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(CNN) -- She hit the big time in the 1980's with Eurythmics and found huge success as a solo artist with her 1992 album "Diva", but for singer Annie Lennox, being able to express her passion has always been the motivating factor in whatever she's done.

Annie Lennox will continue to SING with her AIDS awareness charity.

As a result her musical career has taken a back seat to her political activism and charity work in recent years; most notably with SING her AIDS awareness in Africa charity, as well as working with Amnesty, Save the Children and as a UNICEF ambassador.

Yet the 54-year-old maintains that she'll always keep singing as well as working on the other things that she feels passionate about.

"I'm a multi-tasker. I have to do a lot of things at once. I love music. And I want to keep making music. I hope that I'll always be a music-maker and I'll always be an activist," she told CNN in Hong Kong.

Growing up in Aberdeen, Scotland, Lennox found enormous success with Eurythmics and the 1983 album "Sweet Dreams" and single of the same name. It catapulted her to international success and stardom, something she had always wanted, but at first found difficult to adjust to.

"We were really on a whole kind of roller coaster with [Eurythmics], which on the one hand I was very grateful for, and on the other hand, it sort of sucked out your life, any sort of privacy," she said.

"Just the ability to be anonymous which I absolutely really value. I love to just to be mixing with people and not have to be the one person in the room with the spotlight and the heads all turning. So that was a little bit hard to adapt to...I might as well have a neon light for a head."

She's sold over 80 million records during a career that has spanned four decades, which she credits to hard graft fueled by an unending passion for music.

"The glamour side to it is what we see as the end result. But all the rest of it is hard work and dedication. And it's not easy always, you have to be very focused. And you have to be really, really motivated to do it. You have to have a kind of yearning, a passion for that.

"I was never thinking, 'Oh, I'm in this for the long haul.' I just think as I'm still thinking, I want to have a life where I'm able to do the thing that makes me feel alive."

Aware of the downsides of a career in music, Lennox also has a greater sense of the perils and pitfall in life, something she has often expressed in her music.

"I have encountered individuals and I've encountered things in the industry that were vile. Bad things happen everywhere. And the music industry and all that surrounds it, is no exception.".

Having experienced unscrupulous people in the music industry and been through her own personal upheaval through two failed marriages, Lennox remain passionate, energetic and sanguine.

Ultimately, she says, "its all part of life's rich tapestry."

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(CNN) -- Grocery store shelves are bare. Food left in refrigerators has rotted in the absence of electricity. Houston and Galveston are hungry.

Ashia Turner and her family, from Galveston, wait at a shelter for a bus that will take them to a hotel on Tuesday.

The Houston Food Bank is "utterly overwhelmed with people asking for help," its president, Brian Greene, said Tuesday. The food bank needs 500,000 pounds of food a day for the next six weeks to satisfy the "staggering" needs of Texans who have no food or water after the storm, he said.

"People don't grasp just how many people live here," said Greene, who was executive director of New Orleans' Food Bank when Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast in 2005. He lost his home in Katrina, and lived at the New Orleans food bank for weeks using a garden hose as a shower.

Most of the Houston food bank's volunteers' homes were damaged and they don't have power.

"It's a very similar situation that I saw following Katrina: when the caregivers themselves [are] victims, it just becomes difficult on a far larger scale than you would think," he said. iReport.com: How are you getting by after Ike?

He pointed out that while Katrina's devastation was spread over a greater area, more people have been affected by Hurricane Ike.

Greene said the food bank normally distributes aid through local charities, churches and other faith-based organizations. But many were wiped out by the storm or are unable to function because of the lack of electricity or phone service.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has said several times that they are constantly shipping two days' worth of food every day to make sure supplies do not wane. FEMA has established at least 60 distribution sites across the region to give away water, ice and food. There are long waiting lines at those stations crowded with thousands of people. iReport.com: Long lines for help

Gov. Rick Perry on Tuesday issued an emergency order that authorized public utilities to lay temporary power lines to restore electricity to 1.5 million customers.

Houston Mayor Bill White spoke at a 9 p.m. news conference about food distribution. "If we could figure out how to get a big block of ice on your doorstep, we'd do it," he said. The city is working to get people refrigerated food, but he cautioned, "There's a limited number of [FEMA] trucks" that contain supplies.

Fuel is being shipped back to the region, he said. Motorists should stop topping off their tank and only pump the amount of gas they need.

Thousands of people remain in shelters throughout the state. FEMA said it was instituting a transitional sheltering program, allowing some evacuees who are unable to return home to stay in hotels or motels. FEMA will pay for the lodging directly to hotels and motels, the agency said. iReport.com: Ike evacuees get help in Austin

Galveston was so ravaged that city officials told the 15,000 to 20,000 people who stayed on the island during Ike to leave. For those who evacuated, the message was: Stay away. There's not enough clean drinking water and if people came back it would result in a "downward spiral" that officials cannot handle right now, Galveston City Manager Steve LeBlanc said Monday.

"Sometimes the aftermath of the storm is worse than the storm itself," Galveston Mayor Lyda Ann Thomas said Monday. "There's nothing to come here for right now. ... Please leave."  Watch how Ike wiped out neighborhoods Â»

In Houston, a curfew remained in place, banning citizens from the streets from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m. iReport.com: Shattered Houston buildings

A bottled or boiled water advisory for the Houston area was not lifted as had been hoped -- with the exception of Bellaire, which gave the OK for its tap water Tuesday. Houston city officials said water in one location was being retested.

Harris County, which includes Houston, said it had crews working to clear roads in downtown Houston, and said most streets were passable, while some were blocked because of glass and debris.

"Businesses are reopening gradually, and the situation is returning to normal," said a statement from the Harris County Homeland Security and Emergency Management.

"It's a tough situation on the coast," President Bush told reporters in a hangar at Houston's Ellington Field, where he had arrived to tour Houston and Galveston. "It may be hard to imagine a better Galveston or a better Orange [County], or some of these other communities that have been affected, but I know, with proper help from the federal government and state government, there will be a better tomorrow."  Watch what the feds are doing to keep aid flowing Â»

Bush said the federal government will pay 100 percent for debris removal and emergency preparedness measures that state and local governments have put in place, without requiring matching funds from the state.

"People have been moved out of their homes, and I know a lot of people are anxious to get back in," he said. "I urge you to listen to state and local authorities before you come back." iReport.com: Facing the deadly storm

Leslie Johnson came home Tuesday to strewn boxes, water-stained walls and soggy, ruined furniture in her first-floor apartment in Bayou Vista, Texas.

"Nothing there is usable. Everything is damaged," she told CNN affiliate KTRK-TV in Houston, sitting on the steps outside her apartment in the small waterfront community in Galveston County.

Inside, a television remained where it had been thrown face down on the floor, its wires still connected to a cabinet.

"I didn't think this would really happen, you know," she said, inhaling deeply. "I thought it was just going to be like Rita, just a little bit of damage, everything will go back to normal. I never thought I would come back and it would look like this."

The Texas coast bore the bulk of Ike's power, and areas lay in ruins Tuesday. At Crystal Beach, a resort community on the Bolivar Peninsula, swaths of land where houses had stood were reduced to debris-laden beaches, with only a few houses dotting the flattened landscape.  See the aftermath of Ike Â»

Oak Island, north of the peninsula, looked like it had been "bombed," said former Chambers County Auditor Jimmie Moorhead, according to the Houston Chronicle.

"I doubt there are any homes that are livable, and some are just cratered. I even saw someone's little pet goat [dead] in a tree," Moorhead told the newspaper.

Chambers, which includes Oak Island, has sustained "widespread damage," a message on the county's emergency telephone line said. The area has "many unsafe things," no electricity and sewer problems, the message said, urging people not to return home.

Ike's trail stretched into the Midwest, where roads were flooded and thousands of people were without electricity Tuesday. Ike dumped as much as 8 inches of rain over the weekend, according to The Associated Press.

Some rivers in Missouri were more than 15 feet above flood stage and rising, and flooding already was occurring at several towns along the Missouri and Mississippi rivers, including St. Louis, Missouri, the AP reported.

Flooding had closed the street in front of the Gateway Arch and a casino on the St. Louis waterfront, the AP said.

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text: Monday

text: There

text: 's

text: nothing

text: to

text: come

text: here

text: for

text: right

text: now

text: Please

text: leave

text: Watch

text: how

text: Ike

text: wiped

text: out

text: neighborhoods

text: Â

text: In

text: Houston

text: a

text: curfew

text: remained

text: in

text: place

text: banning

text: citizens

text: from

text: the

text: streets

text: from

text: p.m.

text: to

text: a.m.

text: iReport.com

text: Shattered

text: Houston

text: buildings

text: A

text: bottled

text: or

text: boiled

text: water

text: advisory

text: for

text: the

text: Houston

text: area

text: was

text: not

text: lifted

text: as

text: had

text: been

text: hoped

text: with

text: the

text: exception

text: of

text: Bellaire

text: which

text: gave

text: the

text: OK

text: for

text: its

text: tap

text: water

text: Tuesday

text: Houston

text: city

text: officials

text: said

text: water

text: in

text: one

text: location

text: was

text: being

text: retested

text: Harris

text: County

text: which

text: includes

text: Houston

text: said

text: it

text: had

text: crews

text: working

text: to

text: clear

text: roads

text: in

text: downtown

text: Houston

text: and

text: said

text: most

text: streets

text: were

text: passable

text: while

text: some

text: were

text: blocked

text: because

text: of

text: glass

text: and

text: debris

text: Businesses

text: are

text: reopening

text: gradually

text: and

text: the

text: situation

text: is

text: returning

text: to

text: normal

text: said

text: a

text: statement

text: from

text: the

text: Harris

text: County

text: Homeland

text: Security

text: and

text: Emergency

text: Management

text: It

text: 's

text: a

text: tough

text: situation

text: on

text: the

text: coast

text: President

text: Bush

text: told

text: reporters

text: in

text: a

text: hangar

text: at

text: Houston

text: 's

text: Ellington

text: Field

text: where

text: he

text: had

text: arrived

text: to

text: tour

text: Houston

text: and

text: Galveston

text: It

text: may

text: be

text: hard

text: to

text: imagine

text: a

text: better

text: Galveston

text: or

text: a

text: better

text: Orange

text: County

text: or

text: some

text: of

text: these

text: other

text: communities

text: that

text: have

text: been

text: affected

text: but

text: I

text: know

text: with

text: proper

text: help

text: from

text: the

text: federal

text: government

text: and

text: state

text: government

text: there

text: will

text: be

text: a

text: better

text: tomorrow

text: Watch

text: what

text: the

text: feds

text: are

text: doing

text: to

text: keep

text: aid

text: flowing

text: Â

text: Bush

text: said

text: the

text: federal

text: government

text: will

text: pay

text: percent

text: for

text: debris

text: removal

text: and

text: emergency

text: preparedness

text: measures

text: that

text: state

text: and

text: local

text: governments

text: have

text: put

text: in

text: place

text: without

text: requiring

text: matching

text: funds

text: from

text: the

text: state

text: People

text: have

text: been

text: moved

text: out

text: of

text: their

text: homes

text: and

text: I

text: know

text: a

text: lot

text: of

text: people

text: are

text: anxious

text: to

text: get

text: back

text: in

text: he

text: said

text: I

text: urge

text: you

text: to

text: listen

text: to

text: state

text: and

text: local

text: authorities

text: before

text: you

text: come

text: back

text: iReport.com

text: Facing

text: the

text: deadly

text: storm

text: Leslie

text: Johnson

text: came

text: home

text: Tuesday

text: to

text: strewn

text: boxes

text: water

text: stained

text: walls

text: and

text: soggy

text: ruined

text: furniture

text: in

text: her

text: first

text: floor

text: apartment

text: in

text: Bayou

text: Vista

text: Texas

text: Nothing

text: there

text: is

text: usable

text: Everything

text: is

text: damaged

text: she

text: told

text: CNN

text: affiliate

text: KTRK

text: TV

text: in

text: Houston

text: sitting

text: on

text: the

text: steps

text: outside

text: her

text: apartment

text: in

text: the

text: small

text: waterfront

text: community

text: in

text: Galveston

text: County

text: Inside

text: a

text: television

text: remained

text: where

text: it

text: had

text: been

text: thrown

text: face

text: down

text: on

text: the

text: floor

text: its

text: wires

text: still

text: connected

text: to

text: a

text: cabinet

text: I

text: did

text: n't

text: think

text: this

text: would

text: really

text: happen

text: you

text: know

text: she

text: said

text: inhaling

text: deeply

text: I

text: thought

text: it

text: was

text: just

text: going

text: to

text: be

text: like

text: Rita

text: just

text: a

text: little

text: bit

text: of

text: damage

text: everything

text: will

text: go

text: back

text: to

text: normal

text: I

text: never

text: thought

text: I

text: would

text: come

text: back

text: and

text: it

text: would

text: look

text: like

text: this

text: The

text: Texas

text: coast

text: bore

text: the

text: bulk

text: of

text: Ike

text: 's

text: power

text: and

text: areas

text: lay

text: in

text: ruins

text: Tuesday

text: At

text: Crystal

text: Beach

text: a

text: resort

text: community

text: on

text: the

text: Bolivar

text: Peninsula

text: swaths

text: of

text: land

text: where

text: houses

text: had

text: stood

text: were

text: reduced

text: to

text: debris

text: laden

text: beaches

text: with

text: only

text: a

text: few

text: houses

text: dotting

text: the

text: flattened

text: landscape

text: See

text: the

text: aftermath

text: of

text: Ike

text: Â

text: Oak

text: Island

text: north

text: of

text: the

text: peninsula

text: looked

text: like

text: it

text: had

text: been

text: bombed

text: said

text: former

text: Chambers

text: County

text: Auditor

text: Jimmie

text: Moorhead

text: according

text: to

text: the

text: Houston

text: Chronicle

text: I

text: doubt

text: there

text: are

text: any

text: homes

text: that

text: are

text: livable

text: and

text: some

text: are

text: just

text: cratered

text: I

text: even

text: saw

text: someone

text: 's

text: little

text: pet

text: goat

text: dead

text: in

text: a

text: tree

text: Moorhead

text: told

text: the

text: newspaper

text: Chambers

text: which

text: includes

text: Oak

text: Island

text: has

text: sustained

text: widespread

text: damage

text: a

text: message

text: on

text: the

text: county

text: 's

text: emergency

text: telephone

text: line

text: said

text: The

text: area

text: has

text: many

text: unsafe

text: things

text: no

text: electricity

text: and

text: sewer

text: problems

text: the

text: message

text: said

text: urging

text: people

text: not

text: to

text: return

text: home

text: Ike

text: 's

text: trail

text: stretched

text: into

text: the

text: Midwest

text: where

text: roads

text: were

text: flooded

text: and

text: thousands

text: of

text: people

text: were

text: without

text: electricity

text: Tuesday

text: Ike

text: dumped

text: as

text: much

text: as

text: inches

text: of

text: rain

text: over

text: the

text: weekend

text: according

text: to

text: The

text: Associated

text: Press

text: Some

text: rivers

text: in

text: Missouri

text: were

text: more

text: than

text: feet

text: above

text: flood

text: stage

text: and

text: rising

text: and

text: flooding

text: already

text: was

text: occurring

text: at

text: several

text: towns

text: along

text: the

text: Missouri

text: and

text: Mississippi

text: rivers

text: including

text: St.

text: Louis

text: Missouri

text: the

text: AP

text: reported

text: Flooding

text: had

text: closed

text: the

text: street

text: in

text: front

text: of

text: the

text: Gateway

text: Arch

text: and

text: a

text: casino

text: on

text: the

text: St.

text: Louis

text: waterfront

text: the

text: AP

text: said

question: How many Texans are without power?

answer: 1.5 million

text: 1.5 million

question: How many people are still in shelters?

answer: Thousands of

text: Thousands of

question: Where did the President inspect hurricane damage?

answer: Houston and Galveston.

text: Houston and Galveston.

question: What city did the president inspect?

answer: Houston and Galveston.

text: Houston and Galveston.

question: What is the number of people that are still without power?

answer: nd thousan

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question: Who needs 500,000 pounds of food a day for the next 6 weeks?

answer: Houston

text: Houston

question: How many are without power?

answer: 1.5 million customers.

text: 1.5 million customers.

question: What is the name of the hurricane?

answer: Katrina

text: Katrina

question: What hurricane caused damage in Galveston?

answer: Ike.

text: Ike.

question: How much food is needed per day by the food bank?

answer: 500,000 pounds of food a day

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(CNN) -- Hillary Clinton's campaign has apologized for "inappropriate" language used by her husband in response to what it called an "outrageously unfair" article about the former president.

Bill and Hillary Clinton campaign in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, on Monday.

The article, by Vanity Fair magazine's national editor Todd Purdum, suggested that Bill Clinton's personality had changed since his 2004 heart bypass surgery and said that there were reports of Clinton "seeing a lot of women on the road."

Purdum quoted four anonymous former Clinton aides saying that another of his former assistants had conducted "what one of these aides called an intervention" about the reports of philandering.

A writer for the Huffington Post, Mayhill Fowler, asked Clinton on Monday what he thought "about that hatchet job somebody did on you in Vanity Fair," according to a recording of the exchange posted on the Huffington Post's Web site.  Listen to Clinton call the reporter a "scumbag" Â»

"[He's] sleazy," Clinton responded. "He's a really dishonest reporter."

Clinton said he had not read the article but that he was told that "there's five or six just blatant lies in there. But he's a real slimy guy."  Watch Larry King panel debate Bill Clinton's response Â»

Calling Purdum a "scumbag," Clinton said "he's one of the guys that propagated all those lies about Whitewater for Kenneth Starr. He's just a dishonest guy -- can't help it."

Purdum "didn't use a single name, he didn't cite a single source in all those things he said," said the former president, who added that the article was "part of the national media's attempt to nail Hillary for [Barack] Obama."

He said readers should be wary of news accounts that rely on unnamed sources.

"Anytime you read a story that slimes a public figure with anonymous quotes, it ought to make the bells go off in your head," he said.

Late Monday, Jay Carson, a spokesman for Hillary Clinton's campaign, said that "President Clinton was understandably upset about an outrageously unfair article, but the language today was inappropriate and he wishes he had not used it."

Purdum, a former New York Times reporter who covered the Clinton White House and is now married to former Clinton press secretary Dee Dee Myers, defended his article on CNN's "The Situation Room" Monday.

He told CNN's Wolf Blitzer he was "very careful to say there is no clear-cut evidence that President Clinton has done anything improper."  Watch CNN's Wolf Blitzer interview Purdum Â»

"I reject the notion that I'm making an insinuation," Purdum said. "But I'm very comfortable quoting the people I quote because I know who they are, and I know that they are very senior people who have known President Clinton for a very long time and work for him at very high levels."

In his article, Purdum quotes a Johns Hopkins cardiologist -- who was not involved in Clinton's health care -- who says that the former president's bypass surgery could have affected his mood, perhaps even causing depression.

And on CNN, Purdum quoted "some people who work for him" saying that Clinton "seems to be angry all the time."

Purdum added he himself believes there's evidence the former president is acting in a different manner.

"I think there's a good deal of evidence that he is quite a bit angrier than he used to be," he said. "He's clearly very angry at the media, and he's very angry at the way he sees Sen. Clinton's campaign has been treated."

"I don't suggest that anyone can say -- except perhaps his own doctors over time -- with certainty that [the surgery] has affected President Clinton," he said. "But again, this article involves reporting with a whole bunch of people who have worked for Bill Clinton over many years. And this is one of the things they raised with me. I didn't go raising this."

Clinton's office issued a rebuttal of Purdum's article that decried his use of "one doctor who has never examined President Clinton."

"This theory is false and is flatly rejected by President Clinton's doctors who say he is in excellent shape and point to his vigorous schedule as evidence of his exceptional recovery," the rebuttal said.  Watch analyst James Carville's take on the article Â»

The lengthy article hits newsstands later this week, though Vanity Fair has already posted a copy on its Web site. The posting prompted a blistering response from Carson, who called the piece "journalism of personal destruction at its worst."

"A tawdry, anonymous quote-filled attack piece, published in this month's Vanity Fair magazine regarding former President Bill Clinton repeats many past attacks on him, ignores much prior positive coverage, includes numerous errors, and ultimately breaks no new ground," he said.

Purdum last year wrote an article about efforts by Sen. John McCain, now the presumptive Republican nominee for president, to draw in the party's more conservative voters.

CNN's Alex Mooney contributed to this report.

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(Wired) -- Joe Wilkins knew there was only one way to give his supercharged, alcohol-injected Hemi-engined hot rod more power: Put a jet engine in the trunk.

"It started as a hobby and turned into a monster," said Joe Wilkins, the motor madman behind what might be the wildest 1939 Ford ever built. He's an inventor and defense department contractor, and the idea of goosing the Ford's ability to turn heads and shred tires came when he bought a used gas turbine engine.

"I got hooked on the simplicity and power that this thing produced, and I decided one day I want to put it in a car."

Luckily for us, he did. The Hemi Jet -- Wilkins has copyrighted the name -- fires up this weekend at the Houston AutoRama, and Wilkins plans to attempt a land speed record in the near future.

In the meantime, he's tooling around Navasota, Texas, in what he says is the ultimate sleeper when the jet engine's tucked away in the trunk.

Most people say "Nice car" and assume he's got the obligatory small-block Chevrolet engine under the hood. Little do they know.

"I can drive it up to the store and get a gallon of milk if I want to," he told Autopia.

The car is an amalgamation of the Big Three, with a Chrysler engine, Chevrolet drivetrain and Ford body. Wilkins says the jet engine was probably used as an APU and weighs 110 pounds.

He claims the car is street legal so long as the jet stays stowed. He fires it up from time to time to show off, and he plans to run it flat-out at the Bonneville Salt Flats.

"We want to be the fastest street legal car in the world," he said.

He's got some intense competition. The Bugatti Veyron tops out at 253 mph and the Shelby Supercars Ultimate Aero TT does 255. And then there's Red Vector One, that crazy Vauxhall that does zero to 60 in under a second. Record, schmecord -- we just want to see the video.

"I'm more than certain the car will go over 300," Wilkins said. "We've still got a ways to go [before Bonneville], but not a long way. We'll have to experiment in some wind tunnels and end up with a spoiler on the back to keep the front end on the ground."

Sadly, Wilkins won't be behind the wheel during the car's test run.

"I turned 61 last Sunday. I just don't think I'm going to be able to handle it [without] the reflexes I had 20 or 30 years ago," he said. "I know several people who would be more than interested."

So do we, and we even suggested Wilkins give the job to fellow jet-junkie Bob Maddox. After jumping from a plane with a pulse jet strapped to his chest, we suspect Maddox would welcome the opportunity to stay on the ground.

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NEW YORK (CNN) -- The son of the late Gambino family crime boss John Gotti is set to stand trial in federal court in New York on Monday on murder and racketeering charges that could put him in prison for life if he is convicted.

'Junior' Gotti's lawyer, Charles Carnesi, talks with reporters outside the federal courthouse.

Three previous racketeering trials against John "Junior" Gotti, 45, have ended in mistrials in New York.

The government says it has learned since his previous trial, "that Gotti had participated in three murders, that Gotti had run a multi-million dollar cocaine trafficking network, that Gotti had overseen a systematic effort to tamper with trial juries, grand juries and witnesses, and that Gotti had participated in various other violent crimes," according to court documents filed by prosecutors.

The defense claims the newest round of charges is part of the government's ongoing quest to convict Gotti.

The current case was moved to New York in December from Florida, where the original indictment was handed up.

A superseding indictment was filed in the case on August 3. In the first indictment, Gotti was only charged with violating the federal Racketeer Influenced Corrupt Organizations Act, or RICO.

The superseding indictment formally charged Gotti with the drug-related murders of two men -- allegations mentioned as part of the first indictment -- along with the RICO charge. The RICO law is used to target organized crime groups -- in this case, the Gambino crime family.

Gotti's defense attorneys, however, allege in court filings that "the prosecution has engaged in a 'win at all costs' campaign riddled with misconduct."

"The prosecution charges the same conspiracy, albeit with new garnishments," said one filing from July. "After having received frustrating results in three separate trials, the case was hijacked to the Middle District of Florida in a shameful attempt to forum shop or judge shop or both."

Federal prosecutors, meanwhile, say in court filings that Gotti's allegations he is a victim of a government vendetta are unfounded. Since Gotti's previous trials, prosecutors maintain, they have "uncovered extensive new evidence of Gotti's criminal conduct in the course of investigating and prosecuting another Gambino family captain."

The indictment alleges that Gotti was at times an "associate, soldier, captain and de facto boss" in the Gambino family, and also served on a "committee of captains" formed in the early 1990s to assist in family administration.

"The principal purpose of the GCF (Gambino crime family) Enterprise was to generate money ... for the GCF Enterprise members," the indictment says.

"This purpose was implemented," the indictment continued, "through various criminal activities, including criminal acts involving the felonious manufacturing, importing, receiving, concealing, buying, selling and otherwise dealing in narcotics and other dangerous drugs, extortion, armed and unarmed robbery, armed home invasions, illegal gambling, extortionate credit transactions, theft and bribery."

To further their activities, family members threatened and caused economic injury, the indictment says, as well as threatening and using physical violence "ranging from simple assault to murder."

The two murders Gotti is charged with are those of George Grosso, who died in December 1988 in Queens, and Bruce John Gotterup, slain in November 1991 in Queens.

The indictment also accuses Gotti in connection with a third murder, that of Louis DiBono in October 1990 in the parking garage of the former World Trade Center, but does not allege that murder was drug-related.

Although the murder charges carry a potential death sentence, prosecutors have said they will not seek the death penalty against Gotti.

The trial will be the latest chapter in a long legal saga.

In late 2006, a third mistrial was declared in a federal case against Gotti on charges including racketeering and extortion. Prosecutors said they would not retry Gotti, who was accused of ordering attacks on radio talk show host Curtis Sliwa after the Guardian Angels founder criticized Gotti's father on his program. Sliwa was shot three times but recovered and testified against the younger Gotti.

At the time of Gotti's arrest in August 2008 on the latest charges, his attorney, Charles Carnesi, told reporters he "was very disappointed to have to go through all this again."

Carnesi continued, "You can imagine the toll it took on him and his family to have to fight three times in the course of a year, to feel that, OK, perhaps it's over ... because the government itself came to the conclusion, no more. It's very disheartening for him to be back here again."

Gotti's father, John Gotti Sr., was nicknamed the "Teflon Don" because prosecutors had trouble making charges against him stick. He died in prison of throat cancer in 2002.

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(CNN) -- There are few cities in the world blessed with a more beautiful setting than Seattle. It is surrounded by rugged green wilderness; to the west the Olympic Mountains, to the east the volcanoes and glaciers of the Cascade Range, and all around the brisk waters of the Northwest.

The Space Needle dominates the Seattle skyline.

Over the years, Seattle has inspired a number of nicknames. It's not hard to understand why some refer to it as "Rain City," but visit when the sun is shining, when lakes Union and Washington are sparkling under a blue sky and majestic Mount Rainier is visible in the distance, and you'll realize that "Emerald City" is the most appropriate of its monikers.

Seattle started out as a logging town, grew as a stop-off point for gold prospectors at the end of the 19th century, and earned another nickname, "Jet City", when plane manufacturer Boeing rose to prominence in the 1950s and 60s. At the height of its powers, Boeing employed some 100,000 locals and the Jet City remained a solidly working-class town until the 80s, when local startup Microsoft started making a name for itself.

As Microsoft grew into the behemoth it is today, other tech firms such as Amazon.com and Nintendo were drawn to the city, bringing with them a wave of young, educated and affluent workers.

Seattle began to shake off its blue-collar roots and in recent years its cultural credentials have been boosted by the addition of the Olympic Sculpture Park and a showpiece public library, while the acclaimed Seattle Symphony, Opera and Pacific Northwest Ballet have all moved into impressive new buildings in the last decade.

Some resent Seattle's gentrification, bemoaning the near-gridlocked traffic and arguing that the city's most interesting neighborhoods have lost their individuality to the property developers. But if you spend some time in neighborhoods like Capitol Hill or Fremont, the self-proclaimed "Center of the Universe," you'll find there's still plenty of the native free spirit in evidence.

It was that free spirit that gave birth to Grunge, the post-punk guitar noise that came out of the city in the early 90s, when local bands Soundgarden, Pearl Jam and Nirvana became international stars. Now Grunge is just a memory, but in popular culture it remains as much of a symbol of the city as the Space Needle, the persistent drizzle and the excellent, ubiquitous, coffee shops.

Despite its rapid growth, Seattle has kept its trees and parks and many areas maintain an almost suburban feel. The city and its residents are laidback and liberal, and that famous free spirit is as at home in the great outdoors as in Seattle's boho neighborhoods. As a modern, civilized outpost among outstanding natural spectacle, the place once known as the "Queen City of the Northwest" still reigns supreme.

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question: What does the city boast?

answer: The Space Needle

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question: What is Seattle best known as?

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text: "Rain City,"

question: What names is Seattle known as?

answer: "Rain City,"

text: "Rain City,"

question: What is Seattle surrounded by?

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question: What city has been known as The Emerald City?

answer: Seattle

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question: What is Seattle famous for?

answer: free spirit is as at home in the great outdoors

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SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (CNN) -- The official count of confirmed deaths grew to 15 Friday afternoon, one day after a 6.1-magnitude earthquake shook north central Costa Rica, a government emergency official said.

iReporter Leonardo Diaz photographed the damage in Plaza Mayor Shopping Center in San Jose.

Reinaldo Carballo, a spokesman for the federal Commission for National Emergencies, said the updated death toll came from information given to the agency by Costa Rica Vice President Rodrigo Arias.

In addition, Carballo said, rescuers were trying to reach 300 tourists stranded in a hotel in Varablanca. Carballo said he did not know the tourists' nationalities or the name of the hotel.

There were conflicting reports on the number of dead from Thursday's earthquake. The Commission for National Emergencies had issued a news release earlier Friday saying the quake had killed four people.

Also earlier Friday, Red Cross official Milton Chaverri told CNN there were 14 dead and 22 missing. Red Cross spokeswoman Fiorella Vilca said Friday afternoon there were nine dead and 42 missing.

The discrepancy may result from the fact that the Commission for National Emergencies reports only deaths it has confirmed, Carballo said. About 32 people were injured, he said.

On Friday, the U.S. government dispatched a team of 34 U.S. military personnel and four helicopters from Honduras-based Joint Task Force-Bravo to Costa Rica to assist.

Survivors described the suddenness and brutality of the quake. Landslides, tumbling rocks and collapsed buildings caused widespread devastation and death.

"I saw how the earth moved and how it took my family -- my aunt, my cousin and her babies," Miguel Angel Marin told CNN affiliate Teletica TV. "It was very hard because I wanted to save them, but I couldn't."

A sobbing Vilma Cambronero was asked what happened to her family.

"Some are well," she said. "Others are buried."

An unidentified woman told Teletica, "Everything started to move and everything fell on top of us. It was a miracle we got out."

More than 1,200 people were stranded, without a way to get out of towns or homes, Chaverri said. Another 1,000 people were living in shelters, he said. iReport.com: Are you there? Send photos, video

"Many people were injured, many buildings were damaged and landslides blocked roads in the area," the U.S. Geological Survey said.

The dead included three young girls, officials said Friday.

Costa Rican President Oscar Arias Sanchez was scheduled to tour the affected area Friday. On Thursday, he appealed for calm.

The remote area near Alajuela, where the quake hit strongest, is difficult to reach, and officials said they were having to rely on helicopters for medical evacuations and to airlift supplies.

Randall Picado, a government rescue official, said many residents were without water and other necessities.

About 400 volunteers and Red Cross personnel were giving aid in 15 communities, Chaverri said.

The temblor was felt throughout Costa Rica and in southern and central Nicaragua, the U.S. Geological Survey reported on its Web site.

"I felt the earthquake," Costa Rican office worker Erick Solorzano told CNN in an iReport message. "I work in a sixth floor, and it was very strong. We felt the building was going to collapse."

About 2,000 aftershocks have been felt in San Jose, the capital, and other cities throughout the nation, Red Cross spokeswoman Vilca said.

The Geological Survey placed the earthquake's epicenter at 20 miles (32 kilometers) north-northwest of San Jose at a depth of 2.8 miles (4.5 kilometers).

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question: howmany are in shelters

answer: 1,000 people

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question: how many tourists are stranded

answer: 300

question: where are the tourists stranded

answer: hotel in Varablanca.

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question: What Red Cross says?

answer: there were 14 dead and 22 missing.

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question: who is stranded?

answer: 300 tourists

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question: how many are missing?

answer: 22

question: How many people can be missing?

answer: 42

question: what does a survivor say?

answer: described the suddenness and brutality of the quake. Landslides, tumbling rocks and collapsed buildings caused widespread devastation and death.

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