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LONDON, England (CNN) -- New data released Thursday suggests that the Arctic Ocean will be "largely ice free" during summer within a decade.

As the Arctic sea ice melts, polar bears face extinction.

The report, complied by the UK-based Catlin Arctic Survey and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), is the latest research into ice thickness in the Arctic.

Researchers predict that within 20 years ice cover will be completely gone during the warmer months.

The expedition, which was completed in May, was led by UK explorer Pen Hadow.

He and his team collected data by manually drilling into the ice and noting its thickness along a 450-kilometer route across the northern part of the Beaufort Sea.

They found that the area surveyed was comprised almost exclusively of first year ice.

Scientists think this is significant because traditionally the region has been made up of much older, thicker ice.

"Discovering this area of younger ice provides another body of information that supports the rapidly emerging scientific consensus that it's going to be nearer 10 years from now that we will see roughly 80-85 percent free waters in the Arctic Ocean," Hadow told CNN.

Measurements taken by Hadow and his team report that the ice-floes were on average 1.8 meters thick -- which, according to scientists, is too thin to survive next summer's ice melt.

Professor Peter Wadhams, head of the Polar Ocean Physics Group at the UK's University of Cambridge said: "With a large part of the region now first year ice, it is clearly more vulnerable. The area is now more likely to become open water each summer, bringing forward the potential date when the summer sea ice will be completely gone."

Professor Wadhams, who has analyzed the expedition data, added: "The Catlin Arctic Survey data supports the new consensus view that the Arctic will be ice-free in summer within about 20 years, and much of that decrease will be happening within 10 years."  Click here to see pictures of the expedition Â»

Martin Sommerkorn from the WWF International Arctic Program believes that the changes in sea-ice cover in the region are likely to increase global temperatures further.

"Such a loss of Arctic sea ice has recently been assessed to set in motion powerful climate feedbacks which will have an impact far beyond the Arctic itself," Sommerkorn said.

"Arctic sea ice holds a central position in our Earth's climate system. Take it out of the equation and we are left with a dramatically warmer world," he added.

Hadow fears that the current climate models developed by scientists may not be extreme enough. But he is hopeful that this new data will spur world leaders into action.

"We are now in a loss period," Hadow told CNN. "Maybe losing this sea ice, this roof on the top of our planet in going to be an important moment, a big visual aid to the science that in combination can bring about some sort of global agreement on emissions."

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(CNN) -- A 13-year-old Minnesota boy who has cancer has resumed chemotherapy treatments and is not responding well, a family spokesman said Friday.

Doctors say Daniel Hauser's lymphoma responded well to a first round of chemotherapy in February.

Danny Hauser started a second round of chemotherapy treatment this week, Jim Navarro said in a statement on the family's Web site, dannyhauser.com.

"The doctor changed the number of chemotherapy drugs in the protocol submitted to the court. Danny is not tolerating the drugs well and has been vomiting all day. He is understandably angry and depressed about being forced to go through the ravages of chemotherapy again."

Daniel underwent his first round of chemotherapy in February, a month after he was diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma. But his parents were concerned about the treatment's side effects, which typically include nausea, and decided to end the chemotherapy regimen and pursue holistic treatments instead.

When Daniel's oncologist learned of the decision to reject standard treatment, which doctors say is associated with a cure rate of as high as 90 percent, he asked a court to intervene to ensure the teen got chemotherapy.

Doctors say that, without it, the disease would likely prove fatal.

But last week, before the court could act, Colleen Hauser packed up her son and flew with him to Southern California, from where they were planning to continue to Mexico to seek alternative alternative medical treatment. She said he would have run on his own had she not helped him flee.

She changed her mind before crossing the border and returned this week with Daniel to Minnesota, where the family agreed to comply with whatever treatment the court ordered.

A medical examination revealed that the boy's tumor had grown since he was diagnosed and the boy's doctor recommended he resume chemotherapy.

After examining the boy on Monday, Dr. Michael Richards estimated the tumor's size at 5.3 inches by 5.1 inches by 6.3 inches, and said it was "protruding outside the chest wall."

He said initiation this week of standard chemotherapy treatment was "imperative."

Richards recommended at least another five cycles of chemotherapy followed by radiation, and added that the "goal will be to include alternative therapies in which the family is interested, as long as there is not data to suggest that a particular danger exists with any alternative medicine."

District Court Judge John Rodenberg originally took custody of the boy away from his parents, but returned him to his family on the condition that they comply with the recommendations of the cancer specialist.

Hodgkin's lymphoma is a cancer that affects the lymphatic system, which is part of the immune system. As the disease progresses, it compromises a body's ability to fight infection.

CNN's Aaron Cooper contributed to this story.

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(CNN) -- When Command Sgt. Maj. Michael T. Hall of the International Security Assistance Force announced that fast-food offerings like Pizza Hut, Dairy Queen and Orange Julius were being shuttered in Afghanistan, he was blunt about it.

"This is a warzone, not an amusement park," he wrote on the ISAF blog.

These mobile restaurants and others that can be found on large bases in Kandahar and Bagram, are "nonessentials" and are being shut down to streamline delivery of much-needed battlefield supplies.

However, according to some soldiers and Marines -- all of whom have served in combat in Iraq or Afghanistan -- access to the familiar hometown mall fare isn't as important to morale as many civilians may have thought.

The veterans and active-duty troops all said that access to healthy foods, local cuisine and packages of snacks sent by friends and family trumped military base fast food as morale boosters.

The announcement of the fast-food outposts' shuttering inspired a lively debate on CNN's Afghanistan blog about morale and the amenities afforded servicemen and women serving overseas -- often in harm's way. Those affected, however, didn't seem very concerned.

"The big things that improve morale in a combat zone are lots of letters and packages from loved ones," Marine Cpl. David Brian Crouch said.

Especially appreciated in these care packages are sweet, sour, salty and spicy condiments, such as Tabasco, sugar packets and seasoned salts for enlivening the military's frequently derided Meals Ready to Eat -- individually packaged rations for service members stationed away from meal preparation facilities.

These high-calorie MREs, which have long drawn criticism for depressingly bland flavors and textures, are precisely what Crouch, who served two tours in Iraq, says drove his fellow troops to seek out more flavorful, familiar fast food.

Others look a little closer to their temporary home, sampling the local fare. While many soldiers out on combat patrols were, according to Army Capt. David Swaintek, "too tired and drained to care much about their meal," he developed a taste for Iraqi flavors during his tour, which lasted from 2002 to 2008.

While he stands up for food on base, calling it "decent" and "healthier" than fast-food alternatives, he still misses his favorite flatbread, which he'd buy while out on patrol, and he laments not being able to find anything like it stateside.

Similarly adventurous, previously deployed Marines now at California's Camp Pendeleton don't have to venture far from their barracks to indulge in the Middle Eastern-style specialties they've come to love. According to the Marine Corps Times, DedeMed's Shawarma House now serves the eponymous gyro-like sandwich -- as well as hummus, tabbouleh salad and baklava -- to Marines who'd been stationed in Iraq and the Persian Gulf.

Swaintek, while lauding the indigenous cuisine, also cried foul about fatty U.S. fast foods, saying that "overweight soldiers are a problem."

Army Sgt. Paul Williams, who is serving in Iraq, agrees with the captain but indulges in "the occasional pizza from Pizza Hut, burrito from Taco Bell, or maybe even a sandwich from Subway," citing the virtue of being able to enjoy a pizza in the middle of the desert and escape for a few minutes to talk with fellow soldiers about their homes, sweethearts or future plans.

Ultimately, though, the military is a culture of intense physical fitness, and access to nutritious meals at mess halls helps servicemen and women maintain their physical and psychological. edge. And Williams says that "a soldier has a responsibility to maintain himself."

While deployed troops can certainly take the reins of their physical health, friends and family stateside can still boost morale and offer a taste of home with much-appreciated care packages. The Department of Defense maintains a list of links to groups coordinating care packages for overseas soldiers.

According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, most foods that are tightly prepackaged and immune to mold or bacterial growth are safe for sending to soldiers. They recommend dried proteins, like beef and turkey jerky, as well as dehydrated soups, dried fruits and even dense baked goods like fruitcakes.

Just make sure to seal it all up with a kiss.

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text: the

text: fast

text: food

text: outposts

text: shuttering

text: inspired

text: a

text: lively

text: debate

text: on

text: CNN

text: 's

text: Afghanistan

text: blog

text: about

text: morale

text: and

text: the

text: amenities

text: afforded

text: servicemen

text: and

text: women

text: serving

text: overseas

text: often

text: in

text: harm

text: 's

text: way

text: Those

text: affected

text: however

text: did

text: n't

text: seem

text: very

text: concerned

text: The

text: big

text: things

text: that

text: improve

text: morale

text: in

text: a

text: combat

text: zone

text: are

text: lots

text: of

text: letters

text: and

text: packages

text: from

text: loved

text: ones

text: Marine

text: Cpl

text: David

text: Brian

text: Crouch

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text: appreciated

text: in

text: these

text: care

text: packages

text: are

text: sweet

text: sour

text: salty

text: and

text: spicy

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text: Tabasco

text: sugar

text: packets

text: and

text: seasoned

text: salts

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text: enlivening

text: the

text: military

text: 's

text: frequently

text: derided

text: Meals

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text: packaged

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text: from

text: meal

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text: which

text: have

text: long

text: drawn

text: criticism

text: for

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text: bland

text: flavors

text: and

text: textures

text: are

text: precisely

text: what

text: Crouch

text: who

text: served

text: two

text: tours

text: in

text: Iraq

text: says

text: drove

text: his

text: fellow

text: troops

text: to

text: seek

text: out

text: more

text: flavorful

text: familiar

text: fast

text: food

text: Others

text: look

text: a

text: little

text: closer

text: to

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text: temporary

text: home

text: sampling

text: the

text: local

text: fare

text: While

text: many

text: soldiers

text: out

text: on

text: combat

text: patrols

text: were

text: according

text: to

text: Army

text: Capt

text: David

text: Swaintek

text: too

text: tired

text: and

text: drained

text: to

text: care

text: much

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text: their

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text: a

text: taste

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text: favorite

text: flatbread

text: which

text: he

text: 'd

text: buy

text: while

text: out

text: on

text: patrol

text: and

text: he

text: laments

text: not

text: being

text: able

text: to

text: find

text: anything

text: like

text: it

text: stateside

text: Similarly

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text: previously

text: deployed

text: Marines

text: now

text: at

text: California

text: 's

text: Camp

text: Pendeleton

text: do

text: n't

text: have

text: to

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text: far

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text: the

text: Middle

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text: to

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text: the

text: Marine

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text: DedeMed

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text: the

text: Persian

text: Gulf

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text: indigenous

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text: foods

text: saying

text: that

text: overweight

text: soldiers

text: are

text: a

text: problem

text: Army

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text: Paul

text: Williams

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text: is

text: serving

text: in

text: Iraq

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text: with

text: the

text: captain

text: but

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text: in

text: the

text: occasional

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text: from

text: Pizza

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text: from

text: Taco

text: Bell

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text: sandwich

text: from

text: Subway

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text: virtue

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text: pizza

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text: middle

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text: desert

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text: escape

text: for

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text: few

text: minutes

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text: with

text: fellow

text: soldiers

text: about

text: their

text: homes

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text: future

text: plans

text: Ultimately

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text: the

text: military

text: is

text: a

text: culture

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text: intense

text: physical

text: fitness

text: and

text: access

text: to

text: nutritious

text: meals

text: at

text: mess

text: halls

text: helps

text: servicemen

text: and

text: women

text: maintain

text: their

text: physical

text: and

text: psychological

text: edge

text: And

text: Williams

text: says

text: that

text: a

text: soldier

text: has

text: a

text: responsibility

text: to

text: maintain

text: himself

text: While

text: deployed

text: troops

text: can

text: certainly

text: take

text: the

text: reins

text: of

text: their

text: physical

text: health

text: friends

text: and

text: family

text: stateside

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text: boost

text: morale

text: and

text: offer

text: a

text: taste

text: of

text: home

text: with

text: much

text: appreciated

text: care

text: packages

text: The

text: Department

text: of

text: Defense

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text: a

text: list

text: of

text: links

text: to

text: groups

text: coordinating

text: care

text: packages

text: for

text: overseas

text: soldiers

text: According

text: to

text: the

text: U.S.

text: Department

text: of

text: Agriculture

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text: foods

text: that

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text: tightly

text: prepackaged

text: and

text: immune

text: to

text: mold

text: or

text: bacterial

text: growth

text: are

text: safe

text: for

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text: to

text: soldiers

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text: dried

text: proteins

text: like

text: beef

text: and

text: turkey

text: jerky

text: as

text: well

text: as

text: dehydrated

text: soups

text: dried

text: fruits

text: and

text: even

text: dense

text: baked

text: goods

text: like

text: fruitcakes

text: Just

text: make

text: sure

text: to

text: seal

text: it

text: all

text: up

text: with

text: a

text: kiss

question: What will the military close?

answer: mobile restaurants

text: mobile restaurants

question: What do the troops say?

answer: access to healthy foods, local cuisine and packages of snacks sent by friends and family trumped military base fast food as morale boosters.

text: access to healthy foods, local cuisine and packages of snacks sent by friends and family trumped military base fast food as morale boosters.

question: Where is the military closing Pizza Hut, Diary Queen and other outlets?

answer: Afghanistan,

text: Afghanistan,

question: What affects troop morale?

answer: access to healthy foods, local cuisine and packages of snacks sent by friends and family

text: access to healthy foods, local cuisine and packages of snacks sent by friends and family


text:
Washington -- Good night, Loran.

In a series of small ceremonies, the U.S. Coast Guard on Monday shut down Loran-C, a navigation and timing system that has guided mariners and aviators since World War II.

The death blow came last May when President Obama called the system obsolete, saying it is no longer needed in an age in which Global Positioning System devices are nearly ubiquitous in cars, planes and boats.

Killing Loran-C will save the government $190 million over five years, Obama said. But supporters of Loran -- including the man known as "the father of GPS" -- say the nation's increasing reliance on GPS paradoxically has increased the importance of maintaining Loran as a backup.

Supporters also argue that the mere existence of Loran makes the GPS satellite system a less attractive target for cyber-thugs, terrorists or future military adversaries.

GPS systems today are used not only for navigation, but also to provide precise timing for ATM machines, cell phone towers, water plants and other enterprises, and positioning information for precision-guided weapons for the military. GPS disruptions can be costly to business, dangerous for travelers, and debilitating to the military.

Supporters of Loran -- short for long range navigation system -- say the system is a near-perfect backup because it provides similar information to GPS, but has dissimilar infrastructure.

GPS is based on a constellation of at least 25 satellites; Loran is based on 24 ground stations in the United States, and others elsewhere. GPS transmits a very faint signal and is vulnerable to interference or jamming; Loran has a high-power signal which can penetrate obstacles like foliage and is harder to interrupt.  GPS is powered by solar panels; Loran is tied to ground power. And while GPS operates in outer space, outside of controlled perimeters, Loran operates inside controlled perimeters in the United States.

The vulnerability of GPS and the consequences of an outage became evident in 2007 during a Navy training exercise in the Port of San Diego, California.  Participants unintentionally jammed GPS signals in the region, shutting down satellite navigation and cell phone service up to 10 miles inland for three hours.

The satellite-based system's vulnerability became apparent a second time that year, when China tested an anti-satellite weapon, destroying one of its own aging weather satellites.

Indeed, in recent years, as the popularity of GPS soared and the number of Loran users dwindled, the fate of the Loran system has followed a meandering path of near-death and rebirth experiences that even the most sophisticated navigation system would have difficulty tracking.

During the Bush administration, the system was at one point placed on the chopping block, but was resurrected amid a flurry of reports from Loran backers.

In late 2006, an Independent Assessment Team headed by Bradford Parkinson, known as the "father of GPS," unanimously recommended that an enhanced version of Loran, known as eLORAN, "be completed and retained as the national backup system for GPS," saying it had "critical safety of life, national and economic security, and quality of life applications."

The assessment team recommended that the government complete the eLORAN upgrade and commit to eLORAN as the national backup to GPS for 20 years.

But the Obama administration has described Loran as unnecessary and antiquated. In a May 7 speech, Obama used Loran as an example of government waste.

"This system once made a lot of sense, before there were satellites to help us navigate," Obama said. "Now there's GPS. And yet, year after year, this obsolete technology has continued to be funded even though it serves no government function and very few people are left who still actually use it."

So at 3 p.m. Monday, the U.S. Coast Guard turned off Loran signals at 19 of the 24 Loran stations. Signals remain at five stations because of agreements with Russia and Canada, but the Coast Guard expects those stations to be decommissioned by June after the United States receives verification that those countries have been notified of the change.

The five stations that temporarily remain on line are at Attu, in Alaska's Aleutian Islands, and Caribou, Maine; Nantucket, Massachusetts; Shoal Cove, Alaska; and George, Washington.

Chief Warrant Officer 4 Dave Robbio said the Loran signals at the 19 closed stations will be on a "hot stand-by" for the next week, allowing the signals to be turned back on if something unforeseen occurs. If there are no problems, the transmitters will be completely powered down next Monday.

Some congressional critics say it is a mistake to shut down the system. In a November letter to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, two top members of the Senate Homeland Security Committee urged that Loran-C be spared. Deploying an enhanced Loran, or eLORAN, would cost about $100 million, Sens. Joseph Lieberman, I-Connecticut, and Susan Collins, R-Maine, wrote -- about one half the amount of placing one new GPS satellite in orbit, they said.

But the case for dismantling Loran also has its advocates, including the U.S. Coast Guard. In a submission to the Federal Register, the Coast Guard said Loran-C was not established as, nor was it it intended to be, a backup for GPS. Other radio navigation systems, or operational procedures, can be used as backups for GPS navigation and other critical applications, the Coast Guard said.

The Department of Homeland Security says it is currently reviewing the nation's critical infrastructure "to determine if a single, domestic system is needed as a GPS backup."

"The continued active operation of Loran-C is not necessary to advance this evaluation," DHS said.

But hope springs eternal for some Loran supporters, who hope the Coast Guard will mothball the system rather than destroy it.

Mothballing the stations would allow the government to resurrect the system if ongoing studies show Loran is the appropriate backup for GPS. But one Loran supporter acknowledged that hopes of reviving the system, at this point, may just be "wishful thinking."

text: Washington

text: Good

text: night

text: Loran

text: In

text: a

text: series

text: of

text: small

text: ceremonies

text: the

text: U.S.

text: Coast

text: Guard

text: on

text: Monday

text: shut

text: down

text: Loran

text: C

text: a

text: navigation

text: and

text: timing

text: system

text: that

text: has

text: guided

text: mariners

text: and

text: aviators

text: since

text: World

text: War

text: II

text: The

text: death

text: blow

text: came

text: last

text: May

text: when

text: President

text: Obama

text: called

text: the

text: system

text: obsolete

text: saying

text: it

text: is

text: no

text: longer

text: needed

text: in

text: an

text: age

text: in

text: which

text: Global

text: Positioning

text: System

text: devices

text: are

text: nearly

text: ubiquitous

text: in

text: cars

text: planes

text: and

text: boats

text: Killing

text: Loran

text: C

text: will

text: save

text: the

text: government

text: million

text: over

text: five

text: years

text: Obama

text: said

text: But

text: supporters

text: of

text: Loran

text: including

text: the

text: man

text: known

text: as

text: the

text: father

text: of

text: GPS

text: say

text: the

text: nation

text: 's

text: increasing

text: reliance

text: on

text: GPS

text: paradoxically

text: has

text: increased

text: the

text: importance

text: of

text: maintaining

text: Loran

text: as

text: a

text: backup

text: Supporters

text: also

text: argue

text: that

text: the

text: mere

text: existence

text: of

text: Loran

text: makes

text: the

text: GPS

text: satellite

text: system

text: a

text: less

text: attractive

text: target

text: for

text: cyber

text: thugs

text: terrorists

text: or

text: future

text: military

text: adversaries

text: GPS

text: systems

text: today

text: are

text: used

text: not

text: only

text: for

text: navigation

text: but

text: also

text: to

text: provide

text: precise

text: timing

text: for

text: ATM

text: machines

text: cell

text: phone

text: towers

text: water

text: plants

text: and

text: other

text: enterprises

text: and

text: positioning

text: information

text: for

text: precision

text: guided

text: weapons

text: for

text: the

text: military

text: GPS

text: disruptions

text: can

text: be

text: costly

text: to

text: business

text: dangerous

text: for

text: travelers

text: and

text: debilitating

text: to

text: the

text: military

text: Supporters

text: of

text: Loran

text: short

text: for

text: long

text: range

text: navigation

text: system

text: say

text: the

text: system

text: is

text: a

text: near

text: perfect

text: backup

text: because

text: it

text: provides

text: similar

text: information

text: to

text: GPS

text: but

text: has

text: dissimilar

text: infrastructure

text: GPS

text: is

text: based

text: on

text: a

text: constellation

text: of

text: at

text: least

text: satellites

text: Loran

text: is

text: based

text: on

text: ground

text: stations

text: in

text: the

text: United

text: States

text: and

text: others

text: elsewhere

text: GPS

text: transmits

text: a

text: very

text: faint

text: signal

text: and

text: is

text: vulnerable

text: to

text: interference

text: or

text: jamming

text: Loran

text: has

text: a

text: high

text: power

text: signal

text: which

text: can

text: penetrate

text: obstacles

text: like

text: foliage

text: and

text: is

text: harder

text: to

text: interrupt

text: GPS

text: is

text: powered

text: by

text: solar

text: panels

text: Loran

text: is

text: tied

text: to

text: ground

text: power

text: And

text: while

text: GPS

text: operates

text: in

text: outer

text: space

text: outside

text: of

text: controlled

text: perimeters

text: Loran

text: operates

text: inside

text: controlled

text: perimeters

text: in

text: the

text: United

text: States

text: The

text: vulnerability

text: of

text: GPS

text: and

text: the

text: consequences

text: of

text: an

text: outage

text: became

text: evident

text: in

text: during

text: a

text: Navy

text: training

text: exercise

text: in

text: the

text: Port

text: of

text: San

text: Diego

text: California

text: Participants

text: unintentionally

text: jammed

text: GPS

text: signals

text: in

text: the

text: region

text: shutting

text: down

text: satellite

text: navigation

text: and

text: cell

text: phone

text: service

text: up

text: to

text: miles

text: inland

text: for

text: three

text: hours

text: The

text: satellite

text: based

text: system

text: 's

text: vulnerability

text: became

text: apparent

text: a

text: second

text: time

text: that

text: year

text: when

text: China

text: tested

text: an

text: anti

text: satellite

text: weapon

text: destroying

text: one

text: of

text: its

text: own

text: aging

text: weather

text: satellites

text: Indeed

text: in

text: recent

text: years

text: as

text: the

text: popularity

text: of

text: GPS

text: soared

text: and

text: the

text: number

text: of

text: Loran

text: users

text: dwindled

text: the

text: fate

text: of

text: the

text: Loran

text: system

text: has

text: followed

text: a

text: meandering

text: path

text: of

text: near

text: death

text: and

text: rebirth

text: experiences

text: that

text: even

text: the

text: most

text: sophisticated

text: navigation

text: system

text: would

text: have

text: difficulty

text: tracking

text: During

text: the

text: Bush

text: administration

text: the

text: system

text: was

text: at

text: one

text: point

text: placed

text: on

text: the

text: chopping

text: block

text: but

text: was

text: resurrected

text: amid

text: a

text: flurry

text: of

text: reports

text: from

text: Loran

text: backers

text: In

text: late

text: an

text: Independent

text: Assessment

text: Team

text: headed

text: by

text: Bradford

text: Parkinson

text: known

text: as

text: the

text: father

text: of

text: GPS

text: unanimously

text: recommended

text: that

text: an

text: enhanced

text: version

text: of

text: Loran

text: known

text: as

text: eLORAN

text: be

text: completed

text: and

text: retained

text: as

text: the

text: national

text: backup

text: system

text: for

text: GPS

text: saying

text: it

text: had

text: critical

text: safety

text: of

text: life

text: national

text: and

text: economic

text: security

text: and

text: quality

text: of

text: life

text: applications

text: The

text: assessment

text: team

text: recommended

text: that

text: the

text: government

text: complete

text: the

text: eLORAN

text: upgrade

text: and

text: commit

text: to

text: eLORAN

text: as

text: the

text: national

text: backup

text: to

text: GPS

text: for

text: years

text: But

text: the

text: Obama

text: administration

text: has

text: described

text: Loran

text: as

text: unnecessary

text: and

text: antiquated

text: In

text: a

text: May

text: speech

text: Obama

text: used

text: Loran

text: as

text: an

text: example

text: of

text: government

text: waste

text: This

text: system

text: once

text: made

text: a

text: lot

text: of

text: sense

text: before

text: there

text: were

text: satellites

text: to

text: help

text: us

text: navigate

text: Obama

text: said

text: Now

text: there

text: 's

text: GPS

text: And

text: yet

text: year

text: after

text: year

text: this

text: obsolete

text: technology

text: has

text: continued

text: to

text: be

text: funded

text: even

text: though

text: it

text: serves

text: no

text: government

text: function

text: and

text: very

text: few

text: people

text: are

text: left

text: who

text: still

text: actually

text: use

text: it

text: So

text: at

text: p.m.

text: Monday

text: the

text: U.S.

text: Coast

text: Guard

text: turned

text: off

text: Loran

text: signals

text: at

text: of

text: the

text: Loran

text: stations

text: Signals

text: remain

text: at

text: five

text: stations

text: because

text: of

text: agreements

text: with

text: Russia

text: and

text: Canada

text: but

text: the

text: Coast

text: Guard

text: expects

text: those

text: stations

text: to

text: be

text: decommissioned

text: by

text: June

text: after

text: the

text: United

text: States

text: receives

text: verification

text: that

text: those

text: countries

text: have

text: been

text: notified

text: of

text: the

text: change

text: The

text: five

text: stations

text: that

text: temporarily

text: remain

text: on

text: line

text: are

text: at

text: Attu

text: in

text: Alaska

text: 's

text: Aleutian

text: Islands

text: and

text: Caribou

text: Maine

text: Nantucket

text: Massachusetts

text: Shoal

text: Cove

text: Alaska

text: and

text: George

text: Washington

text: Chief

text: Warrant

text: Officer

text: Dave

text: Robbio

text: said

text: the

text: Loran

text: signals

text: at

text: the

text: closed

text: stations

text: will

text: be

text: on

text: a

text: hot

text: stand

text: by

text: for

text: the

text: next

text: week

text: allowing

text: the

text: signals

text: to

text: be

text: turned

text: back

text: on

text: if

text: something

text: unforeseen

text: occurs

text: If

text: there

text: are

text: no

text: problems

text: the

text: transmitters

text: will

text: be

text: completely

text: powered

text: down

text: next

text: Monday

text: Some

text: congressional

text: critics

text: say

text: it

text: is

text: a

text: mistake

text: to

text: shut

text: down

text: the

text: system

text: In

text: a

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answer: 19

question: When were they shut down?

answer: Monday

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question: What is GPS vulnerable to?

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question: What do critics claim GPR is vulnerable to?

answer: interference or jamming;

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question: What number of stations were shut down?

answer: 19

question: What reason was given for shutting them down?

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(CNN) -- Costa Rican President Oscar Arias has been diagnosed with the H1N1 virus, commonly known as the swine flu, the government said in a televised statement on Tuesday.

Oscar Arias, the president of Costa Rica, has contracted the H1N1 virus.

Arias fell ill on Sunday, complaining of a sore throat and temperature, Presidential Minister Rodrigo Arias said.

A doctor's visit on Tuesday revealed that the president had the H1N1 virus, cases of which had been reported earlier in the Costa Rican capital of San Jose.

The president's overall health was good, but following his doctor's advice, he will rest at his home until Sunday, Rodrigo Arias said.

The president is expected to return to work on Monday, the minister said.

As of Friday, there were 718 confirmed cases of the H1N1 virus in Costa Rica, and the virus has been blamed for 27 deaths, according to a report by the country's ministry of health.

A majority of the confirmed cases -- 480 -- were in San Jose.

Arias, 67, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1987 for helping bring an end to Central America's civil wars.

More recently, he acted as mediator between two feuding sides claiming the leadership of Honduras.

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answer: H1N1 virus,

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question: What has  President Oscar Arias been diagnosed with?

answer: H1N1 virus,

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(CNN) -- A Swedish wrestler who discarded his bronze medal in a protest during the presentation ceremony has been stripped of the award and disqualified from the tournament in Beijing.

A disgruntled Abrahamian drops his bronze medal before leaving the arena during the presentation ceremony.

The International Olympic Committee said it was also officially disqualifying Ara Abrahamian, 35, from his event, Greco-Roman wrestling.

Abrahamian was beaten in the 84-kilogram class by eventual gold medal winner Andrea Minguzzi of Italy. He complained that "blatant errors in judging" caused him to lose the match and said he felt that he deserved the gold.

The Swede shouted at the referee before confronting the judges. During Thursday's presentation ceremony, he took off his medal and left it in the center of the competition mat before walking off.

The IOC said Abrahamian violated two rules of the Olympic charter, one that bans any sort of demonstrations and another that demands respect for all Olympic athletes.

"The awards ceremony is a highly symbolic ritual, acknowledged as such by all athletes and other participants," the IOC said.

"Any disruption by any athlete, in particular a medalist, is in itself an insult to the other athletes and to the Olympic Movement. It is also contrary to the spirit of fair play."

Abrahamian never expressed regret or offered an apology, the IOC said. The international weightlifting federation was asked to consider further sanctions against him.

His medal was the third stripped at the Beijing Games.

On Friday, North Korean shooter Kim Jong Su had his silver and bronze medals taken away after failing a doping test. Also expelled for doping violations have been Spanish cyclist Maria Isabel Moreno and Vietnamese gymnast Thi Ngan Thuong Do.

Abrahamian's case is not the first of its kind.

A weightlifter at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics was stripped of his bronze medal after rejecting it during the medal ceremony.

Ibragim Samadov, competing in the light heavyweight category for the Unified Team of the former Soviet Union, was upset with his performance and refused to have the medal placed around his neck and only accepted it in his hand. He then put it down and walked off.

Samadov later apologized, but the IOC upheld its decision to disqualify him, and he was later banned for life by the sport's governing body.

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question: What rules did Abrahamian violate?

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question: What sport does Ara Abrahamian  play?

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(CNN) -- Police have arrested a man in the killing of Auburn University freshman Lauren Burk, who died this week, according to the Auburn, Alabama, assistant police chief.

Courtney Larrell Lockhart, 23, of Smiths, Alabama, is charged with capital murder during a kidnapping, capital murder during a robbery, and capital murder during an attempted rape, Tommy Dawson said Saturday.

The Phenix City Police Department took Lockhart into custody on Friday, police said. Phenix City is about 35 miles southeast of Auburn.

Burk, 18, from Marietta, Georgia, was found shot on North College Street, a few miles north of campus, on Tuesday night. She died later at a hospital.

Minutes after police responded to the call reporting an injured person and found Burk, they found a car -- which turned out to be Burk's -- on fire in a campus parking lot.

Dawson told reporters Friday that authorities think gasoline or another accelerant was used to ignite Burk's car, and police were investigating whether a gas can found in downtown Auburn was connected. Police want to investigate every possible lead, Dawson said.

Authorities were still on patrol in the east Alabama campus, he said.

The university's Web site said a campus-wide memorial service will be held Monday.

The site carried a message from Burk's father, James, which said: "The Burk family was so proud to have Lauren as an Auburn University student. We want to extend our deepest gratitude and appreciation for Auburn University, the city of Auburn and the Auburn Police Department. We feel very close to your community. We appreciate what everyone is doing for us and Lauren."

Also on Friday, police released pictures of a 2001 Honda Civic similar to Burk's car. Authorities asked anyone who thinks they might have seen the car on Tuesday to contact them.

Police are continuing to interview people, Dawson said.

A student at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill -- Eve Carson, 22, of Athens, Georgia -- was also shot to death this week, on early Wednesday. Authorities in Chapel Hill said Friday they had been in contact with Auburn police but did not believe the two cases were connected.   Watch CNN's Nancy Grace discuss the two killings of college women from Georgia Â»

Burk's family, in a statement read Friday to reporters by family friend Kathy Singleton, expressed their gratitude for the thoughts and prayers offered, but asked for privacy "so that they may grieve for their loss as well as celebrate Lauren's life."

Those wishing to honor Burk could do so by donating to her favorite charities, Singleton said -- The Invisible Child and the American Kidney Foundation.

Donations can be made at any Wachovia Bank to the Lauren Burk Memorial Fund. E-mail to a friend

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(CNN) -- As Democratic and Republican presidential candidates scour the country for votes during the 2008 campaign, they'll inevitably court the Hispanic community, a voting group growing rapidly in number and diversity.

Some Democratic presidential candidates pose before a debate sponsored by Univision. The Republican debate was postponed after only one candidate agreed to attend, a development which troubled some party leaders.

The Hispanic vote is neither homogenous nor loyal to one party. Though the current political moment seems to favor the Democratic Party, experts say that affinity should not be taken for granted.

The Hispanic community is the fastest-growing minority group in the United States, according to the U.S. census.

But its percentage of the electorate is lower than its numbers as a whole because of lower citizenship rates, less voter participation and a youthful demographic. Of the nation's more than 44 million people of Hispanic origin, about a third are too young to vote.

But all that's changing.

Before the midterm elections in 2006, the Pew Hispanic Center, a Washington-based think-tank, estimated more than 17 million Hispanics would be eligible to vote in that election. The number represented a 7 percent increase from 2004.

The Hispanic share of the U.S. electorate increased from 8.2 percent to 8.6 percent during the same period, Pew estimated.

That percentage may grow even more by 2008 as a result of citizenship drives, get-out-the-vote campaigns and the natural growth of the community.

Univision, the Spanish-language broadcast giant, has thrown its considerable weight behind a citizenship drive this year. "We feel that empowering our audience is good for Hispanics and the country," Univision President Ray Rodriguez told the Wall Street Journal in May 2007, adding that it was "a totally nonpartisan effort."

Organizations such as the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials, or NALEO, are also mobilizing the vote.

"We have spearheaded a massive naturalization campaign and close to, I think, a million applications will have been submitted this fiscal year," said NALEO's executive director, Arturo Vargas.

The change in the electorate could play a significant role in possible swing states like Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, Colorado and Florida during the 2008 election. There's a reason the Democratic Party decided to hold its presidential convention in Denver, experts said.

"I don't think it's really registered with people just how influential the Latino vote can be in some of these state primaries," Vargas said.

The Hispanic vote has historically been aligned with the Democratic Party, an allegiance established during the administrations of Presidents Franklin Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy, said Harry Pachon of the Tomas Rivera Policy Institute.

That political alignment was further cemented when Proposition 187 -- designed to deny health care, education and welfare benefits to illegal immigrants -- was pushed by Republicans and passed in California in 1994.

But the Republican Party, intent on gaining more Hispanic voters, made inroads during the early parts of this decade, culminating in the 2004 presidential campaign by President Bush. Exit polls showed he carried 40 to 44 percent of the Hispanic vote, according to the Pew Hispanic Center.

"There are a lot of issues that Latinos agree with Republican philosophy," Pachon said, pointing to the GOP stances on entrepreneurship, fiscal policies, its appeal to Hispanic evangelicals and its policies toward Cuba.

But the heated immigration debate, when many congressional Republicans disagreed with President Bush over granting a path toward citizenship for many illegal immigrants, may erode those gains.

"The Republicans are really caught between a rock and a hard place," Pachon said.

They must balance the interests of a segment of their constituency that is very anti-immigrant with the interests of a "Latino voter that is affluent and middle class, who can theoretically be reached by Republican Party principles," he said.

It is little wonder then, that among Republican presidential candidates, only Arizona Sen. John McCain agreed to appear at an Univision debate scheduled for mid-September. The debate didn't happen. All but one of the Democratic contenders appeared for their debate.

Some Republican leaders said last week not participating in such debates could harm the party's standing with minority groups for the 2008 election and beyond.

"What are we going to do -- meet in a country club in the suburbs one day?" former congressman and GOP vice presidential candidate Jack Kemp told The Washington Post. "If we're going to be competitive with people of color, we've got to ask them for their vote."

"This [political environment] gives Democrats a huge advantage," Adam J. Segal, who heads the Hispanic Voter Project at Johns Hopkins University, said in an e-mail. He also runs the 2050 Group, a multicultural public relations firm based in Washington.

"They are likely to draw far more Hispanic votes than in 2004 and would gain at least a half-million vote advantage" under one of his group's more conservative scenarios, Segal said.

But the Hispanic community is diverse and voting interests are not homogenous, which imperils such predictions.

Hispanic immigrants originate from more than a dozen different countries, arrived in the U.S. through numerous immigration waves and have different perceptions of communal identity, Segal said.

For example, a Cuban-American may vote Republican because of the GOP's long-standing policies toward Cuba, whereas a Puerto Rican voter in New York City or a voter in a border state may be driven by different motives.

The culture of a state can also affect a Hispanic voter's behavior. A voter in Texas may be more conservative, whereas a voter with a similar background in California may be more liberal, Pachon said.

There may also be generational cleavages, Pachon said. A study he conducted with a colleague on the impact of religion on the Latino vote revealed differences between first-, second- and third-generation Hispanics. The first and third generations said religion was more important to them when compared to the second generation.

Additionally, despite the furor over immigration, that issue might not be the most important to Hispanic voters, NALEO's Vargas said. "If the election were held today, I think immigration would be a significant factor, but we're more than a year away from the election," he said.

Based on a series of town hall meetings conducted in 2004 and conversations throughout this year, Vargas said education, the Iraq war, the economy and health care may take precedence over immigration.

"We need to distinguish issues that matter to the Latino community versus the issues that matter to Latino voters," he said. "Those are not the same." E-mail to a friend

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question: What type of voters are diverse as wider community?

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question: What group is as diverse as a wider community?

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question: What year do Hispanic votes play a role?

answer: 2008

question: Where could Hispanics play a significant role?

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question: What is the effort trying to increase?

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question: What is under way to increase Hispanic citizenship?

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