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(PEOPLE.com) -- Melissa McCarthy is no longer just a bridesmaid. She's the bride.

The "Mike & Molly" Emmy winner and "Bridesmaids" scene-stealer has some big plans on her plate -- from launching her own plus-size fashion line to getting hockey's prized Stanley Cup (for a movie) -- during what is already a stellar year for her.

But none of her professional plans can top her favorite pastime, being mom to her two daughters with actor-husband Ben Falcone: Vivian, 4, and Georgette, 1ÃÂ½. McCarthy tells the Hollywood Reporter that being a mother actually helps her feel less insecure about her looks.

"The stupid stuff like what I wear or how I look I can't control, so I just try not to give too much energy to it," she says, calling her body a work in progress after giving birth to Georgette. "At 20, I would have been like: 'Don't they like me? Was it my hair?' At 41, I think the things that define me, I hope, are a lot more than those kinds of petty things."

As for those red-carpet moments, "Trying to find stuff that's still fashion-forward in my size is damn near impossible. It's either for like a 98-year-old woman or a 14-year-old hooker, and there is nothing in the middle," McCarthy wisecracks. Case in point: trying to outfit herself for the Emmys, which required sifting through "nine million dresses with taffeta or shiny bows."

The final result was McCarthy's own line that she is co-designing with couturier Daniella Pearl.

Hosting SNL This Weekend

Fans needn't fret, however -- she'll still be doing comedy, including hosting this weekend's "Saturday Night Live." She psyched for this, too, admitting to having an emotional reaction when the producers invited her to do it.

"I went into such an embarrassing, weird, inappropriately loud cry," says McCarthy. "I'm bent over, literally, in the rug section of Living Spaces, wailing."

Also ahead: starring in and co-writing a movie with "Bridesmaids" scribe Annie Mumolo, which is about hijacking the Stanley Cup to cheer up her sick husband; costarring with Jason Bateman in a movie comedy (still in the talking stage); and appearing in Judd Apatow's as-yet-untitled "Knocked Up" spin-off -- and that, reportedly, is only for starters.

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(WIRED) -- The wind blowing through the streets of Manhattan couldn't power the city, but wind machines placed thousands of feet above the city theoretically could.

A prototype of a high-altitude wind turbine made by Magenn Power.

The first rigorous, worldwide study of high-altitude wind power estimates that there is enough wind energy at altitudes of about 1,600 to 40,000 feet to meet global electricity demand a hundred times over.

The very best ground-based wind sites have a wind-power density of less than 1 kilowatt per square meter of area swept. Up near the jet stream above New York, the wind power density can reach 16 kilowatts per square meter. The air up there is a vast potential reservoir of energy, if its intermittency can be overcome.

Even better, the best high-altitude wind-power resources match up with highly populated areas including North America's Eastern Seaboard and China's coastline.

"The resource is really, really phenomenal," said Christine Archer of Cal State University-Chico, who co-authored a paper on the work published in the open-access journal Energies."There is a lot of energy up there, but it's not as steady as we thought. It's not going to be the silver bullet that will solve all of our energy problems, but it will have a role."

For centuries, we've been using high-density fossil fuels, but peaking oil supplies and climate concerns have given new life to green technologies. Unfortunately, renewable energy is generally diffuse, meaning you need to cover a lot of area to get the energy you want. So engineers look for renewable resources that are as dense as possible. On that score, high-altitude wind looks very promising.

Wind's power -- energy which can be used to do work like spinning magnets to generate electricity -- varies with the cube of its speed. So, a small increase in wind speed can lead to a big increase in the amount of mechanical energy you can harvest. High-altitude wind blows fast, is spread nicely across the globe, and is easier to predict than terrestrial wind.

These properties have led inventors and scientists to cast their hopes upward, where strong winds have long been known to blow, as Etzler's dreamy quote shows. During the energy shocks of the 1970s, when new energy ideas of all kinds were bursting forth, engineers and schemers patented several designs for harnessing wind thousands of feet in the air.

The two main design frameworks they came up with are still with us today. The first is essentially a power plant in the sky, generating electricity aloft and sending it down to Earth via a conductive tether. The second is more like a kite, transmitting mechanical energy to the ground, where generators turn it into electricity. Theoretically, both approaches could work, but nothing approaching a rigorous evaluation of the technologies has been conducted.

The Department of Energy had a very small high-altitude wind program, which produced some of the first good data about the qualities of the wind up there, but it got axed as energy prices dropped in the 1980s and Reagan-era DOE officials directed funds elsewhere.

The program hasn't been restarted, despite growing attention to renewables, but that's not because it's considered a bad idea. Rather, it is seen as just a little too far out on the horizon.

"We're very much aimed these days at things that we can fairly quickly commercialize, like in the next 10 years or so," said National Renewable Energy Laboratory spokesperson George Douglas.

Startups like KiteGen, Sky Windpower, Magenn, and Makani (Google's secretive fundee) have come into the space over the last several years, and they seem to be working on much shorter timelines.

"We are not that far from working prototypes," Archer said, though she noted that the companies are all incredibly secretive about the data from their testing.

Magenn CFO Barry Monette said he expects "first revenue" next year when they sell "two to four" working prototypes of their blimpy machine, which will operate at much lower altitudes.

"We do think that we're going to be first [to market], unless something happens," Monette said.

In the long term, trying to power entire cities with machines like this would be difficult, largely because even in the best locations, the wind will fail at least 5 percent of the time.

"This means that you either need backup power, massive amounts of energy storage, or a continental- or even global-scale electricity grid to assure power availability," said co-author Ken Caldeira, an ecologist at Stanford University. "So, while high-altitude wind may ultimately prove to be a major energy source, it requires substantial infrastructure."

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Washington (CNN) -- Idaho on Wednesday became the first state to pass a law saying no thanks to part of President Obama's health care proposal.

The Idaho Health Care Freedom Act says in part, "every person within the state of Idaho is and shall be free to choose or decline to choose any mode of securing health care services without penalty or threat of penalty."

Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter, a Republican, said Wednesday he signed it because he believes any health care laws should ensure people are "treated as an individual, rather than as an amorphous mass whose only purpose in this world is to obey federal mandates."

Several other states may follow suit.

The governor of Virginia is expected to sign a bill passed in his state last week, and according to American Legislative Exchange Council, similar proposals have made it through one chamber of the legislatures in Missouri, Oklahoma and Tennessee. While such bills have recently failed in six states, 22 additional states have seen proposals introduced.

These state laws would directly conflict with the national health care bill that Democrats are trying to pass, which includes a requirement that all individuals get health coverage or face a tax penalty.

Several legal analysts said if Congress enacts a national health care law, it would supersede any state laws written to block them.

"I think most of the states that are passing these laws understand that they can't trump federal law with state law," said Professor Jonathan Siegel at George Washington University Law School. "But what they get out of it is symbolic effect. They're sending a message to the federal politicians that they don't like the health care mandate."

Such state laws might not be the only legal challenge to Democratic health care legislation.

Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum, a Republican, on Tuesday sent a letter to the other 49 state attorneys general, asking them to join him "in preparing a legal challenge to the constitutionality of whatever individual mandate provision emerges, immediately upon the legislation becoming law."

States have previously challenged federal laws and regulations in areas aside from health care.

Five states have passed a Firearms Freedom Act, according to firearmsfreedomact.com, including Montana, Wyoming, South Dakota, Tennessee and Utah. The law declares that any guns that are manufactured and kept in-state are not subject to federal gun laws passed by Congress under interstate commerce authority, because the guns never crossed state lines.

A number of states have also passed laws trying to wrest more control from Washington over issues such as how public lands are used or how a state's National Guard forces are deployed overseas, according to the 10th Amendment Center, which advocates for states' rights.

While such laws may face an uphill path in court, supporters describe them as a sign of public opinion, which can still have impact.

They point to last year's announcement of federal policy on medicinal marijuana, after 14 states passed laws to allow its use. While federal drug law makes no exception to allow medicinal use of marijuana, Attorney General Eric Holder said in October that prosecuting the use of medicinal marijuana users wouldn't be a priority.

He said the Justice Department would instead "effectively focus our resources on serious drug traffickers, while taking into account state and local laws."

CNN's Brian Todd and Eric Weisbrod contributed to this report.

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Peter Bergen says it's crucial to correctly frame the nature of a war before beginning it.

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President-elect Barack Obama and his foreign policy advisers and speechwriters are wrestling with one of the most important speeches of his presidency, his inaugural address.

One of their toughest conceptual challenges is how to describe and recast what the Bush administration has consistently termed the "war on terror."

The dean of military strategists, Carl von Clausewitz, explains the importance of this decision-making in his treatise "On War": "The first, the supreme, the most decisive act of judgment that the statesman and commander have to make is to establish...the kind of war on which they are embarking; neither mistaking it for, nor trying to turn it into something that is alien to its nature."

Clausewitz's excellent advice about the absolute necessity of properly defining the war upon which a nation is about to embark was ignored by Bush administration officials who instead declared an open-ended and ambiguous "war on terror" after the United States was attacked on September 11, 2001.

Bush took the nation to war against a tactic, rather than a war against a specific enemy, which was obviously al Qaeda and anyone allied to it. When the United States went to war against the Nazis and the Japanese during World War II, President Franklin Roosevelt and his congressional supporters did not declare war against U-boats and kamikaze pilots, but on the Nazi state and Imperial Japan.

The war on terror, sometimes known as the "Global War on Terror" or by the clunky acronym GWOT, became the lens through which the Bush administration judged almost all of its foreign policy decisions. That proved to be dangerously counterproductive on several levels.

The GWOT framework propelled the Bush administration into its disastrous entanglement in Iraq. It had nothing to do with 9/11 but was launched under the rubric of the war on terror and the erroneous claims that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.

The theory was that he might give such weapons to terrorists, including al Qaeda to whom he was supposedly allied, and that he therefore threatened American interests. None of this, of course, turned out to be true.

The Bush administration's approach to the war on terror collided badly with another of its doctrines, spreading democracy in the Middle East as a panacea to reduce radicalism.

It pushed for elections in the Palestinian territories in which, in early 2006, the more radical Hamas won a resounding victory, propelled to power on a wave of popular revulsion for the incompetence and corruption of the Fatah party that had dominated Palestinian politics since the 1960s.

Imprisoned by its war on terror framework, the Bush administration supported Israel in a disastrous war against Hezbollah in Lebanon in the summer of 2006. Hezbollah is not only a terrorist group but is also part of the rickety Lebanese government and runs social welfare services across the country, yet for the Bush administration its involvement in terrorism was all that mattered.

As is now widely understood in Israel, the war against Hezbollah was a moral and tactical defeat for the Israeli military and government. Events in the current Israeli incursion in Gaza will determine whether history repeats itself.

Under the banner of the war on terror, the Bush administration also tied itself in conceptual knots conflating the threat from al Qaeda with Shiite groups like Hezbollah and the ayatollahs in Iran.

In 2006, for instance, President Bush claimed that "the Sunni and Shiite extremist represent different faces of the same threat." In reality, Sunni and Shiite extremists have been killing each other in large numbers for years in countries from Pakistan to Iraq. The groups have differing attitudes toward the United States, which Sunni extremists attacked in 1993 and again on 9/11, while Shiite militants have never done so.

So, how to reconceptualize the GWOT?

Contrary to a common view among Europeans, who have lived through the bombing campaigns of various nationalist and leftist terror groups for decades, al Qaeda is not just another criminal/terrorist group that can be dealt with by police action and law enforcement alone.

After all, a terrorist organization like the Irish Republican Army would call in warnings before its attacks and its single largest massacre killed 29 people. By contrast, al Qaeda has declared war on the United States repeatedly -- as it did for the first time to a Western audience during Osama bin Laden's 1997 interview with CNN.

Following that declaration of war, the terror group attacked American embassies, a U.S. warship, the Pentagon and the financial heart of the United States, killing thousands of civilians without warning; acts of war by any standard.

Al Qaeda is obviously at war with the United States and so to respond by simply recasting the GWOT as the GPAT, the Global Police Action Against Terrorists, would be foolish and dangerous.

What kind of war then should the United States fight against al Qaeda? For that we should learn some lessons from the conceptual errors of the Bush administration.

Nine days after 9/11, Bush addressed Congress in a speech watched live by tens of millions of Americans in which he said that al Qaeda followed in the footsteps "of the murderous ideologies of the 20th century...They follow in the path of fascism, Nazism and totalitarianism," implying that the fight against al Qaeda would be similar to World War II or the Cold War.

For the Bush administration, painting the conflict in such existential terms had the benefit of casting the president as the heroic reincarnation of Winston Churchill and anyone who had the temerity to question him as the reincarnation of Hitler's arch-appeaser, Neville Chamberlain.

But this portrayal of the war on terror was massively overwrought. The Nazis occupied and subjugated most of Europe and instigated a global conflict that killed tens of millions. And when the United States fought the Nazis, the country spent 40 percent of its gross domestic product to do so and fielded millions of soldiers.

In his inaugural address, Obama should say that the United States is indeed at "war against al Qaeda and its allies," but that as Roosevelt said in his inaugural address in 1933, the only thing we have to fear is fear itself. If Americans are not terrorized by terrorists, then the U.S. has won against them.

Al Qaeda and its allies are threats to the United States and Americans living and working overseas, but they are far from all-powerful. Barring an exceptional event like September 11, 2001, in any given year Americans are more likely to die of snake bites or lightning strikes than a terrorist attack.

Despite the hyperventilating rhetoric of Osama bin Laden, al Qaeda's amateur investigations into weapons of mass destruction do not compare to the very real possibility of nuclear conflagration that we faced during the Cold War. There are relatively few adherents of Binladen-ism in the West today, while there were tens of millions of devotees of communism and fascism.

Obama should also make it clear that instead of the Bush formulation of "Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists," the Obama administration doctrine will be, "Anyone who is against the terrorists is with us."

After all it is only al Qaeda and its several affiliates in countries like Iraq, Lebanon and Algeria and allied groups such as the Taliban that kill U.S. soldiers and civilians and attack American interests around the globe.

Everyone else in the world is a potential or actual ally in the fight against al Qaeda and its affiliates, because those organizations threaten almost every category of institution, government and ethnic grouping.

This is the first of two commentaries on the war on terror. Read the second piece, Peter Bergen's commentary on what principles Barack Obama should follow in waging war against al Qaeda and its allies, Friday, January 9 on CNN.com

The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Peter Bergen.

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text: summer

text: of

text: Hezbollah

text: is

text: not

text: only

text: a

text: terrorist

text: group

text: but

text: is

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text: of

text: the

text: rickety

text: Lebanese

text: government

text: and

text: runs

text: social

text: welfare

text: services

text: across

text: the

text: country

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text: the

text: Bush

text: administration

text: its

text: involvement

text: in

text: terrorism

text: was

text: all

text: that

text: mattered

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text: is

text: now

text: widely

text: understood

text: in

text: Israel

text: the

text: war

text: against

text: Hezbollah

text: was

text: a

text: moral

text: and

text: tactical

text: defeat

text: for

text: the

text: Israeli

text: military

text: and

text: government

text: Events

text: in

text: the

text: current

text: Israeli

text: incursion

text: in

text: Gaza

text: will

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text: the

text: banner

text: of

text: the

text: war

text: on

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text: Bush

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text: itself

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text: threat

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text: the

text: ayatollahs

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text: for

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text: Sunni

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text: Shiite

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text: same

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text: Shiite

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text: United

text: States

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text: leftist

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text: conceptual

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text: Bush

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text: president

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text: United

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text: United

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text: bin

text: Laden

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text: very

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text: West

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text: fascism

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text: Bush

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answer: Bush administration officials

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question: What President is being criticized here?

answer: Bush

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question: What does Bergen say the president went to war against?

answer: a tactic,

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question: What does Bergen say U.S should do instead?

answer: "Anyone who is against the terrorists is with us."

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question: Who never correctly framed the war?

answer: Bush administration officials

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question: What political ideology was al Qaeda compared to?

answer: fascism, Nazism

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question: Who went to war against the tactic of terrorism?

answer: Bush

text: Bush

question: What is not equivalent to fascism according to Bergen?

answer: Binladen-ism

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question: What did Bergen say the president actually went to war against (what "tactic")?

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(CNN) -- People along the Texas coast were leaving home or planning to evacuate Thursday as Hurricane Ike churned toward them, slowly intensifying on its march west.

Forecasters say the storm could slam into the Texas coast -- south of Galveston -- as a powerful Category 3 storm late Friday or early Saturday.

Mandatory and voluntary evacuations were planned or underway in at least seven coastal counties.

Aransas County, on the eastern coast of Texas, has ordered a mandatory evacuation of all nonessential government employees, becoming the latest county in the state to urge residents to flee.

In Galveston, city officials ordered mandatory evacuations for part of the island town beginning at 7 a.m. Thursday. The rest of the town will be under a voluntary evacuation order. Only residents will be required to evacuate on the western end of the island.

Mayor Lyda Ann Thomas defended that, saying current models call for Galveston to be hit with winds and rain only equivalent to a Category 1 hurricane.

"We do not intend to evacuate Galveston Island," she said. "It's the last thing we want to do. Our job is to protect lives and property, [and] right now we feel that sheltering in place is the best action for our citizens to take."

Farther up the Gulf Coast and closer to where the National Hurricane Center predicts a direct hit, Brazoria County ordered a mandatory evacuation to begin at 8 a.m. Thursday. Some other Texas localities have ordered mandatory evacuations, while others have left the decision to depart up to residents.

As of 5 a.m. ET Thursday, the Category 2 storm -- with top sustained winds near 100 mph -- was about  620 miles east of Brownsville, Texas, and about 285 miles southeast of the Mississippi River, the hurricane center said. Track the storm Â»

Hurricane-force winds extended out up to 115 miles from the storm's center, and tropical storm-force winds extended out up to 255 miles forecasters reported.

About 15,000 residents were leaving Galveston's Brazoria County Wednesday after a mandatory evacuation order was issued at 10 a.m. CT (11 a.m. ET) governing one ZIP code -- 77541 -- and residents throughout the county with special needs.

Galveston City Manager Steve LeBlanc issued a warning to residents of the city's West End, citing forecasters' estimates that the area could get tides of 6 feet above normal if the storm arrives there. The West End is the area of Galveston most susceptible to flooding, LeBlanc said.

Other Brazoria residents were being allowed to remain as of 6 p.m. ET.

In Matagorda County, southwest of Galveston, officials ordered a mandatory evacuation for all areas except the cities of Bay City and Van Vleck.

The evacuation must be completed by at 6 p.m. (7 p.m. ET) Thursday. Galveston is likely to experience a high tidal surge, officials said, urging people living in low-lying areas or mobile homes to get out soon.

"One of the things that the public has to understand if they decide to stay, there will be a period of time during this storm when they will absolutely be on their own," Brazoria County Sheriff Charles Wagner said.

"There will be no medical services; there will be no fire department; there will be no law enforcement, groceries, gasoline, drugs, electricity."

The center issued a tropical storm warning from the Mississippi River's mouth to Cameron, Louisiana, and a hurricane watch from Cameron to Port Mansfield, Texas, about 60 miles south of Brownsville. Tropical storm warnings mean winds of 39 to 73 mph (63 to 118 kmh) are expected within a day, and a hurricane watch means winds of 74 and higher are expected within 36 hours.

"Hurricane Ike is now in the Gulf of Mexico and making its approach toward our coast," Gov. Rick Perry said in a statement. "The next few days will be crucial for residents to follow the direction of local leaders and to take the necessary steps to protect themselves and their families."

Perry put 7,500 National Guard members on standby this week, his office said, and issued a disaster declaration for 88 counties.

About 1,350 buses, several ambulances and paramedic buses were available to support evacuations. The vehicles were positioned near Houston, Matagorda County, Nueces County and Victoria County, the governor's office said.

President Bush declared an emergency in the state, making federal funds available for the state to prepare for the storm.

Corpus Christi officials also began the evacuation process for residents with special needs, supplying buses to transport them out of town.

Voluntary evacuations were issued in San Patricio and Victoria counties and parts of Jackson County, according to the governor's office.

More than 1,300 inmates from the Texas Correctional Institutions Division's Stevenson Unit in Cuero were being evacuated to facilities in Beeville and Kenedy, Perry's office said, and 597 were transferred from the substance abuse Glossbrenner Unit in San Diego, in south Texas, to Dilley.

Naval air stations in Texas also began to prepare for Hurricane Ike's expected arrival. Naval Air Station Kingsville was to begin moving about 50 aircraft to El Paso, San Antonio and Fort Worth on Wednesday afternoon, the public affairs office there said. Naval Air Station Corpus Christi will also move about 75 aircraft to other Texas locations, its public affairs office said.

Evacuations appeared to have saved lives in Cuba when Ike slammed into the island. Four deaths were reported from the storm, according to the Cuban government. The Cuban Civil Defense brought buses or trucks to take people to shelters.  See the damage from the storm Â»

Cuban state television reported that two people were killed when they tried to remove an antenna, The Associated Press said. One man died when a tree crashed into his home, and a woman died when her home's roof collapsed, according to the AP.

The storm shredded hundreds of homes and caused some dilapidated buildings in Havana's older areas to collapse, the AP reported.  Watch as winds and waves pound Cuba Â»

The United States, which provided $100,000 in emergency aid to communist-run Cuba through private aid agencies after Hurricane Gustav hit the island August 30, said Tuesday that it was considering additional emergency aid for Cuba because of Ike.

Also, the United States said it will lift restrictions on cash and humanitarian assistance sent to Cuba for the next 90 days. The move will allow nongovernmental organizations to provide assistance and cash donations.

The storm pounded Grand Turk Island in the Turks and Caicos chain, putting a strain on the British territory's tourism industry.  Watch houses lie in heaps on Grand Turk Â»

Flooding and rains from Ike's outer bands have been blamed for 70 deaths in Haiti.  Watch the devastating aftermath Â»

CNN's Mike Mount contributed to this report.

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text: Texas

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text: the

text: storm

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text: there

text: The

text: West

text: End

text: is

text: the

text: area

text: of

text: Galveston

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text: susceptible

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text: flooding

text: LeBlanc

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text: Brazoria

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text: were

text: being

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text: remain

text: as

text: of

text: p.m.

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text: Matagorda

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text: Galveston

text: officials

text: ordered

text: a

text: mandatory

text: evacuation

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text: all

text: areas

text: except

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text: cities

text: of

text: Bay

text: City

text: and

text: Van

text: Vleck

text: The

text: evacuation

text: must

text: be

text: completed

text: by

text: at

text: p.m.

text: p.m.

text: ET

text: Thursday

text: Galveston

text: is

text: likely

text: to

text: experience

text: a

text: high

text: tidal

text: surge

text: officials

text: said

text: urging

text: people

text: living

text: in

text: low

text: lying

text: areas

text: or

text: mobile

text: homes

text: to

text: get

text: out

text: soon

text: One

text: of

text: the

text: things

text: that

text: the

text: public

text: has

text: to

text: understand

text: if

text: they

text: decide

text: to

text: stay

text: there

text: will

text: be

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text: time

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text: storm

text: when

text: they

text: will

text: absolutely

text: be

text: on

text: their

text: own

text: Brazoria

text: County

text: Sheriff

text: Charles

text: Wagner

text: said

text: There

text: will

text: be

text: no

text: medical

text: services

text: there

text: will

text: be

text: no

text: fire

text: department

text: there

text: will

text: be

text: no

text: law

text: enforcement

text: groceries

text: gasoline

text: drugs

text: electricity

text: The

text: center

text: issued

text: a

text: tropical

text: storm

text: warning

text: from

text: the

text: Mississippi

text: River

text: 's

text: mouth

text: to

text: Cameron

text: Louisiana

text: and

text: a

text: hurricane

text: watch

text: from

text: Cameron

text: to

text: Port

text: Mansfield

text: Texas

text: about

text: miles

text: south

text: of

text: Brownsville

text: Tropical

text: storm

text: warnings

text: mean

text: winds

text: of

text: to

text: mph

text: to

text: kmh

text: are

text: expected

text: within

text: a

text: day

text: and

text: a

text: hurricane

text: watch

text: means

text: winds

text: of

text: and

text: higher

text: are

text: expected

text: within

text: hours

text: Hurricane

text: Ike

text: is

text: now

text: in

text: the

text: Gulf

text: of

text: Mexico

text: and

text: making

text: its

text: approach

text: toward

text: our

text: coast

text: Gov.

text: Rick

text: Perry

text: said

text: in

text: a

text: statement

text: The

text: next

text: few

text: days

text: will

text: be

text: crucial

text: for

text: residents

text: to

text: follow

text: the

text: direction

text: of

text: local

text: leaders

text: and

text: to

text: take

text: the

text: necessary

text: steps

text: to

text: protect

text: themselves

text: and

text: their

text: families

text: Perry

text: put

text: National

text: Guard

text: members

text: on

text: standby

text: this

text: week

text: his

text: office

text: said

text: and

text: issued

text: a

text: disaster

text: declaration

text: for

text: counties

text: About

text: buses

text: several

text: ambulances

text: and

text: paramedic

text: buses

text: were

text: available

text: to

text: support

text: evacuations

text: The

text: vehicles

text: were

text: positioned

text: near

text: Houston

text: Matagorda

text: County

text: Nueces

text: County

text: and

text: Victoria

text: County

text: the

text: governor

text: 's

text: office

text: said

text: President

text: Bush

text: declared

text: an

text: emergency

text: in

text: the

text: state

text: making

text: federal

text: funds

text: available

text: for

text: the

text: state

text: to

text: prepare

text: for

text: the

text: storm

text: Corpus

text: Christi

text: officials

text: also

text: began

text: the

text: evacuation

text: process

text: for

text: residents

text: with

text: special

text: needs

text: supplying

text: buses

text: to

text: transport

text: them

text: out

text: of

text: town

text: Voluntary

text: evacuations

text: were

text: issued

text: in

text: San

text: Patricio

text: and

text: Victoria

text: counties

text: and

text: parts

text: of

text: Jackson

text: County

text: according

text: to

text: the

text: governor

text: 's

text: office

text: More

text: than

text: inmates

text: from

text: the

text: Texas

text: Correctional

text: Institutions

text: Division

text: 's

text: Stevenson

text: Unit

text: in

text: Cuero

text: were

text: being

text: evacuated

text: to

text: facilities

text: in

text: Beeville

text: and

text: Kenedy

text: Perry

text: 's

text: office

text: said

text: and

text: were

text: transferred

text: from

text: the

text: substance

text: abuse

text: Glossbrenner

text: Unit

text: in

text: San

text: Diego

text: in

text: south

text: Texas

text: to

text: Dilley

text: Naval

text: air

text: stations

text: in

text: Texas

text: also

text: began

text: to

text: prepare

text: for

text: Hurricane

text: Ike

text: 's

text: expected

text: arrival

text: Naval

text: Air

text: Station

text: Kingsville

text: was

text: to

text: begin

text: moving

text: about

text: aircraft

text: to

text: El

text: Paso

text: San

text: Antonio

text: and

text: Fort

text: Worth

text: on

text: Wednesday

text: afternoon

text: the

text: public

text: affairs

text: office

text: there

text: said

text: Naval

text: Air

text: Station

text: Corpus

text: Christi

text: will

text: also

text: move

text: about

text: aircraft

text: to

text: other

text: Texas

text: locations

text: its

text: public

text: affairs

text: office

text: said

text: Evacuations

text: appeared

text: to

text: have

text: saved

text: lives

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text: Cuba

text: when

text: Ike

text: slammed

text: into

text: the

text: island

text: Four

text: deaths

text: were

text: reported

text: from

text: the

text: storm

text: according

text: to

text: the

text: Cuban

text: government

text: The

text: Cuban

text: Civil

text: Defense

text: brought

text: buses

text: or

text: trucks

text: to

text: take

text: people

text: to

text: shelters

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text: the

text: damage

text: from

text: the

text: storm

text: Â

text: Cuban

text: state

text: television

text: reported

text: that

text: two

text: people

text: were

text: killed

text: when

text: they

text: tried

text: to

text: remove

text: an

text: antenna

text: The

text: Associated

text: Press

text: said

text: One

text: man

text: died

text: when

text: a

text: tree

text: crashed

text: into

text: his

text: home

text: and

text: a

text: woman

text: died

text: when

text: her

text: home

text: 's

text: roof

text: collapsed

text: according

text: to

text: the

text: AP

text: The

text: storm

text: shredded

text: hundreds

text: of

text: homes

text: and

text: caused

text: some

text: dilapidated

text: buildings

text: in

text: Havana

text: 's

text: older

text: areas

text: to

text: collapse

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text: Watch

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text: and

text: waves

text: pound

text: Cuba

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text: The

text: United

text: States

text: which

text: provided

text: in

text: emergency

text: aid

text: to

text: communist

text: run

text: Cuba

text: through

text: private

text: aid

text: agencies

text: after

text: Hurricane

text: Gustav

text: hit

text: the

text: island

text: August

text: said

text: Tuesday

text: that

text: it

text: was

text: considering

text: additional

text: emergency

text: aid

text: for

text: Cuba

text: because

text: of

text: Ike

text: Also

text: the

text: United

text: States

text: said

text: it

text: will

text: lift

text: restrictions

text: on

text: cash

text: and

text: humanitarian

text: assistance

text: sent

text: to

text: Cuba

text: for

text: the

text: next

text: days

text: The

text: move

text: will

text: allow

text: nongovernmental

text: organizations

text: to

text: provide

text: assistance

text: and

text: cash

text: donations

text: The

text: storm

text: pounded

text: Grand

text: Turk

text: Island

text: in

text: the

text: Turks

text: and

text: Caicos

text: chain

text: putting

text: a

text: strain

text: on

text: the

text: British

text: territory

text: 's

text: tourism

text: industry

text: Watch

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text: on

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text: rains

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question: What category could the tornado swell to?

answer: 3

question: When is Ike expected to hit the Texas coast?

answer: late Friday or early Saturday.

text: late Friday or early Saturday.

question: Mandatory evacuations are ordered for which residents of one county?

answer: Aransas

text: Aransas

question: Where did a hurricane-spawned tornado cause damage?

answer: Cuba

text: Cuba

question: What category storm could Ike swell to when it hits Texas on Saturday?

answer: 3

question: What is the name of the hurricane?

answer: Ike

text: Ike

question: Who was mandated to evacuate?

answer: residents

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question: Where did it cause damage?

answer: Cuba

text: Cuba

question: What is the name of the tornado?

answer: Ike

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NEW DELHI, India (CNN) -- Vimlendu Jha is the founder and head of Swechha -- We For Change Foundation which is based in India's capital, New Delhi.

"For the rest of the world India is powerful, but for many residing in the countryside, India is still disempowered, hungry and naked."

Swechha started out as an organization to combat the pollution of the city's main waterway, the river Yamuna. Today it deals with the environmental issues that affect several aspects of Delhi.

Vimlendu leads volunteers and local children to key sites around the city to tackle the ecological problems, as well as to raise awareness of the issues. Follow his efforts in his blogs and video diaries.

October 18, 2007 We traveled, along with 100-odd kids from one of New Delhi's most progressive schools, The Shri Ram School, to the rural part of our country, to Kempty Village in Uttaranchal.

The purpose of the visit was to expose these young minds (ages 15-17) to the existence of another India.

Most of us have an illusion of India becoming a powerful nation and it is on a phenomenal growth trajectory. We are not so much seen as a developing nation but a developed nation. One wonders what actually makes a country developed, when most of the parameters of development are skewed, as is the case of our country. For the rest of the world India is powerful, but for many residing in the countryside, India is still disempowered, hungry and naked.

Up to 70 percent of Indians still live in villages. Most of the time these villages are neglected and are centers of poverty. Development around India's cities has brought a flood of people from the rural areas who come in search of jobs. This population comprises the "urban poor" which is more vulnerable than the rural poor.

Imagine, India still has more than 260 million people (26 percent of the population) living below the poverty line. In the last 10 years, we have had at least 40,000 farmer suicides in the country -- indicative of the growing gap between the poor and the rich.

The purpose of this trip was to learn, and unlearn, about village stereotypes or notions we live with. The village in Uttaranchal wasn't as extreme an experience as other remote villages of India, but it was indicative of the hardships that people live with.

Another reason for the trip was to celebrate the simplicity and generosity of the villagers vis-Ã -vis we, the insecure urbanites, and also to understand their hardships, due to our over-consumption and false assumption that our wrongdoing does not necessarily influence the rural population -- when we know it does.

For many students, it was a first-time, first-hand experience of a village. Some were overwhelmed with the beauty and many were saddened by the villagers' plight. The outing also gave them an opportunity to contribute in some way. Students worked in the fields, helped the villagers in agricultural work and breathed the clean air.

It was a wonderful experience, aimed at understanding the gap between the two exisiting worlds; to bridge the gap between these two worlds. E-mail to a friend

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question: Who took a group of children to see a village?

answer: Vimlendu Jha

text: Vimlendu Jha

question: How did the children react to the plight of villagers?

answer: Some were overwhelmed with the beauty and many were saddened

text: Some were overwhelmed with the beauty and many were saddened

question: What did he say was their reaction to the plight of the villagers?

answer: Some were overwhelmed with the beauty and many were saddened

text: Some were overwhelmed with the beauty and many were saddened

question: What village were kids taken to see?

answer: Kempty

text: Kempty

question: Where was the village located?

answer: Uttaranchal

text: Uttaranchal

question: What did Vimlendu take a group of children to see?

answer: key sites around the city

text: key sites around the city

question: What was his aim?

answer: understanding the gap between the two exisiting worlds;

text: understanding the gap between the two exisiting worlds;

question: What was his intention?

answer: combat the pollution of the city's main waterway, the river Yamuna.

text: combat the pollution of the city's main waterway, the river Yamuna.

question: What were the children saddened by?

answer: the villagers' plight.

text: the villagers' plight.

question: Where had many of the children never been?

answer: Kempty Village in Uttaranchal.

text: Kempty Village in Uttaranchal.