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LONDON, England (CNN)  -- Michael Jackson has officially become the most popular person on Facebook, with more than 7 million fans on the social networking site.

The Michael Jackson Facebook page is now the most popular on the social networking site.

Previously, the most popular person on Facebook, with just over 6 million fans, was U.S. President Obama.

Over the past week, Jackson's page has grown from 80,000 fans to just over 7 million, generating the largest response on a Facebook page, the social networking site says.

He has continued to gain about 20 fans per second and even more during peak traffic hours, said social media commentator Nick O'Neill, founder of the Social Times Web site.

By comparison, actor Ashton Kutcher recently entered a race to beat CNN's Larry King to 1 million followers on Twitter. Kutcher won and remains the most popular person on Twitter -- but still has only 2.6 million followers.

During his memorial service at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California, all 10 trending topics on Twitter.com were Jackson-related.

Jackson's popularity and the viral nature of Facebook fan pages are the primary reasons for the huge fan base, O'Neill explained.

He said, "It's simply his popularity. Also, as users become fans, the page gets recommended to others, driving the viral growth of the page.

"Michael Jackson is simply the largest celebrity in the world. While he was a controversial figure, he clearly attracts the attention of the global media," he continued.

The Facebook page has become an online memorial to Jackson, with thousands of comments from around the world; dozens appear every minute.

Free virtual versions of Jackson's famous glove are the most popular gift on the site, with more than 800,000 sent to members.

The huge following leaves the singer's heirs (and his record label) with a massive network to communicate with fans and continue the massive resurgence of interest in Jackson's music, O'Neill said.

"While Sony has not heavily engaged the fan base on Michael Jackson's page, they at least have a presence. If your fans are there, you should be there.

"This also provided an ongoing promotional channel for any future products that are released. It's simply not an option and will become a component of all marketing strategies."

There have been 2.6 million downloads of Jackson's music since his death. He has the top two albums on iTunes, as well as three of the top 10 singles.

In the United Kingdom, Jackson held 11 of the top 200 album positions and 43 of the top 200 singles, based on sales monitored by the Official Charts Co. for the week ended June 27.

His "Number Ones" album topped the OCC album chart after selling 46,400 physical copies and 10,000 downloads.

The surge for demand in Jackson's music looks likely to continue for several months: The fan page has a music player with some of Jackson's hits and an option to buy them through Amazon.

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London, England (CNN) -- A 15-year-old schoolboy is planning to make history as the youngest person to ski to the North Pole.

Parker Liautaud, who attends the prestigious Eton College in southern England, will begin his two-week odyssey on March 31.

Led by experienced adventurer Doug Stoup, Parker hopes to raise awareness among young people about environment issues.

"The idea is to inspire, inform and engage young people on the issue of climate change and bring to light what's been happening in the arctic region in particular," Liautaud, who was born in California, told CNN.

"The best way to do this is to show what is happening right now through direct and live coverage."

"The Arctic ocean is in a state of emergency," Stoup said on his Web site, www.iceaxe.tv. "Scientists are reporting this Arctic Season to be been one of the warmest in recorded history.

"As a veteran polar adventurer, I have seen huge differences in the state of the Arctic Ocean over the last decade. I have witnessed less multi-year ice."

Parker's expedition will include a large social media component, with Parker rallying young people around the world to become catalysts for change.

Twice a day, he will update his location on Facebook via Google Earth. This will show the progress being made, as well as possible ice shifts that occur throughout the day.

Parker's Facebook followers can join the expedition by following his progress and approximating when he will arrive at the summit.

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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Shouting from the audience. Holding up signs blasting the health care reform bill before Congress. Frequent hissing and booing.

Many Facebook and Twitter users condemned Rep. Joe Wilson for his outburst toward President Obama.

Though it sounds like behavior at one of the health care town hall meetings last month, it was how some Republicans reacted to President Obama's speech to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday night.

But Norm Ornstein, a longtime observer of Congress and an expert at the American Enterprise Institute, said the tone and behavior from members of Congress are not necessarily new.

"A lot of what went on [Wednesday] night has become fairly typical of what we've seen in the State of the Union messages over the last 10 or 12 years, where it's one side jumping up wildly and the other side sitting on their hands in stony silence."

The most memorable moment came from Rep. Joe Wilson, R-South Carolina, who shouted "You lie" after the president said that a Democratic-sponsored health care bill would not cover illegal immigrants.

Ornstein said that in addition to being beyond the bounds of what is typical, Wilson's comment is "just sort of stunning in the level of disrespect for not just the president but the presidency."  Watch more of Wilson's outburst Â»

During several moments in Obama's speech, members of the GOP hissed and yelled at the president as he laid out his plan for reform. One Republican held a sign saying, "What bill?"

House Minority Whip Eric Cantor, R-Virginia, was seen several times typing on his phone during the speech.

Vice President Joe Biden told ABC's "Good Morning America" on Thursday that he was "embarrassed for the chamber and a Congress I love."

Observers said the behavior is probably indicative of the vitriolic sentiments found during town hall meetings.

"I think a lot of those Republican members went home to their district and were met with very angry reaction from their constituents. Congress, as you know, is pretty polarized," said Kasie Hunt, a health care reporter for National Journal's Congress Daily. "I think, in some ways, that's what you really saw last night: the degree of acceptance of that angry discord that we've really hadn't seen in a long time."

Hunt said there is still a lot of misunderstanding among Republican members of Congress.

John O'Connor, who covers politics for The State newspaper in South Carolina, said that a lot of Wilson's anger mirrors what many feel in his home state.

"I think he feels the way a lot of people in South Carolina feel about [health care reform]. They're suspicious. They're worried. There's some fear out there about what could happen."

But O'Connor points out that South Carolina tends to be more conservative than other states, and Wilson's town halls were generally civil.

"Rep. Wilson, however, held a town hall meeting in Columbia where, for the most part, there was a pretty reasoned debate," he added. "There were folks on both sides raising issues, asking questions."

Still, it might have been Wilson's constituents' anger and distrust that contributed to the outburst in Congress, O'Connor noted.

"His takeaway from that was that people support his stance, which was to oppose any version of what he's calling Obamacare," he said. "So despite the fact that there was clearly some support in that audience for doing something about health care and health insurance, he kind of had a different impression of what the majority of the crowd thought."

Could Wilson face any trouble for his comments Wednesday night? Unlikely, according to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

Pelosi said Thursday that there is a procedure that could have been implemented to strike Wilson's "lie" comment from the record. But she said the president did the right thing in continuing on and not giving it "any more attention than it deserved."

Pelosi indicated that she would not press the issue farther.

"As far as I'm concerned, the episode was unfortunate. Mr. Wilson has apologized. It's time for us to talk about health care and not Mr. Wilson," she said.

Political observers in South Carolina opine that the comment heard around the world "was a little surprising."

"This is not his personality. He's not a guy who tends to make a lot of inflammatory statements. You expect that a lot more from Rep. DeMint [Republican from South Carolina] than Wilson for sure," O'Connor added.

Wilson said Thursday that his outburst was simply "spontaneous."  Watch Obama's full speech Â»

Meanwhile, the controversy surrounding him -- and anger on both sides of the aisle to his statement -- has helped his opponent in the 2010 midterm election.

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee said Thursday afternoon that since Wilson's comment, his Democratic opponent, former Marine Rob Miller, received 11,000 individual grass-roots contributions and raised more than $400,000.

During the 2008 election, when support for Democrats and Obama was high, Wilson faced a tough slog against Miller.

The Republican, who represents the 2nd Congressional District, including most of Columbia and parts east, won 54 percent of the vote to Miller's 46 percent.

Ornstein added that Wilson's comment was an "incredibly dumb thing to do" for the broader picture of the Republican Party.

"It was a gift, in a way, to Barack Obama," he said. "To independent voters out there, this just underscored the notion that you've got a party that is unremittingly hostile to the president that has no interest in negotiating or finding common ground."

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text: you

text: know

text: is

text: pretty

text: polarized

text: said

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text: Hunt

text: a

text: health

text: care

text: reporter

text: for

text: National

text: Journal

text: 's

text: Congress

text: Daily

text: I

text: think

text: in

text: some

text: ways

text: that

text: 's

text: what

text: you

text: really

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text: last

text: night

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text: degree

text: of

text: acceptance

text: of

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text: discord

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text: had

text: n't

text: seen

text: in

text: a

text: long

text: time

text: Hunt

text: said

text: there

text: is

text: still

text: a

text: lot

text: of

text: misunderstanding

text: among

text: Republican

text: members

text: of

text: Congress

text: John

text: O'Connor

text: who

text: covers

text: politics

text: for

text: The

text: State

text: newspaper

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text: South

text: Carolina

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text: that

text: a

text: lot

text: of

text: Wilson

text: 's

text: anger

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text: home

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text: feels

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text: way

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text: lot

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text: people

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text: South

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text: feel

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text: health

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text: could

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text: South

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text: conservative

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text: other

text: states

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text: questions

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text: constituents

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text: and

text: distrust

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text: outburst

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text: Congress

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text: takeaway

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text: people

text: support

text: his

text: stance

text: which

text: was

text: to

text: oppose

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text: version

text: of

text: what

text: he

text: 's

text: calling

text: Obamacare

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text: said

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text: fact

text: that

text: there

text: was

text: clearly

text: some

text: support

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text: that

text: audience

text: for

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text: something

text: about

text: health

text: care

text: and

text: health

text: insurance

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text: a

text: different

text: impression

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text: what

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text: majority

text: of

text: the

text: crowd

text: thought

text: Could

text: Wilson

text: face

text: any

text: trouble

text: for

text: his

text: comments

text: Wednesday

text: night

text: Unlikely

text: according

text: to

text: House

text: Speaker

text: Nancy

text: Pelosi

text: Pelosi

text: said

text: Thursday

text: that

text: there

text: is

text: a

text: procedure

text: that

text: could

text: have

text: been

text: implemented

text: to

text: strike

text: Wilson

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text: lie

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text: the

text: record

text: But

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text: said

text: the

text: president

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text: right

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text: not

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text: she

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text: the

text: issue

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text: I

text: 'm

text: concerned

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text: episode

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text: Wilson

text: has

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text: It

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text: time

text: for

text: us

text: to

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text: about

text: health

text: care

text: and

text: not

text: Mr.

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text: comment

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text: a

text: lot

text: more

text: from

text: Rep.

text: DeMint

text: Republican

text: from

text: South

text: Carolina

text: than

text: Wilson

text: for

text: sure

text: O'Connor

text: added

text: Wilson

text: said

text: Thursday

text: that

text: his

text: outburst

text: was

text: simply

text: spontaneous

text: Watch

text: Obama

text: 's

text: full

text: speech

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text: controversy

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text: opponent

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text: the

text: midterm

text: election

text: The

text: Democratic

text: Congressional

text: Campaign

text: Committee

text: said

text: Thursday

text: afternoon

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text: since

text: Wilson

text: 's

text: comment

text: his

text: Democratic

text: opponent

text: former

text: Marine

text: Rob

text: Miller

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text: individual

text: grass

text: roots

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text: and

text: raised

text: more

text: than

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text: election

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text: support

text: for

text: Democrats

text: and

text: Obama

text: was

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text: tough

text: slog

text: against

text: Miller

text: The

text: Republican

text: who

text: represents

text: the

text: Congressional

text: District

text: including

text: most

text: of

text: Columbia

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text: parts

text: east

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text: of

text: the

text: vote

text: to

text: Miller

text: 's

text: percent

text: Ornstein

text: added

text: that

text: Wilson

text: 's

text: comment

text: was

text: an

text: incredibly

text: dumb

text: thing

text: to

text: do

text: for

text: the

text: broader

text: picture

text: of

text: the

text: Republican

text: Party

text: It

text: was

text: a

text: gift

text: in

text: a

text: way

text: to

text: Barack

text: Obama

text: he

text: said

text: To

text: independent

text: voters

text: out

text: there

text: this

text: just

text: underscored

text: the

text: notion

text: that

text: you

text: 've

text: got

text: a

text: party

text: that

text: is

text: unremittingly

text: hostile

text: to

text: the

text: president

text: that

text: has

text: no

text: interest

text: in

text: negotiating

text: or

text: finding

text: common

text: ground

question: What was the topic that President Obama delivered?

answer: the health care reform bill

text: the health care reform bill

question: What did Joe Wilson Yell out about?

answer: a Democratic-sponsored health care bill would not cover illegal immigrants.

text: a Democratic-sponsored health care bill would not cover illegal immigrants.

question: What was the topic of the address to Congress on Wednesday?

answer: health care reform bill

text: health care reform bill

question: Who yelled out, "You lie" during the speech?

answer: Rep. Joe Wilson, R-South Carolina,

text: Rep. Joe Wilson, R-South Carolina,

question: What one observer said?

answer: tone and behavior from members of Congress are not necessarily new.

text: tone and behavior from members of Congress are not necessarily new.


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Fort Lauderdale, Florida (CNN) -- A Florida teenager attacked and set on fire last month, allegedly by five teenage friends, was undergoing skin graft surgery Friday, the first procedure in his recovery, a hospital spokeswoman said.

Michael Brewer, who suffered burns over 65 percent of his body, will have his own skin transplanted onto the burned areas of his back and buttocks, said Lorraine Nelson, a spokeswoman at the University of Miami's Jackson Memorial Hospital Burn Center.

Brewer will return to the intensive care unit after the surgery. He has been heavily sedated since the October 12 incident and on a ventilator until last week to keep him alive.

He is listed in guarded condition.

On Thursday, three teens accused of setting Brewer on fire pleaded not guilty to charges of attempted murder, a public defender for one of the boys said.

Each of the three -- Denver Jarvis and Matthew Bent, both 15, and Jesus Mendez, 16 -- is charged as an adult with one count of attempted murder in the second degree in the attack in Deerfield Beach, Florida.

They were arraigned in Broward County Circuit Court before Judge Dale Cohen, and are being held without bond.

Prosecutors say the three boys were in a gang that poured alcohol over Brewer, then set him ablaze in a dispute over $40, a video game and a bicycle.

Gordon Weekes, Bent's attorney, denounced the fact that the teens were charged as adults.

"It's been decided by society that a 15-year-old can't vote, can't join the armed forces and cannot buy alcohol, because society has recognized that children do not have the ability to appreciate the long-term consequences of their actions," he said.

"But they can treat them as adults in court, when we have very capable remedies for them in the juvenile justice system, which is geared towards rehabilitation," Weekes added.

The attorney said he and the other two public defenders plan to make separate motions to the court asking that their clients be allowed to post bond.

Detectives say eyewitnesses told them that Mendez used a lighter to set fire to Brewer after Jarvis allegedly poured alcohol over him. They said Bent allegedly encouraged the attack.

Authorities say that Mendez admitted setting Brewer on fire, and that he made a "bad decision," according to an arrest transcript.

Two other boys who were allegedly involved -- a 13-year-old and a 15-year-old -- have been charged as juveniles.

Witnesses say Brewer jumped into the swimming pool at his apartment complex to put out the flames.

Detectives with the Broward County Sheriff's Office have been unable to interview Brewer.

"We hope that we can maybe get a statement this week," sheriff's spokesman Jim Leljedal said. "Detectives have been waiting for him to recover to the point where he's strong enough to give us a complete statement."

Doctors say Brewer is improving but his condition is tenuous because of the severity of his burns and the possibility of infections. Most of his burns are on his back and buttocks; his face and hands were largely spared, doctors say.

Brewer's doctor told CNN the teen faces several more months in the hospital, and will need multiple skin grafts and surgeries.

"They still have to perform several operations on him for skin grafting, but his parents are with him all the time," Nelson said.

"I don't tell him what happened," Brewer's mother, Valerie, told CNN affiliate WFOR-TV. "I just tell him he's in the hospital and he's safe and he's getting better.

"And he'll say, 'Am I going to be OK?' And I say 'Yes, Michael. You're going to be fine. You're going to be just fine,' " she said.

Investigators believe Brewer owed Bent $40 for a video game. When Brewer did not pay, police say, Bent stole Brewer's father's bicycle. Brewer reported him to police and Bent was arrested, police say.

The next day, the group surrounded Brewer. According to witnesses, the five boys called Brewer "a snitch" and set him on fire.

The Brewer family told WFOR that none of the families of the accused boys have tried to contact them, but that it doesn't matter.

"We can't focus on it. They'll get theirs is all we can say. I don't focus on it," Brewer's father, also named Michael, told WFOR.

If convicted, each of the three teen suspects could face up to 30 years in prison.

A court-appointed psychologist who has examined two of the five boys allegedly involved in the attack told CNN they are competent to take part in legal proceedings and assist their attorney.

"I can describe both of them as being afraid, being fearful," said Michael Brannon, a forensic psychologist, without identifying the boys. "I can describe both of them as being tearful at various times during the interview, especially when talking about the specific incident which led to the injuries of the victim."

Psychologists are often brought into cases involving teenagers and young adults to judge their mental capabilities to determine their competency to proceed. They must determine whether the alleged attackers understand the charges against them, the court proceedings and potential sentences.

Psychologists also must evaluate whether the defendants can talk about what happened and communicate effectively with defense attorneys.

"I don't think they expected to have happened, what happened," Brannon said. "It's a horrible event that occurred, but this was not their conceptualization, in my opinion, of what was going to happen."

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text: Lauderdale

text: Florida

text: CNN

text: A

text: Florida

text: teenager

text: attacked

text: and

text: set

text: on

text: fire

text: last

text: month

text: allegedly

text: by

text: five

text: teenage

text: friends

text: was

text: undergoing

text: skin

text: graft

text: surgery

text: Friday

text: the

text: first

text: procedure

text: in

text: his

text: recovery

text: a

text: hospital

text: spokeswoman

text: said

text: Michael

text: Brewer

text: who

text: suffered

text: burns

text: over

text: percent

text: of

text: his

text: body

text: will

text: have

text: his

text: own

text: skin

text: transplanted

text: onto

text: the

text: burned

text: areas

text: of

text: his

text: back

text: and

text: buttocks

text: said

text: Lorraine

text: Nelson

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text: spokeswoman

text: at

text: the

text: University

text: of

text: Miami

text: 's

text: Jackson

text: Memorial

text: Hospital

text: Burn

text: Center

text: Brewer

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text: intensive

text: care

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text: surgery

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text: October

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text: on

text: a

text: ventilator

text: until

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text: week

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text: alive

text: He

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text: charges

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text: boys

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text: get

text: a

text: statement

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text: spokesman

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text: time

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text: do

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text: him

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text: happened

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text: mother

text: Valerie

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text: Am

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text: I

text: say

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text: Michael

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text: going

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text: fine

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text: 're

text: going

text: to

text: be

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text: fine

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text: said

text: Investigators

text: believe

text: Brewer

text: owed

text: Bent

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text: video

text: game

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text: did

text: not

text: pay

text: police

text: say

text: Bent

text: stole

text: Brewer

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text: father

text: 's

text: bicycle

text: Brewer

text: reported

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text: to

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text: Bent

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text: say

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text: Brewer

text: a

text: snitch

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text: set

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text: on

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text: family

text: told

text: WFOR

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text: of

text: the

text: families

text: of

text: the

text: accused

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text: have

text: tried

text: to

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text: them

text: but

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text: it

text: does

text: n't

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text: We

text: ca

text: n't

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text: They

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text: do

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text: father

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(CNN) -- Canadian researchers say they have discovered the smallest known North American dinosaur, a carnivore that roamed areas of the continent 75 million years ago and weighed less than most modern-day house cats.

Researchers say Hesperonychus, whose name means "western claw," was about 1.6 feet tall.

Hesperonychus elizabethae, a 4.4-pound (2-kilogram) creature with razor-like claws, ran through the swamps and forests of southeastern Alberta, Canada, during the late Cretaceous period, the researchers said.

The diminutive dinosaur likely hunted insects, small mammals and other prey, perhaps even baby dinosaurs, said Nick Longrich, a paleontology research associate in the University of Calgary's Department of Biological Sciences.

"It's basically a predator of small things," Longrich said.

Longrich co-wrote a paper on the dinosaur with University of Alberta paleontologist Philip Currie. The paper appeared in Monday's Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The researchers said the clawed dinosaur was slight, ran on two legs and had dagger-like teeth. It had an enlarged sickle-shaped claw on its second toe, the researchers said.

Although fossilized remains of Hesperonychus were collected in 1982, they remained unstudied until Longrich came across them in the University of Alberta's collection in 2007, the university said. Because of their size, some of the fossilized parts had been thought to be from juveniles.

Longrich said he suspected the claws had come from another, smaller adult species, but said finding a fossilized pelvis in which the hip bones were fused -- which happens only once an animal is fully grown -- convinced him.

"The claws were kind of a bread-crumb trail that we followed along," until finding the well-preserved pelvis, Longrich said.

Longrich and Currie determined that Hesperonychus, whose name means "western claw," stood about 1.6 feet (50 centimeters) high.

Albertonykus borealis, a 2.5-foot-long insectivore, had been previously thought to be the smallest North American dinosaur.

Longrich came across the dinosaur's bones in storage at the Royal Tyrrell Museum in Drumheller and decided to analyze them, Canadian Broadcasting Company reported in September. A dinosaur smaller than Hesperonychus has been found in China, Longrich said.

He said he found searching through museums' storage more productive in the short term than working in the field.

"People collect stuff so much more quickly than they can process," he said.

CNN's Taylor Gandossy contributed to this report.

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(LiveWire) -- Voluble Gary Vaynerchuk, 31, the host of "Wine Library TV," an online video show, has been known to lick rocks, suck leather and eat dirt while on camera, all to illustrate the unique properties of wine.

"Wine Library TV" host Gary Vaynerchuk discusses four spooky wine varieties for Halloween show.

Of a "wild and gamey" red from Rioja, Spain, Vaynerchuk says, "Hit a deer on the road. Throw a bunch of cherries on it. Take out your knife, cut the deer. Bite it. That's the flavor profile."

That kind of attitude appeals to people who are mystified by the arcane lexicon of traditional wine journals or turned off by what they perceive as elitist barriers. Across the Internet, budding wine geeks are discovering a burgeoning number of Web sites, blogs, bulletin boards and other outlets that preach the gospel of the grape in terms they can understand.

About 40,000 Internet viewers  -- many of them 20-somethings -- have a daily appointment with "Wine Library TV." The low-budget video blog is produced five days a week from a nondescript office in the three-level wine retail operation that Vaynerchuk's family owns in Springfield, New Jersey.

Vaynerchuk has a discerning nose and palate, and he doesn't dumb down his subject. Yet he stuffs his patter with sports and pop-culture references -- and the kind of language a Wine Spectator critic would be unlikely to employ.

The mission of wine sites like "Wine Library TV," say several of the people behind these new outlets, is to demystify wine (and in some cases, sell it, too). Using the language, attitude and new media that appeal to a young, tech-savvy generation, they advocate trusting one's own palate rather than obeying powerful wine critics. Some of the sites also provide opportunities for average wine drinkers to share their opinions.

One site, SavorEachGlass.com, declares its dedication to "exploring the spirit of wine for a new generation," with reviews, online journals and essays that explain the finer points of winemaking  -- all with attitude. "The (wine) establishment is about ratings and 'reputation,'" says the site's founder, Tynan Szvetecz, 29. "It's about collecting the 'good' stuff as defined by someone else's palate and tastes. That bores a younger generation."

"We're not afraid to be smartasses," he continues. "We make fun of ourselves, old-world wine makers, new-world wine makers, and anyone else we can get our hands on."

In the U.S., interest in wine is exploding. While consumption has leveled out in traditional wine-producing countries such as France, Italy and Spain, especially among young people, it has trended upwards in the U.S. for 15 straight years. The U.S. is projected to overtake No. 2 Italy by the end of 2007, according to the annual report The U.S. Wine Market: Impact Databank Review and Forecast a leading industry trade publication.

Many of the new converts to wine are the so-called Millennials, the under-30 age group coveted by beverage marketers and so comfortable online that they're also called iGen, or the Internet Generation.

One of the wine Web sites targeting a younger demographic is VineSugar.com, which features a blog called "Wine Burps." "We love wine but hate the elitism," writes founder, Ryan O'Donnell. "After all, it's just grape juice."

With rants about wine tasting fees, a feature spotlighting "wine hotties" working at California wineries, as well as interactive maps that plot and rate wineries, VineSugar.com leaves little doubt about its target audience.

CellarTracker.com, an online wine community, appeals to more established wine collectors. The site provides free software  -- designed by Eric LeVine, a fortuitously named former Microsoft software developer  -- that allows wine enthusiasts to create an online inventory of their wines.

The 39,000 users (who count 6 million bottles in their virtual cellars) post reviews of their wines and access scores and other data via PDAs and cell phones. Community tasting notes shed light on how cellar-worthy wines are evolving, helping others decide when to crack open a treasured bottle.

Corkd.com, another online community of wine fans, already had 40,000 users when Vaynerchuk purchased the site last year. The free service allows users to catalog and review wines. Instead of having "friends" as on Facebook, members identify "drinking buddies" and check out what they're drinking.

In the growing presence of wine fans on the Internet -- newbies as well as connoisseurs -- Vaynerchuk sees a movement. "They're part of forums, they meet up (offline)," he says. "It's about bringing people together. It's all that's right about wine."

Vaynerchuk should know. The 300-plus shows he has taped in the past two years have developed a cult following of online fans, who call themselves "Vayniacs," share wine tips and obsess about their hero on the site's forum.

On a recent rainy afternoon, Vaynerchuk barreled, unrehearsed and unscripted, through a 20-minute show in a single take. He wrapped up Wine Library TV episode No. 337 with what has become his signature line.

"You, with a little bit of me, we're changing the wine world, aren't we?" E-mail to a friend

LifeWire provides original and syndicated lifestyle content to Web publishers. Neil Edward Schlecht is a freelance writer based in Litchfield County, Connecticut and the author of more than a dozen travel guides.

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JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (CNN) -- An undersea cable plugging east Africa into high speed Internet access went live Thursday, providing an alternative to expensive satellite connections.

The cable links southern Africa to Europe and Asia.

SEACOM, the cable provider company, opened its 17,000 kilometer submarine cable, capable of 1.28 terabytes per second, allowing the region true connectivity.

Most Africans rely on expensive and slow satellite connections, which make the use of applications such as YouTube and Facebook extremely trying.

"This is going to reduce the cost of doing business in Africa, within Africa and with international parties" said Suveer Ramdhani, SEACOM spokesman in South Africa.

"The cable is as thin as a hair strand, and in one second it can download the same amount of data that 160 people use in a month."

SEACOM, privately funded and 75 percent African owned, will provide retail carriers with open source access to inexpensive bandwidth.

It has taken less than three years to complete the mammoth project, providing landing stations at South Africa, Kenya, Madagascar and other points along the east coast of Africa.

But telecoms analyst James Hodge said that some of the more ambitious hopes for the system -- such as impacting the continent's socioeconomic problems -- will be long-term, and that initially it will be those already connected who will see the benefits.

The launch was delayed by a month because of increased activity by pirates along parts of the African coast.

Security teams were beefed up to protect the slow moving cable layers.

Neotel, a South African communications network operator, is the largest SEACOM customer in South Africa and is the country's landing partner, providing both the coastal landing station and Johannesburg data center for the submarine cable.

Neotel managing director Ajay Pandey is excited about the opportunities for growth presented by the SEACOM cable.

"With this cable coming in, the pipe size opens up, so more and more people are able to get faster and better connectivity, hopefully at a lower price. It can't be more expensive than what it is today."

SEACOM Chief Executive Officer Brian Herlihy added: "Turning the switch 'on' creates a huge anticipation, but ultimately, SEACOM will be judged on the changes that take place on the continent over the coming years."

South Africa has been hobbled by high costs and extremely slow bandwidth, effectively keeping the country on an information back road rather then the superhighway.

There is much anticipation and hope that the cable will ensure Africa keeps up with the developed world in Internet connectivity, providing greater speed, flexibility and, potentially, a complete socioeconomic transformation.

Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete said in his opening address: "It's the ultimate embodiment of modernity."

His speech was beamed via SEACOM from a launch in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, to the simultaneous launch in Johannesburg, South Africa.

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question: What did the SEACOM spokesman say?

answer: "This is going to reduce the cost of doing business in Africa, within Africa and with international parties" said Suveer Ramdhani,

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