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(CNN) -- Four suspects are sought in connection with the shooting death over the weekend of a Houston, Texas, doctor, Austin County authorities said Monday.

Dr. Jorge Mario Gonzales was found shot to death at his ranch in rural Texas on Saturday, police say.

Dr. Jorge Mario Gonzalez, 56, was chief of the critical care section at Houston's Methodist Hospital and "a pulmonary medicine leader," according to the hospital system's Web site.

He was found dead Saturday when deputies responded to a 911 call of a burglary in progress shortly after noon, said Austin County Sheriff's Office spokesman Sgt. Paul Faircloth.

The responding officer was met by vehicles leaving the location, Faircloth said, and a person in one vehicle fired on the officer. The officer and his car were not struck, and the officer did not return fire, Faircloth said. The officer was able to provide a detailed description of the vehicles, he said.

At the home, which Faircloth said is in a rural, wooded and isolated area, officers found Gonzalez shot to death and another person wounded. The second victim was airlifted to an Austin, Texas, hospital.  Watch Dr. Gonzalez's son talk about his father Â»

Gonzalez's wife and small child were found unharmed inside the home, Faircloth said. CNN affiliate KHOU identified the woman as Charleen Gonzalez, 29, and the couple's 2-year-old son, and reported the two hid in a closet.

Authorities do not know whether the incident was a burglary or an intended home invasion, Faircloth said, and "we do not know if this is random or targeted." Several leads were being followed Monday morning, he said, and numerous agencies were involved in the investigation. The motive for the killing had not been determined on Monday.

The slaying took place at Gonzalez's ranch outside Bellville, Texas, said Lisa Block, spokeswoman for the Texas Department of Public Safety. Gonzalez, his wife and child arrived at the ranch about 11 a.m. Saturday, she said, and "the suspects were at the house when they arrived." Gonzalez's wife ran inside with the child and called 911, she said.

Ranch worker Noel Galvan was the second victim, Block said. He was listed in critical condition, she said.

Faircloth said earlier Monday five suspects were being sought, but later said police were seeking four.

The vehicles seen leaving the home were a late '90s white Ford F-150 pickup, occupied by two Hispanic males, Faircloth said, and a red Honda or Acura with dark tinted windows sitting low to the ground, with one Hispanic male inside. The shots were fired from the white pickup, he said.

Another vehicle mentioned earlier Monday was a two-toned silver and black Ford F-150 that had two Hispanic males inside. Faircloth said Monday afternoon that vehicle had been located and was not thought to be involved.

However, police released a video of a gray Lexus on Monday, and would like to question its owners, Faircloth said. The drivers are believed to be an older couple. The car was seen before the officer encountered the white and red vehicles.

"The manhunt continues on the ground," Faircloth said. The suspects are considered armed and dangerous, he said.

Faircloth said he had no information on whether the home had surveillance equipment.

Family members told KHOU that Gonzalez went to the ranch nearly every weekend.

"It's deeply saddening for all of us," an older son of Gonzalez, Juan Mauricio Gonzalez, told KHOU. "We are a tight-knit family and he was just a perfect man, a perfect father and a great physician."

The Methodist Hospital System said Gonzalez will be missed, "both as a friend and an outstanding clinician and researcher. Our prayers and thoughts go out to his family during this tragedy."

"This man had nothing to do with anybody," Juan Gonzalez told KHOU. "He was a peaceful man. He was a wise man. He was just here to make people better and nothing else."

A reward totaling $26,000 was offered for information in the case leading to an arrest.

CNN's Melanie Whitley contributed to this report.

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LOUISVILLE, Colorado (CNN) -- While the economy sputters here on Earth, space entrepreneurs in Colorado are looking to the heavens.

Diane Dimeff and Scott Tibbitts of eSpace, a not-for-profit that helps aerospace companies test space technology.

In a cavernous testing facility called the "Incubator," specialized equipment recreates the unique conditions of a journey into space -- from platforms that mimic the violent shaking at liftoff to chambers that replicate space's bitter cold and complete vacuum.

This is home to eSpace: The Center for Space Entrepreneurship, a not-for-profit partnership between SpaceDev, Inc., a private aerospace company, and the University of Colorado. Launched last month, eSpace helps fledgling aerospace companies try out new gadgetry and meet NASA specifications.

"One of the most important things in making space hardware is that it's going to [have to] work in space, because you can't repair it," said Scott Tibbitts, executive director of eSpace. "It's up there, it has to work."

Tibbitts believes that in the near future, NASA's programs will be supplemented more often by entrepreneurial space ventures. He thinks eSpace can help these companies work toward making space exploration more affordable and accessible to private citizens.

"Our goal is to help small aerospace companies to get off the ground," said eSpace director Diane Dimeff. eSpace will help entrepreneurs "to commercialize their technology and to help develop the work force that will fuel their growth."

The center's Incubator doubles as the headquarters of SpaceDev, which Tibbitts founded almost by accident more than a dozen years ago. He developed a paraffin actuator, a mechanism filled with a waxlike substance that melts when it reaches a certain temperature, flipping a switch.

The device worked on hot-water heaters, but Tibbitts thought it might have high-tech applications elsewhere.

"I ended up contacting NASA and they said yeah," Tibbitts said. "So we started building them for spacecraft instead of water heaters, and the business was built around that."

But it wasn't quite that simple. The first actuator for NASA cost $32,000 to make, and Tibbitts had to sell his Triumph sports car to raise the money.

Also, Tibbitts' specialty was hot water heaters, not spacecraft. Products for NASA have to go through rigorous testing and be made to strict specifications.

"I knew nothing about it," he said. "We'd ask NASA, 'Can we use Super Glue?' And they'd say, 'No, you can't use Super Glue.' "

Tibbitts' goal with eSpace is to help entrepreneurs avoid making the same mistakes. eSpace mentors new companies and helps guide them on the long journey from the workbench in the family garage to the launch pad.

A important part of the process is access to the sophisticated testing equipment at the Incubator, located in a suburb northwest of Denver.

"The people making the hardware can test the hardware in that chamber and see if it's going to work in the harsh conditions of space," said Tibbitts while leading a tour of the facility. "This is a half-a-million-dollar chamber. That's not something a small company can afford."

Dimeff hopes eSpace's collaboration with the University of Colorado will help guide young engineers into careers in space technology. To facilitate this, eSpace will fund three hands-on projects for graduate students to design aerospace technologies with commercial applications.

"They have great skills for the aerospace industry, and they would never have thought of going into the aerospace industry but for this program," Dimeff said.

A few miles down the road, another space hardware company is hoping to benefit from eSpace's programs.

"I think the eSpace concept is really a very important one," said Michael Tupper, executive vice president of Composite Technology Development Inc., which makes resins, thermal insulation and other products.

"We can be much more effective when we are working with other entrepreneurial companies and combining our capabilities and technologies," he added. "So eSpace will both create a network of companies and will also help with the educational basics."

Tupper sees huge growth ahead in space technologies and in technologies developed for space making their way back to Earth. High-temperature insulation his company developed for space is being repurposed for use in wind turbines and geothermal equipment.

In that way, eSpace could help prepare engineers for a variety of jobs beyond the aerospace field -- a key benefit in a battered economy.

"The space market is a vital market, and it does require a lot of jobs," Tupper told CNN. "But I think it's quite clear the terrestrial market has more jobs in larger industries. We're going to be needing to hire more and more people."

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(CNN)  -- The small Baltic nation of Estonia is ending its nearly six-year military operation in Iraq by not replacing its platoon of 34 troops.

Estonian soldiers on patrol near Baghdad in 2004.

Estonia's Defense Minister Jaak Aaviksoo said the country will not deploy its next infantry platoon to Iraq, according to a statement from the ministry.

Platoon ESTPLA-18 was ready to replace the previous 34-man platoon which returned to Estonia from Iraq in late December, The Baltic Times reported.

The Estonian defense ministry announced Thursday it had failed to reach an agreement with Iraq's government about the troops' legal status.

Aaviksoo said the absence of a legal agreement "specifying the legal status of our soldiers" was one of three reasons Estonia ended its military operation in Iraq.

He said the other two reasons were the improving security situation in Iraq and the Iraqi government's desire to "continue bilateral cooperation in forms other than battle units."

A bilateral agreement spelling out future defense-related cooperation between Iraq and Estonia is still being hammered out, Aaviksoo said.

Estonia will continue to participate in a NATO-led training mission in Iraq, with three staff officers, he said.

The Estonian defense ministry said Aaviksoo will soon visit Iraq to formally terminate the Estonian Defense Forces' operation and discuss future defense-related cooperation with his Iraqi counterpart, Abdul Al-Qadir Jassam.

In late December, Iraq's Presidency Council approved a resolution allowing non-U.S. troops to remain in the country after a U.N. mandate expired at the end of 2008. The resolution authorized Iraq to negotiate bilateral agreements with the countries, including Estonia.

If that resolution had not been approved by the end of the year, those countries would have been in Iraq illegally.

The United States concluded a separate agreement in November with the Iraqi government authorizing the continued presence of its troops.

U.S. combat forces plan to pull back from population centers in Iraq by July 2009 and to withdraw from Iraq by the end of 2011.

The British government says its forces will complete their mission of training Iraqi troops by May 31, 2009, and withdraw from the country by July 31, 2009. Britain has 4,100 troops in Iraq, the second-largest contingent after the United States with 142,500.

Australian troops also plan to be out of the country by the end of July.

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question: When did the UK expect to leave Iraq?

answer: by July 31, 2009.

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question: Who expects their troops to be out by the end of July?

answer: U.S. combat forces plan

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question: How many troops did Estonia have in Iraq?

answer: 34

question: When did the previous 34-strong platoon leave?

answer: in late December,

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question: When did the platoon leave Iraq?

answer: late December,

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question: Who blames lack of legal agreement on status of troops?

answer: Aaviksoo

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question: Who left Iraq in December?

answer: 34 troops.

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question: When will Australia pull their troops?

answer: the end of July.

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question: What is Estonia not replacing?

answer: its platoon of 34 troops.

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question: Who expects their troop to be out by the end of July?

answer: The British government

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question: What Oceanic country was about to leave Iraq?

answer: Australian

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question: Who is not replacing their platoon in Iraq?

answer: Baltic nation of Estonia

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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) -- Polish authorities in Pakistan say they are monitoring local reports that Taliban militants have executed a kidnapped Polish engineer.

Pakistani Taliban militants offer prayers in Mamouzai area of

Orakzai Agency in November.

Piotr Stancza was kidnapped September 28 from the city of Attock in Punjab province. Stancza had been based there for a Polish survey company searching for natural gas.

Local reports and TV station Dawn News reported Stancza's execution Saturday.

Polish Embassy spokesman Peter Adams said his offices were aware of local media reports but were waiting to hear officially from Pakistani authorities. He said all efforts had been made by Polish authorities to pressure the Pakistani government to do whatever it could to secure Stancza's release.

"From the Polish side, we did whatever we could, pressuring the Pakistani government on the presidential and prime minister level," Adams said. "Problem was, this was solely Pakistan's responsibility. Demands were only towards [the] Pakistan government."

Adams said there had been no demands for ransom. The Taliban had demanded the release of Taliban prisoners being held by the government and a pullout of government security forces from the tribal areas.

Although there were assurances that the Pakistani government was doing everything it could and that Stancza would be freed soon, Adams said it was never clear what the government was actually doing to secure his release.

"We are waiting for confirmation and waiting for any answer [about] how this happened and why did this happen," Adams said.

A spokesman for Pakistan's interior ministry said that the reports of Stancza's death have yet to be confirmed and that the case of his kidnapping was a high priority for the government. Shahid Ullah Baig said the government had been working hard to retrieve Stancza unharmed but did not give details.

"The Pakistan government is doing its level best to secure his release," he said, adding, "Human life is more important to us than anything else."

Kidnappings and attacks against foreigners have risen sharply in recent months throughout the country. Most recently, an American working for the United Nations was kidnapped in Quetta, and Peshawar has been the scene of various attacks against foreign diplomats and journalists.

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question: When was Piotr kidnapped?

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question: Who has demanded release of prisoners?

answer: Taliban

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question: What group has demanded release of prisoners?

answer: Taliban

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question: Where was Stancza kidnapped from?

answer: city of Attock in Punjab province.

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question: Where was Piotr Stancza taken from?

answer: the city of Attock in Punjab province.

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question: Who is checking local reports in Pakistan?

answer: Polish authorities

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question: When was Piotr Stancza kidnapped?

answer: September 28

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question: What did the Taliban demand?

answer: prisoners being held by the government and a pullout of government security forces from the tribal areas.

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Hong Kong (CNN) -- If you can tolerate the junkies on the stairwells or the rats that sometimes scale the 12 floors of her building on the external electrical wiring, Lui's penthouse shack ticks all the boxes for a multi-million dollar property in Hong Kong.

It's light, it's well ventilated and it has sweeping views of Kowloon's Lion Rock Hill. Constructed from recycled materials, the design is customized to her lifestyle down to the last detail.

"This is my washing machine," says Lui, pointing proudly to a small stainless steel basin on the terrace side of her rooftop house in Sham Shui Po. "I do my tai chi exercises here in the morning, and on moonlit nights I like to sit out here and look out on the mountain."

Anywhere else in Hong Kong, luxury apartments can often fetch HK$100 million (US$12.85 million), and a house with these features could easily cost the average transaction price of HK$13.25 million (US$1.7 million), according to data released by agency Midland Realty earlier this year.

The only difference is that as an unprepossessing corrugated iron shack that forms part of Hong Kong's extensive network of sky slums -- technically illegal rooftop structures barnacled onto the roofs of tenements built in the 1950s and 60s -- the market is sluggish.

Nevertheless, a gray market in these slum dwellings does exist.

"Of course the agent never explicitly says it's a rooftop dwelling. The listing will say something like small apartment with a unique view or interesting features," says Dr. Ernest Chiu of Hong Kong University who has studied informal housing.

"I've heard anecdotal evidence of them changing hands for HK$40,000 (US$5,000) but that was three years ago when I was doing my research."

In the volatile world of Hong Kong property prices, says realtor Janice Chan of Y&L Properties, they could now be worth a lot more.

"Even if a dwelling has an illegal structure status, I would say that it was absolutely impossible to get anything in Hong Kong for under $HK1 million (US$129,000)," Chan says.

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She contends prices could even exceed this, making Lui's hand-built shanty one of the most expensive slum dwellings in the world.

According to the latest Hong Kong census from 2006, there are 3,962 rooftop dwellers in 1,556 households in Hong Kong. Mostly found in old urban areas in Kowloon -- Sham Shui Po, Kwun Tung and Tai Kok Tsui -- the houses are crammed together so tightly that they form their own above-ground streetscapes, complete with gardens, playgrounds and places of worship.

The slums are a hangover from the housing crises of the 1950s and 1960s when successive waves of refugees from mainland China set up squatter cities in Hong Kong. Many of the residents have lived in the slums for more than 30 years, and new arrivals tend to be underprivileged migrants from either mainland China, Pakistan, Nepal or other parts of Asia.

Since 2001, when 16,359 people lived on Hong Kong's rooftops, the number of illegal dwellings has reduced dramatically. While government policy has played a part, more often the tenements -- under constant pressure due to the shortage of land in Hong Kong -- are torn down to make way for new shopping and residential developments.

For the government, which supplies these rooftop communities with a postal service, water and electricity; collects rates; and even levies stamp duty on their sale and purchase, the sky slums operate under an established practice of "tolerance versus demolition," says Chiu. Their existence, while not ideal, keeps almost 4,000 people off a crowded public housing queue, he adds.

Fire restrictions are strict (those with a single rather than double fire exits are earmarked for demolition as a top priority), and building codes rigidly enforced (adding an extra floor to a non-structural building is forbidden), but the Building Department's normal practice is simply to issue a notice that slates the illegal structure for eventual demolition.

Under this system, illegal rooftop dwellings often survive for decades and are bought and sold with the demolition notice as part of the negotiated price of the transaction. Despite their quasi-legal status, Chiu explains, authorities will act promptly, if they receive complaints from third parties, making the residents vulnerable to abuse.

"There have been reports of some owners, living on the floor immediately below the rooftop huts, making complaints to the building authority to get their rooftop neighbors evicted," he says. "In other cases, the landlord renting these huts may make complaints to evade their responsibilities as stipulated in the landlord-tenant contract."

As for Lui, she says she has owned her house for decades. The double fire exit on the roof has made her structure safe from demolition, and she has no plans to move from Sham Shui Po.

"If they moved me to public housing it would shorten my life," she says, pointing to the nearby tower blocks. "Those flats are too small."

While there are disadvantages -- she says the house rocks in typhoons, the dark stairwell attracts drug users, and the rats are too clever to be trapped -- she says there's nowhere else she'd rather live.

"My neighbors are great, the police are quick to come if we have any trouble with drugs, there's no crime, the shops are downstairs and everything is just so convenient," she says.

"People may look down on me, but I certainly don't look down on myself."

Alexis Lai contributed to this report.

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question: where are they mostly found

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question: Where were the sky slums built?

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question: Where is the network of sky slums?

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question: What do the slums stem from?

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ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- Boris Kodjoe owns a mansion in Atlanta. But when he goes to answer his door, the black actor knows what it's like to be an outcast.

Henry Louis Gates Jr. was arrested last week on a charge of disorderly conduct.

"When I'm opening the door of my own house, someone will ask me where the man of the house is, implying that I'm staff," said Kodjoe, best known for starring in Showtime's "Soul Food."

It's a feeling some African-Americans say is all too common, even to this day in America: No matter your status or prominence in society, you're still typecast. That's why the recent arrest of Henry Louis Gates Jr., one of the nation's most prominent African-American scholars, has stirred outrage and debate.

Jelani Cobb, an author and professor at Spelman College in Atlanta, says it's troubling on many levels when "one of the most recognizable African-Americans in the country can be arrested in his own home and have to justify being in his own home."  Watch arrest of a Harvard scholar Â»

"It's really kind of unfathomable," Cobb said. "If it can happen to him, yeah, it can happen to any of us."

That's a sentiment echoed by Jimi Izrael. "If a mild-mannered, bespectacled Ivy League professor who walks with a cane can be pulled from his own home and arrested on a minor charge, the rest of us don't stand a chance," Izrael wrote Tuesday on The Root, an online magazine with commentary from a variety of black perspectives that's co-founded by Gates.

"We all fit a description. We are all suspects."

In an interview with The Root, Gates said he was outraged by the incident and hopes to use the experience as a teaching tool, including a possible PBS special on racial profiling.

"I can't believe that an individual policeman on the Cambridge police force would treat any African-American male this way, and I am astonished that this happened to me; and more importantly I'm astonished that it could happen to any citizen of the United States, no matter what their race," Gates said. "And I'm deeply resolved to do and say the right things so that this cannot happen again." Voices of black America: What it's like being black in America

Gates was arrested last Thursday in broad daylight at his Cambridge, Massachusetts, home for disorderly conduct -- what the arresting officer described as "loud and tumultuous behavior in a public space." The charge was dropped Tuesday on the recommendation of police, and the city of Cambridge issued a statement calling the incident "regrettable and unfortunate."

Gates had just returned from a trip to China when a police officer responded to a call about a potential break-in at his home that was phoned in by a white woman. According to the police report, Gates was in the foyer when the officer arrived.

The officer asked Gates to "step out onto the porch and speak with me," the report says. "[Gates] replied, 'No, I will not.' He then demanded to know who I was. I told him that I was 'Sgt. Crowley from the Cambridge Police' and that I was 'investigating a report of a break in progress' at the residence.

"While I was making this statement, Gates opened the front door and exclaimed, 'Why, because I'm a black man in America?' " Have race relations improved since the election of President Barack Obama?

According to the report, Gates initially refused to show the officer his identification, instead asking for the officer's ID. But Gates eventually did show the officer his identification that included his home address.

"The police report says I was engaged in loud and tumultuous behavior. That's a joke," Gates told The Root. "It escalated as follows: I kept saying to him, 'What is your name, and what is your badge number?' and he refused to respond. I asked him three times, and he refused to respond. And then I said, 'You're not responding because I'm a black man, and you're a white officer.'"

Known as Skip by friends and colleagues, Gates is the director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African-American Research at Harvard University, and an acclaimed PBS documentarian.

While Gates' arrest lit up talk radio and blogs, it prompted others to defend the police against charges of racial profiling.

"I'd be glad if somebody called the police if somebody was breaking into my house," neighbor Michael Schaffer told CNN affiliate WHDH.

For others, the incident symbolized something more. Seeing the police mugshot of Gates brought some African-Americans to near tears.

Kim Coleman, a Washington radio host, cultural commentator and blogger, said she grew numb when she saw the mugshot.

"I was not prepared for that," she said. "To see one of my heroes in a mugshot was not something that I was expecting. ... It just tells me we're not in a post-racial society."

She said there's a reason why you don't hear about prominent white people arrested in their homes: "because it doesn't happen."

It's time for America to have a long overdue national conversation about race, Coleman said. "When are we going to have that," she said. "When are we really going to sit down and strip down and say, 'This is what I feel about you and this is what you feel about me. Now, how are we going to get over that?' "

Rebecca Walker, an award-winning author, said the arrest was devastating to scholars, writers, and artists "who work so hard to keep a free flow of information."

"It seems eerily ironic Mr. Gates was returning from China, where surveillance is so high and freedom of speech and ideas so curtailed," Walker said. "To see the mugshot of Skip was a blow to all of us who feel some sense of safety based on our work to try to mend all of these broken fences in America -- to make ourselves into people who refuse to be limited by race and class and gender and everything else."

"To end up, at the end of the day, treated like a criminal, unjustly stripped of our accomplishments and contributions even if only for a moment, is profoundly disturbing. We must ask ourselves what it means, and to allow ourselves to face various scenarios regarding power and freedom and how these will intersect in the coming years."

Last week, President Obama spoke at the 100th anniversary of the NAACP, saying that while minorities have made great strides "the pain of discrimination is still felt in America."

"Even as we inherit extraordinary progress that cannot be denied; even as we marvel at the courage and determination of so many plain folks -- we know that too many barriers still remain," the president said.

Kodjoe, the actor, said Obama "has affected a change in people's consciousness regarding such issues as racism and prejudice." But he said the arrest of Gates underscores that there's more work ahead.

"I think we're moving in the right direction. But no doubt, there still is a lot of work to be done," Kodjoe said. "It's not just a problem here. It's a problem worldwide. Racism is universal."

Gates said he has a newfound understanding of exactly what that means. "There's been a very important symbolic change and that is the election of Barack Obama," he told The Root. "But the only black people who truly live in a post-racial world in America all live in a very nice house on 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue."

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text: can

text: happen

text: to

text: any

text: of

text: us

text: That

text: 's

text: a

text: sentiment

text: echoed

text: by

text: Jimi

text: Izrael

text: If

text: a

text: mild

text: mannered

text: bespectacled

text: Ivy

text: League

text: professor

text: who

text: walks

text: with

text: a

text: cane

text: can

text: be

text: pulled

text: from

text: his

text: own

text: home

text: and

text: arrested

text: on

text: a

text: minor

text: charge

text: the

text: rest

text: of

text: us

text: do

text: n't

text: stand

text: a

text: chance

text: Izrael

text: wrote

text: Tuesday

text: on

text: The

text: Root

text: an

text: online

text: magazine

text: with

text: commentary

text: from

text: a

text: variety

text: of

text: black

text: perspectives

text: that

text: 's

text: co

text: founded

text: by

text: Gates

text: We

text: all

text: fit

text: a

text: description

text: We

text: are

text: all

text: suspects

text: In

text: an

text: interview

text: with

text: The

text: Root

text: Gates

text: said

text: he

text: was

text: outraged

text: by

text: the

text: incident

text: and

text: hopes

text: to

text: use

text: the

text: experience

text: as

text: a

text: teaching

text: tool

text: including

text: a

text: possible

text: PBS

text: special

text: on

text: racial

text: profiling

text: I

text: ca

text: n't

text: believe

text: that

text: an

text: individual

text: policeman

text: on

text: the

text: Cambridge

text: police

text: force

text: would

text: treat

text: any

text: African

text: American

text: male

text: this

text: way

text: and

text: I

text: am

text: astonished

text: that

text: this

text: happened

text: to

text: me

text: and

text: more

text: importantly

text: I

text: 'm

text: astonished

text: that

text: it

text: could

text: happen

text: to

text: any

text: citizen

text: of

text: the

text: United

text: States

text: no

text: matter

text: what

text: their

text: race

text: Gates

text: said

text: And

text: I

text: 'm

text: deeply

text: resolved

text: to

text: do

text: and

text: say

text: the

text: right

text: things

text: so

text: that

text: this

text: can

text: not

text: happen

text: again

text: Voices

text: of

text: black

text: America

text: What

text: it

text: 's

text: like

text: being

text: black

text: in

text: America

text: Gates

text: was

text: arrested

text: last

text: Thursday

text: in

text: broad

text: daylight

text: at

text: his

text: Cambridge

text: Massachusetts

text: home

text: for

text: disorderly

text: conduct

text: what

text: the

text: arresting

text: officer

text: described

text: as

text: loud

text: and

text: tumultuous

text: behavior

text: in

text: a

text: public

text: space

text: The

text: charge

text: was

text: dropped

text: Tuesday

text: on

text: the

text: recommendation

text: of

text: police

text: and

text: the

text: city

text: of

text: Cambridge

text: issued

text: a

text: statement

text: calling

text: the

text: incident

text: regrettable

text: and

text: unfortunate

text: Gates

text: had

text: just

text: returned

text: from

text: a

text: trip

text: to

text: China

text: when

text: a

text: police

text: officer

text: responded

text: to

text: a

text: call

text: about

text: a

text: potential

text: break

text: in

text: at

text: his

text: home

text: that

text: was

text: phoned

text: in

text: by

text: a

text: white

text: woman

text: According

text: to

text: the

text: police

text: report

text: Gates

text: was

text: in

text: the

text: foyer

text: when

text: the

text: officer

text: arrived

text: The

text: officer

text: asked

text: Gates

text: to

text: step

text: out

text: onto

text: the

text: porch

text: and

text: speak

text: with

text: me

text: the

text: report

text: says

text: Gates

text: replied

text: No

text: I

text: will

text: not

text: He

text: then

text: demanded

text: to

text: know

text: who

text: I

text: was

text: I

text: told

text: him

text: that

text: I

text: was

text: Sgt

text: Crowley

text: from

text: the

text: Cambridge

text: Police

text: and

text: that

text: I

text: was

text: investigating

text: a

text: report

text: of

text: a

text: break

text: in

text: progress

text: at

text: the

text: residence

text: While

text: I

text: was

text: making

text: this

text: statement

text: Gates

text: opened

text: the

text: front

text: door

text: and

text: exclaimed

text: Why

text: because

text: I

text: 'm

text: a

text: black

text: man

text: in

text: America

text: Have

text: race

text: relations

text: improved

text: since

text: the

text: election

text: of

text: President

text: Barack

text: Obama

text: According

text: to

text: the

text: report

text: Gates

text: initially

text: refused

text: to

text: show

text: the

text: officer

text: his

text: identification

text: instead

text: asking

text: for

text: the

text: officer

text: 's

text: ID

text: But

text: Gates

text: eventually

text: did

text: show

text: the

text: officer

text: his

text: identification

text: that

text: included

text: his

text: home

text: address

text: The

text: police

text: report

text: says

text: I

text: was

text: engaged

text: in

text: loud

text: and

text: tumultuous

text: behavior

text: That

text: 's

text: a

text: joke

text: Gates

text: told

text: The

text: Root

text: It

text: escalated

text: as

text: follows

text: I

text: kept

text: saying

text: to

text: him

text: What

text: is

text: your

text: name

text: and

text: what

text: is

text: your

text: badge

text: number

text: and

text: he

text: refused

text: to

text: respond

text: I

text: asked

text: him

text: three

text: times

text: and

text: he

text: refused

text: to

text: respond

text: And

text: then

text: I

text: said

text: You

text: 're

text: not

text: responding

text: because

text: I

text: 'm

text: a

text: black

text: man

text: and

text: you

text: 're

text: a

text: white

text: officer

text: Known

text: as

text: Skip

text: by

text: friends

text: and

text: colleagues

text: Gates

text: is

text: the

text: director

text: of

text: the

text: W.E.B.

text: Du

text: Bois

text: Institute

text: for

text: African

text: and

text: African

text: American

text: Research

text: at

text: Harvard

text: University

text: and

text: an

text: acclaimed

text: PBS

text: documentarian

text: While

text: Gates

text: arrest

text: lit

text: up

text: talk

text: radio

text: and

text: blogs

text: it

text: prompted

text: others

text: to

text: defend

text: the

text: police

text: against

text: charges

text: of

text: racial

text: profiling

text: I

text: 'd

text: be

text: glad

text: if

text: somebody

text: called

text: the

text: police

text: if

text: somebody

text: was

text: breaking

text: into

text: my

text: house

text: neighbor

text: Michael

text: Schaffer

text: told

text: CNN

text: affiliate

text: WHDH

text: For

text: others

text: the

text: incident

text: symbolized

text: something

text: more

text: Seeing

text: the

text: police

text: mugshot

text: of

text: Gates

text: brought

text: some

text: African

text: Americans

text: to

text: near

text: tears

text: Kim

text: Coleman

text: a

text: Washington

text: radio

text: host

text: cultural

text: commentator

text: and

text: blogger

text: said

text: she

text: grew

text: numb

text: when

text: she

text: saw

text: the

text: mugshot

text: I

text: was

text: not

text: prepared

text: for

text: that

text: she

text: said

text: To

text: see

text: one

text: of

text: my

text: heroes

text: in

text: a

text: mugshot

text: was

text: not

text: something

text: that

text: I

text: was

text: expecting

text: It

text: just

text: tells

text: me

text: we

text: 're

text: not

text: in

text: a

text: post

text: racial

text: society

text: She

text: said

text: there

text: 's

text: a

text: reason

text: why

text: you

text: do

text: n't

text: hear

text: about

text: prominent

text: white

text: people

text: arrested

text: in

text: their

text: homes

text: because

text: it

text: does

text: n't

text: happen

text: It

text: 's

text: time

text: for

text: America

text: to

text: have

text: a

text: long

text: overdue

text: national

text: conversation

text: about

text: race

text: Coleman

text: said

text: When

text: are

text: we

text: going

text: to

text: have

text: that

text: she

text: said

text: When

text: are

text: we

text: really

text: going

text: to

text: sit

text: down

text: and

text: strip

text: down

text: and

text: say

text: This

text: is

text: what

text: I

text: feel

text: about

text: you

text: and

text: this

text: is

text: what

text: you

text: feel

text: about

text: me

text: Now

text: how

text: are

text: we

text: going

text: to

text: get

text: over

text: that

text: Rebecca

text: Walker

text: an

text: award

text: winning

text: author

text: said

text: the

text: arrest

text: was

text: devastating

text: to

text: scholars

text: writers

text: and

text: artists

text: who

text: work

text: so

text: hard

text: to

text: keep

text: a

text: free

text: flow

text: of

text: information

text: It

text: seems

text: eerily

text: ironic

text: Mr.

text: Gates

text: was

text: returning

text: from

text: China

text: where

text: surveillance

text: is

text: so

text: high

text: and

text: freedom

text: of

text: speech

text: and

text: ideas

text: so

text: curtailed

text: Walker

text: said

text: To

text: see

text: the

text: mugshot

text: of

text: Skip

text: was

text: a

text: blow

text: to

text: all

text: of

text: us

text: who

text: feel

text: some

text: sense

text: of

text: safety

text: based

text: on

text: our

text: work

text: to

text: try

text: to

text: mend

text: all

text: of

text: these

text: broken

text: fences

text: in

text: America

text: to

text: make

text: ourselves

text: into

text: people

text: who

text: refuse

text: to

text: be

text: limited

text: by

text: race

text: and

text: class

text: and

text: gender

text: and

text: everything

text: else

text: To

text: end

text: up

text: at

text: the

text: end

text: of

text: the

text: day

text: treated

text: like

text: a

text: criminal

text: unjustly

text: stripped

text: of

text: our

text: accomplishments

text: and

text: contributions

text: even

text: if

text: only

text: for

text: a

text: moment

text: is

text: profoundly

text: disturbing

text: We

text: must

text: ask

text: ourselves

text: what

text: it

text: means

text: and

text: to

text: allow

text: ourselves

text: to

text: face

text: various

text: scenarios

text: regarding

text: power

text: and

text: freedom

text: and

text: how

text: these

text: will

text: intersect

text: in

text: the

text: coming

text: years

text: Last

text: week

text: President

text: Obama

text: spoke

text: at

text: the

text: anniversary

text: of

text: the

text: NAACP

text: saying

text: that

text: while

text: minorities

text: have

text: made

text: great

text: strides

text: the

text: pain

text: of

text: discrimination

text: is

text: still

text: felt

text: in

text: America

text: Even

text: as

text: we

text: inherit

text: extraordinary

text: progress

text: that

text: can

text: not

text: be

text: denied

text: even

text: as

text: we

text: marvel

text: at

text: the

text: courage

text: and

text: determination

text: of

text: so

text: many

text: plain

text: folks

text: we

text: know

text: that

text: too

text: many

text: barriers

text: still

text: remain

text: the

text: president

text: said

text: Kodjoe

text: the

text: actor

text: said

text: Obama

text: has

text: affected

text: a

text: change

text: in

text: people

text: 's

text: consciousness

text: regarding

text: such

text: issues

text: as

text: racism

text: and

text: prejudice

text: But

text: he

text: said

text: the

text: arrest

text: of

text: Gates

text: underscores

text: that

text: there

text: 's

text: more

text: work

text: ahead

text: I

text: think

text: we

text: 're

text: moving

text: in

text: the

text: right

text: direction

text: But

text: no

text: doubt

text: there

text: still

text: is

text: a

text: lot

text: of

text: work

text: to

text: be

text: done

text: Kodjoe

text: said

text: It

text: 's

text: not

text: just

text: a

text: problem

text: here

text: It

text: 's

text: a

text: problem

text: worldwide

text: Racism

text: is

text: universal

text: Gates

text: said

text: he

text: has

text: a

text: newfound

text: understanding

text: of

text: exactly

text: what

text: that

text: means

text: There

text: 's

text: been

text: a

text: very

text: important

text: symbolic

text: change

text: and

text: that

text: is

text: the

text: election

text: of

text: Barack

text: Obama

text: he

text: told

text: The

text: Root

text: But

text: the

text: only

text: black

text: people

text: who

text: truly

text: live

text: in

text: a

text: post

text: racial

text: world

text: in

text: America

text: all

text: live

text: in

text: a

text: very

text: nice

text: house

text: on

text: Pennsylvania

text: Avenue

question: who was arrested

answer: Henry Louis Gates Jr.

text: Henry Louis Gates Jr.

question: Was a Harvard professor typecast as black?

answer: you're still

text: you're still

question: what undercores the arrest of harvard prof?

answer: that there's more work ahead.

text: that there's more work ahead.

question: what school is he a professor at

answer: Spelman College in Atlanta,

text: Spelman College in Atlanta,

question: what did the scholar said?

answer: "When I'm opening the door of my own house, someone will ask me where the man of the house is, implying that I'm staff,"

text: "When I'm opening the door of my own house, someone will ask me where the man of the house is, implying that I'm staff,"


text:
(CNN) -- Former South African rugby World Cup winner Ruben Kruger has passed away following a long battle with brain cancer.

The ex-Cheetahs and Bulls flanker was first diagnosed with the illness during the early 2000s at the end of a successful career that saw him earn 36 Springboks caps.

Kruger, who was just two months short of his 40th birthday, made his debut against Argentina in Buenos Aires during 1993 and was named South African Rugby Player of the Year in 1995 -- the year the country lifted the World Cup.

"Ruben Kruger was the epitome of the Springbok flanker, tough, indomitable and with an outstanding work ethic," Oregan Hoskins, president of the South African Rugby Union (SARU), told reporters.

"When Ruben was on the field you always knew that the Springboks would not be beaten without a tremendous battle.

"Our prayers have been with him through his battles against illness and it is very sad to hear of his early passing. Our thoughts are with his young family and we extend to them our sincerest condolences."

Kruger made his final appearance in the green and gold against New Zealand in 1999.

text: CNN

text: Former

text: South

text: African

text: rugby

text: World

text: Cup

text: winner

text: Ruben

text: Kruger

text: has

text: passed

text: away

text: following

text: a

text: long

text: battle

text: with

text: brain

text: cancer

text: The

text: ex

text: Cheetahs

text: and

text: Bulls

text: flanker

text: was

text: first

text: diagnosed

text: with

text: the

text: illness

text: during

text: the

text: early

text: at

text: the

text: end

text: of

text: a

text: successful

text: career

text: that

text: saw

text: him

text: earn

text: Springboks

text: caps

text: Kruger

text: who

text: was

text: just

text: two

text: months

text: short

text: of

text: his

text: birthday

text: made

text: his

text: debut

text: against

text: Argentina

text: in

text: Buenos

text: Aires

text: during

text: and

text: was

text: named

text: South

text: African

text: Rugby

text: Player

text: of

text: the

text: Year

text: in

text: the

text: year

text: the

text: country

text: lifted

text: the

text: World

text: Cup

text: Ruben

text: Kruger

text: was

text: the

text: epitome

text: of

text: the

text: Springbok

text: flanker

text: tough

text: indomitable

text: and

text: with

text: an

text: outstanding

text: work

text: ethic

text: Oregan

text: Hoskins

text: president

text: of

text: the

text: South

text: African

text: Rugby

text: Union

text: SARU

text: told

text: reporters

text: When

text: Ruben

text: was

text: on

text: the

text: field

text: you

text: always

text: knew

text: that

text: the

text: Springboks

text: would

text: not

text: be

text: beaten

text: without

text: a

text: tremendous

text: battle

text: Our

text: prayers

text: have

text: been

text: with

text: him

text: through

text: his

text: battles

text: against

text: illness

text: and

text: it

text: is

text: very

text: sad

text: to

text: hear

text: of

text: his

text: early

text: passing

text: Our

text: thoughts

text: are

text: with

text: his

text: young

text: family

text: and

text: we

text: extend

text: to

text: them

text: our

text: sincerest

text: condolences

text: Kruger

text: made

text: his

text: final

text: appearance

text: in

text: the

text: green

text: and

text: gold

text: against

text: New

text: Zealand

text: in

question: Who was the winner?

answer: Ruben Kruger

text: Ruben Kruger

question: Who was named the player of the year?

answer: Ruben Kruger

text: Ruben Kruger

question: What was his nationality?

answer: South African

text: South African

question: Who passed away?

answer: Ruben Kruger

text: Ruben Kruger

question: What age did the flanker die at?

answer: two months short of his 40th birthday,

text: two months short of his 40th birthday,

question: What age was the flanker?

answer: two months short of his 40th birthday,

text: two months short of his 40th birthday,

question: What was Kruger named?

answer: South African Rugby Player of the Year

text: South African Rugby Player of the Year

question: What was he sick with?

answer: brain cancer.

text: brain cancer.