: countries

text: Every

text: country

text: is

text: bad

text: Now

text: they

text: 're

text: blaming

text: us

text: because

text: of

text: what

text: happened

text: You

text: know

text: why

text: not

text: blame

text: the

text: United

text: States

text: But

text: every

text: country

text: is

text: in

text: trouble

text: King

text: Can

text: you

text: put

text: the

text: blame

text: anywhere

text: Trump

text: Well

text: look

text: it

text: 's

text: something

text: that

text: to

text: a

text: certain

text: extent

text: happens

text: You

text: go

text: up

text: you

text: go

text: down

text: You

text: have

text: recessions

text: If

text: you

text: just

text: look

text: at

text: the

text: charts

text: over

text: the

text: period

text: of

text: years

text: you

text: 've

text: had

text: good

text: times

text: and

text: you

text: 've

text: had

text: bad

text: times

text: Certainly

text: there

text: 's

text: been

text: a

text: lot

text: of

text: greed

text: There

text: 's

text: been

text: a

text: lot

text: of

text: stupidity

text: You

text: know

text: like

text: I

text: say

text: today

text: the

text: banks

text: do

text: n't

text: have

text: money

text: they

text: do

text: n't

text: loan

text: money

text: But

text: if

text: you

text: went

text: to

text: a

text: bank

text: two

text: years

text: ago

text: and

text: you

text: wanted

text: a

text: million

text: loan

text: they

text: 'd

text: say

text: No

text: we

text: do

text: n't

text: want

text: to

text: do

text: that

text: but

text: we

text: 'll

text: give

text: you

text: million

text: so

text: I

text: guess

text: to

text: a

text: certain

text: extent

text: that

text: 's

text: part

text: of

text: the

text: problem

text: King

text: If

text: you

text: had

text: the

text: power

text: if

text: you

text: could

text: wield

text: what

text: would

text: you

text: do

text: Trump

text: Well

text: the

text: biggest

text: problem

text: we

text: have

text: is

text: it

text: 's

text: trial

text: and

text: error

text: Larry

text: I

text: mean

text: we

text: 've

text: never

text: had

text: anything

text: like

text: this

text: before

text: It

text: is

text: absolute

text: trial

text: and

text: error

text: They

text: 're

text: trying

text: The

text: new

text: president

text: is

text: trying

text: Bush

text: left

text: him

text: with

text: a

text: mess

text: a

text: total

text: mess

text: in

text: many

text: different

text: ways

text: I

text: really

text: think

text: he

text: 's

text: doing

text: the

text: best

text: he

text: can

text: but

text: it

text: is

text: trial

text: and

text: error

text: They

text: try

text: something

text: if

text: it

text: works

text: great

text: If

text: it

text: does

text: n't

text: work

text: and

text: the

text: problem

text: is

text: you

text: do

text: n't

text: really

text: know

text: if

text: it

text: 's

text: going

text: to

text: work

text: for

text: quite

text: some

text: time

text: If

text: it

text: 's

text: really

text: wrong

text: and

text: it

text: could

text: be

text: wrong

text: we

text: 're

text: going

text: to

text: really

text: have

text: a

text: mess

text: in

text: two

text: years

question: what Donald Trump says?

answer: Well, I think he's absolutely right. Billions of dollars is being given to banks and others. You know, once you start using taxpayer money, it's a whole new game. So I absolutely think he's right.

text: Well, I think he's absolutely right. Billions of dollars is being given to banks and others. You know, once you start using taxpayer money, it's a whole new game. So I absolutely think he's right.

question: what Obama is doing?

answer: trying to solve the nation's economic woes,

text: trying to solve the nation's economic woes,

question: Who should have caps?

answer: executives

text: executives

question: What did Trump say?

answer: President Obama is trying to solve the nation's economic woes, but it's "trial and error."

text: President Obama is trying to solve the nation's economic woes, but it's "trial and error."

question: where Banks are getting billionsÂ¡

answer: taxpayer money,

text: taxpayer money,

question: Who is getting billions?

answer: banks and others.

text: banks and others.


text:
(CNN) -- Are airports equipped for the crunch of tech-savvy holiday travelers? Not really, according to a report from the folks at PCWorld, who say that only a fraction of the country's airports are ready for takeoff when it comes to meeting passengers' electronic needs.

"Overall, I would give the top 40 airports a C grade for accommodating tech-savvy travelers," senior editor Mark Sullivan said. "The airports, together, offer an average of 5.5 outlets per gate. When you consider that most people are now carrying devices that need wireless service and battery charge-up, this number is woefully low."

Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) tops the magazine's "20 Best U.S. Airports for Tech Travelers" list released this week. The airport got decent marks across all categories, and its Wi-Fi and cellular signals helped it edge out the competition.

Following close behind is New York's JFK International (JFK), whose $800 million Terminal 5 wowed researchers. Delta Air Lines' terminals 2 and 3 at JFK also impressed them, with restaurants that had iPad kiosks to take your order in the gate area and have your food delivered there. Overall, the airport offered more electrical outlets than any other and "decent" free Wi-Fi.

The country's busiest airport, Georgia's Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International (ATL), came in third place. The electrical outlets available to passengers totaled 1,377, an average 8.1 per gate.

No. 20 on the "best" list? Oregon's Portland International, which managed to rate in all categories despite what PCWorld called its "painfully slow (but free) airport Wi-Fi."

PCWorld researchers visited 3,300 gates, testing more than 17,000 electrical outlets, 5,000 USB ports and 1,350 charging stations during an audit of the 40 busiest airports in the United States. Auditors also conducted hundreds of tests of airport Wi-Fi and cellular broadband service.

Among the airports that didn't make the top 20 list, Denver International came in last, at No. 40.

The exhaustive study took nearly four months and examined the features, or lack thereof, that were common frustrations for tech-savvy travelers. These included the average number of electrical outlets, USB ports, charging stations, Internet kiosks and workspace available per airline gate.

"I believe this feature to be the largest and most complex undertaking in the magazine's 28-year history," senior editor Mark Sullivan said.

The bottom line? Even among the winners, PCWorldÃÂ¹s researchers concluded that there's plenty of room for improvement.

text: CNN

text: Are

text: airports

text: equipped

text: for

text: the

text: crunch

text: of

text: tech

text: savvy

text: holiday

text: travelers

text: Not

text: really

text: according

text: to

text: a

text: report

text: from

text: the

text: folks

text: at

text: PCWorld

text: who

text: say

text: that

text: only

text: a

text: fraction

text: of

text: the

text: country

text: 's

text: airports

text: are

text: ready

text: for

text: takeoff

text: when

text: it

text: comes

text: to

text: meeting

text: passengers

text: electronic

text: needs

text: Overall

text: I

text: would

text: give

text: the

text: top

text: airports

text: a

text: C

text: grade

text: for

text: accommodating

text: tech

text: savvy

text: travelers

text: senior

text: editor

text: Mark

text: Sullivan

text: said

text: The

text: airports

text: together

text: offer

text: an

text: average

text: of

text: outlets

text: per

text: gate

text: When

text: you

text: consider

text: that

text: most

text: people

text: are

text: now

text: carrying

text: devices

text: that

text: need

text: wireless

text: service

text: and

text: battery

text: charge

text: up

text: this

text: number

text: is

text: woefully

text: low

text: Dallas

text: Fort

text: Worth

text: International

text: DFW

text: tops

text: the

text: magazine

text: 's

text: Best

text: U.S.

text: Airports

text: for

text: Tech

text: Travelers

text: list

text: released

text: this

text: week

text: The

text: airport

text: got

text: decent

text: marks

text: across

text: all

text: categories

text: and

text: its

text: Wi

text: Fi

text: and

text: cellular

text: signals

text: helped

text: it

text: edge

text: out

text: the

text: competition

text: Following

text: close

text: behind

text: is

text: New

text: York

text: 's

text: JFK

text: International

text: JFK

text: whose

text: million

text: Terminal

text: wowed

text: researchers

text: Delta

text: Air

text: Lines

text: terminals

text: and

text: at

text: JFK

text: also

text: impressed

text: them

text: with

text: restaurants

text: that

text: had

text: iPad

text: kiosks

text: to

text: take

text: your

text: order

text: in

text: the

text: gate

text: area

text: and

text: have

text: your

text: food

text: delivered

text: there

text: Overall

text: the

text: airport

text: offered

text: more

text: electrical

text: outlets

text: than

text: any

text: other

text: and

text: decent

text: free

text: Wi

text: Fi

text: The

text: country

text: 's

text: busiest

text: airport

text: Georgia

text: 's

text: Hartsfield

text: Jackson

text: Atlanta

text: International

text: ATL

text: came

text: in

text: third

text: place

text: The

text: electrical

text: outlets

text: available

text: to

text: passengers

text: totaled

text: an

text: average

text: per

text: gate

text: No

text: on

text: the

text: best

text: list

text: Oregon

text: 's

text: Portland

text: International

text: which

text: managed

text: to

text: rate

text: in

text: all

text: categories

text: despite

text: what

text: PCWorld

text: called

text: its

text: painfully

text: slow

text: but

text: free

text: airport

text: Wi

text: Fi

text: PCWorld

text: researchers

text: visited

text: gates

text: testing

text: more

text: than

text: electrical

text: outlets

text: USB

text: ports

text: and

text: charging

text: stations

text: during

text: an

text: audit

text: of

text: the

text: busiest

text: airports

text: in

text: the

text: United

text: States

text: Auditors

text: also

text: conducted

text: hundreds

text: of

text: tests

text: of

text: airport

text: Wi

text: Fi

text: and

text: cellular

text: broadband

text: service

text: Among

text: the

text: airports

text: that

text: did

text: n't

text: make

text: the

text: top

text: list

text: Denver

text: International

text: came

text: in

text: last

text: at

text: No

text: The

text: exhaustive

text: study

text: took

text: nearly

text: four

text: months

text: and

text: examined

text: the

text: features

text: or

text: lack

text: thereof

text: that

text: were

text: common

text: frustrations

text: for

text: tech

text: savvy

text: travelers

text: These

text: included

text: the

text: average

text: number

text: of

text: electrical

text: outlets

text: USB

text: ports

text: charging

text: stations

text: Internet

text: kiosks

text: and

text: workspace

text: available

text: per

text: airline

text: gate

text: I

text: believe

text: this

text: feature

text: to

text: be

text: the

text: largest

text: and

text: most

text: complex

text: undertaking

text: in

text: the

text: magazine

text: 's

text: history

text: senior

text: editor

text: Mark

text: Sullivan

text: said

text: The

text: bottom

text: line

text: Even

text: among

text: the

text: winners

text: researchers

text: concluded

text: that

text: there

text: 's

text: plenty

text: of

text: room

text: for

text: improvement

question: how many gates were visited by pc world?

answer: 3,300

question: Who researched 3300 gates, testing outlets, and ports?

answer: PCWorld researchers

text: PCWorld researchers

question: What does PCWorld say about US airports?

answer: are ready for takeoff when it comes to meeting passengers' electronic needs.

text: are ready for takeoff when it comes to meeting passengers' electronic needs.

question: who says u.s airports does not fulfill electronic needs?

answer: PCWorld,

text: PCWorld,

question: The airport only offers 5.5 outlets per what?

answer: gate.

text: gate.

question: Who says only a fraction of U.S. airports fulfill electronic needs?

answer: a report from the folks at PCWorld,

text: a report from the folks at PCWorld,

question: What did PCWorld researchers visit?

answer: 3,300 gates,

text: 3,300 gates,

question: What's the average outlets per gate?

answer: 5.5

question: how much outlets does airports offer?

answer: 5.5


text:
(CNN) -- It arrived in Rich Stevens' mailbox a few weeks ago: the notice that Citibank had "rate-jacked" the Visa cards belonging to him and his wife.

Some credit card holders have seen their interest rates go up dramatically, a practice called "rate-jacking."

"In my case, from 9.5 percent to 16.99," the 54-year-old nurse from the Long Island hamlet of Merrick, New York, told CNN. And his wife's rate zoomed from 7.95 percent to 16.99 percent, he said.

Stevens said he did not know why the rates had soared; his credit rating is great.

But, like thousands of other credit card customers around the nation, he has been notified his rate is skyrocketing.

"It almost borders on loan-sharking, from my perspective," he said.

In the blogosphere, writers are livid at the instant rate hikes -- called "rate-jacking."

Citigroup seems to be the target of most bloggers' venom -- partly because Citigroup issues so many credit cards and partly because Citi began sending the notices at about the same time it was getting a $20 billion, taxpayer-financed government bailout.

No one at Citigroup would talk on camera to CNN about the matter. Instead, the company issued a written statement, which said: "To continue funding in this difficult credit and funding environment, Citi is repricing a group of customers."

Citi told CNN that anyone unhappy with the new rates can opt out and continue paying the lower interest, but they must close their account when their card expires. It's all in the fine print.

Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-New York, said she is sick of the fine print.

She agreed that credit card companies get away with whatever they want, as long at they put their desires into the fine print.

"They have this provision that says they can raise the rate -- any time, any reason," she said.

In September, Maloney got the House to pass by an overwhelming margin of 200 votes the "credit card holders' bill of rights," which would have stopped rate-jacking and the imposition of other fees by banks.

But the bill has languished in the Senate since September. "There's a lot of pushback from the financial industry," she said.  Watch how card companies are trying to woo customers Â»

Critics say that pushback is linked to donations from the banking industry to the politicians responsible for regulating credit cards.

The chairman of the Senate Banking Committee is Christopher Dodd. His staff said the Connecticut Democrat has his own credit card bill containing tough language to stop things like rate-jacking and shortening of billing cycles -- two issues that anger consumers.

But even Dodd's own bill has failed to gain traction -- it has sat since July.

Dodd himself received more than $4 million from the financial sector during the last campaign, according to campaign records. His office did not respond to CNN's questions about that.

It did say that he has tried repeatedly to protect consumers, but added, "legislation has been met with stiff opposition by the credit card industry."

On Thursday, the Federal Reserve is expected to vote on its own new rules regarding credit cards, rules in the works for four years that could clamp down on rate-jacking.

Whatever is passed, Maloney said, probably would not take effect until 2010.

text: CNN

text: It

text: arrived

text: in

text: Rich

text: Stevens

text: mailbox

text: a

text: few

text: weeks

text: ago

text: the

text: notice

text: that

text: Citibank

text: had

text: rate

text: jacked

text: the

text: Visa

text: cards

text: belonging

text: to

text: him

text: and

text: his

text: wife

text: Some

text: credit

text: card

text: holders

text: have

text: seen

text: their

text: interest

text: rates

text: go

text: up

text: dramatically

text: a

text: practice

text: called

text: rate

text: jacking

text: In

text: my

text: case

text: from

text: percent

text: to

text: the

text: old

text: nurse

text: from

text: the

text: Long

text: Island

text: hamlet

text: of

text: Merrick

text: New

text: York

text: told

text: CNN

text: And

text: his

text: wife

text: 's

text: rate

text: zoomed

text: from

text: percent

text: to

text: percent

text: he

text: said

text: Stevens

text: said

text: he

text: did

text: not

text: know

text: why

text: the

text: rates

text: had

text: soared

text: his

text: credit

text: rating

text: is

text: great

text: But

text: like

text: thousands

text: of

text: other

text: credit

text: card

text: customers

text: around

text: the

text: nation

text: he

text: has

text: been

text: notified

text: his

text: rate

text: is

text: skyrocketing

text: It

text: almost

text: borders

text: on

text: loan

text: sharking

text: from

text: my

text: perspective

text: he

text: said

text: In

text: the

text: blogosphere

text: writers

text: are

text: livid

text: at

text: the

text: instant

text: rate

text: hikes

text: called

text: rate

text: jacking

text: Citigroup

text: seems

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(CNN)  -- China's Olympic gold medal gymnasts have been officially cleared of lying about their ages.

Widespread reports claimed that gold medal winner  He Kexin was only 14 years of age.

An investigation was launched after the Beijing Games over claims that several members of their women's squad were  ineligible because they were not 16 in the year of competition.

But on Wednesday, the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) closed a near six-week probe saying that documentation provided confirms they were old enough to compete.

The inquiry had been called for by the International Olympic Committee who were concerned that the controversy undermined the results of the competition in Beijing.  Watch tiny gymnasts work out ÃÂ»

China provided passports, ID cards and family registers for He Kexin, Yang Yilin, Jiang Yuyuan, Deng Linlin and Li Shanshan, all showing the girls were 16 or would turn 16 this year.

"We have received all we could possibly ask for," FIG secretary general Andre Gueisbuhler told Associated Press. "All of them confirm the age that they should be, so what can we do ?" he added.

The Chinese women's gymnastics team won a gold medal in a team competition in Beijing and five members won individual medals.

One of the challenges came from a blogger known as "Stryde Hax." The blogger claimed to have uncovered proof that He Kexin is only 14.

In Internet searches, "Stryde Hax" allegedly uncovered Web pages showing lists complied by China's General Administration of Sport that show a 1994 date of birth for He. That would make her 14 -- too young to compete in the Olympic Games.

CNN was not been able to independently verify the information, but snapshots of the Web pages appeared to back up the claim. Other bloggers joined the search and reported similar results.

The New York Times conducted its own investigation, producing similar results that seem to implicate He and two other members of the team. The Times uncovered a 2006 biography on He that lists her birthday as January 1, 1994.

But Chinese gymnastics coaches have stridently defended their team.

"Asians have different figures than people from the West, so that's what caused their suspicion," said Huang Yubin, head coach of the men's and women's teams, referring to media inquiries. "They shouldn't be suspicious."

It was not all good news for the Chinese gymnasts, with the FIG announcing that it would step up its investigation into the 2000 team which won the bronze medal at the Sydney Olympics, particularly Dong Fangxiao and Yang Yun.

Yang, who also won a bronze medal on the uneven bars in 2000, said in a June 2007 interview that aired on state broadcaster China Central Television that she was only 14 in Sydney

Dong, who was a technical official for the Chinese team in Beijing, allegedly provided documents for her credentials which indicated that she too must have been only 14 in 2000.

Gueisbuhler warned that legal and statute of limitation issues might hinder further scrutiny and sanctions against the 2000 Chinese team.

Underage gymnasts have been a problem since the 1980s, when the minimum age was raised from 14 to 15 to protect young athletes from serious injuries. The minimum age was raised to its current 16 in 1997.

North Korea was barred from the 1993 world championships after FIG officials discovered Kim Gwang Suk, the 1991 gold medalist on uneven bars, was listed as 15 for three years in a row.

Romania admitted in 2002 that several gymnasts' ages had been falsified, including Olympic medalists Gina Gogean and Alexandra Marinescu.

In women's gymnastics, younger teenage girls can have an advantage over older competitors due to their often smaller, more agile bodies and lighter frames.

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question: Why did the IOC order the probe?

answer: The inquiry had been called for by the International Olympic Committee who were concerned that the controversy undermined the results of the competition in Beijing.

text: The inquiry had been called for by the International Olympic Committee who were concerned that the controversy undermined the results of the competition in Beijing.

question: What was the ruling on the Chinese gymnasts?

answer: officially cleared of lying about their ages.

text: officially cleared of lying about their ages.

question: What are China's gold medal gymnasts cleared of?

answer: lying about their ages.

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question: What country's gymnasts were cleared of competing?

answer: China's

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question: Further doubt was cast on what squad?

answer: China's Olympic gold medal gymnasts

text: China's Olympic gold medal gymnasts

question: Who ordered the probe after claims that the Chinese squad was too young?

answer: International Olympic Committee

text: International Olympic Committee

question: Who had further doubt cast on them?

answer: China's Olympic gold medal gymnasts

text: China's Olympic gold medal gymnasts

question: IOC ordered what?

answer: The inquiry

text: The inquiry

question: Who ordered the investigation?

answer: International Gymnastics Federation

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question: What is the age limit for gymnast to be able to compete in the Olympics?

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question: What was the claim about China's gymnasts?

answer: their ages.

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question: Who announced the decision after investigation?

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