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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Global warming could destabilize "struggling and poor" countries around the world, prompting mass migrations and creating breeding grounds for terrorists, the chairman of the National Intelligence Council told Congress on Wednesday.

Climate change could increase flooding in coastal areas, like the flooding that hit the Philippines.

Climate change "will aggravate existing problems such as poverty, social tensions, environmental degradation, ineffectual leadership and weak political institutions," Thomas Fingar said. "All of this threatens the domestic stability of a number of African, Asian, Central American and Central Asian countries."

People are likely to flee destabilized countries, and some may turn to terrorism, he said.

"The conditions exacerbated by the effects of climate change could increase the pool of potential recruits into terrorist activity," he said.

"Economic refugees will perceive additional reasons to flee their homes because of harsher climates," Fingar predicted. That will put pressure on countries receiving refugees, many of which "will have neither the resources nor interest to host these climate migrants," he said in testimony to the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming.

Reactions to the report broke down along partisan lines, with Democrats generally praising it and Republicans expressing doubts. Committee members had concerns about the report's secrecy, reliability and use of intelligence resources.

Global warming may have a slight positive effect on the United States, since it is likely to produce larger farming yields, Fingar said

But it is also likely to result in storm surges that could affect nuclear facilities and oil refineries near coasts, water shortages in the Southwest and longer summers with more wildfires, the study found.

International migration may also help spread disease, Fingar added, and climate change could put stress on international trade in essential commodities.

"The United States depends on a smooth-functioning international system ensuring the flow of trade and market access to critical raw materials, such as oil and gas, and security for its allies and partners. Climate change and climate change policies could affect all of these," he warned, "with significant geopolitical consequences."

The report was the conclusion of the most comprehensive government analysis the U.S. intelligence community has ever conducted on climate change. Fingar emphasized that it could make no hard and fast predictions, saying that the operative word in his assessment was "may."

Wealthy countries will be able to handle the situation better than poorer ones, he said.

"We assess that no country will be immune to the effects of climate change, but some will be able to cope more effectively than others," he said. "Most of the struggling and poor states that will suffer adverse impacts to their potential and economic security are in Sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East, and Central and Southeast Asia.

"However, the spillover -- from potentially increased migration and water-related disputes -- could have a harmful global impact," he added.

Fingar painted a mixed picture of the effects of climate change on the United States itself.

"Most studies suggest the United States as a whole will enjoy modest economic benefits over the next few decades, largely due to the increased crop yields," he said.

"Costs begin to mount thereafter, however, and some parts of the United States -- particularly built-up coastal areas -- will be at greater risk of extreme weather events and potentially high costs related to losses in complex infrastructure."

The impact of fighting and preparing for climate change may be greater than the effect of global warming itself, Fingar said.

"Government, business and public efforts to develop mitigation and adaptation strategies to deal with climate change -- from policies to reduce greenhouse gases to plans to reduce exposure to climate change or capitalize on potential impacts -- may affect U.S. national security interests even more than the physical impacts of climate change itself," he said.

The report, the "National Intelligence Assessment on the National Security Implications of Global Climate Change to 2030," relied on U.S. government, military, academic and United Nations studies of climate change.

The report itself is classified, which some members of the House committee objected to.

"I am disappointed it is classified," said Rep. Anna Eshoo, D-California. Secrecy "prevents this report from being released and discussed in public domain."

Committee Chairman Ed Markey, a Massachusetts Democrat, said he would ask the administration to declassify it.

Markey opened the hearing by saying "human beings all over the planet face death or damage or injury if we do not act."

He blasted the White House stance on climate change, saying, "The Bush administration continues to limit what their experts know. The president doesn't want America to know the real risk of global warming."

Republicans on the committee criticized the report as wasteful, with Rep. Darrell Issa of California calling it a "dangerous diversion of intelligence resources."

Rep. Pete Hoekstra, R-Michigan, said that the report was unreliable and that its authors admitted as much.

"We have a lot of information where we are incapable of assessing it," Fingar conceded.

Hoekstra also questioned the committee's priorities.

"There are a lot more pressing issues out there for the intelligence community to be focused on right now that would help keep America safe," he said.

The assessment "was a waste of time, a waste of resources for the intelligence community to be focused on this issue versus other folks in the government that could have done this job and have a responsibility for doing it."

Fingar said the intelligence community had relied on the science of others because it did not itself monitor climate change. He said the assessment was based on midrange predictions of global warming.

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(CNN) -- William Whitaker is certain that somebody in the central Oklahoman community where he lives knows who killed his daughter.

Taylor Paschal-Placker, left, and Skyla Jade Whitaker were found shot to death along an Oklahoma road a year ago.

The dirt road where the bodies of 11-year-old Skyla Jade Whitaker and Taylor Paschal-Placker, 13, were found is too remote for the killings to be the work of a stranger passing through, he says.

"There's absolutely no way that somebody from out of the area could've just stumbled upon the place," Whitaker said. "I know whoever did it told somebody, whether they were drinking or bragging or whatever, and whoever knows just needs to bring the information forward."

It has been a year since the two friends were shot multiple times in the stomach and chest less than a half a mile from Taylor's home in the rural community of Weleetka, with a population just over 1,000.

"Taylor was shot five times. My daughter was shot eight times. Thirteen shots between two little girls who never did anything to anyone," Whitaker said. "I don't know how a person can go to work, eat or sleep knowing what they did. I couldn't live with that on my conscience, but they've been doing it for a year now."  Watch father plead for answers in killings Â»

In the beginning, hundreds of tips poured in. Authorities pursued leads and analyzed evidence, but a year later, they have no suspects or witnesses leading them to any viable conclusions.

Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation spokesperson Jessica Brown said during a press conference Monday that authorities have "good evidence" in the case but lack the final piece to make an arrest.

"If we could get this one piece of evidence that would help solve this case, that's what we need," Brown said Monday.

Investigators believe that the killer or killers could be from Okfuskee County, or that a member of the community knows something about what happened to the girls the afternoon of June 4, 2008.

"What we are frustrated about is the lack of cooperation we're getting from members of the public," Brown said. She stressed Monday that a $36,000 reward is being offered for information that leads to a conviction.

The girls were shot with two different guns, leading to the possibility that two people were involved, Brown said. The OSBI released a sketch of a person wanted for questioning last year, but they have not received information leading to him, she said.

But the killings remain fresh in the minds of Oklahomans. A billboard with the girls' faces and a tip hotline has loomed over Interstate 40 for several months.

A memorial service was planned for Monday in Weleetka to mark the anniversary.

"I can't go to the dry cleaners, the gym without people asking me, 'what's going on with those two girls?' Everyone in Oklahoma is emotionally involved in this case, and I think it's because it happened to two small children in an area you wouldn't think you'd ever have to worry about," Brown said.

The same posters adorn storefronts and bulletin boards in banks, restaurants and post offices throughout Okfuskee County, a sparsely populated manufacturing region best known as the birthplace of songwriter Woody Guthrie.

Weleetka Police Officer Stacey Rice will never forget the image of the dead girls. He was the second officer on the scene after a relative called 911 around 5:30 p.m. that day.

"I really hope I never see anything like that again. It's just emotionally and visually traumatic. You see two small children lying on the ground like that and it's kind of hard to explain. Makes you want to go find your children," said Rice, a father of two teenage boys.

"It took me several minutes to realize what happened, but after a while, it kind of sank in, and that's when emotions started running ... anger, lots of anger, sadness, disbelief. Nobody wanted to believe what had happened."

The incident stripped the small, close-knit community of its innocence as people came to realize that they weren't safe, Rice said. Parents kept close tabs on their children and started locking their doors.

Since then, the guard has come down, Rice said.

"I don't think the fear level is as high as it was. People are kind of aware of it, that something like this can happen. They're still cautious, but I don't think as cautious," he said. "Just the monotony of everyday life, the basic routine, people get used to it and they forget about the dangers we face every day. We're not oblivious, but we put it in the back of our mind."

Skyla's father says he and his wife try to carry on for the sake of their youngest daughter, who asks about her older sister nearly every day. Skyla's room is the same as it was a year ago except for the boxes of cards from across the globe, as far as Japan, expressing sympathy and support.

Whitaker finds solace in visiting the memorial site set up at the crime scene, where people leave bouquets of flowers, stuffed animals, cards and other mementos. The most recent addition to the site is an 8-foot cross donated by members of the community.

"I just get a feeling whenever I'm there. It's real quiet out there, and I see the stuff people brought and it's kind of comforting, it really is. I know she's in a better place right now, she don't feel sickness, don't feel pain. She's in a better place, and it's my way of remembering."

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text: globe

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text: as

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text: and

text: support

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text: solace

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text: memorial

text: site

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text: crime

text: scene

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text: addition

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text: site

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text: donated

text: by

text: members

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text: community

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text: feeling

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text: really

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text: I

text: know

text: she

text: 's

text: in

text: a

text: better

text: place

text: right

text: now

text: she

text: do

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text: feel

text: sickness

text: do

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text: pain

text: She

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text: in

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text: better

text: place

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text: of

text: remembering

question: what is on the billboards?

answer: with the girls' faces and a tip hotline

text: with the girls' faces and a tip hotline

question: What does Skylar's father find comfort in visiting?

answer: the memorial site set up at the crime scene,

text: the memorial site set up at the crime scene,

question: What is the age of Whitaker?

answer: 11-year-old

question: did they find who killed them?

answer: no

text: no

question: What gives Skyla's father comfort?

answer: in visiting the memorial site set up at the crime scene,

text: in visiting the memorial site set up at the crime scene,

question: Who were fatally shot on a rural road?

answer: Taylor Paschal-Placker,

text: Taylor Paschal-Placker,


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(AOL Autos) -- It had never been done before, but as Monte Perlin gunned the engine of his Harley motorbike and prepared to land it in an open boxcar of a moving train, he was strangely calm.

Stuntman Monte Perlin putting his motorcycle through its paces.

Rather than fret for his own life, he was thinking about the responsibility he had for the life of the woman sitting on the saddle behind him.

He laughs to tell the story now, but his moving-train stunt for Disney's 2008 Adam Sandler vehicle "Bedtime Stories" was perhaps the most dangerous Perlin's attempted in his 25 years in Hollywood.

His career has involved many films, including "Spider-Man," "Star Trek, "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" and portraying Arnold Schwarzenegger's stunt double in "Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines."

That's right: Monte Perlin is a stunt man.

In fact, he said that after completing that train stunt, which involved probably more math than we'd care to compute (consider a man jumping 70 feet on a motorbike at 60 mph from a ramp into an open car of a train traveling at 45 mph, all with a woman on the seat next to him...sounds a bit like a SAT question, doesn't it?) the footage showed he missed.

In actuality, he came too close -- or about 6 inches -- to one of the boxcar's doors. So, he had to do it again.

"I have to time it with a girl on my back," Perlin said. "Too short, I'm dead. Too late, I'm dead. Too high, fast or powerful, I take my head off. It had to be perfect.

While he didn't sleep for two nights before the stunt, he says a strange type of calm precedes any of his attempts at a difficult trick. Then, just before launch, he says, as he revs the engine of whichever "boss hog" he's riding that day, his adrenaline kicks into gear.

"I get that feeling, that I could wrestle 10 gorillas, I could jump 10 trains, and boom! I go for it."

Perlin completed the stunt, this time "hitting" it almost exactly through the middle of the box-car's open gate and the movie's production team wrapped the scene.

"I did it again and just hit it perfect," he said. "I hit the impossible stunt."

It didn't start this way

Perlin grew up in Lake Arrowhead, not far from Hollywood, where from the age of 10 he ripped around the largely rural area on motocross bikes before he graduated onto some seriously heavy machinery -- including his own super-modified Harley Davidson that packs a 350 Chevy car engine. That gave him a perfect start in his chosen career of motorcycle stunt riding. AOL Autos: Fastest coupes under $30k

He got into Hollywood by ditching the small-town naysayers who didn't believe in him, he says, and traveling to Los Angeles. After a couple misfires, he looked into a stunt school he found in a Hollywood trade publication and he found his calling. AOL Autos: Top 10 best car commercials

Perhaps more importantly, Perlin met his wife, also a stuntwoman.

"(She) changed my life and stopped my drinking," he said. "I told her, 'If we're gonna get married, I gotta have a career.'"

In addition to traveling to Africa, Israel, Russia, and all over the world, the couple raised four kids on a 10-acre ranch about 25 miles north of Hollywood in Lancaster.

Perlin hasn't touched a drop of alcohol in nearly 25 years. He says he often takes his grandkids for "wheelies" around his neighborhood. As it turns out, stuntin' runs in the family: His 17-year-old daughter is a champion horse show-jumper and is gunning for an Olympic place, but is already a professional stuntwoman. AOL Autos: Ford's 'Wonder Woman' engineers important new car

Stunt work isn't something to be taken lightly, though.

Perlin has the scars to prove it. He says he's broken "almost everything." Everything, according to Perlin, includes both of his arms, legs, knees, feet, ankles, several of his ribs, his back and his pelvis. But, his background in gymnastics has left him some flexibility. AOL Autos: Most common car- related injuries

Perhaps philosophically, Perlin points out that the most important thing for any stuntman, alongside having a particular niche or forte like motorbike riding, is learning from the mistakes you'll inevitably make. Sometimes this means knowing when to say no and, simply, when to go for it. He recalls the time he was cajoled by a director into doing a motorcycle stunt he considered too dangerous.

"The worst thing (I ever did) was on a Brian Bosworth series 13 years ago in Florida. I had to jump off a pier, over the water and into a barge. Well, usually they give you a lighter bike mocked up to look like a Harley, but they wouldn't do that (for) this so I had to get a stock Kawasaki 1200 Vulcan. I could jump a 35-foot distance (on that bike) but from pier to barge was now more than 35 feet. I checked the tide and the jump was 40 feet long.

"Now (I know) I don't want to do it. But the production manager came running out and said, 'If Monte Perlin doesn't do this jump, you all are going home right now.' He was really throwing it at me. I did the jump and landed perfectly, but the bike snapped in half and crushed my ankle. In the hospital, the 'doc said they were gonna have to cut my foot off."

Perlin's foot was saved by steel plates and screws, but not before he learned an important lesson: "It's not the fact of making mistakes in life, it's what you learn from them."

He describes a later stunt where he had to jump a motorbike down 2.5 stories from a roof, jumping through a window, all while wearing a rubber monster suit. He says the lights were bad, and he "couldn't see a thing."

"I called down to floor, said I couldn't see the ground," he said. "They said 'You wimp, my mother could do that.' But, five minutes later the lights were right, and I landed it. The end result was I had learned from my mistakes. There are ways to get around anything."

One tough assignment

Most famously, perhaps, Perlin portrayed Arnold Schwarzenegger in "Terminator 3," a role that still has a special place in his memory (although he says he's back working with his old Terminator team on a "major blockbuster" to be filmed this summer). AOL Autos: Top 10 movie car chases

"For Terminator 3, I got a call to double Arnold, to go in and meet him. We hung out for six months, riding together and training. Now (as a double for the) Terminator, I can't be riding and looking, or turning my head. I had to use peripheral vision for all my stunts."

Not that he needed a reminder, but Monte's Terminator experiences proved once again that stunt work is serious business.

"In one of the sequences, Arnold's riding on a motorcycle and the lady's on a crane. She swings at him and he grabs the crane. But that transfer was not as sweet as it looked. Riding at 45 mph, following the crane, a harness was supposed to bring me closer to the crane and lock me safe to it. But, the crane made a swerve and it pulled me off the motorbike, and he's still going. Picture a fish on the end of a hook, being swung around. If that timing was off I would (have been) wrapped around a pole and torn in half."

On the same shoot, Monte had to do battle with an object much larger than him and perhaps less forgiving than a moving crane.

"For an explosion shot in the movie, I was heading right toward a tanker," he said. "I swerved around (it) and was head on with a remotely controlled ambulance, (which was) on fire. If I had fallen and it would of hit me, I would have been bone dead.

"But, it landed beside me -- a full-weight paramedic truck flipping through the air. I talked to the guy on the remote control after that. He said it would have landed on top of me, but on the last second it turned to the right and missed me. It woulda squished me."

Unless you're Monte Perlin, do not try this at home. You might get squished.

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text: 's

text: open

text: gate

text: and

text: the

text: movie

text: 's

text: production

text: team

text: wrapped

text: the

text: scene

text: I

text: did

text: it

text: again

text: and

text: just

text: hit

text: it

text: perfect

text: he

text: said

text: I

text: hit

text: the

text: impossible

text: stunt

text: It

text: did

text: n't

text: start

text: this

text: way

text: Perlin

text: grew

text: up

text: in

text: Lake

text: Arrowhead

text: not

text: far

text: from

text: Hollywood

text: where

text: from

text: the

text: age

text: of

text: he

text: ripped

text: around

text: the

text: largely

text: rural

text: area

text: on

text: motocross

text: bikes

text: before

text: he

text: graduated

text: onto

text: some

text: seriously

text: heavy

text: machinery

text: including

text: his

text: own

text: super

text: modified

text: Harley

text: Davidson

text: that

text: packs

text: a

text: Chevy

text: car

text: engine

text: That

text: gave

text: him

text: a

text: perfect

text: start

text: in

text: his

text: chosen

text: career

text: of

text: motorcycle

text: stunt

text: riding

text: AOL

text: Autos

text: Fastest

text: coupes

text: under

text: He

text: got

text: into

text: Hollywood

text: by

text: ditching

text: the

text: small

text: town

text: naysayers

text: who

text: did

text: n't

text: believe

text: in

text: him

text: he

text: says

text: and

text: traveling

text: to

text: Los

text: Angeles

text: After

text: a

text: couple

text: misfires

text: he

text: looked

text: into

text: a

text: stunt

text: school

text: he

text: found

text: in

text: a

text: Hollywood

text: trade

text: publication

text: and

text: he

text: found

text: his

text: calling

text: AOL

text: Autos

text: Top

text: best

text: car

text: commercials

text: Perhaps

text: more

text: importantly

text: Perlin

text: met

text: his

text: wife

text: also

text: a

text: stuntwoman

text: She

text: changed

text: my

text: life

text: and

text: stopped

text: my

text: drinking

text: he

text: said

text: I

text: told

text: her

text: If

text: we

text: 're

text: gon

text: get

text: married

text: I

text: got

text: ta

text: have

text: a

text: career

text: In

text: addition

text: to

text: traveling

text: to

text: Africa

text: Israel

text: Russia

text: and

text: all

text: over

text: the

text: world

text: the

text: couple

text: raised

text: four

text: kids

text: on

text: a

text: ranch

text: about

text: miles

text: north

text: of

text: Hollywood

text: in

text: Lancaster

text: Perlin

text: has

text: n't

text: touched

text: a

text: drop

text: of

text: alcohol

text: in

text: nearly

text: years

text: He

text: says

text: he

text: often

text: takes

text: his

text: grandkids

text: for

text: wheelies

text: around

text: his

text: neighborhood

text: As

text: it

text: turns

text: out

text: stuntin

text: runs

text: in

text: the

text: family

text: His

text: old

text: daughter

text: is

text: a

text: champion

text: horse

text: show

text: jumper

text: and

text: is

text: gunning

text: for

text: an

text: Olympic

text: place

text: but

text: is

text: already

text: a

text: professional

text: stuntwoman

text: AOL

text: Autos

text: Ford

text: 's

text: Wonder

text: Woman

text: engineers

text: important

text: new

text: car

text: Stunt

text: work

text: is

text: n't

text: something

text: to

text: be

text: taken

text: lightly

text: though

text: Perlin

text: has

text: the

text: scars

text: to

text: prove

text: it

text: He

text: says

text: he

text: 's

text: broken

text: almost

text: everything

text: Everything

text: according

text: to

text: Perlin

text: includes

text: both

text: of

text: his

text: arms

text: legs

text: knees

text: feet

text: ankles

text: several

text: of

text: his

text: ribs

text: his

text: back

text: and

text: his

text: pelvis

text: But

text: his

text: background

text: in

text: gymnastics

text: has

text: left

text: him

text: some

text: flexibility

text: AOL

text: Autos

text: Most

text: common

text: car-

text: related

text: injuries

text: Perhaps

text: philosophically

text: Perlin

text: points

text: out

text: that

text: the

text: most

text: important

text: thing

text: for

text: any

text: stuntman

text: alongside

text: having

text: a

text: particular

text: niche

text: or

text: forte

text: like

text: motorbike

text: riding

text: is

text: learning

text: from

text: the

text: mistakes

text: you

text: 'll

text: inevitably

text: make

text: Sometimes

text: this

text: means

text: knowing

text: when

text: to

text: say

text: no

text: and

text: simply

text: when

text: to

text: go

text: for

text: it

text: He

text: recalls

text: the

text: time

text: he

text: was

text: cajoled

text: by

text: a

text: director

text: into

text: doing

text: a

text: motorcycle

text: stunt

text: he

text: considered

text: too

text: dangerous

text: The

text: worst

text: thing

text: I

text: ever

text: did

text: was

text: on

text: a

text: Brian

text: Bosworth

text: series

text: years

text: ago

text: in

text: Florida

text: I

text: had

text: to

text: jump

text: off

text: a

text: pier

text: over

text: the

text: water

text: and

text: into

text: a

text: barge

text: Well

text: usually

text: they

text: give

text: you

text: a

text: lighter

text: bike

text: mocked

text: up

text: to

text: look

text: like

text: a

text: Harley

text: but

text: they

text: would

text: n't

text: do

text: that

text: for

text: this

text: so

text: I

text: had

text: to

text: get

text: a

text: stock

text: Kawasaki

text: Vulcan

text: I

text: could

text: jump

text: a

text: distance

text: on

text: that

text: bike

text: but

text: from

text: pier

text: to

text: barge

text: was

text: now

text: more

text: than

text: feet

text: I

text: checked

text: the

text: tide

text: and

text: the

text: jump

text: was

text: feet

text: long

text: Now

text: I

text: know

text: I

text: do

text: n't

text: want

text: to

text: do

text: it

text: But

text: the

text: production

text: manager

text: came

text: running

text: out

text: and

text: said

text: If

text: Monte

text: Perlin

text: does

text: n't

text: do

text: this

text: jump

text: you

text: all

text: are

text: going

text: home

text: right

text: now

text: He

text: was

text: really

text: throwing

text: it

text: at

text: me

text: I

text: did

text: the

text: jump

text: and

text: landed

text: perfectly

text: but

text: the

text: bike

text: snapped

text: in

text: half

text: and

text: crushed

text: my

text: ankle

text: In

text: the

text: hospital

text: the

text: doc

text: said

text: they

text: were

text: gon

text: have

text: to

text: cut

text: my

text: foot

text: off

text: Perlin

text: 's

text: foot

text: was

text: saved

text: by

text: steel

text: plates

text: and

text: screws

text: but

text: not

text: before

text: he

text: learned

text: an

text: important

text: lesson

text: It

text: 's

text: not

text: the

text: fact

text: of

text: making

text: mistakes

text: in

text: life

text: it

text: 's

text: what

text: you

text: learn

text: from

text: them

text: He

text: describes

text: a

text: later

text: stunt

text: where

text: he

text: had

text: to

text: jump

text: a

text: motorbike

text: down

text: stories

text: from

text: a

text: roof

text: jumping

text: through

text: a

text: window

text: all

text: while

text: wearing

text: a

text: rubber

text: monster

text: suit

text: He

text: says

text: the

text: lights

text: were

text: bad

text: and

text: he

text: could

text: n't

text: see

text: a

text: thing

text: I

text: called

text: down

text: to

text: floor

text: said

text: I

text: could

text: n't

text: see

text: the

text: ground

text: he

text: said

text: They

text: said

text: You

text: wimp

text: my

text: mother

text: could

text: do

text: that

text: But

text: five

text: minutes

text: later

text: the

text: lights

text: were

text: right

text: and

text: I

text: landed

text: it

text: The

text: end

text: result

text: was

text: I

text: had

text: learned

text: from

text: my

text: mistakes

text: There

text: are

text: ways

text: to

text: get

text: around

text: anything

text: One

text: tough

text: assignment

text: Most

text: famously

text: perhaps

text: Perlin

text: portrayed

text: Arnold

text: Schwarzenegger

text: in

text: Terminator

text: a

text: role

text: that

text: still

text: has

text: a

text: special

text: place

text: in

text: his

text: memory

text: although

text: he

text: says

text: he

text: 's

text: back

text: working

text: with

text: his

text: old

text: Terminator

text: team

text: on

text: a

text: major

text: blockbuster

text: to

text: be

text: filmed

text: this

text: summer

text: AOL

text: Autos

text: Top

text: movie

text: car

text: chases

text: For

text: Terminator

text: I

text: got

text: a

text: call

text: to

text: double

text: Arnold

text: to

text: go

text: in

text: and

text: meet

text: him

text: We

text: hung

text: out

text: for

text: six

text: months

text: riding

text: together

text: and

text: training

text: Now

text: as

text: a

text: double

text: for

text: the

text: Terminator

text: I

text: ca

text: n't

text: be

text: riding

text: and

text: looking

text: or

text: turning

text: my

text: head

text: I

text: had

text: to

text: use

text: peripheral

text: vision

text: for

text: all

text: my

text: stunts

text: Not

text: that

text: he

text: needed

text: a

text: reminder

text: but

text: Monte

text: 's

text: Terminator

text: experiences

text: proved

text: once

text: again

text: that

text: stunt

text: work

text: is

text: serious

text: business

text: In

text: one

text: of

text: the

text: sequences

text: Arnold

text: 's

text: riding

text: on

text: a

text: motorcycle

text: and

text: the

text: lady

text: 's

text: on

text: a

text: crane

text: She

text: swings

text: at

text: him

text: and

text: he

text: grabs

text: the

text: crane

text: But

text: that

text: transfer

text: was

text: not

text: as

text: sweet

text: as

text: it

text: looked

text: Riding

text: at

text: mph

text: following

text: the

text: crane

text: a

text: harness

text: was

text: supposed

text: to

text: bring

text: me

text: closer

text: to

text: the

text: crane

text: and

text: lock

text: me

text: safe

text: to

text: it

text: But

text: the

text: crane

text: made

text: a

text: swerve

text: and

text: it

text: pulled

text: me

text: off

text: the

text: motorbike

text: and

text: he

text: 's

text: still

text: going

text: Picture

text: a

text: fish

text: on

text: the

text: end

text: of

text: a

text: hook

text: being

text: swung

text: around

text: If

text: that

text: timing

text: was

text: off

text: I

text: would

text: have

text: been

text: wrapped

text: around

text: a

text: pole

text: and

text: torn

text: in

text: half

text: On

text: the

text: same

text: shoot

text: Monte

text: had

text: to

text: do

text: battle

text: with

text: an

text: object

text: much

text: larger

text: than

text: him

text: and

text: perhaps

text: less

text: forgiving

text: than

text: a

text: moving

text: crane

text: For

text: an

text: explosion

text: shot

text: in

text: the

text: movie

text: I

text: was

text: heading

text: right

text: toward

text: a

text: tanker

text: he

text: said

text: I

text: swerved

text: around

text: it

text: and

text: was

text: head

text: on

text: with

text: a

text: remotely

text: controlled

text: ambulance

text: which

text: was

text: on

text: fire

text: If

text: I

text: had

text: fallen

text: and

text: it

text: would

text: of

text: hit

text: me

text: I

text: would

text: have

text: been

text: bone

text: dead

text: But

text: it

text: landed

text: beside

text: me

text: a

text: full

text: weight

text: paramedic

text: truck

text: flipping

text: through

text: the

text: air

text: I

text: talked

text: to

text: the

text: guy

text: on

text: the

text: remote

text: control

text: after

text: that

text: He

text: said

text: it

text: would

text: have

text: landed

text: on

text: top

text: of

text: me

text: but

text: on

text: the

text: last

text: second

text: it

text: turned

text: to

text: the

text: right

text: and

text: missed

text: me

text: It

text: woulda

text: squished

text: me

text: Unless

text: you

text: 're

text: Monte

text: Perlin

text: do

text: not

text: try

text: this

text: at

text: home

text: You

text: might

text: get

text: squished

question: How long was Perlin's career?

answer: 25 years

text: 25 years

question: What do some of his films include?

answer: "Spider-Man," "Star Trek, "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull"

text: "Spider-Man," "Star Trek, "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull"

question: stuntman has broken what?

answer: both of his arms, legs, knees, feet, ankles, several of his ribs, his back and his pelvis.

text: both of his arms, legs, knees, feet, ankles, several of his ribs, his back and his pelvis.

question: What is the stuntman's name?

answer: Monte Perlin

text: Monte Perlin

question: what did the motorbike stunt involve?

answer: more math than we'd care to compute

text: more math than we'd care to compute

question: How far did he jump in a motorcycle stunt?

answer: 70 feet

text: 70 feet

question: What has Monte Perlin broken as a stunt person?

answer: "almost everything." Everything, according to

text: "almost everything." Everything, according to


text:
(CNN) -- On the last episode of reality ...

"Guiding Light," a mainstay of CBS' daytime schedule for decades, airs its final episode Friday.

Jon left Kate and his eight children and took up with the party girl Hailey. Audrina got a restraining order against an alleged stalker. NeNe got into an argument with Kim during a photo shoot. And Rachel was attacked -- yet again -- by one of the city tabloids.

With plot points like this, who needs soap operas?

Certainly not most of America. In the past decade, the audience for soap operas has dwindled, as has the number of what broadcasters call "daytime dramas." Younger viewers, in particular, have gravitated toward reality shows, which feature the melodrama and outsized characters of soaps; it's perhaps no coincidence that the co-creator of MTV's "The Real World" and several other reality shows, Mary-Ellis Bunim, started as a soap writer and producer.

The latest soap victim, CBS' "Guiding Light" -- a show that began on NBC Radio in 1937 -- went out Friday after 72 years on the air.  Watch how "Guiding Light" became an institution Â»

On the final episode, long-entwined characters Reva Shayne and Josh Lewis decided to "go on an adventure" together, in Lewis' words. Other characters also received their moments.

Fans have lamented the passing of the show, which has followed the Springfield clans of the Bauers, Spauldings, Coopers and Lewises for decades.

"I've been watching 'Guiding Light' for the past 20 years," says Ashley Dos Santos, an account executive and pop culture expert with the Washington-based public relations firm Crosby-Volmer. "I think it's really, really sad."  Gallery: Stars who started on soaps Â»

But, as a (well) realist, she adds, "not surprising." She knows the trends, and the trend for soap operas is going in the wrong direction. Read a short history of soap operas

"It's very difficult to see how it could have survived," she says, noting that even she's ceased to follow "GL" in the past few years. With the multichannel universe, particularly the alternatives of talk shows, judge shows and reality shows, "I feel that a lot people, if they have to make a choice, they'd rather see 'Ellen.' "

Michael Sands, a Southern California-based media consultant, is blunter. "Soaps are passe ... old-fashioned," he says. "They're boring and stale. The public thrives on real-life drama. I'm surprised soaps lasted this long."

Not so long ago, such a dismissal would have been unfathomable. In the three-network arrangement that dominated for decades, soaps ruled daytime -- there were 19 in 1969-70 -- and even spawned prime-time variations, such as "Peyton Place" and "Dallas."

"The 1960s and '70s were an unmatched era for soaps, with women at home and just three or four [network] choices," says Sam Ford, an analyst with the communications firm Peppercom. He has a book on the genre due out next year.

Soaps developed a formula: slow-moving, multiple plotlines; multigenerational casts, gathered in seaside towns or local hospitals. Some even broke ground, airing taboo subjects -- abortions, homosexuality, marital rape -- before prime-time shows.

But events have conspired to kill off daytime dramas. With more women in the workplace, there are fewer at home to watch the soaps. The genre was slow to adjust to new technologies; even now, with the SoapNet cable channel and Internet streaming, effective promotion is lacking, says Dos Santos, who observes that soaps fly under the radar compared to reality shows. "The networks aren't trying hard enough to make [soaps] relevant," she says.

There's also the loss of family watching, a handoff from mother to daughter to granddaughter, that used to assure a continuity of viewers. Dos Santos watched with her mother; Ford's mother and grandmother were fans.

But the fall-off in soaps tends to boil down to two limited resources: time and money.

"We don't have the time to invest in soaps as they exist now," says Mimi Torchin, a TV columnist and the founding editor of Soap Opera Weekly. "Even with alternatives to TV viewing ... it's still five hours a week. In the old days, you could miss two or three days and it was easy to catch up. They don't do that anymore."

Moreover, a soap opera is a big investment, like any scripted show. Bob Boden, now the vice president of programming for the Fox Reality Channel, was at CBS' daytime division in the '80s and '90s.

"The decline of the soap opera as is much a factor of the business model as it is of the creative," he says. "It was designed to be 52 weeks a year of original product, no repeats. In today's business model for network television, that's not an efficient model anymore."

To begin a soap, a producer has to put together performers, a writing staff, a bible of characters and plots -- and has to plan things out for months or years, as opposed to a handful of weeks. "That's not really the mentality of network programming anymore," Boden says. "I think a lot of it is about quick fixes, and about maintaining an ever-shrinking audience, and giving them something unique, and attracting a younger demo[graphic]."

Increasingly, the "quick fix" -- particularly for cable channels looking to hook viewers -- comes in the form of reality programming. There are a number of similarities in the forms: melodrama, over-the-top characters, extreme situations. But reality shows can have a limited run -- soaps are open-ended by design -- and offer a voyeuristic thrill soaps can't provide, creating new celebrities in the process, something the news media has seized upon eagerly.

"People like to emulate people on TV," says Sands, who has advised some reality stars. And, he adds, "people get to feel superior" to misbehaving reality show stars.

Torchin, however, can't stand reality shows.

"They're voyeurism of the lowest order," she says. Soaps, she believes, offer some of the art that writing and acting can provide: "They have adventure and heart," she says, singling out "GL's" "compelling characters." "They're more real than what reality shows can do."

She's aware that soaps have been criticized for far-out plot devices, such as evil twins, long-lost children and bizarre coincidences. On "Guiding Light," a character drove her car off a bridge; a few years later, she turned up alive, little worse for the wear.

"Some of those outlandish things hurt the genre," she says, noting that bringing back characters was a way to placate upset audience members, who were known to fire off angry letters to networks and sponsors. "I always felt that convention [of restoring "dead" characters] always hurt soaps, because you were never invested in an event that should have been of great poignancy."

Soaps aren't dead, of course. Even with "GL's" demise, there are still seven soaps on the air, each with passionate fans. Also, the elements of the genre are plainly visible in prime-time dramas such as "Grey's Anatomy" and "Desperate Housewives."

"Everything is a soap now," says Torchin. "The secret of a show that works is that you're involved with the characters, you're in their lives. Everything else is just diversion."

Dos Santos believes that shrewder marketing -- helped by new media -- can help the genre make a comeback. And, indeed, Torchin observes that a "GL" star, Crystal Chappell, is launching a Web soap, "Venice," in November. The Internet program is an outgrowth of the popularity of a "GL" storyline featuring Chappell's character in a lesbian relationship -- a relationship that many fans felt was handled poorly by the broadcasters.  Watch Chappell go over her plans Â»

"I think the ratings will be better than cable," says Torchin.

Is she correct? Will soaps live to rise again? Will reality shows conquer daytime and nighttime?

Tune in tomorrow.

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text: reality

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text: coincidence

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text: creator

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text: MTV

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text: how

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text: go

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text: adventure

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text: words

text: Other

text: characters

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text: received

text: their

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text: the

text: show

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text: clans

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text: Bauers

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text: Coopers

text: and

text: Lewises

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text: decades

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text: been

text: watching

text: Guiding

text: Light

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text: says

text: Ashley

text: Dos

text: Santos

text: an

text: account

text: executive

text: and

text: pop

text: culture

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text: the

text: Washington

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text: 's

text: really

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text: Gallery

text: Stars

text: who

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text: not

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text: She

text: knows

text: the

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text: the

text: trend

text: for

text: soap

text: operas

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text: wrong

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text: soap

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text: how

text: it

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text: multichannel

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text: to

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text: rather

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text: Michael

text: Sands

text: a

text: Southern

text: California

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text: media

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text: blunter

text: Soaps

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text: passe

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text: stale

text: The

text: public

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text: real

text: life

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text: soaps

text: lasted

text: this

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text: long

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text: dismissal

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text: three

text: network

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text: for

text: decades

text: soaps

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text: daytime

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text: were

text: in

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text: Peyton

text: Place

text: and

text: Dallas

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text: and

text: were

text: an

text: unmatched

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text: soaps

text: with

text: women

text: at

text: home

text: and

text: just

text: three

text: or

text: four

text: network

text: choices

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text: Sam

text: Ford

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text: analyst

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text: the

text: communications

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text: has

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text: book

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text: Soaps

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text: multiple

text: plotlines

text: multigenerational

text: casts

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text: seaside

text: towns

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text: local

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text: even

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text: taboo

text: subjects

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text: homosexuality

text: marital

text: rape

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text: prime

text: time

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text: events

text: have

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text: to

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text: daytime

text: dramas

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text: more

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text: soaps

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text: genre

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text: new

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text: the

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text: radar

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text: networks

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text: says

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text: also

text: the

text: loss

text: of

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text: handoff

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text: to

text: granddaughter

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text: a

text: continuity

text: of

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text: Santos

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text: mother

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text: fans

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text: to

text: two

text: limited

text: resources

text: time

text: and

text: money

text: We

text: do

text: n't

text: have

text: the

text: time

text: to

text: invest

text: in

text: soaps

text: as

text: they

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text: now

text: says

text: Mimi

text: Torchin

text: a

text: TV

text: columnist

text: and

text: the

text: founding

text: editor

text: of

text: Soap

text: Opera

text: Weekly

text: Even

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text: alternatives

text: to

text: TV

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text: still

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text: hours

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text: week

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text: the

text: old

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text: and

text: The

text: decline

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text: soap

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text: as

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text: model

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text: It

text: was

text: designed

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text: a

text: year

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text: product

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text: business

text: model

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text: not

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text: efficient

text: model

text: anymore

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text: soap

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text: producer

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text: performers

text: a

text: writing

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text: bible

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text: is

text: about

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text: maintaining

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text: viewers

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text: in

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text: of

text: similarities

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text: the

text: forms

text: melodrama

text: over

text: the

text: top

text: characters

text: extreme

text: situations

text: But

text: reality

text: shows

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text: have

text: a

text: limited

text: run

text: soaps

text: are

text: open

text: ended

text: by

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text: and

text: offer

text: a

text: voyeuristic

text: thrill

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text: n't

text: provide

text: creating

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text: celebrities

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text: feel

text: superior

text: to

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text: reality

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text: stars

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text: reality

text: shows

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text: of

text: the

text: lowest

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text: she

text: says

text: Soaps

text: she

text: believes

text: offer

text: some

text: of

text: the

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text: writing

text: and

text: acting

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text: out

text: GL

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text: compelling

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text: They

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text: reality

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text: been

text: criticized

text: for

text: far

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text: devices

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text: long

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text: coincidences

text: On

text: Guiding

text: Light

text: a

text: character

text: drove

text: her

text: car

text: off

text: a

text: bridge

text: a

text: few

text: years

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text: up

text: alive

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text: things

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text: a

text: way

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text: upset

text: audience

text: members

text: who

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text: known

text: to

text: fire

text: off

text: angry

text: letters

text: to

text: networks

text: and

text: sponsors

text: I

text: always

text: felt

text: that

text: convention

text: of

text: restoring

text: dead

text: characters

text: always

text: hurt

text: soaps

text: because

text: you

text: were

text: never

text: invested

text: in

text: an

text: event

text: that

text: should

text: have

text: been

text: of

text: great

text: poignancy

text: Soaps

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text: n't

text: dead

text: of

text: course

text: Even

text: with

text: GL

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text: demise

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text: are

text: still

text: seven

text: soaps

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text: air

text: each

text: with

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text: Anatomy

text: and

text: Desperate

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text: a

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text: Torchin

text: The

text: secret

text: of

text: a

text: show

text: that

text: works

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text: that

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text: 're

text: involved

text: with

text: the

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text: 're

text: in

text: their

text: lives

text: Everything

text: else

text: is

text: just

text: diversion

text: Dos

text: Santos

text: believes

text: that

text: shrewder

text: marketing

text: helped

text: by

text: new

text: media

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text: the

text: genre

text: make

text: a

text: comeback

text: And

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text: Torchin

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text: a

text: GL

text: star

text: Crystal

text: Chappell

text: is

text: launching

text: a

text: Web

text: soap

text: Venice

text: in

text: November

text: The

text: Internet

text: program

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text: an

text: outgrowth

text: of

text: the

text: popularity

text: of

text: a

text: GL

text: storyline

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text: Chappell

text: 's

text: character

text: in

text: a

text: lesbian

text: relationship

text: a

text: relationship

text: that

text: many

text: fans

text: felt

text: was

text: handled

text: poorly

text: by

text: the

text: broadcasters

text: Watch

text: Chappell

text: go

text: over

text: her

text: plans

text: Â

text: I

text: think

text: the

text: ratings

text: will

text: be

text: better

text: than

text: cable

text: says

text: Torchin

text: Is

text: she

text: correct

text: Will

text: soaps

text: live

text: to

text: rise

text: again

text: Will

text: reality

text: shows

text: conquer

text: daytime

text: and

text: nighttime

text: Tune

text: in

text: tomorrow

question: When did it commence?

answer: in 1937

text: in 1937

question: When does "Guiding Light" goes off ?

answer: Friday.

text: Friday.

question: What goes off the air on Friday?

answer: "Guiding Light,"

text: "Guiding Light,"

question: What is the length of time that "Guiding Light" was aired?

answer: 72 years

text: 72 years