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(CNN)  -- The first pictures from NASA's Mars Phoenix Lander, which successfully touched down near Mars' north pole Sunday, showed a pattern of brown polygons as far as the camera could see.

The Mars Phoenix Lander took this image of the planet's surface at its landing site Sunday.

"It's surprisingly close to what we expected and that's what surprises me most," said Peter Smith, the mission's principal investigator. "I expected a bigger surprise."

The landing on the Red Planet's arctic plains -- which ended a 296-day journey -- was right on target, a feat NASA's Ed Weiler compared to landing a hole-in-one with a golf ball from 10,000 miles.

The landing -- dubbed the "seven minutes of terror" -- was a nerve-wracking experience for mission managers, who have witnessed the failure of similar missions.

In mission control at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, they celebrated the lander's much-anticipated entry.

"It was better than we could have imagined," Barry Goldstein, project manager for the Phoenix mission, told CNN.  Watch the celebration at mission control Â»

The Phoenix's 90-day mission is to analyze the soils and permafrost of Mars' arctic tundra for signs of past or present life.

The lander is equipped with a robotic arm capable of scooping up ice and dirt to look for organic evidence that life once existed there, or even exists now.

"We are not going to be able to answer the final question of is there life on Mars," said principal investigator Peter Smith, an optical scientist with the University of Arizona. "We will take the next important step. We'll find out if there's organic material associated with this ice in the polar regions. Ice is a preserver, and if there ever were organics on Mars and they got into that ice, they will still be there today."

The twin to the Mars Polar Lander spacecraft, Phoenix was supposed to travel to Mars in 2001 as the Mars Surveyor spacecraft. They were originally part of the "better, faster, cheaper" program, formulated by then-NASA Administrator Dan Goldin to beef up planetary exploration on a lean budget.

But Polar malfunctioned during its descent into Mars' atmosphere in 1999 and crashed. An investigation concluded that as many as a dozen design flaws or malfunctions doomed the spacecraft.

The failure of that mission, as well as another spacecraft called the Mars Climate Orbiter the same year, led to NASA to put future missions on hold and rethink the "better, faster, cheaper" approach. Mars Surveyor went to the warehouse.  Watch the challenges the mission faced Â»

But all was not lost. In 2003, Smith proposed a plan to re-engineer the Mars Surveyor and fly it on a mission to look for signatures of life in the ice and dirt of Mars far North. Mars Phoenix, literally and figuratively, rose from the ashes of Surveyor.

Engineers set to work, testing and retesting the onboard system to ferret out and fix all the flaws they could find. iReport.com: Send your photos, video of space

"We always have to be scared to death," Goldstein said. "The minute we lose fear is the minute that we stop looking for the next problem."

The team was concerned about the Phoenix landing system. NASA had not successfully landed a probe on Mars using landing legs and stabilizing thrusters since the Viking missions in the late 1970s. The other three successful Mars landings -- Pathfinder in 1997 and the Spirit and Opportunity rovers in 2004 -- used massive airbags that inflated around the landing craft just before landing to cushion the impact.  Learn about NASA's past missions to Mars Â»

The Phoenix doesn't have airbags because the lander is too big and heavy for them to work properly.

Its landing site was targeted for the far northern plains of Mars, near the northern polar ice cap. Data from the Mars Odyssey spacecraft indicate large quantities of ice there, likely in the form of permafrost, either on the surface or just barely underground.

"Follow the water" has become the unifying theme of NASA's Mars exploration strategy.

In 2004, the rover Opportunity found evidence that a salty sea once lapped the shores of an area near Mars' equator called Meridiani Planum. Astrobiologists generally agree that it's best to look for life in wet places.

CNN's Kate Tobin contributed to this report.

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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- FBI Director Robert Mueller pointed Monday to recent terror attacks in Mumbai, India, and Somalia to highlight the FBI's concern that small groups or individuals could carry out such attacks on U.S. soil.

FBI Director Robert Mueller says he worries the Mumbai attack could be replicated in the United States.

In a speech to the Council on Foreign Relations, Mueller worried that the dramatic terror attack on hotels and other facilities in Mumbai potentially could be replicated in the United States.

"This type of attack reminds us that terrorists with large agendas and little money can use rudimentary weapons to maximize their impact. And it again raises the question of whether a similar attack could happen in Seattle or San Diego, Miami, or Manhattan," Mueller said.

He said he is increasingly concerned with "pockets of people around the world that identify with al Qaeda and its ideology" but who have little or no actual contact with al Qaeda.

Mueller cited the first-ever suicide bombing by a naturalized U.S. citizen last October. A Somali native who had settled in Minnesota traveled back to Somalia and blew up himself and 29 others.

The idea that Shirwa Ahmed, 27, was radicalized in the United States raised red flags throughout the FBI.

"One pattern in particular concerns us," Mueller said. "The prospect of young men, indoctrinated and radicalized within their own communities and induced to travel to Somalia to take up arms -- and to kill themselves and perhaps many others -- is a perversion of the immigrant story. And it raises the question of whether these young men will one day come home and, if so, what they might undertake here."

Authorities have said as many as 20 young Somali men reported missing in Minnesota may have returned to Somalia to take up arms.

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(CNN) -- CNN picked the brains of the Plastiki's crew members before they set off on the voyage. From the importance of the mission to a pint of Cornish cider, skipper Jo Royle tells CNN about her hopes and fears, how she plans to get through the voyage, and what she looks forward to most at the end of it.

CNN: What did you want to be when you were young?

Royle: I wanted to engineer a way to spend as much time on or by the ocean as possible.

CNN: What's the one characteristic that has led you to where you are today?

Royle: Thriving off the feeling of living just outside my comfort zone.

CNN: Who inspires you?

Royle: Everybody!

CNN: What's the most important lesson you've learned about yourself from the Plastiki project?

Royle: Put your energy into your beliefs, think outside the box and it will happen.

CNN: What's your biggest hope for the expedition?

Royle: To communicate to as many people as possible that our oceans are our umbilical cord to life, without healthy oceans we are not healthy, no matter where we are in the world we are directly connected to the ocean.

CNN: At what point would you define the Plastiki a success?

Royle: The Plastiki is already a success, it has proven that we need to think about the way we consume, the way we manufacture products, how we need to think about a products end life before it is created. Most importantly it has proven that no one is as smart as everyone; the Plastiki is a success because she has created a platform for many incredible minds to collaborate and engage in conversations on how we can ensure we leave this world in a better condition than we found it for our future generations. At the moment this feels like a tough ambition, but an exciting one!

CNN: What are your favorite sea creatures?

Royle: Jellyfish, as we know so little about them, but their increasing population is a direct indication of the health of our oceans. Dolphins, as they are our true companions when sailing across oceans. Seals, as they look so lazy and fat, but if you get on the wrong side of them they certainly show you who's boss.

CNN: When is the last time you personally used a plastic bottle?

Royle: I'm not sure, but we still get guests aboard the Plastiki who leave plastic water bottles behind! Have you tried to spend just one week without consuming anything plastic? I have, and it was impossible, I had to steal my flat mate's toothpaste when I ran out!

CNN: What do you most value about nature?

Royle: The way she makes your life feel like such a speck in the grand scale of things, your little worries feel so insignificant, the way she can make us feel like a visitor, but has her welcoming arms wide open. If we listen and open up she naturally teaches us how to live a sustainable, healthy life. She is always boss, we can choose to respect that, and live our lives as a caretaker, or not, but in the end she will always be here.

CNN: What's the one creature comfort you'll miss most when you're at sea?

Royle: Cycling my bike through the countryside. My buddies and a good pint of Cornish cider!

CNN: Name 3 books you will bring with you on the expedition.

Royle: I will be researching my Masters dissertation on populations displaced because of human influenced climate change, so lots of journals. If anyone has anything on this topic please send it to me! I'll be taking Sylvia Earle's latest book, which I am currently reading, but not finding the time to finish. I also might take a copy of Jim Dodge's "Stone Junction".

CNN: If you had to choose a theme song for the expedition, what would it be?

Royle: "Plastikians" by Jerry Zeiger (written just for the Plastiki).

CNN: What's your favorite adventure film?

Royle: "The Kon Tiki".

CNN: What's your green motto?

Royle: The more time you spend in the natural environment, the more you will naturally become a better caretaker of the planet.

CNN: What's the most important thing you've done to prepare for life at sea?

Royle: Lived in a city for a year, this is the longest time for over ten years that I have not been on an ocean adventure. As much as I love San Francisco I can't wait to get back to life on the ocean.

CNN: What's the main emotion you're feeling right now days before the launch?

Royle: My brain is running a million miles an hour to try to dot every "I" and cross every "t" in the preparations for the passage. Once we leave we can't pick up what we have forgotten, we just have to make do with what we have.

CNN: What's your biggest fear for the expedition?

Royle: I don't have big fears in my mind at the moment, we have spent a long time meticulously preparing the boat with an incredible team of talent. I am a sailor, so I have a huge respect for the ocean, and understand the path to take to minimize risk, I am in my element at sea.

CNN: What's the first thing you'll do when you reach Sydney?

Royle: Have a shower! I'll also enjoy the post-adventure feeling of mixed emotions; having achieved an awesome adventure, but also leaving a tight knit Plastiki family life behind! Oh, and maybe party a little!

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NEW YORK (CNN)  -- The YouTube and Carnegie Hall generations collided Wednesday night in New York City as a nearly sold-out audience looked on in amazement.

Images from musicians' videos are projected during the YouTube Symphony Orchestra concert in New York.

Almost 100 musicians from around the world -- the world's first symphony orchestra comprised of members who auditioned solely online -- played their debut gig. They may have forever changed the audition process in their journey.

The YouTube Symphony Orchestra bore a new era of classical performance at Carnegie Hall, and according to a YouTube employee, that's exactly what they wanted to do.

"We hope this is game changing in the sense it redefines audition space, it brings people closer together and lets them collaborate, transcending geographical and linguistic boundaries," said marketing manager Ed Sanders.

Participants were chosen from more than 3,000 YouTube video submissions from more than 70 countries and territories spanning six continents, according to a press release.  Watch orchestra play Â»

Their YouTube channel has received more than 15 million page views thus far with members hailing from more than 30 countries. The symphony orchestra's members participated in the three-day Classical Music Summit at Julliard and their Carnegie Hall debut served as the finale.

Michael Tilson Thomas directed the performance and also served as the artistic adviser and conductor to the orchestra. He refined and nurtured each member through their musical selections online until the entire orchestra met in the real world a few days ago.

"For us it's somewhere between a classical music summit conference and a scout jamboree with an element of speed dating thrown in," Thomas said.

While some participants traveled from as far as South Korea, Malaysia and Lithuania, bass player Kurt Hinterbichler lives in New York City. A theoretical physicist working on his doctorate at Columbia University, Hinterbichler was enamored at being chosen to participate.

"Carnegie Hall is still sort of the unofficial pinnacle of achievement of the classical music world," he said. "You know once you've made it to Carnegie Hall you've really made it."

So, how do you get to Carnegie Hall? "Upload, upload, upload [YouTube videos]," joked Thomas, updating the old "practice, practice, practice" punchline.

Violin player Jennifer Lindsay, who is a systems engineer by day, said she was floored when she learned she was selected. "YouTube gave me this opportunity to perform at Carnegie Hall. There's no other way that someone like me who is not even a professional musician would have ever made it."

World-renowned composer Tan Dun created a piece especially for the orchestra titled "Internet Symphony No. 1, Eroica." Dun told YouTube his inspiration for this piece came from the streets of many international cities.

"On the streets of New York, London, Paris, Beijing, Shanghai, I heard the street noise...then I thought this is the spirit beyond, this is the spirit of today."

Dun has also created music for the movie "Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon" and the Beijing Summer Olympics.

The symphony orchestra played to a Carnegie Hall audience that was almost 90 percent of capacity.

Audience members seemed to love not only the performance, but the idea as a whole. Peter Newton and his wife were on vacation in New York from London and decided to attend the concert.

"The mixture between the music and democracy... it's interesting that at the end of the day, you bring them together for this performance," he said.

Aaron Polsky attended the performance in support of his sister, who helped organize it. He was amazed at how limitless the performance seemed. "I think it's great... there are really no boundaries other than owning a computer and an Internet connection."

Musicians Lindsay and Hinterbichler both said they had no doubts the event would be a success.

"Absolutely do not underestimate the motivational power of playing at Carnegie Hall," Lindsay said. Hinterbichler agreed, "We've got world class conductors, it will come together."

In the spirit of YouTube, Travis Threlkel designed videos that accompanied all 15 musical selections. The lights in the room changed from green to red during some segments to match the mood of the selection.

Dun said he thought the concert would be a hit with the Internet community. "The whole world tonight is Googling around what's happening in Carnegie Hall," he said.

Hinterbichler said he still did not grasp the vast reality of the situation.

"It's going to be one of those life experiences you know. I probably won't know what it means until ten years down the line when I look back at it," he said.

So, what will the folks at YouTube come up with next?

"There should be a live Internet performance [by the orchestra]," said Newton, the audience member. After Wednesday night, that certainly seems like a possibility.

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answer: Carnegie

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BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN)  -- A roadside bomb targeted a police patrol in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, killing a civilian bystander Thursday, a police official told CNN.

Iraqis survey the damage after car bombs were detonated within minutes of each other in Mosul, July 9.

It is the latest in a series of attacks across Iraq that have killed at least 64 people and wounded 167 others over the past two days.

The deadliest attack happened earlier in the day when a double suicide bombing killed at least 35 people and wounded 65 others in the city of Tal Afar in Nineveh province, also in northern Iraq. Political tensions have recently increased in the region between Arabs and Kurds.

The Tal Afar bombings occurred a day after attacks on mainly Shiite targets in Nineveh province, including a car bomb in a Turkmen area of the provincial capital Mosul, left at least 19 people dead and dozens wounded.

U.S. forces pulled out of Iraq's urban centers June 30. The U.S. military had suggested keeping its combat troops in Mosul beyond the withdrawal deadline, but the Iraqi government insisted on making no exceptions for the date set in the security agreement.

Also on Thursday morning, at least seven people were killed and 25 wounded when a bomb detonated in a busy marketplace in Sadr City, the vast Shiite slum in Baghdad, an Interior Ministry official said.

Bomb blasts from a rigged bicycle a car in two predominantly Shiite neighborhoods of southwestern Baghdad wounded six people, according to the official.

In Baghdad's central Karrada district, a roadside bomb targeting a convoy of Iraq's Central Bank governor killed one civilian bystander and wounded five, another Interior Ministry official told CNN. The governor escaped unharmed.

CNN's Jomana Karadsheh contributed to this report

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question: On what date did the bombers strike the city of Tal Afar in the Nineveh province?

answer: July 9.

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question: What was the number of people killed

answer: 64

question: When the attacks occurred?

answer: July 9.

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question: What happened after the attack?

answer: Iraqis survey the damage

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answer: Nineveh

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question: In what country is of city of Tal Afar located?

answer: Iraq.

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(CNN) -- A Southern California bank robber dubbed the "geezer bandit" has struck again, possibly knocking off his 11th bank, the FBI said.

The suspect held up a Bank of America branch in Temecula on Thursday.

"During (the) robbery, the robber approached the victim teller and presented a demand note for cash," a statement from the FBI said. "The robber carried a leather case which contained a small caliber pistol that he threatened to use, if the teller did not comply with his demands."

The FBI believes the suspect is responsible for robbing 10 banks in San Diego County and one in Riverside County.

The "geezer bandit" has carried a weapon in at least two of the robberies and should be considered dangerous, authorities said.

"In these types of crimes, the potential for violence is significant," April Langwell, spokeswoman for the San Diego office of the FBI, said in May. "The last thing we want to happen is an employee of the bank or a customer to be injured as a result of one man's greed."

The robber has been described as between 60 and 70 years old. However, there has been some suggestion that he may be wearing a mask to conceal his real age and make him appear much older than he is, Langwell said.

He is approximately 6 feet, 190 pounds, of average build and has been known to wear prescription eyeglasses and various hats and caps, including a blue baseball cap with a script style "P" on the front.

CNN's Greg Morrison contributed to this report.

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(CNN) -- For most Americans, mosquitoes are pests whose bites leave behind itchy bumps. But in other parts of the world, mosquitoes carry a disease called malaria that kills more than a million people each year.

Mosquitoes, especially those in Sub-Saharan Africa, may transmit malaria to humans.

A new malaria vaccine that's about to begin human clinical trials is dependent on mosquitoes -- a whole lot of them. Bioengineers have been growing millions of mosquitoes in a sterile environment, letting them feed on malaria-infected blood, irradiating the bugs, extracting the disease-causing parasites and storing them for use in vaccines.

The announcement of the Food and Drug Administration's approval for clinical trials comes just days before World Malaria Day, which is Saturday. Check out the World Health Organization's site about malaria goals worldwide

The vaccine is unique among other candidates in that it uses the entire parasite and not just parts of it, said Dr. Stephen Hoffman, chief executive and scientific officer at Sanaria Inc., the Maryland-based biotechnology firm developing the vaccine.

This technique was first shown to be effective in the 1970s, but the technology didn't exist to mass-produce it for the millions of people who need it, said Dr.  Kirsten Lyke, principal investigator in the clinical trial site at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. At that time, people were immunized by being bitten by the irradiated mosquitoes.

"That is the only effective vaccine that anyone has ever really developed that works and does complete protection," said John Dame, chair of Infectious Diseases and Pathology at the University of Florida, who is not involved with the Sanaria trials.

The vaccine takes the same basic approach as standard vaccines in use for diseases such as measles and polio. In those vaccines against viruses, weakened bacteria is injected, creating an immune response without causing illness.

In the Sanaria vaccine, the body recognizes the malaria parasite as a foreign material, Lyke said. It goes to the liver, where a lot of the immune response is generated, but does not develop into a disease because the mosquito was irradiated, she said.

Clinical trials will begin in May, Hoffman said, and will include 80 immunized individuals and 24 controls. About 3,000 mosquitoes were used to produce the vaccines for the first clinical trials, he said. If these trials are successful, researchers will initiate trials on adults in Africa, and then children.

Among other vaccines in clinical trials currently, the one that is furthest along is RTS,S, developed by GlaxoSmithKline PLC. The company announced in December that this vaccine, based on a recombinant protein that uses part of the malaria parasite, was safely administered to African infants, with an efficacy of 65 percent in a three-month follow-up.

Both the Sanaria and the GlaxoSmithKline projects receive support from the PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative, a program at the nonprofit PATH established through an initial grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Dame, who used to be involved with the GlaxoSmithKline vaccine, said he would guess the Sanaria vaccine will be more effective, but clinical trials will provide more information. He also noted that mass distribution to developing countries would require appropriate infrastructure, and may be more difficult depending on how long the immunization lasts.

Each year, 350 million to 500 million cases of malaria occur worldwide, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Most people who die from the disease are young children in Africa south of the Sahara.

Symptoms of malaria include fever, chills and flu-like illness, the CDC said.

Although preventive measures exist, such as insecticide-treated nets and medications, there is no licensed vaccine on the market.

Moreover, effective treatments are largely too expensive for the people who need them in poor countries. The parasite has become resistant to cheaper treatments, Lyke said.

"Individuals living on $1 or $2 a day can't even afford $8 medication," Lyke said.

The U.S. military also has a keen interest in a malaria vaccine. The antimalaria drugs available have side effects such as stomach aches, said Dr. Tom Richie, director of the Navy component of the U.S. military malaria vaccine program, who provides oversight to the clinical trials.

"Malaria has been one of the most significant infectious threats to our military personnel when we deploy to tropical areas," Richie said.

The disease was the leading cause of casualties in the South Pacific theater during World War II, and also a major problem in the Vietnam War, he said.

There are five species of the malaria parasite known to infect humans. One called Plasmodium falciparum causes the vast majority of cases.

Malaria was eliminated in the United States in 1951, but there are still cases in the country, mostly from people who acquired it in high-risk countries. In 2002, there were 1,337 cases of malaria in the U.S., and all but five had been acquired abroad.

An international team at the Malaria Atlas Project recently published what researchers say is the most comprehensive map ever illustrating global malaria risk. Researchers told CNN the map offers hope that it is possible to eradicate the disease in many parts of the world.

Hoffman, former head of a U.S. Navy malaria vaccine team, started the Sanaria effort himself in the breakfast room of his house in 2003. The company now has a more official corporate headquarters in Rockville, Maryland.

"I thought that the world needed a malaria vaccine, there was no question this was the best way to make one," he said.

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text: clinical

text: trials

text: comes

text: just

text: days

text: before

text: World

text: Malaria

text: Day

text: which

text: is

text: Saturday

text: Check

text: out

text: the

text: World

text: Health

text: Organization

text: 's

text: site

text: about

text: malaria

text: goals

text: worldwide

text: The

text: vaccine

text: is

text: unique

text: among

text: other

text: candidates

text: in

text: that

text: it

text: uses

text: the

text: entire

text: parasite

text: and

text: not

text: just

text: parts

text: of

text: it

text: said

text: Dr.

text: Stephen

text: Hoffman

text: chief

text: executive

text: and

text: scientific

text: officer

text: at

text: Sanaria

text: Inc.

text: the

text: Maryland

text: based

text: biotechnology

text: firm

text: developing

text: the

text: vaccine

text: This

text: technique

text: was

text: first

text: shown

text: to

text: be

text: effective

text: in

text: the

text: but

text: the

text: technology

text: did

text: n't

text: exist

text: to

text: mass

text: produce

text: it

text: for

text: the

text: millions

text: of

text: people

text: who

text: need

text: it

text: said

text: Dr.

text: Kirsten

text: Lyke

text: principal

text: investigator

text: in

text: the

text: clinical

text: trial

text: site

text: at

text: the

text: University

text: of

text: Maryland

text: School

text: of

text: Medicine

text: At

text: that

text: time

text: people

text: were

text: immunized

text: by

text: being

text: bitten

text: by

text: the

text: irradiated

text: mosquitoes

text: That

text: is

text: the

text: only

text: effective

text: vaccine

text: that

text: anyone

text: has

text: ever

text: really

text: developed

text: that

text: works

text: and

text: does

text: complete

text: protection

text: said

text: John

text: Dame

text: chair

text: of

text: Infectious

text: Diseases

text: and

text: Pathology

text: at

text: the

text: University

text: of

text: Florida

text: who

text: is

text: not

text: involved

text: with

text: the

text: Sanaria

text: trials

text: The

text: vaccine

text: takes

text: the

text: same

text: basic

text: approach

text: as

text: standard

text: vaccines

text: in

text: use

text: for

text: diseases

text: such

text: as

text: measles

text: and

text: polio

text: In

text: those

text: vaccines

text: against

text: viruses

text: weakened

text: bacteria

text: is

text: injected

text: creating

text: an

text: immune

text: response

text: without

text: causing

text: illness

text: In

text: the

text: Sanaria

text: vaccine

text: the

text: body

text: recognizes

text: the

text: malaria

text: parasite

text: as

text: a

text: foreign

text: material

text: Lyke

text: said

text: It

text: goes

text: to

text: the

text: liver

text: where

text: a

text: lot

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text: immune

text: response

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text: generated

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text: does

text: not

text: develop

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text: a

text: disease

text: because

text: the

text: mosquito

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text: irradiated

text: she

text: said

text: Clinical

text: trials

text: will

text: begin

text: in

text: May

text: Hoffman

text: said

text: and

text: will

text: include

text: immunized

text: individuals

text: and

text: controls

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text: mosquitoes

text: were

text: used

text: to

text: produce

text: the

text: vaccines

text: for

text: the

text: first

text: clinical

text: trials

text: he

text: said

text: If

text: these

text: trials

text: are

text: successful

text: researchers

text: will

text: initiate

text: trials

text: on

text: adults

text: in

text: Africa

text: and

text: then

text: children

text: Among

text: other

text: vaccines

text: in

text: clinical

text: trials

text: currently

text: the

text: one

text: that

text: is

text: furthest

text: along

text: is

text: RTS

text: S

text: developed

text: by

text: GlaxoSmithKline

text: PLC

text: The

text: company

text: announced

text: in

text: December

text: that

text: this

text: vaccine

text: based

text: on

text: a

text: recombinant

text: protein

text: that

text: uses

text: part

text: of

text: the

text: malaria

text: parasite

text: was

text: safely

text: administered

text: to

text: African

text: infants

text: with

text: an

text: efficacy

text: of

text: percent

text: in

text: a

text: three

text: month

text: follow

text: up

text: Both

text: the

text: Sanaria

text: and

text: the

text: GlaxoSmithKline

text: projects

text: receive

text: support

text: from

text: the

text: PATH

text: Malaria

text: Vaccine

text: Initiative

text: a

text: program

text: at

text: the

text: nonprofit

text: PATH

text: established

text: through

text: an

text: initial

text: grant

text: from

text: the

text: Bill

text: Melinda

text: Gates

text: Foundation

text: Dame

text: who

text: used

text: to

text: be

text: involved

text: with

text: the

text: GlaxoSmithKline

text: vaccine

text: said

text: he

text: would

text: guess

text: the

text: Sanaria

text: vaccine

text: will

text: be

text: more

text: effective

text: but

text: clinical

text: trials

text: will

text: provide

text: more

text: information

text: He

text: also

text: noted

text: that

text: mass

text: distribution

text: to

text: developing

text: countries

text: would

text: require

text: appropriate

text: infrastructure

text: and

text: may

text: be

text: more

text: difficult

text: depending

text: on

text: how

text: long

text: the

text: immunization

text: lasts

text: Each

text: year

text: million

text: to

text: million

text: cases

text: of

text: malaria

text: occur

text: worldwide

text: according

text: to

text: the

text: Centers

text: for

text: Disease

text: Control

text: and

text: Prevention

text: Most

text: people

text: who

text: die

text: from

text: the

text: disease

text: are

text: young

text: children

text: in

text: Africa

text: south

text: of

text: the

text: Sahara

text: Symptoms

text: of

text: malaria

text: include

text: fever

text: chills

text: and

text: flu

text: like

text: illness

text: the

text: CDC

text: said

text: Although

text: preventive

text: measures

text: exist

text: such

text: as

text: insecticide

text: treated

text: nets

text: and

text: medications

text: there

text: is

text: no

text: licensed

text: vaccine

text: on

text: the

text: market

text: Moreover

text: effective

text: treatments

text: are

text: largely

text: too

text: expensive

text: for

text: the

text: people

text: who

text: need

text: them

text: in

text: poor

text: countries

text: The

text: parasite

text: has

text: become

text: resistant

text: to

text: cheaper

text: treatments

text: Lyke

text: said

text: Individuals

text: living

text: on

text: or

text: a

text: day

text: ca

text: n't

text: even

text: afford

text: medication

text: Lyke

text: said

text: The

text: U.S.

text: military

text: also

text: has

text: a

text: keen

text: interest

text: in

text: a

text: malaria

text: vaccine

text: The

text: antimalaria

text: drugs

text: available

text: have

text: side

text: effects

text: such

text: as

text: stomach

text: aches

text: said

text: Dr.

text: Tom

text: Richie

text: director

text: of

text: the

text: Navy

text: component

text: of

text: the

text: U.S.

text: military

text: malaria

text: vaccine

text: program

text: who

text: provides

text: oversight

text: to

text: the

text: clinical

text: trials

text: Malaria

text: has

text: been

text: one

text: of

text: the

text: most

text: significant

text: infectious

text: threats

text: to

text: our

text: military

text: personnel

text: when

text: we

text: deploy

text: to

text: tropical

text: areas

text: Richie

text: said

text: The

text: disease

text: was

text: the

text: leading

text: cause

text: of

text: casualties

text: in

text: the

text: South

text: Pacific

text: theater

text: during

text: World

text: War

text: II

text: and

text: also

text: a

text: major

text: problem

text: in

text: the

text: Vietnam

text: War

text: he

text: said

text: There

text: are

text: five

text: species

text: of

text: the

text: malaria

text: parasite

text: known

text: to

text: infect

text: humans

text: One

text: called

text: Plasmodium

text: falciparum

text: causes

text: the

text: vast

text: majority

text: of

text: cases

text: Malaria

text: was

text: eliminated

text: in

text: the

text: United

text: States

text: in

text: but

text: there

text: are

text: still

text: cases

text: in

text: the

text: country

text: mostly

text: from

text: people

text: who

text: acquired

text: it

text: in

text: high

text: risk

text: countries

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text: were

text: cases

text: of

text: malaria

text: in

text: the

text: U.S.

text: and

text: all

text: but

text: five

text: had

text: been

text: acquired

text: abroad

text: An

text: international

text: team

text: at

text: the

text: Malaria

text: Atlas

text: Project

text: recently

text: published

text: what

text: researchers

text: say

text: is

text: the

text: most

text: comprehensive

text: map

text: ever

text: illustrating

text: global

text: malaria

text: risk

text: Researchers

text: told

text: CNN

text: the

text: map

text: offers

text: hope

text: that

text: it

text: is

text: possible

text: to

text: eradicate

text: the

text: disease

text: in

text: many

text: parts

text: of

text: the

text: world

text: Hoffman

text: former

text: head

text: of

text: a

text: U.S.

text: Navy

text: malaria

text: vaccine

text: team

text: started

text: the

text: Sanaria

text: effort

text: himself

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text: the

text: breakfast

text: room

text: of

text: his

text: house

text: in

text: The

text: company

text: now

text: has

text: a

text: more

text: official

text: corporate

text: headquarters

text: in

text: Rockville

text: Maryland

text: I

text: thought

text: that

text: the

text: world

text: needed

text: a

text: malaria

text: vaccine

text: there

text: was

text: no

text: question

text: this

text: was

text: the

text: best

text: way

text: to

text: make

text: one

text: he

text: said

question: What decade was the method first tried?

answer: 1970s,

question: Where was vaccine tested?

answer: University of Maryland School of Medicine.

text: University of Maryland School of Medicine.

question: What is the name of the company developing the vaccine?

answer: Sanaria Inc.,

text: Sanaria Inc.,

question: Where has the vaccine already been tested?

answer: University of Maryland School of Medicine.

text: University of Maryland School of Medicine.


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LONDON, England (CNN) -- A U.S. company is offering a rare chance to holiday on a mega-yacht once used by a Hollywood star and her husband -- and thanks to the recession it's actually affordable.

The 100-foot Katania normally would attract an additional $49,500 charter fee for a week's use.

The 100-foot Katania was chartered by Hollywood star Hilary Swank and her husband, Chad Lowe.

Seattle, Washington-based mega-yacht rental business CEO Expeditions usually charges around $100,000 a week to charter their 100-plus-foot yachts, but they have introduced a deal waiving the charter fees -- meaning guests will only need to pay for the running of the vessel.

The move to make such vessels more affordable comes as the recession continues to put pressure on the luxury holiday and mega-yacht industries.

Although the costs of crew and luxury food aren't extremely cheap, it is expected this move will open up the recession-strained market to many more potential holiday-makers.

The Katania now costs less than $3,000 per day. Normally it would attract an additional $49,500 charter fee for a week's use.

At the $2,950-per-day special rate, four people can stay on the Katania -- but with the maximum six on board ($450 extra per person) the cost per person is a slightly better $642.

The price includes full crew, premium wines, gourmet food prepared by a private chef, amenities such as kayaks, hot tub, fishing/crabbing/shrimping equipment, and even a 30-foot whaler for guest use.

According to the company, Swank said of her charter holiday: "We had an absolutely enchanted time aboard the Katania. A more beautiful yacht does not exist."

There is one small catch with the deal -- the boat is based in the San Juan islands off the coast of Washington and British Columbia, and any cruises to other destinations will attract an additional charge to cover fuel costs.

The company's owner, Bruce Milne, released a statement saying the deal was largely a result of the impact of the recession.

"Travel is down, agents and brokers need deals, so rather than just a few full-price charters, we decided to stay busy, put more people to work, and help island tourism by doing charters at cost.

"Since we started chartering 10 years ago, we have been looking for a chance to provide our 'Expeditions to the Extraordinary' in the San Juan Islands at a price any luxury traveler can afford -- this recession provides that opportunity," he said.

Tim Wiltshire, director and sales broker at international yacht company Burgess Yachts, said the charter market isn't a complete disaster, so he was surprised to see such a discount.

"I wouldn't have expected to see that," he said. "We are seeing discounts on average of about 25 percent. Although some people are trying interesting gimmicks to inspire new business."

Wiltshire said CEO Expedition's fleet isn't among the biggest or most luxurious on the market, and this deal appears to be clever marketing stunt.

His opinion is that other larger vessels still warrant their greater price tags.

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question: How much were the charter fees waived by a U.S. mega=yacht company?

answer: $100,000 a week

text: $100,000 a week

question: What is the given reason for the discount?

answer: chance to provide our 'Expeditions to the Extraordinary' in the San Juan Islands at a price any luxury traveler can afford -- this recession provides that opportunity,"

text: chance to provide our 'Expeditions to the Extraordinary' in the San Juan Islands at a price any luxury traveler can afford -- this recession provides that opportunity,"

question: How much can a yacht chartered by Hilary Swank now be rented for per day?

answer: $2,950-per-day