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(CNN) -- Let's just say it. The whole thing sounds insane.

Despite blisters and 130-degree heat, Canadian Sandy McCallum pulls ahead on a grueling day in the desert.

For six days, people from across the world -- accountants, school teachers, farmers, CEOs -- will run 150 miles, the equivalent of five consecutive marathons, across one of southern Africa's most remote landscapes.

Without showers, toilets or beds, the racers must fend for themselves by carrying in their backpacks all the food they will need for the week. Water is rationed, despite 120-degree heat. And the racers will wear whistles to summon help should they encounter a wild animal that seems inclined to make them into dinner.

Oh, and to have this... adventure... each person pays $3,100, not including travel costs.  Listen to racers say why they do it Â»

"Nothing has ever made more sense to me," said Jim Molaschi, a 46-year-old South Florida engineer, who escapes from his cubicle as often as possible to do adventure races that make "Survivor" contestants look like pageant queens.

Molaschi is among the 214 racers who will, beginning May 17, traverse Namibia. It's the latest footrace staged by Racing the Planet Limited, which has hosted 18 similarly styled races, known as the "4 Deserts," since the mid 1990s.

The first three courses -- each about 150 miles -- run across Chile's Atacama Desert, where it hasn't rained in 200 years; China's Gobi Desert, where the first dinosaur eggs were discovered; and North Africa's Sahara Desert,  where camels have been known to eat Racing the Planet's pink flag race markers.

Sahara racers were asked: What happens if you're racing and stop seeing pink flags along the way? Wear a GPS, they say, and hope you find the next pink flag.  Watch racers lance blisters, eat mush and run across the Sahara Â»

Only those who complete the first three are allowed to participate in a walk across Antarctica known as the Last Desert. Racing the Planet is the first group to stage an endurance event across Namibia.

Mary Gadams, Racing the Planet's director, was stunned this year as more people registered than ever before.

"It's the worst economy in years, and the world seems like it's falling apart, yet there is this real thirst out there to do this," she said. "Maybe when everything that you defined yourself by in the 'normal' world isn't so stable, some people want to rediscover who they are outside of 'normal.'  They want an incredible experience."

Racing the Planet competitors include a Mount Kilimanjaro summiteer from Germany, a British insurance broker, a Spanish government official, a Canadian physician and an American architect. There are Ironman competitors in the mix with a few people who have never run more than 13 miles.

The oldest woman in the race is a 68-year-old grandmother from Australia, Jennifer Murray, who set a record in 1997 by becoming the first woman to circumnavigate the earth in a helicopter.

Most racers compete for charity, and over the years they have collectively raised about $500,000, said Gadams. In 2008 Racing the Planet teamed with Operation Smile to provide 97 villagers in Egypt with free reconstructive surgery, she said.

Physicians and trained volunteers ride in all-terrain vehicles along the route, distributing water and medical aid. No one has been seriously hurt during past races. Helicopters -- including one provided by the Namibian government -- are at the ready. Competitors, as in any endurance event, sign off on the risks.

Letting go of their vanity is something most racers learn after a couple of hours on the course.

"When you've got a CEO of a major company copping a squat in the desert, you are seeing them in a way their board members would never dream of," said Sandy McCallum, a 47-year-old former reporter turned record-setting fulltime runner who won Sahara among women in 2007.

"Out there, you stink like everyone else, you sweat like everyone else, you hurt like everyone else. It's a grounding force," she said.  Watch McCallum and Molaschi hit Miami Beach for a training run Â»

Pain also begets camaraderie. At the end of each stage, racers are given hot water for the dehydated food they have carried in their packs and sleep six to a tent. "You can imagine how that makes people let go of their vanity and their personal space real quick," said McCallum.

Friendships form quickly; romances are not uncommon. McCallum met Molaschi during the Gobi race and the two are reuniting with other Gobi competitors in Namibia. Rory O'Connor, an Irish Army vet and father of five, is also meeting Racing the Planet friends in South Africa.

Namibia is the fourth desert ultra for O'Connor, a South Carolina personal trainer who was inspired to do his first race, Gobi, in 2006, after catching a National Geographic special on the event.

"I was watching that and I immediately said out loud, 'I could do that,' " he said.

O'Connor sent a reporter a photo from the Atacama race of his ankle so blistered and bloody that CNN isn't showing it. The 41-year-old underwent surgery for a hernia two months ago, but that hasn't deterred him from wanting to run Namibia. He put his backpack soon after the operation and started training again.

"People have said, 'Oh you shouldn't do that, you'll hurt yourself.' But I don't want to live my life like that, afraid of something that could happen, that might go wrong. I could hurt myself anywhere."

"After [these races], everything else in my life seemed like such a smaller hassle," O'Connor said. "They humble me. When you come back to your real life, nothing is going to seem like too much for you to handle."

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HARARE, Zimbabwe (CNN) -- Some of Zimbabwe's children are "wasting away" as political turmoil and economic crisis have caused a severe food shortage, according to a report from Save the Children.

Children sleep in rough conditions on the border between Zimbabwe and South Africa.

The number of acute child malnutrition cases has risen by almost two-thirds in the past year, the report from the UK-based agency said in its appeal to world donors for help.

"There is no excuse for failing to provide this food," program director Lynn Walker said. "The innocent people of Zimbabwe should not be made to suffer for a political situation that is out of their control."

Five million Zimbabweans -- out of a population of about 12 million -- are in need of food aid now, the report said. The group is appealing for 18,000 tons of food for next month.

"We have already been forced to reduce the rations of emergency food we are delivering because there isn't enough to go around," the report said. "If, as we fear, the food aid pipeline into Zimbabwe begins to fail in the new year the millions of people who rely on emergency food aid will suffer."

Zimbabwe is facing its worst economic and humanitarian crisis since its independence from Great Britain 28 years ago. There is an acute shortage of all essentials such as cash, fuel, medical drugs, electricity and food.

President Robert Mugabe blames the crisis on the sanctions imposed on him and his cronies by the West for allegedly disregarding human rights. But Mugabe's critics attribute the crisis to his economic policies.

As the economy has faltered for almost a decade now, a cholera epidemic is raging, fueled by the collapse of health, sanitation and water services in Zimbabwe. The epidemic has claimed more than 1,100 lives and infected more than 20,000 people since its outbreak in August.

Health experts have warned that the water-borne disease could infect more than 60,000 unless its spread is halted.

The political crisis rose to a boil in this year when the opposition party claimed that it won the presidential election, but Mugabe's government refused to recognize the result. Instead, the race was thrown to a runoff, which was boycotted by the opposition.

Mugabe signed an agreement with the opposition in September to form a unity government, but a bitter dispute over the division of cabinet seats has prevented its formation.

Inflation is so severe that the government was forced to print $10 billion currency notes last week, with each expected to buy just 20 loaves of bread.

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question: What humanitarian group warned about malnutrition?

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question: What shortage is causing children to waste away?

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question: What fraction of the Zimbabwe population requires food aid?

answer: Five million

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question: Who warns malnutrition is on the rise?

answer: Save the Children.

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question: What did an aid group say some Zimbabwean children were doing?

answer: "wasting away"

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question: When did the country get it's independence?

answer: 28 years ago.

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question: What happened in Zimbabwe in 1980?

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(CNN)  -- Two of the biggest stars in the NBA will be team-mates next season after a blockbuster trade which sees Shaquille O'Neal move from the Phoenix Suns to the Cleveland Cavaliers -- the home of league MVP LeBron James.

Shaquille O'Neal is hoping his arrival will put a smile on the faces of Cleveland fans.

The 37-year-old O'Neal is one of the all-time greats of basketball, winning four NBA championships, three straight with the Los Angeles Lakers and the other with Miami Heat.

James is widely recognized as the sport's current superstar, but the 24-year-old has been left frustrated by Cleveland's failure to win the title.

He stormed off the court after  their loss to the Orlando Magic in the Eastern Conference finals, not even shaking hands with 2008 Olympic teammate Dwight Howard.

The trade, which sees Phoenix get center Ben Wallace and guard Sasha Pavlovic, has been talked about since February but finalized on Thursday night.

"I was elated about the trade because I get to play with one of the greatest players to ever play the game in LeBron James," O'Neal was quoted on the NBA's official Web site www.nba.com.

O'Neal averaged 17.8 points and 8.4 rebounds in 75 games for the Suns last season and believes he still has much to offer the NBA.

"My numbers are not good enough to retire. Three more years left," O'Neal wrote on his Twitter blog.

His career averages are 24.7 points, 11.3 rebounds and 2.4 blocked shots, with his peak seasons coming as he led the Lakers to three straight titles from 2000-02.

The Lakers traded him to Miami where he spent three seasons, helping them to the NBA Championship three years ago.

He has played in Phoenix for the past two years, restricted by injuries in his first season.

The Cavs, powered by James, won 66 regular season games and their first eight in the playoffs before coming unstuck against the Magic.

They will be hoping that O'Neal will be the final piece in the jigsaw to land the first American sports championship for Cleveland in 45 years.

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question: Who was traded?

answer: Shaquille O'Neal

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question: Who is 37 years of age?

answer: Shaquille O'Neal

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question: when did this happen

answer: Thursday night.

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question: What teams were involved?

answer: Cleveland Cavaliers

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question: Who was traded to the Cleveland Cavaliers?

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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The head of Blackwater USA on Sunday rejected a mounting series of reports suggesting the private contractor's security guards opened fire on innocent Iraqi civilians last month.

Blackwater CEO Erik Prince said Sunday that guards "definitely" faced insurgent fire September 16.

"There was definitely incoming small arms fire from insurgents" in the September 16 incident in Baghdad, founder and CEO Erik Prince told CNN's Wolf Blitzer on "Late Edition."

There was no "deliberate violence," committed by Blackwater employees, he added.

Still, when asked whether it is possible someone with Blackwater "screwed up" in the incident, Prince replied, "Certainly it's possible."

He said he expects the FBI investigation to provide many answers.

Meanwhile, U.S. and Iraqi officials continue discussing Baghdad's demand that Blackwater be expelled from Iraq within six months, The Associated Press reported Sunday.

American officials are also coming up with ways to fill the security gap if Blackwater is forced to leave, AP reported.

Blackwater guards, protecting U.S. officials in Iraq, face dangerous circumstances every day and have navigated the vast majority of those situations without any violence, Prince told CNN.

The guards just try to do their jobs, and are "not trying to make any trouble," he said.

The Iraqi government accuses Blackwater guards of opening fire without provocation on civilians in a crowded area in Baghdad on September 16, killing 17 and wounding 27.

Survivors told FBI investigators Blackwater guards shot at civilians presenting no threat.  Watch a Blackwater witness describe his account Â»

The first U.S. soldiers to arrive on the scene after the incident told military investigators they found no evidence contractors were fired upon, a source familiar with a preliminary U.S. military report told CNN.

The soldiers found evidence suggesting the guards fired on cars attempting to leave and found weapon casings on the scene matching only those used by U.S. military and contractors, the military source said.

But Prince on Sunday told CNN, "In the incident reports I've seen, at least three of our armored vehicles were hit by small arms fire, incoming, and one of them damaged, which actually delayed their departure from the traffic circle while they tried to rig a tow.

"So there was definitely incoming small-arms fire from insurgents."

He added, "I guarantee our guys weren't shooting at each other."

And he said the traffic circle is very big, so those first soldiers on the scene would have needed "almost a battalion to secure that entire area, to do a thorough crime scene type investigation."

"So the jury is still out. We'll see what the FBI report comes up with, but I'm confident that the kind of people we have out there are proven military professionals," Prince said.

Iraqi government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh accused Blackwater of "a deliberate crime against civilians," and said the company "should be tried in court, and the victims should be compensated."

A Philadelphia law firm has filed suit in federal court against Blackwater on behalf of the families of three Iraqis killed and one wounded in the in the incident, which occurred in and around Baghdad's Nusoor Square.

The suit claims Blackwater "created and fostered a culture of lawlessness amongst its employees, encouraging them to act in the company's financial interests at the expense of innocent human life."

Prince called the lawsuit "politically motivated" for "media attention," and rejected the depictions of his company.

"In Baghdad, the most dangerous city in the world, to say that it was a callous, rampant, evil action, you know, when the guys get it right 99 out of 100 times and don't have to use any force or any violence at all, I think they are doing very well," he said. E-mail to a friend

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(CNN) -- Gerardo Naranjo's "Miss Bala" is one of these films that comes along every so often that captures the imaginations of the critics and has most of us dancing around singing "Hallelujah."

Every time this happens, however, there are one or two critics of otherwise sound mind who have a less than enthusiastic reaction. This time it's my turn.

Not to say that "Miss Bala" isn't an entertaining, well made and thought provoking film. It is. It also boasts some exceptional acting work from its lead, Stephanie Sigman, as well as a chilling turn from Noe Hernandez, as the menacing gangster who insinuates himself into her life. It's just that I wasn't blown away and while we critics don't exactly have a hive mind, when you come across a film that is worshiped by many colleagues who you respect that you simply "like," you wonder if only for a moment, whether there's something wrong with you.

Laura (Sigman) is a stunningly beautiful young woman in her early 20s living in Tijuana, Mexico, who dreams of winning the Miss Baja title. The day before she is to audition for the pageant, Laura and her friend Suzu (Lakshmi Picazo), also an aspiring beauty queen, end up in a seedy nightclub populated by dangerous men and the women who love them (which includes Suzu).

A victim of "wrong place at wrong time" syndrome, Laura ends up being the only living witness to a massacre perpetrated by Lino (Hernandez) the local drug kingpin and his gang, as they storm the nightclub. While searching for Jessica the next morning, Laura makes the mistake of trusting a local traffic officer with her story and things go markedly downhill from there.

Lino takes an immediate shine to Laura (who wouldn't?) and rather brazenly begins to use her in his criminal endeavors, including running cash across the border for weapons, all in exchange not only for the safety of her father and brother, but also so Lino will fix the beauty pageant. It's like watching the fastest case of Stockholm Syndrome on record.

Laura comes across as a weak and superficial woman and while this isn't a problem in and of itself, it can be frustrating to watch such a character repeatedly make what, to me, were obvious mistakes. Then again, I have never been in her situation.

I guess you could say I had a failure in my ability to suspend disbelief.

The film is expertly shot, however, and director Naranjo does a great job creating dread, building suspense and pacing the film as things get darker and darker for Laura. Alas, along the way she makes mistake after mistake. "Miss Bala" is based on the true story of former Miss Sinaloa, Laura ZÃºÃ±iga, who was arrested in 2008 for being part of an international drug trafficking ring.

All in all, there is enough suspense, quality acting and truly harrowing scenes in "Miss Bala" but I felt like I should like it more than I did.

"Miss Bala" is rated R (Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian). It's extremely violent with contact gunbattles and contains an upsetting but non-graphic scene of rape.

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(WIRED) -- Microsoft released an Xbox Live app for iOS devices on Wednesday, bringing features of Microsoft's gaming service to Apple devices for the first time.

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Windows Phone users have had Xbox Live services packaged into their mobile experience for a while now, but now iOS users can get a piece of the action. And whether they like it or not, iOS users who download the app are also getting a screen similar to a Windows Phone-style user interface.

The iPhone app features the horizontal bar across the bottom of the screen that houses the same sort of circular icons you'd find in a Windows Phone 7 app. Also included: a clever browser-based demo that lets you virtually explore the UI of a Windows Phone from your Android or iPhone handset.

While you may already be on a phone of a different OS, it has potential to lure potential defectors over to Microsoft's mobile platform.

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(Entertainment Weekly) -- Sandra Bullock will surely be popping open the champagne as her new romantic comedy, "The Proposal," accepted the top spot at the box office this weekend by grossing $34.1 million, according to early estimates by Hollywood.com Box Office.

Ryan Reynolds and Sandra Bullock have reason to celebrate after "The Proposal" takes top box office spot.

Not only did "The Proposal" win the weekend, but it was by far the best opening of Bullock's career, nearly doubling the opening of her previous best, "Premonition," which debuted to $17.6 million in 2007.

While "The Proposal's" success was fueled mostly by women (73 percent of the audience was female), both women and men gave it a healthy "A-" CinemaScore rating, so expect the movie to hold up fairly well during the next few weeks.

The weekend's other big release, the prehistoric buddy comedy "Year One," landed in fourth place with $20.2 million -- an okay debut for the $60 million movie. However, all indicators point to a quick descent for the Jack Black/Michael Cera flick.

"Year One" dropped 24 percent from Friday to Saturday (never a reassuring sign), and the movie received an unimpressive "B-" rating from CinemaScore.

"Year One" is all but certain to join "Land of the Lost" as another box-office disappointment for high-concept comedies.

On the other hand, "The Hangover" (No. 2 with $26.9 million) and "Up" (No. 3 with $21.3 million) continued to show off their box-office stamina, dropping only 18 percent and 31 percent, respectively, from the prior weekend.

"Up" now stands at $224 million, and may levitate past "Star Trek" (currently at $239 million) to become the year's highest-grossing film.

Finishing off the top five was "The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3," which fell an alarming 52 percent for an $11.3 million weekend stash. Also opening this weekend was Woody Allen's "Whatever Works," starring Larry David. The New York-based comedy laughed up $281,000 from just nine theaters for a weekend-leading $31,000 gross per theater. The film will expand to more than 300 theaters on July 3.

Overall, the box office was up 3 percent compared to last year's Father's Day weekend, when "Get Smart" debuted to a surprisingly sharp $38.7 million. Hope you all are having a splendid Father's Day! I know I will -- I'm taking my pop to see "Up."

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answer: "The Proposal,"

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answer: comedy,

text: comedy,

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answer: $34.1 million,

text: $34.1 million,

question: What was the second best grossing movie?

answer: "The Hangover"

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PARKLAND, Florida (CNN) -- Sherri and Ira Rojhani stopped paying the mortgage on their 2-year-old South Florida home in April, victims not of a troubled economy, but, they say, of drywall from China that they believe is making them sick.

An air conditioning unit in a Florida, is blackened and corroded from Chinese drywall, homeowners say.

They join a growing list of homeowners in 13 states who face foreclosure or the prospect of paying both their mortgage and rent on alternate housing as they seek relief from what they describe as corrosive gasses emitted from the Chinese drywall. The drywall is now the subject of several scientific studies.

"Families are being forced to make health decisions based on financial consideration, and that is fundamentally flawed," said Sherri Rojhani, a homeowner in Parkland, Florida. "We shouldn't be in a position to stay in a home, based on our health," she said.

Homeowners allege the gas is causing home appliances and copper wiring to fail and causes chronic, long-term upper respiratory infections.

Federal authorities including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission are studying the possible health effects of the drywall. Most of their results are still some time off.

On Tuesday the EPA announced that it found sulfur, a corrosive material, in the Chinese drywall samples it tested and that sulfur was not found in the U.S. manufactured drywall samples it also tested. The EPA also found strontium in the Chinese drywall at levels about 10 times higher than in the U.S. drywall. Strontium is a metal often used in manufacturing the glass for television screens.

The EPA also detected two elements typically found in acrylic paints in the Chinese drywall but not in the U.S. drywall.

The EPA said these results are not intended to establish a definitive link between the drywall and the conditions being found by homeowners in their homes.

The CPSC says representatives from the Chinese government are in the U.S. working on the issue.

Pointing to the blackened copper on their home's corroded air conditioning unit as all the evidence they need, the Rojhanis say they aren't going to wait for the government studies. They say the air in the home they share with their son, Seth, 18, who is paraplegic with a history of cancer, is giving them headaches and causing sinus infections. Sherri says she's been coughing since February.

"What we are doing is discontinuing our mortgage, and saving our money for moving expenses, and for a rental property," Sherri Rojhani told CNN.

They stopped paying their mortgage in April. Their attorney contacted their mortgage company, Countrywide, recently bought by Bank of America, almost a month ago with details of their plight.

A letter to the Rojhanis from Bank of America's counseling center said the bank intends to move forward with the foreclosure process.

That doesn't make sense to Sherri Rojhani.

"It's worth zero. They cannot sell it. They face the same issue we do for a potential buyer," she said.

Countrywide / Bank of America did not respond to CNN's request for comment.

Indeed, banks and mortgage companies across the country may soon find themselves in the same position if homeowners walk away and allow their homes to be foreclosed.

"They're having to make choices about their credit and whether they are going to lose their home, but they're always going to pick their health first," said Michael Ryan, the Rojhanis' attorney.

According to the Gypsum Association, a trade group that represents drywall manufactures, enough drywall was imported from China during the housing boom from 2005 to 2007 to build 30,000 complete homes. But it's possible that some of the Chinese drywall was used in smaller remodeling projects across the country. So, the number of homes affected is difficult to calculate.

Meanwhile, the U.S. government has made clear that not all Chinese drywall is bad.

Rather than foreclosing, the Rojhanis suggest the banks team with homeowners against those who supplied the drywall.

"It's in their best interests to join us in going after ... the distributors and the manufactures to get remediation," she said.

The Rojhanis are now suing their home builder.

Joseph Espinal lives in the same Parkland, Florida, area as the Rojhanis, but his lender, HSBC, has given him and his family a three-month grace period in paying their mortgage.

In an e-mailed statement, an HSBC spokeswoman, Kate Durham, told CNN: "HSBC does not comment on individual customer matters but we can tell you that our home preservation team members regularly work with customers facing various hardships, to offer assistance."

But what happens after that three-month payment hiatus ends is anybody's guess.

"It's a great start," Joseph Espinal told CNN. "But I don't see anybody coming up to the plate and saying, Mr. Espinal, I know we screwed you by building a house with toxic chemicals, here's a temporary home, while we repair what went wrong."

He's moving his wife and two young daughters into a rental this month, after what he describes as almost two years of sickness and visits to doctors.

"We have sinus headaches which lead to antibiotics, and then three weeks, four weeks later, I'm back asking for more," he said.

Espinal made a 40 percent down payment on his home. He's concerned and angry about what's happened to his investment.

"I don't want to lose my money," he said.

CPSC says Florida leads the nation in complaints about Chinese drywall. Other complaints from homeowners are coming from Louisiana, Virginia, Wisconsin, Ohio, Alabama, Mississippi, Missouri, California, Washington, Wyoming, Arizona, Tennessee and Washington D.C.

Many homeowner's have turned to their home insurance companies for help, only to find that any problems would not be covered by homeowner's policies.

"If it's defective, where they have to be recompensated, that would have to come from the manufacturer," said Loretta Worters of the Insurance Information Institute, an insurance industry trade group.

Last week, Florida Reps. Robert Wexler, a Democrat, and Mario Diaz-Balart, a Republican, were successful in passing legislation that required the secretary of housing to examine the effect of Chinese drywall on mortgage foreclosures and to study the availability of property insurance coverage for these homes.

"It is critical that we address this problem swiftly to avoid devastating results in our communities and long-term effects on the health and well being of our families," Diaz-Balart said in a written statement.

Meanwhile, Florida's attorney general has warned consumers to be aware of fraudulent companies selling bogus test kits and quick fixes, costing thousands of dollars.

There are no quick fixes according to state and federal experts.

Sherri Rojhani says she won't be taking any chances.

"If the fumes are strong enough to corrode metal, and copper pipe is turning black, I don't need a degree from the EPA to determine if my lung tissue is at risk."

text: PARKLAND

text: Florida

text: CNN

text: Sherri

text: and

text: Ira

text: Rojhani

text: stopped

text: paying

text: the

text: mortgage

text: on

text: their

text: old

text: South

text: Florida

text: home

text: in

text: April

text: victims

text: not

text: of

text: a

text: troubled

text: economy

text: but

text: they

text: say

text: of

text: drywall

text: from

text: China

text: that

text: they

text: believe

text: is

text: making

text: them

text: sick

text: An

text: air

text: conditioning

text: unit

text: in

text: a

text: Florida

text: is

text: blackened

text: and

text: corroded

text: from

text: Chinese

text: drywall

text: homeowners

text: say

text: They

text: join

text: a

text: growing

text: list

text: of

text: homeowners

text: in

text: states

text: who

text: face

text: foreclosure

text: or

text: the

text: prospect

text: of

text: paying

text: both

text: their

text: mortgage

text: and

text: rent

text: on

text: alternate

text: housing

text: as

text: they

text: seek

text: relief

text: from

text: what

text: they

text: describe

text: as

text: corrosive

text: gasses

text: emitted

text: from

text: the

text: Chinese

text: drywall

text: The

text: drywall

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text: now

text: the

text: subject

text: of

text: several

text: scientific

text: studies

text: Families

text: are

text: being

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text: to

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text: health

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text: based

text: on

text: financial

text: consideration

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text: fundamentally

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text: Sherri

text: Rojhani

text: a

text: homeowner

text: in

text: Parkland

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text: We

text: should

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text: in

text: a

text: position

text: to

text: stay

text: in

text: a

text: home

text: based

text: on

text: our

text: health

text: she

text: said

text: Homeowners

text: allege

text: the

text: gas

text: is

text: causing

text: home

text: appliances

text: and

text: copper

text: wiring

text: to

text: fail

text: and

text: causes

text: chronic

text: long

text: term

text: upper

text: respiratory

text: infections

text: Federal

text: authorities

text: including

text: the

text: Centers

text: for

text: Disease

text: Control

text: and

text: Prevention

text: the

text: Environmental

text: Protection

text: Agency

text: and

text: the

text: U.S.

text: Consumer

text: Product

text: Safety

text: Commission

text: are

text: studying

text: the

text: possible

text: health

text: effects

text: of

text: the

text: drywall

text: Most

text: of

text: their

text: results

text: are

text: still

text: some

text: time

text: off

text: On

text: Tuesday

text: the

text: EPA

text: announced

text: that

text: it

text: found

text: sulfur

text: a

text: corrosive

text: material

text: in

text: the

text: Chinese

text: drywall

text: samples

text: it

text: tested

text: and

text: that

text: sulfur

text: was

text: not

text: found

text: in

text: the

text: U.S.

text: manufactured

text: drywall

text: samples

text: it

text: also

text: tested

text: The

text: EPA

text: also

text: found

text: strontium

text: in

text: the

text: Chinese

text: drywall

text: at

text: levels

text: about

text: times

text: higher

text: than

text: in

text: the

text: U.S.

text: drywall

text: Strontium

text: is

text: a

text: metal

text: often

text: used

text: in

text: manufacturing

text: the

text: glass

text: for

text: television

text: screens

text: The

text: EPA

text: also

text: detected

text: two

text: elements

text: typically

text: found

text: in

text: acrylic

text: paints

text: in

text: the

text: Chinese

text: drywall

text: but

text: not

text: in

text: the

text: U.S.

text: drywall

text: The

text: EPA

text: said

text: these

text: results

text: are

text: not

text: intended

text: to

text: establish

text: a

text: definitive

text: link

text: between

text: the

text: drywall

text: and

text: the

text: conditions

text: being

text: found

text: by

text: homeowners

text: in

text: their

text: homes

text: The

text: CPSC

text: says

text: representatives

text: from

text: the

text: Chinese

text: government

text: are

text: in

text: the

text: U.S.

text: working

text: on

text: the

text: issue

text: Pointing

text: to

text: the

text: blackened

text: copper

text: on

text: their

text: home

text: 's

text: corroded

text: air

text: conditioning

text: unit

text: as

text: all

text: the

text: evidence

text: they

text: need

text: the

text: Rojhanis

text: say

text: they

text: are

text: n't

text: going

text: to

text: wait

text: for

text: the

text: government

text: studies

text: They

text: say

text: the

text: air

text: in

text: the

text: home

text: they

text: share

text: with

text: their

text: son

text: Seth

text: who

text: is

text: paraplegic

text: with

text: a

text: history

text: of

text: cancer

text: is

text: giving

text: them

text: headaches

text: and

text: causing

text: sinus

text: infections

text: Sherri

text: says

text: she

text: 's

text: been

text: coughing

text: since

text: February

text: What

text: we

text: are

text: doing

text: is

text: discontinuing

text: our

text: mortgage

text: and

text: saving

text: our

text: money

text: for

text: moving

text: expenses

text: and

text: for

text: a

text: rental

text: property

text: Sherri

text: Rojhani

text: told

text: CNN

text: They

text: stopped

text: paying

text: their

text: mortgage

text: in

text: April

text: Their

text: attorney

text: contacted

text: their

text: mortgage

text: company

text: Countrywide

text: recently

text: bought

text: by

text: Bank

text: of

text: America

text: almost

text: a

text: month

text: ago

text: with

text: details

text: of

text: their

text: plight

text: A

text: letter

text: to

text: the

text: Rojhanis

text: from

text: Bank

text: of

text: America

text: 's

text: counseling

text: center

text: said

text: the

text: bank

text: intends

text: to

text: move

text: forward

text: with

text: the

text: foreclosure

text: process

text: That

text: does

text: n't

text: make

text: sense

text: to

text: Sherri

text: Rojhani

text: It

text: 's

text: worth

text: zero

text: They

text: can

text: not

text: sell

text: it

text: They

text: face

text: the

text: same

text: issue

text: we

text: do

text: for

text: a

text: potential

text: buyer

text: she

text: said

text: Countrywide

text: Bank

text: of

text: America

text: did

text: not

text: respond

text: to

text: CNN

text: 's

text: request

text: for

text: comment

text: Indeed

text: banks

text: and

text: mortgage

text: companies

text: across

text: the

text: country

text: may

text: soon

text: find

text: themselves

text: in

text: the

text: same

text: position

text: if

text: homeowners

text: walk

text: away

text: and

text: allow

text: their

text: homes

text: to

text: be

text: foreclosed

text: They

text: 're

text: having

text: to

text: make

text: choices

text: about

text: their

text: credit

text: and

text: whether

text: they

text: are

text: going

text: to

text: lose

text: their

text: home

text: but

text: they

text: 're

text: always

text: going

text: to

text: pick

text: their

text: health

text: first

text: said

text: Michael

text: Ryan

text: the

text: Rojhanis

text: attorney

text: According

text: to

text: the

text: Gypsum

text: Association

text: a

text: trade

text: group

text: that

text: represents

text: drywall

text: manufactures

text: enough

text: drywall

text: was

text: imported

text: from

text: China

text: during

text: the

text: housing

text: boom

text: from

text: to

text: to

text: build

text: complete

text: homes

text: But

text: it

text: 's

text: possible

text: that

text: some

text: of

text: the

text: Chinese

text: drywall

text: was

text: used

text: in

text: smaller

text: remodeling

text: projects

text: across

text: the

text: country

text: So

text: the

text: number

text: of

text: homes

text: affected

text: is

text: difficult

text: to

text: calculate

text: Meanwhile

text: the

text: U.S.

text: government

text: has

text: made

text: clear

text: that

text: not

text: all

text: Chinese

text: drywall

text: is

text: bad

text: Rather

text: than

text: foreclosing

text: the

text: Rojhanis

text: suggest

text: the

text: banks

text: team

text: with

text: homeowners

text: against

text: those

text: who

text: supplied

text: the

text: drywall

text: It

text: 's

text: in

text: their

text: best

text: interests

text: to

text: join

text: us

text: in

text: going

text: after

text: the

text: distributors

text: and

text: the

text: manufactures

text: to

text: get

text: remediation

text: she

text: said

text: The

text: Rojhanis

text: are

text: now

text: suing

text: their

text: home

text: builder

text: Joseph

text: Espinal

text: lives

text: in

text: the

text: same

text: Parkland

text: Florida

text: area

text: as

text: the

text: Rojhanis

text: but

text: his

text: lender

text: HSBC

text: has

text: given

text: him

text: and

text: his

text: family

text: a

text: three

text: month

text: grace

text: period

text: in

text: paying

text: their

text: mortgage

text: In

text: an

text: e

text: mailed

text: statement

text: an

text: HSBC

text: spokeswoman

text: Kate

text: Durham

text: told

text: CNN

text: HSBC

text: does

text: not

text: comment

text: on

text: individual

text: customer

text: matters

text: but

text: we

text: can

text: tell

text: you

text: that

text: our

text: home

text: preservation

text: team

text: members

text: regularly

text: work

text: with

text: customers

text: facing

text: various

text: hardships

text: to

text: offer

text: assistance

text: But

text: what

text: happens

text: after

text: that

text: three

text: month

text: payment

text: hiatus

text: ends

text: is

text: anybody

text: 's

text: guess

text: It

text: 's

text: a

text: great

text: start

text: Joseph

text: Espinal

text: told

text: CNN

text: But

text: I

text: do

text: n't

text: see

text: anybody

text: coming

text: up

text: to

text: the

text: plate

text: and

text: saying

text: Mr.

text: Espinal

text: I

text: know

text: we

text: screwed

text: you

text: by

text: building

text: a

text: house

text: with

text: toxic

text: chemicals

text: here

text: 's

text: a

text: temporary

text: home

text: while

text: we

text: repair

text: what

text: went

text: wrong

text: He

text: 's

text: moving

text: his

text: wife

text: and

text: two

text: young

text: daughters

text: into

text: a

text: rental

text: this

text: month

text: after

text: what

text: he

text: describes

text: as

text: almost

text: two

text: years

text: of

text: sickness

text: and

text: visits

text: to

text: doctors

text: We

text: have

text: sinus

text: headaches

text: which

text: lead

text: to

text: antibiotics

text: and

text: then

text: three

text: weeks

text: four

text: weeks

text: later

text: I

text: 'm

text: back

text: asking

text: for

text: more

text: he

text: said

text: Espinal

text: made

text: a

text: percent

text: down

text: payment

text: on

text: his

text: home

text: He

text: 's

text: concerned

text: and

text: angry

text: about

text: what

text: 's

text: happened

text: to

text: his

text: investment

text: I

text: do

text: n't

text: want

text: to

text: lose

text: my

text: money

text: he

text: said

text: CPSC

text: says

text: Florida

text: leads

text: the

text: nation

text: in

text: complaints

text: about

text: Chinese

text: drywall

text: Other

text: complaints

text: from

text: homeowners

text: are

text: coming

text: from

text: Louisiana

text: Virginia

text: Wisconsin

text: Ohio

text: Alabama

text: Mississippi

text: Missouri

text: California

text: Washington

text: Wyoming

text: Arizona

text: Tennessee

text: and

text: Washington

text: D.C.

text: Many

text: homeowner

text: 's

text: have

text: turned

text: to

text: their

text: home

text: insurance

text: companies

text: for

text: help

text: only

text: to

text: find

text: that

text: any

text: problems

text: would

text: not

text: be

text: covered

text: by

text: homeowner

text: 's

text: policies

text: If

text: it

text: 's

text: defective

text: where

text: they

text: have

text: to

text: be

text: recompensated

text: that

text: would

text: have

text: to

text: come

text: from

text: the

text: manufacturer

text: said

text: Loretta

text: Worters

text: of

text: the

text: Insurance

text: Information

text: Institute

text: an

text: insurance

text: industry

text: trade

text: group

text: Last

text: week

text: Florida

text: Reps

text: Robert

text: Wexler

text: a

text: Democrat

text: and

text: Mario

text: Diaz

text: Balart

text: a

text: Republican

text: were

text: successful

text: in

text: passing

text: legislation

text: that

text: required

text: the

text: secretary

text: of

text: housing

text: to

text: examine

text: the

text: effect

text: of

text: Chinese

text: drywall

text: on

text: mortgage

text: foreclosures

text: and

text: to

text: study

text: the

text: availability

text: of

text: property

text: insurance

text: coverage

text: for

text: these

text: homes

text: It

text: is

text: critical

text: that

text: we

text: address

text: this

text: problem

text: swiftly

text: to

text: avoid

text: devastating

text: results

text: in

text: our

text: communities

text: and

text: long

text: term

text: effects

text: on

text: the

text: health

text: and

text: well

text: being

text: of

text: our

text: families

text: Diaz

text: Balart

text: said

text: in

text: a

text: written

text: statement

text: Meanwhile

text: Florida

text: 's

text: attorney

text: general

text: has

text: warned

text: consumers

text: to

text: be

text: aware

text: of

text: fraudulent

text: companies

text: selling

text: bogus

text: test

text: kits

text: and

text: quick

text: fixes

text: costing

text: thousands

text: of

text: dollars

text: There

text: are

text: no

text: quick

text: fixes

text: according

text: to

text: state

text: and

text: federal

text: experts

text: Sherri

text: Rojhani

text: says

text: she

text: wo

text: n't

text: be

text: taking

text: any

text: chances

text: If

text: the

text: fumes

text: are

text: strong

text: enough

text: to

text: corrode

text: metal

text: and

text: copper

text: pipe

text: is

text: turning

text: black

text: I

text: do

text: n't

text: need

text: a

text: degree

text: from

text: the

text: EPA

text: to

text: determine

text: if

text: my

text: lung

text: tissue

text: is

text: at

text: risk

question: Which country has made the drywall?

answer: China

text: China

question: What is not covered by insurance?

answer: from Chinese drywall,

text: from Chinese drywall,

question: What does Chinese-made drywall emit?

answer: corrosive gasses

text: corrosive gasses

question: What does Chinese made dryall emit?

answer: corrosive gasses

text: corrosive gasses

question: Do the drywall emit corrosive gasses?

answer: emitted from the Chinese

text: emitted from the Chinese

question: What are residents choosing between?

answer: foreclosure or the prospect of paying both their mortgage and rent

text: foreclosure or the prospect of paying both their mortgage and rent