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WASHINGTON (CNN)  -- The Veterans Administration's handling of disability claims has seen improvements and setbacks, a congressional watchdog said Wednesday.

Sen. Daniel Akaka says, "Our goal is to provide veterans with accurate and timely resolution to their cases."

"Over the past several years, VA disability claims workloads at both the initial and appellate levels have improved in some areas and worsened in others," the Government Accountability Office said in a report.

The Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee asked the GAO to present its preliminary findings on the processing of disability claims, which were under discussion at a committee hearing.

"Our goal is to provide veterans with accurate and timely resolution to their cases," said Sen. Daniel Akaka, D-Hawaii, the committee's chairman.

Ranking member Sen. Richard Burr, R-North Carolina, said, "For the men and women who have served and sacrificed for our nation, they deserve a system that meets their needs without hassles or delays."

Along with a GAO representative, the hearing invited testimony from the Pentagon and the Department of Veterans Affairs, a professor and an official from the Disabled American Veterans.

The GAO report said the number of initial claims the VA annually completes has increased from the 1999 to 2008 fiscal years. But it says the number of pending claims at year's end has grown during the same time period.

The review cites "increases in disability claims received, growing complexity of claims, court decisions and changes in regulation."

There have been mixed results for claims workloads at the appellate level. The number of resolved claims has increased from 2003 to 2008, but it took an average 96 days longer to resolve appeals during that same time period.

"One factor that affects workloads at the appellate level is the submission of new evidence or claims that must be evaluated," the report said.

The report said the VA has worked to improve the handling of claims but said the results of those efforts "is not yet known."

It mentions an increase in staff from 2005 to 2009, "which has helped to increase the total number of decisions VA issues annually." At the same time, training and staff integration challenges could cause a "short-term" decline in productivity

"In addition, VA has established 15 resource centers to which it redistributes claims and appeals for processing from backlogged regional offices. Although VA has not collected data to evaluate the effect of its workload redistribution efforts, these efforts may ultimately increase the timeliness and consistency of VA's decisions," the report said.

The VA is starting a pilot program with the Pentagon "to perform joint disability evaluations that has the potential to streamline the disability process for prospective veterans."

The VA also is reviewing other potential programs -- "targeting certain claims for fast-track processing and leveraging technology."

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(CNN) -- When Barack Obama was elected U.S. president he probably did not realize it would give him a chance to pick up tips on his backswing from the world's elite golfers.

U.S. President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden make use of the White House putting green.

Obama is the honorary chairman for the 2009 Presidents Cup which will be contested at Harding Park Golf Course in San Francisco this week where the top U.S. golfers take on the best players from around the world outside of Europe.

As a golf enthusiast, and keen amateur player, the president will get the chance to pick the brains of Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson, Ernie Els and Vijay Singh on how to improve his game.

But he is not the first to take to the greens while occupying the Oval Office with 15 of the last 18 U.S. presidents said to have played the sport while in power.  Living Golf's gallery of presidential putters. Â»

Dwight Eisenhower is recognized as probably the most dedicated to the sport, and was often criticized by Democrats for spending too much time on the golf course.

Eisenhower's solution? In 1954 he had a putting green installed at the White House a short stroll from the Oval Office to enable him to practice while at work which was regularly used by subsequent presidents and still exists to this day.

The former five-star general was also a member at the Augusta National Golf Club where a overhanging tree on the 17th hole proved such an obstacle to the leader that it was dubbed the "Eisenhower Tree."

There is little doubt though that John F. Kennedy was the most talented presidential golfer, although he was reluctant to associate with the game.

During his run for president in 1960, Kennedy did everything possible to keep his fellow Americans from discovering that he not only loved the game but was nearly as good as a club professional and was said to have had a beautiful natural swing.

Throughout Eisenhower's two terms Kennedy had portrayed him as someone who cared more about lowering his handicap than improving the lives of ordinary Americans, so information about his passion for the links only really came out later.

Lyndon Johnson is at the opposite end of the spectrum on the talent stakes and is reported to have taken up to 400 swings to get round an 18-hole course while Gerald Ford, who served as honorary chairman for the inaugural Presidents Cup in 1994, had a reputation for accidentally hitting the ball at spectators.

In terms of sheer number of matches though even Eisenhower could not match Woodrow Wilson who was said to have played almost every day, apart from on Sundays, and even had golf balls painted red so he could play in the snow.

Ronald Reagan was only an occasional player but Bill Clinton was renowned for an entourage featuring Secret Service agents, a police sniper, a man carrying U.S. nuclear codes, various aides and someone with a secure telephone so he could speak to world leaders on a typical round.

George W. Bush still plays regularly with his father, and fellow former president, but Bush junior's contribution to golf will forever be immortalized in a short press briefing he gave from the course after being questioned on violence in the Middle East.

"I call upon all nations to do everything they can to stop these terrorist killers. Thank you." Bush said before he paused and told reporters: "Now watch this drive!"

Obama therefore follows a healthy tradition of golfing presidents and he can relax safe in the knowledge that even if he cannot solve the world's problems while in the White House at least he can improve his short game.

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(CNN) -- For the past decade, Microsoft researcher Gordon Bell has been moving the data from his brain onto computers -- where he knows it will be safe.

Gordon Bell wearing a SenseCam, which automatically records photos throughout the day.

Sure, you could say all of us do this to some extent. We save digital pictures from family events and keep tons of e-mail.

But Bell, who is 75 years old, takes the idea of digital memory to a sci-fi-esque extreme. He carries around video equipment, cameras and audio recorders to capture his conversations, commutes, trips and experiences. Microsoft is working on a SenseCam that would hang around a person's neck and automatically capture every detail of life in photo form. Bell has given that a whirl. He also saves everything -- from restaurant receipts (he takes pictures of them) to correspondence, bills and medical records. He makes PDF files out of every Web page he views.

In sum, this mountain of data -- more than 350 gigabytes worth, not including the streaming audio and video -- is a replica of Bell's biological memory. It's actually better, he says, because, if you back up your data in enough places, this digitized "e-memory" never forgets. It's like having a multimedia transcript of your life.

By about 2020, he says, our entire life histories will be online and searchable. Location-aware smartphones and inexpensive digital memory storage in the "cloud" of the Internet make the transition possible and inevitable. No one will have to fret about storing the details of their lives in their heads anymore. We'll have computers for that. And this revolution will "change what it means to be human," he writes.

Bell, who, along with fellow researcher Jim Gemmell, is the author of a new book called "Total Recall," talked with CNN about the advantages and drawbacks of recording one's life in painstaking digital detail. The following is an edited transcript.

CNN: What have you learned about yourself through this process?

That's been a really hard question to answer. ... The main driver of the recall turns out to be a [computer] screensaver or something where I go looking for [a digital memory] and I find something else. I guess it's the rich set of connections and people that I've been involved with.

CNN: What do you use to record your memories?

In a way, most of what happens during the day is sort of routine -- what you've done before. So I carry the SenseCam only when I think there's an episode or a sequence or a certain set of events that I want to capture and have automatically photographed. But I tend to always carry a camera with me. I live next to a fire station and I've got lots of photos of the hook and ladder coming out of the house. And I like food so I tend to photograph wonderfully presented food all the time. To me those are very pleasant memories.

CNN: If we rely on computers instead of our brains, will humans become mentally sluggish?

That's certainly one of the concerns. I tend to counter that theory. To me, I feel a lot freer. In a way I feel like I still remember all that stuff, but I generally remember that [the computer is] remembering something for me so I can find it.

People have no memory of phone numbers now because of the cell phone -- their address book is in a cell phone. So I don't think they're getting any worse or any less facile about that. What an e-memory does, to me, is gives me a really wonderful free feeling.

CNN: If we all record audio of our lives, do you think conversations will become stilted and fake?

I think there will be a lot of court cases and lawyering around all of that. I'm personally less hung up about that. Certainly, people my age and Baby Boomers are. But the current X-Generation, [they think] this is pretty natural.

CNN: Are you on Facebook and Twitter?

Yeah, I'm on Facebook and Twitter and occasionally I will tweet something. Somehow my problem is that I don't think I have anything interesting to tweet about.

CNN: Should all of our memories and observations be public?

Absolutely not. Our own memories are our own private thing, and how much you choose to have on Facebook or blogs, that's your thing.

CNN: What does your family think about your effort to record everything?

Gradually, everybody is getting this idea. ... Think of it: You are a librarian for your life. Somebody has to be the family librarian.

CNN: Are you worried about losing your memory?

... Forgetting is not a feature, it's a flaw. I don't think forgetting is an important feature of human memory. I think it's important to be able to remember things accurately.

CNN: Are there any memories you deleted?

No. When we were scanning stuff I had written a memo about a company, an unpleasant company -- probably the only company I was ever ashamed to be a part of. ...

I put a note on that file that said, "Don't ever scan or copy this!" My assistant who was doing the scanning ran across this and said, "What do you want me to do with this?" And I said, "Well, gee. This is my life." I said, "It's OK, just go ahead." So it's all there.

CNN: Do you think it's possible for people to turn away from new technologies? Or are advances like "Total Recall" inevitable?

I think it's inevitable because so much content is being created. Virtually everything is coming in digitally -- everything from your photos to your videos to your music. ... I will love that day when the world is just bits. It's the ultimate in green, by the way.

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text: For

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text: past

text: decade

text: Microsoft

text: researcher

text: Gordon

text: Bell

text: has

text: been

text: moving

text: the

text: data

text: from

text: his

text: brain

text: onto

text: computers

text: where

text: he

text: knows

text: it

text: will

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text: Gordon

text: Bell

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text: which

text: automatically

text: records

text: photos

text: throughout

text: the

text: day

text: Sure

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text: could

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text: all

text: of

text: us

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text: extent

text: We

text: save

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text: events

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text: of

text: e

text: mail

text: But

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text: who

text: is

text: years

text: old

text: takes

text: the

text: idea

text: of

text: digital

text: memory

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text: a

text: sci

text: fi

text: esque

text: extreme

text: He

text: carries

text: around

text: video

text: equipment

text: cameras

text: and

text: audio

text: recorders

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text: conversations

text: commutes

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text: experiences

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text: detail

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text: receipts

text: he

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text: pictures

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text: them

text: to

text: correspondence

text: bills

text: and

text: medical

text: records

text: He

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text: out

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text: every

text: Web

text: page

text: he

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text: In

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text: actually

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text: he

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text: because

text: if

text: you

text: back

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text: data

text: in

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text: digitized

text: e

text: memory

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text: forgets

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text: 's

text: like

text: having

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text: multimedia

text: transcript

text: of

text: your

text: life

text: By

text: about

text: he

text: says

text: our

text: entire

text: life

text: histories

text: will

text: be

text: online

text: and

text: searchable

text: Location

text: aware

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text: inexpensive

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text: memory

text: storage

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text: the

text: cloud

text: of

text: the

text: Internet

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text: transition

text: possible

text: and

text: inevitable

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text: storing

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text: details

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text: lives

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text: fellow

text: researcher

text: Jim

text: Gemmell

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text: author

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text: new

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text: called

text: Total

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text: you

text: use

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text: a

text: camera

text: with

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text: I

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text: next

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text: fire

text: station

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text: I

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text: photos

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text: the

text: hook

text: and

text: ladder

text: coming

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text: house

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text: certainly

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text: concerns

text: I

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text: counter

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text: theory

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text: I

text: feel

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text: lot

text: freer

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text: a

text: way

text: I

text: feel

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text: I

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text: computer

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text: phone

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text: cell

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text: any

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text: record

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text: lot

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text: lawyering

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text: hung

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text: about

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text: Certainly

text: people

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text: age

text: and

text: Baby

text: Boomers

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text: current

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text: pretty

text: natural

text: CNN

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text: you

text: on

text: Facebook

text: and

text: Twitter

text: Yeah

text: I

text: 'm

text: on

text: Facebook

text: and

text: Twitter

text: and

text: occasionally

text: I

text: will

text: tweet

text: something

text: Somehow

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text: problem

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text: that

text: I

text: do

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text: I

text: have

text: anything

text: interesting

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text: CNN

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text: memories

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text: observations

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text: blogs

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text: your

text: thing

text: CNN

text: What

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text: your

text: family

text: think

text: about

text: your

text: effort

text: to

text: record

text: everything

text: Gradually

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text: is

text: getting

text: this

text: idea

text: Think

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text: it

text: You

text: are

text: a

text: librarian

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text: life

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text: has

text: to

text: be

text: the

text: family

text: librarian

text: CNN

text: Are

text: you

text: worried

text: about

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text: your

text: memory

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text: a

text: feature

text: it

text: 's

text: a

text: flaw

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text: do

text: n't

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text: important

text: to

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text: able

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text: things

text: accurately

text: CNN

text: Are

text: there

text: any

text: memories

text: you

text: deleted

text: No

text: When

text: we

text: were

text: scanning

text: stuff

text: I

text: had

text: written

text: a

text: memo

text: about

text: a

text: company

text: an

text: unpleasant

text: company

text: probably

text: the

text: only

text: company

text: I

text: was

text: ever

text: ashamed

text: to

text: be

text: a

text: part

text: of

text: I

text: put

text: a

text: note

text: on

text: that

text: file

text: that

text: said

text: Do

text: n't

text: ever

text: scan

text: or

text: copy

text: this

text: My

text: assistant

text: who

text: was

text: doing

text: the

text: scanning

text: ran

text: across

text: this

text: and

text: said

text: What

text: do

text: you

text: want

text: me

text: to

text: do

text: with

text: this

text: And

text: I

text: said

text: Well

text: gee

text: This

text: is

text: my

text: life

text: I

text: said

text: It

text: 's

text: OK

text: just

text: go

text: ahead

text: So

text: it

text: 's

text: all

text: there

text: CNN

text: Do

text: you

text: think

text: it

text: 's

text: possible

text: for

text: people

text: to

text: turn

text: away

text: from

text: new

text: technologies

text: Or

text: are

text: advances

text: like

text: Total

text: Recall

text: inevitable

text: I

text: think

text: it

text: 's

text: inevitable

text: because

text: so

text: much

text: content

text: is

text: being

text: created

text: Virtually

text: everything

text: is

text: coming

text: in

text: digitally

text: everything

text: from

text: your

text: photos

text: to

text: your

text: videos

text: to

text: your

text: music

text: I

text: will

text: love

text: that

text: day

text: when

text: the

text: world

text: is

text: just

text: bits

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text: the

text: ultimate

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text: way

question: What has Bell done for a decade?

answer: onto computers

text: onto computers

question: who is Microsoft researcher?

answer: Gordon Bell

text: Gordon Bell

question: What is the title of Bell's book?

answer: "Total Recall,"

text: "Total Recall,"

question: how long has bell been recording his life

answer: the past decade,

text: the past decade,

question: who is the author?

answer: Jim Gemmell,

text: Jim Gemmell,

question: Who is Gordon Bell?

answer: Microsoft researcher

text: Microsoft researcher

question: what did gordon bell say we will soon have

answer: our entire life histories

text: our entire life histories

question: what book is bell the co-author of

answer: "Total Recall,"

text: "Total Recall,"

question: what is the book name?

answer: "Total Recall,"

text: "Total Recall,"


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LONDON, England (CNN) -- A former motor-racing engineer has unveiled a prototype of a new hydrogen-powered city car which claims to emit less than one third of the carbon emissions produced by its nearest rival.

The Riversimple Urban Car has been nine years in the making and needs further funding for city trials.

The creators of the 'Urban Car,' UK-based company Riversimple, say the vehicle emits less than 30 grams per kilometer of carbon dioxide, less than one third of the carbon produced by the Polo Bluemotion.

Riversimple founder Hugo Spowers has spent nine years researching and developing the prototype car.

"I think that the auto industry is focusing a lot of money on research and development at a basic science level on hydrogen storage and fuel cell technology. We don't think it's necessary to do that," Spowers told CNN.

"We can use existing technology and integrate it into a whole system design approach -- that is where the breakthrough has come."

Spowers is searching for extra funding to put the 'Urban Car' on the streets, but he says at this stage they won't be for sale. Riversimple plans to lease the car to customers for a monthly fee of Â£200 ($330). Hydrogen fuel for the cars will cost just 15 pence (25 cents) per mile.

It's a long way from the fuel-guzzling world Spowers used to inhabit as a designer and developer of high-powered racing cars. It was the industry's appalling environmental record that encouraged him to leave to try to find a way to make driving greener.

"Certainly the first five or six years were hard work because I did have an awful lot of people telling me I was mad," Spowers told CNN, at the launch of the Riversimple Urban Car in London.

"Gradually it all sort of gathered steam," he said, adding "I'm absolutely convinced that we're offering a better solution for a segment of the transport problem and we'd be crazy not to pursue it."

The Urban Car's power comes from hydrogen fuel cells which are linked to four electric motors situated over each of the car's wheels. Almost all of the braking is done by the electric motors, which then capture the energy of the car in motion and store it in a bank of ultracapacitors. In conventional cars, the energy generated through braking is lost as heat.

The energy stored in the Urban Car's electric motors is enough to power 80 percent of the car's acceleration. That reduces the energy demands on the hydrogen fuel cell, meaning it can be one fifth of the size of one used in a normal car. The lighter fuel cell also makes it more energy efficient.

A large part of the funding for the car's development came from the family of Ernst PiÃ«ch, the eldest grandson of Ferdinand Porsche who founded the motor company of the same name in 1931.

Ferdinand Porsche's great-grandson Sebastien PiÃ«ch is a partner in Riversimple. He says the company's nimble size has given it an advantage over larger car manufacturers whose future he says concerns him.

"It concerns me massively, because I don't see that the model they have now is very relevant to where consumers are going. Consumers are looking for a different solution. I'm not sure if what they're producing is working," he said.

Riversimple plans to share the designs for its car through open-source licence agreements, a system more commonly used in the software industry. Designers and manufacturers will be invited to make improvements so the car evolves into the most efficient vehicle it can be.

"We don't believe that making money on IP (intellectual property) is really what's actually happening even now. We believe that service and providing the solution for customers will be where we make money," PiÃ«ch told CNN.

The next step now is to find further financing, another Â£20 million ($33 million), to build and test ten cars. Fifty prototypes will then be built for a pilot project in a small city. The location is still to be confirmed, but Riversimple has narrowed down its options to small towns in the United Kingdom, perhaps Oxford or Peterborough.

"I'm very confident we'll get it to market," Spowers said. "I couldn't say hand on heart that I'm confident that we'll achieve what I think technically can be done. That's a bit in the lap of the gods and it's all to do with people, politics and business -- all a bit more unpredictable."

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text: A

text: former

text: motor

text: racing

text: engineer

text: has

text: unveiled

text: a

text: prototype

text: of

text: a

text: new

text: hydrogen

text: powered

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text: car

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text: third

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text: nearest

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text: years

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text: making

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text: needs

text: further

text: funding

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text: trials

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text: creators

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text: Urban

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text: company

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text: vehicle

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text: prototype

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text: necessary

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text: do

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text: industry

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text: way

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text: first

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text: awful

text: lot

text: of

text: people

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text: mad

text: Spowers

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text: launch

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text: Riversimple

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text: London

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ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- Shortly after midnight on January 24, a 16-year old boy from Powder Springs, Georgia, crashed his car into an oncoming vehicle. Garrett Reed, a star football player at Harrison High School, died instantly. Police believe he had been drinking.

Kecia Evangela Whitfield, 43, is charged with furnishing alcohol to a minor and reckless conduct.

According to police, the investigation revealed that a classmate's mother served alcohol to Reed. Police charged 43-year-old Kecia Evangela Whitfield with furnishing alcohol to a minor and reckless conduct, both misdemeanors.

Whitfield was released on a $10,000 bond and awaits a court date in April. Records on file with the Cobb County solicitor general's office indictate she has not yet entered a plea or obtained a lawyer. She did not return CNN's phone calls.

If convicted, she could receive up to a year in jail and fines totaling thousands of dollars.

Toxicology reports for Reed will be released in six weeks, officials said. His death stunned the small community of Powder Springs and sounded an alarm for parents.

"What we have to realize is that our kids do think they are invincible," said Patti Agatston, a mother of another Harrison High School teenager who lives in Reed's neighborhood. "We can't be enablers. We've got to be adults and say 'no.' "

At least ten states including Virginia, Minnesota and New Mexico-and Georgia, where Garrett's accident occurred, allow parents to give their own child alcohol, according to the Alcohol Policy Information System, a federal website that tracks alcohol laws.

The alcohol can typically be given to the minor in the guardian's home or a private setting and there are no age limits, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. However, nowhere is it legal to give alcohol to other people's children.

Officials say teen binge drinking is reaching epidemic proportions, and states and municipalities are scrambling to implement "social hosting" laws that carry stiff fines for parents whose homes are used for drinking parties, whether they know about them or not.

At least 24 states have enacted social hosting laws that fine parents several thousand dollars for each offense, said Jim Mosher, an expert tracking alcohol policies at the National Conference of State Legislatures. The fines, he said, are an effective deterrent.

A 2005 study conducted by the American Medical Association reported that about one-third of teens said it was "easy to obtain alcohol" from their parents. That figure jumps to 40 percent when it comes to getting alcohol from a friend's parent. One out of four teens said they had attended a party where minors were drinking in front of parents.

Some communities are using their zoning powers to create local social hosting laws. These laws usually result in misdemeanor charges and jail time is rare. Prosecutors' offices are often busy with other cases and don't bother to charge unless there is a serious incident or accident, policy experts said.

"It's very difficult for us to knock on a random door and say 'are you drinking?' " said Sgt. Dana Pierce of the Cobb County Police Department, the agency responsible for investigating Reed's case. "We usually have to respond to some kind of nuisance call."

In Massachusetts in January, a court sentenced a mother to jail for serving alcohol to minors at a party in her home. A teenage boy died in an auto accident after leaving her party. In Charlottesville, Virginia, two adults served jail time in 2007 for providing alcohol at their son's 16th birthday party.

Some parents consider giving a teenager a drink a rite of passage -- and that contributes to high teenage drinking rates, said Richard Yoast, director of the Department of Healthy Lifestyles and Primary Prevention at the American Medical Association. "It's a myth that adults and children are buying into, and it creates pressure on the child to drink," Yoast said.

"The biggest problem to overcome is the fact that parents feel like they are helping their kids," said Denise Thames, director of Mothers Against Drunk Driving in Georgia, "They often forget they are in fact breaking the law."

The affluent suburbs near Powder Springs, where Reed's accident took place, are not immune. Police say there were several teenagers hanging out with Reed the night he died, including Whitfield's stepson.

Several of Reed's close friends at Harrison High School said alcohol is easy to get in their community and students can find a drinking party each weekend if they want to. It is easier to get alcohol from older friends and relatives or parents than buying it with a fake ID, they said.

"As long as you have money, you can get it," said Eric Stallworth, a senior at Harrison High School, who was close friends with Reed. He described his friend as a charismatic and popular boy, who was fiercely competitive when it came to sports and dreamed of playing college football.

While there is no county or city ordinance on social hosting in Powder Springs, or in Georgia, some parents are fighting back.

The Cobb Alcohol Task Force, which also serves Powder Springs, is a volunteer group working to reduce teens' access to alcohol. The group launched a campaign called "Adults Who Host Lose the Most" to educate the public about the dangers of illegally providing teens with liquor.

Surveys in Cobb County show the campaigns are working slowly, said Cathy Finck, Cobb Alcohol Task Force coordinator. In 2007, 68 percent of 10th grade students said obtaining alcohol was easy, a decrease from 73 percent the previous year.

But that may not be enough to stop a fatal accident such as Reed's.

"Unless you get everyone to do it, kids will find out one place where they can get alcohol and you will have these kinds of incidences," Finck said. "Everyone has to get on board."

Ultimately, parents need to step up and take responsibility, said Shawna Snapp of Blue River, Oregon. Her son, Ryan Snapp, nicknamed "Snapper," died two years ago in a car accident. He was 17 and the teenage driver had been drinking alcohol obtained from an adult.

"We're not here as parents to be their best friends," Snapp said. "We are here to guide them for life."

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text: January

text: a

text: old

text: boy

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text: 's

text: accident

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text: place

text: are

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text: immune

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text: several

text: teenagers

text: hanging

text: out

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text: Reed

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text: night

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text: Reed

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text: at

text: Harrison

text: High

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MOGADISHU, Somalia (CNN) -- An enraged crowd dragged the body of an Ethiopian soldier through the streets of Somalia's capital Thursday after gun battles with Islamic insurgents killed 19 people, witnesses reported.

In a brutal echo of a 1993 battle involving Somali militias in which the bodies of U.S. troops were dragged through the streets, crowds Thursday shouted "God is great" as they pulled the bruised, bullet-riddled corpse through a dusty Mogadishu neighborhood.

The body was bound hand and foot with wire and wrapped in a sheet of plastic when insurgents pulled it out of a car and left it with the crowd in the northern Mogadishu neighborhood of Suqa Holaha, witnesses reported.

Nine Ethiopians are reportedly part of the 19 dead.

Another battle broke out on the city's south side Thursday morning between Ethiopian troops and insurgents armed with heavy machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades. The fighting drove hundreds more people from their homes, on top of the tens of thousands aid agencies say have fled in recent weeks.

"Ethiopians will launch violent attacks on us, for some of their comrades have been killed today," said Rahma Nor Omar, an elderly woman in the capital. "They will be like wounded animals."

Witnesses put the death toll from the day's clashes at 19, including Ethiopian troops, insurgents and civilians.

Ethiopian troops arrived in Somalia in December 2006 to help a weak Somali government drive the Islamic Courts Union out of Mogadishu and restore a U.N.-backed transitional government after a decade and a half of near-anarchy. The Islamists responded by launching an insurgency against Somali government and Ethiopian troops that has lasted nearly a year.

The United States accused the ICU of harboring suspected al Qaeda figures, including three men wanted in the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Tanzania and Kenya, and raised no objections to Ethiopian presence in Somalia.

Washington has long been concerned that Somalia could turn into a safe haven for terrorists, but ICU leaders denied harboring al Qaeda suspects. E-mail to a friend

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(PEOPLE.com) -- Get ready to feel old.

Jonathan Lipnicki, the inquisitive tyke who charmed Tom Cruise's "Jerry Maguire" with his oversized glasses and musings on bees' ability to smell fear in the 1997 film, turned 21 Saturday.

The actor is celebrating the milestone birthday in Las Vegas with his parents, his sister, an aunt, three cousins and an assortment of friends.

The Lipnickis celebrated Friday with a dinner at Tao before arriving a little after midnight at the Surrender Nightclub at the Encore, where he enjoyed vodka cocktails with his buddies late into the night.

The party continued Saturday with a cake and dinner at Lavo.

Virtually unrecognizable since his days starring in films like "Stuart Little" and "Like Mike," Lipnicki has spent a bulk of his time since graduating high school three years ago studying and fiercely working out, spending six days a week weightlifting and training in jujitsu.

"I live in Hollywood," Lipnicki, who clocks in at 5'7" and 150 lbs., told PEOPLE in September. "Go three feet and you will run into someone more cut and better looking than me. For me working out is more about keeping my temperament great. Jujitsu and lifting keep me very even."

See the full article at PEOPLE.com.

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(CNN) -- A Disney stunt performer died Monday night after suffering an injury during a rehearsal, company and local officials said.

A performer was injured during rehearsal for the Indiana Jones Epic Stunt Spectacular at Hollywood Studios.

Walt Disney World spokeswoman Zoraya Suarez said the performer was injured while performing a tumbling roll for the Indiana Jones Epic Stunt Spectacular at Disney's Hollywood Studios, part of the Orlando, Florida, theme park.

It was the third fatal incident at the park in less than two months. Earlier this month, a performer was injured in a pirate show and later died. In July, two monorail trains collided, killing a driver.

"'We feel a sense of loss for these valued cast members," Suarez said. She said a review would be conducted on each incident. Performers receive extensive training, she said.

The Orange County Sheriff's Department identified the performer in the latest incident as Anislav Varbanov, 30, and said he had been pronounced dead at a hospital.  Watch a report on the incident Â»

Security personnel at Hollywood Studios called 911 Monday evening to say a cast member had suffered a head injury during the rehearsal, the sheriff's department said. No other details were given.

The sheriff's department said the incident is under investigation.

CNN's Carolina Sanchez contributed to this report.

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question: Whose death is being investigated?

answer: Anislav Varbanov,

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question: Who died in Orlando?

answer: Disney stunt performer

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question: What happened to Anislav Varbanov?

answer: stunt performer died Monday night after suffering an injury during a rehearsal,

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question: What was he rehearsing for?

answer: the Indiana Jones Epic Stunt Spectacular at Hollywood Studios.

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question: What happened during rehearsals for the Indiana Jones stunt show at Hollywood Studies?

answer: performer died

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question: What show was the man hurt while rehearsing for?

answer: Indiana Jones Epic Stunt Spectacular

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