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ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- Twenty-seven million new cancer cases are expected by 2030, according to a report released Tuesday by the World Health Organization's cancer research agency.

Rates for breast cancer, shown here under a microscope, have tripled in some Asian countries.

That compares to 12 million new cases in 2007, the report found. The group forecast a 1 percent increase globally each year, with emerging economies such as China, Russia and India being hit the hardest.

The major culprit: tobacco.

"About 1.3 billion people smoke globally, making tobacco the major avoidable cause of death and disease worldwide," the report found.

Experts say less developed countries are especially vulnerable, predicting a 38 percent increase in those regions by 2030.  Watch more on the report ÃÂ»

Tobacco killed 100 million people in the world last century and will kill a billion in the 21st century, unless changes are made, said John R. Seffrin, chief executive officer at the American Cancer Society, Tuesday.

Besides smoking, other causes for the rise in the disease include high-fat diets including fast food and decreased physical activity, reflective of increasingly western lifestyles, the report found.

In addition, the rate of breast cancer has doubled or tripled in countries like Japan, Singapore and Korea, according to the report. In Africa, 518,000 people have died from cancer since the start of 2008 -- cervical cancer being the leading cancer killer among women, the report found.

But there is good news for some Western nations. Cancer mortality rates are falling in Great Britain and the United States, said Seffrin.

Effective cancer treatment in developing countries, experts say, depends on prevention and more data.

"Awareness of the global cancer burden pandemic and its causes will help establish and enforce policies, resources and programs to control cancer and tobacco, and to de-stigmatize cancer," according to the WHO report.

CNN's Miriam Falco contributed to this report.

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(CNN) -- Dating advice books take a tech-addicted turn with the release of "Flirtexting: How To Text Your Way To His Heart."

The authors of "Flirtexting," above, say women need to learn how to text their way to love.

The book's co-authors, Olivia Baniuszewicz and Debra Goldstein, seek to explain the dating scene based on the premise that men understand text messages while women need to catch up.

"It's official. Boys text, therefore girls must learn how to flirtext!" they say on their Web site, flirtexting.com.

Baniuszewicz and Goldstein offer up a new etiquette for what they call the "A.C." world of dating -- or "after cells." The pair, who described themselves as "best friends" and "best flirtexters," spoke with CNN about their book, and the text message's role in society.

The following is an edited version of that conversation.

CNN: What abbreviations would you need to know in order to flirt over text messages?

Debra: We say, "If you don't wanna date, abbreviate." Too many abbreviations is a turn off, so be very careful. If you don't have to abbreviate, then don't. For "OK," you can write the letter "k," and for "are" you can write the letter "r," but never the "great" with the 8 in the middle [gr8]. Please never do that.

Olivia: So, the things you should avoid when abbreviating is writing "perf" [short for "perfect"] or "brill" [short for "brilliant"] back to a guy. That's fun for girls texting to each other, but not when you're trying to flirtext.

CNN: What's the difference? Why would a guy take it differently?

Olivia: It's just a little girly. You just have to know your audience and speak to it, and that's all flirtexting is all about.

CNN: Do you think the idea that you need to teach girls how to use text messages to pick up guys is a little sexist?

Debra: Sexist? Oh absolutely not. I think it's about empowering women to have the time to come across exactly the way they want and in the best light.  Watch how to enter this new dating world Â»

Olivia: I think flirtexting is all about empowering. It's all about you choosing your moment. Girls can choose their moment. Girls can decide what they want to get out of this text in order to ask him out, or is it a date, or for him to just meet up with you that night just to have a good laugh, and banter back and forth because you're bored at work. This is all that it's about.

CNN: Are there any people who date exclusively through texts?

Debra: There's a lot of girls who will say, "He keeps texting me but I want him to call" ... I think there is a time when you need to put the cell down and pick up the phone if you really like someone.

Olivia: There's a huge no-no: not to be heavy in your text messages. So a lot of times, I think things like "I want to break up with you" or "I love you" for the first time over text -- you should just not be doing that, and I think that's a mistake a lot of people do.

CNN: What are some other things that shouldn't be discussed over text?

Debra: We say, "Don't kid yourself." If he only texts you past 10 p.m. he's probably just looking to hook up. So girls, watch out for that.

Olivia: True. And the other don't -- I think we've all been there -- is texting under the influence: TUI. [Laughs]. It's true. I think you're out with your girlfriends, you're having a drink, or it's a lonely Sunday evening and you just feel the urge to flirtext a guy. You're going to regret it the next morning.

So find a sponsor, one of your friends that you call or text instead, to kind of wean you off of texting in that moment.

CNN: What about dating using other mediums, like Facebook or Twitter?

Olivia: Flirtweeting? ... Facebook has really taken that up to a different level and has opened our dating world in a sense to us. Because we could be like, "Oh! Todd is friends with my friend Sara. Let me ask Sara about Todd before I respond back to his message or his friend request. I mean, it's beautiful!

Debra: It is beautiful.

Olivia: I'm gonna cry.

CNN: Could you all give me some personal examples of "dos and don'ts." Either texts that you've sent that you've regretted or things that were sent to you that were really bad.

Debra: Oh absolutely. In flirtexting there are the most important three dos. We call them "The Three Ts."

The first is timing. Just because it's speedy technology doesn't mean you have to be speedy with your response. It's your moment, and we say, "Text when you're ready."

And the second one is thought. You've got 160 characters to create a message that's sure to impress. So take your time, and be sure to make him laugh.

And the third one is texting plan. If you're going to be flirtexting off the chain like we do then you're going to need an unlimited texting plan. And Virgin Mobile has a really good one right now, it's called the Texter's Delight. And it is delightful.

Olivia: It is a delight.

CNN: Do you all both use that company? Are you sponsored by that company?

Debra: Both. We do, yeah, we use it. It's great, it's really easy.

CNN: Do you use the cell phone to talk?

Olivia: I do with my mom, who doesn't text [laughs]. But um, she's slowly learning and then maybe I can just get rid of that altogether.

CNN: How has that experience been, trying to teach your mom how to text? What does she think of it?

Olivia: It's been challenging at first, being that she came from an over-the-phone, old-school approach. She is coming to realize that it's really becoming a cultural phenomenon and it's something that she needs and wants to adapt to.

And she's also single. She knows that she needs to pick up that phone if she wants to be flirtexting and going on dates.

CNN: Are you working on anything after this?

Debra: There's hopefully more books. I think guys are really interested to know what girls are thinking. We've taught girls how to text her way into his heart and now we think guys are really wanting to know how to get into our hearts. So there's a lot. Good stuff.

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LONDON, England (CNN) -- From bedroom creators to big studios, hand-drawn to CGI, animation has charmed and entertained children -- and, increasingly, adults -- for many years. The Screening Room went to Annecy in France to discover the secrets of success in animated films...

Annecy has hailed animators like director Tim Burton, seen here receiving a special award at Annecy in 2006.

Annecy is the Cannes of animation. The French town, which lies close to the Swiss border just 40 kilometers (25 miles) from Geneva, has hosted the International Animated Film Festival for almost half a century and attracts a younger crowd than many of the major film festivals. With prizes for long and short features, television and student animation, Annecy highlights a wide variety of different types of animation and budgets.

One veteran of Annecy is Craig Decker, known as worldwide cult figure "Spike" and co-founder of "Spike and Mike's Sick & Twisted Festival of Animation." Beginning 30 years ago as a means of bringing independent animation to new audiences, the touring festival was instrumental in showcasing the early works of legendary animators such as Tim Burton, Pixar's John Lasseter and Aardman's Nick Park, as well as the first episode of "Beavis and Butthead."

Spike explained to CNN the challenge of getting animation taken seriously. He said, "Originally we had to deal with the stigma. We showed great films like National Film Board of Canada [pieces], or "Tin Toy" by John Lasseter, works of art, masterpieces that take two to three years to make, and we had to deal with, 'What is it? Cartoons like Bugs Bunny or something like that?' And over the years we've educated the public, and we've put animation in the context of a very cool thing [with] a young, hip, adult audience of 18 and over."

Stop-motion classics

One of Spike and Mike's biggest fans, Nick Park, won the Annecy award for Best TV Animation with "Shaun the Sheep," a spin-off from "A Close Shave," one of Aardman's famous Wallace and Gromit short features that grabbed an Oscar.

Stop-motion is also close to the heart of director Tim Burton, who employed the technique on "Corpse Bride" and "The Nightmare Before Christmas." He said, "Because it's such an old-fashioned technique, a lot of it truly has to do with finding the right group of animators, the right group of people to build the puppets, because a lot of things are being done by computer now. Very few people are doing this style of animation."

Allison Abbate, a producer on "Corpse Bride," added, "Stop motion is an age-old process as far as animation in film-making goes. It hasn't really changed since the days of King Kong - we used new technology in 'Corpse Bride' to bring it into a new century."

Appropriate animation

"I think there's room for all types of animation," she continued. "It depends on the story. The story should really decide how you tell it. I think there are stories that are better made in 2-D and CGI and that's what you'd go for."

2-D animation is the mainstay of Japanese anime - a subject so vast it will command its own feature in a subsequent edition of the Screening Room. The film "Paprika" has won worldwide critical praise during the past year as a sophisticated example of the art, whose keenest supporters are sometimes contemptuous of their Hollywood animation counterparts.

Asia is becoming an increasingly powerful force in animation, where companies who traditionally provided a cheap source of labor for animation studios are now using their skills to take a leading role in the creative process. UTV Toons is one of several Indian companies forming partnerships with big U.S. production houses to make new animated features.

Combination of skills

Animation requires a combination of several skills, as producer Allison Abbate explained. She told CNN that animators face many complex challenges. "Animators have to know how to move things, how things work anatomically in a space, but they also have to know how to act, how to emote and that is what makes animation so different from live action. It is so crafted, one frame at a time."

But Spike points out that the rewards animation promises can be very high. "Obviously in features, look at the most successful films," he told CNN. "They're nearly all animated Pixar pieces or, if it's live action, it's the special effects animation that carries the film."

And the future? Spike believes animation is going mobile. He said, "Internationally, what's exciting is with new media: with digital; with broadband; with mobile phones. That's where we're going with our stuff." E-mail to a friend

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(CNN) -- Gillette said Saturday it was "limiting" golfer Tiger Woods' role in its marketing programs to give him the privacy he needs to work on family relationships after disclosures of his "infidelity."

In a statement, the Boston, Massachusetts-based body grooming company said it supports Woods' decision to take "an indefinite break" from professional golf. On his Web site Friday, Woods admitted to infidelity and said he was taking a break from the sport to focus on his family.

"In the midst of a difficult and unfortunate situation, we respect the action Tiger is taking to restore the trust of his family, friends and fans," Gillette spokesman Mike Norton said in the statement. "We fully support him stepping back from his professional career and taking the time he needs to do what matters most. We wish him and his family the best.

"As Tiger takes a break from the public eye, we will support his desire for privacy by limiting his role in our marketing programs," Norton said.

Woods' Friday posting said: "After much soul searching, I have decided to take an indefinite break from professional golf. I need to focus my attention on being a better husband, father and person."

"I am deeply aware of the disappointment and hurt that my infidelity has caused to so many people, most of all my wife and children," Woods' statement said. "I want to say again to everyone that I am profoundly sorry and that I ask forgiveness. It may not be possible to repair the damage I've done, but I want to do my best to try."

Woods, 33, who tops the sport's world rankings, crashed his car outside his Florida mansion late last month. Authorities issued a citation for careless driving, and he was given a $164 fine.

Woods was not required to talk to police about the wreck and declined to talk with investigators on several occasions.

In the week following the crash, Woods apologized for "transgressions" that let his family down. The same day, US Weekly published a report alleging that Woods had an affair with Jaimee Grubbs, a 24-year-old cocktail waitress.

US Weekly's report followed a National Enquirer article before the crash that the athlete was having an affair with New York nightclub hostess Rachel Uchitel, an assertion she vigorously denied, according to The New York Post.

It was not immediately clear how Woods' hiatus would affect his other sponsorships, which include Nike, Gatorade and Electronic Arts.

"He is the best golfer in the world and one of the greatest athletes of his era," Nike spokeswoman Beth Gast said in a statement. "We look forward to his return to golf. He and his family have Nike's full support."

The statement did not elaborate on whether Woods' announcement would impact his business relationship with the sports company, which has worked with him for more than a decade.

Woods has won three U.S. Open titles and the Masters tournament and the PGA tournament each four times. The PGA Tour said it supports Woods and looks forward to his return to the game.

"We fully support Tiger's decision to step away from competitive golf to focus on his family. His priorities are where they need to be, and we will continue to respect and honor his family's request for privacy," the PGA Tour said in a statement Friday. "We look forward to Tiger's return to the PGA Tour when he determines the time is right for him."

EA Sports, the company that makes Woods' video game, also said it is standing behind the golfer.

"We respect that this is a very difficult and private situation for Tiger and his family. At this time, the strategy for our Tiger Woods PGA TOUR business remains unchanged," said David Tinson, a company spokesman.

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(CNN) -- The three mothers hail from the same province in China, but they'd never met until a reckless driver in central Ohio killed their only children.

From left, Sun "Zoe" Yan, Bian "Jack" Jin and Xue "Jo" Bing were students at Urbana University in Ohio.

Two years later, the women wade through a cultural morass, struggling with American laws and language as they work to recoup the tens of thousands of dollars they borrowed to educate, and bury, their children.

They've also lost their pride and possibly their future. In China, a family's future often rides on the education of its youngest member, and parents routinely mortgage the present for a brighter retirement.

The three mothers have no good news for friends and relatives who stop by their homes in northeast China, sometimes for hours, asking for their money. The mothers face the cultural shame of not being able to repay them, and many of their creditors don't believe them when they explain they've received little compensation for their losses.

"Even after I die, I could not close my eyes," Cai Tie Juan said, describing her stress and exhaustion through a translator.

On March 8, 2007, Cai's son, Bian Jin, 27, better known to his American counterparts as Jack, was returning from a spring break shopping trip with Sun Yan and Xue Bing, both 24.  Learn more about students Â»

According to the Dayton Daily News, Bian was driving. Sun, aka Zoe, and Bian's girlfriend, Xue -- whose friends called her Jo -- were in the backseat of Bian's Ford Taurus. They were trying to get back in time for Sun's 6:30 p.m. shift at a local Chinese restaurant in Urbana, Ohio, where the three attended graduate school.

Witnesses told the newspaper that several cars were waiting at a traffic light when Jason Skaggs, then 34, approached the intersection of Urbana and Moorefield roads. Skaggs crashed his blue Chevy Tahoe into a Buick Skylark at 98 mph (about 158 kph), went airborne and sandwiched Bian's Taurus between the Tahoe and a gold Chrysler, witnesses and police told the paper.

The Taurus was reduced to a ball of crumpled metal with tires. Bian, Sun and Xue were killed instantly. Four others, including Skaggs, were injured. See photos of wreck, trial from Dayton Daily News

Skaggs said he had had a seizure before barreling into the intersection, but the jury didn't buy the defense and found him guilty of aggravated vehicular homicide. During the trial, the media uncovered a litany of driving violations committed by Skaggs, including a speeding ticket he received for driving 91 mph in a 65-mph zone just weeks before the wreck.

Skaggs also had been jailed for aggravated vehicular homicide in the past, after he had passed a car in a blind curve in 1994, killing a 79-year-old mother and her son, the Daily News reported.

A judge in August sentenced Skaggs to the maximum 34 years in prison.

The students' parents wonder how Skaggs had a license to begin with. He'd already killed two people and had no insurance. And if epilepsy played a role in the wreck, it only bolsters their belief he shouldn't have been driving in the first place.

"Why could somebody let this happen?" Xue's mother, Sun Chun Zhi, asked through a translator. "Obviously, he had a history of driving recklessly and had violated many traffic laws."

Chinese laws would've never let someone like Skaggs drive, and more frustratingly, they say, the Chinese government would've stepped in with financial help if this had happened in their homeland.

Conversely, it is a Chinese law that has been most devastating. Because the world's most populous nation has for 30 years enforced a one-child-per-couple policy, Bian, Xue and Sun Yan had no siblings, so the families' prospects for the future were crushed in a Ford Taurus at the intersection of Urbana and Moorefield roads.

"When you raise a child in China, you are basically insuring your old age," Sun Yan's mother, Yu Ming, said, weeping as she spoke through a translator.

Because Bian, Xue and Sun Yan had promising futures, their parents were confident asking friends, relatives, colleagues and even their kids' classmates for money to send them to graduate school at the 1,500-student Urbana University.

In China, personal loans from banks aren't as common as they are in the U.S. More commonly, people borrow from friends and family, and you are honor bound to pay them back. There is no poor-mouthing or filing for bankruptcy.

The university unveiled a memorial last year among three Lacebark Pines, a native Chinese tree.

"You return what you owe. It is the bible of heaven and the ground rule of Earth," Yu said, using a Chinese saying to explain the importance of honoring your debts.

Each family borrowed in the neighborhood of 300,000 yuan, almost $44,000, to send their kids 6,500 miles to Urbana University. They each borrowed tens of thousands of dollars more for their children's funerals and several trips to the United States, some to attend Skaggs' trial.

They've collectively received about $19,000 from a state victim's fund and $22,000 from a charitable fund established by Urbana University. Another fund set up by the university collected about $36,000, but much of the money went toward the families' funeral and travel bills.

The mothers say they appreciate the donations because their pensions and pay are a pittance of what they owe.

Xue's father is back home in Dalian City, a trading hub of about 6 million people on the Liaodong Peninsula near North Korea. The retired office manager earns a pension of about 1,600 yuan, or $234, a month.

Bian's father and Sun Yan's father live in Shenyang, an industrial base of more than 7 million people, also near North Korea. Bian's father has been working all the overtime shifts he can muster and brings home about 3,500 yuan ($512) a month. Sun Yan's father is a farmer and receives no pension.

Meanwhile, the mothers have been in Springfield, Ohio, living in a home donated by a sympathizer since November. They keep their living expenses as low as possible, subsisting off one meal a day to save money.

Cai and Yu still collect their respective pensions of about 1,300 yuan ($190) and 700 yuan ($102) a month. Sun Chun Zhi has lost her job as an accountant because of all the trips she has made to the states in the last two years.

The women say they are pleading with anyone they think can help -- university officials, the consulate, even a senator.

Yu said she and her husband recently sold their cozy apartment in Shenyang and moved in with a niece in China to help pay off their debts, which included about 50,000 yuan ($7,312) that Yu and her four siblings scraped together to pay their father's medical bills from a recent surgery.

"It didn't amount to a lot of money," Yu said of the apartment sale.

The mothers have considered suing Skaggs, who was represented at trial by a public defender, but lawyers have told them it's not worth it.

Friends and family members regularly stop by their homes in China, asking, "How could there possibly be no money? We really need money, too. Can you return it?" Sun Chun Zhi said. "They really don't understand why we didn't get any money. They didn't believe that ... they're not forcing you. They sit there and keep asking for money."

Added Yu, "They're not rich, either. They save all this money, and they don't spend like Americans, they save. And then they lend it to me, and now they've lost it, too."

The mothers are coping with emotional problems as well.

Sun said the death of her daughter has left the family feeling helpless and "emotionally destroyed." Yu, who did not eat for two days after the wreck, said she's lost her "source of energy." And Cai has taken up a regimen of sleeping pills to get some rest at night.

"It's not getting better. It also feels like my heart is almost failing me, and I feel my body is almost failing me," Cai said.

Sun Chun Zhi said she, Cai and Yu sometimes struggle to grasp "the meaning of why we need to survive" after losing their only children.

"But we cannot fall apart now because we are trying to return the money to the people we borrowed it from," said Sun Chun Zhi. "We're trying every possible way to return their money."

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text: it

text: is

text: a

text: Chinese

text: law

text: that

text: has

text: been

text: most

text: devastating

text: Because

text: the

text: world

text: 's

text: most

text: populous

text: nation

text: has

text: for

text: years

text: enforced

text: a

text: one

text: child

text: per

text: couple

text: policy

text: Bian

text: Xue

text: and

text: Sun

text: Yan

text: had

text: no

text: siblings

text: so

text: the

text: families

text: prospects

text: for

text: the

text: future

text: were

text: crushed

text: in

text: a

text: Ford

text: Taurus

text: at

text: the

text: intersection

text: of

text: Urbana

text: and

text: Moorefield

text: roads

text: When

text: you

text: raise

text: a

text: child

text: in

text: China

text: you

text: are

text: basically

text: insuring

text: your

text: old

text: age

text: Sun

text: Yan

text: 's

text: mother

text: Yu

text: Ming

text: said

text: weeping

text: as

text: she

text: spoke

text: through

text: a

text: translator

text: Because

text: Bian

text: Xue

text: and

text: Sun

text: Yan

text: had

text: promising

text: futures

text: their

text: parents

text: were

text: confident

text: asking

text: friends

text: relatives

text: colleagues

text: and

text: even

text: their

text: kids

text: classmates

text: for

text: money

text: to

text: send

text: them

text: to

text: graduate

text: school

text: at

text: the

text: Urbana

text: University

text: In

text: China

text: personal

text: loans

text: from

text: banks

text: are

text: n't

text: as

text: common

text: as

text: they

text: are

text: in

text: the

text: U.S.

text: More

text: commonly

text: people

text: borrow

text: from

text: friends

text: and

text: family

text: and

text: you

text: are

text: honor

text: bound

text: to

text: pay

text: them

text: back

text: There

text: is

text: no

text: poor

text: mouthing

text: or

text: filing

text: for

text: bankruptcy

text: The

text: university

text: unveiled

text: a

text: memorial

text: last

text: year

text: among

text: three

text: Lacebark

text: Pines

text: a

text: native

text: Chinese

text: tree

text: You

text: return

text: what

text: you

text: owe

text: It

text: is

text: the

text: bible

text: of

text: heaven

text: and

text: the

text: ground

text: rule

text: of

text: Earth

text: Yu

text: said

text: using

text: a

text: Chinese

text: saying

text: to

text: explain

text: the

text: importance

text: of

text: honoring

text: your

text: debts

text: Each

text: family

text: borrowed

text: in

text: the

text: neighborhood

text: of

text: yuan

text: almost

text: to

text: send

text: their

text: kids

text: miles

text: to

text: Urbana

text: University

text: They

text: each

text: borrowed

text: tens

text: of

text: thousands

text: of

text: dollars

text: more

text: for

text: their

text: children

text: 's

text: funerals

text: and

text: several

text: trips

text: to

text: the

text: United

text: States

text: some

text: to

text: attend

text: Skaggs

text: trial

text: They

text: 've

text: collectively

text: received

text: about

text: from

text: a

text: state

text: victim

text: 's

text: fund

text: and

text: from

text: a

text: charitable

text: fund

text: established

text: by

text: Urbana

text: University

text: Another

text: fund

text: set

text: up

text: by

text: the

text: university

text: collected

text: about

text: but

text: much

text: of

text: the

text: money

text: went

text: toward

text: the

text: families

text: funeral

text: and

text: travel

text: bills

text: The

text: mothers

text: say

text: they

text: appreciate

text: the

text: donations

text: because

text: their

text: pensions

text: and

text: pay

text: are

text: a

text: pittance

text: of

text: what

text: they

text: owe

text: Xue

text: 's

text: father

text: is

text: back

text: home

text: in

text: Dalian

text: City

text: a

text: trading

text: hub

text: of

text: about

text: million

text: people

text: on

text: the

text: Liaodong

text: Peninsula

text: near

text: North

text: Korea

text: The

text: retired

text: office

text: manager

text: earns

text: a

text: pension

text: of

text: about

text: yuan

text: or

text: a

text: month

text: Bian

text: 's

text: father

text: and

text: Sun

text: Yan

text: 's

text: father

text: live

text: in

text: Shenyang

text: an

text: industrial

text: base

text: of

text: more

text: than

text: million

text: people

text: also

text: near

text: North

text: Korea

text: Bian

text: 's

text: father

text: has

text: been

text: working

text: all

text: the

text: overtime

text: shifts

text: he

text: can

text: muster

text: and

text: brings

text: home

text: about

text: yuan

text: a

text: month

text: Sun

text: Yan

text: 's

text: father

text: is

text: a

text: farmer

text: and

text: receives

text: no

text: pension

text: Meanwhile

text: the

text: mothers

text: have

text: been

text: in

text: Springfield

text: Ohio

text: living

text: in

text: a

text: home

text: donated

text: by

text: a

text: sympathizer

text: since

text: November

text: They

text: keep

text: their

text: living

text: expenses

text: as

text: low

text: as

text: possible

text: subsisting

text: off

text: one

text: meal

text: a

text: day

text: to

text: save

text: money

text: Cai

text: and

text: Yu

text: still

text: collect

text: their

text: respective

text: pensions

text: of

text: about

text: yuan

text: and

text: yuan

text: a

text: month

text: Sun

text: Chun

text: Zhi

text: has

text: lost

text: her

text: job

text: as

text: an

text: accountant

text: because

text: of

text: all

text: the

text: trips

text: she

text: has

text: made

text: to

text: the

text: states

text: in

text: the

text: last

text: two

text: years

text: The

text: women

text: say

text: they

text: are

text: pleading

text: with

text: anyone

text: they

text: think

text: can

text: help

text: university

text: officials

text: the

text: consulate

text: even

text: a

text: senator

text: Yu

text: said

text: she

text: and

text: her

text: husband

text: recently

text: sold

text: their

text: cozy

text: apartment

text: in

text: Shenyang

text: and

text: moved

text: in

text: with

text: a

text: niece

text: in

text: China

text: to

text: help

text: pay

text: off

text: their

text: debts

text: which

text: included

text: about

text: yuan

text: that

text: Yu

text: and

text: her

text: four

text: siblings

text: scraped

text: together

text: to

text: pay

text: their

text: father

text: 's

text: medical

text: bills

text: from

text: a

text: recent

text: surgery

text: It

text: did

text: n't

text: amount

text: to

text: a

text: lot

text: of

text: money

text: Yu

text: said

text: of

text: the

text: apartment

text: sale

text: The

text: mothers

text: have

text: considered

text: suing

text: Skaggs

text: who

text: was

text: represented

text: at

text: trial

text: by

text: a

text: public

text: defender

text: but

text: lawyers

text: have

text: told

text: them

text: it

text: 's

text: not

text: worth

text: it

text: Friends

text: and

text: family

text: members

text: regularly

text: stop

text: by

text: their

text: homes

text: in

text: China

text: asking

text: How

text: could

text: there

text: possibly

text: be

text: no

text: money

text: We

text: really

text: need

text: money

text: too

text: Can

text: you

text: return

text: it

text: Sun

text: Chun

text: Zhi

text: said

text: They

text: really

text: do

text: n't

text: understand

text: why

text: we

text: did

text: n't

text: get

text: any

text: money

text: They

text: did

text: n't

text: believe

text: that

text: they

text: 're

text: not

text: forcing

text: you

text: They

text: sit

text: there

text: and

text: keep

text: asking

text: for

text: money

text: Added

text: Yu

text: They

text: 're

text: not

text: rich

text: either

text: They

text: save

text: all

text: this

text: money

text: and

text: they

text: do

text: n't

text: spend

text: like

text: Americans

text: they

text: save

text: And

text: then

text: they

text: lend

text: it

text: to

text: me

text: and

text: now

text: they

text: 've

text: lost

text: it

text: too

text: The

text: mothers

text: are

text: coping

text: with

text: emotional

text: problems

text: as

text: well

text: Sun

text: said

text: the

text: death

text: of

text: her

text: daughter

text: has

text: left

text: the

text: family

text: feeling

text: helpless

text: and

text: emotionally

text: destroyed

text: Yu

text: who

text: did

text: not

text: eat

text: for

text: two

text: days

text: after

text: the

text: wreck

text: said

text: she

text: 's

text: lost

text: her

text: source

text: of

text: energy

text: And

text: Cai

text: has

text: taken

text: up

text: a

text: regimen

text: of

text: sleeping

text: pills

text: to

text: get

text: some

text: rest

text: at

text: night

text: It

text: 's

text: not

text: getting

text: better

text: It

text: also

text: feels

text: like

text: my

text: heart

text: is

text: almost

text: failing

text: me

text: and

text: I

text: feel

text: my

text: body

text: is

text: almost

text: failing

text: me

text: Cai

text: said

text: Sun

text: Chun

text: Zhi

text: said

text: she

text: Cai

text: and

text: Yu

text: sometimes

text: struggle

text: to

text: grasp

text: the

text: meaning

text: of

text: why

text: we

text: need

text: to

text: survive

text: after

text: losing

text: their

text: only

text: children

text: But

text: we

text: can

text: not

text: fall

text: apart

text: now

text: because

text: we

text: are

text: trying

text: to

text: return

text: the

text: money

text: to

text: the

text: people

text: we

text: borrowed

text: it

text: from

text: said

text: Sun

text: Chun

text: Zhi

text: We

text: 're

text: trying

text: every

text: possible

text: way

text: to

text: return

text: their

text: money

question: Where did the mothers send their kids?

answer: graduate school at the 1,500-student Urbana University.

text: graduate school at the 1,500-student Urbana University.

question: Where were the children originally from?

answer: China,

text: China,

question: Who had a vehicular homicide conviction?

answer: Jason Skaggs,

text: Jason Skaggs,

question: What conviction did Skaggs have?

answer: aggravated vehicular homicide.

text: aggravated vehicular homicide.


text:
MEXICO CITY, Mexico (CNN) -- The Mexican navy said Wednesday that it rescued five Ecuadorians who had been adrift without supplies in a fishing boat for more than two weeks off the coast of the southern state of Chiapas.

Mexican medical personel examine two of five Ecuadorians rescued at sea.

Mexican authorities initiated the rescue, which occurred Tuesday, after the U.S. Coast Guard alerted them that sailors aboard a fishing boat located 45 nautical miles (83 km) southeast of Port Chiapas had signaled to a passing plane that they needed help.

The Mexican navy dispatched a helicopter, which located the 15-meter-long (49-foot-long) vessel and carried out the rescue by air, the navy said in a news release.

The five aboard identified themselves as Jaime Arturo Alaba Chavez, the 35-year-old captain; VÃctor Hugo Alaba Chavez, the 32-year-old cook; Edison Prado Alaba, a 27-year-old sailor; Carlos Cheme Vazquez, a 37-year-old sailor; and Raul Contreras Vera, a 64-year-old machinist.

The sailors were taken to the Naval Sanatorium of Puerto Chiapas, where doctors determined they were dehydrated.

They said they had departed Costa Rica's on May 6 but, five days later, their motor stopped working and, unable to repair it, they had been adrift and without food since.

A naval patrol boat towed the boat to Puerto Chiapas, arriving there Wednesday morning. It will be inspected to rule out the possibility that it may have been used for illicit activities, the navy said.

text: MEXICO

text: CITY

text: Mexico

text: CNN

text: The

text: Mexican

text: navy

text: said

text: Wednesday

text: that

text: it

text: rescued

text: five

text: Ecuadorians

text: who

text: had

text: been

text: adrift

text: without

text: supplies

text: in

text: a

text: fishing

text: boat

text: for

text: more

text: than

text: two

text: weeks

text: off

text: the

text: coast

text: of

text: the

text: southern

text: state

text: of

text: Chiapas

text: Mexican

text: medical

text: personel

text: examine

text: two

text: of

text: five

text: Ecuadorians

text: rescued

text: at

text: sea

text: Mexican

text: authorities

text: initiated

text: the

text: rescue

text: which

text: occurred

text: Tuesday

text: after

text: the

text: U.S.

text: Coast

text: Guard

text: alerted

text: them

text: that

text: sailors

text: aboard

text: a

text: fishing

text: boat

text: located

text: nautical

text: miles

text: km

text: southeast

text: of

text: Port

text: Chiapas

text: had

text: signaled

text: to

text: a

text: passing

text: plane

text: that

text: they

text: needed

text: help

text: The

text: Mexican

text: navy

text: dispatched

text: a

text: helicopter

text: which

text: located

text: the

text: long

text: long

text: vessel

text: and

text: carried

text: out

text: the

text: rescue

text: by

text: air

text: the

text: navy

text: said

text: in

text: a

text: news

text: release

text: The

text: five

text: aboard

text: identified

text: themselves

text: as

text: Jaime

text: Arturo

text: Alaba

text: Chavez

text: the

text: old

text: captain

text: VÃctor

text: Hugo

text: Alaba

text: Chavez

text: the

text: old

text: cook

text: Edison

text: Prado

text: Alaba

text: a

text: old

text: sailor

text: Carlos

text: Cheme

text: Vazquez

text: a

text: old

text: sailor

text: and

text: Raul

text: Contreras

text: Vera

text: a

text: old

text: machinist

text: The

text: sailors

text: were

text: taken

text: to

text: the

text: Naval

text: Sanatorium

text: of

text: Puerto

text: Chiapas

text: where

text: doctors

text: determined

text: they

text: were

text: dehydrated

text: They

text: said

text: they

text: had

text: departed

text: Costa

text: Rica

text: 's

text: on

text: May

text: but

text: five

text: days

text: later

text: their

text: motor

text: stopped

text: working

text: and

text: unable

text: to

text: repair

text: it

text: they

text: had

text: been

text: adrift

text: and

text: without

text: food

text: since

text: A

text: naval

text: patrol

text: boat

text: towed

text: the

text: boat

text: to

text: Puerto

text: Chiapas

text: arriving

text: there

text: Wednesday

text: morning

text: It

text: will

text: be

text: inspected

text: to

text: rule

text: out

text: the

text: possibility

text: that

text: it

text: may

text: have

text: been

text: used

text: for

text: illicit

text: activities

text: the

text: navy

text: said

question: How many Ecuadorians were rescued?

answer: five

text: five

question: What nationality were the rescued fishermen?

answer: Ecuadorians

text: Ecuadorians

question: Who rescued the Ecuadorian fishermen?

answer: Mexican navy

text: Mexican navy

question: Where were the men found?

answer: off the coast of the southern state of Chiapas.

text: off the coast of the southern state of Chiapas.

question: What sort of boat were the men in?

answer: fishing

text: fishing

question: When were the Ecuadorians rescued?

answer: Wednesday

text: Wednesday

question: Where is Chiapas located?

answer: Mexico

text: Mexico

question: How many Ecuadorians were resuced?

answer: five

text: five