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(CNN) -- A Turkish television show is offering contestants what it claims is the "biggest prize ever" -- the chance for atheists to convert to one of the world's major religions.

The TV show offers converts to Islam the chance to visit Mecca.

The show, called "Tovbekarlar Yarisiyor," or "Penitents Compete," features a Muslim imam, a Catholic priest, a Jewish rabbi and a Buddhist monk attempting to persuade 10 atheists of the merits of their religion, according to CNN Turk.

If they succeed, the contestants are rewarded with a pilgrimage to one of their chosen faith's most sacred sites -- Mecca for Muslims, Jerusalem for converts to Judaism, a trip to Tibet for Buddhists and the chance to visit Ephesus and the Vatican for Christians.

Ahmet Ozdemir, deputy director of Turkish channel Kanal T, which will air the show from September, said the program aimed to "turn disbelievers on to God."

"People are free to believe anything they want. Our program does not have a say," he said, according to Turkish newspaper Hurriyet.

Contestants will be judged by a panel of eight theologians and religious experts prior to going on the show to make sure their lack of faith is genuine.

But the show has been condemned by Turkish religious leaders. The head of the country's supreme council of religious affairs, Hamza Aktan, told CNN Turk that it was "disrespectful" to place different faiths in competition with each other and accused Kanal T of using religion to boost ratings.

"To do such a thing for the sake of ratings, not only with Islam but with all religions is disrespectful," said Aktan. "Religion should not be the subject of this type of program."

Although Turkey has a predominantly Muslim population and culture, religion is a sensitive subject because of the country's staunchly secular constitution which outlaws most displays of faith in public life.

Last year the Islamist-influenced government of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan clashed with the country's constitutional court when judges overturned the efforts of Erdogan's AK Party to lift a ban on female students wearing headscarves at public universities.

Aylin Yazan at CNN Turk contributed to this story.

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Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN)  -- Pakistani Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud is alive and remains in hiding, a spokesman for the group told CNN Thursday.

"Hakimullah Mehsud is alive and he is our chief," said spokesman Azim Tariq. "All the reports regarding his death are propaganda."

Tariq said Mehsud remains in hiding because he is being targeted by U.S. drone attacks but "is still in command of the mujahedeen."

Authorities have been looking into reports that Mehsud died after being wounded last month in a drone attack.

One news report, citing local sources and a correspondent, said he died and was buried. But Pakistani and U.S. officials said they have not been able to confirm Mehsud's status.

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BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN)  -- Samar Saed Abdullah's entire body trembles as she speaks about her impending execution. She thinks of the gallows room, the noose around her neck and that moment when she will take her final breath.

Samar Saed Abdullah is sentenced to die by hanging in connection with the killing of three relatives.

"My life is meaningless," she said, choking on her tears. "I can't think of anything else. The other women, we try to help each other, but we cannot escape the reality that we are on death row and they can take us at any second."

The 27-year-old Iraqi woman is sentenced to die in connection with the slayings of three relatives in January 2005. She looks pale and frail, her face sallow, her eyes bloodshot. She shakes with each sob, anxiously twisting a tissue in her hands.

We first met Samar in spring 2007, at al-Kadhimiya Women's Prison in Baghdad. She had been on death row for about two years, and she was terrified.  Watch a tearful plea from death row Â»

"I don't sleep at all on Wednesdays," she said then. "I stay up from morning until night, because that's the day they pick for executions."

Samar was sentenced to death by hanging for being an accessory to murder in the killings of her uncle, aunt and cousin -- slayings that she says were carried out at their home by her husband-to-be, who remains on the loose. She maintains that she is innocent, and there are disturbing questions about her conviction.

Samar has now been moved a step closer to death: to Baghdad's maximum-security prison, where there are more than 500 prisoners waiting to be executed. It's the same facility where Saddam Hussein was hanged in December 2006.

CNN was not allowed to film her face inside the prison. During the interview, the wardens also seemed to make motions to try to stop CNN from broaching the subject of her allegation that she had only confessed under torture.

The day of the killings is seared into her mind.

"I think about it every day, every hour. I wake up with it in my head," she said. "It's the reason I am here."

There was a point in time when Samar was happy, when her life had meaning and joy. She had a fiancÃ©, Saif Ali Nur, in winter 2004.

"I was so happy at the time, when he asked for my hand in marriage," she remembered bitterly. "I thought that he was honest, that he did not lie to me. It all happened in just two months."

At first, her family didn't approve of the romance, but they eventually relented.

One day, she says, Saif duped her into taking him to her wealthy uncle's house. He locked her in the kitchen and, she says, shot her uncle, aunt and cousin. Then, he turned the gun on her.

Samar says he stole less than $1,000 after threatening to kill Samar and her family if she went to the authorities. The Iraqi police picked Samar up the next day, after Saif dumped her in front of her house and disappeared.

"There was nothing that made me suspect that this was a guy who would do something like this," she said.

She's filled with regret that she fell in love with him. "And now I am here in prison, and he is out on the streets, happy."

Her parents sold everything to pay for her defense. They swear she's innocent. She says she was tortured by the police into confessing that she went to her uncle's house with the intent to steal.

"They kept beating me, and they told me, 'Say whatever we want you to say, and do not say anything else, and say yes, I was an accomplice to this crime.' Although I had nothing to do with it. Finally, they made me sign a blank piece of paper, and they filled it out afterwards."

She was tried and convicted in a single day: August 15, 2005. Court documents obtained by CNN read that "the court discussed the case file with her and she said that all that she had confessed came as a result of duress and torture."

Under Iraqi law, the court should have investigated her claim that she confessed under torture. But it did not.

After learning of Samar's case from CNN, former Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih said Tuesday he spoke with the Iraqi Presidency Council, which promised to look into the matter. He also said he had spoken separately with top Iraqi officials, including Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, and urged for a new trial.

Human rights groups say Samar's case is just one of many in which justice has failed. And they say that what makes implementing capital punishment even more disturbing is that the Iraqi judicial system does not guarantee a fair trial.

Amnesty International issued a report Tuesday saying that at least 1,000 prisoners sit on Iraq's death row and that Iraq now has one of the highest execution rates in the world. The report says Iraq's court system does not meet international standards and that authorities "provide very little information on executions, and some have been carried out secretly."

According to a Western official with in-depth knowledge of the Iraqi judicial system, Iraq's judicial failures are "rooted in the legal culture rather than the law. ... The entire legal culture remains heavily confession-based, a situation exacerbated by the frequently imperfect investigative skills of the police, judicial investigators and investigative judges."

In his years in Iraq, this official says he observed judges taking payments in exchange for certain decisions and the physical abuse of suspects, either as an end in itself or to "encourage" confessions.

"It is my firmly held opinion that Iraq should immediately reinstate the moratorium on executions," the official said. "There are serious problems plaguing the administration of justice in Iraq in criminal cases, and this fact is widely acknowledged by the Iraq judges, prosecutors and defense counsel."

The U.S.-led Coalition Provisional Authority abolished capital punishment in Iraq after Saddam Hussein was toppled in 2003. But the death penalty was reinstated in August 2004, shortly after the government was handed back to Iraqis.

Iraq's Ministry of Justice maintains that the judicial system is "fair and just."

Local organizations like the Organization for Women's Freedom in Iraq have for years been fighting to get the death penalty abolished in Iraq, especially when it comes to flawed trials and women being put to death. But they struggle against a government that turns a deaf ear.

"I wish there was some kind of response. But the response is totally passive. We've reached a degree of despair," said Yanar Mohammed, founder of the Organization for Women's Freedom in Iraq. "As a human rights organization in Iraq, we find that we need some backup from abroad to put pressure on our government as a first step to stop the executions of these women, some of whom we know are innocent."

But even as doubts surface about many convictions in Iraq, there are signs that the pace of executions is picking up. Over the past two months, Mohammed's group says, between two and four women were executed.

"They were taken out of the extreme-protection prison," Mohammed said. "It is a very scary story for us, because if it starts with a few women in a jail cell ... it could happen to hundreds, thousands of people later on."

As for Samar, she doesn't sleep, haunted by the image of her body that could be hanging lifeless -- plagued by the gut-wrenching fear of death that consumes her nights and most of her days.

"Every night, I stay up thinking that if tomorrow comes, who will be next? Me? Or my friend sitting next to me?"

She sobbed. "I will never trust a man again. I will never love anyone again. I just want to stay with my parents."

Samar feels betrayed, both by the man she once loved and by a judicial system that is about to send her to her death.

CNN's Jomana Karadsheh and Mohammed Tawfeeq contributed to this report.

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text: convicted

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text: court

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text: Deputy

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text: Iraqi

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text: matter

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text: top

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text: Iraqi

text: President

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text: Talabani

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text: a

text: new

text: trial

text: Human

text: rights

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text: case

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text: just

text: one

text: of

text: many

text: in

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text: justice

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text: they

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text: makes

text: implementing

text: capital

text: punishment

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text: disturbing

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text: the

text: Iraqi

text: judicial

text: system

text: does

text: not

text: guarantee

text: a

text: fair

text: trial

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text: International

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text: a

text: report

text: Tuesday

text: saying

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text: at

text: least

text: prisoners

text: sit

text: on

text: Iraq

text: 's

text: death

text: row

text: and

text: that

text: Iraq

text: now

text: has

text: one

text: of

text: the

text: highest

text: execution

text: rates

text: in

text: the

text: world

text: The

text: report

text: says

text: Iraq

text: 's

text: court

text: system

text: does

text: not

text: meet

text: international

text: standards

text: and

text: that

text: authorities

text: provide

text: very

text: little

text: information

text: on

text: executions

text: and

text: some

text: have

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text: out

text: secretly

text: According

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text: Western

text: official

text: with

text: in

text: depth

text: knowledge

text: of

text: the

text: Iraqi

text: judicial

text: system

text: Iraq

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text: judicial

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text: in

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text: legal

text: culture

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text: the

text: law

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text: legal

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text: confession

text: based

text: a

text: situation

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text: by

text: the

text: frequently

text: imperfect

text: investigative

text: skills

text: of

text: the

text: police

text: judicial

text: investigators

text: and

text: investigative

text: judges

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text: his

text: years

text: in

text: Iraq

text: this

text: official

text: says

text: he

text: observed

text: judges

text: taking

text: payments

text: in

text: exchange

text: for

text: certain

text: decisions

text: and

text: the

text: physical

text: abuse

text: of

text: suspects

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text: an

text: end

text: in

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text: or

text: to

text: encourage

text: confessions

text: It

text: is

text: my

text: firmly

text: held

text: opinion

text: that

text: Iraq

text: should

text: immediately

text: reinstate

text: the

text: moratorium

text: on

text: executions

text: the

text: official

text: said

text: There

text: are

text: serious

text: problems

text: plaguing

text: the

text: administration

text: of

text: justice

text: in

text: Iraq

text: in

text: criminal

text: cases

text: and

text: this

text: fact

text: is

text: widely

text: acknowledged

text: by

text: the

text: Iraq

text: judges

text: prosecutors

text: and

text: defense

text: counsel

text: The

text: U.S

text: led

text: Coalition

text: Provisional

text: Authority

text: abolished

text: capital

text: punishment

text: in

text: Iraq

text: after

text: Saddam

text: Hussein

text: was

text: toppled

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text: But

text: the

text: death

text: penalty

text: was

text: reinstated

text: in

text: August

text: shortly

text: after

text: the

text: government

text: was

text: handed

text: back

text: to

text: Iraqis

text: Iraq

text: 's

text: Ministry

text: of

text: Justice

text: maintains

text: that

text: the

text: judicial

text: system

text: is

text: fair

text: and

text: just

text: Local

text: organizations

text: like

text: the

text: Organization

text: for

text: Women

text: 's

text: Freedom

text: in

text: Iraq

text: have

text: for

text: years

text: been

text: fighting

text: to

text: get

text: the

text: death

text: penalty

text: abolished

text: in

text: Iraq

text: especially

text: when

text: it

text: comes

text: to

text: flawed

text: trials

text: and

text: women

text: being

text: put

text: to

text: death

text: But

text: they

text: struggle

text: against

text: a

text: government

text: that

text: turns

text: a

text: deaf

text: ear

text: I

text: wish

text: there

text: was

text: some

text: kind

text: of

text: response

text: But

text: the

text: response

text: is

text: totally

text: passive

text: We

text: 've

text: reached

text: a

text: degree

text: of

text: despair

text: said

text: Yanar

text: Mohammed

text: founder

text: of

text: the

text: Organization

text: for

text: Women

text: 's

text: Freedom

text: in

text: Iraq

text: As

text: a

text: human

text: rights

text: organization

text: in

text: Iraq

text: we

text: find

text: that

text: we

text: need

text: some

text: backup

text: from

text: abroad

text: to

text: put

text: pressure

text: on

text: our

text: government

text: as

text: a

text: first

text: step

text: to

text: stop

text: the

text: executions

text: of

text: these

text: women

text: some

text: of

text: whom

text: we

text: know

text: are

text: innocent

text: But

text: even

text: as

text: doubts

text: surface

text: about

text: many

text: convictions

text: in

text: Iraq

text: there

text: are

text: signs

text: that

text: the

text: pace

text: of

text: executions

text: is

text: picking

text: up

text: Over

text: the

text: past

text: two

text: months

text: Mohammed

text: 's

text: group

text: says

text: between

text: two

text: and

text: four

text: women

text: were

text: executed

text: They

text: were

text: taken

text: out

text: of

text: the

text: extreme

text: protection

text: prison

text: Mohammed

text: said

text: It

text: is

text: a

text: very

text: scary

text: story

text: for

text: us

text: because

text: if

text: it

text: starts

text: with

text: a

text: few

text: women

text: in

text: a

text: jail

text: cell

text: it

text: could

text: happen

text: to

text: hundreds

text: thousands

text: of

text: people

text: later

text: on

text: As

text: for

text: Samar

text: she

text: does

text: n't

text: sleep

text: haunted

text: by

text: the

text: image

text: of

text: her

text: body

text: that

text: could

text: be

text: hanging

text: lifeless

text: plagued

text: by

text: the

text: gut

text: wrenching

text: fear

text: of

text: death

text: that

text: consumes

text: her

text: nights

text: and

text: most

text: of

text: her

text: days

text: Every

text: night

text: I

text: stay

text: up

text: thinking

text: that

text: if

text: tomorrow

text: comes

text: who

text: will

text: be

text: next

text: Me

text: Or

text: my

text: friend

text: sitting

text: next

text: to

text: me

text: She

text: sobbed

text: I

text: will

text: never

text: trust

text: a

text: man

text: again

text: I

text: will

text: never

text: love

text: anyone

text: again

text: I

text: just

text: want

text: to

text: stay

text: with

text: my

text: parents

text: Samar

text: feels

text: betrayed

text: both

text: by

text: the

text: man

text: she

text: once

text: loved

text: and

text: by

text: a

text: judicial

text: system

text: that

text: is

text: about

text: to

text: send

text: her

text: to

text: her

text: death

text: CNN

text: 's

text: Jomana

text: Karadsheh

text: and

text: Mohammed

text: Tawfeeq

text: contributed

text: to

text: this

text: report

question: What does the Ministry of Justice maintain?

answer: s that the judicial system is "fair and just.

text: s that the judicial system is "fair and just.

question: in what way did the police coerce her?

answer: torture.

text: torture.

question: What does the Ministry of Justice say about the judicial system?

answer: m is "fair and just.

text: m is "fair and just.

question: What was Samar convicted of?

answer: for being an accessory to murder in the killings of her uncle, aunt and cousin

text: for being an accessory to murder in the killings of her uncle, aunt and cousin

question: What was Samar Saed Abdullah convicted of?

answer: the killing of three relatives.

text: the killing of three relatives.

question: What did police do do Abdullah?

answer: f dumped her in front of her house and disappeared

text: f dumped her in front of her house and disappeared

question: What does Samar Saed Abdullah say the police did to her?

answer: s torture

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Smokers with high levels of a carcinogen byproduct (NNAL) are at higher risk of developing lung cancer.

Smoking is a lot like Russian roulette: You never know who will end up developing lung cancer and who won't. But Dr. Jian-Min Yuan, as well as other researchers from the University of Minnesota, say they are one step closer to determining a smoker's risk for developing the disease. In a study, they tracked the carcinogen and nicotine levels in nearly 500 smokers through a simple urine test and discovered a link between the level of a specific carcinogen and lung cancer. Their findings were presented at the American Association for Cancer Research conference.

Why did researchers track only  the levels of one carcinogen?

We all know that tobacco smoke is bad: It's loaded with 60 different carcinogens, which cause all sorts of health risks. There is one carcinogen in particular that researchers suspected for years contributed to human lung cancer. But there were never any scientific human studies showing this relationship. This carcinogen is known as NNK. It releases into your body when you inhale smoke, quickly passes through the liver, gets metabolized and releases NNAL, a byproduct of NNK, into the bloodstream. University of Minnesota researchers were tracking the NNAL levels via urine samples.  Watch Dr. Gupta explain the findings Â»

How much did a person have to smoke to develop high levels of NNAL?

The exact amount is a little tricky to determine because a lot depends on how honest a person is about how many cigarettes he or she smoked per day. Additionally, the type of cigarette and how deeply a person inhales could affect the amount of carcinogens in the body. Researchers say a person with high levels of NNAL and high levels of nicotine (equivalent to smoking about a pack of cigarettes a day) is 8.5 times more likely to develop lung cancer compared with a smoker with lower levels. While the researchers point out that not everyone who has a high level of NNAL is going to develop lung cancer, it does help assign a number to a risk that was hard to quantify before.

Isn't smoking bad for you regardless? What is the benefit of having this type of information?

There is nothing healthy about smoking. Even if this test pegs you at low risk of developing lung cancer, it doesn't mean you won't develop a dozen other cancers commonly cause by smoking. If you smoke, the No. 1 thing you should do is quit. But that is easier said than done. If it were easy, 23 percent of adults in the United States would not smoke regularly. One benefit of knowing whether a smoker is at increased risk for lung cancer is for his or her doctor to screen the person regularly for abnormalities, in the hopes of catching the cancer early.

Lung cancer is but one consequence of smoking, so this type of testing is not going to fix everything. But as far as lung cancer goes, it may give people a better idea of when and how often to get screened.

Reported by CNN's Danielle Dellorto

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text: Reported

text: by

text: CNN

text: 's

text: Danielle

text: Dellorto

question: what was the study about?

answer: they tracked the carcinogen and nicotine levels in nearly 500 smokers

text: they tracked the carcinogen and nicotine levels in nearly 500 smokers

question: What link has been quantified?

answer: between the level of a specific carcinogen and lung cancer.

text: between the level of a specific carcinogen and lung cancer.

question: What could tests identify?

answer: link between the level of a specific carcinogen and lung cancer.

text: link between the level of a specific carcinogen and lung cancer.

question: What was the risk for smokers?

answer: developing lung cancer.

text: developing lung cancer.

question: What did researchers track?

answer: carcinogen and nicotine levels in nearly 500 smokers

text: carcinogen and nicotine levels in nearly 500 smokers

question: What did the study quantify?

answer: a risk

text: a risk

question: What did they do with urine samples?

answer: tracking the NNAL levels

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(CNN)  -- [Updated 3 p.m. ET, Monday, August 29] These beachgoers are enjoying themselves on Isola dei Conigli ("Rabbit Island") in Lampedusa, Italy.

Lampedusa is the southernmost part of Italy, in the Mediterranean Sea between the Sicilian mainland and North Africa. Since the Arab unrest began earlier this year, thousands of people from Libya and other parts of North Africa have sought refuge there.

Contrary to its name, Rabbit Island is probably more renowned for turtles. It is one of the last remaining egg-laying sites in Italy for the endangered loggerhead sea turtle.

Nobody answered Rabbit Island in our photo challenge this week, but there were some close guesses of Sardinia, Italy, as well as some generic guesses of the Mediterranean.

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Editor's note: Roland S. Martin, a CNN political analyst, is a nationally syndicated columnist and author of "Listening to the Spirit Within: 50 Perspectives on Faith," and the forthcoming book, "The First: President Barack Obama's Road to the White House." He is a commentator for TV One Cable Network and host of a one-hour Sunday morning news show.

As a columnist, I'm used to writing things that offend other folks. It comes with the job. And there are times when I have responded to what other folks in the media will say and write. Again, it's just what we do.

There have been a number of things I've read and heard over the past few months, but one that has totally ticked me off is the recent column by ESPN's Rick Reilly in the March 22 issue of ESPN The Magazine.

Reilly uses his column to personally attack Greg Wise, the boys head basketball coach at Jack Yates High School in Houston, Texas. In the despicable piece, Reilly tries to link Wise with a fight in the parking lot after Yates destroyed archrival Booker T. Washington. Apparently shots were fired, and in Reilly's world, it's all tied to Yates beating them 132-68.

So I wonder if Reilly blames Gary Williams for Maryland upsetting No. 4 ranked Duke, this leading to fans going bonkers -- some say riot -- and 28 people getting arrested.

I've seen folks fight after one-point losses; that's just what happens when dumb folks talk trash in the parking lot. They either duke it out with fists, or these days, pull out a gun to make their point.

Reilly then has the gall to say that the school district in Houston needs to intervene to "stop" Wise, even suggesting that Yates Principal Ronald Mumphery should "grow a pair." So what do you propose Rick? Tell him not to blow other teams out? So the next time we see a 59-0 or 77-0 score in football, are we to scold the coach and tell him he will be suspended if his teams keeps scoring points?

Should Bob Stoops have been put on administrative leave when his Sooners destroyed my Aggies 77-0? In fact, last year Oklahoma beat my Aggies 65-10. Hey, Rick, wasn't 45, 50, 60 or even 70 enough for Stoops? Why 77 points?

The Reillys of the world will remark that, "Oh, these are poor high school students. Their self-esteem will be hurt by this." Bullcrap, Rick. Yes, Yates has blown teams out by 50, 60 and even 100 points. When you're good, it happens.

Let me be clear: I'm not objective on this issue. I graduated from Yates in 1987, where I attended the Magnet School of Communications. I watched Yates in 1985 win the football state championship by going undefeated and blowing out teams every week. That team set a state record for most points and set about another 20 records. They were just as dominating in football as this year's basketball team.

What wimps like Reilly object to is Wise teaching his team to press, press and press. Yates used this strategy to win the Class 4A state championship last year, and this weekend will try to win another title. They play all 15 guys and rotate them in and out. They wear the opposing team out, forcing them to commit turnover after turnover. On the side of their championship rings is the slogan, "32 minutes of hell." It's similar to what Nolan Richardson's Arkansas teams were nicknamed, "40 minutes of hell.'

Guys like Reilly love to jump on the poor souls campaign. But I learned a long time ago that when you put on your uniform and lace 'em up, you stand a chance of getting your butt kicked. That's all a part of the game.

What guys like Reilly also don't understand is that their words matter. And by writing such a horrible piece about Wise, he is creating an impression in folks' mind nationally about Wise, and that can hurt him down the road.

Right now I'm reading Rus Bradburd's book, "Forty Minutes of Hell: The Extraordinary Life of Nolan Richardson." It tells the story of the famed Arkansas coach and the battles he had to fight to reach the top of the college basketball world. Bradburd tells the story of a number of black basketball coaches who never got a shot at the major jobs because of their race. He writes about how coaches like Richardson were denigrated for the frantic style of play, and assumed it was all about talent and not about coaching.

But he also told an interesting story of how so many talented coaches at historically black colleges never got a shot at major Division 1-A coaching jobs because of their won-loss record. They were forced to take guaranteed money games against more talented teams, so when it was time for the NCAA tournament, the teams had poor records, and that didn't reflect well on the coach.

Bottom line: The record of the coach played a role in getting their next job. And sportswriters, as Bradburd writes, tend to shape the views of the public based on what they write, and that can be damaging to anyone's career.

Folks, for any college looking to revive their basketball team -- Richardson took a dormant Tulsa team and won the NIT title and led them to the NCAA -- Greg Wise would be a great hire. His team finished 34-1 last year, and this year they are 32-0, and with two games left, can claim back-to-back titles.

Are you telling me that a coach who is 66-1 in two years should be, as Reilly wrote, "dipped in seal butter and dropped into a polar bear's cage?" No! He should be celebrated for being successful. The game is about winning, right?

Not only that, Yates has a great group of kids (I've met most of them). They study, are polite, don't get into trouble and are all-around good kids.

At the end of the day, they are damn good and folks like Reilly just don't like it.

By the way: Reilly, who ESPN pays a ton of dough, wrote this about Wise: "He tried to break the record for most 100-point games in a row (and failed)."

Rick, you are dead wrong. This past weekend, Yates scored 100 points for the 14th consecutive game, tying the national record set by Hobbs of New Mexico team in 1969-70. (On Thursday night, they scored 106 points to set the new national record.)

A simple fact check would have discovered that. It's no surprise Reilly was entirely wrong about Yates' Greg Wise. He could not even get this basic fact right.

Rick, use some of that fat ESPN money, stop reading what others write about Yates, and take a simple trip down to Houston to see this mighty Jack Yates team in person.

You might learn a thing or two about a team that is full of class and the pride of Third Ward. I'm proud of these young men, and even more proud of their coach, who is a role model to them.

Isn't that what we want our coaches to be?

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(InStyle) -- I can't find it anywhere in the Constitution, so maybe there is a first lady dress code buried in an obscure addendum to the Voting Rights Act of 1965, since every mistress of the White House for the last four decades has chosen a wardrobe that follows a particular one with near pathological devotion.

President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama arrive in  Prague, Czech Republic, in early April.

No sooner does her inaugural ballgown get spirited away to the Smithsonian, then out it comes: The First Lady Suit -- that tailored, multibuttoned blazer over a skirt straighter than an Ionic column in a primary, patriotic or tastefully unobjectionable color.

So did someone not give Michelle Obama the memo?

Because during these first 100 days, our newest first lady has banished every version of this silhouette as if they were all designed by the House of Dick Cheney. Instead, Mrs. Obama has defined with remarkable acuity what flatters a tall, broad-shouldered and curvaceous working woman who knows exactly who she is and where she is going.

With an enviable eye for color and layering, she has fashioned a riveting parade of on- and off-the-shoulder dresses, cardigans, cinched trenches, leggings, wide-legged trousers and full skirts, working them in intense florals or unexpected hues such as chartreuse and emerald. InStyle.com: Michelle Obama's first 100 Days of style

In addition, like every woman who gets a kick out of dressing up, she knows the power of accessories -- a cool flat boot, a wide belt, a statement necklace.

The thrilling result? Women across this country (and the world) are exclaiming almost daily, "Look at that print! I love that color! Where can I get that sweater?"  Watch how the first lady has become a style icon Â»

What's more, not only does our first lady proudly stride with the confidence and warmth of a modern American woman, but the wardrobe she steps out in boasts relevance, comfort, and -- dare we say it? -- sex appeal. InStyle.com: Try on Obama's hairstyle

The fashion industry may have occasionally sniped, but come on, does anyone really give a damn if it's appropriate to wear a cardigan to meet the queen?

What does count is that each time we've caught that man of hers watching her walk into a room during their first 100 days, we have witnessed both a dynamic new first couple -- and a wife whose husband unashamedly only has eyes for her. The clothes are cool, but even better is the fact that Michelle Obama has brought romance back to the White House.

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MIAMI, Florida (CNN) -- Hurricane Ike grew from a Category 1 into a menacing Category 4 storm in about six hours Wednesday as it fed on the warm waters of Atlantic, the National Hurricane Center said.

An infrared image from a NOAA satellite shows Ike swirling in the Atlantic on Wednesday night.

"Ike is an extremely dangerous Category 4 hurricane" with 135-mph  sustained winds, the center said in its 11 p.m. ET advisory.

Although it is likely to lose some strength during the next few days, Ike is forecast to regain Category 4 status by Monday, the center said.

"It is too early to determine what, if any, land areas might be affected by Ike," the hurricane center said.

But the center's potential four- to five-day track for Ike puts it anywhere from north of Jamaica to the coast of South Florida on Monday. iReport.com: Are you in Ike's path?

At 11 p.m. ET Monday, Ike was moving west-northwest through the Atlantic Ocean. The storm will be over open water for two days, forecasters said.

Earlier Wednesday, Ike intensified into the fifth hurricane of the 2008 Atlantic season when its winds reached 80 mph.

But before Ike can reach into the Caribbean or threaten Florida, Tropical Storm Hanna was getting more organized in the Bahamas, according to the hurricane center.

At 2 a.m., Hanna was about 325 miles east-southeast of Nassau in the Bahamas, with winds of 65 mph.

Hanna was drenching the Bahamas and Haiti with torrential rains.

Haitian officials put the nation's death toll in the wake of Hanna and Hurricane Gustav at 61, said Abel Nabaire, the deputy coordinator of the civil protection service.

Eight of the country's 10 departments underwater, he said.

More rainfall, up to 15 inches in some places, was possible in the Caribbean, the hurricane center said.

Hanna was forecast to return to hurricane strength by Friday as it shot up the east coast of the southern U.S., with landfall predicted on the South Carolina or North Carolina coast late Friday or early Saturday.

"A hurricane watch may be required for a portion of the southeastern United States coast early Thursday and interests in this area should monitor the progress of Hanna," the hurricane center said.

Florida could begin seeing rainfall from Hanna on Friday, forecasters said.   Watch as Florida also keeps an eye on Hanna Â»

Swells from Hanna are expected to bolster the number of rip tides along the southeastern U.S. coast this week, the hurricane center said. iReport.com: Hanna makes waves in Bahamas

Hanna passed over the northern Haitian city of Gonaives on Tuesday night, leaving water more than 12 feet deep in some places, an official said.  See Hanna's impact on Haiti Â»

Many people were still cut off amid floodwater.

"It's a very grim picture," Dr. Jean Pierre Guiteau of the Red Cross said Wednesday. "We can't reach those people; they are standing on rooftops, waiting for help."

In line behind Ike in the Atlantic is Tropical Storm Josephine, with top winds near 50 mph, the hurricane center said. Josephine was about 425 miles west of the southernmost Cape Verde Islands off western Africa.

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question: What was the predicted speed of Ike?

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question: Who is pounding Bahamas?

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question: When is the storm coming?

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question: Wherein the US will it land?

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