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(Mental Floss) -- Starting a legitimate business is hard, boring work. There's paperwork to fill out, employees to hire, and all sorts of other drudgery, not to mention the biggest hurdle of all: providing a product or service for which customers are willing to pay.

President Ulysses S. Grant foiled a gold scam.

In all likelihood, it would be much easier to just stumble upon some clever scam to line your pockets. Or so it would seem.

As many aspiring scam artists quickly learn, when a business scam fails, it tends to fail in rather grand fashion. Just ask any of these four teams of not-so-smooth operators.

A corny sea story

Xenothemis and Hegestratos may not have been the world's first white-collar criminals, but they were certainly noteworthy for their incompetence. In 360 B.C., the pair stumbled upon what seemed like a killer plan to make some quick cash. Shipping was extremely risky at the time, and boats went down at sea with alarming frequency.

To exploit this uncertainty, Xenothemis and Hegestratos devised a plan in which they would receive a cash advance to ship a load of corn from Syracuse to Athens. Due to the dangers associated with shipping, the buyer would take on full risk if the shipment didn't make it to Athens, so if the boat sank Xenothemis and Hegestratos could keep their cash.

Instead of loading the ship with expensive corn, the conniving pair made a plan to sail an empty ship out to sea for a few days, then sink it and escape in lifeboats. Since the boat itself was insured, this plot seemed airtight, and the potential profit was great.

Unfortunately, though, the boat's other passengers allegedly caught wind of the scheme during the attempting scuttling of the ship. These passengers were understandably a bit peeved at Hegestratos' attempts to drown them for his own financial gain. Hegestratos panicked and jumped overboard, at which point he drowned.

Unable to sink the ship by himself, Xenothemis had to sail on to the port, at which point the buyer, Protos, wanted to know why his shipload of corn was empty. A legal battle followed, and although the verdict has been lost by history, it's safe to say that the late Hegestratos regretted the scam.

When Friday went black

Despite his prowess as a general, Ulysses S. Grant's presidency didn't go so smoothly. Ones of its most notable scandals occurred in 1869, when a group of speculators upended the U.S gold market.

The plan started when financier James Fisk and robber baron Jay Gould formed a group of speculators with the goal of cornering the gold market, which would give the group the ability to manipulate the price.

Of course, one can only corner the market if there's a fixed quantity of gold available. Otherwise, the government could just sell large quantities of gold, and the cornering effort would be an expensive failure. In an effort to avoid this fate, Gould and Fisk brought President Grant's brother-in-law Abel Corbin into their fold.

Using Corbin's influence to get an audience with the President, the pair would argue to Grant that selling gold was a terrible idea that the government should avoid at all costs. The wily pair also used their influence at the White House to secure a position as assistant treasurer of the United States for Daniel Butterfield, who would warn them if the government started to sell gold.

With their connections in place, Fisk and Gould started buying up gold in September 1869, quickly driving the price of gold up by around 30 percent.

Once Grant and his advisors got wise to the situation, though, the government quickly sold off $4 million in gold to break the corner, effectively killing the inflated prices on September 24.

As investors scrambled to get rid of their overpriced gold, the price plummeted sharply, and many involved in the scam lost huge amounts of money. Fisk and Gould managed to avoid big losses due to their connections in the treasury, but what would be known as Black Friday didn't earn them a huge windfall -- and significantly harmed the American economy.

Bad moves

If you've ever hired movers, you know it can be pretty pricey. Erik Deri, the founder of Woodinville, Washington-based Nationwide Moving Systems, understood that most movers were expensive, so he drummed up business by offering super-cheap quotes to frugal clients. The customers were ecstatic to find a mover who could get their belongings to a new home so cheaply.

That is, until the price went up. Deri's movers would load the company's vans with all of a customer's worldly belongings, then a foreman would inform the client that they'd have to pay an inflated price to actually get their stuff to their new digs.

The price hikes weren't small, either; one man's estimate stated he could move for $3,000 but was later revised to $16,000 after loading. According to authorities, if customers balked at these demands, the movers would threaten to unload their boxes and furniture into the street...and then charge them an unloading fee.

If things got really sticky, Nationwide's trucks could just take off with all of the clients' possessions. Deri supposedly paid cash bonuses to employees who successfully strong-armed customers into forking over the premiums.

In the end, though, Deri learned that you can't scam that many customers and hope to get away with it. In 2005 he was found guilty of 27 counts of extortion and one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and extortion. Three of his accomplices were also convicted in connection with the moving racket. Deri was sentenced to seven years in prison, after which he'll face deportation to his native Israel.

Fools for gold

Bre-X Minerals Ltd. was a small Canadian mining company that made a big announcement in 1995. Geologists had discovered gold on a site Bre-X owned near Busang, Indonesia. Not just a little gold, either -- at least 30 million ounces, possibly as much as 200 million ounces. Given the high prices of gold, such a deposit would have been worth tens of billions of dollars. Bre-X's stock price shot through the roof; shares went from being valued at a few cents to over $280 Canadian.

In fact, the deposit seemed so rich and so large that a small company like Bre-X could not possibly handle it all without some help. In 1997, the Indonesian government convinced Bre-X to take on an American firm as a partner to help extract the gold.

When this firm, Freeport-McMoRan, started sampling the soil at the deposit site as part of its due diligence, it reached a confusing conclusion: there wasn't any gold in the soil. Subsequent examinations by independent auditors reached the same conclusion. The "natural" gold that in the original samples Bre-X had taken was mostly river gold from other regions or shavings off of gold jewelry.

Although the company's market cap had climbed to $4.4 billion, this report quickly destroyed Bre-X's value. Share prices dropped 97 percent in a day following the announcement, the company was soon removed from the Toronto Stock Exchange and Nasdaq, and Bre-X quickly went bankrupt. Amazingly, no one ended up in jail from this scam, but you should still probably be wary if anyone offers to sell you an enormous gold mine on Borneo.

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answer: Xenothemis and Hegestratos devised a plan in which they would receive a cash advance to ship a load of corn from Syracuse to Athens. Due to the dangers associated with shipping, the buyer would take on full risk if the shipment didn't make it to Athens, so if the boat sank Xenothemis and Hegestratos could keep their cash.

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(CNN) -- A United Nations court convicted a former governor of Rwanda to life in prison for his role in a 1994 genocide that left about 800,000 dead in the central African country.

An estimated 800,000 people -- mainly Tutsis -- were killed in Rwanda in 1994.

Tharcisse Renzaho was found guilty of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.

The verdict, delivered Tuesday, is the third judgment on charges of genocide delivered this year by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR). The U.N. court is holding hearings in Arusha, Tanzania, where it is based.

Renzaho was governor of the capital, Kigali, and a colonel in the Rwandan Armed Forces in 1994 during the country's genocide, when extremist militias made up of ethnic Hutus slaughtered ethnic Tutsis across Rwanda.

It began in April of that year and within 100 days, an estimated 800,000 people were killed.

The court found that Renzaho ordered soldiers, police and militias to set up roadblocks to identify Tutsi civilians to be executed. It found he ordered the distribution of weapons to people who then killed Tutsis.

Renzaho also supervised a selection process at a refugee site where about 40 Tutsis were abducted and killed, the court found.

Renzaho participated in an attack at the Sainte Famille church in which more than 100 Tutsis were killed. People across Rwanda sought refuge in churches all over the country as the genocide unfolded.

He also made remarks encouraging the sexual abuse of women, according to the court, and was found criminally liable for the rapes that followed.

The genocide ended when Tutsi-led militias backing Rwandan President Paul Kagame ousted the Hutu government supporting the massacre.

Renzaho was arrested in September 2002 in the Democratic Republic of Congo. His trial began in January 2007 and closed in September that year after hearing from 53 witnesses, including Renzaho.

Throughout the trial, Renzaho maintained his innocence and said he had no association with the militia. Renzaho's lawyer blamed the case on political interference by the Rwandan government.

Renzaho has the right to appeal the verdict.

The decision is the third judgment on charges of genocide delivered this year by the tribunal.

Emmanuel Rukundo, a former military chaplain, was convicted of genocide and crimes against humanity and sentenced to 25 years in prison. The court found Rukundo had a history of contempt for Tutsis and his fellow clergymen, and that he ordered the killings of Tutsi civilians.

Callixte Kalimanzira was sentenced to 30 years in prison for genocide and incitement to commit genocide. The court found that Kalimanzira, a senior civil servant who at one point worked with the Interior Ministry, participated in various massacres of Tutsi civilians and actively encouraged other crimes against them.

Prosecutors at his trial said he beat some Tutsis to death and called for the elimination of all Tutsis, including pregnant women and their babies.

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(CNN) -- Severe turbulence shook a Continental Airlines flight Monday, injuring dozens of passengers and forcing the aircraft to divert to Miami, Florida, according to the airline and a fire official.

Oxygen masks hang from a damaged part of the plane Monday, in a photo by passenger Camila Machado.

There were 168 passengers and 11 crew members on Flight 128, which was heading from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to Houston, Texas, according to a statement from Continental Airlines.

"I've never seen turbulence like that, so I really thought we wouldn't make it," passenger Giovani Loss told CNN affiliate WSVN-TV. Loss, who is originally from Brazil, said he is a lawyer in the United States and frequently travels between the two countries.

He said passengers were afraid the turbulence may have been the result of mechanical problems with the plane.

"People [were] screaming, then there was a huge silence for like 30 minutes," Loss said.

Ambulances and other vehicles were lined up on the runway to treat and transport the injured passengers when the plane landed at Miami International Airport at 5:35 a.m.  Watch passengers describe what happened Â»

"People that weren't seat belted in flew up and hit the ceilings," passenger John Norwood told WSVN. "So their faces, their heads hit the plastics and broke all the plastics up top."

Continental said seven passengers were transported to nearby hospitals, and approximately 28 other passengers were treated at the scene. Lt. Elkin Sierra of the Miami-Dade Fire Department said 26 passengers were injured, including four seriously.

The Boeing 767-200 hit turbulence about 50 miles north of the Dominican Republic at about 38,000 feet, according to an official with the Federal Aviation Administration. It landed in Miami an hour later with its seat belt signs illuminated, the airline said.

Many of the passengers said they did not hear any warning before the turbulence hit.

Injuries received included bumps, bruises, neck pain and back pain, Sierra said.

Passengers said they saw several people bleeding from their heads, including one woman who sustained a serious gash to her head.

The flight is scheduled to depart Miami for Houston later in the morning, according to Continental's Web site. It had been scheduled to arrive in Houston at 6 a.m. local time.

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(CNN) -- Growing up in a small Sri Lankan fishing town, cricket changed Sanath Jayasuriya's life. But his association with the game and humanitarian work has also helped transform the lives of many others.

Jayasuriya's stature and shot-making led to comparisons with India's Sachin Tendulkar.

"Without cricket I would have a small job in my home town. My mother is happy to say my name," he told CNN in Hong Kong.

His mother's pride in his success has an extra poignancy as Jayasuriya's fame in some part helped his mother survive the south Asian tsunami on December 26, 2004.

She was swept away by the first wave and only by calling out to get attention, saying she was Jayasuriya's mother, did a rescuer manage to spot her among the debris and destruction and pull her to safety.

Thousands of others, including many of Jayasuriya's friends and neighbors, were not so fortunate, and the impact that the disaster had on Jayasuriya's hometown of Matara and many other parts of Sri Lanka is still felt today.

"Even now when many people hear the word (tsunami), they are still scared. When my mother hears it, she still can't run," he said.

After nearly 20 years of international cricket, the 39-year-old is now just as happy to put bowling attacks to the sword as well as working as a UN Goodwill Ambassador.

"Coming from Sri Lanka you need to do a lot of charity work and help in anyway you can. People love cricket and they look to cricketers, so as a team Sri Lanka also does a lot for charity. It's a personal commitment," he told CNN.

On the pitch he has always been just as committed to helping his team. Making his international Test match debut in 1991, he captained the Sri Lankan team for four years until 2003 and hit memorable centuries against every other Test side, bar the West Indies and New Zealand. He retired from the five-day version of the game in 2007.

However it was in the one day game that the all-rounder has really made his mark.

As part of the Sri Lankan team that won the World Cup in 1996, he played an explosive innings of aggressive shot-making that has been credited with revolutionizing the way in which batsman play the game.

In 2005 he became only the fourth batsman to reach 10,000 runs in one-day matches and his current stats stand at 12785 runs from 421 one-day internationals.

Having made his name in the 50-over version of the game he's still involved in cricket's latest revolution; the even shorter Twenty20 game that is being touted as the future of popularizing the sport.

"Cricket has changed all over the world. For the public to watch this game we need for it to change. You can now enjoy all that in around 3 hours (with Twenty20). The Indian Premier League (IPL) is good for cricket and good for cricketers. The one-day game will be phased down."

Throughout his career he's shown his own resilience adapting to changing circumstances on the cricket pitch as well as off it. Before the 2003 World Cup he took the decision not to sign a contract with the Sri Lankan cricket board, citing the loss of potential earnings it would mean for him and fellow players.

Despite not being a confrontational personality, the tension between himself and the Sri Lankan cricket board led to his resignation from the captaincy in 2003.

With no Test cricket to play this year, Jayasuriya found himself omitted from the Sri Lanka squad for 2008 series one-day series against the West Indies.

However his fine form while playing in the IPL -- he ended its inaugural season as the third highest run scorer with 514 runs and hitting 31 sixes -- convinced the selectors to pick him for the upcoming one-day series between Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Zimbabwe.

"Looking back I could never have thought I would have come this far. Buddhism helped me a lot. It says that you should take the middle path and you will never go wrong," he said.

"But I've done a lot of hard work and everyone, my family and coaches, have given me support. Without that I wouldn't have got here." When he does finally retire you can expect Jayasuriya to keep giving all he can to the game and causes he loves so much.

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(CNN) -- The current debate over controversial interrogation practices -- tactics that some say constitute torture -- is rooted in the early years of the fight against terrorism and the Iraq war.

The photographs from Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq sparked outrage across the globe.

After the September 11 terrorist attacks on the United States, the Bush administration crafted the legal basis for aggressive interrogation techniques of prisoners and terrorism suspects.

The techniques included keeping the prisoner in stress positions for extended periods of time, sleep deprivation, slapping, enclosing the prisoner in a box with insects, and waterboarding, which simulates drowning.

Those techniques were detailed in four Bush-era legal memos -- one from 2002 and three from 2005 -- released by the Obama administration last month. The memos concluded that such techniques did not constitute torture and were not illegal.  See timeline of events Â»

The Obama administration disagrees.

President Obama formally banned the techniques by issuing an executive order requiring that the U.S. Army field manual be used as the guide for terror interrogations.

"I can stand here tonight and say without exception or equivocation that the United States of America does not torture," he said during an address to a joint session of Congress in February.

More than 400 people have been disciplined based on investigations involving detainee abuse, according to Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman. He said the punishments have ranged from prison sentences to demotions and letters of reprimand.

"The policy of the Department of Defense is to treat prisoners humanely, and those who have violated that policy have been investigated and disciplined," he said.

The most notorious of the cases centered on Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.

In 2004, images leaked to the media showed U.S. troops abusing Iraqi prisoners. Some prisoners were stacked atop each other while naked, and others were being threatened by dogs.  See disturbing images from Abu Ghraib (discretion advised) Â»

One widely disseminated photograph showed an Iraqi prisoner hooded and wired, as if an electrocution were about to take place.

Eleven American soldiers were tried and convicted of Abu Ghraib offenses, and some officers were reprimanded. Some received prison sentences.

Janis Karpinski, a brigadier general and commander of the prison during the time the photographs were taken, was demoted to colonel. She was eventually rotated out of Iraq. The prison was shut down in September 2006.

Karpinksi, now retired, said the recent disclosures have validated her earlier claims that she and her troops were following orders and that the abuses at Abu Ghraib were not simply the work of a few "bad apples," as once described by then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.  See gallery of key players Â»

"That is what we have been saying from the very beginning, that, wait a minute, why are you inside pointing the finger at me? Why are you pointing the fingers at the soldiers here? There's a bigger story here," Karpinski said.

"I was never inside an interrogation room where they were conducting interrogations, but I read the memorandums many times over," she added. "Waterboarding is torture."

Other recent disclosures of harsh interrogation tactics have also raised questions.

One Bush-era memo -- dated May 30, 2005, and recently released by the Obama administration -- said CIA interrogators used waterboarding at least 266 times on two top al Qaeda suspects.

The technique was used at least 83 times in August 2002 on suspected al Qaeda leader Abu Zubaydah, according to the memo. Interrogators also waterboarded Khalid Sheikh Mohammed -- said to be the mastermind of the September 11 attacks -- 183 times in March 2003, the memo said.

Obama said last week that he felt comfortable releasing the classified memos because the Bush administration acknowledged using some of the practices associated with the memos, and the interrogation techniques were widely reported and have since been banned.

"Withholding these memos would only serve to deny facts that have been in the public domain for some time," Obama said in a statement. "This could contribute to an inaccurate accounting of the past and fuel erroneous and inflammatory assumptions about actions taken by the United States."

However, Obama recently reversed course on the court-ordered release of hundreds of additional images said to show abuse in detention facilities in Afghanistan and Iraq.

He argued that the photos could "inflame anti-American opinion" and have "a chilling effect" on further investigations of detainee abuse. The photos "are not particularly sensational, especially when compared to the painful images that we remember from Abu Ghraib," he said last week.

The Obama administration said last month that it would not object to the release of the photos.

The images are from more than 60 criminal investigations into detainee abuse between 2001 through 2006, Pentagon officials said. The release was ordered in response to a Freedom of Information Act request filed by the American Civil Liberties Union.

"Essentially, by withholding these photographs from public view, the Obama administration is making itself complicit in the Bush administration's torture policies," ACLU attorney Amrit Singh said.

Bush-era officials, especially former Vice President Dick Cheney, have defended the controversial interrogation tactics, arguing that they helped provide valuable information in the fight against terrorism and other conflicts.

"I know specifically of reports that I read," Cheney told Fox News last month, "that lay out what we learned through the interrogation process and what the consequences were for the country."

The Obama administration "didn't put out the memos that showed the success of the effort," he said.

The memos' release has added momentum to the debate over whether Bush administration officials ought to be prosecuted for authorizing such policies.

Obama said Attorney General Eric Holder would decide whether to investigate Bush administration officials who formed the legal basis for the techniques. The Obama administration has said that CIA interrogators who followed the instructions would not be prosecuted for their work.

"We are going to follow the evidence, follow the law and take that where it leads," Holder said. "No one is above the law."

CNN's Arwa Damon, Terry Frieden, Ed Hornick, Jonathan Mann, Mike Mount and Samira Simone contributed to this report.

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question: What was used to interrogate?

answer: keeping the prisoner in stress positions for extended periods of time, sleep deprivation, slapping, enclosing the prisoner in a box with insects, and waterboarding, which simulates drowning.

text: keeping the prisoner in stress positions for extended periods of time, sleep deprivation, slapping, enclosing the prisoner in a box with insects, and waterboarding, which simulates drowning.

question: In which countries was interrogation done?

answer: Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq

text: Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq

question: what was recently released

answer: The photographs from Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq

text: The photographs from Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq

question: What does the Obama administration say?

answer: disagrees.

text: disagrees.

question: what were practices used for

answer: tactics that some say constitute

text: tactics that some say constitute

question: What effect did the memos have?

answer: as added momentum to the debate over whether Bush administration officials ought to be prosecuted for authorizing such policie

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(CNN)  -- Officials warned Wednesday that the bridge linking the California cities of San Francisco and Oakland will likely remain closed Thursday morning, promising more delays for Bay Area commuters.

That work is intended to dampen vibration on the structure. Vibration may have played a role in causing pieces of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge to fall Tuesday night from the span onto the roadway, resulting in its closure. The 73-year-old bridge spans the San Francisco Bay and carries an average 280,000 vehicles daily, according to the state's Transportation Department.

"Right now, we do not have a time when the bridge will potentially open," said Bart Ney, a spokesman for California Department of Transportation. "The work has to be completed first."

Once the new steel is in place and the rods have been made tense, at least three hours of testing will be carried out before the bridge will reopen to vehicular traffic, Ney said, refusing to speculate on when that might occur.

"The first thing that I would say to motorists is that you need to be at this point planning other routes over the next day or so," he said.

The Federal Highway Administration and the Seismic Peer Review Board are scrutinizing the repair plans, he said.

Wednesday's commute was a horror show for many. "My wife actually drives over to the peninsula; she says it's taken her two hours to get to work so far and she's not there yet," commuter Seth Carp told CNN affiliate KTVU as he prepared to board a Bay Area Rapid Transit train.

"I tried to take the Golden Gate Bridge," said a woman who identified herself only as Yemi. "It was a big mistake." She gave up and wound up taking BART.

"It was back-to-back bumper, there were rows of cars everywhere," said Christina Chou, who lives in Foster City near the San Mateo Bridge, which served as an alternate route for many. "It was just horrible."

Ridership increased on ferries, too, with some people finding a silver lining to the snafu. "I have been looking for an opportunity to go across the bay in the ferry," said Jack Pierce of Oakland. "I'm sorry the cable parted, but I am glad to get the opportunity."

Ney said wind gusts of up to 50 mph slowed repair efforts on Tuesday, but the winds had diminished by Wednesday evening.

Winds increased vibration by the rods that were fatigued and ultimately failed, he said. "It was a contributing factor, but not necessarily the only factor, and we are analyzing what the factors are right now," he said.

Travelers flocked to BART, which ran longer trains and extra trains. The rail line was on track to exceed its peak ridership of 405,000 in a single day, said BART spokesman Linton Johnson.

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"We have called in extra personnel to help us make sure we operate with every available train car we have in order to provide as much capacity as possible," said BART's assistant general manager of operations, Paul Oversier.

Amtrak was running a shuttle between the San Francisco and Martinez stations for Coast Starlight and California Zephyr passengers.

The pieces that fell -- a cross beam and tie rods -- came from the same section that was repaired in September over Labor Day weekend, when crews worked almost around the clock to fix a crack in the span.

A 50-foot section of the bridge collapsed in 1989 during the Loma Prieta earthquake, killing one person and prompting efforts to make it quake-tolerant.

The whole Bay Bridge is slated to be replaced in 2013, said Patrick Siegman, a transportation planner at Nelson Nygaard Consulting Associates, a national transportation planning firm based in San Francisco.

The bridge is "really showing its age," he said. "It's kind of a race against time to finish the new bridge before the next quake hits."

text: CNN

text: Officials

text: warned

text: Wednesday

text: that

text: the

text: bridge

text: linking

text: the

text: California

text: cities

text: of

text: San

text: Francisco

text: and

text: Oakland

text: will

text: likely

text: remain

text: closed

text: Thursday

text: morning

text: promising

text: more

text: delays

text: for

text: Bay

text: Area

text: commuters

text: That

text: work

text: is

text: intended

text: to

text: dampen

text: vibration

text: on

text: the

text: structure

text: Vibration

text: may

text: have

text: played

text: a

text: role

text: in

text: causing

text: pieces

text: of

text: the

text: San

text: Francisco

text: Oakland

text: Bay

text: Bridge

text: to

text: fall

text: Tuesday

text: night

text: from

text: the

text: span

text: onto

text: the

text: roadway

text: resulting

text: in

text: its

text: closure

text: The

text: old

text: bridge

text: spans

text: the

text: San

text: Francisco

text: Bay

text: and

text: carries

text: an

text: average

text: vehicles

text: daily

text: according

text: to

text: the

text: state

text: 's

text: Transportation

text: Department

text: Right

text: now

text: we

text: do

text: not

text: have

text: a

text: time

text: when

text: the

text: bridge

text: will

text: potentially

text: open

text: said

text: Bart

text: Ney

text: a

text: spokesman

text: for

text: California

text: Department

text: of

text: Transportation

text: The

text: work

text: has

text: to

text: be

text: completed

text: first

text: Once

text: the

text: new

text: steel

text: is

text: in

text: place

text: and

text: the

text: rods

text: have

text: been

text: made

text: tense

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text: least

text: three

text: hours

text: of

text: testing

text: will

text: be

text: carried

text: out

text: before

text: the

text: bridge

text: will

text: reopen

text: to

text: vehicular

text: traffic

text: Ney

text: said

text: refusing

text: to

text: speculate

text: on

text: when

text: that

text: might

text: occur

text: The

text: first

text: thing

text: that

text: I

text: would

text: say

text: to

text: motorists

text: is

text: that

text: you

text: need

text: to

text: be

text: at

text: this

text: point

text: planning

text: other

text: routes

text: over

text: the

text: next

text: day

text: or

text: so

text: he

text: said

text: The

text: Federal

text: Highway

text: Administration

text: and

text: the

text: Seismic

text: Peer

text: Review

text: Board

text: are

text: scrutinizing

text: the

text: repair

text: plans

text: he

text: said

text: Wednesday

text: 's

text: commute

text: was

text: a

text: horror

text: show

text: for

text: many

text: My

text: wife

text: actually

text: drives

text: over

text: to

text: the

text: peninsula

text: she

text: says

text: it

text: 's

text: taken

text: her

text: two

text: hours

text: to

text: get

text: to

text: work

text: so

text: far

text: and

text: she

text: 's

text: not

text: there

text: yet

text: commuter

text: Seth

text: Carp

text: told

text: CNN

text: affiliate

text: KTVU

text: as

text: he

text: prepared

text: to

text: board

text: a

text: Bay

text: Area

text: Rapid

text: Transit

text: train

text: I

text: tried

text: to

text: take

text: the

text: Golden

text: Gate

text: Bridge

text: said

text: a

text: woman

text: who

text: identified

text: herself

text: only

text: as

text: Yemi

text: It

text: was

text: a

text: big

text: mistake

text: She

text: gave

text: up

text: and

text: wound

text: up

text: taking

text: BART

text: It

text: was

text: back

text: to

text: back

text: bumper

text: there

text: were

text: rows

text: of

text: cars

text: everywhere

text: said

text: Christina

text: Chou

text: who

text: lives

text: in

text: Foster

text: City

text: near

text: the

text: San

text: Mateo

text: Bridge

text: which

text: served

text: as

text: an

text: alternate

text: route

text: for

text: many

text: It

text: was

text: just

text: horrible

text: Ridership

text: increased

text: on

text: ferries

text: too

text: with

text: some

text: people

text: finding

text: a

text: silver

text: lining

text: to

text: the

text: snafu

text: I

text: have

text: been

text: looking

text: for

text: an

text: opportunity

text: to

text: go

text: across

text: the

text: bay

text: in

text: the

text: ferry

text: said

text: Jack

text: Pierce

text: of

text: Oakland

text: I

text: 'm

text: sorry

text: the

text: cable

text: parted

text: but

text: I

text: am

text: glad

text: to

text: get

text: the

text: opportunity

text: Ney

text: said

text: wind

text: gusts

text: of

text: up

text: to

text: mph

text: slowed

text: repair

text: efforts

text: on

text: Tuesday

text: but

text: the

text: winds

text: had

text: diminished

text: by

text: Wednesday

text: evening

text: Winds

text: increased

text: vibration

text: by

text: the

text: rods

text: that

text: were

text: fatigued

text: and

text: ultimately

text: failed

text: he

text: said

text: It

text: was

text: a

text: contributing

text: factor

text: but

text: not

text: necessarily

text: the

text: only

text: factor

text: and

text: we

text: are

text: analyzing

text: what

text: the

text: factors

text: are

text: right

text: now

text: he

text: said

text: Travelers

text: flocked

text: to

text: BART

text: which

text: ran

text: longer

text: trains

text: and

text: extra

text: trains

text: The

text: rail

text: line

text: was

text: on

text: track

text: to

text: exceed

text: its

text: peak

text: ridership

text: of

text: in

text: a

text: single

text: day

text: said

text: BART

text: spokesman

text: Linton

text: Johnson

text: Were

text: you

text: there

text: Send

text: photos

text: and

text: video

text: We

text: have

text: called

text: in

text: extra

text: personnel

text: to

text: help

text: us

text: make

text: sure

text: we

text: operate

text: with

text: every

text: available

text: train

text: car

text: we

text: have

text: in

text: order

text: to

text: provide

text: as

text: much

text: capacity

text: as

text: possible

text: said

text: BART

text: 's

text: assistant

text: general

text: manager

text: of

text: operations

text: Paul

text: Oversier

text: Amtrak

text: was

text: running

text: a

text: shuttle

text: between

text: the

text: San

text: Francisco

text: and

text: Martinez

text: stations

text: for

text: Coast

text: Starlight

text: and

text: California

text: Zephyr

text: passengers

text: The

text: pieces

text: that

text: fell

text: a

text: cross

text: beam

text: and

text: tie

text: rods

text: came

text: from

text: the

text: same

text: section

text: that

text: was

text: repaired

text: in

text: September

text: over

text: Labor

text: Day

text: weekend

text: when

text: crews

text: worked

text: almost

text: around

text: the

text: clock

text: to

text: fix

text: a

text: crack

text: in

text: the

text: span

text: A

text: section

text: of

text: the

text: bridge

text: collapsed

text: in

text: during

text: the

text: Loma

text: Prieta

text: earthquake

text: killing

text: one

text: person

text: and

text: prompting

text: efforts

text: to

text: make

text: it

text: quake

text: tolerant

text: The

text: whole

text: Bay

text: Bridge

text: is

text: slated

text: to

text: be

text: replaced

text: in

text: said

text: Patrick

text: Siegman

text: a

text: transportation

text: planner

text: at

text: Nelson

text: Nygaard

text: Consulting

text: Associates

text: a

text: national

text: transportation

text: planning

text: firm

text: based

text: in

text: San

text: Francisco

text: The

text: bridge

text: is

text: really

text: showing

text: its

text: age

text: he

text: said

text: It

text: 's

text: kind

text: of

text: a

text: race

text: against

text: time

text: to

text: finish

text: the

text: new

text: bridge

text: before

text: the

text: next

text: quake

text: hits

question: What do repairs aim to stop?

answer: dampen vibration on the structure.

text: dampen vibration on the structure.

question: What reason was given for the closure of the bridge?

answer: Vibration

text: Vibration

question: Which bridge closed?

answer: San Francisco-Oakland Bay

text: San Francisco-Oakland Bay


text:
Dhaka, Bangladesh (CNN) -- Thousands of anti-riot police were in the streets of Bangladesh's capital city Thursday as the opposition alliance launched a day-long general strike in protest of a fuel price hike.

The strike, occurring all over the country, paralyzed daily life as road communications were heavily disrupted and schools and business establishments remained closed on Thursday, the last working day of the week.

The usually busy streets of the capital, Dhaka, looked almost deserted as most means of public and private transportation remained off the roads.

The opposition group Bangladesh Nationalist Party and its allies, mostly Islamic parties, called the strike after the government raised the price of petroleum fuels and compressed national gas on Sunday.

Dhaka's police chief, Benazir Ahmed, said his department deployed 13,000 policemen alone in the capital to break up any opposition protests, and the home ministry also initiated mobile courts to try protesters summarily on the streets.

Police said that the strike was mostly peaceful apart from a few incidents of violence, but the opposition parties said the police and the ruling party men beat up their activists wherever they had tried to bring out a procession.

Police said they had arrested some 200 people from different parts of the country, but the opposition claimed that the number was at least 400.

The BNP acting secretary general, Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, said, "The government has increased fuel prices at a time when people's suffering has already peaked due to high inflation." But the government said it was an "issueless" strike.

The general secretary of the ruling Awami League, Syed Ashraful Islam, said it was illogical as the prices of fuel oils were still lower in Bangladesh (a liter of gasoline costs US$ 1.06) than in the international market.

"If the prices of fuel oils increase in the global market in the future, the government will increase the prices again because the government will need to pay huge subsidies otherwise," he added.

The fuel price hike, the second such rise in four months, triggered protests also by transport owners.

text: Dhaka

text: Bangladesh

text: CNN

text: Thousands

text: of

text: anti

text: riot

text: police

text: were

text: in

text: the

text: streets

text: of

text: Bangladesh

text: 's

text: capital

text: city

text: Thursday

text: as

text: the

text: opposition

text: alliance

text: launched

text: a

text: day

text: long

text: general

text: strike

text: in

text: protest

text: of

text: a

text: fuel

text: price

text: hike

text: The

text: strike

text: occurring

text: all

text: over

text: the

text: country

text: paralyzed

text: daily

text: life

text: as

text: road

text: communications

text: were

text: heavily

text: disrupted

text: and

text: schools

text: and

text: business

text: establishments

text: remained

text: closed

text: on

text: Thursday

text: the

text: last

text: working

text: day

text: of

text: the

text: week

text: The

text: usually

text: busy

text: streets

text: of

text: the

text: capital

text: Dhaka

text: looked

text: almost

text: deserted

text: as

text: most

text: means

text: of

text: public

text: and

text: private

text: transportation

text: remained

text: off

text: the

text: roads

text: The

text: opposition

text: group

text: Bangladesh

text: Nationalist

text: Party

text: and

text: its

text: allies

text: mostly

text: Islamic

text: parties

text: called

text: the

text: strike

text: after

text: the

text: government

text: raised

text: the

text: price

text: of

text: petroleum

text: fuels

text: and

text: compressed

text: national

text: gas

text: on

text: Sunday

text: Dhaka

text: 's

text: police

text: chief

text: Benazir

text: Ahmed

text: said

text: his

text: department

text: deployed

text: policemen

text: alone

text: in

text: the

text: capital

text: to

text: break

text: up

text: any

text: opposition

text: protests

text: and

text: the

text: home

text: ministry

text: also

text: initiated

text: mobile

text: courts

text: to

text: try

text: protesters

text: summarily

text: on

text: the

text: streets

text: Police

text: said

text: that

text: the

text: strike

text: was

text: mostly

text: peaceful

text: apart

text: from

text: a

text: few

text: incidents

text: of

text: violence

text: but

text: the

text: opposition

text: parties

text: said

text: the

text: police

text: and

text: the

text: ruling

text: party

text: men

text: beat

text: up

text: their

text: activists

text: wherever

text: they

text: had

text: tried

text: to

text: bring

text: out

text: a

text: procession

text: Police

text: said

text: they

text: had

text: arrested

text: some

text: people

text: from

text: different

text: parts

text: of

text: the

text: country

text: but

text: the

text: opposition

text: claimed

text: that

text: the

text: number

text: was

text: at

text: least

text: The

text: BNP

text: acting

text: secretary

text: general

text: Mirza

text: Fakhrul

text: Islam

text: Alamgir

text: said

text: The

text: government

text: has

text: increased

text: fuel

text: prices

text: at

text: a

text: time

text: when

text: people

text: 's

text: suffering

text: has

text: already

text: peaked

text: due

text: to

text: high

text: inflation

text: But

text: the

text: government

text: said

text: it

text: was

text: an

text: issueless

text: strike

text: The

text: general

text: secretary

text: of

text: the

text: ruling

text: Awami

text: League

text: Syed

text: Ashraful

text: Islam

text: said

text: it

text: was

text: illogical

text: as

text: the

text: prices

text: of

text: fuel

text: oils

text: were

text: still

text: lower

text: in

text: Bangladesh

text: a

text: liter

text: of

text: gasoline

text: costs

text: US$

text: than

text: in

text: the

text: international

text: market

text: If

text: the

text: prices

text: of

text: fuel

text: oils

text: increase

text: in

text: the

text: global

text: market

text: in

text: the

text: future

text: the

text: government

text: will

text: increase

text: the

text: prices

text: again

text: because

text: the

text: government

text: will

text: need

text: to

text: pay

text: huge

text: subsidies

text: otherwise

text: he

text: added

text: The

text: fuel

text: price

text: hike

text: the

text: second

text: such

text: rise

text: in

text: four

text: months

text: triggered

text: protests

text: also

text: by

text: transport

text: owners

question: what was the general strike in protest of

answer: fuel price hike.

text: fuel price hike.

question: how many dhaka police were in the streets

answer: Thousands

text: Thousands

question: how many officers were put on the street?

answer: 13,000 policemen

text: 13,000 policemen

question: in what city did this take place

answer: Dhaka, Bangladesh

text: Dhaka, Bangladesh

question: Dhaka police put how many officers in the streets?

answer: 13,000

question: who were protesting?

answer: Bangladesh Nationalist Party and its allies, mostly Islamic parties,

text: Bangladesh Nationalist Party and its allies, mostly Islamic parties,

question: what was the opposition claim regarding the protesters

answer: the police and the ruling party men beat up their activists

text: the police and the ruling party men beat up their activists

question: what was the opposition alliance protesting

answer: fuel price hike.

text: fuel price hike.

question: how many were arrested?

answer: 200 people

text: 200 people