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(CNN) -- The ocean water around Chatham, Massachusetts, is playing host to some unwelcome guests this holiday weekend: sharks.

Only 41 unprovoked shark attacks have been reported in the U.S. since 2008.

At least one large shark sighting was confirmed Friday by Greg Skomal, shark expert for the state's Division of Marine Fisheries.

That sighting occurred off the eastern shore of Monomoy Island, a National Wildlife Refuge off the southern elbow of Cape Cod, according to Lisa Capone, Massachusetts Department of Energy and Environmental Affairs press secretary.

The species, though not confirmed, was "most likely" a great white shark, she said.

The sighting came a day after Skomal reported as many as five large sharks were seen near the island, about a mile or more away from Chatham's Lighthouse Beach, a public swimming area.

Capone said Skomal was searching the area of the island Friday afternoon, though weather conditions were "not ideal," with fog and wind.

Meanwhile, officials were advising residents and visitors to be cautious while visiting the beaches this weekend.

"It is the eve of the last holiday weekend of summer, and we want to make sure folks on the Cape are aware," Capone said.

Chatham's Harbor Master's office issued a public notice after the sightings Thursday, saying the waters surrounding Chatham are "now a year-round home to a few thousand seals." Seals are a main source of food for large sharks, and as recently as August 28, a large shark was seen feeding on the body of a seal near Chatham's waters, the notice said.

It advised people to avoid swimming near seals.

A statement issued Friday by Chatham town officials said "beaches will be closed immediately" if a shark is sighted.

Paul Zuest, general manager of the Chatham Bars Inn, said he and his staff also have been instructing their guests to be cautious. The hotel, about two miles away from where the sharks were spotted, has posted signs providing information on the sightings.

George H. Burgess, director of the Florida Program for Shark Research and curator of the Florida Museum of Natural History's International Shark Attack File, said that on average, sharks have killed four people annually worldwide for the past several years.

"The chances of us as individuals entering the sea and not coming back as a result of a shark attack are slim to none when you consider the millions upon millions of people that go into the sea each year," he said.

The museum's shark attack file lists 41 unprovoked shark attacks in U.S. waters in 2008, with one fatality, in California. Most of the attacks, 32, occurred in Florida.

Massachussetts has recorded only four shark attacks since 1670, two of which have been fatal. The last fatal shark attack in Massachussetts occurred in 1936.

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WASHINGTON (CNN)  -- Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice defended the Bush administration's policies on the interrogation of terrorism suspects Sunday, saying former President George W. Bush would not have authorized anything illegal.

Condoleeza Rice says George W. Bush was clear that interrogations during his presidency should break no law.

"He was also very clear that we would do nothing -- nothing -- that was against the law or against our obligations internationally," Rice said during an appearance at a Washington school.

A Senate Intelligence Committee report released in April showed Rice was among top Bush advisers who approved the CIA's use of waterboarding -- a technique considered a form of torture for centuries -- on terrorism suspects in its custody. Recently released Bush administration memos showed Justice Department officials argued that waterboarding, sleep deprivation and other coercive practices did not violate U.S. laws against torture.

The disclosures have led to calls for investigations of former Bush administration officials. But Rice said Bush "was only willing to authorize policies that were legal in order to protect the country" after al Qaeda's September 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington.

"I hope people understand that it was a struggle, it was a difficult time," she said. "We were all terrified of another attack on this country because September 11 was the worst day of my life in government -- watching 3,000 Americans die because these people attacked us." But she added, "Even under those most difficult circumstances, the president was not prepared to do something illegal."

President Obama has banned the use of techniques such as waterboarding, which he called torture. His administration released the Justice Department memos in response to a lawsuit from the American Civil Liberties Union, and he called the legal reasoning behind the memos "a mistake."

Unlike former Vice President Dick Cheney, who criticized the release of the documents, Rice did not criticize the Obama administration's decision. iReport.com: Share your take on interrogation techniques

"I have said many times that the Obama administration is now in power, and he's my president, too," she said. "And, I owe him my loyalty. I will not agree with everything that they do. I will not agree with everything that they say."

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(CNN) -- When 3-year-old Rowan Isaacson darted away from his father and dived into a herd of grazing horses, it easily could have been the end of the small autistic boy. He was babbling under the hooves of a boss mare.

Rupert Isaacson says he noticed immediate improvement in his son's language skills when he started riding.

"I thought he was going to get trampled," recalled Rupert Isaacson, Rowan's father.

But the horse, Betsy, dipped her head and chewed with her mouth in submission. Isaacson, who had trained horses for a living, had never seen it happen so spontaneously. Rowan had seemingly made a connection.

The Austin, Texas, family had been struggling with Rowan.

His wild tantrums were nearly driving Isaacson and his wife, Kristin Neff, to divorce. All the while, little Rowan was becoming unreachable.

"He would just stare off into space," Isaacson said. "I was worried it was going to get progressively worse and that eventually, he might float away from us entirely. Luckily, right about that time is when he met Betsy."

Isaacson began riding Betsy, a neighbor's horse, with Rowan. He says he noticed immediate improvement in his son's language skills.  Watch Rowan and Betsy Â»

"He would start to answer. He would start to talk. We would do song games up there on the saddle. I would take books up there in the saddle," Isaacson said.

Autism specialists say that horse riding can be effective in gaining access to autistic children.

Experts make a distinction between the kind of recreational therapeutic riding Isaacson was using with Rowan and hippotherapy, which is a medical treatment that uses horses and is supervised by a licensed speech-language pathologist.

"People perceive it's the interaction with the horse that's making the change. However, the movement of the horse is extremely powerful, and it's that movement that's having neurological impact on the autistic child," said Ruth Dismuke-Blakely, a speech-language pathologist and hippotherapy clinical specialist in Edgewood, New Mexico.

According to preliminary analysis of an ongoing study by Dismuke-Blakely, hippotherapy has been shown to increase verbal communication skills in some autistic children in as little as 18 to 25 minutes of riding once a week for eight weeks.

"We see their arousal and affect change. They become more responsive to cues. If they are at a point where they are using verbal cues, you get more words," Dismuke-Blakely said. "It's almost like it opens them up. It gives us access."

She cautions that a horse's movements can be powerful. For some autistic children, riding too long can overstimulate their nervous system, leading to more erratic behavior.

On Betsy, Rowan was at ease. After about three weeks, Isaacson says, Rowan's improved behavior was translating into the home and outside world as well.

But not consistently.

In late 2004, Isaacson, a human rights activist, brought a delegation of African bushmen from Botswana to the United Nations. Among the men were traditional healers, who offered to work with Rowan.

Isaacson says he was skeptical, but he had experience with the bushmen and allowed the healers to lay their hands on his son.

"I was kind of flabbergasted at Rowan's response. For about four days while they were with him, he started to lose some of his symptoms. He started to point, which was a milestone he hadn't achieved," Isaacson said.

When the tribal healers left, Rowan regressed.

Isaacson says he couldn't help but wonder what would happen if he were to give Rowan a longer exposure to the two things that he seemed to have responded well to: horses and shamans.

"I know it sounds completely crazy," he said. "I just had a gut feeling."

Isaacson took his wife and son to Mongolia.

"It's the oldest horse culture on the planet. Everyone still gets around on a horse there -- so a nomadic culture. The word 'shaman' comes from there," Isaacson said, explaining his decision. "I just thought, 'Well, what if we went there and rode across the steppe and visited traditional healers? You know, what might happen for Rowan? Might there be some positive outcomes?' "

Trekking across the Mongolian prairie on horseback, Isaacson says, Rowan's behavior was changed dramatically.

"Rowan was not cured of autism out there," Isaacson stressed. "The word 'cure' is not in my vocabulary for this. Rowan came back without three key dysfunctions that he had. He went out to Mongolia incontinent and still suffering from these neurological firestorms -- so tantruming all the time and cut off from his peers, unable to make friends -- and he came back with those three dysfunctions having gone."

Isaacson credits Rowan's improvement to horses and time in nature -- and to shamanic healing, which he says he simply can't explain rationally.

Isaacson has written a book, "The Horse Boy," about Rowan's autism.

Rowan, now 7, rides Betsy by himself. His parents never abandoned more orthodox treatments for his autism, and Rowan's applied behavioral analysis therapist has him studying math and English at the third-grade level -- a full year ahead of some of his peers.

"He's just becoming a very functional autistic person," Isaacson said.

As far as the Isaacson family's journey took them, it is the same hard slog facing millions of families gripped by autism.

"A lot of the parents go to the ends of the Earth in their own living rooms every day," Isaacson said. "I mean, we had more stressful car rides to the grocery store than any of the stresses and challenges of the trip to Mongolia."

You don't have to get on a horse -- or plane to Siberia -- for relief. For autism families, Isaacson encourages parents to simply follow their instincts and listen to what their child shows them.

"In our case, it was horses in Mongolia and these shamans," Isaacson said. "It could just as easily have been bicycles and, you know, steam trains. And if it had been, we'd have done a steam train journey. We'd have done whatever Rowan seemed to be showing us he wanted to do, because that was where he was intrinsically motivated."

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question: Where is the family traveling through?

answer: Mongolia.

text: Mongolia.

question: Who has autism?

answer: Rowan Isaacson

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question: Who is Rowan Isaacson?

answer: small autistic boy.

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question: Who can ride horses?

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(OPRAH.com) -- Oprah has always said that mothers have the most difficult job on earth, and actress Jenny McCarthy is one mom who has never backed down from a challenge.

Doctors removed Monica's uterus, ovaries, gallbladder and part of her colon, along with her legs and arms.

Jenny has been an outspoken advocate for parents of children with autism since her son was diagnosed with the disease two and a half years ago.

In her new book, "Mother Warriors," Jenny tells the story of other moms fighting for their special-needs kids.

So when Oprah heard about Monica, another mom fighting for her children, she thought Jenny would be just the person to get this mother warrior's story.

After going through a painful divorce, Monica met Tony when she least expected it. Monica already had a 9-year-old daughter, but soon after she and Tony got engaged, they were thrilled to be expecting another bundle of joy.

In August 2007, she had a C-section, and though she worried about complications, Monica delivered a healthy baby girl. But hours after Sofia was born, Monica began running a fever. No one was concerned at first -- Monica figured it was just hormones -- but three days later the fever hadn't broken, and Monica's abdomen was swollen and painful. iReport.com: What do you think about this story? Sound off on video

The doctors at Monica's hospital thought she might be infected with a deadly strain of bacteria. They flew her to a hospital in Boston where she was diagnosed with necrotizing fasciitis, also known as flesh-eating bacteria.

Defying the odds, Monica survived, but many of her organs didn't. The doctors removed Monica's uterus, ovaries, gallbladder and part of her colon that same day.

Within four weeks, Monica's infection had restricted the blood flow to her arms and legs. Her nurses cleaned her limbs every day, and she knew they were trying to keep her from seeing the damage. But Monica wanted to face the disease head on. "I needed to know what I was up against. I didn't want to be shielded anymore," Monica says.

Eventually, doctors told Monica they had to amputate both arms and both legs. The surgery sounded scary, but Monica was determined to put it behind her and get back to her daughters.

"I was frightened at first, but when they told me [my arms and legs] had to be amputated, it was: 'Do it. I've got to go home,'" Monica says. "[I thought,] 'I have a life to live and it's not here, and until you amputate, I can't move forward.'"

After her amputation, Monica spent two months in the hospital, where she underwent a total of 37 surgeries. As Monica grew stronger, Tony realized there was no reason to postpone their wedding any longer -- they got married in the hospital chapel in October, 2007.

Monica spent the next two months going through grueling rehabilitation.

"She's a fighter," Tony says. "If they told her two hours of physical therapy a day, she'd ask to double it up to four. She wanted to come home as soon as possible. They didn't think she'd ever walk again, but she made it happen."

Right before Christmas, Monica got what she'd been waiting for. She was given the okay to go home to her husband and two daughters.

A year later, Jenny visited Monica and her family at their home outside Boston, Massachusetts. "I had a big aha! moment after spending six hours with her. Monica accepted what is. She looked down and said: 'Okay, this is the situation. I can't change this, so I might as well surrender to it,'" Jenny says. "When she does that, she is able to move forward in peace." Oprah.com: Jenny McCarthy answers parenting questions

Nurses and doctors say they expected a "why me?" breakdown from Monica while she was in the hospital, but it never happened.

"I did have moments of 'If God just left me one arm or one leg, life would be a little bit easier,' but that's not the way it went," Monica says. "You make do with what you have. I could still love my girls. The bottom line was I am still here."

Monica's not the only warrior in this family. Jenny calls Tony a daddy warrior because he always stood by Monica and their family. "I actually considered not marrying him because I wasn't the person he agreed to marry," Monica says. "But then I realized he loves me. He's here, and he's my heart. I'm still a woman, and I still have a heart and a mind, regardless of whether I have arms or legs."

Tony says that there was never even a moment when he considered leaving Monica.

"She was the same person inside, so nothing had changed," he says. "At one point, they went to bring in a preacher to give her last rights, and I turned him away and said: 'No, she's got a lot to fight for. She's not going anywhere, she'll be here for our family.' And she was. She is."

Monica's family has been there for her too. When 9-year-old Madalyn found out about the surgeries, she took the news well.

"She'd been watching 'Dancing with the Stars,' and Heather Mills was on," Monica says. "I told her, 'Well, I won't be doing back flips.' But she was excited and said, 'You can be bionic mom.'"

At Monica's house, she and Jenny had a mom-to-mom chat about the issues that mother warriors face. "Within the autism community, one of the things that we, as mothers, miss so much is being able to caress our children, because they don't want to be touched," Jenny says. "Do you experience that?"

Monica says she has similar moments of sadness. "For a while, I really couldn't lift Sofia up," she says. "I could hug Madalyn and have her hug me back, so that was good, but I miss being able to braid her hair, paint her fingernails, toenails -- the things that moms and daughters do."

All mothers face frustrations, but Monica's come with tasks that used to be simple. "I get frustrated about not being to do everything that I used to do," she says. "Everything is different -- things as simple as picking up a pen or signing a paper for Madalyn at school."

Monica hasn't let any of these obstacles stop her from living her life to the fullest. She does everything a mom would do, including paying the bills, which can take her up to three hours. "It's the ultimate practice in patience," Jenny says.  Oprah.com: Meet more inspirational moms!

"What good are you to your children if you're miserable? What are you teaching them? That you give up? That's not what I want to teach my kids," Monica says. "I want my girls to know that their mother's a fighter."

Monica's been adjusting to her new life for a little over a year, and she says her strength comes from her support system -- from family and friends to people at the hospital and rehab facility. There are more surgeries to come, she says, but she's taking it one day at a time.

"I've come to the realization that things are as they are, and you have to move forward. Life goes on," she says. "There's no sense dwelling on it -- that just hurts too much and you don't live your life the way you want to. And with a wonderful husband and two great girls, life is fun."

From "The Oprah Winfrey Show," "Actress Jenny McCarthy: Warrior Moms"

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text: 've

text: got

text: to

text: go

text: home

text: Monica

text: says

text: I

text: thought

text: I

text: have

text: a

text: life

text: to

text: live

text: and

text: it

text: 's

text: not

text: here

text: and

text: until

text: you

text: amputate

text: I

text: ca

text: n't

text: move

text: forward

text: After

text: her

text: amputation

text: Monica

text: spent

text: two

text: months

text: in

text: the

text: hospital

text: where

text: she

text: underwent

text: a

text: total

text: of

text: surgeries

text: As

text: Monica

text: grew

text: stronger

text: Tony

text: realized

text: there

text: was

text: no

text: reason

text: to

text: postpone

text: their

text: wedding

text: any

text: longer

text: they

text: got

text: married

text: in

text: the

text: hospital

text: chapel

text: in

text: October

text: Monica

text: spent

text: the

text: next

text: two

text: months

text: going

text: through

text: grueling

text: rehabilitation

text: She

text: 's

text: a

text: fighter

text: Tony

text: says

text: If

text: they

text: told

text: her

text: two

text: hours

text: of

text: physical

text: therapy

text: a

text: day

text: she

text: 'd

text: ask

text: to

text: double

text: it

text: up

text: to

text: four

text: She

text: wanted

text: to

text: come

text: home

text: as

text: soon

text: as

text: possible

text: They

text: did

text: n't

text: think

text: she

text: 'd

text: ever

text: walk

text: again

text: but

text: she

text: made

text: it

text: happen

text: Right

text: before

text: Christmas

text: Monica

text: got

text: what

text: she

text: 'd

text: been

text: waiting

text: for

text: She

text: was

text: given

text: the

text: okay

text: to

text: go

text: home

text: to

text: her

text: husband

text: and

text: two

text: daughters

text: A

text: year

text: later

text: Jenny

text: visited

text: Monica

text: and

text: her

text: family

text: at

text: their

text: home

text: outside

text: Boston

text: Massachusetts

text: I

text: had

text: a

text: big

text: aha

text: moment

text: after

text: spending

text: six

text: hours

text: with

text: her

text: Monica

text: accepted

text: what

text: is

text: She

text: looked

text: down

text: and

text: said

text: Okay

text: this

text: is

text: the

text: situation

text: I

text: ca

text: n't

text: change

text: this

text: so

text: I

text: might

text: as

text: well

text: surrender

text: to

text: it

text: Jenny

text: says

text: When

text: she

text: does

text: that

text: she

text: is

text: able

text: to

text: move

text: forward

text: in

text: peace

text: Oprah.com

text: Jenny

text: McCarthy

text: answers

text: parenting

text: questions

text: Nurses

text: and

text: doctors

text: say

text: they

text: expected

text: a

text: why

text: me

text: breakdown

text: from

text: Monica

text: while

text: she

text: was

text: in

text: the

text: hospital

text: but

text: it

text: never

text: happened

text: I

text: did

text: have

text: moments

text: of

text: If

text: God

text: just

text: left

text: me

text: one

text: arm

text: or

text: one

text: leg

text: life

text: would

text: be

text: a

text: little

text: bit

text: easier

text: but

text: that

text: 's

text: not

text: the

text: way

text: it

text: went

text: Monica

text: says

text: You

text: make

text: do

text: with

text: what

text: you

text: have

text: I

text: could

text: still

text: love

text: my

text: girls

text: The

text: bottom

text: line

text: was

text: I

text: am

text: still

text: here

text: Monica

text: 's

text: not

text: the

text: only

text: warrior

text: in

text: this

text: family

text: Jenny

text: calls

text: Tony

text: a

text: daddy

text: warrior

text: because

text: he

text: always

text: stood

text: by

text: Monica

text: and

text: their

text: family

text: I

text: actually

text: considered

text: not

text: marrying

text: him

text: because

text: I

text: was

text: n't

text: the

text: person

text: he

text: agreed

text: to

text: marry

text: Monica

text: says

text: But

text: then

text: I

text: realized

text: he

text: loves

text: me

text: He

text: 's

text: here

text: and

text: he

text: 's

text: my

text: heart

text: I

text: 'm

text: still

text: a

text: woman

text: and

text: I

text: still

text: have

text: a

text: heart

text: and

text: a

text: mind

text: regardless

text: of

text: whether

text: I

text: have

text: arms

text: or

text: legs

text: Tony

text: says

text: that

text: there

text: was

text: never

text: even

text: a

text: moment

text: when

text: he

text: considered

text: leaving

text: Monica

text: She

text: was

text: the

text: same

text: person

text: inside

text: so

text: nothing

text: had

text: changed

text: he

text: says

text: At

text: one

text: point

text: they

text: went

text: to

text: bring

text: in

text: a

text: preacher

text: to

text: give

text: her

text: last

text: rights

text: and

text: I

text: turned

text: him

text: away

text: and

text: said

text: No

text: she

text: 's

text: got

text: a

text: lot

text: to

text: fight

text: for

text: She

text: 's

text: not

text: going

text: anywhere

text: she

text: 'll

text: be

text: here

text: for

text: our

text: family

text: And

text: she

text: was

text: She

text: is

text: Monica

text: 's

text: family

text: has

text: been

text: there

text: for

text: her

text: too

text: When

text: old

text: Madalyn

text: found

text: out

text: about

text: the

text: surgeries

text: she

text: took

text: the

text: news

text: well

text: She

text: 'd

text: been

text: watching

text: Dancing

text: with

text: the

text: Stars

text: and

text: Heather

text: Mills

text: was

text: on

text: Monica

text: says

text: I

text: told

text: her

text: Well

text: I

text: wo

text: n't

text: be

text: doing

text: back

text: flips

text: But

text: she

text: was

text: excited

text: and

text: said

text: You

text: can

text: be

text: bionic

text: mom

text: At

text: Monica

text: 's

text: house

text: she

text: and

text: Jenny

text: had

text: a

text: mom

text: to

text: mom

text: chat

text: about

text: the

text: issues

text: that

text: mother

text: warriors

text: face

text: Within

text: the

text: autism

text: community

text: one

text: of

text: the

text: things

text: that

text: we

text: as

text: mothers

text: miss

text: so

text: much

text: is

text: being

text: able

text: to

text: caress

text: our

text: children

text: because

text: they

text: do

text: n't

text: want

text: to

text: be

text: touched

text: Jenny

text: says

text: Do

text: you

text: experience

text: that

text: Monica

text: says

text: she

text: has

text: similar

text: moments

text: of

text: sadness

text: For

text: a

text: while

text: I

text: really

text: could

text: n't

text: lift

text: Sofia

text: up

text: she

text: says

text: I

text: could

text: hug

text: Madalyn

text: and

text: have

text: her

text: hug

text: me

text: back

text: so

text: that

text: was

text: good

text: but

text: I

text: miss

text: being

text: able

text: to

text: braid

text: her

text: hair

text: paint

text: her

text: fingernails

text: toenails

text: the

text: things

text: that

text: moms

text: and

text: daughters

text: do

text: All

text: mothers

text: face

text: frustrations

text: but

text: Monica

text: 's

text: come

text: with

text: tasks

text: that

text: used

text: to

text: be

text: simple

text: I

text: get

text: frustrated

text: about

text: not

text: being

text: to

text: do

text: everything

text: that

text: I

text: used

text: to

text: do

text: she

text: says

text: Everything

text: is

text: different

text: things

text: as

text: simple

text: as

text: picking

text: up

text: a

text: pen

text: or

text: signing

text: a

text: paper

text: for

text: Madalyn

text: at

text: school

text: Monica

text: has

text: n't

text: let

text: any

text: of

text: these

text: obstacles

text: stop

text: her

text: from

text: living

text: her

text: life

text: to

text: the

text: fullest

text: She

text: does

text: everything

text: a

text: mom

text: would

text: do

text: including

text: paying

text: the

text: bills

text: which

text: can

text: take

text: her

text: up

text: to

text: three

text: hours

text: It

text: 's

text: the

text: ultimate

text: practice

text: in

text: patience

text: Jenny

text: says

text: Oprah.com

text: Meet

text: more

text: inspirational

text: moms

text: What

text: good

text: are

text: you

text: to

text: your

text: children

text: if

text: you

text: 're

text: miserable

text: What

text: are

text: you

text: teaching

text: them

text: That

text: you

text: give

text: up

text: That

text: 's

text: not

text: what

text: I

text: want

text: to

text: teach

text: my

text: kids

text: Monica

text: says

text: I

text: want

text: my

text: girls

text: to

text: know

text: that

text: their

text: mother

text: 's

text: a

text: fighter

text: Monica

text: 's

text: been

text: adjusting

text: to

text: her

text: new

text: life

text: for

text: a

text: little

text: over

text: a

text: year

text: and

text: she

text: says

text: her

text: strength

text: comes

text: from

text: her

text: support

text: system

text: from

text: family

text: and

text: friends

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text: at

text: the

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text: and

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text: There

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text: says

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text: she

text: 's

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question: Does she have any family?

answer: husband and two daughters.

text: husband and two daughters.

question: What is the number of surgeries that doctors perform?

answer: 37

question: What procedure did she have?

answer: Doctors removed Monica's uterus, ovaries, gallbladder and part of her colon, along with her legs and arms.

text: Doctors removed Monica's uterus, ovaries, gallbladder and part of her colon, along with her legs and arms.

question: What was the number of surgeries Monica had?

answer: 37

question: What was Monica diagnosed with?

answer: necrotizing fasciitis,

text: necrotizing fasciitis,

question: Does Monica have children?

answer: already had a 9-year-old daughter,

text: already had a 9-year-old daughter,

question: What does Monica now try to do?

answer: put it behind her

text: put it behind her

question: What caused the problems?

answer: a C-section,

text: a C-section,

question: Who was diagnosed with a deadly, flesh-eating bacteria after C-section?

answer: Monica

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(CNN) -- Penn State students and supporters of head football coach Joe Paterno rallied Tuesday evening outside his home amid growing calls for him to resign related to his response to child sex abuse allegations brought against a former assistant.

The crowd in State College, mostly young people, greeted and cheered Paterno hours after his weekly news conference was canceled.

Speaking outside and from a window at his residence, the 84-year-old Nittany Lions legend said he was praying for victims in the case.

Paterno, a longtime coach with a largely spotless record, is under pressure because of his response to allegations brought to him in 2002 by a graduate assistant who said he had seen retired defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky sexually assaulting a young boy in the shower at the campus football complex.

Paterno reported the allegations to his boss, and Pennsylvania's attorney general said it appeared that the coach had met his obligations under state law. Still, some critics have said that he should have reported the suspected abuse to police.

"We don't yet know who is legally guilty," SI.com columnist Michael Rosenberg wrote on the website. "But several prominent employees at the state university are morally guilty. And one of them is Joe Paterno."

On Tuesday, Paterno's son, Scott Paterno, said on Twitter that reports in the New York Times, citing people briefed on the matter, that university officials were planning an end to Paterno's 46-year coaching tenure were "premature."

"No discussions about retirement with JVP," Paterno said, using his father's initials. He said the decision to cancel the news conference was not his father's.

"Due to the ongoing legal circumstances centered around the recent allegations and charges, we have determined that today's press conference cannot be held and will not be rescheduled," the university said in a statement.

Joe Paterno said Tuesday afternoon that he hopes to hold another news conference soon.

"I know you guys have a lot of good questions, and I'd like to answer them, but I can't do it now," Paterno said after practice.

A preliminary hearing for Sandusky, originally set for Wednesday, has been rescheduled for December 7, officials said Tuesday afternoon. Sandusky's attorney has said more time was needed to bring in witnesses.

On Sunday, Penn State announced that two university officials accused by state authorities of failing to report suspected abuse had stepped down, one of them returning to retirement and the other taking administrative leave.

Attorney General Linda Kelly said Monday that the alleged failure of Penn State Athletic Director Timothy Curley, 57, and Gary Schultz, 62, the university's senior vice president for finance and business, to report abuse claims "likely allowed a child predator to continue to victimize children for many, many years."

Curley and Schultz, who are each charged with one count of perjury and one count of failure to report suspected abuse, were released Monday on $75,000 bail each. At the arraignment hearing, their attorneys said the men were innocent of the charges and would fight to clear their names.

Sandusky is accused of sexual offenses, child endangerment and "corruption of a minor" charges involving eight boys, most or all of whom he met through the Second Mile, the charity he founded to help troubled youth, according to prosecutors.

Sandusky's involvement with the group provided him with "access to hundreds of boys, many of whom were vulnerable due to their social situations," the grand jury said. The former coach is said to have engaged in fondling, oral sex and anal sex with young boys over at least 15 years, according to the investigative grand jury's summary of testimony.

A source with direct knowledge of the investigation confirmed to CNN's Jason Carroll that a man walked into a Montoursville, Pennsylvania, state police station and claimed he was victimized by Sandusky. Interviews with the man will determine whether he's a ninth victim, the source said.

Sandusky, who served 23 years as defensive coordinator for the Nittany Lions football team before retiring in 1999, is free on $100,000 bail.

His attorney, Joseph Amendola, has not returned a message from CNN seeking comment.

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The grand jury investigation that led to the charges began with the claims of one alleged victim who said Sandusky had "indecently assaulted" him and engaged in sex acts while he was a guest at the coach's home, according to the attorney general.

The victim met Sandusky through the Second Mile, and Sandusky allegedly used expensive gifts such as trips to professional and college games, golf clubs, a computer and money, Kelly said.

The relationship, which began in 2005 and lasted into 2008, included overnight stays at Sandusky's home, where touching led to sexual acts, according to Kelly and grand jury testimony.

However, the most explosive charges in the grand jury report involve a 2002 incident in which a graduate student reported seeing Sandusky in the shower performing anal sex on a young boy, according to the grand jury and prosecutors.

"One of the most compelling and disturbing pieces of testimony in this investigation came from an eyewitness to a late-night sexual assault that allegedly occurred in March of 2002, in the locker room of the Lasch Football Building on the University Park Campus," Kelly said. "Hearing what sounded like sexual activity in the showers of a building that was supposed to be empty, a graduate assistant reportedly observed Sandusky sexually assaulting a naked boy who appeared to be about 10 years old."

The assistant reported the incident to Paterno, who in turn alerted Curley.

Paterno said in his statement that he had done his duty in informing Curley.

"It was obvious that the witness was distraught over what he saw, but he at no time related to me the very specific actions contained in the grand jury report. Regardless, it was clear that the witness saw something inappropriate involving Mr. Sandusky. As Coach Sandusky was retired from our coaching staff at that time, I referred the matter to university administrators," Paterno said.

But instead of reporting the incident to authorities, Curley and Schultz took Sandusky's locker room keys and banned him from having children from Second Mile visit the football building, Kelly said.

In his statement, Paterno called the charges "shocking."

"While I did what I was supposed to with the one charge brought to my attention, like anyone else involved, I can't help but be deeply saddened these matters are alleged to have occurred," he said in the statement.

Prosecutors have not ruled out the possibility of additional charges or victims in the case.

CNN's Jason Carroll and Kiran Khalid contributed to this report.

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LONDON, England (CNN) -- From four leaf clovers to a severed rabbit's foot, when it comes to lucky mascots reason and taste often go out of the window.

David Beckham's teammates give his bottom a squeeze after scoring his first goal for AC Milan in their 4-1 defeat of Bologna.

No more so than at AC Milan where one charm is being held responsible for the team's recent upturn in fortunes on the pitch: David Beckham's bottom.

Since Beckham's arrival at the San Siro, the England midfielder has started every game and scored his first goal in last weekend's demolition of Bologna.

But as he walked away after celebrating the goal, Clarence Seedorf and Andrea Pirlo both stroked his left bum cheek.   This was apparently because they believe Beckham's posterior has as much to do with Milan's revival as his sweet right foot.

"Italy is a superstitious country, people touch things for luck," an AC Milan spokesperson told UK newspaper "The Sun."

"Now the players are doing the same thing with Becks' bottom. He is seen as lucky."

Have your say: what are the strangest footballing superstitions that you have seen?  One English newspaper has even taken to calling him "Goldenbuns", a play on "Goldenballs", the pet name his wife Victoria uses and for which he is still good naturedly mocked when it emerged in the press.

Football has a long history of superstitions. Below are some of the strangest rituals:

Kissing Fabien Barthez's head Barthez's big shiny pate became something of a totem for the French during the 1998 World Cup.

The ritual was always the same. Veteran defender Laurent Blanc would approach his eccentric goalkeeper before planting a kiss on the top of his head. The team insisted that Blanc maintained the tradition as Les Bleus reached the finals. The French ended up beating Brazil 3-0.

Goalmouth: Beckham "dreams" of Milan move.

Beanie the Horse watches the action With his blond hair, steely grimace and piercing stare, Stuart Pearce was known on the pitch for his hard tackling, no-nonsense ways.

Off it he's, well, a bit of a softy. Whilst in charge of Manchester City the former England defender started bringing a rather bizarre charm, placing it near the dug out so it could observe the action: Beanie, a cuddly woolen horse.

It didn't do him much good. He was fired later that season.

Blessing from a juju man "Juju" men used to be a regular fixture at African football matches. These self-appointed holy men would bless or curse teams for money.

Even government ministers were seduced by them. When the Ivory Coast won the African Cup of Nations in 1992,  the government claimed it was because the sports minister paid a "juju" man to bless the team.

But he angered them by refusing to pay up. The result? A hex that saw the team endure a miserable ten year losing streak.   Tired of defeat, the government begged the juju men for forgiveness, coughing up the $2000. Ivory Coast promptly qualified for the 2006 World Cup.

Invoking the power of the Virgin Mary Take a look at Newcastle United's goalkeeper Shay Given before a match. If you look carefully you'll notice him dropping a bottle into the back of the goal.   No, not a bottle full of Gatorade but rather a small vial of Holy Water from Lourdes, France.

It was there that it is claimed the Virgin Mary appeared in 1858. It has since become a place of pilgrimage for the sick, drawn to the allegedly healing waters.  "I carry it in my kit bag and it goes everywhere with me," Given said back in 2002. At the time of writing, Given is still injury free.

If all else fails, urinate... When Barry Fry, then Birmingham City's boss, watched his team lose another game, enough was enough.

For years the club had suffered from dismal form at their St Andrews ground in Birmingham, England, and had not won anything of note for decades.

The reason, fans and club officials feared, was a gypsy curse spat out at the club's owners when they evicted a band of travelers to make way for their new stadium.

Managers had tried and failed to lift the curse -- one even placed crucifixes in the floodlights, but it was Barry Fry who had the most ingenious method. He urinated in each corner of the ground. Birmingham City haven't won anything of note since.  Employing an Ecuadorian warlock Tzamarenda Naychapi played a pivotal role in Ecuador's 2006 World Cup campaign.   The UK's Guardian newspaper described how Naychapi - a warlock who was described as a "witch doctor-cum-shaman-cum-priest-type-fella" - traveled to Germany before the World Cup to cast spells on all 12 stadiums, not to mention the pitch and the goals, in a bid to turn the gods in Ecuador's favor.   The South American minnows went on to shock both Costa Rica and Poland, qualifying for the second round for the first time in their history before losing to England 1-0.

But then again England had their own magical good luck charm to call upon. David Beckham scored the only goal.

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question: what team does he play for

answer: AC Milan

text: AC Milan

question: What part of his body is pinched?

answer: bottom

text: bottom

question: who is superstitious

answer: Clarence Seedorf and Andrea Pirlo

text: Clarence Seedorf and Andrea Pirlo

question: What is the name of the team Beckham plays for?

answer: AC Milan

text: AC Milan