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OXFORD, England (CNN)  -- You might expect Oxford and Cambridge universities to ask prospective students to compare the works of Chaucer to Boccaccio or to explain the theory of relativity.

Cambridge students may have to field questions in the application process that would baffle some observers.

Instead, Oxford wants to know: "Would you rather be a novel or a poem?"

Cambridge asks applicants: "What would you do if you were a magpie?"

The idea, say administrators at the two ultra-prestigious schools in England, is to see how well prospective students can think, not just how much they know.

"What we're trying to do is move students out of their comfort zone," said Mike Nicholson, Oxford University admissions director. "Many students will have a body of knowledge, and they may be expected to be trusted on that in the interview. What we want to do is take them beyond that point and get them to start thinking for themselves."  See examples of the application questions Â»

In the United Kingdom, 90 percent of students are educated at state schools. But 53 percent of Oxford University's students come from state schools. That seems to indicate that wealthier students who can afford private schools have an advantage.

Tutoring company Oxbridge Applications -- founded by Oxford graduates in 1999 -- says 68 percent of the 35,000 clients it has helped are state-funded students. It costs $300 for a day of mock interviews or $1,500 for a full weekend course. Oxbridge says 47 percent of its clients get into one of the elite colleges. The overall success rate for all applicants to the two schools -- commonly referred to as Oxbridge -- is 24 percent, the tutoring company says.

"At Oxbridge Applications, we have a network of 500 former tutors and former admissions tutors as well," said company founder James Uffindell. "And we take the people that have been there and done it and help supply that information back to the people that want to go there."

Still, some of the questions seem a bit odd to the casual observer.  Watch people on the street react to some brainteasers Â»

"It's totally out there really," said one passer-by interviewed on the street. "Are they on drugs, these people in Cambridge?"

Some of the questions seem downright sinister: "How would you poison someone without the police finding out?" Cambridge asks.

Others are perhaps downright practical: "Instead of politicians, why don't we let the managers of Ikea run the country?"

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(CNN) -- Authorities plan to ask new questions of the family at the center of the balloon drama that captured the world's attention Thursday, as a comment in a CNN interview and other concerns raised speculation that the incident may have been staged.

Parents Mayumi and Richard Heene discuss the upheaval in their lives Friday on CNN's "American Morning."

"We feel it's incumbent on us as an agency to attempt to re-interview them and establish whether this is in fact a hoax or actual event," Larimer County Sheriff James Alderden said at a news conference Friday. "We believe at this time that it's a real event."

Investigators with expertise in spotting deceptive behavior interviewed the family Thursday and believe they were not lying, Alderden said.

His office is being flooded with calls and messages from people insisting it must be, and putting "a lot of pressure" on authorities to charge Richard and Mayumi Heene, he said.

The sheriff's office said it was conducting background checks on the Heenes.

A giant Mylar balloon took off from the backyard of the Heenes' northern Colorado home Thursday. The couple said they were terrified their 6-year-old son Falcon may have been on it. They couldn't find him.

In audio from 911 calls released Friday, the parents sounded emotional and desperate.

When the balloon finally landed, Falcon was not on board. Later, he came out from hiding in an attic over the home's garage.

"I'm feeling very, very grateful that Falcon is among us," Richard Heene told CNN's "American Morning" on Friday. "We went through so many emotions yesterday."

On CNN's "Larry King Live" Thursday night, the Heene parents asked Falcon why he had not come out from hiding when they were calling for him. "You guys said we did this for the show," he said.  Watch the boy's remarks Â»

The family chases storms and takes videos of some. The Heenes also were featured in March on the ABC program "Wife Swap."

After the Hollywood gossip Web site TMZ.com reported that the Heenes had been "pitching a reality show about the wacky family," one of the networks mentioned, TLC, which produces "Jon and Kate plus 8," said "they approached us months ago, and we passed."

Two other production companies, Reality Real and RDF, which produces "Wife Swap," did not immediately respond to CNN's queries.

They family had a video camera recording as the balloon took off Thursday. Alderden said that was because the family planned an experiment in which the balloon was to rise 20 feet off the ground.

Richard Heene said his son was confused when he made the show remark. There were media assembled on the front lawn, asking all sorts of questions, and that's what Falcon was referring to, Heene said Friday morning.

Heene, a meteorologist who takes his family along to chase storms, said he was concerned when the balloon took off because "the project was pretty much down the tubes." Then their son Bradford said he thought Falcon was inside, sparking the family's terror -- and the world's response, as people tuned in to live TV coverage of the balloon, which looked like a cross between a mushroom and a flying saucer.

Alderden told CNN's Wolf Blitzer on Friday that, based on reports that the parents "took these children into potentially dangerous situations" with tornado chases, the experimental balloons and other activities, it would be "appropriate to involve child protection [services] to at least see what the family situation is and whether the children are in a safe condition."

Earlier, Alderden told reporters that his department has contacted the child protection officials but asked them not to contact the family until investigators have had a chance to re-interview them.

Alderden, at Friday's news conference, said he did not believe Falcon could have been following instructions by going into hiding. "I just can't see this particular boy being told go sit up there for five hours and be quiet. I just don't see that, as hyperactive as he is," the sheriff said.

He also called it unlikely that the other two brothers, ages 8 and 10, would have pulled off such a hoax.

If it were determined that the incident was a hoax, "the only thing we have is them making a false report to authorities, which is a Class 3 misdemeanor," Alderden said.

But, he said, authorities could seek to recoup the money spent. "If there is criminal conduct, we certainly would seek restitution," he said.

The balloon landed in a plowed wheat field, and the owner could seek compensation from the family, Alderden added.

Asked whether the parents would not have checked the whereabouts of their three children before allowing the device to take off and why the system to tether it was not stronger, Alderden responded, "You raise some very valid points that we are considering."  Watch as home video shows the balloon take off Â»

Alderden also said his office had contacted an expert at Colorado State University during the incident to make sure that the dimensions of the balloon were adequate to handle a child of Falcon's weight, he said.

The sheriff also sought to defend his department. Authorities had been at the house and had conducted searches for the boy three times during the incident. "Obviously it wasn't as thorough as we would have liked it to be," he said, "because the boy was hiding in the attic in the garage."

Investigators had seen the rafters in the garage, but there was no ladder to get up there. "Our personnel just didn't think it possible that a 6-year-old boy would be able to get up into that space, so they didn't look there," he said.

Falcon was not in a box as Alderden had originally reported. Instead, he had apparently crawled on a box in order to enter the attic area, Alderden said.  Watch how the events played out Â»

Despite numerous conspiracy theories flying around on the Internet, Alderden emphasized that authorities have not seen suspicious behavior by the Heene family.

"They appropriately expressed statements, nonverbal communication, body language and emotions during this event that were entirely consistent with the events that were taking place," he said.

"Certainly, people are free to speculate, they're free to be skeptical about it," Alderden added. "But those of us in the law enforcement profession have to operate on facts and what we can prove."

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London, England (VBS.TV) -- In previous episodes of The Vice Guide to Travel, we road-tripped through North Korea, shopped for dirty bombs in Bulgaria, and hunted mutant wild boars in Chernobyl. Little did we know that all of our harrowing journeys would leave us only semi-prepared for a recent trip to war-ravaged, godforsaken Liberia.

Since 1989, a series of brutal civil wars -- primarily fought by drug-addicted, prepubescent orphans -- has rendered Liberia one of the most dangerous countries in the world. Everyone has heard the stories of abject poverty, ubiquitous substance abuse and wanton violence taking place there, but we don't really believe anything that we don't see for ourselves. So, stomachs firmly knotted, off we went.

We arrived in Liberia with a small crew of three and quickly rendezvoused with a local journalist who would be our fixer and guide. Our first shooting location was the West Point slum, home to 80,000 people living in conditions that redefine squalor. Miles of rotting garbage surround the slum, which has no sewage system. Pretty much everyone -- even the local government officials -- defecates and urinates in the open. Drugs, prostitution and armed robbery are the main industries. We got to know some of the residents of West Point, who told us their stories as they smoked heroin and cocaine and begged us for money.

Next we visited a local brothel. The women who lived there talked with us about the U.N. soldiers who have sex with the child prostitutes and beat the older women, and then leave without paying.

Watch episode 2 from the Vice Guide to Liberia on VBS.TV

But perhaps the most revelatory portions of our trip to Liberia came from meeting the major warlords of the nation's civil wars. There's a tradition in Liberian militias of taking on extravagant noms de guerre. Hence, our subjects were named General Bin Laden, General Rambo and General Butt Naked. The latter, in particular, was one of the most notorious Liberian warlords. He claims to have personally killed 20,000 people including babies, and to have sometimes cannibalized his victims.

Today, General Butt Naked goes by his birth name, which is Joshua. During our time together, he told us that Liberia will surely implode into civil war again when the U.N. leaves next year. But in the meantime, Joshua wants to redeem himself. He offered us a glimpse of the Liberia that he wants to forge, and we found ourselves growing to like him. He took us to his church, where he rehabilitates child soldiers. We watched as he preached his way through Monrovia on a Sunday.

Is there a chance that his mission will succeed, and further civil war can be averted in this desperate country? That's one of the many questions that we came away with upon our safe return from Liberia. Watch our documentary about our time there and see what you think.

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(CNN) -- Long after she escaped a polygamist Colorado City, Arizona, community in 1986, Flora Jessop found another way to escape: cocaine.

Flora Jessop says she ran away from a polygamist sect in 1986 after being married to her cousin.

"It killed the pain. It killed the hurt," she said. "I didn't have to hurt so bad because I missed everything I knew."

Once she fled the fundamentalist Mormon sect, she was an apostate. She believed God hated her. Her parents and siblings thought she was wicked. Worst of all, she knew she was damned to hell, Jessop said.

Jessop, then 17, began hitchhiking across the country, almost killed herself with cocaine, worked as a topless dancer and eventually became pregnant, she said.

Fearing that church members would hunt her down, she looked over her shoulder for five years, she said. She occasionally drank alcohol -- she liked tequila best -- but preferred to use cocaine because it kept her alert.

"When you're running for your life, you can't afford to get to the point you cannot run," she said.  Watch Jessop explain how running was an education Â»

It was a need to protect her daughter that finally convinced her there was more to life, she said.

Today, Jessop, 38, escapes by freeing others trapped unwillingly in polygamist sects: 84 to date. She finds particular solace in rescuing women and children, some of whom are child brides like she was. It was a marriage to her first cousin Philip that prompted Jessop to run.

Her story strikes a common theme among those who have left the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, a Mormon offshoot that disavowed the mainstream church in 1890 when it abandoned polygamy as a pathway to the highest level of heaven.

The FLDS has strict rules, especially for girls: no pants, haircuts, drugs, booze or boys; just "keep sweet" and obey. So young women who leave often delve into worldly pleasures once outside, indulgences as innocent as blue jeans and as destructive as heroin and prostitution, survivors and an expert say.

Jenny Larson experienced such urges in 1946, when her mother, Berna, left a polygamist household in Glendale, Utah, with seven of her nine children. In those days, however, rebellion bore a different hue.

Larson, 73, recalls how "you wouldn't have caught me wearing a long-sleeve blouse" after leaving Glendale.

"I think I was one of the first girls in the seventh grade to wear lipstick. I put henna in my hair to make it red. I wasn't going to look like a little 'polyg' kid," she said, using the slang "polyg" with all the contempt of a racial slur.

Larson -- who goes by Aunt Jenny to the dozens of girls she's helped escape and who wrote the book "Brainwash to Hogwash: Escaping and Exposing Polygamy" -- concedes it's rare that young women can shed the sect's psychological shackles.

So how did she know polygamy wasn't for her? Larson recalls seeing her father, Vergel, smack her mother for expressing jealousy over his second wife, Mae.  Watch an ex-sect member say she's now free Â»

"There was no way in hell I was going to live that way," Larson said.

And Larson quipped of the men hounding her for her hand in marriage when she was 11: "Some of them were so ugly I wondered how they could have sex without putting a sack over their head, but I'm being mean."

Larson's and Jessop's escapes are not typical. Many women don't want to leave, ex-sect members and an expert said.

The purportedly rescued women often return to polygamy. An example is the 1953 raid at Short Creek (now Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City), where dozens of women and more than 260 children were placed in state custody.

Three of the then-children taken in the raid recently said that they eventually returned to polygamist lifestyles, including Fawneta Caroll, who was 7 when she was taken from her family. She remembers clearly what she felt 55 years ago, and it wasn't relief, she said.

"We knew that the object was to take us away, adopt us out and we would never be back to our homes," she said.

Religion -- the reason these women say they stay -- is also used to validate the brainwashing and, in some cases, physical abuse employed to keep women and children submissive, said Marci Hamilton, author of "Justice Denied: What America Must Do to Protect Its Children."

The women are wholly dependent on the patriarchal community, Hamilton said. They often lack education and marketable skills, and they're told of "terrible forces outside the compound," namely evil people who wish them harm, she said.

And there's always the prospect of eternal damnation, said Hamilton, a professor at Yeshiva University's Cardozo School of Law who has studied polygamist sects for 10 years.

"It's not only physically dangerous to leave, you're also risking your soul," she said. "Staying in the compound, even though they're being abused, may look like a smarter choice to a lot of these people."

Joni Holm has taken care of four children who escaped Colorado City, and she concurs that youngsters who leave the community have trouble shaking their indoctrination.

"You literally have to take them, deprogram them and reintroduce them to society," she said.

Flora Jessop brought Fawn Holm, 16, and Fawn Broadbent, 17, to Joni Holm's Sandy, Utah, home in 2004.  Watch Jessop talk about life in a sect Â»

Fawn Holm, Joni's sister-in-law, feared that she was about to be married to now-imprisoned FLDS "prophet" Warren Jeffs, who is serving time in Utah for being an accomplice to rape. Broadbent's name had just been placed in the church's "Joy Book," meaning she could be married off any day, and probably without warning.

The "two Fawns" were smart, Joni Holm said, but had elementary school education levels. They had bizarre mannerisms and wouldn't look people in the eye. They would sometimes jump off elevators because "they were taught they could never be alone with a man," she said.

Fawn Holm began using drugs and alcohol, and Broadbent dabbled in drinking, Joni Holm said.

It's a common phenomenon, Larson said. "When you're held down and can't have any freedoms, they go the opposite way when they get out: drinking, drugs, sex. They're going to hell anyway; they just jump headfirst in."

Joni and husband Carl's greatest challenge, however, was teaching the teens to trust. So entrenched was their distrust of "outsiders" that they needed even the simplest things proved to them, especially examples of how the FLDS "twisted" the Book of Mormon, said Joni Holm, a mainstream Mormon.

"You have to show them factual stuff, because this is what their dad has taught them all their lives," she said.

When Texas authorities seized 416 children from the FLDS Yearning for Zion compound in Eldorado this month, there were similar signs of indoctrination, said Helen Pfluger, whose Baptist church in nearby San Angelo volunteered to help feed and clothe the children and their mothers.

"They were very quiet and didn't want to look us in the eye," she said. "We never knew for sure which child belonged to which mother. It was very communal."

They refused to play board games. Clothes had to be cotton and plain, no patterns and no red, "the color of the devil," Pfluger said. The children shunned processed food, white bread and sodas, and essentially subsisted on yogurt, fruit and lots of almonds, she said.

"Another San Angelo church had brought some coloring pages and crayons," she said. "They didn't know what to do with them, and their mothers didn't either."

Learning to color will be one of many challenges the children will face if they're permanently removed from YFZ ranch.

Joni Holm said it takes five to 10 years for a sect child to learn how to live a life society would deem "normal." Larson said it could take longer. Jessop said she might never be normal.

But Jessop said she would rather wage the battles she faces on "the outside" than live a life of submission and abuse. She reckons many FLDS children would feel the same way if given a choice, she said.

It was difficult to give up the life she was taught was her only path to salvation. But she had to do it to get away from a culture that she felt was backward and malevolent, she said.

"The pain got so bad in heaven that I was willing to damn myself to hell to escape it," she said. E-mail to a friend

CNN's Gary Tuchman and Amanda Townsend contributed to this report.

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text: began

text: hitchhiking

text: across

text: the

text: country

text: almost

text: killed

text: herself

text: with

text: cocaine

text: worked

text: as

text: a

text: topless

text: dancer

text: and

text: eventually

text: became

text: pregnant

text: she

text: said

text: Fearing

text: that

text: church

text: members

text: would

text: hunt

text: her

text: down

text: she

text: looked

text: over

text: her

text: shoulder

text: for

text: five

text: years

text: she

text: said

text: She

text: occasionally

text: drank

text: alcohol

text: she

text: liked

text: tequila

text: best

text: but

text: preferred

text: to

text: use

text: cocaine

text: because

text: it

text: kept

text: her

text: alert

text: When

text: you

text: 're

text: running

text: for

text: your

text: life

text: you

text: ca

text: n't

text: afford

text: to

text: get

text: to

text: the

text: point

text: you

text: can

text: not

text: run

text: she

text: said

text: Watch

text: Jessop

text: explain

text: how

text: running

text: was

text: an

text: education

text: Â

text: It

text: was

text: a

text: need

text: to

text: protect

text: her

text: daughter

text: that

text: finally

text: convinced

text: her

text: there

text: was

text: more

text: to

text: life

text: she

text: said

text: Today

text: Jessop

text: escapes

text: by

text: freeing

text: others

text: trapped

text: unwillingly

text: in

text: polygamist

text: sects

text: to

text: date

text: She

text: finds

text: particular

text: solace

text: in

text: rescuing

text: women

text: and

text: children

text: some

text: of

text: whom

text: are

text: child

text: brides

text: like

text: she

text: was

text: It

text: was

text: a

text: marriage

text: to

text: her

text: first

text: cousin

text: Philip

text: that

text: prompted

text: Jessop

text: to

text: run

text: Her

text: story

text: strikes

text: a

text: common

text: theme

text: among

text: those

text: who

text: have

text: left

text: the

text: Fundamentalist

text: Church

text: of

text: Jesus

text: Christ

text: of

text: Latter

text: Day

text: Saints

text: a

text: Mormon

text: offshoot

text: that

text: disavowed

text: the

text: mainstream

text: church

text: in

text: when

text: it

text: abandoned

text: polygamy

text: as

text: a

text: pathway

text: to

text: the

text: highest

text: level

text: of

text: heaven

text: The

text: FLDS

text: has

text: strict

text: rules

text: especially

text: for

text: girls

text: no

text: pants

text: haircuts

text: drugs

text: booze

text: or

text: boys

text: just

text: keep

text: sweet

text: and

text: obey

text: So

text: young

text: women

text: who

text: leave

text: often

text: delve

text: into

text: worldly

text: pleasures

text: once

text: outside

text: indulgences

text: as

text: innocent

text: as

text: blue

text: jeans

text: and

text: as

text: destructive

text: as

text: heroin

text: and

text: prostitution

text: survivors

text: and

text: an

text: expert

text: say

text: Jenny

text: Larson

text: experienced

text: such

text: urges

text: in

text: when

text: her

text: mother

text: Berna

text: left

text: a

text: polygamist

text: household

text: in

text: Glendale

text: Utah

text: with

text: seven

text: of

text: her

text: nine

text: children

text: In

text: those

text: days

text: however

text: rebellion

text: bore

text: a

text: different

text: hue

text: Larson

text: recalls

text: how

text: you

text: would

text: n't

text: have

text: caught

text: me

text: wearing

text: a

text: long

text: sleeve

text: blouse

text: after

text: leaving

text: Glendale

text: I

text: think

text: I

text: was

text: one

text: of

text: the

text: first

text: girls

text: in

text: the

text: seventh

text: grade

text: to

text: wear

text: lipstick

text: I

text: put

text: henna

text: in

text: my

text: hair

text: to

text: make

text: it

text: red

text: I

text: was

text: n't

text: going

text: to

text: look

text: like

text: a

text: little

text: polyg

text: kid

text: she

text: said

text: using

text: the

text: slang

text: polyg

text: with

text: all

text: the

text: contempt

text: of

text: a

text: racial

text: slur

text: Larson

text: who

text: goes

text: by

text: Aunt

text: Jenny

text: to

text: the

text: dozens

text: of

text: girls

text: she

text: 's

text: helped

text: escape

text: and

text: who

text: wrote

text: the

text: book

text: Brainwash

text: to

text: Hogwash

text: Escaping

text: and

text: Exposing

text: Polygamy

text: concedes

text: it

text: 's

text: rare

text: that

text: young

text: women

text: can

text: shed

text: the

text: sect

text: 's

text: psychological

text: shackles

text: So

text: how

text: did

text: she

text: know

text: polygamy

text: was

text: n't

text: for

text: her

text: Larson

text: recalls

text: seeing

text: her

text: father

text: Vergel

text: smack

text: her

text: mother

text: for

text: expressing

text: jealousy

text: over

text: his

text: second

text: wife

text: Mae

text: Watch

text: an

text: ex

text: sect

text: member

text: say

text: she

text: 's

text: now

text: free

text: Â

text: There

text: was

text: no

text: way

text: in

text: hell

text: I

text: was

text: going

text: to

text: live

text: that

text: way

text: Larson

text: said

text: And

text: Larson

text: quipped

text: of

text: the

text: men

text: hounding

text: her

text: for

text: her

text: hand

text: in

text: marriage

text: when

text: she

text: was

text: Some

text: of

text: them

text: were

text: so

text: ugly

text: I

text: wondered

text: how

text: they

text: could

text: have

text: sex

text: without

text: putting

text: a

text: sack

text: over

text: their

text: head

text: but

text: I

text: 'm

text: being

text: mean

text: Larson

text: 's

text: and

text: Jessop

text: 's

text: escapes

text: are

text: not

text: typical

text: Many

text: women

text: do

text: n't

text: want

text: to

text: leave

text: ex

text: sect

text: members

text: and

text: an

text: expert

text: said

text: The

text: purportedly

text: rescued

text: women

text: often

text: return

text: to

text: polygamy

text: An

text: example

text: is

text: the

text: raid

text: at

text: Short

text: Creek

text: now

text: Hildale

text: Utah

text: and

text: Colorado

text: City

text: where

text: dozens

text: of

text: women

text: and

text: more

text: than

text: children

text: were

text: placed

text: in

text: state

text: custody

text: Three

text: of

text: the

text: then

text: children

text: taken

text: in

text: the

text: raid

text: recently

text: said

text: that

text: they

text: eventually

text: returned

text: to

text: polygamist

text: lifestyles

text: including

text: Fawneta

text: Caroll

text: who

text: was

text: when

text: she

text: was

text: taken

text: from

text: her

text: family

text: She

text: remembers

text: clearly

text: what

text: she

text: felt

text: years

text: ago

text: and

text: it

text: was

text: n't

text: relief

text: she

text: said

text: We

text: knew

text: that

text: the

text: object

text: was

text: to

text: take

text: us

text: away

text: adopt

text: us

text: out

text: and

text: we

text: would

text: never

text: be

text: back

text: to

text: our

text: homes

text: she

text: said

text: Religion

text: the

text: reason

text: these

text: women

text: say

text: they

text: stay

text: is

text: also

text: used

text: to

text: validate

text: the

text: brainwashing

text: and

text: in

text: some

text: cases

text: physical

text: abuse

text: employed

text: to

text: keep

text: women

text: and

text: children

text: submissive

text: said

text: Marci

text: Hamilton

text: author

text: of

text: Justice

text: Denied

text: What

text: America

text: Must

text: Do

text: to

text: Protect

text: Its

text: Children

text: The

text: women

text: are

text: wholly

text: dependent

text: on

text: the

text: patriarchal

text: community

text: Hamilton

text: said

text: They

text: often

text: lack

text: education

text: and

text: marketable

text: skills

text: and

text: they

text: 're

text: told

text: of

text: terrible

text: forces

text: outside

text: the

text: compound

text: namely

text: evil

text: people

text: who

text: wish

text: them

text: harm

text: she

text: said

text: And

text: there

text: 's

text: always

text: the

text: prospect

text: of

text: eternal

text: damnation

text: said

text: Hamilton

text: a

text: professor

text: at

text: Yeshiva

text: University

text: 's

text: Cardozo

text: School

text: of

text: Law

text: who

text: has

text: studied

text: polygamist

text: sects

text: for

text: years

text: It

text: 's

text: not

text: only

text: physically

text: dangerous

text: to

text: leave

text: you

text: 're

text: also

text: risking

text: your

text: soul

text: she

text: said

text: Staying

text: in

text: the

text: compound

text: even

text: though

text: they

text: 're

text: being

text: abused

text: may

text: look

text: like

text: a

text: smarter

text: choice

text: to

text: a

text: lot

text: of

text: these

text: people

text: Joni

text: Holm

text: has

text: taken

text: care

text: of

text: four

text: children

text: who

text: escaped

text: Colorado

text: City

text: and

text: she

text: concurs

text: that

text: youngsters

text: who

text: leave

text: the

text: community

text: have

text: trouble

text: shaking

text: their

text: indoctrination

text: You

text: literally

text: have

text: to

text: take

text: them

text: deprogram

text: them

text: and

text: reintroduce

text: them

text: to

text: society

text: she

text: said

text: Flora

text: Jessop

text: brought

text: Fawn

text: Holm

text: and

text: Fawn

text: Broadbent

text: to

text: Joni

text: Holm

text: 's

text: Sandy

text: Utah

text: home

text: in

text: Watch

text: Jessop

text: talk

text: about

text: life

text: in

text: a

text: sect

text: Â

text: Fawn

text: Holm

text: Joni

text: 's

text: sister

text: in

text: law

text: feared

text: that

text: she

text: was

text: about

text: to

text: be

text: married

text: to

text: now

text: imprisoned

text: FLDS

text: prophet

text: Warren

text: Jeffs

text: who

text: is

text: serving

text: time

text: in

text: Utah

text: for

text: being

text: an

text: accomplice

text: to

text: rape

text: Broadbent

text: 's

text: name

text: had

text: just

text: been

text: placed

text: in

text: the

text: church

text: 's

text: Joy

text: Book

text: meaning

text: she

text: could

text: be

text: married

text: off

text: any

text: day

text: and

text: probably

text: without

text: warning

text: The

text: two

text: Fawns

text: were

text: smart

text: Joni

text: Holm

text: said

text: but

text: had

text: elementary

text: school

text: education

text: levels

text: They

text: had

text: bizarre

text: mannerisms

text: and

text: would

text: n't

text: look

text: people

text: in

text: the

text: eye

text: They

text: would

text: sometimes

text: jump

text: off

text: elevators

text: because

text: they

text: were

text: taught

text: they

text: could

text: never

text: be

text: alone

text: with

text: a

text: man

text: she

text: said

text: Fawn

text: Holm

text: began

text: using

text: drugs

text: and

text: alcohol

text: and

text: Broadbent

text: dabbled

text: in

text: drinking

text: Joni

text: Holm

text: said

text: It

text: 's

text: a

text: common

text: phenomenon

text: Larson

text: said

text: When

text: you

text: 're

text: held

text: down

text: and

text: ca

text: n't

text: have

text: any

text: freedoms

text: they

text: go

text: the

text: opposite

text: way

text: when

text: they

text: get

text: out

text: drinking

text: drugs

text: sex

text: They

text: 're

text: going

text: to

text: hell

text: anyway

text: they

text: just

text: jump

text: headfirst

text: in

text: Joni

text: and

text: husband

text: Carl

text: 's

text: greatest

text: challenge

text: however

text: was

text: teaching

text: the

text: teens

text: to

text: trust

text: So

text: entrenched

text: was

text: their

text: distrust

text: of

text: outsiders

text: that

text: they

text: needed

text: even

text: the

text: simplest

text: things

text: proved

text: to

text: them

text: especially

text: examples

text: of

text: how

text: the

text: FLDS

text: twisted

text: the

text: Book

text: of

text: Mormon

text: said

text: Joni

text: Holm

text: a

text: mainstream

text: Mormon

text: You

text: have

text: to

text: show

text: them

text: factual

text: stuff

text: because

text: this

text: is

text: what

text: their

text: dad

text: has

text: taught

text: them

text: all

text: their

text: lives

text: she

text: said

text: When

text: Texas

text: authorities

text: seized

text: children

text: from

text: the

text: FLDS

text: Yearning

text: for

text: Zion

text: compound

text: in

text: Eldorado

text: this

text: month

text: there

text: were

text: similar

text: signs

text: of

text: indoctrination

text: said

text: Helen

text: Pfluger

text: whose

text: Baptist

text: church

text: in

text: nearby

text: San

text: Angelo

text: volunteered

text: to

text: help

text: feed

text: and

text: clothe

text: the

text: children

text: and

text: their

text: mothers

text: They

text: were

text: very

text: quiet

text: and

text: did

text: n't

text: want

text: to

text: look

text: us

text: in

text: the

text: eye

text: she

text: said

text: We

text: never

text: knew

text: for

text: sure

text: which

text: child

text: belonged

text: to

text: which

text: mother

text: It

text: was

text: very

text: communal

text: They

text: refused

text: to

text: play

text: board

text: games

text: Clothes

text: had

text: to

text: be

text: cotton

text: and

text: plain

text: no

text: patterns

text: and

text: no

text: red

text: the

text: color

text: of

text: the

text: devil

text: Pfluger

text: said

text: The

text: children

text: shunned

text: processed

text: food

text: white

text: bread

text: and

text: sodas

text: and

text: essentially

text: subsisted

text: on

text: yogurt

text: fruit

text: and

text: lots

text: of

text: almonds

text: she

text: said

text: Another

text: San

text: Angelo

text: church

text: had

text: brought

text: some

text: coloring

text: pages

text: and

text: crayons

text: she

text: said

text: They

text: did

text: n't

text: know

text: what

text: to

text: do

text: with

text: them

text: and

text: their

text: mothers

text: did

text: n't

text: either

text: Learning

text: to

text: color

text: will

text: be

text: one

text: of

text: many

text: challenges

text: the

text: children

text: will

text: face

text: if

text: they

text: 're

text: permanently

text: removed

text: from

text: YFZ

text: ranch

text: Joni

text: Holm

text: said

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text: takes

text: five

text: to

text: years

text: for

text: a

text: sect

text: child

text: to

text: learn

text: how

text: to

text: live

text: a

text: life

text: society

text: would

text: deem

text: normal

text: Larson

text: said

text: it

text: could

text: take

text: longer

text: Jessop

text: said

text: she

text: might

text: never

text: be

text: normal

text: But

text: Jessop

text: said

text: she

text: would

text: rather

text: wage

text: the

text: battles

text: she

text: faces

text: on

text: the

text: outside

text: than

text: live

text: a

text: life

text: of

text: submission

text: and

text: abuse

text: She

text: reckons

text: many

text: FLDS

text: children

text: would

text: feel

text: the

text: same

text: way

text: if

text: given

text: a

text: choice

text: she

text: said

text: It

text: was

text: difficult

text: to

text: give

text: up

text: the

text: life

text: she

text: was

text: taught

text: was

text: her

text: only

text: path

text: to

text: salvation

text: But

text: she

text: had

text: to

text: do

text: it

text: to

text: get

text: away

text: from

text: a

text: culture

text: that

text: she

text: felt

text: was

text: backward

text: and

text: malevolent

text: she

text: said

text: The

text: pain

text: got

text: so

text: bad

text: in

text: heaven

text: that

text: I

text: was

text: willing

text: to

text: damn

text: myself

text: to

text: hell

text: to

text: escape

text: it

text: she

text: said

text: E

text: mail

text: to

text: a

text: friend

text: CNN

text: 's

text: Gary

text: Tuchman

text: and

text: Amanda

text: Townsend

text: contributed

text: to

text: this

text: report

question: who  she escaped abusive community?

answer: Flora Jessop

text: Flora Jessop

question: What does Flora Jessop do now?

answer: freeing others trapped unwillingly in polygamist sects:

text: freeing others trapped unwillingly in polygamist sects:

question: what does the expert say?

answer: The FLDS has strict rules, especially for girls: no pants, haircuts, drugs, booze or boys; just "keep sweet" and obey. So young women who leave often delve into worldly pleasures once outside, indulgences as innocent as blue jeans and as destructive as heroin and prostitution, survivors and an

text: The FLDS has strict rules, especially for girls: no pants, haircuts, drugs, booze or boys; just "keep sweet" and obey. So young women who leave often delve into worldly pleasures once outside, indulgences as innocent as blue jeans and as destructive as heroin and prostitution, survivors and an


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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The United States needs to formulate an "updated strategy" for Iraq, now that the Bush administration's 18-month game plan for the country is completed, the head of the Government Accountability Office told lawmakers Wednesday.

U.S. soldiers crouch at their positions during a mission in  Baquba, northeast of Baghdad, earlier this month.

Acting U.S. Comptroller General Gene L. Dodaro appeared before a House Armed Services Committee hearing to discuss last month's GAO progress report on Iraq, which reaffirmed the need for a renewed strategy in the war-ravaged country.

The report, Dodaro said in prepared remarks, noted that "some gains" have been made in the security, legislative and economic areas since President Bush last year announced "The New Way Forward" -- the near-term goals for Iraq that included the military surge. The surge, or troop escalation, ended this month.

"The United States had made some progress in achieving key goals stated in 'The New Way Forward,' " the report said. "Looking forward, many challenges remain, and an updated strategy is essential."

Dodaro said the progress report recommended an updated strategy in Iraq to the Departments of State and Defense. He told lawmakers that the departments said they will "review and refine the current strategy as necessary, but asserted that 'The New Way Forward' remains valid."

Dodaro also argued that a renewed strategy is important "for several reasons." The goals and objectives for the present phase end this month and they are "contained in disparate documents rather than a single strategic plan," he said in his prepared remarks.

"Much has changed in Iraq since January 2007, when the president announced 'The New Way Forward.' Violence is down, U.S. surge forces are leaving, and a new framework for the U.S. presence in Iraq needs to be agreed upon beyond the U.N. mandate," Dodaro said.

The GAO report said that while the number of enemy-initiated attacks in Iraq have decreased about 80 percent from June 2007 to June 2008, the "security environment remains volatile and dangerous." The agency noted that not all of the country's provinces have lead responsibility for security and less than 10 percent of Iraqi security forces "were at the highest readiness level."

The progress report also cited the enactment by Iraqi lawmakers of measures "to return some Baathists to government, grant amnesty to detained Iraqis and define provincial powers." It said there is an "unfinished" legislative agenda, citing the need for measures on "sharing oil revenues, disarming militias, and holding provincial elections."

A provincial election law was passed on Tuesday by Iraq's parliament, the Council of Representatives, but Iraqi President Jalal Talabani has rejected it, his office said Wednesday.

The measure was strongly opposed by Kurdish lawmakers and Iraq's Kurdish Regional Government had criticized it, calling for its rejection. It's not clear whether further negotiations may take place to amend the legislation.

As for the economic arena, crude oil production is below U.S. goals, even though it has "improved for short periods," the GAO report said. Goals for water service are "close to being reached," but the daily electricity supply "met only slightly more than half of demand in early July 2008."

It also noted that Iraq "spent only 24 percent of the $27 billion it budgeted for its reconstruction efforts between 2005 and 2007."

Dodaro said the Pentagon, State Department and other agencies should "develop an updated strategy for Iraq that defines U.S. goals and objectives after July 2008."

"This strategy should build on recent security and legislative gains, address the remaining unmet goals and challenges for the near and long term, clearly articulate goals, objectives, roles and responsibilities, and the resources needed," he said.

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text: the

text: Bush

text: administration

text: 's

text: game

text: plan

text: for

text: the

text: country

text: is

text: completed

text: the

text: head

text: of

text: the

text: Government

text: Accountability

text: Office

text: told

text: lawmakers

text: Wednesday

text: U.S.

text: soldiers

text: crouch

text: at

text: their

text: positions

text: during

text: a

text: mission

text: in

text: Baquba

text: northeast

text: of

text: Baghdad

text: earlier

text: this

text: month

text: Acting

text: U.S.

text: Comptroller

text: General

text: Gene

text: L.

text: Dodaro

text: appeared

text: before

text: a

text: House

text: Armed

text: Services

text: Committee

text: hearing

text: to

text: discuss

text: last

text: month

text: 's

text: GAO

text: progress

text: report

text: on

text: Iraq

text: which

text: reaffirmed

text: the

text: need

text: for

text: a

text: renewed

text: strategy

text: in

text: the

text: war

text: ravaged

text: country

text: The

text: report

text: Dodaro

text: said

text: in

text: prepared

text: remarks

text: noted

text: that

text: some

text: gains

text: have

text: been

text: made

text: in

text: the

text: security

text: legislative

text: and

text: economic

text: areas

text: since

text: President

text: Bush

text: last

text: year

text: announced

text: The

text: New

text: Way

text: Forward

text: the

text: near

text: term

text: goals

text: for

text: Iraq

text: that

text: included

text: the

text: military

text: surge

text: The

text: surge

text: or

text: troop

text: escalation

text: ended

text: this

text: month

text: The

text: United

text: States

text: had

text: made

text: some

text: progress

text: in

text: achieving

text: key

text: goals

text: stated

text: in

text: The

text: New

text: Way

text: Forward

text: the

text: report

text: said

text: Looking

text: forward

text: many

text: challenges

text: remain

text: and

text: an

text: updated

text: strategy

text: is

text: essential

text: Dodaro

text: said

text: the

text: progress

text: report

text: recommended

text: an

text: updated

text: strategy

text: in

text: Iraq

text: to

text: the

text: Departments

text: of

text: State

text: and

text: Defense

text: He

text: told

text: lawmakers

text: that

text: the

text: departments

text: said

text: they

text: will

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text: and

text: refine

text: the

text: current

text: strategy

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text: necessary

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text: Way

text: Forward

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text: valid

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text: renewed

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text: several

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text: goals

text: and

text: objectives

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text: the

text: present

text: phase

text: end

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text: month

text: and

text: they

text: are

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text: in

text: disparate

text: documents

text: rather

text: than

text: a

text: single

text: strategic

text: plan

text: he

text: said

text: in

text: his

text: prepared

text: remarks

text: Much

text: has

text: changed

text: in

text: Iraq

text: since

text: January

text: when

text: the

text: president

text: announced

text: The

text: New

text: Way

text: Forward

text: Violence

text: is

text: down

text: U.S.

text: surge

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text: are

text: leaving

text: and

text: a

text: new

text: framework

text: for

text: the

text: U.S.

text: presence

text: in

text: Iraq

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text: to

text: be

text: agreed

text: upon

text: beyond

text: the

text: U.N.

text: mandate

text: Dodaro

text: said

text: The

text: GAO

text: report

text: said

text: that

text: while

text: the

text: number

text: of

text: enemy

text: initiated

text: attacks

text: in

text: Iraq

text: have

text: decreased

text: about

text: percent

text: from

text: June

text: to

text: June

text: the

text: security

text: environment

text: remains

text: volatile

text: and

text: dangerous

text: The

text: agency

text: noted

text: that

text: not

text: all

text: of

text: the

text: country

text: 's

text: provinces

text: have

text: lead

text: responsibility

text: for

text: security

text: and

text: less

text: than

text: percent

text: of

text: Iraqi

text: security

text: forces

text: were

text: at

text: the

text: highest

text: readiness

text: level

text: The

text: progress

text: report

text: also

text: cited

text: the

text: enactment

text: by

text: Iraqi

text: lawmakers

text: of

text: measures

text: to

text: return

text: some

text: Baathists

text: to

text: government

text: grant

text: amnesty

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text: detained

text: Iraqis

text: and

text: define

text: provincial

text: powers

text: It

text: said

text: there

text: is

text: an

text: unfinished

text: legislative

text: agenda

text: citing

text: the

text: need

text: for

text: measures

text: on

text: sharing

text: oil

text: revenues

text: disarming

text: militias

text: and

text: holding

text: provincial

text: elections

text: A

text: provincial

text: election

text: law

text: was

text: passed

text: on

text: Tuesday

text: by

text: Iraq

text: 's

text: parliament

text: the

text: Council

text: of

text: Representatives

text: but

text: Iraqi

text: President

text: Jalal

text: Talabani

text: has

text: rejected

text: it

text: his

text: office

text: said

text: Wednesday

text: The

text: measure

text: was

text: strongly

text: opposed

text: by

text: Kurdish

text: lawmakers

text: and

text: Iraq

text: 's

text: Kurdish

text: Regional

text: Government

text: had

text: criticized

text: it

text: calling

text: for

text: its

text: rejection

text: It

text: 's

text: not

text: clear

text: whether

text: further

text: negotiations

text: may

text: take

text: place

text: to

text: amend

text: the

text: legislation

text: As

text: for

text: the

text: economic

text: arena

text: crude

text: oil

text: production

text: is

text: below

text: U.S.

text: goals

text: even

text: though

text: it

text: has

text: improved

text: for

text: short

text: periods

text: the

text: GAO

text: report

text: said

text: Goals

text: for

text: water

text: service

text: are

text: close

text: to

text: being

text: reached

text: but

text: the

text: daily

text: electricity

text: supply

text: met

text: only

text: slightly

text: more

text: than

text: half

text: of

text: demand

text: in

text: early

text: July

text: It

text: also

text: noted

text: that

text: Iraq

text: spent

text: only

text: percent

text: of

text: the

text: billion

text: it

text: budgeted

text: for

text: its

text: reconstruction

text: efforts

text: between

text: and

text: Dodaro

text: said

text: the

text: Pentagon

text: State

text: Department

text: and

text: other

text: agencies

text: should

text: develop

text: an

text: updated

text: strategy

text: for

text: Iraq

text: that

text: defines

text: U.S.

text: goals

text: and

text: objectives

text: after

text: July

text: This

text: strategy

text: should

text: build

text: on

text: recent

text: security

text: and

text: legislative

text: gains

text: address

text: the

text: remaining

text: unmet

text: goals

text: and

text: challenges

text: for

text: the

text: near

text: and

text: long

text: term

text: clearly

text: articulate

text: goals

text: objectives

text: roles

text: and

text: responsibilities

text: and

text: the

text: resources

text: needed

text: he

text: said

question: Who spoke to House committee?

answer: General Gene L. Dodaro

text: General Gene L. Dodaro

question: What remains below U.S. goals?

answer: crude oil production

text: crude oil production

question: Situation in Iraq remains "volatile and" what?

answer: dangerous."

text: dangerous."


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(CNN) -- At least 38 people have died in mudslides on the Portuguese island of Madeira, which was hit by heavy downpours overnight, an official told CNN on Saturday.

Pedro Barbosa, the vice president of the Civil Protection Agency in Madeira, told CNN that an unknown number of people were missing -- perhaps dozens, he said.

The mudslides and flooding caused substantial damage to roads and homes in the capital, Funchal, and in Ribeira Brava, which are both on the southern portion of the Atlantic island, which lies about 600 miles southwest of Portugal, Barbosa said.

Portuguese Prime Minister Jose Socrates and Interior Minister Rui Pereira arrived on the island on Saturday, according to CNN affiliate Radio e Televisao de Portugal (RTP).

Socrates told RTP that "the situation is under control" and the government is offering all its support to regional authorities. The country's president, Cavaco Silva, expressed his condolences to the people of Madeira in a televised statement and promised to do everything to help "during this difficult time."

Pedro Ramos of Dr. Nelio Mendonca Hospital in Funchal, told CNN that 68 wounded people were hospitalized from the mudslides and flooding. Three were critical, he said. The vice president of Madeira's regional government had tallied 68 victims with injuries, according to the official Lusa news agency.

The floodwaters overturned cars and knocked down trees, Barbosa said. Authorities have evacuated hundreds of people to military and civil protection facilities in Funchal, he said.

Search and rescue teams have been reinforced, but haven't been able to reach every area, according to the Civil Protection Agency.

The Portuguese military has dispatched five teams to help with search and rescue efforts, it announced on its Web site. The military is also ready to shelter up to 130 people where 50 people are already staying, it said.

Barbosa said weather conditions have substantially improved, with the rains winding down.

Madeira, an autonomous region of Portugal, is a popular resort destination. There have been no reports of any dead or missing tourists.

CNN's Umaro Djau contributed to this report.

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text: Umaro

text: Djau

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question: What has substantially improved?

answer: weather conditions

text: weather conditions

question: Which country has been hit by heavy downpours overnight?

answer: Portuguese island of Madeira,

text: Portuguese island of Madeira,

question: how many teams was dispatched

answer: five

text: five

question: who dispatched five teams

answer: The Portuguese military

text: The Portuguese military

question: where is madeira

answer: Portuguese island

text: Portuguese island

question: How many teams have the Portuguese military dispatched?

answer: five

text: five