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NEW YORK (CNN) -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Thursday that he won't push to visit the site of the destroyed World Trade Center during his visit to the United Nations next week.

Iran's president said he wanted to "pay his respects" and lay a wreath at the site of the 2001 al Qaeda attacks.

The controversial leader asked to "pay his respects" and lay a wreath at the site of the 2001 al Qaeda attacks, but New York city officials on Wednesday denied that request, citing safety concerns at what is now a construction site.

Ahmadinejad said he would try to visit the site "if we have the time and the conditions are conducive." But if local officials cannot make the proper arrangements, "I won't insist," he said in an interview to be aired Sunday on CBS' "60 Minutes."

The Bush administration considers Iran a state sponsor of terrorism, and State Department spokesman Tom Casey called the request "the height of hypocrisy."

CBS correspondent Scott Pelley told Ahmadinejad he "must have known that visiting the World Trade Center site would infuriate many Americans."

"Well, I'm amazed," he said, surprised by the question. "How can you speak for the whole of the American nation? The American nation is made up of 300 million people. There are different points of view over there."

More than 2,700 people died in the attack on the World Trade Center, when al Qaeda terrorists flew hijacked passenger jets into the twin towers. A third jet hit the Pentagon, and a fourth crashed in a Pennsylvania field after passengers resisted their hijackers.

Iran is ruled by a Shiite Muslim government hostile to the fundamentalist Sunni al Qaeda. Ahmadinejad's predecessor, Mohammed Khatami, condemned the attacks and cooperated with the U.S.-led campaign to topple al Qaeda's Taliban allies in Afghanistan that followed.

But the United States calls Iran the world's top state sponsor of terrorism because of its support of the Lebanese Shiite Muslim militia Hezbollah and other militant groups. Washington and Tehran have not had formal diplomatic relations since 1980 after Iranian militants stormed the United States Embassy in Tehran and held Americans hostage for 444 days.

The Bush administration has also accused Iran of meddling in Iraq and Afghanistan, where U.S. troops are battling Taliban and al Qaeda remnants more than six years after the September 11, 2001, attacks. It accuses Iran of supplying advanced explosives to Shiite Muslim militias, some of which have used the devices against U.S. troops.

Ahmadinejad also has drawn fire for his hard-line anti-Israel stance and his insistence that Iran will defy international demands that it halt its production of enriched uranium. Iran insists it is producing nuclear fuel for civilian power plants, but Washington accuses Tehran of trying to create a nuclear bomb.

The Iranian leader has made statements suggesting that Israel be politically "wiped off the map," though he insists that can be accomplished without violence. He has questioned the existence of the Holocaust, the genocidal Nazi campaign against European Jews, and warned Europeans that they may pay a heavy price for its support of Israel.

Ahmadinejad is also slated to speak on the campus of Columbia University during his visit, university President Lee Bollinger said. His presence is likely to spark protests on and off campus. Bollinger said the appearance is part of the World Leaders Forum -- an annual university event "intended to further Columbia's long-standing tradition of serving as a major forum for robust debate." E-mail to a friend

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(CNN) -- Move over, Edward Cullen.

Tell those bayou bloodsuckers from "True Blood" to step aside, too.

More than 112 years after he first climbed out of the coffin, the world's most famous vampire is back -- and he's bloodier than ever.

"Dracula the Un-Dead," released this month in the United States, is a sequel to Bram Stoker's 1897 classic written by Dacre Stoker, the original author's great-grandnephew.

The book, co-written by Dracula historian Ian Holt, picks up 25 years after the Victorian-era monster is supposedly killed in the original and is based in part on 125 pages of handwritten notes that Bram Stoker left behind.

But while many of the original characters are here -- troubled couple Jonathan and Mina Harker and vampire hunter Van Helsing among them -- the horror has gotten a 21st-century update. The sex and violence that Stoker deftly alluded to in the original are, at times, front and center in his descendant's sequel.

"You've got to keep in mind the perspective," said Dacre Stoker, a native of Montreal, Quebec, now living in Aiken, South Carolina. "The degree of sex and violence he had, in this very stuffy and conservative Victorian society, was cutting edge at the time. Even the exposure of a woman's flesh, the piercing of the flesh, was a metaphor for the sex act."

And with authors from Anne Rice and Charlaine Harris to Stephen King and Poppy Z. Brite having crafted their own, sometimes lurid, reworkings of the vampire legend, Stoker said he knew that the new book couldn't just be a straight continuation of the first.

"We've got to keep up with what other people are doing," he said. "Otherwise, our story would be toast."

Of all the books, movies and other tales to use Dracula's name throughout the decades, the novel is the first since the 1931 Bela Lugosi movie to have the Stoker family's endorsement and input.

After Bram's death, his widow, Florence, sold the story's rights, and eventually, the most iconic character in the history of horror slipped into the public domain.

Dacre said that before now, the only thing he'd ever received for his ancestor's work was the occasional Halloween wisecrack.

"We knew of the legacy of Bram Stoker, but as kids growing up in Montreal, it wasn't that big a deal," he said. "Every now and then at Halloween you'd get joked: 'Is it safe to come to the Stoker house? Are we going to get candy or bitten in the neck?' "

It was a college writing project that revived his interest in his novelist ancestor, a native of Dublin, Ireland, who'd moved to London, England, by the time the book was written.

Then, he was contacted by Holt in 2003. The historian said he wanted to work on a sequel and wanted to have a member of Stoker's family involved.

Along the way, they uncovered a rare find at the Rosenbach Museum and Library in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Bram's own notes.

It wasn't a plot outline, Dacre said, "but what I did was find information, characters, little ideas -- plot threads that he had in mind 112 years ago that didn't make it into his story."

Among the seeds for new plotlines was Bram's mention of a police investigator who plays prominently in "Dracula the Un-Dead." Dacre said he'd always wondered at how the first book was full of murder but no police were involved.

The notes also prompted the inclusion of Jack the Ripper, whose gruesome exploits gripped London around the time the elder Stoker was writing his novel and who is believed by some historians to have helped shape its plot.

True fans of the vampire genre will find another historical figure they're likely familiar with gracing the book's pages and an even more unlikely appearance: Bram Stoker himself.

"Part of our plan was to paint a realistic picture of Bram Stoker," Dacre said of the author, who spent time as a reporter, theater critic and manager of London's Lyceum Theater. "Everybody knows Dracula. Not many people know Bram Stoker."

Response to and reviews of the book have been largely positive.

"This daring sequel captures the essence and gothic glory of the original," USA Today's Carroll Memmott wrote.

Dacre, who is touring the United States in support of the release, said he was prepared for the inevitable backlash from pure-blood purists who don't think the original should be sullied with a follow-up.

"I have heard just a bit of it," he said. "People say it's better to leave some of these mysteries alone; let's not solve them all. Believe me, when you read our story, you'll know we don't solve them all."

And he has some other advice for those diehards: Lighten up.

"This is entertainment. Go with it," he said. "If you don't want to read it, you don't have to."

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question: When was the original Dracula written?

answer: 1897

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question: Who wrote "Dracula the Un-Dead"?

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question: What supernatural creature features in the book?

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question: The vampire tale is more what than the 1897 original?

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question: What is more overt in "Dracula the Un-Dead"?

answer: sex and violence

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question: Book has gotten what kind of reviews?

answer: largely positive.

text: largely positive.


text:
NEW DELHI, India (CNN)  -- Angry workers beat to death a human resources vice president after he laid off 42 employees at an auto-parts manufacturing company in southern India, police said Wednesday.

Roy George was vice-president for human resources at Pricol, the auto-parts company.

Some four to five workers, belonging to a union not recognized by the company, barged into his office and beat him up with iron rods, said N. Kannan, a police superintendent of Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu state.

George, 47, died from his head injuries Tuesday, Kannan told CNN.

Police have arrested nine people and are expected to round up more.

Last year the Indian head of an Italian company died after allegedly being beaten by a mob of sacked employees.

More than 60 people were charged with the murder of the chief executive of Graziano Transmissioni near New Delhi.

Earlier this month, India's Jet Airways had to cancel hundreds of flights after pilots struck work over the sacking of two of their colleagues in August.

Companies in the South Asian nation, despite its rapid economic growth in recent years, have often been faced with tough labor issues because of archaic laws and company policies on hiring and retrenchment.

Business consultants in India blame such labor standoffs on what they call lack of transparency in retrenchment or layoff policies.

Hiring and firing conditions are often not explained to workers by their companies, said Rajeev Karwal, founding-director of Milagrow Business and Knowledge Solutions.

Issues could spiral out of control if the businesses and bureaucrats are seen in a "corrupt nexus" by the employees seeking reprieve from labor authorities, he said.

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text: DELHI

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text: CNN

text: Angry

text: workers

text: beat

text: to

text: death

text: a

text: human

text: resources

text: vice

text: president

text: after

text: he

text: laid

text: off

text: employees

text: at

text: an

text: auto

text: parts

text: manufacturing

text: company

text: in

text: southern

text: India

text: police

text: said

text: Wednesday

text: Roy

text: George

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text: vice

text: president

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text: resources

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text: auto

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text: George

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text: head

text: injuries

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text: Kannan

text: told

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text: Police

text: have

text: arrested

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text: people

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text: are

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text: round

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text: year

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text: Indian

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text: by

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text: companies

text: said

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text: Karwal

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text: director

text: of

text: Milagrow

text: Business

text: and

text: Knowledge

text: Solutions

text: Issues

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text: reprieve

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answer: nine people

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question: What was Roy George?

answer: vice-president for human resources at Pricol,

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question: What did the workers do?

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text:
Bangkok, Thailand (CNN) -- Severe flooding in Thailand on Saturday threatened central areas of Bangkok, a bustling capital barely above sea level and facing inundation at the next high tide predicted at 13 feet.

Residents who decided to stay in their homes despite government pleas to get out waited anxiously to see whether high tide, forecast for Saturday afternoon, would overwhelm defenses along the Chao Phraya River and its many canals.

Bangkok's outer suburbs were already submerged, but the central city had been largely spared the misery Thailand has been suffering for months in the nation's worst flooding since 1942. In the east and the north of the city, water was at waist-level in some neighborhoods, but in central Bangkok, it had been mostly dry.

The city was facing two converging threats, however.

Runoff the equivalent of 480,000 Olympic-size pools was flowing south to the sea through Bangkok, as high tide pushed the water in the opposite direction.

"The challenge is to manage the huge runoff from the north passing via the city on its way to the Gulf of Thailand," a Red Cross bulletin said.

Saturday's high tide, the Red Cross said, was expected to put "extreme pressure" on Bangkok's elaborate system of dikes and other flood defenses.

Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra ordered work crews Friday to cut channels in roadways to allow faster drainage, according to the state-run MCOT news agency. But the plan was rejected late in the day in favor of dredging canals and using pumps, the Bangkok Post reported.

Health concerns were rising with the water.

Bangkok residents waded through murky waters without knowing what lurked within, the risk of infection and communicable disease worrying health officials. The government sent out crocodile hunters after reports of crocodiles and snakes in the filthy floodwater.

"We were hearing disturbing reports of dangerous animals such as snakes and crocodiles appearing in the floodwaters and every day we see children playing in the water, bathing or wading through it trying to make their way to dry ground," said Annie Bodmer-Roy, spokeswoman for the humanitarian agency Save the Children.

As floodwater entered homes, some Bangkok residents still in the city made plans to leave.

Thanyarat Hemkittiwat said she was going to stay with relatives outside the city.

"Some families in southern Bangkok had their house flooded," said the 31-year-old worker at a furniture export company, which was shut after it also was flooded. "The water level is 2 meters (six feet) high and smells very bad," she said.

The military had set up a flood relief center, "but now even that has water coming in it," she said.

Asked what help the government had provided, she said, "We don't see that the government is doing anything much to help people, so better to help ourselves by getting out of Bangkok." But the Bangkok Post reported that government buses had evacuated a number of elderly residents from the northern and eastern suburbs, and would pick up residents of the capital on Saturday and take them out of Bangkok. As of Saturday, an estimated 1 million of the city's 12 million residents had left.

Another Bangkok resident said she was worried about abandoning her house, which has been flooded for five days, and would not leave. Still, so many people had left that the streets were relatively quiet.

Panic buying had led to a shortage of food and bottled water in the capital, residents said.

City officials bracing for more flooding have opened nine evacuation centers.

Officials urged tourists to steer clear of Bangkok, while noting that many of the other tourist spots, such as Phuket, remained dry and open for business.

Thailand's Ministry of Public Health had transferred 280 of the capital's 520 patients in severe condition to 22 hospitals upcountry, the MCOT news agency reported.

The remaining 240 patients will be taken to hospitals in other provinces by Sunday, it said, citing Permanent-Secretary for Health Paichit Varachit.

Health Minister Witthaya Buranasiri said that, after months of flooding, 107,101 Thais have been diagnosed with stress, 6,214 with depression and 878 at risk of suicide. In all, 1,356 people were under observation by health officials, the minister said, according to MCOT.

The U.S. State Department issued a travel alert on Thursday, recommending against all but essential travel to affected areas. It noted that most tourist destinations, such as Phuket and Chiang Mai, were unaffected.

U.S. Ambassador Kristie Kenny said the crisis was slow-moving and it was hard to know what would be hit next.

The United States has already provided civilian relief resources, including water pumps, water purifiers and life vests, she said, and two U.S. helicopters are helping the Thai military determine the extent of the flooding.

The floods, caused by monsoon rains that saturated rivers, have killed 373 people nationwide and affected more than 9.5 million people,

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The government has called the flooding the worst to afflict the nation in half a century and said it might take more than a month before the waters recede from some areas.

The government has set up more than 1,700 shelters nationwide, and more than 113,000 people have taken refuge in them.

Overall damage from the floods could exceed $6 billion, the Thai Finance Ministry said.

CNN's Sara Sidner and Kocha Olarn reported from Bangkok and Moni Basu reported from Atlanta. Aliza Kassim and Elizabeth Yuan contributed to this report.

text: Bangkok

text: Thailand

text: CNN

text: Severe

text: flooding

text: in

text: Thailand

text: on

text: Saturday

text: threatened

text: central

text: areas

text: of

text: Bangkok

text: a

text: bustling

text: capital

text: barely

text: above

text: sea

text: level

text: and

text: facing

text: inundation

text: at

text: the

text: next

text: high

text: tide

text: predicted

text: at

text: feet

text: Residents

text: who

text: decided

text: to

text: stay

text: in

text: their

text: homes

text: despite

text: government

text: pleas

text: to

text: get

text: out

text: waited

text: anxiously

text: to

text: see

text: whether

text: high

text: tide

text: forecast

text: for

text: Saturday

text: afternoon

text: would

text: overwhelm

text: defenses

text: along

text: the

text: Chao

text: Phraya

text: River

text: and

text: its

text: many

text: canals

text: Bangkok

text: 's

text: outer

text: suburbs

text: were

text: already

text: submerged

text: but

text: the

text: central

text: city

text: had

text: been

text: largely

text: spared

text: the

text: misery

text: Thailand

text: has

text: been

text: suffering

text: for

text: months

text: in

text: the

text: nation

text: 's

text: worst

text: flooding

text: since

text: In

text: the

text: east

text: and

text: the

text: north

text: of

text: the

text: city

text: water

text: was

text: at

text: waist

text: level

text: in

text: some

text: neighborhoods

text: but

text: in

text: central

text: Bangkok

text: it

text: had

text: been

text: mostly

text: dry

text: The

text: city

text: was

text: facing

text: two

text: converging

text: threats

text: however

text: Runoff

text: the

text: equivalent

text: of

text: Olympic

text: size

text: pools

text: was

text: flowing

text: south

text: to

text: the

text: sea

text: through

text: Bangkok

text: as

text: high

text: tide

text: pushed

text: the

text: water

text: in

text: the

text: opposite

text: direction

text: The

text: challenge

text: is

text: to

text: manage

text: the

text: huge

text: runoff

text: from

text: the

text: north

text: passing

text: via

text: the

text: city

text: on

text: its

text: way

text: to

text: the

text: Gulf

text: of

text: Thailand

text: a

text: Red

text: Cross

text: bulletin

text: said

text: Saturday

text: 's

text: high

text: tide

text: the

text: Red

text: Cross

text: said

text: was

text: expected

text: to

text: put

text: extreme

text: pressure

text: on

text: Bangkok

text: 's

text: elaborate

text: system

text: of

text: dikes

text: and

text: other

text: flood

text: defenses

text: Prime

text: Minister

text: Yingluck

text: Shinawatra

text: ordered

text: work

text: crews

text: Friday

text: to

text: cut

text: channels

text: in

text: roadways

text: to

text: allow

text: faster

text: drainage

text: according

text: to

text: the

text: state

text: run

text: MCOT

text: news

text: agency

text: But

text: the

text: plan

text: was

text: rejected

text: late

text: in

text: the

text: day

text: in

text: favor

text: of

text: dredging

text: canals

text: and

text: using

text: pumps

text: the

text: Bangkok

text: Post

text: reported

text: Health

text: concerns

text: were

text: rising

text: with

text: the

text: water

text: Bangkok

text: residents

text: waded

text: through

text: murky

text: waters

text: without

text: knowing

text: what

text: lurked

text: within

text: the

text: risk

text: of

text: infection

text: and

text: communicable

text: disease

text: worrying

text: health

text: officials

text: The

text: government

text: sent

text: out

text: crocodile

text: hunters

text: after

text: reports

text: of

text: crocodiles

text: and

text: snakes

text: in

text: the

text: filthy

text: floodwater

text: We

text: were

text: hearing

text: disturbing

text: reports

text: of

text: dangerous

text: animals

text: such

text: as

text: snakes

text: and

text: crocodiles

text: appearing

text: in

text: the

text: floodwaters

text: and

text: every

text: day

text: we

text: see

text: children

text: playing

text: in

text: the

text: water

text: bathing

text: or

text: wading

text: through

text: it

text: trying

text: to

text: make

text: their

text: way

text: to

text: dry

text: ground

text: said

text: Annie

text: Bodmer

text: Roy

text: spokeswoman

text: for

text: the

text: humanitarian

text: agency

text: Save

text: the

text: Children

text: As

text: floodwater

text: entered

text: homes

text: some

text: Bangkok

text: residents

text: still

text: in

text: the

text: city

text: made

text: plans

text: to

text: leave

text: Thanyarat

text: Hemkittiwat

text: said

text: she

text: was

text: going

text: to

text: stay

text: with

text: relatives

text: outside

text: the

text: city

text: Some

text: families

text: in

text: southern

text: Bangkok

text: had

text: their

text: house

text: flooded

text: said

text: the

text: old

text: worker

text: at

text: a

text: furniture

text: export

text: company

text: which

text: was

text: shut

text: after

text: it

text: also

text: was

text: flooded

text: The

text: water

text: level

text: is

text: meters

text: six

text: feet

text: high

text: and

text: smells

text: very

text: bad

text: she

text: said

text: The

text: military

text: had

text: set

text: up

text: a

text: flood

text: relief

text: center

text: but

text: now

text: even

text: that

text: has

text: water

text: coming

text: in

text: it

text: she

text: said

text: Asked

text: what

text: help

text: the

text: government

text: had

text: provided

text: she

text: said

text: We

text: do

text: n't

text: see

text: that

text: the

text: government

text: is

text: doing

text: anything

text: much

text: to

text: help

text: people

text: so

text: better

text: to

text: help

text: ourselves

text: by

text: getting

text: out

text: of

text: Bangkok

text: But

text: the

text: Bangkok

text: Post

text: reported

text: that

text: government

text: buses

text: had

text: evacuated

text: a

text: number

text: of

text: elderly

text: residents

text: from

text: the

text: northern

text: and

text: eastern

text: suburbs

text: and

text: would

text: pick

text: up

text: residents

text: of

text: the

text: capital

text: on

text: Saturday

text: and

text: take

text: them

text: out

text: of

text: Bangkok

text: As

text: of

text: Saturday

text: an

text: estimated

text: million

text: of

text: the

text: city

text: 's

text: million

text: residents

text: had

text: left

text: Another

text: Bangkok

text: resident

text: said

text: she

text: was

text: worried

text: about

text: abandoning

text: her

text: house

text: which

text: has

text: been

text: flooded

text: for

text: five

text: days

text: and

text: would

text: not

text: leave

text: Still

text: so

text: many

text: people

text: had

text: left

text: that

text: the

text: streets

text: were

text: relatively

text: quiet

text: Panic

text: buying

text: had

text: led

text: to

text: a

text: shortage

text: of

text: food

text: and

text: bottled

text: water

text: in

text: the

text: capital

text: residents

text: said

text: City

text: officials

text: bracing

text: for

text: more

text: flooding

text: have

text: opened

text: nine

text: evacuation

text: centers

text: Officials

text: urged

text: tourists

text: to

text: steer

text: clear

text: of

text: Bangkok

text: while

text: noting

text: that

text: many

text: of

text: the

text: other

text: tourist

text: spots

text: such

text: as

text: Phuket

text: remained

text: dry

text: and

text: open

text: for

text: business

text: Thailand

text: 's

text: Ministry

text: of

text: Public

text: Health

text: had

text: transferred

text: of

text: the

text: capital

text: 's

text: patients

text: in

text: severe

text: condition

text: to

text: hospitals

text: upcountry

text: the

text: MCOT

text: news

text: agency

text: reported

text: The

text: remaining

text: patients

text: will

text: be

text: taken

text: to

text: hospitals

text: in

text: other

text: provinces

text: by

text: Sunday

text: it

text: said

text: citing

text: Permanent

text: Secretary

text: for

text: Health

text: Paichit

text: Varachit

text: Health

text: Minister

text: Witthaya

text: Buranasiri

text: said

text: that

text: after

text: months

text: of

text: flooding

text: Thais

text: have

text: been

text: diagnosed

text: with

text: stress

text: with

text: depression

text: and

text: at

text: risk

text: of

text: suicide

text: In

text: all

text: people

text: were

text: under

text: observation

text: by

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answer: 373

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question: What is the news about the flooding there?

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Mexico City, Mexico (CNN) -- Four suspected drug cartel members have been arrested in connection with the slaying of a family in what authorities call an act of revenge for the death of a drug baron, a state attorney general said Wednesday.

The shootings early Tuesday that led to the deaths of four family members of 3rd Petty Officer Melquisedet Angulo Cordova was an act of revenge carried out by Los Zetas, a drug cartel allied with the Beltran Leyva cartel, said Rafael Gonzalez Lastra, attorney general for the southern Mexican state of Tabasco.

The suspects were arrested Tuesday night, he said.

Cordova was killed in the December 16 shootout that resulted in the death of Arturo Beltran Leyva, nicknamed the "boss of bosses," during a raid by a Mexican navy contingent at an upscale resort condo in Cuernavaca, Mexico.

Angulo Cordova was hailed as a hero by President Felipe Calderon and laid to rest in his home state of Tabasco.

Early Tuesday, gunmen entered the family's home and opened fire, killing Angulo Cordova's mother, sister and aunt. Angulo Cordova's brother was injured in the shooting and later died in a hospital.

The Zetas, the protection arm of the Gulf cartel that also operates as its own trafficking organization, carried out revenge killings because of an alliance between them and the Beltran Leyva group, Gonzalez Lastra said.

Two of the arrested cartel members were responsible for the payments for the killings, and two acted as lookouts during the incident, he said.

The suspects were identified as Julio Acosta Saucedo, Yesenia Hernandez Valencia, Azael Jesus Garcia Reyes and Julio Acosta Vargas.

Gonzalez Lastra said authorities know the identities of the shooters as well as the vehicles used in the attack.

Some local police officers were also involved, he said.

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Washington (CNN) -- The public may have seen the last video images of the failed blowout preventer from the BP oil well disaster, as authorities expressed possible security concerns.

The feed from a camera on board a salvage ship was discontinued Saturday after the apparatus was raised from the sea floor and placed on the vessel Q4000.

At his regular briefing with reporters Wednesday, National Incident Commander Thad Allen said additional questions about the unit would now have to go to the U.S. Justice Department and the Joint Investigation Team.

When pressed about the video feed, Allen said, "We'll have to refer that to the Department of Justice. There were some constraints put on that videotaping based on the people that are looking at the blowout preventer and their identities and so forth, and I think there's, there may be some security issues associated with it."

Allen said the ship will carry the unit to shore, but that the timetable and other questions will no longer be something he can address as part of the disaster operations that he heads.

As of Wednesday, he said, "the blowout preventer is already up on deck on the Q4000. The lower marine riser package has been separated, and they're putting it on latching skids getting ready to move it closer to shore."

He said "exactly when it arrives and what the disposition would be, I would refer you to the Department of Justice, or the Joint Investigation Team," since "from this point out it doesn't involve the spill itself."

Allen said after the ship moves off-scene, "this will cease to be part of the national response that I'm coordinating as the national incident commander."

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NEW YORK (CNN) -- The laser surgery business is booming for treatments like hair, tattoo and wrinkle removal.

Julie Pak gets laser treatment from a doctor, eight years after she says she was scarred by earlier treatment.

In 2005, the last year recorded, the American Society for Dermatologic Surgery said its members performed nearly 1 million such procedures, about 300,000 more than in 2003.

Board certified dermatologists, however, are not the only ones operating lasers on skin. Laser treatments are offered at local beauty salons, and are also a big part of the medical spa industry, which has grown by 160 percent in the last three years, according to the International Medical Spa Association.

The association says a medical spa operates under the full-time, on-site supervision of a licensed health care professional. It offers traditional, complementary and alternative health practices and treatments in a spa-like setting.

Some doctors are concerned that while these high-tech devices can produce amazing results, in the wrong hands, the outcome can be horrifying.

Eight years ago, computer programmer Julie Pak went to her neighborhood salon in Illinois to have the rose tattoo on her back removed, a decision she said that left her not only with physical scars but emotional ones as well.

Pak said a laser was used to peel back layers of the tattooed skin. She said she knew the procedure would hurt, but was not prepared for what she experienced --pain that was excruciating "beyond words." Watch more on the dangers of illegal laser surgery

"I was in tears for I believe a week, but certainly while she was doing it I didn't have any anesthesia or anything. She literally had a laser pen and was zapping across my skin," she said. And she said the tattoo was only partially removed.

The proliferation of medical spas and other clinics offering laser treatments worries the ASDS, which said botched laser skin procedures increased 41 percent from 2005 to 2006.

"We see a definite increase in the number of people being damaged by untrained individuals using these lasers and we think that this is just going to be more of a problem," said Alastair Carruthers, president of ASDS. He and other doctors say the increased demand for laser surgery is outpacing the number of people properly trained to use it.

"If you use them inappropriately, you can damage tissue severely. You're trying to damage very selectively, but you can do more than that, so that you can draw a hole in someone if you are being dumb about things," he said.

"Sadly, there are many people who are laser techs who have done very little, maybe a weekend course, maybe some other training. We believe that you require more information than that," Carruthers said. He thinks a physician should always be present during the procedures and that those performing it should have at least basic knowledge of the response of body tissue to lasers, like a registered nurse or physician's assistant.

The ASDS and organizations like the National Coalition of Estheticians, Manufacturers/Distributors & Associations, put the blame squarely on state regulatory boards for what they consider a lack of effective oversight in the industry. Regulation on who can use lasers and what defines "medical supervision" differs from state to state. Some states require a doctor on site, others do not.

According to the ASDS, Kentucky is the only state that requires a doctor to be present in the room while the procedure is taking place. Only four other states require that a physician be on site and available for consultation during treatments. The rest require less stringent physician involvement -- like simply being available by phone or beeper, for example.

"If we could get a clear definition from the state medical boards as to what medical supervision is, it would make our lives a lot easier and it would keep consumers much safer," said Susanne Warfield, executive director of the NCEA.

The salon that Pak said disfigured her back eight years ago has gone out of business. Since then, she has thought a lot about warning signs that should have stopped her from going there for laser surgery. For example, a woman at the salon gave her a price quote on the phone. "I mean, without knowing anything about my medical history, that right there should have immediately been a red flag."

Now, Pak again is enduring painful laser treatments to reduce the scarring and hopefully get rid of the rest of the tattoo

She also tailors her wardrobe to hide the scar.

"Summertime is probably my least favorite season because it's the only time either it's showing or I have to make special efforts to cover it up," Pak said. "Even for my wedding I had a strapless gown, but I had to have a really long veil to cover it up and it was something I was self-conscious about every evening. It affects every day of my life." E-mail to a friend

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question: Which state is the only state that requires a doctor be in the room during surgery?

answer: Kentucky

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answer: Kentucky

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question: Can you get laser procedures done in a salon?

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(CNN) -- The peanut processing company at the heart of a national salmonella outbreak, Peanut Corp. of America, filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy liquidation in court Friday in Lynchburg, Virginia.

Peanut Corp. of America plants in Georgia and Texas came under scrutiny after the salmonella outbreak.

The documents were filed in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in the Western District of Virginia.

The bankruptcy papers were signed by Stewart Parnell, the president of Peanut Corp., who invoked his Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination in refusing to answer questions this week in a congressional hearing.

Bacteria found in the company's Blakely, Georgia, peanut processing plant have been blamed for more than 600 cases of salmonella, including nine deaths.  Watch how bankruptcy could affect case ÃÂ»

The Texas Health Department on Thursday ordered products from the company's plant in Plainview, Texas, to be recalled after discovering dead rodents, rodent excrement and bird feathers in the plant.  Watch what health inspectors found ÃÂ»

A call to the company's telephone number, which was working earlier this week, elicited a recording that said it was no longer in service.

"The long and the short of it is that we kicked the tires on reorganizing the company, and, frankly, they're just in a position now where they can't even conduct business," said Andrew S. Goldstein, a lawyer for the company. "They can't operate at all, and this just seemed like the inevitable course."

In a written statement, Consumers Union said Friday's declaration shows that Congress needs to strengthen the Food and Drug Administration and hike the penalties it can impose.

"It is unacceptable for corporations to put consumers' health at risk and then simply declare bankruptcy and go out of business when they get caught," said Jean Halloran, director of food policy initiatives at Consumers Union, publisher of Consumer Reports.

"PCA's declaration of bankruptcy will, among other things, shield it from liability suits filed by consumers who became sick or whose loved ones died as a result of eating PCA's peanut products," she said.

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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Barack Obama weighed in Thursday on the conflict between Israel and Hamas, urging Israel to open Gaza border crossings and telling the Islamic fundamentalist organization to stop rocket fire into the Jewish state.

President Obama called on both Israel and Hamas to make changes toward Mideast peace.

He urged Israel to allow the flow of aid and commerce into the Palestinian territory.

"Our hearts go out to Palestinian civilians who are in need of immediate food, clean water and basic medical care," he said.

The crossings should be opened with an "appropriate monitoring," he added.

Obama said Hamas leaders, for their part, must put an end to rocket attacks.

He said he will send former Sen. George Mitchell, who was appointed Thursday as special envoy for Middle East peace, to the region as soon as possible.

Earlier, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived at her new office in the State Department, promising a renewed emphasis on candor and "robust diplomacy" as the primary means for advancing American interests around the world.

America's new chief diplomat walked through the front doors of the State Department lobby shortly after 9 a.m. ET to thunderous applause from an overflow crowd of about 1,000 career diplomats and other department employees.

"I believe with all of my heart that this is a new era for America," Clinton told her colleagues. "President Obama set the tone with his inaugural address. ... Robust diplomacy and effective development are the best long-term tools for securing America's future."  Watch Clinton greet her new employees Â»

In remarks that could be interpreted as a rebuke of the departed Bush administration, Clinton also said that the Obama administration would not "tolerate the divisiveness and paralysis that has undermined our ability to get things done for America."

Clinton also called for a new sense of candor and free exchange of ideas. She urged the country's diplomatic corps to think "outside the proverbial box."

"There's nothing I welcome more than a good debate and the kind of dialogue that will make us better," she said.

Clinton later attended an intelligence briefing and a meeting with members of the Diplomatic Security Service. She also walked through various State Department offices, including the operations center.

Clinton also phoned international leaders, according to acting State Department spokesman Robert Wood. She is expected to call Asian leaders later Thursday.

Clinton will also visit the U.S. Agency for International Development, which she praised "for the work they've done on behalf of development through some very difficult years."

During her confirmation hearing, Clinton pledged to secure more resources for the State Department and USAID, which has seen a lot of its development work fall to the Pentagon during the Bush administration.

Clinton is the 67th U.S. secretary of state.

CNN's Elise Labott contributed to this report.

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text: this

text: report

question: Where are the border crossings?

answer: Gaza

text: Gaza

question: What does Obama want Israel to do?

answer: open Gaza border crossings

text: open Gaza border crossings

question: what is hillary clinton's profession?

answer: Secretary of State

text: Secretary of State

question: When was Clinton confirmed as secretary of state?

answer: shortly after 9 a.m. ET

text: shortly after 9 a.m. ET

question: Which country did President Obama urge to open Gaza border crossings?

answer: Israel

text: Israel