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WASHINGTON (CNN)  -- Department of Veterans Affairs medical facilities do not consistently offer the level of services and infrastructure necessary to properly treat the growing number of female veterans, a government investigation concludes.

One official says the VA can offer women better medical care than they would get in private practice.

The report by the Government Accountability Office found wide variation in the medical centers' facilities and programs for female veterans.

Investigators visited 18 veterans' facilities and found that basic services, like pelvic examinations, were being provided and that patients had access to female providers for gender-specific care. But the facilities were lacking in some simpler accommodations, such as the configuration of exam rooms and privacy in check-in areas.

The department says it is taking comprehensive steps to improve, including programs for primary care and mental health care for female veterans, along with having a female veterans' program manager in each of its medical facilities.

But Veterans Affairs faces hurdles in its efforts to improve its services and facilities, the department's chief consultant for women's medical care testified before Congress on Tuesday.

"Moving to a more comprehensive primary care delivery model could challenge VA clinicians, who may have dealt predominantly with male veterans and sometimes have little or no exposure to female patients," said Patricia Hayes of the department's Women's Veterans Health Strategic Healthcare Group.

Only one-third of veterans' facilities offer a separate space for women to receive gynecological, mental health and social work services, according to Hayes.

There is a goal to have a gynecologist available at every facility by 2012, she said.

And Dennis Cullinan, national legislative director for the Veterans of Foreign Wars, noted that Veterans Affairs has contracted out to provide female veterans care in the facilities where there are not in-house providers.

He said the department is fighting an aging infrastructure that is making it tougher to improve facilities.

"The facilities to provide the level of care and privacy just aren't there," he said. "The VA is pursuing this. They are absolutely not dodging it."

There are more than 1.8 million female veterans in the United States, 8 percent of the veteran population. In 2008, more than 281,000 female veterans received care from Veterans Affairs, according to the department's statistics.

The number of female veterans enrolled for medical care with the department is expected to increase by 30 percent in the next five years, it predicts.

The median age of female veterans is much lower than their male counterparts: 47, compared with 61, according to Veterans Affairs data.

Hayes said the department can offer female veterans better care than they would receive in private practices.

"Women are screened for unique health concerns like cervical cancer or breast cancer at higher rates than non-VA health care programs," she noted.

While noting that the department has taken steps to upgrade its services and facilities to meet the needs of female veterans, investigators found that it stumbled on some more basic elements.

None of the facilities visited was fully compliant with the department's standards for privacy, investigators found, including privacy in the check-in area.

"In most clinical settings, check-in desk or windows were located in a mixed-gender waiting room or on a high-traffic public corridor," the report explained. In a majority of the clinics, "check-in desk were located in close proximity to chairs where other patients waited for their appointment."

In one facility, it said, investigators observed other patients lining up immediately behind the patient trying to check in.

The government investigators also found that exam tables were not oriented away from the door or shielded properly by curtains, as is required, and there was a lack of toilets near the facilities where gynecological examinations were conducted.

And only two of the facilities provided sanitary napkin dispensers in at least one public restroom for women.

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LONDON, England (CNN) -- Michael Jackson had a level of hero worship on a par with Elvis Presley or the Beatles but he was the first black star to inspire such a massive following around the world.

Michael Jackson, the ultimate showman, craved attention and was rarely disappointed.

Total worldwide sales of more than 350 million records over his 40-year career give just a hint of the adoration there was for the "King of Pop." The fact that his death came on the eve of a comeback tour in London will leave his devotees feeling even more bereft.

While his career -- and wealth -- had waned greatly in recent years, there was still enough support for the concerts to sell out at a rate of nearly 40,000 an hour. Fans from as far afield as Japan, Germany and Dubai queued to buy their tickets.

Steve Greenberg, founder and CEO of S-Curve Records, was a disc jockey in Tel Aviv, Israel, when "Thriller" first dropped and witnessed first-hand how Jackson became an international icon.

His was a global appeal, Greenberg said, among fans and artists worldwide.

"He was as big in the Middle East and Southeast Asia as he was in America and Europe," Greenberg said. "He had that universality that not many people had. The Beatles had it, Muhammad Ali had it, but not many other people have had it."

Jackson was known for far more than his music though. Speaking after his death in Los Angeles was announced, U.S. civil rights campaigner Rev. Al Sharpton paid tribute to the work of a "trailblazer" in helping people around the world through his charities. How will you remember Michael Jackson?

Sharpton added that the song Jackson co-wrote with Lionel Richie, "We Are the World," a 1985 charity single that raised an estimated $50 million for famine relief in Africa, ushered in Live Aid and the era of celebrity philanthropy.

Jackson was the supreme showman who had an unrivalled knack of grabbing headlines. From his precocious abilities as the 11-year-old singer in the Jackson 5 to his legendary "moon-walk" dance, the star craved attention, and was rarely disappointed.  Jackson "as big as it gets" Â»

But in the years after his colossal 1982 hit album "Thriller" and its 1987 follow-up "Bad," much of the focus did not cast him in a good light.

In 1996 the lead singer of Pulp, Jarvis Cocker, caused a furor at the Brit Awards in London when he invaded the stage during Jackson's performance of "Earth Song" in protest "at the way Michael Jackson sees himself as some kind of Christ-like figure with the power of healing."

Jackson failed to see the humor in Cocker's mockery, responding that he was "sickened, saddened, shocked, upset, cheated, angry" by the protest. He also alleged that Cocker had attacked children on stage, something that the Pulp singer denied. But many in the music industry backed Cocker, who was arrested but later released without charge.

The theme of children was one that continued to haunt Jackson. In 2002 he caused a public outcry by dangling his baby son Prince Michael II from a third-floor hotel balcony in Germany before the world's press. He later said he regretted the incident.  Watch video of the incident Â»

And in a 2003 interview with British journalist Martin Bashir that was supposed to repair his image around the world, the singer revived allegations of child abuse when he said of sharing a bed with a young boy: "It's a beautiful thing. It's very right, it's very loving. Because what's wrong with sharing a love?"

A warrant was issued for his arrest on charges of sexually molesting 12-year-old Gavin Arvizo. Jackson surrendered himself to police amid a media furor.

In the 2005 trial conducted in the glare of the world's media spotlight, Jackson was cleared of child molestation charges. Following the trial, Jackson's finances took a hit and he was forced to sell his Neverland ranch in California.

He later kept a low profile in the United States and spent time in Britain, where his friends included psychic spoonbender Uri Geller and Harrod's owner Mohamed Al Fayed, and also in Bahrain.

But in November last year, Jackson was sued by an Arab sheikh at the High Court in London for $7.7 million. They parted "amicably" after agreeing a settlement.

Jackson had been invited with his children and entourage to Bahrain by the king's son, Sheikh Abdulla bin Hamad Al Khalifa, who lavished money on Jackson and built a recording studio, which he believed would be used to record albums by Jackson using material the sheikh had helped to write.

But Jackson insisted there was no valid agreement and that the sheikh's case was based on "mistake, misrepresentation and undue influence." He said sums of money paid out by the sheikh were "gifts."

As fans around the world mourn it is likely Michael Jackson will be remembered as a musical hero -- but also a man with human flaws.

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question: How many records did he sell over his career?

answer: 350 million

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question: Who paid tribute to his charity work?

answer: Rev. Al Sharpton

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question: What type of records did he produce?

answer: Pop."

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question: How long was Michael Jackson's career?

answer: 40-year

question: Who is Rev. Al Sharpton?

answer: U.S. civil rights campaigner

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(CNN) -- A 17-year-old boy was among the seven people killed in a noon shootout Friday on the streets of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, police said Saturday.

The other victims were police officers, Mayor Jose Reyes Ferriz said Friday. Five were federal police officers and one was a female city police officer, all part of the joint police task force formed to combat drug violence in the border town.

Another federal officer was gravely wounded, Reyes said, and a city officer was wounded but not with life-threatening injuries. A civilian was hit by shrapnel, but those injuries were also not serious, he said.

Reyes said the incident began when two patrol cars, one from federal police and one from city police, stopped several people they had been investigating. Gunmen in at least two vehicles attacked the police convoy with weapons including AK-47s, he said.

The federal police said the gunmen, who escaped in a gray Dodge Durango and a green Dodge Caravan, may have been drug dealers and that the attack may have been in response to several recent arrests in Juarez, including that of eight people apprehended Thursday for possession of weapons, drugs and a stolen van.

The mayor said it wasn't immediately clear why the police had stopped the people or whether the incident was drug related. Investigators are treating the incident "as a direct attack on police officers," he said.

Federal police launched an aerial search for the gunmen's vehicles, but there have been no arrests.

Reyes said at a meeting with federal police that he was ordering an increase of patrol cars so there will be three or four cars per location.

About 800 police cars now patrol the city, Reyes said. The city police force consists of 3,000 officers, bolstered by 5,000 federal officers.

Ciudad Juarez is the most violent city in the nation, with more than 2,600 drug-related deaths in 2009. No official numbers are available, but more than 400 killings have been reported by local media this year.

The city, long the focal point of President Felipe Calderon's battle against drug cartels, came to renewed prominence after the January 31 killings of 15 people, most of them students with no links to organized crime. The massacre sparked outrage throughout Mexico and drew worldwide attention.

In another incident that drew widespread attention, three people associated with the U.S. Consulate in Juarez were gunned down in two shootings last month. Two of the victims, including a pregnant woman, were U.S. citizens living in El Paso, Texas.

CNN's Esprit Smith contributed to this report.

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question: What did police say?

answer: of Ciudad Juarez,

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question: What did police officers do in Ciudad Juarez?

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(CNN) -- Dr. J. Stephen Jones had seven vasectomies to perform in a day.

Some urologists around the country are reporting increased numbers of patients coming in for vasectomies.

The schedule for Jones, a Cleveland, Ohio, urologist, has become more crowded during a recent boom in vasectomies.

"My staff came to me and said, what's happening?" said Jones, the chairman of the Department of Regional Urology of Glickman Urological and Kidney Institute at the Cleveland Clinic. "Why are we suddenly having an explosion in guys asking for vasectomies?"

They looked at their statistics and realized the uptick started around November as the economic crisis deepened. October went down in the history books as one of Wall Street's worst months.

Since then, the Cleveland Clinic has seen a 50 percent increase in vasectomies, an outpatient surgery that is the cheapest form of permanent birth control. Vasectomies are less invasive and cheaper than tubal ligation, which involves blocking, tieing or cutting a woman's fallopian tubes to prevent pregnancy.

"It's unlikely that some guy read the Dow Jones numbers that day and said, 'Why don't we have a vasectomy?' " Jones said. "More likely, people have already been considering it and typically a guy and his wife have spoken a year or two about this."

Jones was told by patients that they were getting vasectomies because they were losing their jobs and health insurance, or concerned about being out of work soon.

"They realize they don't have the financial security long-term with what's going on," Jones said. "Several of them have mentioned, 'We can't afford to have any more children in this economy.' My perception is that it's more of the concept of raising children in an uncertain economic future."

Much like Jones, Dr. Marc Goldstein, surgeon-in-chief of male reproductive medicine and surgery at the Cornell Institute for Reproductive Medicine in New York, saw a 48 percent increase in vasectomy consultations compared with the same time last year.

"I have never seen anything like this," said Goldstein, a urologist for the last 30 years. "When things started to go south in the stock market, then the vasectomy consults went north."

Half of Goldstein's New York patients work in the financial sector. New patients filed into his office in November.

"I think the situation of finance and the economy is the major reason," Goldstein said. "Some of them have mentioned that, 'It cost $30,000 a year to put my kids in private school and I can't afford to have another one.' It's never the sole reason, but it's certainly a contributing factor."

During the vasectomy, the doctor cuts the two vas deferens, which are the tubes carrying sperm from the testicles to become semen. After the procedure, men can still have sex, but their semen does not contain sperm and therefore they can no longer father children.

Doctors can attempt to reverse the procedure, but vasectomy reversals are expensive and only work half the time in restoring sperm flow.

Carl Haub, a demographer with the Population Reference Bureau, a private research firm, said the National Center for Health Statistics' data showed that, "During bad economic times, the Depression and the recession in the 1970s, the birth rate did go down."  See the chart on fertility rates in the United States from 1917 to 2007 Â»

"Some folks will postpone having kids," he said. "If you had a vasectomy, you've made a bigger decision that you're never going to have another child."

When people stop having children, it implies a loss of confidence in their future employment prospects.

"Am I going to have a job in six months or a year from now?" Haub said. "If I'm concerned about that, people are not going to increase their financial obligations... It's naÃ¯ve to say the economy didn't play a significant role in lowering the birth rate."

It's too early to tell whether this recession has crimped the birth rate, Haub said.

At this point, most of the evidence of increased vasectomies has been anecdotal from practicing urologists, because there is no national registry for sterilizations.

The number of appointment requests spiked 30 percent in January 2009 on the Web site vasectomy.com, which links people with local urologists. But throughout the last few months, appointment requests have been fairly level, said Dr. Ted Benderev, founder of the site.

Dr. Lawrence Ross, a professor of urology at the University of Illinois at Chicago and former president of the American Urological Association, said the school's clinics have seen moderate increases in the last six months to a year and that vasectomies are growing popular among lower-income clients.

"My guess is that since economic times have worsened, people are concerned about their ability to raise larger families and are opting for more permanent birth control," Ross said.

People who are concerned about losing their health insurance are trying to take advantage of the coverage for a procedure they've long considered.

"It may have something to do with the economy," said Dr. Bryan Kansas, a urologist. "I can't count on my hands, in the last three months, the number of times someone has said they're about to lose their insurance and ask to squeeze them in."

He and his colleagues have seen a similar uptick in their Austin, Texas, practice called The Urology Team.

Throughout March Madness, Kansas' office has a special on vasectomies called, "Vas-Madness" to capitalize on their patient's obsession with the college basketball tournament.

Patients "would love to have a procedure, go home and sit there when you've got all-day programming, watch basketball," Kansas said.

After the less-than-hourlong procedure, patients usually spend a day or two recovering, moving gingerly and icing the soreness. Some men time their vasectomies around the time of major sports events such as the Masters Golf Tournament and the NCAA basketball tournament to keep themselves entertained during recovery.

Vasectomies are likely to produce tenderness, discomfort and slight swelling and the patient is usually able to return to usual activities within a week.

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text: deferens

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text: are

text: the

text: tubes

text: carrying

text: sperm

text: from

text: the

text: testicles

text: to

text: become

text: semen

text: After

text: the

text: procedure

text: men

text: can

text: still

text: have

text: sex

text: but

text: their

text: semen

text: does

text: not

text: contain

text: sperm

text: and

text: therefore

text: they

text: can

text: no

text: longer

text: father

text: children

text: Doctors

text: can

text: attempt

text: to

text: reverse

text: the

text: procedure

text: but

text: vasectomy

text: reversals

text: are

text: expensive

text: and

text: only

text: work

text: half

text: the

text: time

text: in

text: restoring

text: sperm

text: flow

text: Carl

text: Haub

text: a

text: demographer

text: with

text: the

text: Population

text: Reference

text: Bureau

text: a

text: private

text: research

text: firm

text: said

text: the

text: National

text: Center

text: for

text: Health

text: Statistics

text: data

text: showed

text: that

text: During

text: bad

text: economic

text: times

text: the

text: Depression

text: and

text: the

text: recession

text: in

text: the

text: the

text: birth

text: rate

text: did

text: go

text: down

text: See

text: the

text: chart

text: on

text: fertility

text: rates

text: in

text: the

text: United

text: States

text: from

text: to

text: Â

text: Some

text: folks

text: will

text: postpone

text: having

text: kids

text: he

text: said

text: If

text: you

text: had

text: a

text: vasectomy

text: you

text: 've

text: made

text: a

text: bigger

text: decision

text: that

text: you

text: 're

text: never

text: going

text: to

text: have

text: another

text: child

text: When

text: people

text: stop

text: having

text: children

text: it

text: implies

text: a

text: loss

text: of

text: confidence

text: in

text: their

text: future

text: employment

text: prospects

text: Am

text: I

text: going

text: to

text: have

text: a

text: job

text: in

text: six

text: months

text: or

text: a

text: year

text: from

text: now

text: Haub

text: said

text: If

text: I

text: 'm

text: concerned

text: about

text: that

text: people

text: are

text: not

text: going

text: to

text: increase

text: their

text: financial

text: obligations

text: It

text: 's

text: naÃ¯ve

text: to

text: say

text: the

text: economy

text: did

text: n't

text: play

text: a

text: significant

text: role

text: in

text: lowering

text: the

text: birth

text: rate

text: It

text: 's

text: too

text: early

text: to

text: tell

text: whether

text: this

text: recession

text: has

text: crimped

text: the

text: birth

text: rate

text: Haub

text: said

text: At

text: this

text: point

text: most

text: of

text: the

text: evidence

text: of

text: increased

text: vasectomies

text: has

text: been

text: anecdotal

text: from

text: practicing

text: urologists

text: because

text: there

text: is

text: no

text: national

text: registry

text: for

text: sterilizations

text: The

text: number

text: of

text: appointment

text: requests

text: spiked

text: percent

text: in

text: January

text: on

text: the

text: Web

text: site

text: vasectomy.com

text: which

text: links

text: people

text: with

text: local

text: urologists

text: But

text: throughout

text: the

text: last

text: few

text: months

text: appointment

text: requests

text: have

text: been

text: fairly

text: level

text: said

text: Dr.

text: Ted

text: Benderev

text: founder

text: of

text: the

text: site

text: Dr.

text: Lawrence

text: Ross

text: a

text: professor

text: of

text: urology

text: at

text: the

text: University

text: of

text: Illinois

text: at

text: Chicago

text: and

text: former

text: president

text: of

text: the

text: American

text: Urological

text: Association

text: said

text: the

text: school

text: 's

text: clinics

text: have

text: seen

text: moderate

text: increases

text: in

text: the

text: last

text: six

text: months

text: to

text: a

text: year

text: and

text: that

text: vasectomies

text: are

text: growing

text: popular

text: among

text: lower

text: income

text: clients

text: My

text: guess

text: is

text: that

text: since

text: economic

text: times

text: have

text: worsened

text: people

text: are

text: concerned

text: about

text: their

text: ability

text: to

text: raise

text: larger

text: families

text: and

text: are

text: opting

text: for

text: more

text: permanent

text: birth

text: control

text: Ross

text: said

text: People

text: who

text: are

text: concerned

text: about

text: losing

text: their

text: health

text: insurance

text: are

text: trying

text: to

text: take

text: advantage

text: of

text: the

text: coverage

text: for

text: a

text: procedure

text: they

text: 've

text: long

text: considered

text: It

text: may

text: have

text: something

text: to

text: do

text: with

text: the

text: economy

text: said

text: Dr.

text: Bryan

text: Kansas

text: a

text: urologist

text: I

text: ca

text: n't

text: count

text: on

text: my

text: hands

text: in

text: the

text: last

text: three

text: months

text: the

text: number

text: of

text: times

text: someone

text: has

text: said

text: they

text: 're

text: about

text: to

text: lose

text: their

text: insurance

text: and

text: ask

text: to

text: squeeze

text: them

text: in

text: He

text: and

text: his

text: colleagues

text: have

text: seen

text: a

text: similar

text: uptick

text: in

text: their

text: Austin

text: Texas

text: practice

text: called

text: The

text: Urology

text: Team

text: Throughout

text: March

text: Madness

text: Kansas

text: office

text: has

text: a

text: special

text: on

text: vasectomies

text: called

text: Vas

text: Madness

text: to

text: capitalize

text: on

text: their

text: patient

text: 's

text: obsession

text: with

text: the

text: college

text: basketball

text: tournament

text: Patients

text: would

text: love

text: to

text: have

text: a

text: procedure

text: go

text: home

text: and

text: sit

text: there

text: when

text: you

text: 've

text: got

text: all

text: day

text: programming

text: watch

text: basketball

text: Kansas

text: said

text: After

text: the

text: less

text: than

text: hourlong

text: procedure

text: patients

text: usually

text: spend

text: a

text: day

text: or

text: two

text: recovering

text: moving

text: gingerly

text: and

text: icing

text: the

text: soreness

text: Some

text: men

text: time

text: their

text: vasectomies

text: around

text: the

text: time

text: of

text: major

text: sports

text: events

text: such

text: as

text: the

text: Masters

text: Golf

text: Tournament

text: and

text: the

text: NCAA

text: basketball

text: tournament

text: to

text: keep

text: themselves

text: entertained

text: during

text: recovery

text: Vasectomies

text: are

text: likely

text: to

text: produce

text: tenderness

text: discomfort

text: and

text: slight

text: swelling

text: and

text: the

text: patient

text: is

text: usually

text: able

text: to

text: return

text: to

text: usual

text: activities

text: within

text: a

text: week

question: What do urologists report?

answer: increased numbers of patients coming in for vasectomies.

text: increased numbers of patients coming in for vasectomies.

question: Who reported a higher demand for vasectomies?

answer: Some urologists

text: Some urologists

question: What have urologists reported a higher demand for in recent months?

answer: vasectomies.

text: vasectomies.

question: What increased after stocks tumble?

answer: numbers of patients coming in for vasectomies.

text: numbers of patients coming in for vasectomies.


text:
(CNN) -- A 12-year-old west Florida boy apparently struck by a bullet fired skyward during a New Year's Eve celebration is improving, but remains in serious condition, authorities said Tuesday.

Overnight, his condition was upgraded from critical to serious, said Larry McKinnon of the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office.

The bullet is still lodged in the boy's head, and doctors are working to control the swelling around his brain. Until the bullet is removed, detectives cannot compare it to other bullets to help determine a possible suspect in the shooting, said McKinnon.

Diego Duran, 12, was sitting in the front yard of his Ruskin, Florida, home watching fireworks about 1 a.m. Sunday when he fell to the ground, bleeding from the nose and eyes, McKinnon said.

The victim's mother drove him to South Bay Hospital in Sun City Center, where doctors determined that a gunshot had gone through the top of the boy's head. The child was then transported to Tampa General Hospital, where he was in critical condition Sunday afternoon.

The boy's mother, Sandy Duran, spoke to reporters Monday about her son.

"His brain is still in that stage of the 48 to 72 hours where it swells. There's a lot of inflammation going on, so the doctors cannot say what he will and won't be able to do," she said. "The good news is that he is moving his extremities. He can move his hands. He can move his legs. He has opened his eyes."

Duran described her son as "noble" and said he enjoyed skating and playing guitar. He is the youngest of three children, and her family is taking it "hour by hour," she said.

"For me, it's a miracle that he's alive considering what has just happened to him," said Duran.

No one in the immediate area around the victim's house was firing a gun, the boy's relatives and neighbors told detectives. Police believe that celebratory gunfire, possibly shot from miles away, wounded the boy.

If the wound is determined to be from a celebratory gunshot, it would not be the first time a child was inadvertently shot in the Southeast on New Year's Eve and in the hours after midnight. In 2009, 4-year-old Marquel Peters died after a bullet went through the roof of a suburban Atlanta church and hit him.

The boy's mother, Nathalee Peters, has launched an online effort -- called Marquel's Pledge -- to urge people not to shoot into the air in celebration. It's one of several such campaigns nationwide, including one in Miami called, "One bullet kills the party."

Duran similarly spoke about the need to educate the public about the dangers of celebratory gunfire.

"I'm speaking out because I don't think there's enough awareness out there," she said. "A firearm is a weapon. It's a weapon that takes a life. It's not a toy for celebration."

CNN's George Howell contributed to this report.

text: CNN

text: A

text: old

text: west

text: Florida

text: boy

text: apparently

text: struck

text: by

text: a

text: bullet

text: fired

text: skyward

text: during

text: a

text: New

text: Year

text: 's

text: Eve

text: celebration

text: is

text: improving

text: but

text: remains

text: in

text: serious

text: condition

text: authorities

text: said

text: Tuesday

text: Overnight

text: his

text: condition

text: was

text: upgraded

text: from

text: critical

text: to

text: serious

text: said

text: Larry

text: McKinnon

text: of

text: the

text: Hillsborough

text: County

text: Sheriff

text: 's

text: Office

text: The

text: bullet

text: is

text: still

text: lodged

text: in

text: the

text: boy

text: 's

text: head

text: and

text: doctors

text: are

text: working

text: to

text: control

text: the

text: swelling

text: around

text: his

text: brain

text: Until

text: the

text: bullet

text: is

text: removed

text: detectives

text: can

text: not

text: compare

text: it

text: to

text: other

text: bullets

text: to

text: help

text: determine

text: a

text: possible

text: suspect

text: in

text: the

text: shooting

text: said

text: McKinnon

text: Diego

text: Duran

text: was

text: sitting

text: in

text: the

text: front

text: yard

text: of

text: his

text: Ruskin

text: Florida

text: home

text: watching

text: fireworks

text: about

text: a.m.

text: Sunday

text: when

text: he

text: fell

text: to

text: the

text: ground

text: bleeding

text: from

text: the

text: nose

text: and

text: eyes

text: McKinnon

text: said

text: The

text: victim

text: 's

text: mother

text: drove

text: him

text: to

text: South

text: Bay

text: Hospital

text: in

text: Sun

text: City

text: Center

text: where

text: doctors

text: determined

text: that

text: a

text: gunshot

text: had

text: gone

text: through

text: the

text: top

text: of

text: the

text: boy

text: 's

text: head

text: The

text: child

text: was

text: then

text: transported

text: to

text: Tampa

text: General

text: Hospital

text: where

text: he

text: was

text: in

text: critical

text: condition

text: Sunday

text: afternoon

text: The

text: boy

text: 's

text: mother

text: Sandy

text: Duran

text: spoke

text: to

text: reporters

text: Monday

text: about

text: her

text: son

text: His

text: brain

text: is

text: still

text: in

text: that

text: stage

text: of

text: the

text: to

text: hours

text: where

text: it

text: swells

text: There

text: 's

text: a

text: lot

text: of

text: inflammation

text: going

text: on

text: so

text: the

text: doctors

text: can

text: not

text: say

text: what

text: he

text: will

text: and

text: wo

text: n't

text: be

text: able

text: to

text: do

text: she

text: said

text: The

text: good

text: news

text: is

text: that

text: he

text: is

text: moving

text: his

text: extremities

text: He

text: can

text: move

text: his

text: hands

text: He

text: can

text: move

text: his

text: legs

text: He

text: has

text: opened

text: his

text: eyes

text: Duran

text: described

text: her

text: son

text: as

text: noble

text: and

text: said

text: he

text: enjoyed

text: skating

text: and

text: playing

text: guitar

text: He

text: is

text: the

text: youngest

text: of

text: three

text: children

text: and

text: her

text: family

text: is

text: taking

text: it

text: hour

text: by

text: hour

text: she

text: said

text: For

text: me

text: it

text: 's

text: a

text: miracle

text: that

text: he

text: 's

text: alive

text: considering

text: what

text: has

text: just

text: happened

text: to

text: him

text: said

text: Duran

text: No

text: one

text: in

text: the

text: immediate

text: area

text: around

text: the

text: victim

text: 's

text: house

text: was

text: firing

text: a

text: gun

text: the

text: boy

text: 's

text: relatives

text: and

text: neighbors

text: told

text: detectives

text: Police

text: believe

text: that

text: celebratory

text: gunfire

text: possibly

text: shot

text: from

text: miles

text: away

text: wounded

text: the

text: boy

text: If

text: the

text: wound

text: is

text: determined

text: to

text: be

text: from

text: a

text: celebratory

text: gunshot

text: it

text: would

text: not

text: be

text: the

text: first

text: time

text: a

text: child

text: was

text: inadvertently

text: shot

text: in

text: the

text: Southeast

text: on

text: New

text: Year

text: 's

text: Eve

text: and

text: in

text: the

text: hours

text: after

text: midnight

text: In

text: old

text: Marquel

text: Peters

text: died

text: after

text: a

text: bullet

text: went

text: through

text: the

text: roof

text: of

text: a

text: suburban

text: Atlanta

text: church

text: and

text: hit

text: him

text: The

text: boy

text: 's

text: mother

text: Nathalee

text: Peters

text: has

text: launched

text: an

text: online

text: effort

text: called

text: Marquel

text: 's

text: Pledge

text: to

text: urge

text: people

text: not

text: to

text: shoot

text: into

text: the

text: air

text: in

text: celebration

text: It

text: 's

text: one

text: of

text: several

text: such

text: campaigns

text: nationwide

text: including

text: one

text: in

text: Miami

text: called

text: One

text: bullet

text: kills

text: the

text: party

text: Duran

text: similarly

text: spoke

text: about

text: the

text: need

text: to

text: educate

text: the

text: public

text: about

text: the

text: dangers

text: of

text: celebratory

text: gunfire

text: I

text: 'm

text: speaking

text: out

text: because

text: I

text: do

text: n't

text: think

text: there

text: 's

text: enough

text: awareness

text: out

text: there

text: she

text: said

text: A

text: firearm

text: is

text: a

text: weapon

text: It

text: 's

text: a

text: weapon

text: that

text: takes

text: a

text: life

text: It

text: 's

text: not

text: a

text: toy

text: for

text: celebration

text: CNN

text: 's

text: George

text: Howell

text: contributed

text: to

text: this

text: report

question: Where is the bullet?

answer: lodged in the boy's head,

text: lodged in the boy's head,

question: What was Duran watching when he was hit?

answer: fireworks

text: fireworks

question: What is Duran's current condition?

answer: serious,

text: serious,

question: What age is Diego?

answer: 12,

question: where the bullet is lodged

answer: in the boy's head,

text: in the boy's head,


text:
(CNN) -- England and France set themselves on course for the quarterfinals of Rugby's World Cup with their second wins of the competition in New Zealand Sunday.

Fellow Six Nations side Wales also revived their hopes with a hard-fought 17-10 win over Samoa after their narrow opening defeat in Pool D to defending champions South Africa.

Martin Johnson's England saw off another determined challenge from Georgia 41-10 to stay on top in Pool B, while France beat Canada 46-19.

The French were troubled by the Canadians, who only trailed by a converted try after an hour before Damien Traille grabbed a breakaway try and Vincent Clerc crossed twice late on to make the scoreline flattering.

Marc Lievremont's team will have to improve against hosts New Zealand in Auckland next Saturday, with the losers likely to face England in the last eight.

England were scarcely more impressive against a Georgian team who have impressed in the World Cup and were also in touch at halftime.

But England pulled away after the break with Shontayne Hape and Chris Ashton scoring two tries apiece with Delon Armitage and Manu Tuilagi also going over.

After the off-field furore involving Mike Tindall, who captained the side in the opening win over Argentina, England were looking for a big performance but Johnson was disappointed with their display.

"If we are happy with those standards we will go home early," he told AFP.

Wales were behind in Hamilton as they trailed 10-6 at the half, but were sparked into life by winger Shane Williams's 67th-minute try, his eighth in the World Cup.

"We knew today was a must-win game," said coach Warren Gatland."

text: CNN

text: England

text: and

text: France

text: set

text: themselves

text: on

text: course

text: for

text: the

text: quarterfinals

text: of

text: Rugby

text: 's

text: World

text: Cup

text: with

text: their

text: second

text: wins

text: of

text: the

text: competition

text: in

text: New

text: Zealand

text: Sunday

text: Fellow

text: Six

text: Nations

text: side

text: Wales

text: also

text: revived

text: their

text: hopes

text: with

text: a

text: hard

text: fought

text: win

text: over

text: Samoa

text: after

text: their

text: narrow

text: opening

text: defeat

text: in

text: Pool

text: D

text: to

text: defending

text: champions

text: South

text: Africa

text: Martin

text: Johnson

text: 's

text: England

text: saw

text: off

text: another

text: determined

text: challenge

text: from

text: Georgia

text: to

text: stay

text: on

text: top

text: in

text: Pool

text: B

text: while

text: France

text: beat

text: Canada

text: The

text: French

text: were

text: troubled

text: by

text: the

text: Canadians

text: who

text: only

text: trailed

text: by

text: a

text: converted

text: try

text: after

text: an

text: hour

text: before

text: Damien

text: Traille

text: grabbed

text: a

text: breakaway

text: try

text: and

text: Vincent

text: Clerc

text: crossed

text: twice

text: late

text: on

text: to

text: make

text: the

text: scoreline

text: flattering

text: Marc

text: Lievremont

text: 's

text: team

text: will

text: have

text: to

text: improve

text: against

text: hosts

text: New

text: Zealand

text: in

text: Auckland

text: next

text: Saturday

text: with

text: the

text: losers

text: likely

text: to

text: face

text: England

text: in

text: the

text: last

text: eight

text: England

text: were

text: scarcely

text: more

text: impressive

text: against

text: a

text: Georgian

text: team

text: who

text: have

text: impressed

text: in

text: the

text: World

text: Cup

text: and

text: were

text: also

text: in

text: touch

text: at

text: halftime

text: But

text: England

text: pulled

text: away

text: after

text: the

text: break

text: with

text: Shontayne

text: Hape

text: and

text: Chris

text: Ashton

text: scoring

text: two

text: tries

text: apiece

text: with

text: Delon

text: Armitage

text: and

text: Manu

text: Tuilagi

text: also

text: going

text: over

text: After

text: the

text: off

text: field

text: furore

text: involving

text: Mike

text: Tindall

text: who

text: captained

text: the

text: side

text: in

text: the

text: opening

text: win

text: over

text: Argentina

text: England

text: were

text: looking

text: for

text: a

text: big

text: performance

text: but

text: Johnson

text: was

text: disappointed

text: with

text: their

text: display

text: If

text: we

text: are

text: happy

text: with

text: those

text: standards

text: we

text: will

text: go

text: home

text: early

text: he

text: told

text: AFP

text: Wales

text: were

text: behind

text: in

text: Hamilton

text: as

text: they

text: trailed

text: at

text: the

text: half

text: but

text: were

text: sparked

text: into

text: life

text: by

text: winger

text: Shane

text: Williams

text: 's

text: minute

text: try

text: his

text: eighth

text: in

text: the

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(CNN) -- There are several definitions of where the Northwest Passage begins and ends, but using the Arctic Circle is certainly the most encompassing, so we've been holding our breath until we crossed this line.

The crew has negotiated some stunning and treacherous waters to sail the Northwest Passage.

The Arctic Circle (66 30N) marks the lowest latitude at which the midnight sun is ever seen. We've had some stormy weather along the Baffin Island coast.

We had waves up to 8m high and winds over 40 knots. Silent Sound was being tossed around a lot, and I was thrown clear across the cabin on one occasion, suffering a minor concussion that kept me in my bunk for several days.

Now that we're out of the Arctic Archipelago and into the open sea, we are seeing more icebergs, instead of ice floes. Ice floes are frozen seawater while icebergs are chunks of ice broken off glaciers in the High Arctic. Bergs begin as snow falling on land, which is then compressed into ice.

Even though the icebergs we see are easily 20 or 30 meters high, most of their volume is below water. Only about one third of their entire volume is visible above water. This means you have to stay well clear of them because they may spread out under water, like an upside down mushroom.

We've also started thinking about what we've experienced and learned this summer.

By far the most impressive feature of the Arctic has been its people. In every town we visited we met complete strangers who offered us help, welcomed us into their homes and provided us with hot showers and food.

So many people showed genuine interest in our journey and generously told us about their lives, and we left nearly every town with a few fish or other wild game in our fridge.

Our mission when we left Victoria, British Columbia in June was to find out how climate change is impacting Arctic communities. We saw and heard about the impacts, from slumping land due to the melting of permafrost to hunter stories about the northward migration of species and the challenge that early ice break up poses for transportation.

But more importantly, I'm leaving the Arctic with a sense that its communities are at a crossroads. They underwent a rapid change in the 1950s and 60s when people moved off the land and into settlements.

Now, those settlements are bracing themselves for unprecedented change due to resource exploration, economic development, political wrangling and an influx of new wealth, people and social forces. They're all tied to climate change in one way or another, and they leave Arctic community leaders with a big job ahead of them.

Climate change is turning the spotlight on the Arctic, and hopefully that will mean federal government help where it is needed to aid the Inuit in making wise choices for their future. I've been struck by how although the Arctic is very different place than the urban habitat most of us occupy, it is not in a different time.

To maintain a romantic notion of the Arctic as a place time has forgotten where life is simple and basic would be an insult to the people that call it home and be a mistake. Many of the challenges brought to the Arctic by climate change and economic development are the same as those faced around the world. It's just a little colder, and a little more remote.

While we've begun mulling over our experiences this summer, it's too soon for the crew of Silent Sound to relax. We are still about three weeks from our final port. And the sailing is getting cold and tiring.

The nights are very dark at sea, and temperatures are hovering just above zero degrees Celsius. On many days we are sailing in snow, rain and sleet. Our onboard heater has broken down, so we have to wear extra layers in our sleeping bags to keep warm. This also means that the condensation builds up in the boat and it gets pretty damp, making it hard to dry our socks and gloves.

But Halifax is in sight, and we can get some comfort from our accomplishment of completing the Northwest Passage.

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question: What did the crew face?

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