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(CNN) -- "Sesame Street" may not be a real place, but tell that to some of the people Michael Davis met when researching and talking about his new book, "Street Gang."

Bert, left, and Ernie have been mainstays of "Sesame Street" since the beginning.

"I met a lot of people who I worked with in New York or got to know in New York -- transplants -- who said to me, 'When I first arrived here in New York, I had this strange desire to find Sesame Street,' " he said.

Well, to paraphrase the famous theme song, who wouldn't want to get to "Sesame Street"?

For two generations, the fictional block of brownstones inhabited by curious children, friendly adults and some odd-looking Muppets has helped shape childhood education by offering exercises, games and life lessons all wrapped up in a television-friendly format. It's a model that's proved durable and influential, says Syracuse University pop culture professor Robert Thompson.

"If I were to make a list of the top 10 most significant American TV shows ... I'd put 'Sesame Street' on the list. The fact that it's still on the air attests to its [significance]," he said.  See "Sesame Street" in pictures Â»

"The idea they came up with was kind of radical: If you can sell kids sugared cereal and toys using Madison Avenue techniques, why couldn't you use the same techniques for teaching counting, the alphabet and basic social skills? And it works."

Indeed, as Davis notes in "Street Gang" (Viking), the genesis of "Sesame Street" was when the 3-year-old daughter of a Carnegie foundation executive was fascinated by television, waking up to watch the broadcast day begin and memorizing commercial jingles. He talked about his daughter with a friend, producer Joan Ganz Cooney. In the liberal ferment of the mid-'60s, both wondered whether educational TV could go beyond the staid classroom shows of the era.

Cooney became the driving force of "Sesame Street." She put together the plan, helped recruit talent, located financing and oversaw production. "Sesame Street" became the foundation for the Children's Television Workshop (now Sesame Workshop), which created other educational shows such as "The Electric Company" and "3-2-1 Contact."

"She is just such an impressive woman," said Davis, adding that Cooney gave her blessing to his book project without any requirements but one: that he "get it right." "She's just one of those extraordinary public figures."

Cooney didn't hold much back in telling her story to Davis, and neither did others. From its debut on November 10, 1969, the show was a hit -- within a year, it was on the cover of Time magazine -- but it was not without its personality clashes.

The original Gordon, Matt Robinson, was a producer uncomfortable in the spotlight. Northern Calloway, who played David, struggled with mental illness. The show's primary songwriters, Joe Raposo and Jeff Moss, were constantly in competition; Raposo "fairly seethed with envy" when Moss' "Rubber Duckie" hit the Top 20, Davis writes. The book provides balanced biographies of a number of principals, including producer Jon Stone, whom Davis calls "the heart of the book."

"I wanted people to say, 'Wow, this guy Jon Stone, he really was the Orson Welles of "Sesame Street." ' Without him, the show wouldn't have been what it became," Davis said.

But for all the backstage machinations that affect any creative enterprise, "Sesame Street" stayed true to education, in all its forms. One show matter-of-factly included a breast-feeding Buffy Sainte-Marie; others featured a boy with Down syndrome, Jason Kingsley. EW: Stars who dropped by "Sesame Street"

Jim Henson, who was famous as creator of the Muppets when "Sesame Street" began, invented a world of (literally) colorful characters -- Oscar, Big Bird, the Cookie Monster, Bert and Ernie -- and, with his puppeteering crew, gave them soul.

And when Mr. Hooper (Will Lee) died, the show dealt with his passing honestly.

Over the years, the show has taken its knocks. Critics from the left have complained about its merchandising; critics from the right disliked its avowed commitment to diversity. In the '90s, "Barney" stole its thunder, and cable drained its audience. As "Sesame Street" comes up on its 40th birthday, some critics wonder whether it's still necessary.

But for all that, says Thompson, the show remains important, both in its pioneering educational style and in its clever business model. And it takes its charges seriously, he points out.

"One thing I still like about 'Sesame Street' is that it's not artsy," he said.

For Davis' part, doing the book -- which succeeded a TV Guide article he did on the show's 35th anniversary -- gave him renewed respect for its creators' achievements. And he's found out through his Web site, http://www.streetgangbook.com/, that "Sesame Street" still has the magic to move children -- mothers of autistic children credit the show with helping the kids' development -- and adults.

"Somebody said, 'I was OK when my mom explained to me there was no Santa Claus,' " he recounts. " 'But I cried my eyes out the day I realized Kermit was a puppet.' Isn't that great?"

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MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota (CNN) -- Abayte Ahmed and her husband learned of their son's death in the most heinous fashion. A family acquaintance called and told them to click on an Internet site. There on the screen were photographs of their 20-year-old son -- the boy with the movie-star looks -- shot through the head thousands of miles away in Somalia.

Jamal Bana died in Somalia. Several missing Somali-Americans are believed to have fought there.

"He must have been somewhat disillusioned and indoctrinated, because he didn't have any clue about Somalia at all," his mother said, fighting back tears and barely able to speak about her eldest son.

Jamal Bana had been missing for months from his Minneapolis home. His family is still grappling with the circumstances surrounding his death in a land they had fled -- an African nation wracked by chaos and violence.

The FBI said Bana's death is part of a sweeping federal investigation into a recruiting effort in the United States by a Somali terrorist group called Al-Shabaab, which has ties to al Qaeda. More than a dozen young men of Somali descent have disappeared from the Minneapolis area in recent months. At least three, including Bana, have ended up dead in Somalia, community leaders say.  Watch the harrowing saga of Jamal Bana Â»

Bana was the kind of son a modest immigrant family pins its hopes on. He was the eldest of seven and studying engineering at local colleges. But last fall, his family said, he disappeared without any warning. A few days later, the phone rang. All that could be heard was a quick sentence. "I'm in Somalia," his mother quoted him as saying. He then hung up.

Communication from then on was scarce. In calls or text messages, the family said, Bana was guarded, as though someone was watching or listening to him.

On July 11, the family received the call telling them to look on the Internet. Bana's father broke down in tears when he saw the photos. One image was a close-up of his son's face, a bullet wound on one side of his head. Another showed the body being carried through the streets of Mogadishu on a stretcher.

His parents said they believe their son was brainwashed and recruited to fight in the civil war between Somalia's unstable transitional government and Al-Shabaab. Al-Shabaab remains entrenched in northeast Somalia and in sections south of Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, after fighting that has uprooted more than 200,000 people since early May, according to the United Nations.

The question immigrants in the United States want answered is: How have their youth ended up so far away?

One of the missing youth, Shirwa Ahmed, 27, blew up himself and 29 others last fall in Somalia in what is believed to be the first suicide bombing carried out by a naturalized U.S. citizen. Ahmed had traveled from Minneapolis. The attack raised red flags throughout the U.S. intelligence community and sparked an investigation by the FBI.

Just weeks ago, community activist Abdirizak Bihi lost his 17-year-old nephew, Burhan Hassan, in Somalia. Asked if his nephew had been kidnapped from Minneapolis, Bihi said, "They kidnap them in the sense of mental kidnapping, not physically. But they play a male role of mentor."

Bihi and community leader Omar Jamal said they hold one place at least loosely responsible: the Abubakar as-Saddique Islamic Center, the largest mosque in Minneapolis.

"All these kids missing, they all have one thing in common: They all participated in youth programs in that mosque," said Jamal.

Jamal and Bihi said leaders of the mosque, at the very least, allowed people to come around their facility and recruit young men to fight in Somalia -- a charge the head imam denies. CNN was not allowed inside the mosque, but was granted an interview with the imam at a different location.

"This is the baseless accusation really," said Sheikh Abdirahman Sheikh Omar Ahmed. "The mosque -- the mission of the mosque -- is to worship. And people come to worship and go. We don't have any control over what comes through everybody's mind or ideology."

Sheikh Ahmed said at least two of the young men who died in Somalia did worship at his mosque. But he said no recruiters came around the mosque to pull them away, and said his mosque does not support Al-Shabaab. He added that he has encouraged local families to keep their young sons from going to Somalia.

Federal authorities recently made their first arrests in the case, charging two Minnesota men, Salah Osman Ahmed and Abdifatah Yusuf Isse, with one count each of providing material support to terrorists and conspiracy to kill, kidnap, maim or injure people overseas, according to the indictment.

CNN could not reach Salah Osman Ahmed's attorney for comment. Published reports indicate he planned to plead not guilty. Isse has pleaded guilty and is cooperating with federal authorities, officials said. In court papers obtained by CNN, Isse's attorney said, "Mr. Isse will not be the last defendant indicted."

A local attorney involved in the case said at least seven Somali-Americans have been questioned by a grand jury. An FBI official said the bureau cannot rule out the possibility that some of the young men involved could be trained to carry out terrorist attacks on U.S. soil.

Meanwhile, CNN has learned more about how Shirwa Ahmed and Burhan Hassan made their way overseas. A travel agent in Minneapolis, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the two men paid about $1,800 in cash for tickets to Nairobi, Kenya, or to Dubai, U.A.E. The travel agent said he thinks the two men then made their way to Mogadishu from those cities on a Somali carrier.

For Bana's family, it's all too much to bear. Omar Boley is a close friend who grew up in the same tribe as Bana's family. He said Bana's mother is having difficulty coping with everything that has happened in recent months.

"She doesn't want to hear the story again," he said. "She told me, 'Whenever I see someone talking about my son, I feel bad. I can't sleep. I feel sick. So this happened, nothing I can do. We pray for him.' That's what she said, and that's what I believe."

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text: months

text: At

text: least

text: three

text: including

text: Bana

text: have

text: ended

text: up

text: dead

text: in

text: Somalia

text: community

text: leaders

text: say

text: Watch

text: the

text: harrowing

text: saga

text: of

text: Jamal

text: Bana

text: Â

text: Bana

text: was

text: the

text: kind

text: of

text: son

text: a

text: modest

text: immigrant

text: family

text: pins

text: its

text: hopes

text: on

text: He

text: was

text: the

text: eldest

text: of

text: seven

text: and

text: studying

text: engineering

text: at

text: local

text: colleges

text: But

text: last

text: fall

text: his

text: family

text: said

text: he

text: disappeared

text: without

text: any

text: warning

text: A

text: few

text: days

text: later

text: the

text: phone

text: rang

text: All

text: that

text: could

text: be

text: heard

text: was

text: a

text: quick

text: sentence

text: I

text: 'm

text: in

text: Somalia

text: his

text: mother

text: quoted

text: him

text: as

text: saying

text: He

text: then

text: hung

text: up

text: Communication

text: from

text: then

text: on

text: was

text: scarce

text: In

text: calls

text: or

text: text

text: messages

text: the

text: family

text: said

text: Bana

text: was

text: guarded

text: as

text: though

text: someone

text: was

text: watching

text: or

text: listening

text: to

text: him

text: On

text: July

text: the

text: family

text: received

text: the

text: call

text: telling

text: them

text: to

text: look

text: on

text: the

text: Internet

text: Bana

text: 's

text: father

text: broke

text: down

text: in

text: tears

text: when

text: he

text: saw

text: the

text: photos

text: One

text: image

text: was

text: a

text: close

text: up

text: of

text: his

text: son

text: 's

text: face

text: a

text: bullet

text: wound

text: on

text: one

text: side

text: of

text: his

text: head

text: Another

text: showed

text: the

text: body

text: being

text: carried

text: through

text: the

text: streets

text: of

text: Mogadishu

text: on

text: a

text: stretcher

text: His

text: parents

text: said

text: they

text: believe

text: their

text: son

text: was

text: brainwashed

text: and

text: recruited

text: to

text: fight

text: in

text: the

text: civil

text: war

text: between

text: Somalia

text: 's

text: unstable

text: transitional

text: government

text: and

text: Al

text: Shabaab

text: Al

text: Shabaab

text: remains

text: entrenched

text: in

text: northeast

text: Somalia

text: and

text: in

text: sections

text: south

text: of

text: Somalia

text: 's

text: capital

text: Mogadishu

text: after

text: fighting

text: that

text: has

text: uprooted

text: more

text: than

text: people

text: since

text: early

text: May

text: according

text: to

text: the

text: United

text: Nations

text: The

text: question

text: immigrants

text: in

text: the

text: United

text: States

text: want

text: answered

text: is

text: How

text: have

text: their

text: youth

text: ended

text: up

text: so

text: far

text: away

text: One

text: of

text: the

text: missing

text: youth

text: Shirwa

text: Ahmed

text: blew

text: up

text: himself

text: and

text: others

text: last

text: fall

text: in

text: Somalia

text: in

text: what

text: is

text: believed

text: to

text: be

text: the

text: first

text: suicide

text: bombing

text: carried

text: out

text: by

text: a

text: naturalized

text: U.S.

text: citizen

text: Ahmed

text: had

text: traveled

text: from

text: Minneapolis

text: The

text: attack

text: raised

text: red

text: flags

text: throughout

text: the

text: U.S.

text: intelligence

text: community

text: and

text: sparked

text: an

text: investigation

text: by

text: the

text: FBI

text: Just

text: weeks

text: ago

text: community

text: activist

text: Abdirizak

text: Bihi

text: lost

text: his

text: old

text: nephew

text: Burhan

text: Hassan

text: in

text: Somalia

text: Asked

text: if

text: his

text: nephew

text: had

text: been

text: kidnapped

text: from

text: Minneapolis

text: Bihi

text: said

text: They

text: kidnap

text: them

text: in

text: the

text: sense

text: of

text: mental

text: kidnapping

text: not

text: physically

text: But

text: they

text: play

text: a

text: male

text: role

text: of

text: mentor

text: Bihi

text: and

text: community

text: leader

text: Omar

text: Jamal

text: said

text: they

text: hold

text: one

text: place

text: at

text: least

text: loosely

text: responsible

text: the

text: Abubakar

text: as

text: Saddique

text: Islamic

text: Center

text: the

text: largest

text: mosque

text: in

text: Minneapolis

text: All

text: these

text: kids

text: missing

text: they

text: all

text: have

text: one

text: thing

text: in

text: common

text: They

text: all

text: participated

text: in

text: youth

text: programs

text: in

text: that

text: mosque

text: said

text: Jamal

text: Jamal

text: and

text: Bihi

text: said

text: leaders

text: of

text: the

text: mosque

text: at

text: the

text: very

text: least

text: allowed

text: people

text: to

text: come

text: around

text: their

text: facility

text: and

text: recruit

text: young

text: men

text: to

text: fight

text: in

text: Somalia

text: a

text: charge

text: the

text: head

text: imam

text: denies

text: CNN

text: was

text: not

text: allowed

text: inside

text: the

text: mosque

text: but

text: was

text: granted

text: an

text: interview

text: with

text: the

text: imam

text: at

text: a

text: different

text: location

text: This

text: is

text: the

text: baseless

text: accusation

text: really

text: said

text: Sheikh

text: Abdirahman

text: Sheikh

text: Omar

text: Ahmed

text: The

text: mosque

text: the

text: mission

text: of

text: the

text: mosque

text: is

text: to

text: worship

text: And

text: people

text: come

text: to

text: worship

text: and

text: go

text: We

text: do

text: n't

text: have

text: any

text: control

text: over

text: what

text: comes

text: through

text: everybody

text: 's

text: mind

text: or

text: ideology

text: Sheikh

text: Ahmed

text: said

text: at

text: least

text: two

text: of

text: the

text: young

text: men

text: who

text: died

text: in

text: Somalia

text: did

text: worship

text: at

text: his

text: mosque

text: But

text: he

text: said

text: no

text: recruiters

text: came

text: around

text: the

text: mosque

text: to

text: pull

text: them

text: away

text: and

text: said

text: his

text: mosque

text: does

text: not

text: support

text: Al

text: Shabaab

text: He

text: added

text: that

text: he

text: has

text: encouraged

text: local

text: families

text: to

text: keep

text: their

text: young

text: sons

text: from

text: going

text: to

text: Somalia

text: Federal

text: authorities

text: recently

text: made

text: their

text: first

text: arrests

text: in

text: the

text: case

text: charging

text: two

text: Minnesota

text: men

text: Salah

text: Osman

text: Ahmed

text: and

text: Abdifatah

text: Yusuf

text: Isse

text: with

text: one

text: count

text: each

text: of

text: providing

text: material

text: support

text: to

text: terrorists

text: and

text: conspiracy

text: to

text: kill

text: kidnap

text: maim

text: or

text: injure

text: people

text: overseas

text: according

text: to

text: the

text: indictment

text: CNN

text: could

text: not

text: reach

text: Salah

text: Osman

text: Ahmed

text: 's

text: attorney

text: for

text: comment

text: Published

text: reports

text: indicate

text: he

text: planned

text: to

text: plead

text: not

text: guilty

text: Isse

text: has

text: pleaded

text: guilty

text: and

text: is

text: cooperating

text: with

text: federal

text: authorities

text: officials

text: said

text: In

text: court

text: papers

text: obtained

text: by

text: CNN

text: Isse

text: 's

text: attorney

text: said

text: Mr.

text: Isse

text: will

text: not

text: be

text: the

text: last

text: defendant

text: indicted

text: A

text: local

text: attorney

text: involved

text: in

text: the

text: case

text: said

text: at

text: least

text: seven

text: Somali

text: Americans

text: have

text: been

text: questioned

text: by

text: a

text: grand

text: jury

text: An

text: FBI

text: official

text: said

text: the

text: bureau

text: can

text: not

text: rule

text: out

text: the

text: possibility

text: that

text: some

text: of

text: the

text: young

text: men

text: involved

text: could

text: be

text: trained

text: to

text: carry

text: out

text: terrorist

text: attacks

text: on

text: U.S.

text: soil

text: Meanwhile

text: CNN

text: has

text: learned

text: more

text: about

text: how

text: Shirwa

text: Ahmed

text: and

text: Burhan

text: Hassan

text: made

text: their

text: way

text: overseas

text: A

text: travel

text: agent

text: in

text: Minneapolis

text: who

text: spoke

text: on

text: condition

text: of

text: anonymity

text: said

text: the

text: two

text: men

text: paid

text: about

text: in

text: cash

text: for

text: tickets

text: to

text: Nairobi

text: Kenya

text: or

text: to

text: Dubai

text: U.A.E.

text: The

text: travel

text: agent

text: said

text: he

text: thinks

text: the

text: two

text: men

text: then

text: made

text: their

text: way

text: to

text: Mogadishu

text: from

text: those

text: cities

text: on

text: a

text: Somali

text: carrier

text: For

text: Bana

text: 's

text: family

text: it

text: 's

text: all

text: too

text: much

text: to

text: bear

text: Omar

text: Boley

text: is

text: a

text: close

text: friend

text: who

text: grew

text: up

text: in

text: the

text: same

text: tribe

text: as

text: Bana

text: 's

text: family

text: He

text: said

text: Bana

text: 's

text: mother

text: is

text: having

text: difficulty

text: coping

text: with

text: everything

text: that

text: has

text: happened

text: in

text: recent

text: months

text: She

text: does

text: n't

text: want

text: to

text: hear

text: the

text: story

text: again

text: he

text: said

text: She

text: told

text: me

text: Whenever

text: I

text: see

text: someone

text: talking

text: about

text: my

text: son

text: I

text: feel

text: bad

text: I

text: ca

text: n't

text: sleep

text: I

text: feel

text: sick

text: So

text: this

text: happened

text: nothing

text: I

text: can

text: do

text: We

text: pray

text: for

text: him

text: That

text: 's

text: what

text: she

text: said

text: and

text: that

text: 's

text: what

text: I

text: believe

question: how many mens was charged

answer: two

text: two

question: Where did Jamal Bana's family find about his death?

answer: on an Internet site.

text: on an Internet site.

question: What person has been missing for months?

answer: Jamal Bana

text: Jamal Bana

question: who was missing for months

answer: Jamal Bana

text: Jamal Bana

question: what says imam of minneapolis

answer: "The mosque -- the mission of the mosque -- is to worship. And people come to worship and go. We don't have any control over

text: "The mosque -- the mission of the mosque -- is to worship. And people come to worship and go. We don't have any control over

question: What is part of a wider federal inquiry of terror?

answer: Bana's death

text: Bana's death

question: Where is the mosque located that says terror recruiters are not part of their organization?

answer: Minneapolis.

text: Minneapolis.


text:
(CNN) -- Saudi Arabia's crown prince was convalescing Saturday in Morocco where he arrived this week after surgery for an undisclosed illness in New York City, the state-run Saudi Press Agency said.

Saudi Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, right, seen in a 2007 file photo

Crown Prince Sultan, who is also the nation's deputy prime minister, completed "all medical tests and treatments in the aftermath of the medical surgery he has previously undergone," the news agency said, quoting a statement from the Royal Court.

Sultan arrived in the Moroccan city of Agadir on Wednesday, the press agency said. Speculation about his health has been mounting since he arrived in New York in February.

While Saudi officials maintain publicly that Sultan's health has improved, the appointment in late March of a second deputy prime minister has raised more questions about the extent of his illness.

Last month, Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah issued a royal decree naming the interior minister, Prince Nayef -- the powerful brother of the crown prince and half-brother to the king -- to the post of second deputy prime minster. The appointment appears to mean Nayef is now the country's crown prince in waiting and second in line to be king.

In recent weeks, local media have quoted Nayef as downplaying rumors that the crown prince may be seriously ill.

"I would like to assure you that the crown prince's health is very good," he told reporters in March, according to the English-language daily newspaper Arab News. "God willing, after the medical vacation he will return to the kingdom in full health."

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question: Where is the crown prince?

answer: Morocco

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question: What type of illness did he suffer from?

answer: undisclosed

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question: Where does the crown prince convalesce?

answer: Morocco

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question: What does the appointment raise?

answer: more questions about the extent of his illness.

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question: Where was the surgery performed?

answer: New York City,

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question: whois the prince

answer: Sultan bin Abdulaziz Al Saud,

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text:
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Two Supreme Court justices on opposite sides of the ideological aisle exchanged tough words Monday over the fate of a Florida murderer who has been on death row for 32 years.

Siding with the court's majority, Justice Clarence Thomas described brutal details of a Florida slaying.

The high court has refused to hear the appeal of William Thompson, who had plead guilty twice in the March 1976 kidnapping and torture-murder of a woman. His case and subsequent appeals have been litigated since, but a new execution date has not been set.

A key part of his request to be spared lethal injection is that three decades as a capital inmate constitutes cruel and unusual punishment.

"Our experience during the past three decades has demonstrated that delays in state-sponsored killings are inescapable and that executing defendants after such is unacceptably cruel," said Justice John Paul Stevens, who disagreed with the court's decision to allow the execution to proceed. He was supported by Justice Stephen Breyer in his objection to the court's ruling on Monday in the case, Thompson v. McNeil (08-7369).

But Justice Clarence Thomas took issue with his colleagues' conclusions. "It is the crime and not the punishment imposed by the jury or the delay in execution that was 'unacceptably cruel,'" he responded.

Thomas took time in his concurrence to detail the graphic crime that led to the conviction of Thompson and his co-defendant.

The men had held Sally Ivester and another woman in a motel room and were demanding money from the victim's families. Ivester had promised she could raise hundreds of dollars but was only able to secure $25. That enraged the men who savagely beat the woman with a belt, chair leg and nightstick, causing internal injuries. She was also burned with cigarettes.

The other woman witnessed the murder and said she feared for her life if she tried to leave.

Thompson and his co-defendant both pleaded guilty but the state's high court initially tossed out Thompson's sentence. The man's lawyer had told the defendant if he accepted responsibility for the crime, he would not get the death penalty, a crucial mistake.

Thompson later pleaded guilty a second time and again received a capital sentence. Then he began a series of appeals, claiming ineffective counsel, trial errors, limited mental capacity and a dysfunctional childhood. All those factors were ultimately rejected by state and federal courts.

Stevens noted that during a third penalty hearing, five members of a state advisory jury recommended against lethal injection, but the court again imposed death.

The circumstances of his current imprisonment, said Stevens, no longer justify such a sentence.

"As he awaits execution, petitioner has endured especially severe conditions of confinement," said Stevens, "spending up to 23 hours per day in isolation in a 6- by 9-foot cell. Two death warrants have been signed against him and stayed only shortly before he was scheduled to die. The dehumanizing effects of such treatment are undeniable."

But Thomas said all such inmates are subjected to a "restricted confinement" because of the security risks they pose. And the prisoner had only himself to blame for his prolonged imprisonment on death row.

Quoting his conclusions from a similar 1999 capital case, Thomas said, "I remain unaware of any support in the American constitutional tradition of this Court's precedence for the proposition that a defendant can avail himself of the panoply of appellate and collateral procedures and then complain when his execution is delayed."

Thomas has long backed the right of states to impose death sentences. Stevens, who as a newly seated justice cast a key 1976 vote upholding the death penalty, has since grown increasingly frustrated with how it its carried out. Last April, he declared his open opposition to it.

"I have relied on my own experience in reaching the conclusion that the imposition of the death penalty represents the pointless and needless extinction of life with only marginal contributions to any discernible social or public purposes," he wrote. "A penalty with such negligible returns to the state (is) patently excessive and cruel and unusual punishment violative of the Eighth Amendment."

The 88-year-old justice was supported by three of his more liberal colleagues. But Stevens also said he would respect court precedents in favor of capital punishment.

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text: that

text: executing

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text: said

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text: life

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text: co

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text: counsel

text: trial

text: errors

text: limited

text: mental

text: capacity

text: and

text: a

text: dysfunctional

text: childhood

text: All

text: those

text: factors

text: were

text: ultimately

text: rejected

text: by

text: state

text: and

text: federal

text: courts

text: Stevens

text: noted

text: that

text: during

text: a

text: third

text: penalty

text: hearing

text: five

text: members

text: of

text: a

text: state

text: advisory

text: jury

text: recommended

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text: lethal

text: injection

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text: the

text: court

text: again

text: imposed

text: death

text: The

text: circumstances

text: of

text: his

text: current

text: imprisonment

text: said

text: Stevens

text: no

text: longer

text: justify

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text: a

text: sentence

text: As

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text: awaits

text: execution

text: petitioner

text: has

text: endured

text: especially

text: severe

text: conditions

text: of

text: confinement

text: said

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text: to

text: hours

text: per

text: day

text: in

text: isolation

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text: a

text: by

text: cell

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text: to

text: die

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text: such

text: treatment

text: are

text: undeniable

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text: said

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text: such

text: inmates

text: are

text: subjected

text: to

text: a

text: restricted

text: confinement

text: because

text: of

text: the

text: security

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text: pose

text: And

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text: prisoner

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text: prolonged

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text: conclusions

text: from

text: a

text: similar

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text: case

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text: remain

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text: any

text: support

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text: American

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text: Court

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text: precedence

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text: proposition

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text: defendant

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text: panoply

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text: and

text: collateral

text: procedures

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text: execution

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text: delayed

text: Thomas

text: has

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text: backed

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text: right

text: of

text: states

text: to

text: impose

text: death

text: sentences

text: Stevens

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text: a

text: newly

text: seated

text: justice

text: cast

text: a

text: key

text: vote

text: upholding

text: the

text: death

text: penalty

text: has

text: since

text: grown

text: increasingly

text: frustrated

text: with

text: how

text: it

text: its

text: carried

text: out

text: Last

text: April

text: he

text: declared

text: his

text: open

text: opposition

text: to

text: it

text: I

text: have

text: relied

text: on

text: my

text: own

text: experience

text: in

text: reaching

text: the

text: conclusion

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text: imposition

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text: the

text: death

text: penalty

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text: pointless

text: and

text: needless

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text: of

text: life

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text: contributions

text: to

text: any

text: discernible

text: social

text: or

text: public

text: purposes

text: he

text: wrote

text: A

text: penalty

text: with

text: such

text: negligible

text: returns

text: to

text: the

text: state

text: is

text: patently

text: excessive

text: and

text: cruel

text: and

text: unusual

text: punishment

text: violative

text: of

text: the

text: Eighth

text: Amendment

text: The

text: old

text: justice

text: was

text: supported

text: by

text: three

text: of

text: his

text: more

text: liberal

text: colleagues

text: But

text: Stevens

text: also

text: said

text: he

text: would

text: respect

text: court

text: precedents

text: in

text: favor

text: of

text: capital

text: punishment

question: What does Justice Clarence Thomas give details of?

answer: described brutal

text: described brutal

question: What did the court do?

answer: refused to hear the appeal of William Thompson,

text: refused to hear the appeal of William Thompson,

question: Who claims 32 years on death row is cruel and unusual punishment?

answer: Justice John Paul Stevens,

text: Justice John Paul Stevens,

question: What year was the torture killing William Thompson committed?

answer: 1976

question: How long on death row is cruel and unusual punishment?

answer: three decades

text: three decades

question: What time has he been on death row?

answer: 32 years.

text: 32 years.

question: Who is William Thompson?

answer: a Florida murderer

text: a Florida murderer


text:
Dubai, United Arab Emirates (CNN) -- Mourners buried a senior Hamas militant Friday after his recent death in Dubai -- a death Hamas calls an "assassination."

Mahmoud al-Mabhouh died in Dubai on January 20, said Izzat al Rishq, a Hamas member based in Syria.

Al-Mabhouh was a founding member of the military wing of Hamas, which blamed Israel for his death.

"We hold the enemy responsible for the assassination of Mahmoud Mabhouh," the militant wing said in an online statement. "The enemy will not escape punishment."

It said Al-Mabhouh was responsible for capturing two Israeli soldiers during the first intifada and named the pair: Sgt. Avi Sasportas and Cpl. Ilan Saadon

The Israeli Foreign Ministry said Sasportas was kidnapped on Feb. 16, 1989 and shot to death. His body was found in May 1989.

The ministry said the same Hamas terror cell that kidnapped Sasportas abducted Saadon on May 3, 1989. Saadon's body was discovered in 1996.

Government officials in Israel declined to comment on the militant wing's statement.

One official in Dubai told CNN that al-Mabhouh died of natural causes.

But the Emirates News Agency said authorities determined that the man was killed and were working with Interpol to hunt down alleged perpetrators thought to be part of a "criminal gang," some of whom have European passports.

Hamas said it is investigating the death and that it would publish details "in a timely manner."

Al-Mabhouh's brother, Fayek al-Mabhouh, said that preliminary results of Hamas' investigation show he was killed by electrocution and strangulation with a piece of cloth. Fayek said his brother had survived other assassination attempts. The Emirates News Agency report quoted a security source saying the gang had been tracking the victim.

Al-Mabhouh had lived in Syria for about 20 years. He traveled from Syria to Dubai on January 19 and died the next day, Hamas officials in Gaza said.

It's not clear why he traveled to Dubai, but Fayek al-Mabhouh said his brother arrived at a Dubai hotel in charge of the Hamas mission.

His body was returned to Damascus on Thursday night and was buried after Friday prayers, Hamas officials in Gaza said.

CNN's Kevin Flower, Saad Abedine, Caroline Faraj, and Talal Abu Rahma contributed to this report

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text: gang

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text: victim

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text: Syria

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text: from

text: Syria

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text: Dubai

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text: next

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text: Gaza

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text: not

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text: 's

text: Kevin

text: Flower

text: Saad

text: Abedine

text: Caroline

text: Faraj

text: and

text: Talal

text: Abu

text: Rahma

text: contributed

text: to

text: this

text: report

question: Who died in Dubai on January 20?

answer: Mahmoud al-Mabhouh

text: Mahmoud al-Mabhouh

question: When did Mahmoud al-Mabhouh die?

answer: January 20,

text: January 20,

question: Who does Hamas blame for al-Mabhouh's death?

answer: Israel

text: Israel

question: What did the Official's in Dubai tell CNN was the cause of his death?

answer: natural

text: natural

question: What did the official in Dubai tell CNN?

answer: al-Mabhouh died of natural causes.

text: al-Mabhouh died of natural causes.

question: What is the cause of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh's death?

answer: "assassination."

text: "assassination."

question: When was Mahmoud al-Mabhouh buried?

answer: Friday

text: Friday

question: What did al-Mabhouh die of?

answer: electrocution

text: electrocution


text:
(CNN) -- An icy asteroid orbiting the sun between Mars and Saturn is adding credence to theories that Earth's water was delivered from space, according to a report published in the new issue of the science journal Nature.

Two teams of scientists found their evidence when looking at 24 Themis, a asteroid about 479 million kilometers (300 million miles) from the sun, or roughly three times the average distance from Earth to the sun.

Using the infrared telescope at Mauna Kea, Hawaii, they were surprised to find not only water on 24 Themis, but organic compounds as well.

Asteroids were thought to be devoid of water because they sit too close to the sun, while comets have been the water bearers of the universe because they form farther out in space.

"Astronomers have looked at dozens of asteroids with this technique, but this is the first time we've seen ice on the surface and organics," astronomer Andrew Rivkin of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, told Nature.com.

The scientific teams from Johns Hopkins and the University of Central Florida that looked at 24 Themis speculate that the ice may be held in a reservoir under the asteroid's surface. They speculate that the water is brought to the surface as small bodies in the asteroid belt hit the surface of 24 Themis.

The findings on 24 Themis lend weight to the idea that asteroids and comets are the source of Earth's water and organic material.

Geochemists believe that early Earth went through a molten phase that would have removed any organic molecules, meaning any new organic material would have had to come to the planet at a later time, said Humberto Campins at UCF.

"I believe our findings are linked to the origin of life on Earth," he added.

Scientists now plan to scan the asteroid belt for more evidence of water and organic materials, hoping to determine if 24 Themis is just an interloper -- possibly a comet that got caught in the asteroid belt -- or the first of many water-bearing asteroids that will change the way astronomers look at the solar system.

"The old-fashioned picture of the solar system in which asteroids are asteroids and comets are comets is getting harder to sustain," Rivkin said.

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text: sun

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question: Scientists find first evidence of water where?

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question: What do scientists find evidence of on an asteroid?

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question: For what reason were asteroids not thought to contain water?

answer: because they sit too close to the sun,

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question: Organic compounds were also found where?

answer: 24 Themis,

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question: What else was found on 24 Themis?

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question: Where is that scientist have found evidence of water

answer: 24 Themis, a asteroid

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question: For what reason where these objects considered once not to have contained water

answer: because they sit too close to the sun,

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question: Scientists find first evidence of what on asteroid?

answer: 479 million kilometers (300 million miles) from the sun,

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(CNN)  -- Sarah Palin's most ardent supporters in "real America" love to suggest that those of us who don't buy into her shtick fail to grasp why they love her, citing her realness, plain-spokenness and whatever else they can conjure up.

Folks, nice try, but as a native Texan, I've seen many politicians and wannabes over the years who had charm, wit, charisma and a twinkle in their eye.

Anyone who has listened to the best football coaches the Lone Star State has to offer will tell you that they can persuade a mother and father to send their boy to hell to fetch a glass of ice water and bring him home a better man. They could teach a politician or two how to connect with average Americans.

You want a media darling politician with substance? Try the late Gov. Ann Richards, a woman who could cut you deep and beam ear-to-ear with her motherly smile. But unlike Palin, she had a host of strong ideas in her head that actually made sense and appealed to a cross-section of folks.

Former Rep. Charlie Wilson, who died this week, was a smooth-talking Texan who loved to party hard. But when it came to politics, he knew how to get things done. The media loved him because he could sit with you and enjoy a beer over barbecue, give them a hilarious quote or two, and explain foreign policy better than Henry Kissinger.

Why haven't I cottoned to Palin? Because she portrays herself as a straight-talking politician who wants to lead a movement in the "Lower 48th" --  but is nothing more than a political celebrity willing to cash every check she can grab.

What truly exposed her for me? It was the ridiculous way she reacted in opposing ways last week to two political heavyweights who used the word "retard."

When it was reported that President Obama's chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, told a group of liberals that they were "f-----g retards" for threatening to run ads against fellow Democrats who weren't jumping on the health care reform bandwagon, Palin demanded his resignation.

As the mother of a child with Down syndrome, Palin has often used her bully pulpit to demand respect for the mentally challenged. Nothing wrong with that. It is an issue that is close to her heart, and she should be a fierce advocate for them.

Yet when one of her biggest supporters, conservative radio talk-show host Rush Limbaugh, also castigated liberals by calling them "retards," Palin provided him cover, even trying to explain away his comments.

In an interview with Fox News Channel's Chris Wallace, she said Limbaugh was using satire, while Emanuel was blasting those who disagree with him. But anyone who can read or listen could hear Limbaugh calling folks he disagrees with the same. Palin even went further, agreeing with Limbaugh that liberals are "kooks."

So Emanuel and Limbaugh used the word "retard" to describe folks they disagree with, but only Rahm was wrong? Yep, that's how it is in Palin's world. The advocate for the mentally challenged was quick to pounce on someone she disagrees with politically but defended her patron saint, Rush.

Sarah, when you hold yourself up as a fierce protector of the mentally challenged, politics shouldn't enter into the equation. Either you criticize everyone who uses a word that you consider a slur, or you come across as a crass politician who is afraid to offend your chief booster.

Maybe you ought to listen to your spokeswoman, Meghan Stapleton, who thought you cared about the mentally challenged when she sent this e-mail to HotAir.com about Limbaugh's comment: "Gov. Palin believes crude and demeaning name-calling at the expense of others is disrespectful."

But knowing that wouldn't sit well with Rush, you backed off and gave him cover.

If you were true to your cause, you would have demanded an on-air apology from Limbaugh and scolded him for using the word. Instead, you showed your true colors.

Sarah, I haven't bought into your fake "I'm-a-real-American" persona. You slam the president for using teleprompters, but write crib notes on your hand to remember basic beliefs that should be easy to regurgitate.

You decry the "lamestream" media, but you bask in its glory and have joined its payroll as a Fox News contributor, even having the network build a studio in your home. Talk about media elite.

You give a speech riddled with falsehoods about the president and national security, and then try to shrug them off as the "lamestream" media attacking you.

You don't fool me, even as your legion of fans considers you the second coming of President Reagan. You quit on the people who elected you to become a political celebrity, which your presidential running mate blasted then-Sen. Barack Obama for doing.

You had the opportunity to show everyone that you're willing to take on anyone who crosses the line against those who are mentally challenged, and you failed.

Please, make as much money as you can. Paraphrasing comedian Martin Lawrence, ride this train until the wheels fall off. But please, cut the crap. You're a crass politician with no true conviction. Your actions have shown that.

The opinions in this commentary are solely those of Roland Martin.

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question: For what reasons did Palin get so upset when an Obama aide used the word "retard"?

answer: mother of a child with Down syndrome,

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question: Who calls liberals retards?

answer: Rahm Emanuel,

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