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Quentin Tarantino's first trip to Sundance wasn't exactly a success.

Tarantino's hyper-violent, super cool debut feature "Reservoir Dogs" scorched audiences and critics alike when it came out in 1992.

"If you do this in real life, they're going to fire your ass," scolded cinematographer Stephen Goldblatt, veteran of films like "Lethal Weapon" and "Charlie Wilson's War."

The novice filmmaker was participating in a directors' workshop at the Sundance Institute -- the film trust founded by Robert Redford which also runs the Sundance Film Festival.

Unfortunately, Tarantino's mentors were just not feeling his experimental approach.

The following week, a new group of mentors arrived, including ex-Monty Python member and filmmaker Terry Gilliam.

Tarantino and his editor steeled themselves for the inevitable disapproval: "Then Terry Gilliam comes in and goes 'Oh, your scene. Just great!'" recalls the director.

He is talking at the Cannes Film Festival Cinema Masterclass, following in the illustrious footsteps of directors like Wong Kar Wai, Sydney Pollack and Martin Scorsese.

"It was just like, you know what, that's gonna be my career. People are gonna either really like me or they're really not and just get f***ing used to it 'cause this is the deal," Tarantino says.

A second visit to Sundance in 1992 proved more fruitful. His debut feature, "Reservoir Dogs," a sassy, hyper-violent gangster movie, was the hit of the year.

French film critic and regular on the European film festival circuit, Michel Ciment still remembers the effect it had on him when it showed at Cannes later that year: "It was a big shock. I remember it was the most striking new American film since 'Mean Streets' 30 years before."

Despite the impact of his droll, assured debut, Tarantino recalls being convinced he was going to get fired in the first two weeks of production.

"I just thought it was too good to be true. I couldn't help but think something like 'they don't let people like me make movies,'" he says, laughing.

Follow-up movie "Pulp Fiction" was awarded the coveted Palm D'Or at Cannes two years later, cementing his reputation as a movie-maker to be reckoned with.

It was filled with the dark humor and bloody violence that would become known as Tarantino trademarks.

The B-movie-obsessed director admits to getting a kick out of creating humor in inappropriate situations.

"I'm trying to get you to laugh at things you've never laughed at before," he explains.

He cites his "bigtime" influences as movie brats like Martin Scorsese and Brian De Palma, as well as Sergio Leone and Howard Hawks.

In person, he is a great raconteur and his expletive-littered speech is not a million miles away from the dialogue that's so central to his movies.

"I tend to think of myself as more of a novelist who makes movies than a director per se," he declares.

But he dismisses his apparent love of language as a product of writing for acting classes: "I started writing as an actor and it was all about dialogue and writing scenes to do."

Before moving into directing, Tarantino studied acting for six years and says learning to act for the camera gave him an insight into how directors put a movie together -- frame by frame. That was what really taught him how to write for the movies.

"All of a sudden I started seeing [film] in a whole different way. When you start doing that, then it's only a few short steps until you start composing shots of your own," he explains.

Tarantino has shown himself to be one of the most music-savvy directors of this generation with his use of songs like "Little Green Bag" by the George Baker Selection in the opening sequence of "Reservoir Dogs" and Nancy Sinatra's "Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)" in "Kill Bill Vol. 1." He, not immodestly, puts that skill down to his great music collection.

"The thing is, I have one of the best soundtrack collections in America," he boasts.

That probably accounts for his scathing determination never to use film composers: "I don't trust any composers to do it. I would just never give anybody that kind of responsibility," he says, "Who the f*** is this guy coming in here, throwing their s*** all over my movie?"

And he admits that his inner film buff enjoys the cornerstones of action cinema that some of his later movies have explored.

"I love action scenes, but they are hard, and in a way that's what's fun about them. These cool little puzzles. To me, action scenes are some of the most cinematic moments that you can do in film," he says.

"Kill Bill Vol. One" and "Kill Bill Vol. Two," starring Tarantino muse and Hollywood A-lister Uma Thurman, are his movie-geek nod to the kung fu genre.

When he started filming "Vol. One," Tarantino hadn't made a film for six years and with typical chutzpah challenged himself to choreograph astonishingly intricate fight scenes.

"If I throw my hat in the ring with the greatest action directors who ever lived ... I wanna be as good as them," he asserts.

He continues to work his way through his action movie checklist.

In his latest movie, "Death Proof," a homage to sleazy 70s B-movies that stars Kurt Russell as a murderous stuntman, he puts his own spin on another of action film's fundamentals -- the car chase.

Tarantino is critical of CGI being used so much in film today. All the seat-grippingly tense stunts in "Death Proof" are real and he specifically cast a stuntwoman, Zoe Bell, in one of the leading roles to achieve this.

It may have been ambitious, but "Death Proof," which is one half of "Grindhouse," a B-movie-referencing double bill he made with fellow director Robert Rodriguez, got a critical mauling and didn't fare much better at the box office.

But then Tarantino has long been resigned to people either loving or hating his movies.

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question: About which films Tarantino has been talks about?

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question: who won the Golden Palm?

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question: What did Pulp Fiction win?

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LA PAZ, Bolivia (CNN)  -- Bolivian officials have declared a health emergency after three deaths attributed to dengue hemorrhagic fever, the often-lethal form of a mosquito-borne disease that more than 1,000 Bolivians are thought to have contracted since November.

Brazilian soldiers pour insecticide to fight dengue fever in 2008. Bolivia also is battling the mosquito-borne disease.

At least 12 unconfirmed instances of dengue hemorrhagic fever have been reported in the first 17 days of 2009, the official ABI news agency said.

About 250 cases of dengue fever, the milder, nonlethal form of the disease, have been confirmed in the past two weeks, said Health Minister Ramiro Tapia in the Los Tiempos de Cochabamba newspaper.

Authorities said they have committed more than 20,000 military personnel and 2.5 tons of insecticide to combat the disease.

A preteen boy died last week at Children's Hospital of La Paz, a few days after arriving with internal bleeding, hospital director Christian Fuentes told La Razon newspaper in La Paz, the nation's capital.

"By that time, there was nothing we could do. He had multiple internal hemorrhages," Fuentes said.

A 17-year-old boy and a 30-year-old woman also died last week, the ABI news agency said, citing the national director of epidemiology, Juan Carlos Arraya.

Cases of dengue fever usually spike from November through January, which is Bolivia's hot and rainy season. Alberto Nogales, the country's vice minister of health, said the fight against mosquitoes will last until April.

Dengue occurs in tropical and subtropical parts of the world, transmitted by the bite of a mosquito infected with one of four dengue viruses, the World Health Organization says.

Symptoms, which appear three to 14 days after the bite, can include mild to high fever, severe headache, pain behind the eyes, muscle and joint pain and a rash, the WHO says.

Dengue hemorrhagic fever is a potentially fatal complication that affects mainly children, the WHO says. Symptoms include fever, abdominal pain, vomiting and bleeding.

The disease cannot be transmitted directly from one person to another.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates there are up to 100 million cases worldwide each year.

"It actually is quite common," Dr. Ali Khan of the CDC told CNN last year. "And unfortunately, over the last 30 years or so we've seen an increase in the number of countries infected with dengue fever."

Khan attributes the increase in part to population growth. Mosquitoes that carry dengue typically breed in areas near humans.

"This is a disease that occurs where there's lots of population," he said.

The WHO says mosquitoes carrying dengue viruses breed in exposed water, including places as shallow as jars, discarded bottles and plant saucers.

Last year, 55,000 people in southeastern Brazil contracted the disease. The outbreak was confirmed as causing the deaths of at least 67 people -- almost half of them children under 13 -- and another 58 deaths were under investigation last summer, the Rio de Janeiro state's ministry of health reported at the time. Final statistics on the outbreak were not immediately available.

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text: Health

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text: disease

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text: deaths

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text: under

text: investigation

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text: Rio

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text: ministry

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text: time

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text: statistics

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text: outbreak

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text: not

text: immediately

text: available

question: How many contracted disease in Brazil last year?

answer: 55,000 people

text: 55,000 people

question: What season do cases of dengue fever spike?

answer: November through January,

text: November through January,

question: How many unconfirmed instances of dengue hemorrhagic fever were reported in Bolivia?

answer: At least 12

text: At least 12

question: How much insecticide is used?

answer: 2.5 tons

text: 2.5 tons

question: When do cases spike?

answer: from November through January,

text: from November through January,

question: How many instances fo the hemoorhagic were reported?

answer: At least 12 unconfirmed

text: At least 12 unconfirmed

question: When dies dengue fever usually spike?

answer: November through January,

text: November through January,

question: 12 unconfirmed instances of what were reported in Boliviia?

answer: dengue hemorrhagic fever

text: dengue hemorrhagic fever

question: What did Bolivia used to fight disease?

answer: insecticide

text: insecticide


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Los Angeles (CNN) -- They came seeking justice as the sun rose Tuesday over a courthouse in the heart of downtown Los Angeles made famous by its celebrity trials -- O.J. Simpson, Snoop Dogg, Phil Spector.

But there were almost as many definitions of justice as there were justice seekers. Some shouted "Murderer!" as the defendant, Conrad Murray, arrived at the Clara Foltz Justice Center for the start of his involuntary manslaughter trial in the death of pop superstar Michael Jackson.

"Dr. Murray," corrected Beatrice Fakhrian, a supporter of the defendant. "He has earned that title."

So began the long-anticipated trial of the personal physician accused of causing the death of one of the most famous people in the world. More than 100 people from France, Spain and Australia, as well as the far-flung suburbs of Los Angeles, crowded into the dingy courthouse plaza, jockeying for a chance at one of just six courtroom seats, or to say their piece in front of television cameras.

Some read psalms, some handed out sunflowers, some chanted "Justice for Michael," and many of them carried signs, transforming a wall outside the courthouse into an international billboard.

"Bulgaria Loves MJ," one sign said. So do the Netherlands, Romania and Malaysia, according to the signed posters taped to the wall.

A doctor in a while coat preached about safe ways to administer anesthesia.

A Michael Jackson impersonator preened for the cameras.

"Even in death, Michael Jackson can draw a crowd," said Najee Ali, a Los Angeles civil rights activist who grew up in Jackson's hometown, Gary, Indiana. Ali was the force behind the "Caravan of Love" to support Jackson when he was acquitted in Santa Barbara of child molestation charges in 2005.

Julie Jenkins, 31, came from Australia and was rewarded by winning the lottery for one of the courtroom seats available to the public. She has been a Michael Jackson fan since she was 7 and wore black jeans, a red shirt, a black armband and aviator sunglasses in honor of her idol.

"For me, it represents the first time I saw him in person," she said, explaining her get-up, which was vaguely reminiscent of JacksonÃÂ¹s look during his "History" tour. "It also represents blood, because we think he was murdered."

She pounded a closed fist over her chest.

That sentiment is shared by many of Jackson's fans, although Murray is charged with the less serious offense of involuntary manslaughter. He is accused of giving Jackson a lethal dose of the powerful anesthetic propofol to help him sleep as the pop star prepared for his comeback "This is It" concerts in June 2009.

Defense: Michael Jackson caused his own death

Murder also is a major theme for the group "Justice4MJ," which was out in force on Tuesday, leading the crowd in chants of "Justice for Michael" as Jackson's family walked into the courthouse.

Erin Jacobs, one of the group's outspoken leaders, also won a seat for the trial's first day. She has attended every pretrial hearing, and was tossed out of court last week during jury selection after getting into a staring contest with Murray.

She said she hadn't slept. Like her idol, "I experienced insomnia last night," she said. "I have been a fan my whole life. This is my passion, to work for Michael."

Court officials warned Jacobs she would have to cover up her T-shirt in court. If she flashed her "Justice4MJ" logo, she'd lose her seat and be banned for the rest of the trial.

Karlene Taylor, 49, wanted a seat so badly she couldn't sleep. She has been a Jackson fan since she was 8. "I remember 'ABC' Michael," she said. Alas, the lottery gods did not smile on her Tuesday.

Robyn Starkand and Betty Byrnes of the fan group "Call for Love" handed out sunflowers, hoping to lead a respectful vigil on the courthouse steps, complete with songs and prayers. But they were upstaged by a Michael Jackson look-alike.

They started with "Heal the World," but the voices soon waned, and Jackson impersonator Goward Horton stepped in with his version of "Man in the Mirror," complete with Jackson's distinctive yips and squeaks.

"They've turned it into the Goward show," Starkand groused. "This is really serious. It's not the time for a Michael Jackson impersonator."

It was a time for the real one, their Michael.

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question: What is the name of the doctor?

answer: Conrad Murray,

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question: What did the fans chant?

answer: f "Justice for Michael

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question: Conrar Murray was charged of what?

answer: involuntary manslaughter

text: involuntary manslaughter

question: What charges brought upon Conrad Murray?

answer: involuntary manslaughter

text: involuntary manslaughter

question: Who was on trial?

answer: Conrad Murray,

text: Conrad Murray,

question: Where attended fans came from?

answer: France, Spain and Australia, as well as the far-flung suburbs of Los Angeles,

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Editor's note: The author has ridden motorcycles more than 125,000 miles since 1999, including solo trips from Georgia to California and Canada. She takes us inside the world of motorcycle travel.

Bikers approach Mount Mitchell, North Carolina, during a road trip through the Blue Ridge Mountains.

SHENANDOAH NATIONAL PARK, Virginia (CNN) -- We were parked at a peaceful, shady overlook beside Virginia's Skyline Drive, admiring the green mountains and the river far below, when Keith realized he needed a new rear tire, and he needed it now. A bald tire is a serious problem when you're traveling by motorcycle: We don't carry spare tires, for obvious reasons, and a blowout on two wheels could be life-threatening.

Keith decided he could make it 100 miles to the Harley-Davidson dealership in Richmond, Virginia, as long as we kept it slow, so our seven bikes headed that way.

It's been said that a great trip in a car is like watching a first-rate movie -- but a great trip on a motorcycle is like living the movie.

For our road trip, we had chosen an eight-day itinerary from our homes outside Atlanta, Georgia, through the mountains of North Carolina and Virginia, then east to the Atlantic shoreline and south along the coastal islands of the Outer Banks.

The trip offered a spectacular ride up the Blue Ridge Parkway, a winding two-lane that clings to the ridgeline through North Carolina and Virginia. The elevation often reaches 5,000 feet or more, so temperatures were cool despite a heat wave down below.  See map Â»

Our motorcycle motorcade passed panoramas of blue-tinged mountains and rolling meadows set off by split-rail fences. We motored through dense forests whose overhanging branches turned the road into a cool green tunnel. Rhododendrons and mountain laurels in bloom lined the road.  See photos of this Harley road trip Â»

It all looks better from a motorcycle, because you're so immersed in it -- not just looking out from inside a cage of steel and glass. In fact, we call cars cages and the people who drive them -- you guessed it -- cagers.  See how motorcycle travel differs from car travel Â»

The smells were intense: fresh-cut hay, pine trees baking in the sun, honeysuckle -- and sometimes, the not-so-pleasant aroma of ripening roadkill. Songs of determined birds rang out over the rumble of the motors.

Riding a motorcycle on a road like this is a physical pleasure, too, as you lean right, then left, then right, to guide the bike smoothly through the parkway's sweeping curves. You swoop, you glide -- it's like dancing, or like those dreams where you're flying.

In Virginia, Skyline Drive offered an abundance of wildlife. We saw five deer in 40 miles, including a small fawn with its mother -- none of them close enough to threaten a collision, and all of them smart enough to run the other way when they saw us coming.

Finally we arrived at the dealership in Richmond to replace Keith's balding tire. We knew we'd be there for a while -- so we made ourselves at home. We ordered pizza to be delivered and Neil brought in his laptop so everyone could upload their snapshots.

It might seem strange for customers to take over a retail establishment, but a Harley dealership always feels like home. There's a strong sense of community among motorcycle riders (and by extension, the stores).

Almost all riders wave to other riders on the road, whether they're on Harleys like ours or small, speedy sport bikes or huge, silent Honda Gold Wings.

Bikers fall into conversations with other bikers as if we already know each other because -- in a way -- we do. We've all experienced the same joys and aggravations -- but it's mostly joys.

One of those pleasures is how people go out of their way to be helpful or to strike up a conversation with a group of bikers. All kinds of folks wave to us on the road -- from Boy Scouts selling doughnuts on a street corner, to a man walking his dog, to shy-but-fascinated kids in a car stopped next to us at a traffic light.

A couple of hours (and several hundred dollars) later, Keith's tire was replaced and we headed for Elizabeth City, North Carolina. We hit a huge blanket of smoke from a massive wildfire about 40 miles away. The thick, yellowish smoke made the rural landscape look like another planet, with the late-afternoon sun glowing red through the haze.

The next morning, the smoke was gone, and we headed for the Outer Banks and a day of lazy meandering toward Ocracoke, the southernmost town on the string of narrow islands.

We stopped at the Currituck Beach Lighthouse, built in 1875. The sight of a long line of other tourists persuaded us not to climb its 214 steps.

At the Wright Brothers National Memorial near Kitty Hawk, we checked out the windy dune where aviation began and rode our bikes around a monument to Orville and Wilbur.

We spent the next day in Ocracoke investigating artsy-craftsy shops in the village and stores that sell hokey pirate souvenirs, in honor of the fact that Ocracoke was supposedly a hangout of the legendary pirate known as Blackbeard. We watched descendants of the island's wild ponies that now live in a fenced-in pasture to safeguard them from traffic.

The final leg of our trip began with a two-hour ferry ride from the island to the mainland.

But we came to a standstill the next day in traffic in Marion, South Carolina -- which was cause for some concern. Most Harley engines are air-cooled, so we can't just leave them idling for long periods because they can overheat.

We managed to turn off the highway onto a series of small side roads, where we pulled over to figure out our next move. A mini-van pulled up beside us.

"Where are y'all trying to go?" the passenger asked. "I-95," we said. "Come on!" she yelled, signaling us to follow. After a few turns, we were on I-95, waving our thanks to the mini-van.

By the time we reached Georgia, it was obvious there was a thunderstorm between us and home. Despite the 10-minute cloudburst, we were too hot to stop and put on rain suits. We did slow down, since it's hard to see with rain running down your face shield or glasses.

Soon we went our separate ways toward home. But I would have been ready to leave on another long motorcycle trip the next day, if it weren't for the suitcase full of dirty laundry and the need to deal with real life for a while. The unfiltered sights and smells, the enjoyment of riding, the companionship of other riders, the friendly encounters with strangers -- there's nothing like it.

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text: 's

text: note

text: The

text: author

text: has

text: ridden

text: motorcycles

text: more

text: than

text: miles

text: since

text: including

text: solo

text: trips

text: from

text: Georgia

text: to

text: California

text: and

text: Canada

text: She

text: takes

text: us

text: inside

text: the

text: world

text: of

text: motorcycle

text: travel

text: Bikers

text: approach

text: Mount

text: Mitchell

text: North

text: Carolina

text: during

text: a

text: road

text: trip

text: through

text: the

text: Blue

text: Ridge

text: Mountains

text: SHENANDOAH

text: NATIONAL

text: PARK

text: Virginia

text: CNN

text: We

text: were

text: parked

text: at

text: a

text: peaceful

text: shady

text: overlook

text: beside

text: Virginia

text: 's

text: Skyline

text: Drive

text: admiring

text: the

text: green

text: mountains

text: and

text: the

text: river

text: far

text: below

text: when

text: Keith

text: realized

text: he

text: needed

text: a

text: new

text: rear

text: tire

text: and

text: he

text: needed

text: it

text: now

text: A

text: bald

text: tire

text: is

text: a

text: serious

text: problem

text: when

text: you

text: 're

text: traveling

text: by

text: motorcycle

text: We

text: do

text: n't

text: carry

text: spare

text: tires

text: for

text: obvious

text: reasons

text: and

text: a

text: blowout

text: on

text: two

text: wheels

text: could

text: be

text: life

text: threatening

text: Keith

text: decided

text: he

text: could

text: make

text: it

text: miles

text: to

text: the

text: Harley

text: Davidson

text: dealership

text: in

text: Richmond

text: Virginia

text: as

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text: as

text: we

text: kept

text: it

text: slow

text: so

text: our

text: seven

text: bikes

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text: It

text: 's

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text: said

text: that

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text: a

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text: on

text: a

text: motorcycle

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text: like

text: living

text: the

text: movie

text: For

text: our

text: road

text: trip

text: we

text: had

text: chosen

text: an

text: eight

text: day

text: itinerary

text: from

text: our

text: homes

text: outside

text: Atlanta

text: Georgia

text: through

text: the

text: mountains

text: of

text: North

text: Carolina

text: and

text: Virginia

text: then

text: east

text: to

text: the

text: Atlantic

text: shoreline

text: and

text: south

text: along

text: the

text: coastal

text: islands

text: of

text: the

text: Outer

text: Banks

text: The

text: trip

text: offered

text: a

text: spectacular

text: ride

text: up

text: the

text: Blue

text: Ridge

text: Parkway

text: a

text: winding

text: two

text: lane

text: that

text: clings

text: to

text: the

text: ridgeline

text: through

text: North

text: Carolina

text: and

text: Virginia

text: The

text: elevation

text: often

text: reaches

text: feet

text: or

text: more

text: so

text: temperatures

text: were

text: cool

text: despite

text: a

text: heat

text: wave

text: down

text: below

text: See

text: map

text: Â

text: Our

text: motorcycle

text: motorcade

text: passed

text: panoramas

text: of

text: blue

text: tinged

text: mountains

text: and

text: rolling

text: meadows

text: set

text: off

text: by

text: split

text: rail

text: fences

text: We

text: motored

text: through

text: dense

text: forests

text: whose

text: overhanging

text: branches

text: turned

text: the

text: road

text: into

text: a

text: cool

text: green

text: tunnel

text: Rhododendrons

text: and

text: mountain

text: laurels

text: in

text: bloom

text: lined

text: the

text: road

text: See

text: photos

text: of

text: this

text: Harley

text: road

text: trip

text: Â

text: It

text: all

text: looks

text: better

text: from

text: a

text: motorcycle

text: because

text: you

text: 're

text: so

text: immersed

text: in

text: it

text: not

text: just

text: looking

text: out

text: from

text: inside

text: a

text: cage

text: of

text: steel

text: and

text: glass

text: In

text: fact

text: we

text: call

text: cars

text: cages

text: and

text: the

text: people

text: who

text: drive

text: them

text: you

text: guessed

text: it

text: cagers

text: See

text: how

text: motorcycle

text: travel

text: differs

text: from

text: car

text: travel

text: Â

text: The

text: smells

text: were

text: intense

text: fresh

text: cut

text: hay

text: pine

text: trees

text: baking

text: in

text: the

text: sun

text: honeysuckle

text: and

text: sometimes

text: the

text: not

text: so

text: pleasant

text: aroma

text: of

text: ripening

text: roadkill

text: Songs

text: of

text: determined

text: birds

text: rang

text: out

text: over

text: the

text: rumble

text: of

text: the

text: motors

text: Riding

text: a

text: motorcycle

text: on

text: a

text: road

text: like

text: this

text: is

text: a

text: physical

text: pleasure

text: too

text: as

text: you

text: lean

text: right

text: then

text: left

text: then

text: right

text: to

text: guide

text: the

text: bike

text: smoothly

text: through

text: the

text: parkway

text: 's

text: sweeping

text: curves

text: You

text: swoop

text: you

text: glide

text: it

text: 's

text: like

text: dancing

text: or

text: like

text: those

text: dreams

text: where

text: you

text: 're

text: flying

text: In

text: Virginia

text: Skyline

text: Drive

text: offered

text: an

text: abundance

text: of

text: wildlife

text: We

text: saw

text: five

text: deer

text: in

text: miles

text: including

text: a

text: small

text: fawn

text: with

text: its

text: mother

text: of

text: them

text: close

text: enough

text: to

text: threaten

text: a

text: collision

text: and

text: all

text: of

text: them

text: smart

text: enough

text: to

text: run

text: the

text: other

text: way

text: when

text: they

text: saw

text: us

text: coming

text: Finally

text: we

text: arrived

text: at

text: the

text: dealership

text: in

text: Richmond

text: to

text: replace

text: Keith

text: 's

text: balding

text: tire

text: We

text: knew

text: we

text: 'd

text: be

text: there

text: for

text: a

text: while

text: so

text: we

text: made

text: ourselves

text: at

text: home

text: We

text: ordered

text: pizza

text: to

text: be

text: delivered

text: and

text: Neil

text: brought

text: in

text: his

text: laptop

text: so

text: everyone

text: could

text: upload

text: their

text: snapshots

text: It

text: might

text: seem

text: strange

text: for

text: customers

text: to

text: take

text: over

text: a

text: retail

text: establishment

text: but

text: a

text: Harley

text: dealership

text: always

text: feels

text: like

text: home

text: There

text: 's

text: a

text: strong

text: sense

text: of

text: community

text: among

text: motorcycle

text: riders

text: and

text: by

text: extension

text: the

text: stores

text: Almost

text: all

text: riders

text: wave

text: to

text: other

text: riders

text: on

text: the

text: road

text: whether

text: they

text: 're

text: on

text: Harleys

text: like

text: ours

text: or

text: small

text: speedy

text: sport

text: bikes

text: or

text: huge

text: silent

text: Honda

text: Gold

text: Wings

text: Bikers

text: fall

text: into

text: conversations

text: with

text: other

text: bikers

text: as

text: if

text: we

text: already

text: know

text: each

text: other

text: because

text: in

text: a

text: way

text: we

text: do

text: We

text: 've

text: all

text: experienced

text: the

text: same

text: joys

text: and

text: aggravations

text: but

text: it

text: 's

text: mostly

text: joys

text: One

text: of

text: those

text: pleasures

text: is

text: how

text: people

text: go

text: out

text: of

text: their

text: way

text: to

text: be

text: helpful

text: or

text: to

text: strike

text: up

text: a

text: conversation

text: with

text: a

text: group

text: of

text: bikers

text: All

text: kinds

text: of

text: folks

text: wave

text: to

text: us

text: on

text: the

text: road

text: from

text: Boy

text: Scouts

text: selling

text: doughnuts

text: on

text: a

text: street

text: corner

text: to

text: a

text: man

text: walking

text: his

text: dog

text: to

text: shy

text: but

text: fascinated

text: kids

text: in

text: a

text: car

text: stopped

text: next

text: to

text: us

text: at

text: a

text: traffic

text: light

text: A

text: couple

text: of

text: hours

text: and

text: several

text: hundred

text: dollars

text: later

text: Keith

text: 's

text: tire

text: was

text: replaced

text: and

text: we

text: headed

text: for

text: Elizabeth

text: City

text: North

text: Carolina

text: We

text: hit

text: a

text: huge

text: blanket

text: of

text: smoke

text: from

text: a

text: massive

text: wildfire

text: about

text: miles

text: away

text: The

text: thick

text: yellowish

text: smoke

text: made

text: the

text: rural

text: landscape

text: look

text: like

text: another

text: planet

text: with

text: the

text: late

text: afternoon

text: sun

text: glowing

text: red

text: through

text: the

text: haze

text: The

text: next

text: morning

text: the

text: smoke

text: was

text: gone

text: and

text: we

text: headed

text: for

text: the

text: Outer

text: Banks

text: and

text: a

text: day

text: of

text: lazy

text: meandering

text: toward

text: Ocracoke

text: the

text: southernmost

text: town

text: on

text: the

text: string

text: of

text: narrow

text: islands

text: We

text: stopped

text: at

text: the

text: Currituck

text: Beach

text: Lighthouse

text: built

text: in

text: The

text: sight

text: of

text: a

text: long

text: line

text: of

text: other

text: tourists

text: persuaded

text: us

text: not

text: to

text: climb

text: its

text: steps

text: At

text: the

text: Wright

text: Brothers

text: National

text: Memorial

text: near

text: Kitty

text: Hawk

text: we

text: checked

text: out

text: the

text: windy

text: dune

text: where

text: aviation

text: began

text: and

text: rode

text: our

text: bikes

text: around

text: a

text: monument

text: to

text: Orville

text: and

text: Wilbur

text: We

text: spent

text: the

text: next

text: day

text: in

text: Ocracoke

text: investigating

text: artsy

text: craftsy

text: shops

text: in

text: the

text: village

text: and

text: stores

text: that

text: sell

text: hokey

text: pirate

text: souvenirs

text: in

text: honor

text: of

text: the

text: fact

text: that

text: Ocracoke

text: was

text: supposedly

text: a

text: hangout

text: of

text: the

text: legendary

text: pirate

text: known

text: as

text: Blackbeard

text: We

text: watched

text: descendants

text: of

text: the

text: island

text: 's

text: wild

text: ponies

text: that

text: now

text: live

text: in

text: a

text: fenced

text: in

text: pasture

text: to

text: safeguard

text: them

text: from

text: traffic

text: The

text: final

text: leg

text: of

text: our

text: trip

text: began

text: with

text: a

text: two

text: hour

text: ferry

text: ride

text: from

text: the

text: island

text: to

text: the

text: mainland

text: But

text: we

text: came

text: to

text: a

text: standstill

text: the

text: next

text: day

text: in

text: traffic

text: in

text: Marion

text: South

text: Carolina

text: which

text: was

text: cause

text: for

text: some

text: concern

text: Most

text: Harley

text: engines

text: are

text: air

text: cooled

text: so

text: we

text: ca

text: n't

text: just

text: leave

text: them

text: idling

text: for

text: long

text: periods

text: because

text: they

text: can

text: overheat

text: We

text: managed

text: to

text: turn

text: off

text: the

text: highway

text: onto

text: a

text: series

text: of

text: small

text: side

text: roads

text: where

text: we

text: pulled

text: over

text: to

text: figure

text: out

text: our

text: next

text: move

text: A

text: mini

text: van

text: pulled

text: up

text: beside

text: us

text: Where

text: are

text: y'

text: all

text: trying

text: to

text: go

text: the

text: passenger

text: asked

text: we

text: said

text: Come

text: on

text: she

text: yelled

text: signaling

text: us

text: to

text: follow

text: After

text: a

text: few

text: turns

text: we

text: were

text: on

text: waving

text: our

text: thanks

text: to

text: the

text: mini

text: van

text: By

text: the

text: time

text: we

text: reached

text: Georgia

text: it

text: was

text: obvious

text: there

text: was

text: a

text: thunderstorm

text: between

text: us

text: and

text: home

text: Despite

text: the

text: cloudburst

text: we

text: were

text: too

text: hot

text: to

text: stop

text: and

text: put

text: on

text: rain

text: suits

text: We

text: did

text: slow

text: down

text: since

text: it

text: 's

text: hard

text: to

text: see

text: with

text: rain

text: running

text: down

text: your

text: face

text: shield

text: or

text: glasses

text: Soon

text: we

text: went

text: our

text: separate

text: ways

text: toward

text: home

text: But

text: I

text: would

text: have

text: been

text: ready

text: to

text: leave

text: on

text: another

text: long

text: motorcycle

text: trip

text: the

text: next

text: day

text: if

text: it

text: were

text: n't

text: for

text: the

text: suitcase

text: full

text: of

text: dirty

text: laundry

text: and

text: the

text: need

text: to

text: deal

text: with

text: real

text: life

text: for

text: a

text: while

text: The

text: unfiltered

text: sights

text: and

text: smells

text: the

text: enjoyment

text: of

text: riding

text: the

text: companionship

text: of

text: other

text: riders

text: the

text: friendly

text: encounters

text: with

text: strangers

text: there

text: 's

text: nothing

text: like

text: it

question: what were they riding?

answer: motorcycles

text: motorcycles

question: where did they go

answer: For our road trip, we had chosen an eight-day itinerary from our homes outside Atlanta, Georgia, through the mountains of North Carolina and Virginia, then east to the Atlantic shoreline and south along the coastal islands of the Outer Banks.

text: For our road trip, we had chosen an eight-day itinerary from our homes outside Atlanta, Georgia, through the mountains of North Carolina and Virginia, then east to the Atlantic shoreline and south along the coastal islands of the Outer Banks.

question: where is the road trip?

answer: through the Blue Ridge Mountains.

text: through the Blue Ridge Mountains.

question: how many days were there?

answer: eight-day

text: eight-day

question: how many people were involved

answer: seven

text: seven


text:
KABUL, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Two separate militant assaults Saturday in the southeastern Afghan province of Paktika led to the deaths of two U.S. soldiers and at least 42 insurgents, military officials said.

U.S. Marines, under fire from a building, move to take it Saturday in Helmand province, Afghanistan.

The soldiers died when Taliban fighters attacked a base in Zerok that houses members of the U.S. military, Afghan national police and Afghan National Army, said the provincial governor's spokesman, Hamidullah Zawak.

He said the Taliban first detonated a truck full of explosives, then attacked the base with missiles and rockets.

The military responded by sending in aircraft and dropping bombs, killing 32 Taliban fighters and wounding many, Zawak said, without giving a number. Seven of the wounded Taliban fighters were arrested.

Zawak said one U.S. soldier was killed and another wounded. Sgt. Chuck Marsh, however, a U.S. military spokesman, said two U.S. service members were killed and four wounded. Two soldiers from the Afghan National Army were also hurt, Zawak said.

A Taliban spokesman claimed responsibility for the attack in a phone call to a CNN stringer in Kabul.

Several hours later, at least 10 militants were killed and one detained in an assault on a combat outpost in the province.

Insurgents attacked with indirect fire, including multiple rockets and mortars -- at least one of which contained white phosphorous -- small-arms fire and a car bomb, according to a statement from NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF).

Soldiers from ISAF and the Afghan National Army fired back, aided by planes and attack helicopters. No civilian casualties were reported.

In other developments in and around Paktika:

â¢ On Saturday, a suicide car bomb detonated near a private security company in Lashkar Gah city in Helmand province. One person was killed and five were wounded, said Assadullah Sherzad, Helmand provincial police chief.

â¢ The U.S.-led Operation Khanjar, or Strike of the Sword, is targeting Taliban militants in Helmand province, near Paktika in southern Afghanistan.  Thousands of U.S. Marines and Afghan soldiers are trying to rout the Taliban from strongholds in the Helmand River Valley. The operation began early Thursday.

Helmand's poppy crop produces more than half of the opium cultivated in Afghanistan, the source of 90 percent of the global supply, according to the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime. The revenues help support the Taliban.

â¢ On Tuesday, a U.S. soldier was abducted in Paktika province. The Taliban claimed responsibility. A senior U.S. military official later said the soldier was being held by the militant Haqqani clan, a Taliban-affiliated network led by warlord Siraj Haqqani.

The Haqqanis -- who operate on both sides of the Afghan and Pakistani borders -- are well-known to the U.S. military, which said it was using all means to locate the soldier, whose name has not been released.

CNN's Atia Abawi and reporter Wahidullah Mayar contributed to this report.

text: KABUL

text: Afghanistan

text: CNN

text: Two

text: separate

text: militant

text: assaults

text: Saturday

text: in

text: the

text: southeastern

text: Afghan

text: province

text: of

text: Paktika

text: led

text: to

text: the

text: deaths

text: of

text: two

text: U.S.

text: soldiers

text: and

text: at

text: least

text: insurgents

text: military

text: officials

text: said

text: U.S.

text: Marines

text: under

text: fire

text: from

text: a

text: building

text: move

text: to

text: take

text: it

text: Saturday

text: in

text: Helmand

text: province

text: Afghanistan

text: The

text: soldiers

text: died

text: when

text: Taliban

text: fighters

text: attacked

text: a

text: base

text: in

text: Zerok

text: that

text: houses

text: members

text: of

text: the

text: U.S.

text: military

text: Afghan

text: national

text: police

text: and

text: Afghan

text: National

text: Army

text: said

text: the

text: provincial

text: governor

text: 's

text: spokesman

text: Hamidullah

text: Zawak

text: He

text: said

text: the

text: Taliban

text: first

text: detonated

text: a

text: truck

text: full

text: of

text: explosives

text: then

text: attacked

text: the

text: base

text: with

text: missiles

text: and

text: rockets

text: The

text: military

text: responded

text: by

text: sending

text: in

text: aircraft

text: and

text: dropping

text: bombs

text: killing

text: Taliban

text: fighters

text: and

text: wounding

text: many

text: Zawak

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question: Where did the Taliban attack?

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question: Where were the Taliban attacks based?

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(CNN) -- The New York Times has rejected an essay that Sen. John McCain wrote defending his Iraq war policy.

Sen. John McCain wrote an op-ed for The New York Times, but the paper said it could not publish it as written.

The piece was in response to an op-ed from Sen. Barack Obama that was published in the paper last week.

In an e-mail to the McCain campaign, Opinion Page Editor David Shipley said he could not accept the piece as written, but would be "pleased, though, to look at another draft."

"Let me suggest an approach," he wrote Friday. "The Obama piece worked for me because it offered new information (it appeared before his speech); while Senator Obama discussed Senator McCain, he also went into detail about his own plans. It would be terrific to have an article from Senator McCain that mirrors Senator Obama's piece." Read McCain's rejected piece

In a statement released Monday, The New York Times said it is "standard procedure on our Op-Ed page, and that of other newspapers, to go back and forth with an author on his or her submission."

"We look forward to publishing Senator McCain's views in our paper just as we have in the past. We have published at least seven Op-Ed pieces by Senator McCain since 1996. The New York Times endorsed Senator McCain as the Republican candidate in the presidential primaries. We take his views very seriously," the statement said.

McCain's rejected op-ed was a lengthy critique of Obama's positions on Iraq policy, particularly his view of the surge.

"Senator Obama seems to have learned nothing from recent history," wrote McCain, criticizing Obama's call for an early withdrawal timeline. "I find it ironic that he is emulating the worst mistake of the Bush administration by waving the 'Mission Accomplished' banner prematurely."  Watch why the piece was rejected Â»

Obama's July 14 essay had taken shots at McCain for not further encouraging the Iraqi government to take control of the country.

"Instead of seizing the moment and encouraging Iraqis to step up, the Bush administration and Senator McCain are refusing to embrace this transition -- despite their previous commitments to respect the will of Iraq's sovereign government," Obama wrote in his op-ed.

"They call any timetable for the removal of American troops 'surrender,' even though we would be turning Iraq over to a sovereign Iraqi government." Read Obama's essay

Shipley, who was President Bill Clinton's senior speechwriter from 1995 to 1997, had advised the McCain campaign that "the article would have to articulate, in concrete terms, how Senator McCain defines victory in Iraq.

"It would also have to lay out a clear plan for achieving victory -- with troops levels, timetables and measures for compelling the Iraqis to cooperate. And it would need to describe the senator's Afghanistan strategy, spelling out how it meshes with his Iraq plan."

He added that he hoped the parties could "find a way to bring this to a happy resolution."

McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds said Monday the Arizona senator's position will not change based on the "demands of the New York Times."

"John McCain believes that victory in Iraq must be based on conditions on the ground, not arbitrary timetables," he said. "Unlike Barack Obama, that position will not change based on politics or the demands of the New York Times."

The newspaper endorsed McCain for the Republican presidential nomination in January, shortly before the New York primary.

In February, after it became clear McCain would be his party's presumptive nominee, the paper published a thinly sourced report that McCain once had a close relationship with a female lobbyist.

McCain said he was disappointed in the New York Times piece. The paper said that it stood by its reporting and that "the story speaks for itself."

McCain's campaign sent out fundraising appeals based on the article.

The article "is particularly disgusting -- an un-sourced hit-and-run smear campaign designed to distract from the issues at stake in this election," McCain's campaign manager, Rick Davis, wrote in a e-mail to supporters.

"We need your help to counteract the liberal establishment and fight back against the New York Times by making an immediate contribution today," the e-mail said in text that linked to an online contribution form on the McCain campaign's Web site.

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(CNN) -- Two of Turkey's main political parties are pushing for a constitutional amendment to lift bans on headscarves at public universities, a move that has caused concern among Turkey's secular population.

The lifting of the ban on headscarves has caused concern among Turkey's secular population.

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan initiated the move, saying it would create equality in Turkey's higher education.

The constitutional commission will discuss the proposal -- submitted by the AKP and MHP parties -- in the coming days before sending it to the floor for a vote.

If approved, it would need President Abdullah Gul's approval, which is expected.

Under the proposal, veils, burqas or chaddors -- all of which cover a woman's face -- would not be allowed.

Bans on headcoverings were imposed in the early 1980s by Turkey's universities because they were seen as political symbols and conflicted with Turkey's secular governing system.

The proposal to change Turkey's constitution sent chills through Turkey's secular population. Women's groups went to parliament Tuesday to voice their rejection.

"This is a direct threat to the republic and its foundations," said Deniz Baykal, leader of Turkey's main secular party, CHP.

Another CHP lawmaker said she fears that if the proposal is enacted, parents will feel pressure to have their daughters wear headscarves, even in elementary school.

Mustafa Akaydin, head of Turkey's Higher Education Commission, is against the proposal. He said that allowing headscarves would be a rejection of Turkey's secular system of government.

"It is an attempt to create a counterrevolution," Akaydin said. "It will be a breaking point."

He said a majority of female high school students at one school were wearing headscarves during last weekend's entry exams -- a rarity in Turkish schools.

The Higher Education Commission will meet Friday in Ankara to discuss the proposed changes. E-mail to a friend

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question: What was the ban about?

answer: headscarves at public universities,

text: headscarves at public universities,

question: What does Turkey's ruling party agree to lift the ban on?

answer: headscarves at public universities,

text: headscarves at public universities,

question: When was the ban introduced?

answer: early 1980s

text: early 1980s

question: Which country agreed to lift the ban?

answer: Turkey's

text: Turkey's