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(CNN) -- Army Maj. Steven Hutchison fought battles in the jungles of Vietnam. Then he fought an epic battle on the home front. And at age 60, he still wasn't done fighting for his country.

Maj. Steven Hutchison served 22 years in his first Army stint, then returned at age 57. He died Sunday.

The battle ended for Hutchison on Sunday. He died in Basra, Iraq, of wounds from a roadside bomb in Al Farr. He is the oldest U.S. service member to die in Iraq or Afghanistan.

Hutchison joined the Army in 1966 and served two one-year tours in Vietnam, according to a news release from Fort Riley, Kansas, home of Hutchison's 1st Infantry Division, the famous "Big Red One."

Over the next 22 years, he was a platoon leader in Germany and commander of a basic training company at Fort Jackson, South Carolina.

Along the way, he earned a doctorate in psychology from the University of Delaware and became an assistant professor of military science at Claremont College in California. He was awarded the Bronze Star Medal and the Meritorious Service Medal, among others.

Hutchison retired from the military in 1988 and took up the quiet life of a college professor. He taught at several small colleges in California and became a researcher for a health care company in Scottsdale, Arizona, said his brother, Richard Hutchison.

But Hutchison felt compelled to return to military service after the terrorist attacks of September 11. His wife, Kandy, vetoed that idea, however.

That decision proved fateful, as Hutchison was able to stand by his wife's side through her battle with breast cancer. She died of the disease in January 2006.

The always-athletic Hutchison channeled his grief by whipping himself into shape and returning to active duty at age 57 the following year, his brother said. Military rules say retirees may be recalled up to age 64 for general officers, 62 for warrant officers and 60 for all others.

Hutchison served a tour in Afghanistan and then was sent to Iraq, where he was part of a team training Iraqi forces to secure their own country.

"He's been a soldier his whole life," Richard Hutchison, of Mesa, Arizona, told CNN affiliate KNXV-TV.  Watch a report on Hutchison's life Â»

"He was a great guy," he said. "We hung around together; we went to the movies together, went out to dinner together. He loved to shoot pool; we used to shoot pool all the time, either at my house or at his house. He was just a great friend and a great brother."

The soldier-psychology professor, who is also survived by two daughters and two half-siblings, had a mischievous side, too.

"He liked to tease me about him being younger than me, even though he was five years older than me," Richard Hutchison said with a soft chuckle. "He would tell everyone he was the youngest one. And they would believe him. Made me feel real good."

Richard Hutchison plans to fly to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware over the weekend to claim his brother's body and return it to Scottsdale for burial.

The last communication the brothers had was a routine e-mail Steven Hutchison sent from Iraq about two weeks ago. He rarely wrote about his experiences in Iraq, Richard Hutchison said.

However, there was one matter on the ground that the soldier involved his brother in.

"When he was in Iraq, they found a dog and were taking care of it. He sent me an e-mail asking me to send some dog food and dog supplies," Hutchison said. The Army made Hutchison's team give up the dog, but they left it in good hands, his brother said.

"He had a big heart."

CNN's Adam Levine, Larry Shaughnessy, Barbara Starr and Joe Sterling contributed to this report.

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(CNN) -- The top U.N. human rights official deplored the "devastatingly remorseless toll of human lives" in Syria and exhorted the world community on Friday "to take immediate measures" to protect citizens.

"The onus is on all members of the international community to take protective action in a collective and decisive manner, before the continual ruthless repression and killings drive the country into a full-blown civil war," said U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay, in a written statement describing a dire human rights situation in Syria.

Her remarks came as protesters took to the streets Friday in various Syrian cities, a nationwide outpouring supporting the "free army," a reference to personnel who have defected from President Bashar al-Assad's military and to the recently formed Syrian Free Army. At least 12 people were reported dead in the latest protests, according to Syrian Observatory, an activist group.

Pillay said the government has "manifestly failed to protect its population" and has "ignored the international community's calls to cooperate with international investigations," she said.

"At stake are the universal rights to life, liberty and security of person which must never be brushed aside in the interests of realpolitik. The international community must speak with one voice and act to protect the Syrian people."

Protests erupted in Syria seven months ago, with demonstrators demanding changes to regime policies and/or an end to the regime. Opposition activists have accused officials of killing protesters, but the government has said it is going after armed groups.

The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights, a London-based activist group with a network of informants across Syria, estimates that more than 3,100 people have died since the uprising began in mid-March. Most of them are civilians but some are military personnel as well.

Pillay also said the death toll has exceeded 3,000 people and at least 187 of them were children. She said more than 100 people have been reported killed in the past 10 days.

The government "has consistently used excessive force to crush peaceful protests," she said.

"Sniping from rooftops, and indiscriminate use of force against peaceful protesters -- including the use of live ammunition and the shelling of residential neighborhoods -- have become routine occurrences in many Syrian cities," she said.

"In addition, thousands have been arrested, detained, forcibly disappeared and tortured. Family members inside and outside the country have been targeted for harassment, intimidation, threats and beatings. As more members of the military refuse to attack civilians and change sides, the crisis is already showing worrying signs of descending into an armed struggle."

Two months ago, she said there had been "credible allegations of crimes against humanity in Syria" and urged the U.N. Security Council to refer the matter to the International Criminal Court.

Countries across the globe have expressed outrage over the instability in Syria. The European Union and the United States have imposed sanctions against the regime.

The Gulf Cooperation Council, six Gulf Arab states, urged an immediate meeting of Arab League states to discuss the country's violence. The meeting should be at the foreign ministers level, the council said in a statement Thursday without providing details. Syria is a member of the Arab League.

Two Obama administration officials provided testimony about U.S. efforts to deal with Syria for a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on Friday.

Wendy Sherman, undersecretary of state for political affairs, cited "targeted financial measures to increase pressure on the Syrian regime and its enablers." She added the administration "remains committed to pursuing multilateral sanctions at the Security Council."

She said the United States is working to "ensure expeditious, unfettered and sustained access for international human rights monitors and journalists," Also, she said it is working with "international partners" to keep Syria from circumventing American and European sanctions."

Noting that Iran has "long used Syria as a strategic and logistical connection" to terror groups, she said the United States is working to break those ties with the sanctions.

David Cohen, the Treasury Department's undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence, said, "The sanctions are having a palpable impact," with the regime "struggling to find buyers for its oil, to access foreign currency, and to maintain economic stability."

"Echoing an action that we have taken, just this morning the EU announced sanctions on the commercial bank of Syria. By far the largest bank is Syria and it's key remaining link the international financial system," he said at the hearing.

Demonstrations occur regularly in Syria, but activists mount nationwide demonstrations every Friday after Muslim prayers and those events regularly have labels, like the "Free Army Friday" theme.

The Syrian Observatory said seven civilians killed and more than 30 wounded in the city of Dael in Daraa province in the south amid sustained gunfire. A woman and a child were killed in the Daraa Province town of Inkhel. A 10-year-old was killed in Damascus, a civilian was killed during clashes in the Damascus suburb of Saqba, and another was killed in Aleppo province, it said.

An activist from the Coalition of Free Damascenes for Peaceful Change said security forces fired on demonstrators, and that army defectors, including members of the Free Syrian Army, clashed with security. The activist said the person killed was a passer-by not participating in demonstrations.

"We have lost many lives and our businesses and farmlands are destroyed. We need someone to defend us and stand up for our freedom," the activist said.

Activists said security forces fired on protesters in the cities of Homs, in the west, and in Damascus, the capital, and besieged worshipers at a mosque in Banias, in the west. More than 4,000 people chanted for the Free Syrian Army in Idlib province, in the northwest.

In the city of Douma, in the south, communication lines, including cell phones, were cut off after earlier demonstrations, the group said. In Hasaka in the northeast protesters outside a mosque chanted "freedom."

The Syrian Arab News Agency, the government news outlet, said "armed terror groups" planted an explosive device in Daraa that was dismantled by soldiers.

It also reported "10 army and law enforcement officers" were killed after they were "ambushed by an armed terrorist group" in the Idlib province town of Binnish on Thursday. This narrative directly contradicts that of the opposition, which claims defector soldiers and civilians were killed.

At least 15 people were killed Thursday, including two young children, the Syrian Observatory said. Twelve of those killed were in Binnish, which soldiers raided searching for dissidents and army defectors, activists said.

Among those SANA reported killed on Thursday in Binnish was Lt. Col. Abdul-Majeed al-Misri from Daraa. But on Friday, Omar Idlibi, a Beirut-based spokesman for the opposition Local Coordination Committees told CNN al-Misri, whom he called a brigadier general, was in fact killed in the city of Hama, in the west.

Idlibi told CNN that Syrian security forces fired on al-Misri's car, killing him, after he defected from the military.

An opposition video shows people marching and denouncing Bashar and Hafez al-Assad in al-Misri's home village of Atman outside the city of Daraa. Hafez al-Assad was Bashar's father and preceded him as Syrian president

The man filming the video says at the beginning, "This is Free Army Friday, after the burial of Abdul-Majeed al-Misri." Thirty seconds into the video, a man holds up a martyr's portrait, purportedly of al-Misri.

The crowd is chanting "God damn you Hafez and Bashar."

CNN cannot independently confirm events in Syria, which restricts international journalists from accessing many parts of the country.

CNN's Ivan Watson, Salma Abdelaziz, Hamdi Alkhshali and Joe Sterling contributed to this report

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text: already

text: showing

text: worrying

text: signs

text: of

text: descending

text: into

text: an

text: armed

text: struggle

text: Two

text: months

text: ago

text: she

text: said

text: there

text: had

text: been

text: credible

text: allegations

text: of

text: crimes

text: against

text: humanity

text: in

text: Syria

text: and

text: urged

text: the

text: U.N.

text: Security

text: Council

text: to

text: refer

text: the

text: matter

text: to

text: the

text: International

text: Criminal

text: Court

text: Countries

text: across

text: the

text: globe

text: have

text: expressed

text: outrage

text: over

text: the

text: instability

text: in

text: Syria

text: The

text: European

text: Union

text: and

text: the

text: United

text: States

text: have

text: imposed

text: sanctions

text: against

text: the

text: regime

text: The

text: Gulf

text: Cooperation

text: Council

text: six

text: Gulf

text: Arab

text: states

text: urged

text: an

text: immediate

text: meeting

text: of

text: Arab

text: League

text: states

text: to

text: discuss

text: the

text: country

text: 's

text: violence

text: The

text: meeting

text: should

text: be

text: at

text: the

text: foreign

text: ministers

text: level

text: the

text: council

text: said

text: in

text: a

text: statement

text: Thursday

text: without

text: providing

text: details

text: Syria

text: is

text: a

text: member

text: of

text: the

text: Arab

text: League

text: Two

text: Obama

text: administration

text: officials

text: provided

text: testimony

text: about

text: U.S.

text: efforts

text: to

text: deal

text: with

text: Syria

text: for

text: a

text: House

text: Foreign

text: Affairs

text: Committee

text: hearing

text: on

text: Friday

text: Wendy

text: Sherman

text: undersecretary

text: of

text: state

text: for

text: political

text: affairs

text: cited

text: targeted

text: financial

text: measures

text: to

text: increase

text: pressure

text: on

text: the

text: Syrian

text: regime

text: and

text: its

text: enablers

text: She

text: added

text: the

text: administration

text: remains

text: committed

text: to

text: pursuing

text: multilateral

text: sanctions

text: at

text: the

text: Security

text: Council

text: She

text: said

text: the

text: United

text: States

text: is

text: working

text: to

text: ensure

text: expeditious

text: unfettered

text: and

text: sustained

text: access

text: for

text: international

text: human

text: rights

text: monitors

text: and

text: journalists

text: Also

text: she

text: said

text: it

text: is

text: working

text: with

text: international

text: partners

text: to

text: keep

text: Syria

text: from

text: circumventing

text: American

text: and

text: European

text: sanctions

text: Noting

text: that

text: Iran

text: has

text: long

text: used

text: Syria

text: as

text: a

text: strategic

text: and

text: logistical

text: connection

text: to

text: terror

text: groups

text: she

text: said

text: the

text: United

text: States

text: is

text: working

text: to

text: break

text: those

text: ties

text: with

text: the

text: sanctions

text: David

text: Cohen

text: the

text: Treasury

text: Department

text: 's

text: undersecretary

text: for

text: terrorism

text: and

text: financial

text: intelligence

text: said

text: The

text: sanctions

text: are

text: having

text: a

text: palpable

text: impact

text: with

text: the

text: regime

text: struggling

text: to

text: find

text: buyers

text: for

text: its

text: oil

text: to

text: access

text: foreign

text: currency

text: and

text: to

text: maintain

text: economic

text: stability

text: Echoing

text: an

text: action

text: that

text: we

text: have

text: taken

text: just

text: this

text: morning

text: the

text: EU

text: announced

text: sanctions

text: on

text: the

text: commercial

text: bank

text: of

text: Syria

text: By

text: far

text: the

text: largest

text: bank

text: is

text: Syria

text: and

text: it

text: 's

text: key

text: remaining

text: link

text: the

text: international

text: financial

text: system

text: he

text: said

text: at

text: the

text: hearing

text: Demonstrations

text: occur

text: regularly

text: in

text: Syria

text: but

text: activists

text: mount

text: nationwide

text: demonstrations

text: every

text: Friday

text: after

text: Muslim

text: prayers

text: and

text: those

text: events

text: regularly

text: have

text: labels

text: like

text: the

text: Free

text: Army

text: Friday

text: theme

text: The

text: Syrian

text: Observatory

text: said

text: seven

text: civilians

text: killed

text: and

text: more

text: than

text: wounded

text: in

text: the

text: city

text: of

text: Dael

text: in

text: Daraa

text: province

text: in

text: the

text: south

text: amid

text: sustained

text: gunfire

text: A

text: woman

text: and

text: a

text: child

text: were

text: killed

text: in

text: the

text: Daraa

text: Province

text: town

text: of

text: Inkhel

text: A

text: old

text: was

text: killed

text: in

text: Damascus

text: a

text: civilian

text: was

text: killed

text: during

text: clashes

text: in

text: the

text: Damascus

text: suburb

text: of

text: Saqba

text: and

text: another

text: was

text: killed

text: in

text: Aleppo

text: province

text: it

text: said

text: An

text: activist

text: from

text: the

text: Coalition

text: of

text: Free

text: Damascenes

text: for

text: Peaceful

text: Change

text: said

text: security

text: forces

text: fired

text: on

text: demonstrators

text: and

text: that

text: army

text: defectors

text: including

text: members

text: of

text: the

text: Free

text: Syrian

text: Army

text: clashed

text: with

text: security

text: The

text: activist

text: said

text: the

text: person

text: killed

text: was

text: a

text: passer

text: by

text: not

text: participating

text: in

text: demonstrations

text: We

text: have

text: lost

text: many

text: lives

text: and

text: our

text: businesses

text: and

text: farmlands

text: are

text: destroyed

text: We

text: need

text: someone

text: to

text: defend

text: us

text: and

text: stand

text: up

text: for

text: our

text: freedom

text: the

text: activist

text: said

text: Activists

text: said

text: security

text: forces

text: fired

text: on

text: protesters

text: in

text: the

text: cities

text: of

text: Homs

text: in

text: the

text: west

text: and

text: in

text: Damascus

text: the

text: capital

text: and

text: besieged

text: worshipers

text: at

text: a

text: mosque

text: in

text: Banias

text: in

text: the

text: west

text: More

text: than

text: people

text: chanted

text: for

text: the

text: Free

text: Syrian

text: Army

text: in

text: Idlib

text: province

text: in

text: the

text: northwest

text: In

text: the

text: city

text: of

text: Douma

text: in

text: the

text: south

text: communication

text: lines

text: including

text: cell

text: phones

text: were

text: cut

text: off

text: after

text: earlier

text: demonstrations

text: the

text: group

text: said

text: In

text: Hasaka

text: in

text: the

text: northeast

text: protesters

text: outside

text: a

text: mosque

text: chanted

text: freedom

text: The

text: Syrian

text: Arab

text: News

text: Agency

text: the

text: government

text: news

text: outlet

text: said

text: armed

text: terror

text: groups

text: planted

text: an

text: explosive

text: device

text: in

text: Daraa

text: that

text: was

text: dismantled

text: by

text: soldiers

text: It

text: also

text: reported

text: army

text: and

text: law

text: enforcement

text: officers

text: were

text: killed

text: after

text: they

text: were

text: ambushed

text: by

text: an

text: armed

text: terrorist

text: group

text: in

text: the

text: Idlib

text: province

text: town

text: of

text: Binnish

text: on

text: Thursday

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text: narrative

text: directly

text: contradicts

text: that

text: of

text: the

text: opposition

text: which

text: claims

text: defector

text: soldiers

text: and

text: civilians

text: were

text: killed

text: At

text: least

text: people

text: were

text: killed

text: Thursday

text: including

text: two

text: young

text: children

text: the

text: Syrian

text: Observatory

text: said

text: Twelve

text: of

text: those

text: killed

text: were

text: in

text: Binnish

text: which

text: soldiers

text: raided

text: searching

text: for

text: dissidents

text: and

text: army

text: defectors

text: activists

text: said

text: Among

text: those

text: SANA

text: reported

text: killed

text: on

text: Thursday

text: in

text: Binnish

text: was

text: Lt

text: Col

text: Abdul

text: Majeed

text: al

text: Misri

text: from

text: Daraa

text: But

text: on

text: Friday

text: Omar

text: Idlibi

text: a

text: Beirut

text: based

text: spokesman

text: for

text: the

text: opposition

text: Local

text: Coordination

text: Committees

text: told

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text: al

text: Misri

text: whom

text: he

text: called

text: a

text: brigadier

text: general

text: was

text: in

text: fact

text: killed

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text: city

text: of

text: Hama

text: in

text: the

text: west

text: Idlibi

text: told

text: CNN

text: that

text: Syrian

text: security

text: forces

text: fired

text: on

text: al

text: Misri

text: 's

text: car

text: killing

text: him

text: after

text: he

text: defected

text: from

text: the

text: military

text: An

text: opposition

text: video

text: shows

text: people

text: marching

text: and

text: denouncing

text: Bashar

text: and

text: Hafez

text: al

text: Assad

text: in

text: al

text: Misri

text: 's

text: home

text: village

text: of

text: Atman

text: outside

text: the

text: city

text: of

text: Daraa

text: Hafez

text: al

text: Assad

text: was

text: Bashar

text: 's

text: father

text: and

text: preceded

text: him

text: as

text: Syrian

text: president

text: The

text: man

text: filming

text: the

text: video

text: says

text: at

text: the

text: beginning

text: This

text: is

text: Free

text: Army

text: Friday

text: after

text: the

text: burial

text: of

text: Abdul

text: Majeed

text: al

text: Misri

text: Thirty

text: seconds

text: into

text: the

text: video

text: a

text: man

text: holds

text: up

text: a

text: martyr

text: 's

text: portrait

text: purportedly

text: of

text: al

text: Misri

text: The

text: crowd

text: is

text: chanting

text: God

text: damn

text: you

text: Hafez

text: and

text: Bashar

text: CNN

text: can

text: not

text: independently

text: confirm

text: events

text: in

text: Syria

text: which

text: restricts

text: international

text: journalists

text: from

text: accessing

text: many

text: parts

text: of

text: the

text: country

text: CNN

text: 's

text: Ivan

text: Watson

text: Salma

text: Abdelaziz

text: Hamdi

text: Alkhshali

text: and

text: Joe

text: Sterling

text: contributed

text: to

text: this

text: report

question: Who is said to have  clashed?

answer: army defectors, including members of the Free Syrian Army,

text: army defectors, including members of the Free Syrian Army,

question: How many children does the death total in Syria include?

answer: 187

question: How many children are included in the death total?

answer: at least 187

text: at least 187

question: How many did the activist group say were dead?

answer: At least 12 people

text: At least 12 people

question: Did Obama administration testify?

answer: officials provided testimony

text: officials provided testimony

question: Where did Obama administration officials testify?

answer: House Foreign Affairs Committee

text: House Foreign Affairs Committee

question: How many died on Friday?

answer: 12

question: How many people died Friday?

answer: 12


text:
(CNN) -- Local and federal authorities in Enfield, Connecticut, are investigating how a band of burglars broke into a large pharmaceutical warehouse and made off with approximately $75 million in prescription medications.

Police say the well-orchestrated heist at the Eli Lilly and Co. distribution center occurred during a rainstorm shortly after midnight Sunday.

"Based on the sophistication of what was used, this had to be well-executed and planned," Enfield Police Chief Carl Sferrazza said.

According to Sferrazza, the thieves scaled the side of the building onto the roof, where they cut an opening. He said they then rappelled into the building, disabled the alarm and proceeded to steal several dozen pallets of prescription pills, loading them onto one or more getaway vehicles.

Police say the robbery was not discovered until almost 2 p.m. ET Sunday.

When asked whether the crime could have been an inside job, Sferrazza replied, "Anything is possible; we are not ruling anything out at this point."

A spokesman for Eli Lilly, Ed Sagebiel, said the company is working closely with both the Enfield Police and the FBI. Though Sagebiel would not confirm what types of medications were stolen, he said there were no narcotics at the site.

Although the intended destination of the drugs is unknown, the spokesman speculated that the suspects will attempt to sell them on the domestic or international black markets.

"We certainly know that there is a market for these products," Sagebiel said. "We have a closed system here in the U.S. that makes it more difficult to distribute them in the United States for legitimate means."

Based in Indianapolis, Indiana, Eli Lilly is the ninth-largest pharmaceutical company in the world.

text: CNN

text: Local

text: and

text: federal

text: authorities

text: in

text: Enfield

text: Connecticut

text: are

text: investigating

text: how

text: a

text: band

text: of

text: burglars

text: broke

text: into

text: a

text: large

text: pharmaceutical

text: warehouse

text: and

text: made

text: off

text: with

text: approximately

text: million

text: in

text: prescription

text: medications

text: Police

text: say

text: the

text: well

text: orchestrated

text: heist

text: at

text: the

text: Eli

text: Lilly

text: and

text: Co.

text: distribution

text: center

text: occurred

text: during

text: a

text: rainstorm

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text: after

text: midnight

text: Sunday

text: Based

text: on

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text: sophistication

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text: was

text: used

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text: had

text: to

text: be

text: well

text: executed

text: and

text: planned

text: Enfield

text: Police

text: Chief

text: Carl

text: Sferrazza

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text: to

text: Sferrazza

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text: thieves

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text: side

text: of

text: the

text: building

text: onto

text: the

text: roof

text: where

text: they

text: cut

text: an

text: opening

text: He

text: said

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text: then

text: rappelled

text: into

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text: building

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text: alarm

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text: dozen

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text: prescription

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text: one

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text: more

text: getaway

text: vehicles

text: Police

text: say

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text: robbery

text: was

text: not

text: discovered

text: until

text: almost

text: p.m.

text: ET

text: Sunday

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text: whether

text: the

text: crime

text: could

text: have

text: been

text: an

text: inside

text: job

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text: Anything

text: is

text: possible

text: we

text: are

text: not

text: ruling

text: anything

text: out

text: at

text: this

text: point

text: A

text: spokesman

text: for

text: Eli

text: Lilly

text: Ed

text: Sagebiel

text: said

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text: company

text: is

text: working

text: closely

text: with

text: both

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text: Enfield

text: Police

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text: the

text: FBI

text: Though

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text: confirm

text: what

text: types

text: of

text: medications

text: were

text: stolen

text: he

text: said

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text: were

text: no

text: narcotics

text: at

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text: site

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text: intended

text: destination

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text: the

text: drugs

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text: unknown

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text: spokesman

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text: the

text: suspects

text: will

text: attempt

text: to

text: sell

text: them

text: on

text: the

text: domestic

text: or

text: international

text: black

text: markets

text: We

text: certainly

text: know

text: that

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text: is

text: a

text: market

text: for

text: these

text: products

text: Sagebiel

text: said

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text: have

text: a

text: closed

text: system

text: here

text: in

text: the

text: U.S.

text: that

text: makes

text: it

text: more

text: difficult

text: to

text: distribute

text: them

text: in

text: the

text: United

text: States

text: for

text: legitimate

text: means

text: Based

text: in

text: Indianapolis

text: Indiana

text: Eli

text: Lilly

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text: the

text: ninth

text: largest

text: pharmaceutical

text: company

text: in

text: the

text: world

question: What does the police chief say?

answer: "Based on the sophistication of

text: "Based on the sophistication of

question: Was this an inside job?

answer: point."

text: point."

question: What facility did thieves break into?

answer: large pharmaceutical warehouse

text: large pharmaceutical warehouse

question: was the heist well organized?

answer: well-orchestrated

text: well-orchestrated

question: are the Authorities ruling out an inside job?

answer: anything

text: anything

question: Where was the facility?

answer: Enfield, Connecticut,

text: Enfield, Connecticut,


text:
(CNN)  -- In a Nairobi slum, more than one in four children under 5 will die, but in a wealthier part of the Kenyan capital, the mortality rate is one in almost 67, according to a World Health Organization report released Tuesday.

A woman lies next to her sick child at a medical center in Sheshemene, Ethiopia, in July.

The World Health Report 2008 aims to spotlight disparities in health care across the globe, and as the Nairobi example illustrates, the differences exist not only between the First and Third Worlds -- they can occur just across town.

WHO roundly criticizes the organization, finance and delivery of health care and calls advances in the field "deeply and unacceptably unequal, with many disadvantaged populations increasingly lagging behind or even losing ground."

The report says that a citizen of a wealthy nation can live up to 40 years longer than someone in a poor country, and of the 136 million women who will give birth this year, about 58 million (43 percent) will receive no medical assistance during childbirth or the postpartum period.

UNICEF Executive Director Ann Veneman said the sharp inequities in the cost and access to health care often speak to larger societal ills.

"High maternal, infant and under-five mortality often indicates lack of access to basic services such as clean water and sanitation, immunizations and proper nutrition," she said in a statement.

WHO Director-General Margaret Chan insists the dilemma is not just a matter of haves versus have-nots.

"A world that is greatly out of balance in matters of health is neither stable nor secure," she said in a statement from Almaty, Kazakhstan, where the report was released.

The difference in annual government expenditures on health care is more canyon than gap, according to the report. While the wealthiest nations dole out as much as $6,000 per person each year, some countries are unable or unwilling to spend more than $20 per person.

However, while calling for wide-ranging reforms in the delivery of primary health care, the report notes that it isn't always a matter of government expenditures.

Tajikistan and Sierra Leone both spend less than $100 per person on health care. But while the health-adjusted life expectancy in Sierra Leone is under 30 years of age, Tajikistan's is almost 70 -- a figure comparable to the United States, which spends more than $2,500 a person on health care.

"When countries at the same level of economic development are compared, those where health care is organized around the tenets of primary health care produce a higher level of health for the same investment," the report says.

WHO defines primary health care as being "universally accessible to individuals and families in the community by means acceptable to them, through their full participation and at a cost that the community and country can afford."

The organization's report -- titled "Primary Health Care -- Now More Than Ever" -- calls for a move toward universal coverage to reverse a trend over the last 30 years in which disparities in the levels of health care have actually widened.

Universal coverage, the report says, would lower the risks of disease outbreaks for everyone, not just the impoverished.

Currently, the most common means of paying for health care is out of pocket, which WHO says is the "most inequitable method for financing health care services." The report says more than 100 million people fall into poverty in a given year because of health care bills.

Another problem, the report says, is that doctors tend not to focus on prevention.

"Rather than improving their response capacity and anticipating new challenges, health systems seem to be drifting from one short-term priority to another, increasingly fragmented and without a clear sense of direction," according to the report.

But the report also handed out accolades, most notably to Iran and Cuba.

WHO applauded the Islamic Republic's 17,000 "health houses," which serve about 1,500 people each. The report credited the centers with boosting Iranians' life expectancy from 63 to 71 years between 1990 and 2006.

And in Cuba, the nation's "polyclinics" have yielded one of the longest life expectancies (78 years) of any developing country, the report says.

The report called for all sectors of society to help determine how health care is allocated, and it singled out the United States for spending just 0.1 percent of its health budget on health systems research -- the kind of research that policymakers use to decide how money is spent.

The report also points to the pharmaceutical industry's impact on health care in the United States, where the average expenditure on prescription drugs in 2005 was $1,141 per person -- twice the average in Canada, Germany and Britain, and 10 times the average in Mexico.

To combat the problems facing global health care, WHO says in its report that nations must improve coverage and delivery, as well as policy and leadership. It acknowledges that primary health care isn't cheap, but asserts that the "investment provides better value for money than its alternatives."

"The legitimacy of health authorities increasingly depends on how well they assume responsibility to develop and reform the health sector according to what people value -- in terms of health and of what is expected of health systems in society," the report says.

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question: What is percentage of women giving birth this year without medical help?

answer: (43 percent)

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question: What did the WHO director say?

answer: "A world that is greatly out of balance in matters of health is neither stable nor secure,"

text: "A world that is greatly out of balance in matters of health is neither stable nor secure,"

question: what does WHO director say about the health care disparity?

answer: insists the dilemma is not just a matter of haves versus have-nots.

text: insists the dilemma is not just a matter of haves versus have-nots.

question: What percent of women giving birth do it without medical help?

answer: (43 percent)

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question: What percent of women giving birth this year will do so without medical help?

answer: (43 percent)

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question: What country is applauded for finding ways to improve health care?

answer: Iran and Cuba.

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question: Which countries were applauded for improving healthcare?

answer: Islamic Republic's

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question: What organization said that health care disparities make the world "neither stable nor secure"?

answer: WHO

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New York (CNN) -- For Kenny Ortega, Travis Payne and Michael Bearden, "It" is a bittersweet feeling.

The three men expected to be spending their time this summer and fall working on Michael Jackson's concert engagement at London's O2 Arena, which was scheduled to begin in July. Instead, they are talking about Jackson's last days and the new movie about that time, "This Is It."

In an interview, they described "This Is It," the movie that they've made from rehearsal and backstage footage of Jackson, shot just before he died June 25. The film, which has been dominating advance ticket sale outlets, opens wide on Wednesday.

The full movie wasn't screened for critics, with only 12 minutes of footage available to the media before the interviews. But as  director Ortega describes it, the film tries to blend backstage footage with the performance to give an inside glimpse of those last days at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California.

The scenes show the superstar working on his dance moves, figuring out choreography, practicing on stage and running the show. From the clips, there's no question that Jackson was in charge. His physicality is vibrant: At one point, he dances with a troupe of top-notch hoofers and keeps up with all of them. There's no indication of the infirmities that would ultimately take his life.

All three men -- Payne was the show's choreographer and Bearden its music supervisor -- stressed how they wanted this movie to represent the Jackson they knew.

"It was an honor project," Bearden said.

According to Ortega, the film is for the fans. He said he was inundated with e-mails from fans wanting to know just what Jackson had planned for the concerts he would never give.

Above all, they said they were concerned about Jackson's three children. They said that they wanted to make a film that his kids -- Prince Michael, Paris and "Blanket" -- would be able to see in years to come that would make them proud of their father.

Though the men acknowledged a heavy responsibility, there were light moments during the interviews.

Payne and Bearden both smiled as they talked about working for the King of Pop and how he'd try to tell people what he wanted.

"I know you mean well, but ...," Jackson would say as he corrected colleagues, they recalled.

But all of them talked about he emotional toll that making this film has taken on them.

There were "a lot of tissue moments on this film," Bearden said.

Watch a former Jackson guitarist reflect on his career

Ortega added that he didn't know whether he could handle the emotional stress involved in making this movie so quickly.

Ultimately, according to Ortega, the movie proved to be cathartic.

"I thought I'd collapse," Ortega said. "I thought I'll never get through it, it's too hard, it's too soon, but in fact it was healing and helpful."

He hopes Jackson's fans will feel the same way.

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question: Production was for the fans but especially for Jackson's what ?

answer: three children.

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question: What film is currently dominating ticket sales?

answer: "This Is It,"

text: "This Is It,"

question: What film is dominating advance ticket sales?

answer: "This Is It,"

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question: Was the production more for the fans or Jackson's children?

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question: Which Michael Jackson concert film, is dominating advance ticket sales ?

answer: "This Is It."

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(CNN) -- Are Democrats beginning to reconsider their vote in the 2008 Democratic primary?

With the nation's economy -- and arguably its politics -- in shambles, it is not very surprising to find in a recent Bloomberg poll that 34% of respondents think it would have been better for the country if Hillary Clinton hadn't lost the battle for the Democratic nomination to Barack Obama. A CNN poll released last week put Clinton's favorability rating at a tremendous 69%.

Perhaps no one is questioning the 2008 results more than Democratic politicians who must face the voters next year. Right now, it looks like President Obama, rather than offering coattails to those below him on the ticket, may instead be serving up an anchor. This is ironic, when you look back at what actually happened during the Democrats' 2008 primary, and at who made Obama the party's nominee.

It is often assumed that Barack Obama used his gifts as an orator and his aspirational rhetoric to energize young and minority voters in a way that allowed him to wrest the nomination from Clinton, the candidate favored by the Democratic establishment. This is a nice story, but it is not completely true. For one thing, Clinton actually defeated Obama in the popular vote.

Still, one has to be careful not to read too much into this, since Clinton's very narrow lead depends on counting votes from Michigan. Because Michigan refused to abide by Democratic Party rules when scheduling its primary, Obama had pulled his name off that state's ballot.

It does not really matter who won the popular vote, however, because the Democratic Party does not select its nominee only through a direct election.

To become the party's standard-bearer, a candidate must capture the votes of a majority of the more than 4,000 delegates who are selected to attend the party's national convention. Although delegates are awarded in part based on the votes that they receive, neither Clinton nor Obama captured enough delegates through their primary and caucus showings to secure the nomination. Indeed, in 2008, Democratic Party rules made such a feat almost impossible.

Unlike the Republicans, the Democrats don't allow states to award their delegates on a winner-take-all basis. This makes it difficult for candidates who are neck-and-neck to pull away from each other in delegate counts.

Adding to this problem is that approximately 20% of the delegates to the Democratic National Convention are not tied to the results of primary contests. Party rules stipulate that more than 800 seats at the convention belong to a group defined as "Party Leaders and Elected Officials." These so-called "superdelegates" are not formally pledged to any candidates and attend the convention regardless of primary and caucus results.

Indeed, it appears that the real brilliance of the Obama campaign was to realize fairly early that a true majority was not achievable.

In response to this fact, and having an edge in the early caucus states due to superior grass-roots organizing, the Obama campaign subtly changed the understanding of the rules.  It acted as if the nomination would be determined by the delegate count after the caucuses and primaries, regardless of whether an absolute majority had been achieved. What this did was to lower the overall number by more than 800 votes (the superdelegates), and consequently change the threshold of victory.

Since most Americans are unfamiliar with how the nominating process works, this was a fairly easy story to sell. The press for the most part cooperated. Once this fiction was accepted, any other result would be seen as undemocratic. Indeed, Clinton's complaints about this unofficial after-the-fact rules change were portrayed as a divisive form of sour grapes. After all, following Sen. Obama's post-Super Tuesday February romp through 10 states, it became obvious that Sen. Clinton would not be able to win under this new threshold.

Ultimately, and most importantly, the elected and unelected leaders of the Democratic Party accepted the Obama campaign's spin. This was crucial to Obama's success, since a real victory at the convention depended on these superdelegates ignoring the fact that Clinton was the stronger general election candidate in swing states like Pennsylvania, Florida and Ohio. In the end, it was the endorsement of these superdelegates -- again, party leaders and elected officials -- that forced Clinton to concede the nomination.

The irony of all this should now be clear. According to a recent CNN poll, only Republican Mitt Romney appears to be in a position to offer a strong challenge to Obama in 2012. Unfortunately for the Republican Party, Romney's nomination is anything but certain.

The results of the 2010 midterms, however, when combined with recent special election results, indicate that, with Obama at the top of the ticket, the prospects for many other Democratic elected officials are rather dismal. Of course, a lot of these politicians have no one to blame but themselves. I suspect, nonetheless, that they are feeling more than a twinge of buyer's remorse.

The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Paul Sracic.

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question: What is now rather dismal?

answer: the prospects for many other Democratic elected officials

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question: Who is the only significant challenge to Obama?

answer: Mitt Romney

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question: Who wrote the story "Are Democrats now reconsidering their vote in the 2008 Democratic primary."?

answer: Paul Sracic.

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question: Prospects for many Democratic officials are now what?

answer: rather dismal.

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question: Who is a significant challenge to Obama?

answer: Republican Mitt Romney

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question: What is Hilary Clinton's favorability rating?

answer: 69%.

question: Who appears to be a significant challenge to Obama?

answer: Republican Mitt Romney

text: Republican Mitt Romney