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Washington (CNN) -- President Obama will announce the U.S. troop strategy for Afghanistan in a speech at 8 p.m. ET Tuesday at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said Wednesday.

In the speech, Obama will explain why the United States is in Afghanistan, its interests there and his decision-making process, Gibbs said, but "the president does not see this as an open-ended engagement.

"Our time there will be limited, and I think that's important for people to understand," he said.

"We are in year nine" in Afghanistan, Gibbs told reporters. "We're not going to be there another eight or nine years."

Obama will meet with members of Congress at the White House on Tuesday afternoon before the speech.

Cost issues are among the topics the president will address, Gibbs said.

"It's a million dollars a troop for a year," he said. "Ten thousand troops is $10 billion. That's in addition to what we already spend in Afghanistan and Pakistan. That also does not include training, and it doesn't include the maintaining of a security force. It's very, very, very expensive."

But, Gibbs added, "I think the president, throughout this process, has talked about the cost in terms of American lives and in terms of the cost to our treasury, and I think he'll continue to talk about it."

The president ordered more than 20,000 additional troops to Afghanistan in March. Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the U.S. commander in Afghanistan, reportedly has called for up to 40,000 more to wage a counterinsurgency campaign against the Taliban, the Islamic militia originally ousted by U.S. military action in 2001.

Obama has weighed several options for bolstering the American contingent, ranging from sending a few thousand troops to the 40,000 McChrystal requested.

A defense official told CNN earlier this week the Pentagon is making detailed plans to send about 34,000 more troops to Afghanistan in anticipation of Obama's decision on the 8-year-old war.

There had been no final word on Obama's decision as of Tuesday, said the Defense Department official, who has direct knowledge of the process. But the official said planners have been tasked with preparing to send 34,000 additional American troops to Afghanistan with the expectation that Obama was leaning toward approving that many.

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Defense Secretary Robert Gates is expected to receive the paperwork Thursday to approve orders to deploy 1,000 Marines from Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, to Afghanistan in late December -- the first of the new troops to be sent, a U.S. military official told CNN on Wednesday. The official is not authorized to talk about the plans because they have not been officially announced.

The 1,000 Marines are part of a battalion task force that has been preparing and training for the deployment, the official said.

The president held a lengthy meeting with top advisers Monday night, and he told reporters Tuesday that he would announce new plans for Afghanistan after Thanksgiving.

McChrystal took part in the meeting Monday, along with Vice President Joe Biden, Gates, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Adm. Michael Mullen and Karl Eikenberry, the U.S. ambassador in Kabul, Afghanistan.

Obama said Tuesday that the deliberations had been "comprehensive and extremely useful."

"It's going to be important to recognize that in order for us to succeed there [in Afghanistan], you've got to have a comprehensive strategy that includes civilian and diplomatic efforts," he said at a news conference Tuesday with visiting Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

The defense official said Tuesday that the military is planning to send three U.S. Army brigades, totaling about 15,000 troops; a Marine brigade with about 8,000 troops; a headquarters element of about 7,000; and between 4,000 and 5,000 support troops -- a total of about 34,000 troops. CNN reported last month that this was the Pentagon's preferred option.

However, the official said Wednesday that the Marines are expected to deploy 8,000 combat, aviation and support troops, plus 1,000 to 1,500 Marines as part of a headquarters unit -- a total of between 9,000 and 9,500. They will be in addition to the 11,000 Marines already in Afghanistan. After the first deployment, the remaining Marines will deploy over the next three to four months, the military official said.

The troops would be dispatched throughout Afghanistan but would be focused mainly on the southern and southeastern provinces, where much of the recent fighting has taken place. Currently, brigades from Fort Drum in upstate New York and Fort Campbell in Kentucky are among those next in line to deploy.

About 68,000 U.S. troops are in Afghanistan, along with about 45,000 from the NATO alliance.

Two U.S. military officials have told CNN that NATO countries would be asked to contribute more troops to fill the gap between the 34,000 the Pentagon expects Obama to send and the 40,000 McChrystal wants. The request is expected to come during a December 7 meeting at the alliance's headquarters in Brussels, Belgium.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will travel to Brussels next week to meet with allies, State Department sources told CNN.

Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell would not discuss specific numbers, but he said NATO would be asked for additional help.

Obama's Afghanistan plan will include "very broad terms" that show how and where the United States is succeeding in the nation, a senior U.S. military official told CNN. Those points will be used to determine how and when troops can be brought home.

Another senior military official said McChrystal will take his orders from Obama and will do the best he can with what he has.

The question, he said, is not the number of troops, but is whether the United States has "the right resources to do what we need to do."

"We can't just go and blow people up and win this war," the official said. "We have to gain the trust of the people, and that is a major part of the plan here."

U.S.-led troops invaded Afghanistan in response to the al Qaeda terrorist network's September 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington. The invasion overthrew the ruling Taliban, which had allowed al Qaeda to operate from its territory -- but most of the top al Qaeda and Taliban leadership escaped the onslaught.

Taliban fighters have since regrouped to the mountainous region along Afghanistan's border with Pakistan, battling U.S. and Afghan government forces on one side and Pakistani troops on the other. Al Qaeda's top leaders, Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri, remain at large and are suspected to be hiding in the same region.

The conflict has so far claimed the lives of more than 900 Americans and nearly 600 allied troops.

CNN's Jill Dougherty, Deirdre Walsh, Elaine Quijano and Mike Mount contributed to this report.

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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Participation in government health insurance programs -- particularly those aimed at children -- increased from 2006 to 2007, leading to a decrease in the number of Americans lacking insurance, the U.S. Census Bureau said Tuesday.

The Census Bureau says 15.3 percent of Americans lacked health insurance in 2007.

Overall, 45.7 million people, or 15.3 percent of U.S. residents, did not have health insurance in 2007, the bureau said in releasing reports on poverty, income and insurance. That represents a decrease from the 2006 level of 47 million, or 15.8 percent.

The decrease came as a surprise, as the number of uninsured Americans had been expected to rise for a seventh straight year. It also gives a boost to proponents of expanding government health-care plans such as the State Children's Health Insurance Program, or SCHIP.

In December, President Bush signed legislation that extends SCHIP federal funding through the end of March 2009. That action came after Bush vetoed two congressional attempts to expand the program. In vetoing one of the measures, Bush said the proposed expansion "moves our country's health-care system in the wrong direction."

The percentages of people covered by private health insurance and by employment-based health insurance both decreased slightly in 2007, the Census numbers showed, although the number of those covered by employment-based insurance, 177.4 million, was not statistically different from 2006.

However, the percentage of people, including children, covered by government health insurance programs increased to 27.8 percent in 2007 from 27 percent in 2006. The number of children under 18 without health insurance fell to 11 percent, or 8.1 million -- lower than the 2006 numbers of 11.1 percent and 8.7 million.  See a state-by-state breakdown of uninsured Americans Â»

Meanwhile, participation in Medicaid, the government insurance program for low-income Americans, increased to 13.2 percent and 39.6 million in 2007, up from 12.9 percent and 38.3 million in 2006.

Using a three-year average from 2005-2007, data showed that Texas had the highest percentage of uninsured, with 24.4 percent, the bureau said.

With 8.3 percent, Massachusetts and Hawaii had the lowest estimates for uninsured rates, according to the Census Bureau, but the two were not statistically different from Minnesota (8.5 percent), Wisconsin (8.8 percent) and Iowa (9.4 percent). Hawaii also did not differ statistically from Maine (9.5 percent), it said.

But "even with the overall drop in uninsured Americans, the 45.7 million uninsured number for 2007 exceeds the combined population of 24 states plus the District of Columbia," a group called Families USA said in a written statement. The group says on its Web site it is "dedicated to the achievement of high-quality, affordable health care for all Americans."

Being uninsured is a stark reality many Americans live with daily.

They include Linda Pendleton of Greensboro, North Carolina. Pendleton was unable to afford private coverage when the convenience store where she worked stopped offering insurance to its employees two years ago. It worked out fine, she said, until she was diagnosed with stage IV breast cancer last month.

Unable to work, she moved in with her daughter and her three grandsons. She has applied for Medicaid and disability, but has yet to receive a response. "So right now I'm trying to pay for everything," said her daughter, Randi Sharp.

But that's not easy. With two of her sons disabled, Sharp stays at home to care for them. Her eldest son receives disability payments of $632 per month, which supports the family, she said. The father of Sharp's children is supposed to pay support, but "he up and left and the court can't find him."

Though her monthly rent is $600, Sharp said her landlord has cut her some slack. And she goes to churches for her food and didn't buy her sons school clothes this year, she said. Meanwhile, her mother is so dragged down by her reaction to the chemotherapy that she "can barely do things for herself," Sharp said.

And even relatively modest fees threaten to cut short her mother's chemotherapy treatments. "If I don't give them cash on Thursday, if I don't give them $70, they're not going to see her any more," Sharp said.

A yard sale over the weekend and trips to the pawn shop have helped. So does cutting back on food. "There are days I go without even eating for two or three days," she said. "I've exhausted all of our resources."

And while the number of those living without health insurance is down, one economist points out, "we're still seeing an unraveling of the private health insurance system."

Overall, insurance premiums have continued to rise faster than wages or inflation, putting the squeeze on companies and on individual families, said Elise Gould, an economist at the Washington-based Economic Policy Institute. With 2007 being an economic peak year, "you'd think some of the economy would have helped our workers," she said. "We're not seeing that."

Another underlying problem, she said, is that people purchase cheaper insurance but often have substandard coverage -- something they often don't find out until they experience a health-care emergency and must pay a large amount out of pocket.

Ron Pollack, executive director of Washington-based Families USA, issued a statement saying, "It is ironic that, at the very time the Bush administration tried to cut back Medicaid and twice vetoed legislation to extend children's health coverage, the public safety net cushioned the loss of employer-sponsored health coverage. It demonstrates the importance that the next president should protect, and not undermine, the public health safety net."

Although the uninsured rate for children living below the federal poverty level decreased to 17.6 percent in 2007 from 19.3 percent in 2006, children in poverty were more likely to be uninsured than all children, the Census numbers showed. Still, the numbers of uninsured children decreased across all ethnic groups.

However, people must lack health insurance for a year before being counted as "uninsured" by the Census Bureau, meaning the actual number could be higher.

In other data, the real median household income increased 1.3 percent nationwide, reaching $50,233, the Census Bureau said. The official poverty rate remained statistically unchanged, although the number slightly increased -- 37.3 Americans lived below the poverty level in 2007, up from 36.5 million in 2006.

African-American households had the lowest median income, with $33,916, compared with $54,920 for non-Hispanic white households, the data showed. The median income for Hispanic households was $38,679.

Household income rose in the Midwest and South, declined in the Northeast and remained unchanged in the West, the bureau said.

As defined by the Office of Management and Budget and updated for inflation using the Consumer Price Index, the Census Bureau put the weighted average poverty threshold for 2007 at $21,203 for a family of four; $26,530 for a family of three; $13,540 for a family of two; and $10,590 for individuals.

Working women earned 78 percent of the corresponding male salaries, according to the bureau. Median earnings increased for both men and women following three years of decline.

CNN's Tom Watkins contributed to this report.

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answer: The decrease

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question: Whom is backing such plans?

answer: State Children's Health Insurance Program,

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question: How many million Americans were uninsured in 2007?

answer: 45.7

question: What was the real median household income?

answer: $50,233,

question: Surprising in what way?

answer: the number of uninsured Americans had been expected to rise for a seventh straight year.

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(CNN) -- Fire, the wheel and even cup noodles were among the varied answers to the question posed by CNN: "What is man's greatest achievement?"

Man set foot on the moon on July 20, 1969. Was that man's greatest achievement? Have your say.

CNN producers armed with cameras put the puzzler to passersby in Berlin, Madrid, Rome, Bangkok, Tokyo, New Delhi and Paris.

In the lead-up to the 40th anniversary of NASA's Apollo 11 mission, more people might have been expected to nominate the moon landing as one of man's greatest feats. Alas not.

One woman in Germany suggested the computer. "It has opened up my world. I can stay in my house and travel all over the world," she said.

Another suggested the airplane. "It's the easiest way to get from one country to the other. Imagine if you would be able to only take the ship. It would take you ages to go somewhere, so it makes humanity more flexible."  See what they said Â»

Fire also got a look-in. "Everything started there right?" said one man in Spain. There was agreement in Italy: "I think the most important is that man discovered fire because it's bringing a lot of life."

The written word was also nominated in Italy, as were architecture and sanitation.

"The biggest achievement of mankind? Music, right?" suggested one woman in Spain.

In New Delhi, video games got one man's vote. "It allows you to be whomever you want, in whichever world you want, and lets you live an alternate fantasy life," he said.

One hopeful businessman in Italy told us, perhaps prematurely: "Peace, I'd say peace. That would be the greatest achievement for all."

What do you think is man's greatest achievement? Where does the moon landing fit in?

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A black man in an online Microsoft ad was replaced with a white man, bottom, on the company's Polish Web site.

The ad -- which showed three business people, one Asian, one white and one black -- was altered on Microsoft's Web site for Poland to place the head of a white man on a black man's body.

"We apologized, fixed the error and we are looking into how it happened," said Lou Gellos, a Microsoft spokesman.

He said that because the company was still reviewing how the swap occurred he could not comment further.

On Microsoft's official page on the social network site Twitter, a posting calls the swap "a marketing mistake" and offers "sincere apologies."

The episode drew widespread criticism on the Internet after Engadget, an influential tech blog, published news of the gaffe Tuesday.

The business Web site CNET.com wrote that the change in models may have been made with the "racially homogeneous" Polish market in mind. CNET is a CNN.com content partner.

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KINGLAKE, Australia (CNN) -- Two men, who were arrested Thursday in connection with the deadly wildfires that have swept through southeastern Australia, were released without being charged, police said.

Bushfires have destroyed huge tracts of the Australian countryside.

Victoria state police had told CNN that the two -- who had been taken into custody and were "assisting" police earlier -- had been behaving suspiciously in or near Marysville, a town where roughly 100 people have died in the fires.

It was not immediately clear what the behavior was or why the men were released.

Meanwhile, authorities said they fear the death toll from the fires, which sat at 181 on Wednesday, could reach as high as 300.

Authorities are basing that figure on the number of people who remain missing and the number of homes that have been destroyed. Rescue workers have not been able to thoroughly investigate many of those homes because of the intense heat.

Firefighters have battled blazes since Saturday -- including several new fires that broke out Tuesday night and which officials say almost certainly were the result of arson.

About 35 separate fires continued burning Thursday morning, authorities said. But none of those blazes posed an immediate threat to villages and their intensity had lessened, according to police.

Authorities were saying Wednesday that more than 500 people have been injured, nearly 1,000 homes destroyed, thousands left homeless and at least 365,000 hectares (901,935 acres) of the Australian countryside burned black.  See a map of the area Â»

Those numbers were expected to continue to rise Thursday.

Arson is thought responsible for all the destruction in the towns of Marysville and Kinglake. As many as half the homes in Kinglake have burned to the ground, police say.  Watch how survivors of the fires are facing looters, scammers and vandals Â»

John Brumby, the premier of the hard-hit state of Victoria, said many of 20 fires burning Wednesday were suspected to have been started by arsonists -- an act described earlier by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd as "mass murder."

"There seems little doubt these were deliberately lit -- a number of them last night," Brumby said on national television.

"I think words escape us all when it comes to describing deliberate arson."

Seven Network reporter Sarah Cumming said two major fires blazing west of Melbourne at Healesville and Bunyip State Park were in danger of joining up despite being 18 kilometers apart.  Watch as residents return home to destruction Â»

Several fires started by lightning between the two blaze fronts were exacerbating the situation, she said.

In Marysville, officials warned that as many as 100 people, or one-fifth of the town's population, might be dead, with many bodies believed to be still buried under debris.  Photos: Bushfires leave path of destruction Â»

Likely to add to the fatality figure was the discovery by forensic scientists that some skeletal remains initially thought to be single bodies were actually two people fused together by searing temperatures.

iReport.com: Raging fire approaches home

As efforts to help those affected by the wildfires gather pace, tent cities have sprung up in Whittlesea, just north of Melbourne. Relief agencies have pitched camps for those forced out of their homes.

Many fire victims have grown increasingly frustrated, kept from returning home -- or to what is left of their homes -- by authorities because of safety concerns.  Watch a koala bear being rescued Â»

Fires were Wednesday threatening a gas plant and a reservoir supplying Melbourne, Cummings added. She said firefighters were counting on three days of relative calm weather before high winds were expected to fan flames again.

CNN's John Vause contributed to this report

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(CNN) -- Imagine taking the best characters and elements of your favorite fictional universe and weaving them into a new story that captures the imagination of fans.

In the dark, cinematic "Batman: Arkham Asylum," Batman must escape from a spooky psychiatric hospital.

That's what Emmy-winning TV writer Paul Dini did in creating "Batman: Arkham Asylum," a video game coming out in late August. Buzz is building online for the dark, cinematic game, which reimagines a brooding Batman and his most notorious nemesis, the Joker, for an experience that's reminiscent of "The Dark Knight" blockbuster movie.

You want mayhem, insanity and brutality? Get ready for all of it.

"This is the Batman movie I would have liked to have written," said Dini, who was scheduled to discuss the game during a panel Saturday at Comic-Con International, the huge celebration of comic-book culture in San Diego, California. "This is him with all the good stuff."

The atmospheric game pits Batman against Joker in a battle of wits and brawn after the Clown Prince of Crime traps the Caped Crusader inside Arkham Asylum, Gotham's psychiatric hospital for the criminally insane. After the trap is sprung, the Joker releases the inmates, including some of Batman's most ferocious enemies: Bane, Harley Quinn, Mr. Zsasz, Poison Ivy and Killer Croc.

Batman has appeared in video games since 1986, but none as ambitious or complex as "Arkham Asylum," which draws much of its inspiration from the character's comic mythology.

The game will be released for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and Microsoft Windows. It's being developed by Rocksteady Studios and will be published by Eidos Interactive in conjunction with Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and DC Comics. (Warner Brothers Interactive Entertainment is a division of Time Warner, which owns CNN.)

As the lead writer for the game, Dini said he was given a clean slate to work from. Because there was no movie, graphic novel or comic tie-in to follow, he was able to create an original story.

Dini's familiarity with the main character may help win the hearts and wallets of gamers. Winner of five Emmy awards, Dini has worked on Batman comic books and written episodes of "Batman: The Animated Series" and later, "Batman Beyond."

Dini, who has also written for the ABC-TV hit "Lost," said he was influenced by Batman lore from character creator Bob Kane, the Batman comics of the 1960s and the Dark Knight graphic novels of Frank Miller. In creating his story's look and tone, Dini said he chose his favorite elements from different incarnations of Batman.

For example, the game emphasizes Batman's intellect and use of technology by solving puzzles with the help of such tools as X-ray scanning and a pheromone tracker.

"Detective work is a crucial game element," Dini said. "There are a lot of forensics aspects to the story."

If you're expecting a Heath Ledger-like Joker in "Batman: Arkham Asylum," you may be disappointed. With his less-smudgy makeup, spiky green hair and maniacal cackle, Dini's creation looks and acts more like earlier versions of the iconic villain.

Kevin Conroy voices Batman in the game, while the Joker is voiced by Mark Hamill, known to millions as Luke Skywalker in the "Star Wars" movies. Conroy and Hamill were scheduled to join Dini at Comic-Con this weekend.

Both actors also did the voices in "Batman: The Animated Series," making the game feel very familiar.

Sterling McGarvey, a senior editor for G4TV, said the game's developers were smart to rely heavily on the animated TV series.

"An entire generation of Batman fans grew up with the animated Batman," he said. "It is a beloved, storied franchise with very few good games."

The Internet is full of videos showing glimpses of the game, including movie-like trailers, demo gameplay, characters and layouts of Arkham Asylum. Among Batman fans and gaming reviewers, early reviews have been strong.

Brian Crecente, editor-in-chief of Kotaku.com, said he likes the way the developers combined elements to create the ultimate Batman from the fans' perspective.

"Part dark, broody Batman, part serious crime fighter, but also part detective," Crecente said. "Batman has this huge universe. Why not cherry-pick the best stuff and put it in the game?"

A key character in the game is Arkham Asylum itself, with its spooky corridors and Gothic architecture. Dini loves its "mix of dark, creepy, steam punk and Victorian" and calls it the perfect location in Gotham City for the gameplay.

"It is a totally over the top mansion with gargoyles on the inside," added Crecente. "Very cool."

Dini heaped praise on how the developers made his story come to life. He hopes fans who know Batman will love how familiar it feels, while gamers will love the action.

"Fans of the canon will be happy," McGarvey agreed. "But the game was designed more for the Batman fan than a hardcore gamer."

Crecente describes the game's combat as fluid and quick, with a martial arts feel. Acting as Batman, players will be able to hide in the shadows and stealthily take out their enemies.

All the gaming mechanics in the world won't save Batman unless fans get drawn into the story. Remember Lego Batman? But Dini seems confident that gamers will respond to his vision.

"Nobody loves a good Batman story more than I do," he said.

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text: is

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text: division

text: of

text: Time

text: Warner

text: which

text: owns

text: CNN

text: As

text: the

text: lead

text: writer

text: for

text: the

text: game

text: Dini

text: said

text: he

text: was

text: given

text: a

text: clean

text: slate

text: to

text: work

text: from

text: Because

text: there

text: was

text: no

text: movie

text: graphic

text: novel

text: or

text: comic

text: tie

text: in

text: to

text: follow

text: he

text: was

text: able

text: to

text: create

text: an

text: original

text: story

text: Dini

text: 's

text: familiarity

text: with

text: the

text: main

text: character

text: may

text: help

text: win

text: the

text: hearts

text: and

text: wallets

text: of

text: gamers

text: Winner

text: of

text: five

text: Emmy

text: awards

text: Dini

text: has

text: worked

text: on

text: Batman

text: comic

text: books

text: and

text: written

text: episodes

text: of

text: Batman

text: The

text: Animated

text: Series

text: and

text: later

text: Batman

text: Beyond

text: Dini

text: who

text: has

text: also

text: written

text: for

text: the

text: ABC

text: TV

text: hit

text: Lost

text: said

text: he

text: was

text: influenced

text: by

text: Batman

text: lore

text: from

text: character

text: creator

text: Bob

text: Kane

text: the

text: Batman

text: comics

text: of

text: the

text: and

text: the

text: Dark

text: Knight

text: graphic

text: novels

text: of

text: Frank

text: Miller

text: In

text: creating

text: his

text: story

text: 's

text: look

text: and

text: tone

text: Dini

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text: he

text: chose

text: his

text: favorite

text: elements

text: from

text: different

text: incarnations

text: of

text: Batman

text: For

text: example

text: the

text: game

text: emphasizes

text: Batman

text: 's

text: intellect

text: and

text: use

text: of

text: technology

text: by

text: solving

text: puzzles

text: with

text: the

text: help

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text: tools

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text: ray

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text: and

text: a

text: pheromone

text: tracker

text: Detective

text: work

text: is

text: a

text: crucial

text: game

text: element

text: Dini

text: said

text: There

text: are

text: a

text: lot

text: of

text: forensics

text: aspects

text: to

text: the

text: story

text: If

text: you

text: 're

text: expecting

text: a

text: Heath

text: Ledger

text: like

text: Joker

text: in

text: Batman

text: Arkham

text: Asylum

text: you

text: may

text: be

text: disappointed

text: With

text: his

text: less

text: smudgy

text: makeup

text: spiky

text: green

text: hair

text: and

text: maniacal

text: cackle

text: Dini

text: 's

text: creation

text: looks

text: and

text: acts

text: more

text: like

text: earlier

text: versions

text: of

text: the

text: iconic

text: villain

text: Kevin

text: Conroy

text: voices

text: Batman

text: in

text: the

text: game

text: while

text: the

text: Joker

text: is

text: voiced

text: by

text: Mark

text: Hamill

text: known

text: to

text: millions

text: as

text: Luke

text: Skywalker

text: in

text: the

text: Star

text: Wars

text: movies

text: Conroy

text: and

text: Hamill

text: were

text: scheduled

text: to

text: join

text: Dini

text: at

text: Comic

text: Con

text: this

text: weekend

text: Both

text: actors

text: also

text: did

text: the

text: voices

text: in

text: Batman

text: The

text: Animated

text: Series

text: making

text: the

text: game

text: feel

text: very

text: familiar

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text: McGarvey

text: a

text: senior

text: editor

text: for

text: said

text: the

text: game

text: 's

text: developers

text: were

text: smart

text: to

text: rely

text: heavily

text: on

text: the

text: animated

text: TV

text: series

text: An

text: entire

text: generation

text: of

text: Batman

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text: animated

text: Batman

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text: beloved

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text: games

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text: videos

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text: game

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text: Asylum

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text: gaming

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text: reviews

text: have

text: been

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text: Crecente

text: editor

text: in

text: chief

text: of

text: Kotaku.com

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text: he

text: likes

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text: way

text: the

text: developers

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text: create

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text: ultimate

text: Batman

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text: fans

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text: Batman

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text: serious

text: crime

text: fighter

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text: part

text: detective

text: Crecente

text: said

text: Batman

text: has

text: this

text: huge

text: universe

text: Why

text: not

text: cherry

text: pick

text: the

text: best

text: stuff

text: and

text: put

text: it

text: in

text: the

text: game

text: A

text: key

text: character

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text: the

text: game

text: is

text: Arkham

text: Asylum

text: itself

text: with

text: its

text: spooky

text: corridors

text: and

text: Gothic

text: architecture

text: Dini

text: loves

text: its

text: mix

text: of

text: dark

text: creepy

text: steam

text: punk

text: and

text: Victorian

text: and

text: calls

text: it

text: the

text: perfect

text: location

text: in

text: Gotham

text: City

text: for

text: the

text: gameplay

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text: is

text: a

text: totally

text: over

text: the

text: top

text: mansion

text: with

text: gargoyles

text: on

text: the

text: inside

text: added

text: Crecente

text: Very

text: cool

text: Dini

text: heaped

text: praise

text: on

text: how

text: the

text: developers

text: made

text: his

text: story

text: come

text: to

text: life

text: He

text: hopes

text: fans

text: who

text: know

text: Batman

text: will

text: love

text: how

text: familiar

text: it

text: feels

text: while

text: gamers

text: will

text: love

text: the

text: action

text: Fans

text: of

text: the

text: canon

text: will

text: be

text: happy

text: McGarvey

text: agreed

text: But

text: the

text: game

text: was

text: designed

text: more

text: for

text: the

text: Batman

text: fan

text: than

text: a

text: hardcore

text: gamer

text: Crecente

text: describes

text: the

text: game

text: 's

text: combat

text: as

text: fluid

text: and

text: quick

text: with

text: a

text: martial

text: arts

text: feel

text: Acting

text: as

text: Batman

text: players

text: will

text: be

text: able

text: to

text: hide

text: in

text: the

text: shadows

text: and

text: stealthily

text: take

text: out

text: their

text: enemies

text: All

text: the

text: gaming

text: mechanics

text: in

text: the

text: world

text: wo

text: n't

text: save

text: Batman

text: unless

text: fans

text: get

text: drawn

text: into

text: the

text: story

text: Remember

text: Lego

text: Batman

text: But

text: Dini

text: seems

text: confident

text: that

text: gamers

text: will

text: respond

text: to

text: his

text: vision

text: Nobody

text: loves

text: a

text: good

text: Batman

text: story

text: more

text: than

text: I

text: do

text: he

text: said

question: Who is the Joker?

answer: Mark Hamill,

text: Mark Hamill,

question: Batman is reunited with which nemesis?

answer: the Joker,

text: the Joker,

question: the game reunites what?

answer: fans who know Batman

text: fans who know Batman

question: what is name of new video game?

answer: "Batman: Arkham Asylum,"

text: "Batman: Arkham Asylum,"

question: Who is Paul Dini?

answer: Emmy-winning TV writer

text: Emmy-winning TV writer

question: Who is the lead writer of the video game?

answer: Paul Dini

text: Paul Dini

question: who is  lead writer?

answer: Paul Dini

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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) -- Abdul Qadeer Khan, the Pakistani scientist who admitted leaking nuclear secrets to North Korea, Iran and Libya and then recanted his confession, has been released from house arrest after it was declared illegal by the Islamabad High Court, his attorney told CNN Friday.

Pakistani scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan meets the media outside his residence Friday.

"What the court declared is that he is a free citizen which means effectively... the basic human rights are available to him like any other citizen," said attorney Syed Ali Zafar.

The Pakistani government was slow to acknowledge the high court's ruling. A spokesman said the Interior Ministry hasn't received the official court ruling, but will comply with whatever decision was made.

Government attorneys said they expected an official announcement to be made by Saturday.

But evidence of the end of Khan's house arrest seemed clear outside his home in an upscale part of Islamabad. Where a government security detail previously stood guard with machine guns, cars were parked and reporters roamed the area scratching for details.

Khan made a brief appearance, saying he was outside because of the court's ruling, but gave few other details.

In Washington, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said she is "very much concerned" about Khan's release.

Separately, acting deputy State Department spokesman Gordon Duguid said: "This man remains a serious proliferation risk.," he said. "The proliferation support that Khan and his associates provided to Iran and North Korea has had a harmful impact ... on international security and will for years to come."

Khan is widely regarded as a hero in Pakistan for his part in helping the country to develop nuclear weapons.

In 2004, Khan was placed under house arrest following his admission on Pakistan television that he had been involved in a clandestine international network selling nuclear weapons technology from Pakistan to a host of nations including Iran and North Korea.

Pakistan has so far refused to allow the International Atomic Energy Agency and the U.S. access to Khan to quiz him on the extent of the nuclear secrets he sold.

"Even if they had asked me I wouldn't have answered," he said last year.

In May 2008, Khan denied his involvement with the spread of nuclear arms outside Pakistan. He explained in an interview with ABC News that the Pakistani government and then-President Pervez Musharraf forced him to be a "scapegoat" for the "national interest."

He also denies ever traveling to Iran or Libya and said that North Korea's nuclear program was well advanced before his visit.

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question: Who was placed under house arrest?

answer: Abdul Qadeer Khan,

text: Abdul Qadeer Khan,

question: Who is being released?

answer: Abdul Qadeer Khan,

text: Abdul Qadeer Khan,

question: Pakistan has had nuclear weapons for how long?

answer: 2004,

question: Who is Abdul Qadeer Khan?

answer: Pakistani scientist

text: Pakistani scientist

question: Who is helping to develop nuclear weapons?

answer: Abdul Qadeer Khan,

text: Abdul Qadeer Khan,