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(CNN) -- A series of U.S. diplomatic cables from early this year directly accused Syria of supplying advanced weaponry, including SCUD ballistic missiles, to the Shiite militia Hezbollah in Lebanon.

U.S. protests to Damascus met with persistent denials, according to the cables, which were published by the WikiLeaks website.

At a meeting in February, according to one cable, a senior U.S. diplomat stressed Washington's concerns directly with Syrian President Bashar Asad, "who bluntly stated that he knew of no new weapons systems going to Hezbollah."

But just a week later, an urgent note from U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to the U.S. Embassy in Damascus said the United States had learned of Syrian plans to supply Hezbollah with SCUD-D ballistic missiles, which would magnify its threat to Israel.

Clinton wrote: "I must stress that this activity is of deep concern to my government, and we strongly caution you (Syria) against such a serious escalation." To reinforce the point, the cable continues: "Your interest in avoiding war should require you to exert maximum restraint, including restraining Hezbollah and preventing the group's acquisition of such lethal, long-range weapons."

Within 24 hours, the senior U.S. diplomat in Damascus met with the vice foreign minister, Faisal al-Miqdad, to convey Clinton's message. The cables described him as "clearly surprised" by the allegations.

"Flatly denying any Syrian role in the supply of weapons to Hezbollah, Miqdad contended Damascus supported Lebanese independence," a cable says, quoting Miqdad as saying: "You may hear about weapons going to Hezbollah, but they are absolutely not coming through Syria."

Miqdad then went on the offensive, according to the cable, asking: "The most sophisticated weapons are coming to Israel, to be used against whom?"

But the U.S. diplomat in Damascus commented: "Even a seasoned diplomat like Miqdad could not restrain a raised eyebrow at our mention of the transfer of ballistic missiles to Hezbollah."

The following day another cable from the secretary of state's office asked U.S. diplomats to rally support from allies for Washington's position.

It said: "We want France, Britain, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and Qatar to make a renewed push to echo our concerns with Syria." Allies should be told that Washington believed "Syria has provided or will provide guided short-range ballistic missiles to Hezbollah that could target two-thirds of Israel, including Tel Aviv, from launch sites north of the Litani." The Litani is a river in southern Lebanon.

"Our information also indicates that Syria has made advanced surface-to-air missile systems available to Hezbollah and has probably provided training on these systems to Hezbollah personnel," the cable continued.

In April this year, Israeli officials alleged that the transfer of SCUD-D missiles had gone ahead. At the time, State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said: "If such an action has been taken, and we continue to analyze this issue, clearly it potentially puts Lebanon at significant risk."

So why would Syria provide Hezbollah with weapons that could destabilize an already volatile region? Another cable tries to answer that question. "Syrian leaders appear convinced that arming Hezbollah will increase Syria's leverage in bringing Israel to the negotiating table," it says.

But the top U.S. diplomat in Damascus suggests in a cable that is misguided. "Syria's actions have created a situation in which miscalculation or provocative behavior by Hizballah could prove disastrous for Syria and the broader region," he writes.

The U.S. assessment is that Hezbollah is far better-armed than it was in 2006, when it fought a one-month cross-border war against Israel. Referring to its missile and rocket armories, a cable from November 2009 says: "This capability, if fully used, would represent a quantum leap over the damage and psychological terror Hezbollah rockets caused in northern Israel during the 2006 war."

Regional analysts believe that Hezbollah has some 40,000 rockets as well as up to a dozen SCUD-Ds from Syria.

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Atlanta, Georgia (CNN) -- In an attempt to re-create the experience of a manned mission to Mars, an international team of researchers will lock themselves up in a windowless capsule for about a year and a half -- time required for a round trip to the Red Planet.

Starting Thursday, an all-male "crew" of six -- three Russians, a Frenchman, an Italian-Colombian and a Chinese -- will spend 520 days in the cramped and claustrophobic conditions of a special facility in Moscow and will follow a strict regimen of exercise and diet.

Organizers at the European Space Agency and Russia's Institute of Biomedical Problems hope the project will shed light on the physical and psychological effects of the long isolation that future Mars astronauts will experience.

"This study is not useful only for Mars, but also for life on Earth," 27-year-old Diego Urbina, the Italian-Colombian participant, said in a news release.

The researchers will communicate with mission control via the internet, with occasional disruptions and a 20-minute delay to imitate the effects of space travel.

They will perform tasks similar to astronauts at the international space station, such as maintenance and scientific experiments, but for a longer period of time. They will follow a seven-day week with two days off, except when special and emergency situations are simulated.

The latest isolation test is the last and longest part of the Mars500 experiment that began in 2007. The first phase was a 14-day simulation that mainly tested the facilities and operational procedures. The second phase followed in 2009, when four Russian and two European crew members were shut into the facility for 105 days.

Missions to the Red Planet have thus far been unmanned. In January, NASA told CNN Radio that the agency was close to a deal to merge its Mars program with the European Space Agency's, a big step toward manned missions.

In the meantime, NASA is preparing for the launch of its newest robotic space exploration vehicle, the Mars Science Laboratory, late next year. It weighs roughly one metric ton and is about the size of a small automobile.

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HARARE, Zimbabwe (CNN) -- Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai returned to Zimbabwe Saturday for the first time since leaving the country shortly after the controversial March 29 election.

Morgan Tsvangirai has been away from Zimbabwe trying to seek support from international leaders.

Tsvangirai -- who contends he won the presidential race against longtime Zimbabwe leader Robert Mugabe -- returned despite what his party said was a plot by the country's military to assassinate him and other party leaders.

The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission, after a long delay, ruled that neither candidate won a necessary majority of the vote and set a date of June 27 for Tsvangirai to again face Mugabe in a runoff vote.

Tsvangirai and his Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) have called for international observers to be allowed to monitor the runoff election, but Mugabe's government has refused the demand.

Tsvangirai is expected to tour hospitals in Harare to visit victims of post-election violence.

An MDC spokesman said two party members were found dead Wednesday night after being abducted from their homes in the Zimbabwean capital of Harare.

Tsvangirai's spokesman George Sibotshiwe said Saturday that the opposition leader and the entire MDC leadership are "at risk from this brutal regime." When contacted by CNN, a Cabinet member denied that the government had any possible role in the alleged plot, and said the report was an effort by the MDC to gain international sympathy.

Chen Chimutengwende, Zimbabwe's minister of public and interactive affairs, accused Tsvangirai of "trying to paint a false picture of what Zimbabwe and Zimbabwe authorities are like."

"There is no plot against him and there has never been any plot against him and he knows that," Chimutengwende said. He called the reports from Tsvangirai's party "an effort to get sympathy from the international community."

There have been numerous reports from the MDC and church groups since the March balloting about kidnappings, torture, and other violence, including the deaths of opposition party members. They say the violence targets opponents of Mugabe and his Zanu-PF party.

Mugabe has ruled the southern African country since it became independent 28 years ago.

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question: When will the "runoff election against President Robert Mugabe" occur?

answer: June 27

text: June 27

question: Who returned to ZImbabwe?

answer: Morgan Tsvangirai

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question: who is the current president of Zimbabwe?

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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- More than 170 people around the globe, including at least 61 in the United States, have been arrested in a major operation targeting international child pornographers, officials said Friday.

Attorney General Michael Mukasey and European Union representatives announced the sting's results Friday.

Operation Joint Hammer has rescued 11 girls in the United States, ages 3 to 13, who were sexually abused by child pornography producers, U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey and representatives of the European Union said at the Justice Department.

Dozens more were located in Europe, including several young female victims in Ukraine.

Authorities found connections between producers, distributors and customers in nearly 30 countries as a single investigation grew to a global inquiry into the dark corners of brutality and child abuse.

The investigation, code-named Operation Koala in Europe, was developed when investigators determined that a pornographic video found in Australia had been produced in Belgium.

"This joint EU-U.S. coordinated effort began with the discovery in Europe of a father who was sexually abusing his young daughters and producing images of that abuse," Mukasey said.

Further investigation showed a number of online child porn rings. Some included dangerous offenders who not only traded child pornography but also sexually abused children, the officials said.

Agents are still attempting to locate child victims whose images have appeared in photos and videos, and more arrests are expected as the FBI, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Postal Inspection Service continue the investigation.

A Postal Service official said ringleaders primarily targeted prepubescent female victims to satisfy their customers but noted that other groups produce photos and videos of boys and girls of all ages -- or even infants.

"For this subset, that's what turns them on," the official said.

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Port-au-Prince, Haiti (CNN) -- When the earth started to shake on January 12, Rocher Joseph-Michelet was in his tiny, one-room apartment, composing lyrics for the upcoming Carnivale in Port-au-Prince.

He ran out the door to find an entire two-story building, crumbling and falling in his direction. "They break down. I fell down, I was on my back," he said.

In heavily-accented English, peppered with American slang, Joseph-Michelet described how he was all-but buried under the rubble... and then rescued by members of his hip-hop group.

"Thanks to God, thanks to my friends," he said. "I'm so proud it's them come to save me."

Joseph-Michelet is better known by his stage name "MRJ." He is a member of a neighborhood hip-hop group called Sekte Atis Lib, or S.A.L. They are six childhood friends from the same poor neighborhood who rap in Creole.

MRJ escaped the earthquake with minor injuries. Many other residents of his neighborhood weren't so fortunate.

"Two days after the disaster, we [carried] 39 dead bodies... from here to the central cemetery," said Gaby Guerrier, the manager of the band.

He spoke while standing on a rooftop which offered a view of a devastated urban landscape of collapsed and dangerously sagging cinderblock apartment buildings.

The members of S.A.L. have been forced to abandon their homes in this tightly-packed community of concrete houses and narrow alleyways.

"It's too dangerous, nobody wants to live in the houses again," said Guerrier's younger brother Panarothy, also known as the rapper named "Next."

He led CNN on a tour, past a large wall mural showing S.A.L.'s name in jagged graffiti, to the sprawling, fetid camp where the band, their families, and some 4,500 other displaced Haitians now live.

The artists have helped each other build crude shacks out of plywood and rusting metal sheeting, along a winding dirt alleyway they have playfully nick-named "Big Man Street."

Twenty-one year old Geffrard Jonel, a.k.a. Fame, has already decorated the walls of his hut with posters of soccer teams and music groups. He said he and three others slept in the tiny room, along with some unwanted visitors.

"Rats!" he yelled, to peals of laughter from the rest of the group.

Despite the unbearable conditions, spirits among the band's members appeared remarkably high.

"If you get angry with it, you get angry at God," said the manager, Gaby Guerrier.

"We are not more important than those people who are dead. God just leave us alive. We thank him for that."

Perhaps because of this infectious optimism, 25-year-old "Next" has been appointed the leader of a camp association, representing all 4,500 residents.

"If I have a problem, I'll come to him," said one resident named Levi Lazard. "Because he is the one that can make the people listen to him."

On the day CNN visited, Next and about ten other colleagues had just completed construction of a sandbag platform to house a large water bladder and distribution system donated by Irish aid organization Concern. Residents with buckets and jugs were already lining up for a taste of fresh water.

"We want to make the people, the survivors live better," Next explained. He then issued an appeal for other aid organizations to come and help the community.

"We need something else specially for the children," he said. "We need to make a place for the children for education. There's no school. It's destroyed."

Three weeks after the earthquake, residents of this camp were stripping away vegetation and small trees from the surrounding area, and the air was thick with the sound of hammers and saws as people worked to construct new ramshackle homes.

Before the earthquake, only one member of S.A.L. had a full-time job, working at a juice factory. The others were unemployed artists, filming music videos on shoe-string budgets, all victims of Haiti's impoverished economy.

Since the disaster, these young men have carried corpses, cared for wounded friends and relatives, and become leaders of their displaced and desperate community.

They are also trying write new lyrics, to explain this life-changing ordeal.

"This is a revolution of nature," said MRJ, who survived the two-story building collapse.

MRJ and his colleagues then delivered a memorable a cappella performance amid shelters made of bed sheets and sticks where hungry children wailed.

"All the parks have become home to most," he chanted in Creole, as the sun set over smoking campfires.

"We have to mobilize to overcome this crisis. Hopefully now the system will reboot. The time for the people has come. Solving the problems will take time. But we're not going anywhere. We need to deal with this crisis at the grass roots."

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(CNN) -- For someone who seems to go to great lengths to keep his private life away from prying eyes, late-night talk show host David Letterman has seen a great deal of his personal life become public.

David Letterman has mined private events in his life for very public jokes on his show.

Heart problems, a troubled stalker and a plot to kidnap his son have all landed Letterman in the news and provided fodder for jokes, including some of his own.

The latest, an alleged extortion attempt involving his sexual dalliances (it's been dubbed "sextortion" by pundits), was handled very much the way Letterman fans might expect: with humor and a bit of storytelling.

"He told it as a story that you felt like you were living along with him, and so I think he immediately won your sympathy by telling it that way," said Hal Boedeker, TV critic for the Orlando Sentinel. "He also took the seedy factor out of it with restraint by not saying too much and trying to protect the people he was involved with."  Watch Letterman tell what happened Â»

Letterman revealed on his show Thursday night that he'd had sexual relations with members of his staff and that he had testified about those liaisons before a New York grand jury for a case involving the alleged attempted extortion.

A CBS producer, Robert "Joe" Halderman, has been charged with first-degree attempted grand larceny; officials said he threatened to go public with the 62-year-old funnyman's dalliances unless Letterman paid $2 million.

Halderman pleaded not guilty Friday.

The revelation, which Letterman shared with the audience of the "Late Show," seemed especially shocking given his reputation as the self-deprecating everyman.

"Letterman picked up on [that shock] and played on that," said Robert Thompson, a professor and founding director of the Bleier Center for Television and Popular Culture at Syracuse University. "It was the weirdest 10 minutes of television I've seen in a long time, and yet I think I've concluded that it was brilliant."  Watch "Larry King Live" guest host Jim Moret talk to panel about Letterman case Â»

Letterman has had plenty of experience dealing with awkward, and sometimes painful, episodes on television.

Beginning in the 1980s, he was stalked by Margaret Ray, a woman with schizophrenia who often broke into his New Canaan, Connecticut, home, wrote him letters and once stole his Porsche.

Letterman would sometimes joke about her -- without using her name -- on his show and told The New York Times that was because he joked about every public aspect of his life.

Ray would refer to herself as "Mrs. David Letterman" and once watched the talk show host and his now-wife Regina Lasko from a hallway in their home as they lay in bed.

Ray committed suicide in 1998; Letterman offered his condolences on-air to her family.

Though Letterman was quoted as saying Ray's actions were usually more odd than frightening, a plot in 2005 to kidnap his then-toddler son proved to be more alarming.

Kelly A. Frank, an ex-con who had done some work at Letterman's Deep Creek Ranch in Montana, was charged with planning to kidnap Letterman's son, Harry, and his nanny.

Frank pleaded guilty to lesser charges and was sentenced to 10 years in jail. In 2007, he escaped and was later captured.

Thompson said Letterman has shown that he is able to rise above his troubles, including emergency bypass surgery in 2000, with a healthy dose of comedy. This latest incident was no different, Thompson observed.

"The interesting thing is that he never went out of comic mode," Thompson said. "His magnum opus was when he was the first late-night comedian to come back after September 11th ... and he did it brilliantly. All of the other comics who came on in the following weeks followed him exactly."

He kept Thursday's tale so light, Thompson said, that many who may not have been aware of the news would have thought it was just another Letterman bit.

"I think he realized that we are so cynical and so disbelieving of this long string of people apologizing for stuff like this," Thompson said. "We don't believe it anymore, and we think they are only doing it for public relations. But he didn't handle it that way, and he delivered it in such a way that it came across as light-hearted and sincere."

Glenn Selig, founder of the Publicity Agency, said that from a crisis-management perspective, Letterman handled his most recent incident well.

"I think the fact that he put it out there in his own way, in his own terms with the timing that he wanted to do it, that was the best way to go," Selig said. "He tried to interject some humor and self-deprecation into it, which I think takes the wind out of those who may have tried to knock him down, because he was already knocking himself down."

And although more intimate, and embarrassing, details may be revealed as the case continues, critic Boedeker said he thinks Letterman, his show and his career will come out well.

"I think his fans are, for the most part, pretty forgiving," Boedeker said. "He's always made fun of himself and his looks. It's not as if he has set himself up as some paragon of virtue, and I really don't think this will hurt him in the long run."

A representative for Letterman's company, Worldwide Pants, said, "All the relationships David Letterman was referencing when discussing the matter on the 'Late Show' predated his marriage to Regina" in March.

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STONE MOUNTAIN, Georgia (CNN) -- Rosa Foster sat down at the kitchen table with a plate of fried chicken and a salad. Before taking a bite of food, she bowed her head and prompted her grandchildren to say the blessing.

Rosa Foster is a single parent raising four grandchildren under age 19.

Foster, 54, of Stone Mountain, Georgia, doesn't just see the kids on weekends and holidays. They live with her full time.

Foster is one of 2.5 million grandparents around the United States who are the primary caregivers for their grandchildren.

In Foster's case, she's a single parent, raising four grandkids under age 19. "It has not been a picnic all the time," Foster said. "It's been hard."

Hard may be an understatement, according to Nadine Kaslow, chief psychologist for Grady Health System in Atlanta, Georgia.

"There are many challenges for grandparents taking on grandchildren," Kaslow said. "Many grandparents are older when they take on grandchildren, so you may not have the energy you had as a parent in your 20s and 30s to be running around after toddlers."

Foster didn't have a choice. She said she was awarded custody of her daughter's 2-year old son, Rakim, in 1991.

That was 17 years ago. She's since taken in his twin sisters, Rosea and Ronea, now 17, and 12-year-old Raquel.

"Some days I became a little sad and depressed and I would cry through baby feedings, but I still knew I had to keep the babies together. They didn't have anybody else," Foster recalled.

The unexpected demands of caring for grandchildren full time may have health consequences, Kaslow said.

"You often see people having aches and pains or headaches or stomach aches," she said. "It can be associated with more serious physical problems like elevated blood pressure or things that put you at risk for heart disease or stroke."  Health Minute: More on grandparent stress Â»

Foster remembered sleeping only one or two hours a night while she worked two jobs trying to pay the bills.

Kaslow said it is common for grandparents to feel the stress of financial demands when they're a parent the second time around.

"Oftentimes you're at a place in your life where you're ready to take care of yourself, have more fun, plan for your own retirement," Kaslow noted. "Monies you were trying to save for your own future, you are now having to spend on your grandchildren."

She suggested that grandparents set priorities when it comes to their own career and work. While resources may be limited, she recommended trying to find financial help from state agencies, religious groups or other relatives.

For those who may feel overwhelmed, she added, "You don't need to be the sole caregiver. It's really important for you to reach out to other people in your support network, your immediate family, to get their assistance."

She also stressed the need for grandparents to take good care of themselves. Find time to exercise and eat a healthy diet.

"I recommend if you can, get someone to baby-sit the kids once a week or every other week," she said. "You really need time alone."

Does Foster ever get time for herself?

She chuckled, explaining that she has put her own life on hold for 17 years. But, she added, "I wouldn't have it any other way."

Foster has some serious advice for other grandparents who may be in a similar position: "Make sure you're up for the challenge, because if you're not, you're going to break some kids' hearts. If those kids are torn up a second time, they're really going to be destroyed."

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text: time

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text: psychologist

text: for

text: Grady

text: Health

text: System

text: in

text: Atlanta

text: Georgia

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text: many

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text: choice

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text: That

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text: years

text: ago

text: She

text: 's

text: since

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text: in

text: his

text: twin

text: sisters

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text: Ronea

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text: and

text: old

text: Raquel

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text: I

text: became

text: a

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text: and

text: depressed

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text: I

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text: knew

text: I

text: had

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text: babies

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text: anybody

text: else

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text: caring

text: for

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text: time

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text: having

text: aches

text: and

text: pains

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text: headaches

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text: stomach

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text: at

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text: for

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text: or

text: stroke

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text: More

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text: Â

text: Foster

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text: or

text: two

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text: night

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text: bills

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text: a

text: parent

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text: second

text: time

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text: fun

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text: trying

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text: for

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text: own

text: future

text: you

text: are

text: now

text: having

text: to

text: spend

text: on

text: your

text: grandchildren

text: She

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text: grandparents

text: set

text: priorities

text: when

text: it

text: comes

text: to

text: their

text: own

text: career

text: and

text: work

text: While

text: resources

text: may

text: be

text: limited

text: she

text: recommended

text: trying

text: to

text: find

text: financial

text: help

text: from

text: state

text: agencies

text: religious

text: groups

text: or

text: other

text: relatives

text: For

text: those

text: who

text: may

text: feel

text: overwhelmed

text: she

text: added

text: You

text: do

text: n't

text: need

text: to

text: be

text: the

text: sole

text: caregiver

text: It

text: 's

text: really

text: important

text: for

text: you

text: to

text: reach

text: out

text: to

text: other

text: people

text: in

text: your

text: support

text: network

text: your

text: immediate

text: family

text: to

text: get

text: their

text: assistance

text: She

text: also

text: stressed

text: the

text: need

text: for

text: grandparents

text: to

text: take

text: good

text: care

text: of

text: themselves

text: Find

text: time

text: to

text: exercise

text: and

text: eat

text: a

text: healthy

text: diet

text: I

text: recommend

text: if

text: you

text: can

text: get

text: someone

text: to

text: baby

text: sit

text: the

text: kids

text: once

text: a

text: week

text: or

text: every

text: other

text: week

text: she

text: said

text: You

text: really

text: need

text: time

text: alone

text: Does

text: Foster

text: ever

text: get

text: time

text: for

text: herself

text: She

text: chuckled

text: explaining

text: that

text: she

text: has

text: put

text: her

text: own

text: life

text: on

text: hold

text: for

text: years

text: But

text: she

text: added

text: I

text: would

text: n't

text: have

text: it

text: any

text: other

text: way

text: Foster

text: has

text: some

text: serious

text: advice

text: for

text: other

text: grandparents

text: who

text: may

text: be

text: in

text: a

text: similar

text: position

text: Make

text: sure

text: you

text: 're

text: up

text: for

text: the

text: challenge

text: because

text: if

text: you

text: 're

text: not

text: you

text: 're

text: going

text: to

text: break

text: some

text: kids

text: hearts

text: If

text: those

text: kids

text: are

text: torn

text: up

text: a

text: second

text: time

text: they

text: 're

text: really

text: going

text: to

text: be

text: destroyed

question: How many grandparents in the US are the primary caregivers for their grandchildren?

answer: 2.5 million

text: 2.5 million

question: What causes grandparents stress?

answer: financial demands when they're

text: financial demands when they're

question: Grandparents should find time to do what?

answer: exercise and eat a healthy diet.

text: exercise and eat a healthy diet.

question: How many grandparents in the U.S. are the primary caregivers for their grandchildren?

answer: 2.5 million

text: 2.5 million

question: what should grandparents do?

answer: set priorities when it comes to their own career and work.

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(Mashable) -- Sharing your credit card and online purchases with friends on the web sounds risky and it is.

We've just discovered that several credit card transactions shared on social networking site Blippy have been exposed -- with full credit card numbers included -- in Google search results.

Tipster Trey Copeland wrote to us with a link to results for the search: site:blippy.com +"from card". That search returns results showing detailed purchase information for transactions. Each result highlights that there was a "debit card transaction" or "card transaction," the amount spent, the specific location (address included) and the full card number.

Blippy users who share their credit card and bank account information do so with the assumption that this information will remain private. Blippy addresses security concerns with the following statement on its website:

"Blippy is very concerned about safeguarding the confidentiality of your personally identifiable information. We employ administrative, physical and electronic measures designed to protect your information from unauthorized access. We will make any legally-required disclosures of any breach of the security, confidentiality, or integrity of your unencrypted electronically stored personal data to you via email or conspicuous posting on the Services in the most expedient time possible and without unreasonable delay, consistent with (i) the legitimate needs of law enforcement or (ii) any measures necessary to determine the scope of the breach and restore the reasonable integrity of the data system."

Unfortunately it appears that there is a bug in the "administrative, physical and electronic measures" that ensure privacy, as Blippy's security system has been breached in a very public and unfortunate way.

Given the breach, we suggest that Blippy users who have authorized the site to access their debit or credit transactions take immediate action to revoke access. We've e-mailed Blippy, notified of them of the situation and will update this post when we know more.

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text: Sharing

text: your

text: credit

text: card

text: and

text: online

text: purchases

text: with

text: friends

text: on

text: the

text: web

text: sounds

text: risky

text: and

text: it

text: is

text: We

text: 've

text: just

text: discovered

text: that

text: several

text: credit

text: card

text: transactions

text: shared

text: on

text: social

text: networking

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text: been

text: exposed

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text: credit

text: card

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text: link

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text: search

text: site

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text: assumption

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text: very

text: concerned

text: about

text: safeguarding

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text: confidentiality

text: of

text: your

text: personally

text: identifiable

text: information

text: We

text: employ

text: administrative

text: physical

text: and

text: electronic

text: measures

text: designed

text: to

text: protect

text: your

text: information

text: from

text: unauthorized

text: access

text: We

text: will

text: make

text: any

text: legally

text: required

text: disclosures

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text: Services

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text: electronic

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text: public

text: and

text: unfortunate

text: way

text: Given

text: the

text: breach

text: we

text: suggest

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text: Blippy

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text: have

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text: debit

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text: immediate

text: action

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text: We

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text: Blippy

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text: the

text: situation

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text: will

text: update

text: this

text: post

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text: we

text: know

text: more

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question: Where is the bug?

answer: "administrative, physical and electronic measures"

text: "administrative, physical and electronic measures"

question: What has been breached?

answer: Blippy's security system

text: Blippy's security system

question: What does Mashable suggest?

answer: that Blippy users who have authorized the site to access their debit or credit transactions take immediate action to revoke access.

text: that Blippy users who have authorized the site to access their debit or credit transactions take immediate action to revoke access.

question: Who's security system has been breached?

answer: Blippy

text: Blippy

question: Where is there a bug?

answer: "administrative, physical and electronic measures"

text: "administrative, physical and electronic measures"

question: What did Mashable suggest?

answer: Blippy users who have authorized the site to access their debit or credit transactions take immediate action to revoke access.

text: Blippy users who have authorized the site to access their debit or credit transactions take immediate action to revoke access.

question: Who suggests users take immediate action?

answer: Blippy

text: Blippy


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BURBANK, California (CNN) -- Jay Leno ended his 17-year reign as the host of "The Tonight Show" Friday with the children of people who met and started families while working at the long-running late-night show during his tenure, according to audience members who attended the taping.

Jay Leno stands with the children of people who met and started families while working on the show.

"Jay said that's what he wanted his legacy to be," said Kevin Anthony of Miami, Florida. "His staff members, from stage managers to runners, who met, got married and had kids joined Jay on the stage and he took a picture with the 70 kids of those parents."

"Jay also thanked his wife," said Kathy Young of Los Angeles, "Jay said, when these kids are asked what was the 'Tonight Show' about, I want them to say, my parents met while working on the show and they had me. And that's what the 'Tonight Show' was all about."

Others in the audience said the show was about celebration. "It was amazing," said Justin Herring from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. "It was a celebration more than emotional," he said. "It didn't feel like a last show, more like a transition."

Rosa Moore from Denver, Colorado, said Leno became teary-eyed when James Taylor sang "Sweet Baby James."

"When James Taylor sang the line, 'I'm 10 miles from Boston with a thousand miles more to go,' Jay wiped his eye," said Moore. "Jay explained that when he left Boston for Los Angeles, he was just outside of Boston when he heard that line and it gave him the courage to keep going," she said. "It's like the song is Jay's personal soundtrack."

Leno will be back in the fall with a new prime time show, and he's taking most of his staff with him. The new show will have some of the same elements as "The Tonight Show" but with some new features.

Conan O'Brien, Leno's first guest Friday night, will be taking over "The Tonight Show" hosting duties beginning Monday.

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BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN)  -- Iraq's former trade minister, who resigned this month amid accusations of corruption, was arrested by security forces as he was trying to leave the country, officials confirmed to CNN.

Abdul Falah al-Sudani resigned as Iraq's trade minister under allegations of corruption.

Abdul Falah al-Sudani was aboard a flight to Dubai from Baghdad International Airport when police contacted the pilot and told him to fly back to the airport, Sabah al-Saedi, chairman of Iraq's parliamentary integrity committee told CNN.

Al-Sudani -- arrested on a warrant issued in Samawa on Saturday -- was seized after the plane landed, al-Saedi said.

Lawmakers and government officials have raised questions with al-Sudani about Trade Ministry issues: the importation of goods intended for distribution in government food rations but rejected as unsuitable for human consumption; missing shipments of food; a missing $39 million; and obstruction of justice.

Al-Sudani acknowledged that his ministry has had problems with corruption but denied he was personally involved.

Al-Saedi said al-Sudani didn't know that a warrant would be issued, but he was well-aware of the corruption accusations against him and had been told by lawmakers and officials not to leave Iraq.

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text: after

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text: plane

text: landed

text: al

text: Saedi

text: said

text: Lawmakers

text: and

text: government

text: officials

text: have

text: raised

text: questions

text: with

text: al

text: Sudani

text: about

text: Trade

text: Ministry

text: issues

text: the

text: importation

text: of

text: goods

text: intended

text: for

text: distribution

text: in

text: government

text: food

text: rations

text: but

text: rejected

text: as

text: unsuitable

text: for

text: human

text: consumption

text: missing

text: shipments

text: of

text: food

text: a

text: missing

text: million

text: and

text: obstruction

text: of

text: justice

text: Al

text: Sudani

text: acknowledged

text: that

text: his

text: ministry

text: has

text: had

text: problems

text: with

text: corruption

text: but

text: denied

text: he

text: was

text: personally

text: involved

text: Al

text: Saedi

text: said

text: al

text: Sudani

text: did

text: n't

text: know

text: that

text: a

text: warrant

text: would

text: be

text: issued

text: but

text: he

text: was

text: well

text: aware

text: of

text: the

text: corruption

text: accusations

text: against

text: him

text: and

text: had

text: been

text: told

text: by

text: lawmakers

text: and

text: officials

text: not

text: to

text: leave

text: Iraq

question: What was the reason for Abdul Falah al-Sudani resigning?

answer: accusations of corruption,

text: accusations of corruption,

question: Where was the pilot told to return the plane to?

answer: the airport,

text: the airport,

question: Wh is the ex-trade minister

answer: Abdul Falah al-Sudani

text: Abdul Falah al-Sudani

question: Where did authorities tell the pilot to return plane to?

answer: the airport,

text: the airport,

question: What is the name of the ex-trade minister?

answer: Abdul Falah al-Sudani

text: Abdul Falah al-Sudani

question: What was the reason Abdul Falah al-Sudani resigned?

answer: amid accusations of corruption,

text: amid accusations of corruption,

question: Who is arrested after authorities tell a pilot to return plane to Baghdad?

answer: Abdul Falah al-Sudani

text: Abdul Falah al-Sudani

question: What was Abdul Al-Sudani's job before he resigned?

answer: Iraq's trade minister

text: Iraq's trade minister