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(Mental Floss) -- Because you weren't going into botany, the priesthood, or coin manufacturing, you thought you were safe to dismiss Latin as a dead language. Obviously, you didn't graduate cum laude.

I think, therefore I am the famous statue "The Thinker" by French sculptor Auguste Rodin.

Latin is about as dead as Elvis (who, by the way, made $54 million in 2004).

Whether you're deciphering a cryptic state seal or trying to impress your Catholic in-laws, knowing some Latin has its advantages. But the operative word here is "some."

The ability to translate The Aeneid probably isn't going to come in handy anytime soon, so we'll start you off with 9 phrases that have survived the hatchet men of time (in all their pretentious glory).

Caveat Emptor:   (KAV-ee-OT emp-TOR): "Let the buyer beware"

Before money-back guarantees and 20-year warranties, caveat emptor was indispensable advice for the consumer.

These days, it'd be more fitting to have it tattooed on the foreheads of used-car salesmen, infomercial actors, and prostitutes.

For extra credit points, remember that caveat often makes solo appearances at cocktail parties as a fancy term for a warning or caution.

Oh, and just so you know, caveat lector means "let the reader beware."

Persona Non Grata: (puhr-SOH-nah non GRAH-tah): "An unacceptable person"

Remember your old college buddy, the one everybody called Chugger? Now picture him at a debutante ball, and you'll start to get a sense of someone with persona non grata status.

The term is most commonly used in diplomatic circles to indicate that a person is unwelcome due to ideological differences or a breach of trust.

Sometimes, the tag refers to a pariah, a ne'er-do-well, a killjoy, or an interloper, but it's always subjective.

Michael Moore was treated as a persona non grata at the Republican National Convention. Bill O'Reilly would experience the same at Burning Man.

Habeas Corpus: (HAY-bee-as KOR-pus): "You have the body"

When you wake up in the New Orleans Parish Prison after a foggy night at Mardi Gras, remember this one.

In a nutshell, habeas corpus is what separates us from savages. It's the legal principle that guarantees an inmate the right to appear before a judge in court, so it can be determined whether or not that person is being lawfully imprisoned.

It's also one of the cornerstones of the American and British legal systems. Without it, tyrannical and unjust imprisonments would be possible.

In situations where national security is at risk, however, habeas corpus can be suspended.

Cogito Ergo Sum: (CO-gee-toe ER-go SOME): "I think, therefore I am"

When all those spirited mental wrestling matches you have about existentialism start growing old (yeah, right!), you can always put an end to the debate with cogito ergo sum.

RenÃ© Descartes, the 17th-century French philosopher, coined the phrase as a means of justifying reality. According to him, nothing in life could be proven except one's thoughts. Well, so he thought, anyway.

E Pluribus Unum: (EE PLUR-uh-buhs OOH-nuhm): "Out of many, one"

Less unique than it sounds, America's original national motto, e pluribus unum, was plagiarized from an ancient recipe for salad dressing.

In the 18th century, haughty intellectuals were fond of this phrase. It was the kind of thing gentlemen's magazines would use to describe their year-end editions.

But the term made its first appearance in Virgil's poem "Moretum" to describe salad dressing. The ingredients, he wrote, would surrender their individual aesthetic when mixed with others to form one unique, homogenous, harmonious, and tasty concoction.

As a slogan, it really nailed that whole cultural melting pot thing we were going for. And while it continues to appear on U.S. coins, "In God We Trust" came along later (officially in 1956) to share the motto spotlight.

Quid Pro Quo: (kwid proh KWOH): "You scratch my back, I'll scratch yours"

Given that quid pro quo refers to a deal or trade, it's no wonder the Brits nicknamed their almighty pound the "quid."

And if you give someone some quid, you're going to expect some quo.

The phrase often lives in the courtroom, where guilt and innocence are the currency. It's the oil that lubricates our legal system.

Something of a quantified value is traded for something of equal value; elements are parted and parceled off until quid pro quo is achieved.

Most recently, Arizona Senator John McCain co-opted the phrase to describe campaign finance and influence pedaling because he believes that one doesn't give major milk to a campaign without expecting major cheese in return.

Ad Hominem: (ad HAH-mi-nem): "To attack the man"

In the world of public discourse, ad hominem is a means of attacking one's rhetorical opponent by questioning his or her reputation or expertise rather than sticking to the issue at hand. Translation: Politicians are really good at it.

People who resort to ad hominem techniques are usually derided as having a diluted argument or lack of discipline. If pressed, they'll brandish it like a saber and refuse to get back to the heart of the matter. Who said the debate team doesn't have sex appeal?

Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam: (ad-MA-yor-em DAY-ee GLOR-ee-um): "All for the Greater Glory of God"

Ad majorem dei gloriam is often shortened to AMDG. In other words, it's the WWJD of the Jesuits, who've been drilling the mantra into their followers since (Saint) Ignatius of Loyola founded the Catholic Order in 1534. They believe all actions, big or small, should be done with AMDG in mind.

Remind your Jesuit-educated buddies of this when they seem to be straying from the path. (Best used with a wink and a hint of irony.)

Sui Generis:(SOO-ee JEN-er-is):  "Of its own genus," or "Unique and unable to classify"

Frank Zappa, the VW Beetle, cheese in a can, that feeling you get when the Red Sox win the World Series: Sui generis refers to something that's so new, so bizarre, or so rare that it defies categorization.

Granted, labeling something "sui generis" is really just classifying the unclassifiable. But let's not over-think it. Use it at a dinner party to describe Andy Kaufman, and you impress your friends. Use it too often, and you just sound pretentious. E-mail to a friend

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Washington (CNN) -- Wider restrictions on fishing in the Gulf of Mexico are raising fresh concerns in an industry already hard-hit by the massive BP oil spill.

With thousands of barrels of oil still spewing out of a damaged undersea well every day, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced Tuesday that it was nearly doubling the portion of the Gulf's federal waters that are now closed to fishing. The restricted zone now pushes south and east into the heart of the Gulf -- another blow to a $2.4 billion industry already reeling from the nearly month-old spill.

For Greg Abrams, a commercial fisherman in Panama City, Florida, that means his boats are being pushed further west to chase big catch like bluefin tuna, swordfish and mahi-mahi.

"They'll have to go in somewhere else, probably around Galveston (Texas), instead of coming home," Abrams said. "That'll cause some problems, but it's better to be safe than sorry."

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Abrams owns a fleet of 14 fishing boats and hires another 41. One of them has  caught 80 tuna in a seven-day stretch off the Gulf's Loop Current, a haul he called a "great start" to a seven-month season.

"Now he has to leave the current and go farther west," Abrams said.

NOAA's latest order extends the closed zone to a nearly 46,000-square-mile stretch, about 19 percent of the Gulf. The ongoing spill now threatens to be picked up by the Loop Current, which could spread some oil around the tip of Florida and up the U.S. East Coast.

Unconfirmed reports from researchers that large amounts of oil is spreading below the surface, as well as concerns about the effect of chemical dispersants used to break up the spill, also worry people in the industry.

Deborah Long, a spokeswoman for the Southern Shrimpers Association, said fishermen could face a "multi-generational effect" on the creatures from which they draw their living, with shrimp and bluefin tuna the two species with the most to lose.

"We're not just worried about the shrimp stocks here," Long said. "We're worried about the entire marine food chain."

Many areas off the Louisiana and Alabama coasts remain open to both commercial and recreational fishing as BP, the Coast Guard and volunteers try to battle the spreading slick offshore. But news accounts of the spill have prompted tourists to cancel fishing trips even in waters that are so far unaffected, said Sonny Schindler, of Shore Thing Charters in Diamondhead, Mississippi.

"The oil hasn't done a thing to us -- it's the exposure," Schindler said Tuesday. He added, "Our water's still open, we're still trying to fish every chance we can, and we're open for business."

And some of those who are still able to get out on the water are now seeing buyers go elsewhere, said Bobby Lovell, a crab fisherman in Louisiana's St. Bernard Parish.

State-controlled waters near New Orleans were opened for three days starting Saturday, Lovell said. He and his father laid crab traps last weekend in Lake Borgne and came back with an ice chest full of crustaceans -- but he said many of his buyers have turned to suppliers in western Louisiana, which isn't currently threatened by the spill.

Tar balls found in Florida Keys not believed to be from Gulf spill

"I'm stressed. I'm pacing back and forth, and I'm normally a calm guy," he said. However, "The big wholesalers are in the same predicament I am right now," he said.

The closures follow an April 20 explosion that sank the drilling platform Deepwater Horizon, taking 11 workers with it. Efforts to shut down the well that was ripped open by the accident have failed so far, though well owner BP says it has been able to capture some of the escaping oil and pump it to a ship on the surface.

"The fish will move. They have fins. They will travel," Abrams said. "I'm just kind of upset that they didn't have a plan B to the plan A for the cleanup, and the government wasn't doing their job to keep an eye on BP."

text: Washington

text: CNN

text: Wider

text: restrictions

text: on

text: fishing

text: in

text: the

text: Gulf

text: of

text: Mexico

text: are

text: raising

text: fresh

text: concerns

text: in

text: an

text: industry

text: already

text: hard

text: hit

text: by

text: the

text: massive

text: BP

text: oil

text: spill

text: With

text: thousands

text: of

text: barrels

text: of

text: oil

text: still

text: spewing

text: out

text: of

text: a

text: damaged

text: undersea

text: well

text: every

text: day

text: the

text: National

text: Oceanic

text: and

text: Atmospheric

text: Administration

text: announced

text: Tuesday

text: that

text: it

text: was

text: nearly

text: doubling

text: the

text: portion

text: of

text: the

text: Gulf

text: 's

text: federal

text: waters

text: that

text: are

text: now

text: closed

text: to

text: fishing

text: The

text: restricted

text: zone

text: now

text: pushes

text: south

text: and

text: east

text: into

text: the

text: heart

text: of

text: the

text: Gulf

text: another

text: blow

text: to

text: a

text: billion

text: industry

text: already

text: reeling

text: from

text: the

text: nearly

text: month

text: old

text: spill

text: For

text: Greg

text: Abrams

text: a

text: commercial

text: fisherman

text: in

text: Panama

text: City

text: Florida

text: that

text: means

text: his

text: boats

text: are

text: being

text: pushed

text: further

text: west

text: to

text: chase

text: big

text: catch

text: like

text: bluefin

text: tuna

text: swordfish

text: and

text: mahi

text: mahi

text: They

text: 'll

text: have

text: to

text: go

text: in

text: somewhere

text: else

text: probably

text: around

text: Galveston

text: Texas

text: instead

text: of

text: coming

text: home

text: Abrams

text: said

text: That

text: 'll

text: cause

text: some

text: problems

text: but

text: it

text: 's

text: better

text: to

text: be

text: safe

text: than

text: sorry

text: Louisiana

text: fisherman

text: get

text: paid

text: for

text: helping

text: cleanup

text: Abrams

text: owns

text: a

text: fleet

text: of

text: fishing

text: boats

text: and

text: hires

text: another

text: One

text: of

text: them

text: has

text: caught

text: tuna

text: in

text: a

text: seven

text: day

text: stretch

text: off

text: the

text: Gulf

text: 's

text: Loop

text: Current

text: a

text: haul

text: he

text: called

text: a

text: great

text: start

text: to

text: a

text: seven

text: month

text: season

text: Now

text: he

text: has

text: to

text: leave

text: the

text: current

text: and

text: go

text: farther

text: west

text: Abrams

text: said

text: NOAA

text: 's

text: latest

text: order

text: extends

text: the

text: closed

text: zone

text: to

text: a

text: nearly

text: mile

text: stretch

text: about

text: percent

text: of

text: the

text: Gulf

text: The

text: ongoing

text: spill

text: now

text: threatens

text: to

text: be

text: picked

text: up

text: by

text: the

text: Loop

text: Current

text: which

text: could

text: spread

text: some

text: oil

text: around

text: the

text: tip

text: of

text: Florida

text: and

text: up

text: the

text: U.S.

text: East

text: Coast

text: Unconfirmed

text: reports

text: from

text: researchers

text: that

text: large

text: amounts

text: of

text: oil

text: is

text: spreading

text: below

text: the

text: surface

text: as

text: well

text: as

text: concerns

text: about

text: the

text: effect

text: of

text: chemical

text: dispersants

text: used

text: to

text: break

text: up

text: the

text: spill

text: also

text: worry

text: people

text: in

text: the

text: industry

text: Deborah

text: Long

text: a

text: spokeswoman

text: for

text: the

text: Southern

text: Shrimpers

text: Association

text: said

text: fishermen

text: could

text: face

text: a

text: multi

text: generational

text: effect

text: on

text: the

text: creatures

text: from

text: which

text: they

text: draw

text: their

text: living

text: with

text: shrimp

text: and

text: bluefin

text: tuna

text: the

text: two

text: species

text: with

text: the

text: most

text: to

text: lose

text: We

text: 're

text: not

text: just

text: worried

text: about

text: the

text: shrimp

text: stocks

text: here

text: Long

text: said

text: We

text: 're

text: worried

text: about

text: the

text: entire

text: marine

text: food

text: chain

text: Many

text: areas

text: off

text: the

text: Louisiana

text: and

text: Alabama

text: coasts

text: remain

text: open

text: to

text: both

text: commercial

text: and

text: recreational

text: fishing

text: as

text: BP

text: the

text: Coast

text: Guard

text: and

text: volunteers

text: try

text: to

text: battle

text: the

text: spreading

text: slick

text: offshore

text: But

text: news

text: accounts

text: of

text: the

text: spill

text: have

text: prompted

text: tourists

text: to

text: cancel

text: fishing

text: trips

text: even

text: in

text: waters

text: that

text: are

text: so

text: far

text: unaffected

text: said

text: Sonny

text: Schindler

text: of

text: Shore

text: Thing

text: Charters

text: in

text: Diamondhead

text: Mississippi

text: The

text: oil

text: has

text: n't

text: done

text: a

text: thing

text: to

text: us

text: it

text: 's

text: the

text: exposure

text: Schindler

text: said

text: Tuesday

text: He

text: added

text: Our

text: water

text: 's

text: still

text: open

text: we

text: 're

text: still

text: trying

text: to

text: fish

text: every

text: chance

text: we

text: can

text: and

text: we

text: 're

text: open

text: for

text: business

text: And

text: some

text: of

text: those

text: who

text: are

text: still

text: able

text: to

text: get

text: out

text: on

text: the

text: water

text: are

text: now

text: seeing

text: buyers

text: go

text: elsewhere

text: said

text: Bobby

text: Lovell

text: a

text: crab

text: fisherman

text: in

text: Louisiana

text: 's

text: St.

text: Bernard

text: Parish

text: State

text: controlled

text: waters

text: near

text: New

text: Orleans

text: were

text: opened

text: for

text: three

text: days

text: starting

text: Saturday

text: Lovell

text: said

text: He

text: and

text: his

text: father

text: laid

text: crab

text: traps

text: last

text: weekend

text: in

text: Lake

text: Borgne

text: and

text: came

text: back

text: with

text: an

text: ice

text: chest

text: full

text: of

text: crustaceans

text: but

text: he

text: said

text: many

text: of

text: his

text: buyers

text: have

text: turned

text: to

text: suppliers

text: in

text: western

text: Louisiana

text: which

text: is

text: n't

text: currently

text: threatened

text: by

text: the

text: spill

text: Tar

text: balls

text: found

text: in

text: Florida

text: Keys

text: not

text: believed

text: to

text: be

text: from

text: Gulf

text: spill

text: I

text: 'm

text: stressed

text: I

text: 'm

text: pacing

text: back

text: and

text: forth

text: and

text: I

text: 'm

text: normally

text: a

text: calm

text: guy

text: he

text: said

text: However

text: The

text: big

text: wholesalers

text: are

text: in

text: the

text: same

text: predicament

text: I

text: am

text: right

text: now

text: he

text: said

text: The

text: closures

text: follow

text: an

text: April

text: explosion

text: that

text: sank

text: the

text: drilling

text: platform

text: Deepwater

text: Horizon

text: taking

text: workers

text: with

text: it

text: Efforts

text: to

text: shut

text: down

text: the

text: well

text: that

text: was

text: ripped

text: open

text: by

text: the

text: accident

text: have

text: failed

text: so

text: far

text: though

text: well

text: owner

text: BP

text: says

text: it

text: has

text: been

text: able

text: to

text: capture

text: some

text: of

text: the

text: escaping

text: oil

text: and

text: pump

text: it

text: to

text: a

text: ship

text: on

text: the

text: surface

text: The

text: fish

text: will

text: move

text: They

text: have

text: fins

text: They

text: will

text: travel

text: Abrams

text: said

text: I

text: 'm

text: just

text: kind

text: of

text: upset

text: that

text: they

text: did

text: n't

text: have

text: a

text: plan

text: B

text: to

text: the

text: plan

text: A

text: for

text: the

text: cleanup

text: and

text: the

text: government

text: was

text: n't

text: doing

text: their

text: job

text: to

text: keep

text: an

text: eye

text: on

text: BP

question: What percent of Gulf are the new restrictions covering ?

answer: 19

question: what restrictions cover 19 percent of the gulf

answer: on fishing

text: on fishing

question: What percentage of the Gulf is covered under restrictions?

answer: 19 percent

text: 19 percent

question: What are shrimpers fearing ?

answer: "We're worried about the entire marine food chain."

text: "We're worried about the entire marine food chain."

question: what causes drives buyers to new sources

answer: BP oil spill.

text: BP oil spill.


text:
LONDON, England (CNN) -- A jury Tuesday acquitted three men of charges that they helped the bombers who carried out the July 7, 2005, attacks on the London transportation system.

Sadeer Saleem was accused of helping to plan the July 7, 2005 bombings in London

The four bombers died in the blasts, but Waheed Ali, Sadeer Saleem and Mohammed Shakil were accused of helping them by conducting reconnaissance and conspiring with them.

Two of the men -- Ali and Shakil -- were convicted of a second charge of conspiracy to attend a place used for terrorist training. They will be sentenced Wednesday, London's Metropolitan Police said.

Tuesday's verdicts came at the end of the men's retrial at Kingston Crown Court in southwest London. A separate jury failed to reach a verdict in their first trial, which ended in August after three months.

The bombings in 2005 killed 52 people in blasts on three subway trains and a bus. At least 900 people were wounded.

Police arrested the three in March 2007 after piecing together what they called a "complicated jigsaw with thousands of pieces." They were charged in April 2007.

Police said they analyzed more than 4,700 phone numbers and 90,000 calls. They discovered the three men had made a trip to London in December 2004 -- seven months before the fatal bombings -- which prosecutors claimed was a reconnaissance trip to scout potential targets.

Prosecutors said that on December 16, 2004, the men traveled from the northern English city of Leeds to London, along with Hasib Hussain, one of the July 7 bombers. When they got to the capital, they met with Lindsay.

Over the next two days, prosecutors claimed, the men visited tourist sites including the London Eye ferris wheel, the London Aquarium and the Natural History Museum, as well as underground train locations. Some of the spots, prosecutors said, were near where the July 7 bombs were eventually detonated.

Police called it "the first feasibility study" for the London bombings -- and whether they were looking at tourist or transportation sites, the men were seeking out potential bomb targets, police said.

The three men, who always denied the charges, acknowledged making the trip but said it was just an innocent outing to visit Ali's sister in London. Saleem told the court that he had had "no idea whatsoever" about the plot.

Traces of DNA linked all three alleged accomplices in some way to the bombers, police had claimed. Investigators found Ali's fingerprints on evidence found at the bomb-making sites.

Khan, Lindsay, Hussain and a fourth bomber, Shehzad Tanweer, set off a series of bombs the morning of July 7, 2005. They exploded on underground trains near Liverpool Street, Russell Square and Edgware Road and on a double-decker bus at Tavistock Square.

Police have previously said they believe others with knowledge of the attacks remain at large.

The jury found that in July 2001, Ali went with Khan to Pakistan. In July 2003, Shakil went with Khan to a camp in Pakistan, where the two undertook firearms training with machine guns, rocket-propelled grenade launchers, and AK-47 assault rifles, London police said.

The jury found Ali and Shakil guilty of conspiring to attend a place used for terrorist training, knowing or believing that instruction or training would be provided for purposes connected with the commission or preparation of acts of terrorism, London police said.

"Mohammed Siddique Khan and Mohammed Shakil told other attendees that their aim was to fight in Afghanistan," said John McDowall, head of the Metropolitan Police Counter Terrorism Command. "They were proficient in the use of and handling of terrorist weapons, and were certainly not enjoying a day out in a beautiful and mountainous area of Pakistan, as was suggested in court.

"Shakil himself accepted that the camp at Malakand was a serious business, whose purpose was to train willing volunteers to fight and kill in Afghanistan on behalf of the Taliban, a cause to which both he and Ali were, and remain, sympathetic," McDowall said.

text: LONDON

text: England

text: CNN

text: A

text: jury

text: Tuesday

text: acquitted

text: three

text: men

text: of

text: charges

text: that

text: they

text: helped

text: the

text: bombers

text: who

text: carried

text: out

text: the

text: July

text: attacks

text: on

text: the

text: London

text: transportation

text: system

text: Sadeer

text: Saleem

text: was

text: accused

text: of

text: helping

text: to

text: plan

text: the

text: July

text: bombings

text: in

text: London

text: The

text: four

text: bombers

text: died

text: in

text: the

text: blasts

text: but

text: Waheed

text: Ali

text: Sadeer

text: Saleem

text: and

text: Mohammed

text: Shakil

text: were

text: accused

text: of

text: helping

text: them

text: by

text: conducting

text: reconnaissance

text: and

text: conspiring

text: with

text: them

text: Two

text: of

text: the

text: men

text: Ali

text: and

text: Shakil

text: were

text: convicted

text: of

text: a

text: second

text: charge

text: of

text: conspiracy

text: to

text: attend

text: a

text: place

text: used

text: for

text: terrorist

text: training

text: They

text: will

text: be

text: sentenced

text: Wednesday

text: London

text: 's

text: Metropolitan

text: Police

text: said

text: Tuesday

text: 's

text: verdicts

text: came

text: at

text: the

text: end

text: of

text: the

text: men

text: 's

text: retrial

text: at

text: Kingston

text: Crown

text: Court

text: in

text: southwest

text: London

text: A

text: separate

text: jury

text: failed

text: to

text: reach

text: a

text: verdict

text: in

text: their

text: first

text: trial

text: which

text: ended

text: in

text: August

text: after

text: three

text: months

text: The

text: bombings

text: in

text: killed

text: people

text: in

text: blasts

text: on

text: three

text: subway

text: trains

text: and

text: a

text: bus

text: At

text: least

text: people

text: were

text: wounded

text: Police

text: arrested

text: the

text: three

text: in

text: March

text: after

text: piecing

text: together

text: what

text: they

text: called

text: a

text: complicated

text: jigsaw

text: with

text: thousands

text: of

text: pieces

text: They

text: were

text: charged

text: in

text: April

text: Police

text: said

text: they

text: analyzed

text: more

text: than

text: phone

text: numbers

text: and

text: calls

text: They

text: discovered

text: the

text: three

text: men

text: had

text: made

text: a

text: trip

text: to

text: London

text: in

text: December

text: seven

text: months

text: before

text: the

text: fatal

text: bombings

text: which

text: prosecutors

text: claimed

text: was

text: a

text: reconnaissance

text: trip

text: to

text: scout

text: potential

text: targets

text: Prosecutors

text: said

text: that

text: on

text: December

text: the

text: men

text: traveled

text: from

text: the

text: northern

text: English

text: city

text: of

text: Leeds

text: to

text: London

text: along

text: with

text: Hasib

text: Hussain

text: one

text: of

text: the

text: July

text: bombers

text: When

text: they

text: got

text: to

text: the

text: capital

text: they

text: met

text: with

text: Lindsay

text: Over

text: the

text: next

text: two

text: days

text: prosecutors

text: claimed

text: the

text: men

text: visited

text: tourist

text: sites

text: including

text: the

text: London

text: Eye

text: ferris

text: wheel

text: the

text: London

text: Aquarium

text: and

text: the

text: Natural

text: History

text: Museum

text: as

text: well

text: as

text: underground

text: train

text: locations

text: Some

text: of

text: the

text: spots

text: prosecutors

text: said

text: were

text: near

text: where

text: the

text: July

text: bombs

text: were

text: eventually

text: detonated

text: Police

text: called

text: it

text: the

text: first

text: feasibility

text: study

text: for

text: the

text: London

text: bombings

text: and

text: whether

text: they

text: were

text: looking

text: at

text: tourist

text: or

text: transportation

text: sites

text: the

text: men

text: were

text: seeking

text: out

text: potential

text: bomb

text: targets

text: police

text: said

text: The

text: three

text: men

text: who

text: always

text: denied

text: the

text: charges

text: acknowledged

text: making

text: the

text: trip

text: but

text: said

text: it

text: was

text: just

text: an

text: innocent

text: outing

text: to

text: visit

text: Ali

text: 's

text: sister

text: in

text: London

text: Saleem

text: told

text: the

text: court

text: that

text: he

text: had

text: had

text: no

text: idea

text: whatsoever

text: about

text: the

text: plot

text: Traces

text: of

text: DNA

text: linked

text: all

text: three

text: alleged

text: accomplices

text: in

text: some

text: way

text: to

text: the

text: bombers

text: police

text: had

text: claimed

text: Investigators

text: found

text: Ali

text: 's

text: fingerprints

text: on

text: evidence

text: found

text: at

text: the

text: bomb

text: making

text: sites

text: Khan

text: Lindsay

text: Hussain

text: and

text: a

text: fourth

text: bomber

text: Shehzad

text: Tanweer

text: set

text: off

text: a

text: series

text: of

text: bombs

text: the

text: morning

text: of

text: July

text: They

text: exploded

text: on

text: underground

text: trains

text: near

text: Liverpool

text: Street

text: Russell

text: Square

text: and

text: Edgware

text: Road

text: and

text: on

text: a

text: double

text: decker

text: bus

text: at

text: Tavistock

text: Square

text: Police

text: have

text: previously

text: said

text: they

text: believe

text: others

text: with

text: knowledge

text: of

text: the

text: attacks

text: remain

text: at

text: large

text: The

text: jury

text: found

text: that

text: in

text: July

text: Ali

text: went

text: with

text: Khan

text: to

text: Pakistan

text: In

text: July

text: Shakil

text: went

text: with

text: Khan

text: to

text: a

text: camp

text: in

text: Pakistan

text: where

text: the

text: two

text: undertook

text: firearms

text: training

text: with

text: machine

text: guns

text: rocket

text: propelled

text: grenade

text: launchers

text: and

text: assault

text: rifles

text: London

text: police

text: said

text: The

text: jury

text: found

text: Ali

text: and

text: Shakil

text: guilty

text: of

text: conspiring

text: to

text: attend

text: a

text: place

text: used

text: for

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text: training

text: knowing

text: or

text: believing

text: that

text: instruction

text: or

text: training

text: would

text: be

text: provided

text: for

text: purposes

text: connected

text: with

text: the

text: commission

text: or

text: preparation

text: of

text: acts

text: of

text: terrorism

text: London

text: police

text: said

text: Mohammed

text: Siddique

text: Khan

text: and

text: Mohammed

text: Shakil

text: told

text: other

text: attendees

text: that

text: their

text: aim

text: was

text: to

text: fight

text: in

text: Afghanistan

text: said

text: John

text: McDowall

text: head

text: of

text: the

text: Metropolitan

text: Police

text: Counter

text: Terrorism

text: Command

text: They

text: were

text: proficient

text: in

text: the

text: use

text: of

text: and

text: handling

text: of

text: terrorist

text: weapons

text: and

text: were

text: certainly

text: not

text: enjoying

text: a

text: day

text: out

text: in

text: a

text: beautiful

text: and

text: mountainous

text: area

text: of

text: Pakistan

text: as

text: was

text: suggested

text: in

text: court

text: Shakil

text: himself

text: accepted

text: that

text: the

text: camp

text: at

text: Malakand

text: was

text: a

text: serious

text: business

text: whose

text: purpose

text: was

text: to

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(CNN) -- These satellite photos taken before and after recent floods in Thailand show how the landscape has been transformed.

The first slide contrasts two identical areas of Southeast Asia taken on November 12 2008 and November 1 2011.

Captured by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer on NASA's Terra satellite, the images show Thailand (left), Cambodia (middle) and Vietnam (far right).

One hundred kilometers north of the Thai capital, Bangkok lies the historic city of Ayutthaya.

Founded in the 14th century on the confluence of three rivers -- the Chao Phraya, the Lopburi and the Pasak -- it was an important trade center, once known as the "Venice of the East."

After the rains, baby elephant brings hope

Today, that old moniker takes on a new meaning. Streets have become small rivers with surrounding farmland and floodplains submerged as images taken in July and October this year by NASA's Advanced Land Imager graphically illustrate.

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) estimates that around 200,000 hectares of farmland have been affected by the floods across the country.

The urban economy has also been thrown into flux with an estimated 1,000 factories affected.

The country is a manufacturing hub for hundreds of electronics companies; the IUCN expects total economic losses from the disaster to exceed $3 billion.

Thailand floods could create laptop shortage

On the northern outskirts of Bangkok, the Don Muang Airport -- the city's old international airport which now handles mostly domestic flights -- closed at the end of October after its runways became inundated with water.

Perversely, Bangkok's new international Suvarnabhumi Airport (opened in 2006) occupies an area called Nong Ngu Hao (meaning Cobra Swamp) which used to be a floodplain. It is protected by a dike and remains open.

The IUCN says natural floodplains are important in storing water during floods and in combination with wetlands and natural river channels can limit the impact of flooding.

"It's a classic case of urbanization being done blindly," says Ganesh Pangare, head of IUCN's water program in Asia.

"The drains have gone, the floodplains have gone, the plants that soak up the water have gone. This is a wake-up call to unplanned growth," he said.

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(CNN) -- U.S. President George W. Bush on Tuesday will designate nine sites in three areas of the central Pacific as marine national monuments, White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said Monday.

The new designated areas make up the largest area of ocean set aside for marine conservation in the world.

The new areas make up the largest area of ocean set aside for marine conservation in the world -- 195,280 square miles -- and, coupled with a 138,000-square mile designation in Hawaii two years go, mean that Bush will have protected more of the ocean than any other president.

"The president's actions will prevent the destruction and extraction of natural resources from these beautiful and biologically diverse areas without conflicting with our military's activities and freedom of navigation, which are vital to our national security," Perino said. "And the public and future generations will benefit from the science and knowledge gained from these areas."

Bush is using the 1906 Antiquities Act -- first used by President Theodore Roosevelt to set aside public lands such as the Grand Canyon as national monuments -- for the designation. Many of those lands later became national parks.

Bill Chandler, vice president for government affairs for the non-profit Marine Conservation Biology Institute (MCBI), said Bush is "to be commended" for his action.

"From a conservation history perspective, the message here is that Teddy Roosevelt laid the groundwork for our national park system when he withdrew a lot of public lands and called them national monuments," said Chandler.

"We see the president laying the foundation for a system of national marine preserves and parks," he said. "We had lacked such a system for a long time."

MCBI and the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) partnered to identify eight of the nine sites the president will set aside on Tuesday. All but one of those eight remote areas already have Fish and Wildlife Service refuge areas at their cores.

"You have a core conservation mission already," Chandler said. "This is just basically going to expand them."

The MCBI/EDF-identified sites are Rose Atoll, Wake Island, Johnston Island, Palmyra Island, Kingman Reef, Baker Island, Howland Island and Jarvis Island.

Rose Atoll, part of American Samoa, is the smallest atoll in the world, but more than 500 fish species swim in the waters around it, and it supports 97 percent of America Samoa's seabird population. It is also the nesting ground for several threatened turtle species.

The Pew Environmental Fund identified the ninth site -- the waters around the northern Marianas and the deepest ocean canyon in the world, the Mariana Trench, 11,033 meters (36,201 feet) at its deepest.

The new designations will expand protection to a 50 nautical mile area off the islands, where commercial fishing will be prohibited. Other uses of the area -- research or recreational fishing -- will be allowed but will require a permit.

Bush has not gotten rave reviews for his conservation efforts on land -- according to the Audubon Society, he's signed wilderness legislation covering a little more than 2 million acres, fewer than any other president except Richard Nixon. But Chandler said that Bush "has really embraced ocean conservation as his own."

"Ocean protection ... is lagging 50 to 100 years behind land conservation, he said. "This is precisely the kind of leadership that we need to get the message across that there are places in the ocean that are rich with diversity."

"Scientists already know this," he said. "They have been calling for this for 10 or 15 years."

The president can cut through the bureaucracy that makes protecting resources such a lengthy process, and the Antiquities Act is a strong tool for those efforts. With the Act, the president can make a designation by executive order, essentially "writing the prescription for conservation" for an area, Chandler said.

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SPRUCE PINE, North Carolina (CNN) -- Like most parents, Vickie and Keith Murdock worry about providing for their family. With three teenage daughters, that can be a big challenge, but these days it's more difficult than ever.

Keith and Vickie Murdock retrained for new jobs after suffering layoffs. But they remain unemployed.

Vickie and Keith are both out of work.

They live in Spruce Pine, North Carolina, a tiny mountain town about an hour's drive northeast of Asheville that has lost more than 2,000 jobs since 2003. That's a devastating number, given that Mitchell County's 2000 Census population was only 15,687.

Keith was laid off in 2001, when a textile mill closed. He had worked there for 13 years. He did what all the experts say to do: He went back to school, got his GED and retrained to be an auto body mechanic.

After graduation, he found a job at nearby Altec Industries. But again, he was laid off in January. Today, he spends his time looking for work.

Keith said "everybody you talk to" tells him, " 'well, we're not hiring. We ain't got nothing open right now.' "

Vickie has suffered her own layoff. She lost her job in 2006 when furniture maker Ethan Allen closed its plant in the area.

She decided to retrain and will graduate from the local community college in May as a certified medical assistant. Vickie hopes to get a job at a local clinic, but jobs are hard to come by in this area.

Major industries, including textile manufacturing, furniture making and mining, have downsized or left the area completely.

The Rev. Bill Sweetser works with Shepherd's Staff, a local food pantry.

He says workers there are seeing three times as many clients as they did just last year.  Watch how the Murdocks have struggled against the bad economy Â»

The food bank is in an old textile mill that just a few years ago was one of the largest employers in Mitchell County. Now, former workers come there for assistance.

"Right now, I would say we're barely keeping up," Sweetser said. "Our policy is that everybody who comes in will get something. Sometimes we're out of certain staples. ... It may not be the food you want to give them, it may not be the food they necessarily prefer, but we give them something."

Community leaders are hoping a focus on promoting mountain crafts and tourism and a growing second home market will spur an economic revitalization.

Keith Holtsclaw runs Blue Ridge Regional Hospital, one of the area's largest employers, and heads the county's economic development commission.

"I just don't see manufacturing coming back into the community," he said. "We have to work with what we've got. We have lots of artists here. We are great, we're on the Blue Ridge Parkway, we're on the Appalachian Trail ... so we need to play to our strengths."

Until that economic revitalization happens, Vickie and Keith Murdock are living off unemployment benefits and hoping to find work soon.

Vickie tries to calm her anxiety about the everyday costs of life.

"We think that when we get to worrying how we are gonna pay for this," she said, "it's like the Lord makes a way."

For the Murdock family and this community, a new way to stimulate the local economy is desperately needed.

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text: unemployment

text: benefits

text: and

text: hoping

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text: work

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question: How many residents are there?

answer: 15,687.

question: where Some laid-off workers have retrained?

answer: local community college

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question: What have some laid-off workers done?

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KAMPALA, Uganda (CNN) -- At least four people have been killed in two days of rioting in Uganda's capital after radio broadcasts encouraged listeners to violently take to the streets against the government, officials said Friday.

Residents of the Kasubi suburb, west of Kampala, try to flee from violence as a soldier takes photos.

The rioters heard "sectarian" broadcasts on Thursday that "systematically incited the listeners to cause chaos and destruction wherever they could," said a statement issued by Minister of Information and National Guidance Kabakumba Masiko. It described those who took part in the rioting in Kampala and its suburbs as "marauding thugs."

The broadcasts aired in the Buganda Kingdom, said police spokeswoman Judith Nabakooba. Ethnic and political tension between the kingdom and the central government had been escalating over the past few weeks.

Police and army officers were injured and police-owned property also was damaged along with other vehicles and shops, said the nation's police chief, Maj. Gen. Kale Kayihura.

In Natete-Ndeba, a southwest suburb, a police station was looted of its ammunition and prisoners set free before rioters burned the prison, Nabakooba said. A curfew has been declared in the suburb, and in Kampala the army is providing support to police, said Kayihura.

A doctor at a Kampala hospital said more than 50 people had sought care there, most with broken bones, but others had cuts and gunshot wounds.

About 60 people were arrested in Kampala, but arrest totals in the surrounding areas were not available, Nabakooba said. Four radio stations were ordered shut down, Masiko said.

Many of the rioters were Baganda between the ages of 18 and 35, Nabakooba said. The Baganda are Uganda's dominant ethnic group, making up about 16.9 percent of the population, according to The CIA World Factbook. The kingdom is one of the oldest monarchies in Africa. The people live mostly in central Uganda and along the shoreline of Lake Victoria.

Tension between the Buganda Kingdom, headed by King Ronald Muwenda Mutebi II, and Uganda President Yoweri Museveni had been increasing recently over land laws, sovereignty and political power, issues over which the two sides have been in talks for years. The Uganda government sees Mutebi as a traditional leader only and does not allow him to participate in politics.

Further estranging the two is a breakaway faction of the Buganda Kingdom, the Banyala. Some interpreted police forces' breaking up a group of Baganda amid preparations for festivities as support for the Banyala, especially after a Banyala demonstration opposing the Buganda Kingdom prompted no police action. It is unclear why the police broke up the Baganda group earlier in the week.

Riots broke out after the incident, and again when radio announcers pushed Baganda to take to the streets again.

Museveni said in a broadcast statement that he tried to contact Mutebi to discuss the issue as "mature people" but he could not reach him on the phone. The president also said that he had intelligence reports showing that the Buganda Kingdom has received foreign funding to carry out a hate campaign against the government.

Asians, mostly of Indian origin, suffered severe losses when their business were attacked and looted, Nabakooba said.

Although officials said the broadcasts encouraged listeners to put into action their contempt for the government, during such outbreaks of violence Asians are often targeted. Some view Asians as being most protected by the government because of special holidays or tax benefits they may get. In addition, reports of Asians mistreating natives have fueled tension between the groups.

None of the four people killed were Asian or of Asian descent, Nabakooba said, but in the northern suburb of Kawembi about 30 Asians had fled to a police station for protection on Thursday and remained there Friday.

Samson Ntale contributed to this report for CNN.

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text: by

text: Minister

text: of

text: Information

text: and

text: National

text: Guidance

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text: rioting

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text: Buganda

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text: population

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text: streets

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text: Buganda

text: Kingdom

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text: campaign

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text: government

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text: Indian

text: origin

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text: severe

text: losses

text: when

text: their

text: business

text: were

text: attacked

text: and

text: looted

text: Nabakooba

text: said

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text: said

text: the

text: broadcasts

text: encouraged

text: listeners

text: to

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text: into

text: action

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text: for

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text: government

text: during

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text: outbreaks

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text: violence

text: Asians

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text: Some

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text: most

text: protected

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text: government

text: because

text: of

text: special

text: holidays

text: or

text: tax

text: benefits

text: they

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text: get

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text: reports

text: of

text: Asians

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text: natives

text: have

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text: between

text: the

text: groups

text: of

text: the

text: four

text: people

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text: Asian

text: or

text: of

text: Asian

text: descent

text: Nabakooba

text: said

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text: in

text: the

text: northern

text: suburb

text: of

text: Kawembi

text: about

text: Asians

text: had

text: fled

text: to

text: a

text: police

text: station

text: for

text: protection

text: on

text: Thursday

text: and

text: remained

text: there

text: Friday

text: Samson

text: Ntale

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text: to

text: this

text: report

text: for

text: CNN

question: What encouraged violent street action against the government?

answer: radio broadcasts

text: radio broadcasts

question: What was being broadcast?

answer: radio

text: radio

question: How many people sought care?

answer: more than 50

text: more than 50

question: Who is Uganda's president?

answer: Yoweri Museveni

text: Yoweri Museveni

question: What kingdoms had tension?

answer: Buganda

text: Buganda

question: How many seek care?

answer: 50


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NEW YORK (CNN) -- Pfizer is near a deal to buy rival drugmaker Wyeth for $68 billion, according to news reports late Sunday citing people familiar with the deal.

Pfizer's world headquarters is in New York.

A deal was imminent and likely to be announced Monday, The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times reported.

"It is our policy not to comment on rumor or speculation," said Michael Lampe, a Wyeth representative. Pfizer was not immediately available for comment.

Pfizer, the world's leading drugmaker in terms of sales, has been in talks to buy Wyeth. Pfizer's stock slipped 1 percent on the news Friday, while Wyeth gained about 8 percent.

On January 13 Pfizer said it was cutting up to 8 percent of its R&D staff, about 800 jobs. Spokesman Raymond Kerins said that was to "raise productivity."

But analysts say Pfizer is clearly trying to beef up its drug pipeline through an acquisition, adding that the company seems to have given up on its own R&D staff coming up with a blockbuster to replace Lipitor. This cholesterol-cutting drug peaked in 2006 with nearly $13 billion in annual sales but will lose its patent protection in 2011, when generic versions will become available.

Les Funtleyder, pharma analyst for Miller Tabak, said Pfizer is "not feeling that they're getting the efficiency out of their R&D unit." He said Pfizer would probably rather do a deal with Wyeth over other competitors, because there is less overlap in the companies' pipelines.

Funtleyder said Pfizer already has a diabetes franchise, which would overlap with Eli Lilly & Co. and Bristol-Myers Squibb, both of which also focus on diabetes treatments. Pfizer probably has its eyes on Wyeth's Alzheimer's drug pipeline, he said. But he cautions that a merger won't be a success unless Wyeth's pipeline is successful, which remains to be seen, he said.

"If Wyeth comes out with an Alzheimer's drug that works, then the deal works," he said.

Pfizer is probably also focused on Wyeth's blockbuster children's vaccine Prevnar, as well as its experimental biotech drugs, said Michael Krensavage of Krensavage Asset Management.

Sales of Prevnar, which combats meningitis and blood infections, jumped 12 percent in the first nine months of 2008 compared with the same period the prior year, to $2.1 billion.

If a deal does go through, Funtleyder warns, Wyeth staffers should brace for layoffs.

"I can say with pretty good confidence that this is going to lead to some head count reduction," he said.

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question: What was the policy of Pfizer?

answer: not to comment on rumor or speculation,"

text: not to comment on rumor or speculation,"

question: What is Wyeth's policy?

answer: not to comment on rumor or speculation,"

text: not to comment on rumor or speculation,"

question: What was the rumor for?

answer: Pfizer is near a deal to buy rival drugmaker Wyeth

text: Pfizer is near a deal to buy rival drugmaker Wyeth

question: What was the name of the company?

answer: Pfizer

text: Pfizer

question: What percentage of staff was cut?

answer: up to 8 percent of its R&D staf

text: up to 8 percent of its R&D staf

question: What month was the lowest percent?

answer: January

text: January

question: What is the policy?>

answer: not to comment on rumor or speculation,"

text: not to comment on rumor or speculation,"

question: How many jobs are being cut?

answer: about 800

text: about 800