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LOS ANGELES, California (CNN)  -- Tim Russert's personal physician says medics tried to save the NBC anchor shortly after he collapsed at work.

Dr. Michael Newman said medics tried to revive Tim Russert several times before he died.

Dr. Michael Newman told CNN's Larry King that a defibrillator, a heart-shocking device, was used to try to save Russert. "A resuscitation was begun almost immediately," he said.

Russert, a mainstay of television journalism's political talk as the host of "Meet the Press," died of a heart attack after collapsing at NBC's Washington bureau Friday. He was 58.

Newman appeared on "Larry King Live" on Monday, along with Dr. Mehmet Oz, a cardiac thoracic surgeon, and Dr. P.K. Shah, King's heart doctor.  Watch Russert's son greet guests at wake Â»

Newman described Russert as a model patient: "He complied with almost everything that was asked of him."

The following is an edited version of the show's transcript:

Newman: Tim had a cardiac arrest. It was related to an acute -- presumably acute dissection, rupturing plaque that's causing a blockage of a coronary artery. He had a heart attack -- a fatal arrhythmia.  Watch panel discuss if Russert's death was preventable Â»

King: Did we know he had heart disease?

Newman: Tim was known to have coronary artery disease, and it was being treated with respect to management of his risk factors.

King: Was he on medication? Did he exercise? Did he watch what he ate?

Newman: Tim was on medication. I'd like to say, I'm glad you mentioned exercise and watching what we eat. The foundation of management of heart disease and every medical condition, really, starts with lifestyle modification. You know, a healthy lifestyle, and you'll have good health, and you'll certainly have a healthy heart. ...

Tim appreciated that. Yes, he exercised. He was on his Aerodyne bicycle.  See a timeline of Russert's career Â»

King: Dr. Oz, from what Dr. Newman said, could it have been prevented?

Oz: You can never tell for sure. And the reality is a big wake-up call. And it's the question that Tim Russert would be asking right now: What are the odds that I could have done something different myself?

Let's examine it for a second. Of the 450,000 people a year who die of heart attacks in this country, probably half of them never knew they were at risk of a heart attack.

It's because the heart doesn't really have pain fibers. In fact, the only reason you ever feel any pain when you're having a heart attack is because the nerves in the heart cross other nerves -- from your chin, your arm or from the chest and the spinal column. And they short-circuit each other out. And that creates this referred pain that in cardiology and cardiosurgery we recognize to be angina.

The other reality -- and this is a big wake-up call for a lot of Americans, as well -- is that a lot of the plaques that we have are not flow limiting. And by that I mean they don't cause a limitation on the amount of blood that courses through the veins that go to our heart. ...

King: Dr. Shah has brought along a defibrillator. Right? Dr. Newman, it was not used, is that correct?

Newman: That's not correct.

King: OK, it was used.

Newman: NBC had a defibrillator. A resuscitation was begun almost immediately. NBC had an EAD [external automated defibrillator] on site, and they were preparing to use it. At the same moment, the DC EMS, emergency medical squad, arrived, and they immediately defibrillated Tim. He had no heart rhythm. They defibrillated him. His heart was beating then in a ventricular -- fine ventricular fib, and then it deteriorated. They shocked him again. Actually, he was defibrillated three times before his arrival at Sibley Memorial Hospital.  Remembering Tim Russert Â»

King: Why do you think it didn't work in the Russert case?

Shah: There are several possibilities. The longer the delay between the time collapse occurs and you begin defibrillation, the less the success of defibrillation. That's number one. Number two, if you're a very big-sized individual and have a large heart, the larger the heart, the harder it is to get a successful defibrillation. The bigger the heart, the more likely you are to go back into fibrillation.

King: Dr. Newman, was Tim Russert a good patient?

Newman: Tim was a great patient. Tim Russert as a patient was the Tim Russert that we all know. He complied with almost everything that was asked of him. He was well-informed, asked good questions. Tim was a good patient. Are there things all of us as patients could be better at? Sure. But Tim was a good patient.

King: Do you ever think, Dr. Newman, in retrospect, I could have done more? Should have done more?

Newman: You know, as physicians, we always hope that we can change people's lives, that we can make them feel better, live longer, that we can intervene, and that's what our role is. Unfortunately, in many instances, our hopes are not fulfilled. Absolutely, I wish Tim was alive and with us today. ... And ... patients die of heart disease or cancer; we all struggle with the fact there are limits to what we can do.

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BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- The Iraqi government said Friday it has arrested members of a cell believed responsible for Wednesday's truck bombings in which more than 100 people were killed.

Workers clear the site outside the ministries of Finance and Foreign Affairs in Baghdad.

Maj. Gen. Qassim Atta, spokesman for Baghdad Operations Command, appeared on Iraqi state television Friday night to announce the arrests, which he said were made within two hours of the bombings in the capital city. Those arrested include people believed to have planned and executed the attacks, Atta said. It was not immediately clear how many people were arrested.

Initial investigations show a link between the cell and the ousted Baath regime of Saddam Hussein, Atta said. Authorities are also seeking people thought to have provided cell members with logistical support and identification, he said.

Iraq Security Forces recovered a truck Friday with five tons of C-4 explosives in the Abu Ghraib area, on the western outskirts of Baghdad, Atta said Friday night.

More than 500 people were wounded Wednesday in the six explosions in Baghdad.

In one attack, a truck bomb exploded outside the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The blast blew through the front of the building, sending some vehicles flying and leaving others in mangled twists of metal in the area, which is just outside the restricted International Zone, also known as the Green Zone. Another truck bomb went off outside the Ministry of Finance building.

Authorities said Thursday that 11 high-ranking security officials from the Iraqi army and police were detained for investigation.

The Iraqi government in the past has made claims of arrests that did not hold up. In April, it said it had captured Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, the head of al Qaeda in Iraq's umbrella group, the Islamic State of Iraq. The Islamic State of Iraq denied it, and the capture was never confirmed by the U.S. military.

The explosions made Wednesday the country's deadliest day since the United States pulled its combat troops from Iraqi cities and towns nearly two months ago and left security in the hands of the Iraqis. The U.S. military remains in a training and advisory capacity in those areas and continues to conduct combat operations outside cities and towns.

Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki ordered increased security measures, including more checkpoints and more stringent vehicle searches across the capital, government officials said on Thursday.

The Iraqi government has been trying to restore what it described as normalcy to the streets of the capital in recent weeks. Al-Maliki ordered his government to take down within 40 days the concrete blast walls that line Baghdad's streets and protected neighborhoods at the height of the war. Many Iraqis have criticized the move as premature.

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answer: 11

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JERUSALEM (CNN) -- Palestinian militant groups including the armed wing of Hamas are committing war crimes when they fire rockets into Israel, according to a report by campaign group Human Rights Watch.

Palestinian militants from the al-Ahrar Brigades march during a rally in Gaza City in July.

Three Israelis have been killed and dozens more seriously injured in Palestinian attacks since November 2008 with rockets striking populated areas up to 40 kilometers (25 miles) inside Israeli territory and putting 800,000 Israelis in danger, the report said.

Two Palestinian girls died in Gaza when a rocket fell short of its intended target while the attacks have also put Palestinian citizens at risk from Israeli counterstrikes, it added.

Human Rights Watch urged Hamas, which controls Gaza, to hold those responsible for the attacks accountable. Hamas is designated a terrorist organization by the U.S. and the European Union.

Hamas militants have cut down on rocket strikes in the past few months, but the group has not denounced those targeting Israeli civilians, nor has it tried those behind the attacks, the New York-based watchdog said.

"Hamas rocket attacks targeting Israeli civilians are unlawful and unjustifiable, and amount to war crimes," said Iain Levine, program director at Human Rights Watch.

"As the governing authority in Gaza, Hamas should publicly renounce rocket attacks on Israeli civilian centers and punish those responsible, including members of its own armed wing."

A spokesman for Hamas, Sami Abu Zuhri, criticized the report, claiming Palestinians had the right to defend themselves against Israeli military operations.

"The report is not fair," he said. "It should condemn the (Israeli military) crimes instead of condemning people who defend themselves.

"The international law gives them the right to defend themselves because they are occupied. We have the right to defend our land."

During Israel's offensive into Gaza during December and January, Hamas and Islamic Jihad militants claimed to have fired 820 rockets at Israel, the report said.

Human Rights Watch said the use of homemade Qassam and Soviet-designed Grad rockets to strike at densely populated areas amounted to indiscriminate attacks on civilians because the weapons cannot be aimed with any reliability.

The watchdog found no evidence that Palestinian armed groups had deliberately used civilians as shields in rocket attacks. But it said militants took insufficient precautions to avoid putting civilian lives in danger.

"Hamas forces violated the laws of war both by firing rockets deliberately or indiscriminately at Israeli cities and by launching them from populated areas and endangering Gazan civilians," Levine said.

Human Rights Watch has also documented war violations by Israeli forces during its three-week offensive into Gaza.

While Israeli military operations had been more harmful, killing hundreds of civilians with airstrikes, tank shelling and other assaults, "violations by one party to a conflict never justify violations by the other," it said.

"Attacks targeting civilians are never permitted under the laws of war, which require armed forces to target only military objectives, and to take all feasible precautions to spare civilians from harm, regardless of the reasons for resorting to armed conflict."

The United Nations is investigating violations by both sides and is due to report to the U.N. Human Rights Council in September.

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(CNN) -- Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd formally apologized on Monday to thousands of adults who, as impoverished British children, were brought to Australia with the promise of a better life but found abuse and forced labor.

"My hope today is to reach out to you all on behalf of this nation -- Australia -- and to speak what so often has been unspoken, and to offer this profound apology," Rudd told an audience of former child migrants gathered in the national capital of Canberra and scattered throughout the country.

"To apologize for the pain that has been caused. To apologize for the failure to offer proper care. To apologize for those who have gone before us and ignored your cries for help."

The so-called Forgotten Australians -- children who came from British families struggling with severe poverty or from institutions in the UK -- were brought to Australia in a program that ended 40 years ago.

The program scarred generations of children who were placed in state institutions and orphanages. They later told of being kept in brutal conditions, being physically abused and being forced to work on farms.

"There are tens of thousands -- perhaps hundreds of thousands -- of these stories," Rudd said, "each with its own hurts, its own humiliations, its own trauma -- and each united by the experience of a childhood without love, of childhood alone."

"Whatever I might say today, the truth is I cannot give you back your childhood. I cannot rewind the clock on your suffering, nor can I erase the past," Rudd added.

"But what I can do with you is celebrate the spirit that has lived within you over the decades -- a spirit that has stubbornly refused to be beaten, a spirit that has turned you into the survivors that you are."

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SHANGHAI, China (CNN) -- In between selling tickets and greeting customers, Min Min turned his curvy 6-feet-tall frame to survey the spacious dance hall and revealed he is no ordinary doorman at this extraordinary place.

Min Min hosts a drag show in Shanghai while not manning a ballroom dance hall for older gay men.

"When I first started this, it was only a dozen or so of us," reminisced the former factory worker-turned-drag queen.

"Now 300 people or more come each night."

Welcome to Lai Lai Dance Hall, arguably the only entertainment venue for older gay men in Shanghai, if not the whole of China. Tucked away in a rundown neighborhood in the city's northeast, Lai Lai sits atop a public bathhouse, and features cracked wooden floors and a primitive sound system.

Its location and facilities, however, belie its prominence in a community that thrives almost entirely underground.

Every weekend, men flock here to unleash their ballroom dancing skill as well as their true identities for three treasured hours. Lai Lai's "gay nights" are only on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays.

Casually dressed in jeans and sneakers, men of various ages -- but mostly in their 40's and upwards -- and shapes filled the dimly lit dance floor one recent evening. They waltzed, jitterbugged and rumbaed in pairs to the nostalgic Mandarin tunes churned out by a live band on the small stage.

"You won't see this anywhere else," said Min, organizer of this regular gathering, himself a middle-aged gay man whose dual passions lie in ballroom dancing and performing in drag.

On this Sunday night, however, he was out of drag, donning a sweater and cargo pants. "I don't really do this for the money -- it's just great fun."

Patrons pay a mere 5 yuan (70 U.S. cents) to enter and enjoy cheap drinks -- a bottle of beer costs just 3 yuan.

Observing from the sidelines, one of Min's fellow drag queens -- known as Teacher Zhang -- noted most older gay men don't feel comfortable going to the more expensive bars or clubs frequented by the younger generation.

"It's a totally different culture and environment in those places, while everyone fits right in here," said the 58-year-old former soldier and retired school administrator.

"It's a rare outlet for people to relax, to find friends or sex."

Zhang's personal story mirrors those of many patrons at Lai Lai. Realizing he was gay at an early age, Zhang -- like many gay men in China -- married a woman because of family and social pressure. He is expecting to become a grandfather this autumn.

"My wife and my son have suspicions about me, but it's always going to be a question mark in their minds," Zhang said.

"They have seen me perform folk dance in drag, but I will never let them see me in an intimate situation with another man."

Unlike many among Lai Lai's largely blue-collar clientele, Zhang said success in running his own catering business has injected freedom and flexibility into his closeted life.

"I bought a big duplex for my wife, and I told her I would stay in the old apartment to concentrate on work," Zhang said.

"Chinese women at her age are very pragmatic -- they are satisfied as long as you take good care of the family."

Taking precautions

Family issues aside, activists have pointed to inconsistencies in government policy to explain older gay men's reluctance to come out.

Although homosexuality is not illegal in China and has been removed from the country's list of officially recognized mental disorders since 2001, it remains a taboo topic in the state-run media.

Gay venues have popped up in major cities across China in recent years, but the authorities sometimes shut them down during politically sensitive times.

The upcoming Olympics appears to be one such occasion, amid reports of a series of recent police raids on gay clubs, saunas and cruising spots in Beijing and Shanghai.

Activists have voiced their worries about a new crackdown aimed at "cleaning up" the country ahead of the Summer Games in August.

Both Zhang and Min said they will keep a low profile and be even more cautious about staging drag shows in the next few months. As an extra precaution, they requested their real names not published and Min also insisted no pictures be taken at Lai Lai.

For now the dance routines continue and have attracted new fans like Ray Mahoney, an American volunteer with a local AIDS-prevention organization. Mahoney, 50, has been visiting Lai Lai with fellow volunteers to hand out free condoms and safe-sex literature.

While he loves the uniquely romantic dance scene, Mahoney emphasized that he has an urgent message for Chinese gay men of his age group. He said many people in this generation, because of their educational and social background, have never used a condom before -- either with their wives or with their male sex partners.

"I had three friends in the U.S. die in the 1980's of AIDS," Mahoney said. "The people at Lai Lai don't realize AIDS is really close to them and it's spreading quickly in the gay community here."

Acknowledging the rising HIV-infection rate among gay men, Chinese health officials have quietly started their own outreach program, which calls for sending trained staff to gay venues nationwide to promote AIDS awareness and encourage voluntary testing.

Although he has welcomed the volunteers and admires Mahoney's dedication, Min still focuses his attention on dancing.

He is even prepared to set his sights on an alternative "Olympic" event that includes ballroom dancing as a competitive sport.

"In the future we might," Min responded when asked if he and other Lai Lai regulars would join the Gay Games -- the gay answer to the Olympics -- next to be held in 2010 in Cologne, Germany.

"We probably won't win," he said with a laugh. "But I bet we could finish in 6th place!"

Steven Jiang is a Beijing-based freelance writer and former CNN producer.

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text: first

text: started

text: this

text: it

text: was

text: only

text: a

text: dozen

text: or

text: so

text: of

text: us

text: reminisced

text: the

text: former

text: factory

text: worker

text: turned

text: drag

text: queen

text: Now

text: people

text: or

text: more

text: come

text: each

text: night

text: Welcome

text: to

text: Lai

text: Lai

text: Dance

text: Hall

text: arguably

text: the

text: only

text: entertainment

text: venue

text: for

text: older

text: gay

text: men

text: in

text: Shanghai

text: if

text: not

text: the

text: whole

text: of

text: China

text: Tucked

text: away

text: in

text: a

text: rundown

text: neighborhood

text: in

text: the

text: city

text: 's

text: northeast

text: Lai

text: Lai

text: sits

text: atop

text: a

text: public

text: bathhouse

text: and

text: features

text: cracked

text: wooden

text: floors

text: and

text: a

text: primitive

text: sound

text: system

text: Its

text: location

text: and

text: facilities

text: however

text: belie

text: its

text: prominence

text: in

text: a

text: community

text: that

text: thrives

text: almost

text: entirely

text: underground

text: Every

text: weekend

text: men

text: flock

text: here

text: to

text: unleash

text: their

text: ballroom

text: dancing

text: skill

text: as

text: well

text: as

text: their

text: true

text: identities

text: for

text: three

text: treasured

text: hours

text: Lai

text: Lai

text: 's

text: gay

text: nights

text: are

text: only

text: on

text: Fridays

text: Saturdays

text: and

text: Sundays

text: Casually

text: dressed

text: in

text: jeans

text: and

text: sneakers

text: men

text: of

text: various

text: ages

text: but

text: mostly

text: in

text: their

text: 's

text: and

text: upwards

text: and

text: shapes

text: filled

text: the

text: dimly

text: lit

text: dance

text: floor

text: one

text: recent

text: evening

text: They

text: waltzed

text: jitterbugged

text: and

text: rumbaed

text: in

text: pairs

text: to

text: the

text: nostalgic

text: Mandarin

text: tunes

text: churned

text: out

text: by

text: a

text: live

text: band

text: on

text: the

text: small

text: stage

text: You

text: wo

text: n't

text: see

text: this

text: anywhere

text: else

text: said

text: Min

text: organizer

text: of

text: this

text: regular

text: gathering

text: himself

text: a

text: middle

text: aged

text: gay

text: man

text: whose

text: dual

text: passions

text: lie

text: in

text: ballroom

text: dancing

text: and

text: performing

text: in

text: drag

text: On

text: this

text: Sunday

text: night

text: however

text: he

text: was

text: out

text: of

text: drag

text: donning

text: a

text: sweater

text: and

text: cargo

text: pants

text: I

text: do

text: n't

text: really

text: do

text: this

text: for

text: the

text: money

text: it

text: 's

text: just

text: great

text: fun

text: Patrons

text: pay

text: a

text: mere

text: yuan

text: U.S.

text: cents

text: to

text: enter

text: and

text: enjoy

text: cheap

text: drinks

text: a

text: bottle

text: of

text: beer

text: costs

text: just

text: yuan

text: Observing

text: from

text: the

text: sidelines

text: one

text: of

text: Min

text: 's

text: fellow

text: drag

text: queens

text: known

text: as

text: Teacher

text: Zhang

text: noted

text: most

text: older

text: gay

text: men

text: do

text: n't

text: feel

text: comfortable

text: going

text: to

text: the

text: more

text: expensive

text: bars

text: or

text: clubs

text: frequented

text: by

text: the

text: younger

text: generation

text: It

text: 's

text: a

text: totally

text: different

text: culture

text: and

text: environment

text: in

text: those

text: places

text: while

text: everyone

text: fits

text: right

text: in

text: here

text: said

text: the

text: old

text: former

text: soldier

text: and

text: retired

text: school

text: administrator

text: It

text: 's

text: a

text: rare

text: outlet

text: for

text: people

text: to

text: relax

text: to

text: find

text: friends

text: or

text: sex

text: Zhang

text: 's

text: personal

text: story

text: mirrors

text: those

text: of

text: many

text: patrons

text: at

text: Lai

text: Lai

text: Realizing

text: he

text: was

text: gay

text: at

text: an

text: early

text: age

text: Zhang

text: like

text: many

text: gay

text: men

text: in

text: China

text: married

text: a

text: woman

text: because

text: of

text: family

text: and

text: social

text: pressure

text: He

text: is

text: expecting

text: to

text: become

text: a

text: grandfather

text: this

text: autumn

text: My

text: wife

text: and

text: my

text: son

text: have

text: suspicions

text: about

text: me

text: but

text: it

text: 's

text: always

text: going

text: to

text: be

text: a

text: question

text: mark

text: in

text: their

text: minds

text: Zhang

text: said

text: They

text: have

text: seen

text: me

text: perform

text: folk

text: dance

text: in

text: drag

text: but

text: I

text: will

text: never

text: let

text: them

text: see

text: me

text: in

text: an

text: intimate

text: situation

text: with

text: another

text: man

text: Unlike

text: many

text: among

text: Lai

text: Lai

text: 's

text: largely

text: blue

text: collar

text: clientele

text: Zhang

text: said

text: success

text: in

text: running

text: his

text: own

text: catering

text: business

text: has

text: injected

text: freedom

text: and

text: flexibility

text: into

text: his

text: closeted

text: life

text: I

text: bought

text: a

text: big

text: duplex

text: for

text: my

text: wife

text: and

text: I

text: told

text: her

text: I

text: would

text: stay

text: in

text: the

text: old

text: apartment

text: to

text: concentrate

text: on

text: work

text: Zhang

text: said

text: Chinese

text: women

text: at

text: her

text: age

text: are

text: very

text: pragmatic

text: they

text: are

text: satisfied

text: as

text: long

text: as

text: you

text: take

text: good

text: care

text: of

text: the

text: family

text: Taking

text: precautions

text: Family

text: issues

text: aside

text: activists

text: have

text: pointed

text: to

text: inconsistencies

text: in

text: government

text: policy

text: to

text: explain

text: older

text: gay

text: men

text: 's

text: reluctance

text: to

text: come

text: out

text: Although

text: homosexuality

text: is

text: not

text: illegal

text: in

text: China

text: and

text: has

text: been

text: removed

text: from

text: the

text: country

text: 's

text: list

text: of

text: officially

text: recognized

text: mental

text: disorders

text: since

text: it

text: remains

text: a

text: taboo

text: topic

text: in

text: the

text: state

text: run

text: media

text: Gay

text: venues

text: have

text: popped

text: up

text: in

text: major

text: cities

text: across

text: China

text: in

text: recent

text: years

text: but

text: the

text: authorities

text: sometimes

text: shut

text: them

text: down

text: during

text: politically

text: sensitive

text: times

text: The

text: upcoming

text: Olympics

text: appears

text: to

text: be

text: one

text: such

text: occasion

text: amid

text: reports

text: of

text: a

text: series

text: of

text: recent

text: police

text: raids

text: on

text: gay

text: clubs

text: saunas

text: and

text: cruising

text: spots

text: in

text: Beijing

text: and

text: Shanghai

text: Activists

text: have

text: voiced

text: their

text: worries

text: about

text: a

text: new

text: crackdown

text: aimed

text: at

text: cleaning

text: up

text: the

text: country

text: ahead

text: of

text: the

text: Summer

text: Games

text: in

text: August

text: Both

text: Zhang

text: and

text: Min

text: said

text: they

text: will

text: keep

text: a

text: low

text: profile

text: and

text: be

text: even

text: more

text: cautious

text: about

text: staging

text: drag

text: shows

text: in

text: the

text: next

text: few

text: months

text: As

text: an

text: extra

text: precaution

text: they

text: requested

text: their

text: real

text: names

text: not

text: published

text: and

text: Min

text: also

text: insisted

text: no

text: pictures

text: be

text: taken

text: at

text: Lai

text: Lai

text: For

text: now

text: the

text: dance

text: routines

text: continue

text: and

text: have

text: attracted

text: new

text: fans

text: like

text: Ray

text: Mahoney

text: an

text: American

text: volunteer

text: with

text: a

text: local

text: AIDS

text: prevention

text: organization

text: Mahoney

text: has

text: been

text: visiting

text: Lai

text: Lai

text: with

text: fellow

text: volunteers

text: to

text: hand

text: out

text: free

text: condoms

text: and

text: safe

text: sex

text: literature

text: While

text: he

text: loves

text: the

text: uniquely

text: romantic

text: dance

text: scene

text: Mahoney

text: emphasized

text: that

text: he

text: has

text: an

text: urgent

text: message

text: for

text: Chinese

text: gay

text: men

text: of

text: his

text: age

text: group

text: He

text: said

text: many

text: people

text: in

text: this

text: generation

text: because

text: of

text: their

text: educational

text: and

text: social

text: background

text: have

text: never

text: used

text: a

text: condom

text: before

text: either

text: with

text: their

text: wives

text: or

text: with

text: their

text: male

text: sex

text: partners

text: I

text: had

text: three

text: friends

text: in

text: the

text: U.S.

text: die

text: in

text: the

text: 's

text: of

text: AIDS

text: Mahoney

text: said

text: The

text: people

text: at

text: Lai

text: Lai

text: do

text: n't

text: realize

text: AIDS

text: is

text: really

text: close

text: to

text: them

text: and

text: it

text: 's

text: spreading

text: quickly

text: in

text: the

text: gay

text: community

text: here

text: Acknowledging

text: the

text: rising

text: HIV

text: infection

text: rate

text: among

text: gay

text: men

text: Chinese

text: health

text: officials

text: have

text: quietly

text: started

text: their

text: own

text: outreach

text: program

text: which

text: calls

text: for

text: sending

text: trained

text: staff

text: to

text: gay

text: venues

text: nationwide

text: to

text: promote

text: AIDS

text: awareness

text: and

text: encourage

text: voluntary

text: testing

text: Although

text: he

text: has

text: welcomed

text: the

text: volunteers

text: and

text: admires

text: Mahoney

text: 's

text: dedication

text: Min

text: still

text: focuses

text: his

text: attention

text: on

text: dancing

text: He

text: is

text: even

text: prepared

text: to

text: set

text: his

text: sights

text: on

text: an

text: alternative

text: Olympic

text: event

text: that

text: includes

text: ballroom

text: dancing

text: as

text: a

text: competitive

text: sport

text: In

text: the

text: future

text: we

text: might

text: Min

text: responded

text: when

text: asked

text: if

text: he

text: and

text: other

text: Lai

text: Lai

text: regulars

text: would

text: join

text: the

text: Gay

text: Games

text: the

text: gay

text: answer

text: to

text: the

text: Olympics

text: next

text: to

text: be

text: held

text: in

text: in

text: Cologne

text: Germany

text: We

text: probably

text: wo

text: n't

text: win

text: he

text: said

text: with

text: a

text: laugh

text: But

text: I

text: bet

text: we

text: could

text: finish

text: in

text: place

text: Steven

text: Jiang

text: is

text: a

text: Beijing

text: based

text: freelance

text: writer

text: and

text: former

text: CNN

text: producer

question: Homosexuality is not illegal in what country?

answer: China

text: China

question: What was the old dance hall used for?

answer: entertainment venue

text: entertainment venue

question: Many fear a crackdown on what?

answer: "cleaning up" the country

text: "cleaning up" the country

question: what is not illegal

answer: homosexuality

text: homosexuality


text:
(CNN) -- The World Bank cut China's economic growth forecast in 2009 to 6.5 percent Wednesday, down a full percentage point from November's projection.

Workers assemble toys on a production line at a factory in Shantou, in China's Guangdong province.

Despite the downgrade, "China is a relative bright spot in an otherwise gloomy global economy," said the World Bank's David Dollar.

Last week, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao reiterated projections that the nation's economy will grow by 8 percent in 2009, despite doubts expressed by domestic and international economic analysts. Some have forecast growth as low as 5 percent.

"I will admit it will be a difficult job [to reach 8 percent]. This being said, I also believe with considerable efforts it's possible for us to obtain this goal," Wen said at a news conference following the annual session of the country's rubber-stamp legislature.

China has seen a sharp decline in demand for its exports since November as other major economies have struggled. In February, Chinese exports plunged 25.7 percent compared with the previous year's, Beijing reported last week.

Even with the slowdown, China's economy -- the third largest in the world -- has gone from white-hot to merely robust. In 2007, China's gross domestic product grew at 13 percent.

The two largest economies -- the United States and Japan -- are in recession.

"So a lot of things will go down in 2009 globally," Dollar said. "But we see China's contribution as being very positive in keeping many markets from going down as far as they would otherwise." The World Bank expects China's economy to outgrow most others in 2009.

In November, China announced plans to inject $586 billion (4 trillion yuan) into its economy to offset declines in industrial and export growth. That economic stimulus plan included the loosening of credit restrictions, tax cuts and massive infrastructure spending.

text: CNN

text: The

text: World

text: Bank

text: cut

text: China

text: 's

text: economic

text: growth

text: forecast

text: in

text: to

text: percent

text: Wednesday

text: down

text: a

text: full

text: percentage

text: point

text: from

text: November

text: 's

text: projection

text: Workers

text: assemble

text: toys

text: on

text: a

text: production

text: line

text: at

text: a

text: factory

text: in

text: Shantou

text: in

text: China

text: 's

text: Guangdong

text: province

text: Despite

text: the

text: downgrade

text: China

text: is

text: a

text: relative

text: bright

text: spot

text: in

text: an

text: otherwise

text: gloomy

text: global

text: economy

text: said

text: the

text: World

text: Bank

text: 's

text: David

text: Dollar

text: Last

text: week

text: Chinese

text: Premier

text: Wen

text: Jiabao

text: reiterated

text: projections

text: that

text: the

text: nation

text: 's

text: economy

text: will

text: grow

text: by

text: percent

text: in

text: despite

text: doubts

text: expressed

text: by

text: domestic

text: and

text: international

text: economic

text: analysts

text: Some

text: have

text: forecast

text: growth

text: as

text: low

text: as

text: percent

text: I

text: will

text: admit

text: it

text: will

text: be

text: a

text: difficult

text: job

text: to

text: reach

text: percent

text: This

text: being

text: said

text: I

text: also

text: believe

text: with

text: considerable

text: efforts

text: it

text: 's

text: possible

text: for

text: us

text: to

text: obtain

text: this

text: goal

text: Wen

text: said

text: at

text: a

text: news

text: conference

text: following

text: the

text: annual

text: session

text: of

text: the

text: country

text: 's

text: rubber

text: stamp

text: legislature

text: China

text: has

text: seen

text: a

text: sharp

text: decline

text: in

text: demand

text: for

text: its

text: exports

text: since

text: November

text: as

text: other

text: major

text: economies

text: have

text: struggled

text: In

text: February

text: Chinese

text: exports

text: plunged

text: percent

text: compared

text: with

text: the

text: previous

text: year

text: 's

text: Beijing

text: reported

text: last

text: week

text: Even

text: with

text: the

text: slowdown

text: China

text: 's

text: economy

text: the

text: third

text: largest

text: in

text: the

text: world

text: has

text: gone

text: from

text: white

text: hot

text: to

text: merely

text: robust

text: In

text: China

text: 's

text: gross

text: domestic

text: product

text: grew

text: at

text: percent

text: The

text: two

text: largest

text: economies

text: the

text: United

text: States

text: and

text: Japan

text: are

text: in

text: recession

text: So

text: a

text: lot

text: of

text: things

text: will

text: go

text: down

text: in

text: globally

text: Dollar

text: said

text: But

text: we

text: see

text: China

text: 's

text: contribution

text: as

text: being

text: very

text: positive

text: in

text: keeping

text: many

text: markets

text: from

text: going

text: down

text: as

text: far

text: as

text: they

text: would

text: otherwise

text: The

text: World

text: Bank

text: expects

text: China

text: 's

text: economy

text: to

text: outgrow

text: most

text: others

text: in

text: In

text: November

text: China

text: announced

text: plans

text: to

text: inject

text: billion

text: trillion

text: yuan

text: into

text: its

text: economy

text: to

text: offset

text: declines

text: in

text: industrial

text: and

text: export

text: growth

text: That

text: economic

text: stimulus

text: plan

text: included

text: the

text: loosening

text: of

text: credit

text: restrictions

text: tax

text: cuts

text: and

text: massive

text: infrastructure

text: spending

question: By how much has the World Bank cut China's growth forecast in 2009?

answer: 6.5 percent

text: 6.5 percent

question: What has happened to China's demand for exports since November?

answer: plunged 25.7 percent

text: plunged 25.7 percent

question: which company is involved

answer: World Bank

text: World Bank


text:
(CNN)  -- The search continued Tuesday for as many as 67 people missing after a boat carrying about 200 Haitians capsized, the U.S. Coast Guard said.

The U.S. Coast Guard intercepted this crowded boat last week and repatriated its occupants to Haiti.

The boat overturned Monday off Turks and Caicos, a British territory about 550 miles southeast of Miami, Florida.

Searchers aboard boats and aircraft have rescued 118 passengers and found 15 bodies, said Petty Officer Jennifer Johnson, a Coast Guard spokeswoman, on Tuesday morning.

The Coast Guard described the boat's occupants as migrants from Haiti. The overcrowded vessel was believed to have set sail from the Haitian port of Cap Haitien, the Turks and Caicos Sun newspaper reported.

The search resumed at dawn Tuesday after being suspended because of darkness Monday night, Johnson said.

The Coast Guard is contributing one boat, the 210-foot cutter Valiant, and three aircraft to the search, Johnson said. The aircraft are a Falcon jet out of Miami, an HH-60 helicopter and a slow-flying C-130 cargo plane out of Clearwater, Florida.  Watch Coast Guard rescue Haitians after boat capsizes Â»

"If the weather and conditions are right, [the C-130] can fly really low," Johnson said. "It makes a fantastic search aircraft."

Turks and Caicos authorities are using small boats in the search, she said.

About 70 people were plucked Monday from a reef near the island group, authorities said. Four other bodies were found, though it was unclear which authorities located them.

A nurse at Myrtle Rigby Hospital in the Turks and Caicos said that about 70 people were brought there, including four who had died.

Five people were admitted to the hospital, and the others had minor injuries, the nurse said.

The Coast Guard said it intercepted another "grossly overloaded" boat, with 124 Haitians aboard, late last week in the same region. Those migrants were returned to Cap Haitien on Monday.

Overloaded vessels can quickly lose stability and capsize, sending migrants into the water, a Coast Guard release said.

CNN's Jim Kavanagh and Lateef Mungin contributed to this report.

text: CNN

text: The

text: search

text: continued

text: Tuesday

text: for

text: as

text: many

text: as

text: people

text: missing

text: after

text: a

text: boat

text: carrying

text: about

text: Haitians

text: capsized

text: the

text: U.S.

text: Coast

text: Guard

text: said

text: The

text: U.S.

text: Coast

text: Guard

text: intercepted

text: this

text: crowded

text: boat

text: last

text: week

text: and

text: repatriated

text: its

text: occupants

text: to

text: Haiti

text: The

text: boat

text: overturned

text: Monday

text: off

text: Turks

text: and

text: Caicos

text: a

text: British

text: territory

text: about

text: miles

text: southeast

text: of

text: Miami

text: Florida

text: Searchers

text: aboard

text: boats

text: and

text: aircraft

text: have

text: rescued

text: passengers

text: and

text: found

text: bodies

text: said

text: Petty

text: Officer

text: Jennifer

text: Johnson

text: a

text: Coast

text: Guard

text: spokeswoman

text: on

text: Tuesday

text: morning

text: The

text: Coast

text: Guard

text: described

text: the

text: boat

text: 's

text: occupants

text: as

text: migrants

text: from

text: Haiti

text: The

text: overcrowded

text: vessel

text: was

text: believed

text: to

text: have

text: set

text: sail

text: from

text: the

text: Haitian

text: port

text: of

text: Cap

text: Haitien

text: the

text: Turks

text: and

text: Caicos

text: Sun

text: newspaper

text: reported

text: The

text: search

text: resumed

text: at

text: dawn

text: Tuesday

text: after

text: being

text: suspended

text: because

text: of

text: darkness

text: Monday

text: night

text: Johnson

text: said

text: The

text: Coast

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question: How many people were on board?

answer: 200 Haitians

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question: How many are dead?

answer: 15

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answer: 67

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Santiago, Chile (CNN) -- Sebastian Pinera was sworn in Thursday as president of Chile, taking over a country battered by a recent earthquake but with a strong economy and stable social institutions.

Pinera, 60, succeeded Michelle Bachelet, a popular president who steered the country through the global economic downturn and promoted progressive social reforms.

Pinera, a billionaire, is the first conservative to lead Chile since the fall of Gen. Augusto Pinochet's military dictatorship in 1990.

Educated in Chile and at Harvard University in the United States, Pinera is an economist, investor, businessman and former senator.

Bachelet, a liberal, defeated Pinera in the presidential elections in 2005. She endorsed Pinera's opponent in a runoff election in January.

But Pinera said recently that responding to the earthquake requires the country to transcend partisan differences.

"These are times when we have to act with a sense of national unity," he said. "It is not the time for conflict between government and opposition."

The 8.8-magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami February 27 killed more than 500 people and affected up to 2 million.

A 7.2-magnitude temblor struck Thursday as dignitaries were filing into the congressional hall in Valparaiso for the transfer of presidential power.

Under Chile's constitutional term limits, Bachelet could not run for a second consecutive four-year term.

"I leave sad because of the pain of our people but with my head held high," a teary-eyed Bachelet said in a brief farewell address from the La Moneda presidential palace in Santiago, Chile's capital. "I leave proud of what we have been able to build as a nation, of the role we have played.

"I leave, above everything else, very proud of the country we are."

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NEW DELHI, India (CNN) -- More than a dozen trucks loaded with fruits, spices and other goods Tuesday crossed the line dividing Kashmir as India and Pakistan opened a symbolic trade route in the disputed region for the first time in more than 60 years.

Kashmiris watch as Indian trucks cross into the border town of Chakothi in Pakistani-administered Kashmir.

To cheers and band music, the first trucks rumbled from the Pakistani side across a white bridge to a brightly decorated trade center festooned . Apple-laden Indian trucks heading the other way were also warmly welcomed.

It is hoped the move will ease tensions in the troubled Himalayan region, which has been a conflict flashpoint between nuclear-armed neighbors India and Pakistan who both lay claims to the territory.

"Today, we have regained our lost market," said Ghulam Rasool Bhat, president of the Kashmir fruit growers' association.  Watch more about the historic day Â»

"We are sending the sweet Kashmir apple as the first consignment. This is sure to sweeten the relation between the two neighbors. The beginning of the trade between the two Kashmirs will further improve the relations and lead to a peaceful resolution of the bitter problem," he said.

The trucks were subjected to thorough security checks before they crossed the bridge, one of the few crossing points in the heavily militarized 742-kilometer (460-mile) Line of Control, the de facto frontier that divides the region.

Kashmir has been a major source of dispute between India, and Pakistan since the two countries were partitioned at the end of British rule in 1947. Muslim Kashmiris sided with Pakistan to the north, while the Hindu south joined India.

For the past 18 years, Kashmir has been wracked by a bloody separatist campaign. Authorities say up to 43,000 people have died, but rights groups and non-governmental organizations put the death toll at twice that.

Violence had dropped off since the countries began a peace process in 2004, but it surged after the state government in Indian-controlled Kashmir announced plans in June to donate land for a Hindu shrine.

Muslim protests following the decision prompted a government U-turn that triggered Hindu demonstrations calling for it to be restored. Subsequent violence left 40 dead and hundreds wounded.

It is hoped Tuesday's route opening will bolster the peace agreement and combat lingering mistrust between India and Pakistan. A bilateral cease-fire has been holding in the region for more than four years.

A bus service connecting the divided Kashmir began amid much fanfare in 2005 but struggled under the weight of elaborate security checks and stifling bureaucracy.

"This is a great emotional moment, as it brings to mind my grandfather, who used to drive lorries on this road," said Muzhar Hussain Naqvi, who drove the leading Pakistani truck.

CNN's Sara Sidner and Mukhtar Ahmad contributed to this report

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question: What is a source of dispute between India and Pakistan?

answer: Kashmir

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question: How long has it been since there's been a trade route between the two sides?

answer: 60 years.

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question: What is the name of the strip of land where there is a heavy military presence?

answer: Kashmir

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question: What is the strip of occupied land known as?

answer: Kashmir

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question: Who signed the 2004 peace accord?

answer: Kashmir

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question: What is happening for the first time in six decades?

answer: India and Pakistan opened a symbolic trade route in the disputed region

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question: What is the number of decades since the trade route was open?

answer: 60 years.

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