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(CNN) -- While China is seriously cracking down on the exchange of virtual currencies for real cash, virtual economies backed by newfound legitimacy elsewhere are quickly gaining ground in the real world.

There's gold in them there screens: Real-money transactions in virtual worlds are finding new legitimacy.

On June 24, 2009, the role-playing game 140 Mafia launched on Twitter, following in the footsteps of highly lucrative games Mob Wars and Mafia Wars on Facebook (and now iPhone) to link virtual-currency exchanges to real-money transactions.

In March 2009, MindArk -- creator of the MMORPG (massively multiplayer online role-playing game) Entropia, where one player famously bought an island for US$26,500 in 2004 -- saw its wholly owned subsidiary Mind Bank granted a banking license from the Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority.

The new license allows Mind Bank to be the first bank to directly incorporate real-money transactions with virtual-world activities. Selling virtual assets directly between players for real-world cash has been strictly prohibited by most game publishers, which find themselves looped out of the profits.

What has been profitable in the meantime to some hardcore players of World of Warcraft and EverQuest (and other games) is "gold farming" -- accumulation of "gold," weapons and other status symbols of a seasoned player -- followed by the online auction of such assets or user accounts.

Since games publishers began policing eBay for this type of unauthorized activity, several Web sites such as PlayerAuctions have adopted a PayPal-like approach in order to broker the trading legally, acting as an open marketplace for player-to-player exchange of digital assets.

Dual-currency economies

However younger games (often aimed at younger audiences) are ditching the conventional subscription-based model of the above games to adopt the "freemium" model, which lets users play for free, but allows them to enhance their experience by purchasing accessories or other premiums through micropayments.

Frenzoo, a "3D fashion game for girls", is one game that has adopted this model. CEO Simon Newstead explains: "The idea with dual currencies is that there is a paid currency [Gold Coins], which is paid for using real money and exchanged between sellers and buyers. In addition, there is a second currency -- a free or so-called 'earned' currency [Silver Coins] -- which is gained through activity and progression in the world or game."

"In this way," he continues, "the economy can recognize different forms of contribution, and in newer economies these can also be traded between each other. For example, people earning currency and selling it to people who have less time but have real money."

Mirrored economies

As one of the first successful virtual economies, Second Life's huge marketplace includes objects and services for sale, as well as a real estate market.

In 2008, more than $100 million worth of the world's Linden dollars were bought and sold on Second Life's official LindeX exchange, according to its Web site.

"In Linden Exchange, the U.S. dollar part of the transaction is via PayPal, a well-known entity, so there's a certain amount of trust that comes with it," says Darrly Chang, co-founder of D&D Dogs, a two-man freelance venture that sells virtual dog pets and avatars to Second Life residents.

Recently, however, business has slumped along with the real-world recession.

"We'll continue to see a proliferation of alternative currencies associated with specific platforms and communities, much as frequent-flier miles are associated with individual airlines or even networks of airlines," says Dan Jansen, CEO of Virtual Greats, which specializes in creating branded, copyrighted material for virtual worlds.

"In the longer term we may see a global standard for virtual currencies, but it will take some time."

Golden e-currency?

James Turk, chairman of digital-gold company GoldMoney, agrees.

"But," he adds, "inevitably digital gold currency will make significant inroads in global commerce because it lowers the cost of transacting with one another. Reducing transaction costs creates more opportunities for global commerce."

In March 2009, GoldMoney launched a dedicated iPhone application allowing its account holders to exchange gold and silver units within minutes.

Putting a trendy iPhone application that allows people to manage their own digital gold on par with other popular banking applications branded by well-established banks brings e-currency a step closer to the modern mobile end-user.

Furthermore, GoldMoney is firmly anchored to real-world assets and individuals, notably strictly forbidding anonymous accounts -- unlike the former incarnation of the pioneering company E-Gold, whose founder this month ends his six-month house arrest in Florida after pleading guilty to money laundering-related crimes.

So how realistic is the prospect of a single, global, digital currency?

"It all comes down to trust," says senior economist Frederic Neumann.

"We trust the government to guarantee our 'virtual' money for real currency. [With digital gold] the gold standard is guaranteed by a private company. Governments already have several hundred years of sovereignty engrained in people's minds, so that trust is very difficult to establish."

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BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN)  -- Four U.S. soldiers died in a roadside bombing in Iraq on Sunday, military officials reported, bringing the American toll in the 5-year-old war to the grim milestone of 4,000 deaths.

Troops emerge from a bunker after receiving the "all clear" Sunday following a truck bombing in Mosul.

The four were killed when their vehicle was hit by an improvised explosive device while patrolling a neighborhood in southern Baghdad, the U.S. military headquarters in Iraq reported Sunday night. A fifth soldier was wounded in the attack, which took place about 10 p.m. (3 p.m. ET).

The U.S. milestone comes just days after Americans marked the fifth anniversary of the start of the war.

"No casualty is more or less significant than another; each soldier, Marine, airman and sailor is equally precious and their loss equally tragic," Rear Admiral Gregory Smith, the U.S. military's chief spokesman in Iraq, said.

"Every single loss of a soldier, sailor, airman or Marine is keenly felt by military commanders, families and friends both in theatre and at home," Smith said.

Of the 4,000 U.S. military personnel killed in the war, 3,263 have been killed in attacks and fighting and 737 in non-hostile incidents, such as traffic accidents and suicides.

Eight of the 4,000 killed were civilians working for the Pentagon.

Many of those killed over the years, like the four soldiers slain on Sunday in Baghdad, have been targeted by improvised explosive devices -- the roadside bombs that have been described as the weapon of choice for insurgents and a weapon that has come to symbolize Iraq's tenacious insurgency.

The existence of the Pentagon's Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization has been developed to counter the threat of IEDs in Iraq as well as Afghanistan. The group calls IEDs the "weapon of choice for adaptive and resilient networks of insurgents and terrorists."  Watch how IEDs have become deadly staple in Iraq war Â»

Meanwhile, estimates of the Iraqi death toll range from about 80,000 to the hundreds of thousands, with another 2 million forced to leave the country and 2.5 million people displaced within Iraq, according to the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees.

President Bush ordered U.S. troops into Iraq on March 19, 2003, after months of warnings that then-Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein was concealing stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons and efforts to build a nuclear bomb.

U.N. weapons inspectors found no sign of banned weapons before the invasion, and the CIA later concluded that Iraq had dismantled its weapons programs in the 1990s.

Hussein's government fell in early April 2003, and Iraq's new government executed him in December 2006.

The news of the 4,000 mark came on the same day that Iraq's national security adviser urged Americans to be patient with the progress of the war, contending that it is "well worth fighting" because it has implications about "global terror."

"This is global terrorism hitting everywhere, and they have chosen Iraq to be a battlefield. And we have to take them on," Mowaffak al-Rubaie said Sunday on CNN's "Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer."

"If we don't prevail, if we don't succeed in this war, then we are doomed forever," he said. "I understand and sympathize with the mothers, with the widows, with the children who have lost their beloved ones in this country.

"But honestly, it is well worth fighting and well worth investing the money and the treasure and the sweat and the tears in Iraq."

Nearly 160,000 U.S. troops remain in Iraq, and the war has cost U.S. taxpayers about $600 billion, according to the House Budget Committee.

The conflict is now widely unpopular among Americans: A CNN-Opinion Research Corp. poll out Wednesday found only 32 percent of Americans support the conflict. And 61 percent said they want the next president to remove most U.S. troops within a few months of taking office.

In the weekly Democratic radio address Saturday, Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey said President Bush "took us to war on the wings of a lie."

Menendez said that the war has depleted the resources and morale of the U.S. military; diverted national attention away from the war in Afghanistan, where al Qaeda is regrouping; and hurt the hunt for Osama bin Laden. The Iraq war has not made Americans safer, Menendez said, but has instead hurt the U.S. economy.

The senator called for a "responsible new direction" regarding Iraq.

CNN learned last week, from several U.S. military officials familiar with the recommendations but not authorized to speak on the record, that senior U.S. military officials are preparing to recommend to Bush a four- to six-week "pause" in additional troop withdrawals from Iraq after the last of the "surge" brigades leaves in July.

"If the conditions on the ground dictate that we have to have a pause, then we will have to have a pause," al-Rubaie said.

The return of all five brigades added to the Iraq contingent last year could reduce troop levels by up to 30,000, but still leave approximately 130,000 or more troops in Iraq.

Al-Rubaie emphasized Sunday that any drawdown of U.S. troops "has to be based on the conditions on the ground."

"It depends on the development and the growth and the equipment and the capabilities of the Iraqi security forces, and the preparedness of the Iraqi security forces," he said. "This should not be a purely political decision. It should be also a technical, military and intelligence decision."

But there has been too much "foot-dragging on key governance questions in Iraq," Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon said on CNN on Sunday. "It seems to me you put off those troop withdrawals, you send exactly the wrong message to the Iraqis."

On Wednesday, Bush will visit the Pentagon to be briefed by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, chaired by Adm. Michael Mullen.

The American troop level in Iraq "depends on the negotiations that we are engaged in now between the government of Iraq and the United States government," al-Rubaie said.

When conditions warrant the withdrawal of American troops, the Iraqis will say "'Thank you very much, indeed,' " al-Rubaie said. "A big, big thank you for the United States of America for liberating Iraq, for helping us in sustaining the security gains in Iraq ... and we will give them a very, very good farewell party then."

Responding to recent remarks from U.S. presidential candidates that Iraqis are not taking responsibility for their own future, al-Rubaie said Iraqis are making political and security gains.

"Literally by the day and by the week, we are gradually assuming more responsibility," he said, noting that Iraqis have taken responsibility for security in many provinces.

Other developments:

â¢ U.S. troops raided a suspected suicide bomber cell in Diyala province on Sunday, killing a dozen militants, half of whom had shaved their bodies -- which the U.S. military says indicates they were in the final stage of preparation for a suicide attack. Diyala province stretches north and east of Baghdad and has been a major front for U.S. troops fighting militants.

â¢ Several mortars landed in Baghdad's International Zone on Sunday, according to the Interior Ministry. A U.S. Embassy spokeswoman said there were no major casualties.  Watch smoke rise from the Green Zone Â»

â¢ A suicide car bomb exploded at a fuel station Sunday in a predominantly Shiite neighborhood in northwest Baghdad, killing seven people and wounding 12 others, the Interior Ministry said.

â¢ A suicide bomber detonated a truck full of explosives outside the main gate of an Iraqi military base in Mosul, killing at least 10 Iraqi soldiers and wounding 35 people, including 20 soldiers, Mosul police said. The U.S. military put the death toll higher, at 12.

â¢ A mortar round landed in a Shiite neighborhood in eastern Baghdad, killing seven people and injuring nine others, a ministry official said. Six more mortar rounds landed in other Baghdad neighborhoods Sunday night, killing three people, the Interior Ministry said.

â¢ In southeastern Baghdad, gunmen riding in at least two cars opened fire on a crowded outdoor market, killing at least three people and wounding 17 others, the Interior Ministry said.

â¢ A suicide bomber detonated a small truck rigged with explosives outside a local Awakening Council leader's house just east of Samarra on Saturday, killing at least five people and wounding 13 others, a Samarra police official said. Awakening Councils are largely Sunni security groups that have been recruited by the U.S. military.  E-mail to a friend

CNN's Mohammed Tawfeeq contributed to this report.

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text: of

text: the

text: war

text: No

text: casualty

text: is

text: more

text: or

text: less

text: significant

text: than

text: another

text: each

text: soldier

text: Marine

text: airman

text: and

text: sailor

text: is

text: equally

text: precious

text: and

text: their

text: loss

text: equally

text: tragic

text: Rear

text: Admiral

text: Gregory

text: Smith

text: the

text: U.S.

text: military

text: 's

text: chief

text: spokesman

text: in

text: Iraq

text: said

text: Every

text: single

text: loss

text: of

text: a

text: soldier

text: sailor

text: airman

text: or

text: Marine

text: is

text: keenly

text: felt

text: by

text: military

text: commanders

text: families

text: and

text: friends

text: both

text: in

text: theatre

text: and

text: at

text: home

text: Smith

text: said

text: Of

text: the

text: U.S.

text: military

text: personnel

text: killed

text: in

text: the

text: war

text: have

text: been

text: killed

text: in

text: attacks

text: and

text: fighting

text: and

text: in

text: non

text: hostile

text: incidents

text: such

text: as

text: traffic

text: accidents

text: and

text: suicides

text: Eight

text: of

text: the

text: killed

text: were

text: civilians

text: working

text: for

text: the

text: Pentagon

text: Many

text: of

text: those

text: killed

text: over

text: the

text: years

text: like

text: the

text: four

text: soldiers

text: slain

text: on

text: Sunday

text: in

text: Baghdad

text: have

text: been

text: targeted

text: by

text: improvised

text: explosive

text: devices

text: the

text: roadside

text: bombs

text: that

text: have

text: been

text: described

text: as

text: the

text: weapon

text: of

text: choice

text: for

text: insurgents

text: and

text: a

text: weapon

text: that

text: has

text: come

text: to

text: symbolize

text: Iraq

text: 's

text: tenacious

text: insurgency

text: The

text: existence

text: of

text: the

text: Pentagon

text: 's

text: Joint

text: Improvised

text: Explosive

text: Device

text: Defeat

text: Organization

text: has

text: been

text: developed

text: to

text: counter

text: the

text: threat

text: of

text: IEDs

text: in

text: Iraq

text: as

text: well

text: as

text: Afghanistan

text: The

text: group

text: calls

text: IEDs

text: the

text: weapon

text: of

text: choice

text: for

text: adaptive

text: and

text: resilient

text: networks

text: of

text: insurgents

text: and

text: terrorists

text: Watch

text: how

text: IEDs

text: have

text: become

text: deadly

text: staple

text: in

text: Iraq

text: war

text: Â

text: Meanwhile

text: estimates

text: of

text: the

text: Iraqi

text: death

text: toll

text: range

text: from

text: about

text: to

text: the

text: hundreds

text: of

text: thousands

text: with

text: another

text: million

text: forced

text: to

text: leave

text: the

text: country

text: and

text: million

text: people

text: displaced

text: within

text: Iraq

text: according

text: to

text: the

text: U.N.

text: High

text: Commissioner

text: for

text: Refugees

text: President

text: Bush

text: ordered

text: U.S.

text: troops

text: into

text: Iraq

text: on

text: March

text: after

text: months

text: of

text: warnings

text: that

text: then

text: Iraqi

text: leader

text: Saddam

text: Hussein

text: was

text: concealing

text: stockpiles

text: of

text: chemical

text: and

text: biological

text: weapons

text: and

text: efforts

text: to

text: build

text: a

text: nuclear

text: bomb

text: U.N.

text: weapons

text: inspectors

text: found

text: no

text: sign

text: of

text: banned

text: weapons

text: before

text: the

text: invasion

text: and

text: the

text: CIA

text: later

text: concluded

text: that

text: Iraq

text: had

text: dismantled

text: its

text: weapons

text: programs

text: in

text: the

text: Hussein

text: 's

text: government

text: fell

text: in

text: early

text: April

text: and

text: Iraq

text: 's

text: new

text: government

text: executed

text: him

text: in

text: December

text: The

text: news

text: of

text: the

text: mark

text: came

text: on

text: the

text: same

text: day

text: that

text: Iraq

text: 's

text: national

text: security

text: adviser

text: urged

text: Americans

text: to

text: be

text: patient

text: with

text: the

text: progress

text: of

text: the

text: war

text: contending

text: that

text: it

text: is

text: well

text: worth

text: fighting

text: because

text: it

text: has

text: implications

text: about

text: global

text: terror

text: This

text: is

text: global

text: terrorism

text: hitting

text: everywhere

text: and

text: they

text: have

text: chosen

text: Iraq

text: to

text: be

text: a

text: battlefield

text: And

text: we

text: have

text: to

text: take

text: them

text: on

text: Mowaffak

text: al

text: Rubaie

text: said

text: Sunday

text: on

text: CNN

text: 's

text: Late

text: Edition

text: with

text: Wolf

text: Blitzer

text: If

text: we

text: do

text: n't

text: prevail

text: if

text: we

text: do

text: n't

text: succeed

text: in

text: this

text: war

text: then

text: we

text: are

text: doomed

text: forever

text: he

text: said

text: I

text: understand

text: and

text: sympathize

text: with

text: the

text: mothers

text: with

text: the

text: widows

text: with

text: the

text: children

text: who

text: have

text: lost

text: their

text: beloved

text: ones

text: in

text: this

text: country

text: But

text: honestly

text: it

text: is

text: well

text: worth

text: fighting

text: and

text: well

text: worth

text: investing

text: the

text: money

text: and

text: the

text: treasure

text: and

text: the

text: sweat

text: and

text: the

text: tears

text: in

text: Iraq

text: Nearly

text: U.S.

text: troops

text: remain

text: in

text: Iraq

text: and

text: the

text: war

text: has

text: cost

text: U.S.

text: taxpayers

text: about

text: billion

text: according

text: to

text: the

text: House

text: Budget

text: Committee

text: The

text: conflict

text: is

text: now

text: widely

text: unpopular

text: among

text: Americans

text: A

text: CNN

text: Opinion

text: Research

text: Corp.

text: poll

text: out

text: Wednesday

text: found

text: only

text: percent

text: of

text: Americans

text: support

text: the

text: conflict

text: And

text: percent

text: said

text: they

text: want

text: the

text: next

text: president

text: to

text: remove

text: most

text: U.S.

text: troops

text: within

text: a

text: few

text: months

text: of

text: taking

text: office

text: In

text: the

text: weekly

text: Democratic

text: radio

text: address

text: Saturday

text: Sen.

text: Bob

text: Menendez

text: of

text: New

text: Jersey

text: said

text: President

text: Bush

text: took

text: us

text: to

text: war

text: on

text: the

text: wings

text: of

text: a

text: lie

text: Menendez

text: said

text: that

text: the

text: war

text: has

text: depleted

text: the

text: resources

text: and

text: morale

text: of

text: the

text: U.S.

text: military

text: diverted

text: national

text: attention

text: away

text: from

text: the

text: war

text: in

text: Afghanistan

text: where

text: al

text: Qaeda

text: is

text: regrouping

text: and

text: hurt

text: the

text: hunt

text: for

text: Osama

text: bin

text: Laden

text: The

text: Iraq

text: war

text: has

text: not

text: made

text: Americans

text: safer

text: Menendez

text: said

text: but

text: has

text: instead

text: hurt

text: the

text: U.S.

text: economy

text: The

text: senator

text: called

text: for

text: a

text: responsible

text: new

text: direction

text: regarding

text: Iraq

text: CNN

text: learned

text: last

text: week

text: from

text: several

text: U.S.

text: military

text: officials

text: familiar

text: with

text: the

text: recommendations

text: but

text: not

text: authorized

text: to

text: speak

text: on

text: the

text: record

text: that

text: senior

text: U.S.

text: military

text: officials

text: are

text: preparing

text: to

text: recommend

text: to

text: Bush

text: a

text: four-

text: to

text: six

text: week

text: pause

text: in

text: additional

text: troop

text: withdrawals

text: from

text: Iraq

text: after

text: the

text: last

text: of

text: the

text: surge

text: brigades

text: leaves

text: in

text: July

text: If

text: the

text: conditions

text: on

text: the

text: ground

text: dictate

text: that

text: we

text: have

text: to

text: have

text: a

text: pause

text: then

text: we

text: will

text: have

text: to

text: have

text: a

text: pause

text: al

text: Rubaie

text: said

text: The

text: return

text: of

text: all

text: five

text: brigades

text: added

text: to

text: the

text: Iraq

text: contingent

text: last

text: year

text: could

text: reduce

text: troop

text: levels

text: by

text: up

text: to

text: but

text: still

text: leave

text: approximately

text: or

text: more

text: troops

text: in

text: Iraq

text: Al

text: Rubaie

text: emphasized

text: Sunday

text: that

text: any

text: drawdown

text: of

text: U.S.

text: troops

text: has

text: to

text: be

text: based

text: on

text: the

text: conditions

text: on

text: the

text: ground

text: It

text: depends

text: on

text: the

text: development

text: and

text: the

text: growth

text: and

text: the

text: equipment

text: and

text: the

text: capabilities

text: of

text: the

text: Iraqi

text: security

text: forces

text: and

text: the

text: preparedness

text: of

text: the

text: Iraqi

text: security

text: forces

text: he

text: said

text: This

text: should

text: not

text: be

text: a

text: purely

text: political

text: decision

text: It

text: should

text: be

text: also

text: a

text: technical

text: military

text: and

text: intelligence

text: decision

text: But

text: there

text: has

text: been

text: too

text: much

text: foot

text: dragging

text: on

text: key

text: governance

text: questions

text: in

text: Iraq

text: Democratic

text: Sen.

text: Ron

text: Wyden

text: of

text: Oregon

text: said

text: on

text: CNN

text: on

text: Sunday

text: It

text: seems

text: to

text: me

text: you

text: put

text: off

text: those

text: troop

text: withdrawals

text: you

text: send

text: exactly

text: the

text: wrong

text: message

text: to

text: the

text: Iraqis

text: On

text: Wednesday

text: Bush

text: will

text: visit

text: the

text: Pentagon

text: to

text: be

text: briefed

text: by

text: the

text: Joint

text: Chiefs

text: of

text: Staff

text: chaired

text: by

text: Adm.

text: Michael

text: Mullen

text: The

text: American

text: troop

text: level

text: in

text: Iraq

text: depends

text: on

text: the

text: negotiations

text: that

text: we

text: are

text: engaged

text: in

text: now

text: between

text: the

text: government

text: of

text: Iraq

text: and

text: the

text: United

text: States

text: government

text: al

text: Rubaie

text: said

text: When

text: conditions

text: warrant

text: the

text: withdrawal

text: of

text: American

text: troops

text: the

text: Iraqis

text: will

text: say

text: Thank

text: you

text: very

text: much

text: indeed

text: al

text: Rubaie

text: said

text: A

text: big

text: big

text: thank

text: you

text: for

text: the

text: United

text: States

text: of

text: America

text: for

text: liberating

text: Iraq

text: for

text: helping

text: us

text: in

text: sustaining

text: the

text: security

text: gains

text: in

text: Iraq

text: and

text: we

text: will

text: give

text: them

text: a

text: very

text: very

text: good

text: farewell

text: party

text: then

text: Responding

text: to

text: recent

text: remarks

text: from

text: U.S.

text: presidential

text: candidates

text: that

text: Iraqis

text: are

text: not

text: taking

text: responsibility

text: for

text: their

text: own

text: future

text: al

text: Rubaie

text: said

text: Iraqis

text: are

text: making

text: political

text: and

text: security

text: gains

text: Literally

text: by

text: the

text: day

text: and

text: by

text: the

text: week

text: we

text: are

text: gradually

text: assuming

text: more

text: responsibility

text: he

text: said

text: noting

text: that

text: Iraqis

text: have

text: taken

text: responsibility

text: for

text: security

text: in

text: many

text: provinces

text: Other

text: developments

text: â¢

text: U.S.

text: troops

text: raided

text: a

text: suspected

text: suicide

text: bomber

text: cell

text: in

text: Diyala

text: province

text: on

text: Sunday

text: killing

text: a

text: dozen

text: militants

text: half

text: of

text: whom

text: had

text: shaved

text: their

text: bodies

text: which

text: the

text: U.S.

text: military

text: says

text: indicates

text: they

text: were

text: in

text: the

text: final

text: stage

text: of

text: preparation

text: for

text: a

text: suicide

text: attack

text: Diyala

text: province

text: stretches

text: north

text: and

text: east

text: of

text: Baghdad

text: and

text: has

text: been

text: a

text: major

text: front

text: for

text: U.S.

text: troops

text: fighting

text: militants

text: â¢

text: Several

text: mortars

text: landed

text: in

text: Baghdad

text: 's

text: International

text: Zone

text: on

text: Sunday

text: according

text: to

text: the

text: Interior

text: Ministry

text: A

text: U.S.

text: Embassy

text: spokeswoman

text: said

text: there

text: were

text: no

text: major

text: casualties

text: Watch

text: smoke

text: rise

text: from

text: the

text: Green

text: Zone

text: Â

text: â¢

text: A

text: suicide

text: car

text: bomb

text: exploded

text: at

text: a

text: fuel

text: station

text: Sunday

text: in

text: a

text: predominantly

text: Shiite

text: neighborhood

text: in

text: northwest

text: Baghdad

text: killing

text: seven

text: people

text: and

text: wounding

text: others

text: the

text: Interior

text: Ministry

text: said

text: â¢

text: A

text: suicide

text: bomber

text: detonated

text: a

text: truck

text: full

text: of

text: explosives

text: outside

text: the

text: main

text: gate

text: of

text: an

text: Iraqi

text: military

text: base

text: in

text: Mosul

text: killing

text: at

text: least

text: Iraqi

text: soldiers

text: and

text: wounding

text: people

text: including

text: soldiers

text: Mosul

text: police

text: said

text: The

text: U.S.

text: military

text: put

text: the

text: death

text: toll

text: higher

text: at

text: â¢

text: A

text: mortar

text: round

text: landed

text: in

text: a

text: Shiite

text: neighborhood

text: in

text: eastern

text: Baghdad

text: killing

text: seven

text: people

text: and

text: injuring

text: nine

text: others

text: a

text: ministry

text: official

text: said

text: Six

text: more

text: mortar

text: rounds

text: landed

text: in

text: other

text: Baghdad

text: neighborhoods

text: Sunday

text: night

text: killing

text: three

text: people

text: the

text: Interior

text: Ministry

text: said

text: â¢

text: In

text: southeastern

text: Baghdad

text: gunmen

text: riding

text: in

text: at

text: least

text: two

text: cars

text: opened

text: fire

text: on

text: a

text: crowded

text: outdoor

text: market

text: killing

text: at

text: least

text: three

text: people

text: and

text: wounding

text: others

text: the

text: Interior

text: Ministry

text: said

text: â¢

text: A

text: suicide

text: bomber

text: detonated

text: a

text: small

text: truck

text: rigged

text: with

text: explosives

text: outside

text: a

text: local

text: Awakening

text: Council

text: leader

text: 's

text: house

text: just

text: east

text: of

text: Samarra

text: on

text: Saturday

text: killing

text: at

text: least

text: five

text: people

text: and

text: wounding

text: others

text: a

text: Samarra

text: police

text: official

text: said

text: Awakening

text: Councils

text: are

text: largely

text: Sunni

text: security

text: groups

text: that

text: have

text: been

text: recruited

text: by

text: the

text: U.S.

text: military

text: E

text: mail

text: to

text: a

text: friend

text: CNN

text: 's

text: Mohammed

text: Tawfeeq

text: contributed

text: to

text: this

text: report

question: What is the American death toll?

answer: 4,000

question: what was the result of sunday

answer: Four U.S. soldiers died in a roadside bombing

text: Four U.S. soldiers died in a roadside bombing

question: who hit by an IED

answer: Four U.S. soldiers

text: Four U.S. soldiers

question: what american death toll

answer: 4,000 deaths.

text: 4,000 deaths.

question: Where were the four soldiers from?

answer: U.S.

text: U.S.

question: What number of Iraqi's have been killed?

answer: about 80,000 to the hundreds of thousands,

text: about 80,000 to the hundreds of thousands,

question: what did the security advisor say

answer: urged Americans to be patient with the progress of the war, contending that it is "well worth fighting" because it has implications about "global terror."

text: urged Americans to be patient with the progress of the war, contending that it is "well worth fighting" because it has implications about "global terror."

question: What was the vehicle hit with?

answer: an improvised explosive device

text: an improvised explosive device

question: what is the cap of deaths

answer: 4,000

question: what is approximately of iraqis casualties

answer: about 80,000 to the hundreds of thousands,

text: about 80,000 to the hundreds of thousands,


text:
(CNN)  -- Tough economic times are taking a toll across the spectrum of business and individual activity -- and the country's institutions of higher learning are no exception.

Andy Warhol is one of the artists in Brandeis University's acclaimed Rose Art Museum.

Brandeis University, in Waltham, Massachusetts, will be taking an extraordinary step to preserve its educational mission -- the school's board of trustees voted Monday to close its acclaimed Rose Art Museum.

The university will sell every one of the approximately 6,000 items in the museum, opened in 1961.

"These are extraordinary times, we cannot control or fix the nation's economic problems," university president Jehuda Reinharz said.

"We can only do what we have been entrusted to do -- act responsibly with the best interests of our students and their futures foremost in mind."

University spokesman Dennis Nealon said that the move to sell off the museum's exhibits was "a very hard and painful decision" but a necessary one for the school's survival.

He said the decision, which calls for the museum to close in the summer, will not affect the university's "commitment to the arts and the teaching of the arts."

The facility will become a fine arts teaching center with an exhibition gallery and studio space, he said.

The museum's collection includes iconic paintings by such luminaries of American art as Andy Warhol, James Rosenquist, Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Alex Katz and Roy Lichtenstein.

Nealon said most of the museum's acquisitions are paintings and sculptures. The school has not undertaken a recent appraisal of the works, Nealon said, adding that the process may take as much as two years to complete.

Brandeis, founded in 1948, is the only non-sectarian, Jewish-sponsored university in the country.

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text: times

text: are

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text: a

text: toll

text: across

text: the

text: spectrum

text: of

text: business

text: and

text: individual

text: activity

text: and

text: the

text: country

text: 's

text: institutions

text: of

text: higher

text: learning

text: are

text: no

text: exception

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text: is

text: one

text: of

text: the

text: artists

text: in

text: Brandeis

text: University

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text: acclaimed

text: Rose

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text: Museum

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text: University

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text: Waltham

text: Massachusetts

text: will

text: be

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text: step

text: to

text: preserve

text: its

text: educational

text: mission

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text: school

text: 's

text: board

text: of

text: trustees

text: voted

text: Monday

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text: museum

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text: nation

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text: university

text: president

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text: we

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text: Dennis

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SUSSEX, Virginia (CNN) -- Suspended NFL quarterback Michael Vick must adhere to tightened restrictions after he tested positive for marijuana use, a federal judge said Wednesday.

Suspended Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick tested positive for marijuana in a September 13 drug test.

Vick tested positive for the drug on September 13, a court document from the Eastern District of Virginia shows.

As a result, U.S. District Judge Henry E. Hudson ordered Vick to "submit to any method of testing required by the pretrial services officer or the supervising officer for determining whether the defendant is using a prohibited substance."

Those methods could include random drug testing, a remote alcohol testing system "and/or any form of prohibited substance screening or testing," the order said.

Vick, 27, must participate in substance abuse therapy and mental health counseling "if deemed advisable by the pretrial services officer or supervising officer" at his own expense, the order said.

Vick was also ordered to stay home between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m., "or as directed by the pretrial services officer or supervising officer," the order said. He is to be electronically monitored during that time.

The conditions are to apply until Vick's sentencing, which is set for December 10.  Read about the federal case against Vick Â»

"This is a very difficult time for Mr. Vick," said Billy Martin, Vick's lead defense counsel, in a written statement. "He will comply with the court's new conditions regarding release."

Vick faces a possible prison term of 12 to 18 months after his August guilty plea to federal conspiracy charges related to dogfighting on his property in Surry County, Virginia. The original terms of the pretrial release, set in July by U.S. Magistrate Dennis W. Dohnal, required that Vick not use narcotic drugs or other controlled substances unless prescribed by a doctor.

Vick's guilty plea in the federal case came after three associates -- Purnell Peace, 35, of Virginia Beach, Virginia; Quanis Phillips, 28, of Atlanta, Georgia; and Tony Taylor, 34, of Hampton, Virginia -- admitted their roles in the operation and agreed to cooperate with prosecutors.

On Tuesday, a Virginia grand jury indicted Vick and the three co-defendants on state charges of running a dogfighting ring at the home.  See a timeline of the case against Vick Â»

The Surry County grand jury brought two charges against Vick: one count of unlawfully torturing and killing dogs and one of promoting dogfights. Each is a felony charge that could result in a five-year prison term.

Vick will be arraigned October 3 in state court in Virginia.

Vick's attorneys say they are fighting the state charges on the grounds that he can't be convicted twice of the same crime. E-mail to a friend

CNN's Eric Fiegel contributed to this report.

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question: What does Vick already face?

answer: possible prison term of 12 to 18 months

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question: When did Vick take drug test?

answer: September 13

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question: Was Vick under the influence of anything?

answer: tested positive for marijuana

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question: Who indicted Vicks?

answer: a Virginia grand jury

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question: What number of months is Vick facing in prison?

answer: 12 to 18

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answer: 12 to 18

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question: Who's Sept. 13 drug test showed marijuana use?

answer: Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick

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question: what isvick's last name?

answer: Michael Vick

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question: Which drug test showed Marijuana use?

answer: September 13

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question: What did the Virginia grand jury indict Vick on?

answer: state charges of running a dogfighting ring

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question: Who was indicted by a Virginia grand jury?

answer: Michael Vick

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question: When must Vick be at home?

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question: What conditions were imposed?

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question: what kind of charges was Vick encounter?

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question: What conditions were placed on him?

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question: Which state is the grand jury from?

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question: What drug was Vicks found to have used?

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question: where do vick lived?

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LOS ANGELES, California (CNN)  -- Grammy-winning rapper Coolio was charged Tuesday with possession of cocaine and a smoking device, and battery against an airport screener who allegedly found the illegal drugs in his luggage, according to the Los Angeles District Attorney's office.

Coolio's "Gangsta's Paradise" was used in the movie "Dangerous Minds."

Coolio -- whose real name is Artis Leon Ivey Jr. -- was arrested Friday while attempting to board a flight at Los Angeles International Airport, the office said in a written statement.

"At one point, Ivey allegedly grabbed a screener's arm to prevent the search," the statement said.

Coolio, 45, was freed on bail and ordered to appear in court for arraignment April 3, it said.

He is best known for his 1995 hip-hop hit "Gangsta's Paradise."

Efforts to reach his publicist were unsuccessful.

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Atlanta, Georgia (CNN) -- It so rarely snows in Mobile, Alabama, that the city's public works department doesn't bother keeping road salt on hand.

So with 2 to 4 inches of snow expected to fall there starting Thursday afternoon, road crews were filling trucks with the sand that's typically reserved for filling cave-ins and for sandbagging during floods.

"We don't know what to do," said John Windley, Mobile's superintendent of public works. "We just tell everybody to stay home."

As forecasters predict up to 8 inches of snow across a swath of the Southeast that hasn't seen more than an inch of snow in at least a decade -- including parts of Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi -- public officials are reacting with a mix of trepidation and helplessness.

Hundreds of flights into and out of Atlanta have been canceled for Friday as snow bears down on the area.

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Delta Air Lines canceled about 800 flights into and out of Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson Airport, and AirTran Airways canceled 32 flights ahead of the storm, according to representatives of the airlines.

Downtown Atlanta could get as much as 5 inches of snow Friday, beginning at mid-morning, according to CNN weather modeling.

Many residents of the Deep South, meanwhile, are expressing disbelief.

"I'm dubious," said John Hogan, a college professor who's planning to lead a Mardi Gras parade in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Friday night despite forecasts of up to 2 inches of snow and ice there. "It snows here once every 15 years, so what's the likelihood?"

John DeMiller, owner of the Petit Bois Grocery in Biloxi, Mississippi, was also skeptical.

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"To be honest, we don't believe it's going to snow," he said. "It just never does."

Yet it was already snowing in parts of the South by Thursday afternoon and forecasters were calling for more to come.

The storm system moving across the Deep South in the next few days will bring 3 to 6 inches of snow to Jackson, Mississippi, up to 2 inches to Biloxi, Mississippi and 2 to 4 inches to Mobile, Alabama, said CNN meteorologist Sean Morris.

"These are cities that rarely see a flake all winter long," he said.

With most of the accumulation expected overnight, school and workplaces across the region are bracing for closures Friday.

Because temperatures are expected to rise into the 30s and 40s across much of the South on Friday, road crews are worried about melting and refreezing on roads over the next couple of days.

A representative of the Federal Aviation Administration said the agency is too focused on responding to the double-punch of Northeast snow to say how the expected Southern snow would affect travel in the region.

But by Thursday night, Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport had already measured a snowfall of 9.4 inches, which broke the record of 7.8 inches set on January 14, 1917, and matched on January 15, 1964, the National Weather Service reported.

In Shreveport, Louisiana, where snow had been falling since dawn, the staff at the Naked Bean Cafe said it had only six customers by noon, down from around 30 on a typical day.

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question: What airport has received more than 9 inches of snow?

answer: Dallas/Fort Worth International

text: Dallas/Fort Worth International

question: What has been canceled because of forecast ?

answer: Hundreds of flights into and out of Atlanta

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question: What airport has already recieved snow ?

answer: Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson

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question: How many flights were cancelled?

answer: Hundreds

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question: How many snow is predicted to fall ?

answer: 2 to 4 inches

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question: How many inches of snow were predicted to fall?

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LA PAZ, Bolivia (CNN)  -- Bolivian President Evo Morales nationalized the Chaco petroleum company Friday, taking over the BP subsidiary with the military on standby.

Bolivian leader Evo Morales speaks before parliament Thursday in the capital, La Paz.

"With this decree," Morales said in a nationally televised address from an oil field in Cochabamba, "we nationalize all the petroleum business in Chaco for all Bolivians."

Chaco is jointly owned by Pan American Energy and the Bolivian Pension Fund, each with a 50 percent stake, BP spokesman David Nicholas said from Great Britain. BP owns 60 percent of Pan American Energy, and Bridas Corp. owns the other 40 percent, Nicholas said

Nicholas declined comment on the nationalization.

"We are aware of the presidential decree but cannot comment," he said. "We support Pan America's energies with any discussions they have with the Bolivian government."

Morales wore a white safety helmet with the words "Chaco nationalized" printed on the front when he made his announcement. The Bolivian president guaranteed the petroleum workers that their jobs will be safe.

Formed in 1997, Chaco employs about 90 Bolivians, the company says on its Web site.

Chaco is dedicated to the exploration and production of hydrocarbons, BP says.

Morales decreed in 2007 and 2008 that the government should nationalize various petroleum companies.

His actions Friday came less than 48 hours before Bolivians vote Sunday on a new constitution that would give the central government more power and control.

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answer: Chaco petroleum

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question: What mode is the military in?

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question: Which petroleum company was nationalized?

answer: Chaco

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answer: nationalized the Chaco petroleum company

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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Hillary Clinton was sworn in as the 67th U.S. secretary of state Wednesday afternoon after the Senate approved her nomination by a vote of 94-2.

Hillary Clinton gets sworn in Wednesday in her Senate office by Judge Kathryn Oberly.

Former President Clinton and her Senate staff looked on as Clinton's childhood friend and D.C. Court of Appeals Associate Judge Kathryn Oberly swore her in on a Bible belonging to the former first lady's late father in a ceremony in her Senate office.

The senators who opposed Clinton's confirmation were Jim DeMint, R-South Carolina, and David Vitter, R-Louisiana.

Keeping with tradition, America's new chief diplomat will be treated to a welcoming ceremony with employees Thursday morning in the State Department, agency officials said.

Immediately after the ceremony, Clinton submitted her resignation from the Senate with identical one-sentence letters to Vice President Joe Biden, who serves as president of the Senate, Secretary of the Senate Nancy Erickson and New York Gov. David Paterson.

Paterson must appoint a replacement in the Senate. The governor, who had said he would not name his choice until after Clinton's confirmation, told CNN's "American Morning" on Monday that he had not made a decision.

"I'm actually, I think, narrowing the field to about half of the people who are involved, and then I would hope, in the next few days, to get down to one," he told CNN's John Roberts.

Some of the better-known candidates, including Nassau County Executive Tom Suozzi and U.S. Reps. Carolyn Maloney and Steve Israel, have pledged not to wage a primary fight against Paterson's pick in the 2010 special election to finish the final two years of Clinton's term.

Clinton's confirmation was held up Tuesday when Texas Republican Sen. John Cornyn objected to a voice vote, demanding a roll-call vote instead.

Cornyn said he knew that Clinton would be confirmed but said he delayed the vote because he wanted more time to talk about the foundation run by her husband.

The former president signed an agreement with the Obama transition team pledging to limit foreign donations and to release annual disclosures of new donations to his foundation.

"My concern is not whether our colleague Sen. Clinton is qualified to be secretary of state or not. She is," Cornyn said.

"But we should not let our respect for Sen. Clinton or our admiration for the many good works of the Clinton Foundation blind us to the danger of perceived conflicts of interest caused by the [foundation's] solicitation of hundreds of millions of dollars from foreign and some domestic sources," he said. "The perception and reality must be that the office of secretary of state is viewed around the world as beyond reproach."

Clinton was defended by Sen. John McCain, R-Arizona, who used his first floor speech since the end of the presidential campaign to urge his colleagues to confirm her quickly as secretary of state. iReport.com: Share your thoughts on Obama's cabinet

"I think the message that the American people are sending us now is they want us to work together and get to work," McCain said. "I think we ought to let Sen. Clinton, who is obviously qualified and obviously will serve, get to work immediately."

McCain confidantes told CNN that the senator developed a genuinely deep admiration for Clinton during the drawn-out Democratic primary process. Both senators also sit on the Armed Services Committee and had become close on several congressional delegation trips abroad.

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted 16-1 last week in favor of Clinton's nomination, with Vitter casting the sole dissenting vote.

CNN's Dana Bash, Ed Hornick and Elise Labott contributed to this report.

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question: Did Clinton submitted his resignation?

answer: her

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question: Who is hillary clinton?

answer: the 67th U.S. secretary of state

text: the 67th U.S. secretary of state

question: What did Clinton resign from

answer: Senate

text: Senate

question: Who urged the confirmation

answer: Sen. John McCain,

text: Sen. John McCain,

question: Clinton will limit what type of donations

answer: foreign

text: foreign