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LONDON, England (CNN) -- It may look like an air mattress you might see lying around next to a swimming pool but in reality its function couldn't be less trivial.

The Solar Water Disinfecting Tarpaulin could play a major role in saving lives in the developing world.

The Solar Water Disinfecting Tarpaulin (SWDT) -- a new portable water purifier -- could be a major step forward in the fight against disease and mortality in the Third World.

Eric Olsen, a San Francisco-based architect and the inventor of the SWDT believes the product could help eradicate the scourge of polluted water which the World Health Organization (WHO) estimate claims over 1.5 million lives every year.

Not only does it purify water -- up to 20 liters -- it makes it more portable in large quantities -- a vital dual role in Sub-Saharan Africa and parts of Central Asia where access to clean water is often scarce.

"There are lots of products that do one or the other," Olsen told CNN. "There's a really interesting product that's been around for 10 or 12 years called the Hippo Water Roller -- a 20 gallon drum with a handle attached that allows people -- mostly women -- to transport a week's worth of water back home".

Olsen also points to another product developed by the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag) that has successfully tackled water impurities.

According to Eawag SODIS (Solar Water Disinfection Process) is already used by more than two million in over 30 countries.

"The idea of SWDT," he says, "is to combine these two products and make them into something that can do both roles effectively".

Made out of a top layer of recycled low-density polyethylene (LDPE) and a bottom layer of durable rubberized nylon, the SWDT is both flexible and robust.

Its design was morphologically inspired by the saguaro cactus and is adaptable to a variety of situations -- as a wrap to carry or placed on the roof of a mud hut -- and is easy to store.

The SWDT uses passive solar radiation -- a water sterilizing method approved by WHO -- which disrupts the reproduction of microorganisms.

Heat and UVA radiation from the sun pass through the LDPE layer and into the water cavity and are reflected back by the bottom layer of nylon. On a sunny day purification takes five hours.

Olsen admits that its performance is hampered by its low density -- scratches to the surface mean it doesn't transmit the sun's rays as effectively -- but he is confident that this can be overcome with more research.

Production using a Radio Frequency Welding equipment may be relatively expensive but Olsen says that the raw materials are cheap and the labor is inexpensive.

"We are trying to imagine ways that this thing can be made and repaired by people where it is most needed," he said. "We are working on a sheet welding process which is much lower tech, inexpensive and also capitalizes on the handcraft skills of local people".

What started out as a solo effort a little over a year ago has gradually grown into a collaborative project. Olsen's students at the California College of Arts, where he currently teaches -- he moves to a new post at Woodbury University this fall -- have lent their enthusiasm and experts from the bioscience and textile industries are increasingly coming on board.

Olsen's efforts have already been recognized. The SWDT won first prize in the 2008 Next Generation Design Competition run by Metropolis Magazine -- netting him $10,000 -- and he is waiting for conformation that the invention has been selected for Wired Magazine's Next Fest show which takes place in Chicago later this year.

So what next for Olsen and his invention? The aim is to adapt the original design and turn it from a water carrying wrap into a fully fledged coat and he's also looking at ways the material might be redrawn as a tent.

He's currently in the process of trying to qualify for non-profit status. And with the likes of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and other institutions out there, he thinks the prospects for funding development and deployment look promising.

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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday that House committees will begin action on President-elect Barack Obama's proposed economic recovery package in the next couple of weeks, with a vote in the full House slated for the week after Obama's inauguration.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi says the House will not go on a break until an economic recovery package is passed.

Obama will take office January 20.

If that schedule slips, Pelosi, D-California, pledged to cancel the House's planned weeklong break in mid-February for Presidents Day.

"We are not going home without an economic recovery package," Pelosi said.

Pelosi said Obama's plan has broad public support "almost sight unseen," citing a poll from Politico that says 79 percent of Americans support the president-elect's plan.

A senior Pelosi aide said discussions about the details are ongoing between the Obama transition team and key leaders. The Ways and Means Committee will focus on the tax piece, approximately $300 billion in tax cuts.

Obama transition aides met with Democrats on that committee Wednesday morning to discuss various proposals, according to another Democratic aide.

The Appropriations Committee is tasked with drafting details on spending hundreds of billions of dollars on infrastructure projects, food stamps and other aid to states.

Sidestepping a question on possible roadblocks for the bill, Pelosi instead touted the new muscle of the expanded Democratic majority.

"We have been so used to an uphill fight, but now we have arrived. We have a big, strong, something like an 80-vote majority in the Congress, in the House, with a Democratic president in the White House," she said.

In a speech Thursday, Obama said it was imperative that Congress move quickly to pass the stimulus package once he takes office, warning that a failure to do so would have devastating long-term consequences to the nation's economy.

"We start 2009 in the midst of a crisis unlike any we have seen in our lifetime, a crisis that has only deepened over the last few weeks," Obama said at George Mason University in Virginia.  Watch Obama call for "dramatic action" on the economy Â»

"I don't believe it's too late to change course, but it will be if we don't take dramatic action as soon as possible," Obama continued. "If nothing is done, this recession could linger for years."

Key members of Obama's own party, however, said they opposed central tax measures of the president-elect's proposals after emerging from a closed-door meeting of the Senate Finance Committee.  Watch Obama explain his tax proposals Â»

In particular, they do not think that giving employers a $3,000 tax credit for each worker they hired would work.

"I'm not that excited about that," said Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts. "Having a tax credit for hiring is not going to change that dynamic; creating a direct job will. So I'd rather spend the money on the infrastructure, on direct investment, on energy conversion and other kinds of things, much more directly and much more rapidly and much more certainly create a real job."

Sen. Kent Conrad agreed.

"I think it's unlikely to be effective," the North Dakota senator said. "If you think about it, businesspeople are not going to hire people to produce products that are not selling. Who is going to hire in the auto industry if you give them a $3,000 credit to make cars that people are not buying?"

A second Obama tax proposal that several Democrats were down on is payroll tax credits, amounting to about $20 per paycheck and totaling $500 per person and $1,000 for couples earning less than $200,000 a year.

Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon said he doubted that proposal would do much to stimulate the economy.

"We have an example from the first stimulus that indicates just giving people $500 to $600, while certainly welcome when there's this much economic hurt, may not be the best use of stimulus," Wyden said.

Instead, Wyden said, pumping more money into infrastructure spending would be more effective in creating jobs.

Conrad agreed with Wyden.

"Twenty dollars a week? I don't think that will be effective, either. That is in terms of economic impact. We have got to focus on what is actually going to lift the economy," Conrad said.

None of the senators CNN spoke with after the meeting said they thought the opposition to these provisions would derail the bill but suggested that many meetings would be needed with the Obama team to hammer out an agreement.

First votes in the Finance Committee, which must approve the tax components of the stimulus plan, could come in the next two weeks, senators and aides said.

CNN's Deirdre Walsh, Dana Bash and Ted Barrett contributed to this report.

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Harrison, New York (CNN) -- Investigators from Toyota and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration on Wednesday inspected a wrecked Prius and extracted data from the car's event data recorder they hope will help determine what caused the car to speed out of control.

The driver of the car told police the 2005 Prius accelerated on its own as she was driving down her employer's driveway on March 9. She lost control of the car, crossed the road and crashed into a stone wall, police say. She was treated for minor injuries. No other cars were involved in the accident.

A team of six inspectors from Toyota and two from NHTSA spent several hours taking photos and measurements of the damaged vehicle and downloading the black box data from the car, which has been at the Harrison Police Department since the accident. Two independent inspectors from a forensic technology company, hired by the Police Department, also were aiding the investigation.

A Toyota spokesman, Wade Hoyt, said that in this model year Prius, the black box contains data only from the moment the airbags deploy, but not the three seconds before impact that newer models are programmed to record. Hoyt said investigators were pleased they were able to extract any data from the vehicle.

"We are getting information on engine speed, pedal position, that sort of thing," Hoyt said. "I'm happy we have it. It's possible it might not have been in there."

Police say the car's driver, whose name has not been released pending the investigation, has a clean driving record and there is no reason to believe she is to blame for the accident. But Acting Police Chief Anthony Marraccini said driver error is not being ruled out.

"I'm not sure we're going to have conclusive information as to what caused this accident. But we're not ruling out any possible causes." Marraccini said.

The 2005 Prius was part of Toyota's November recall to address the risk of accelerator pedal entrapment in the floor mat. Police say floor mats were not a factor in this particular accident, because they were secured to the seat with nylon ties. A recall to address a sticky accelerator problem did not include the Prius.

Hoyt said he would not speculate about the accident's cause. The Prius is equipped with a brake override feature. "When everything in the car is working correctly, the brakes will override the engine," Hoyt said. "You have to draw your own conclusions."

Hoyt said Toyota will release the data from the black box recorder to the Harrison Police Department, but will not make it public because of privacy and legal concerns. Marraccini said police will make a determination after their investigation how much of the data to make public. "If there's definitive information that shows the cause of this accident, absolutely we'll have to release it," Marraccini said.

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Editor's note: A nationally syndicated columnist, Roland S. Martin is the author of the forthcoming book, "The First: President Barack Obama's Road to the White House as originally reported by Roland S. Martin" and of two other books, "Listening to the Spirit Within: 50 Perspectives on Faith" and "Speak, Brother! A Black Man's View of America." Visit his Web site for more information.

Roland Martin says conservative critics are wrong to chortle at the defeat of the Chicago Olympic bid.

(CNN) -- Whenever President Obama has traveled overseas and offered pointed and direct assessments of the United States, some of them critical, Republicans have ripped him for criticizing America, saying a president should always defend the United States.

So I want to hear the explanation by these so-called patriots of their giddy behavior over the United States losing the 2016 Olympic Games.

Yes, the United States. The bid that was rejected Friday by the International Olympic Committee was not a Chicago, Illinois, bid. It was the official bid submitted by the United States Olympic Committee and was representative of the nation. Tokyo's bid was that of Japan; Madrid's was that of Spain; and Rio de Janeiro's was that of Brazil.

Republicans want to spin the decision as a massive loss by President Obama and the Democrats who have always controlled Chicago politics.

"Hahahahaha," wrote Erick Erickson on the conservative "RedState" blog, "I thought the world would love us more now that Bush was gone."

What the critics don't see is that Obama's loss on the Olympics is America's loss. Any red-blooded American who loves to see the American flag raised and the national anthem played when one of our own wins a gold medal should blast the Republicans' giddiness over the loss.

I can recall crying along with millions of Americans when our hockey team beat the Russians and won the hockey gold in 1980. Where were those games? Lake Placid, New York. Euphoria spread all across the nation, not only because we beat the mighty Russians, but also because it took place on American soil.

When Carl Lewis and Mary Lou Retton dominated the 1984 Olympic Games, we all beamed with pride because they represented the United States on American soil in Los Angeles, California.

And when Michael Johnson stormed around the track to obliterate the world record in the 200-meter dash (since broken by Jamaica's Usain Bolt), we relished the win as he took a victory lap around the stadium in Atlanta, Georgia.

Americans love home field advantage, and we always desire to show the rest of the world what we are made of.

I don't care if Republicans want to rip President Obama over going to Copenhagen, Denmark, to pitch for the games. This isn't about politics. It's not about ideology. This is about America. OUR pride. Our chance to shine. Our loss of the games.

So, to all the critics happy about us losing the 2016 games, turn in your flag lapel pins and stop boasting of being so patriotic. When an American city loses, like New York did in the the last go-round, we all lose. And all you critics are on the same level as the America haters all across the world.

You should be shouted down for not backing your own country. The next time any of you bang out a press release about "Buy American" or "Support our troops," remember this moment when your cynical, callous and small-minded brains happily rejoiced when America lost the 2016 Olympic Games.

The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Roland Martin.

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(OPRAH.com) -- One portion of macaroni and cheese. One slice of chocolate cake. One pair of svelte black pants. Do some very simple, if highly emotional, addition and subtraction, and you arrive at a whole new way to see yourself.

The first documented instance of my distorted body image is an entry in my fourth-grade journal. "I just ate three cookies," it says. "I feel fat."

There is no way that I actually was; my jeans, although dorky, fit just fine. Nevertheless, the disconnect grew worse as puberty approached -- especially in eighth grade, when the body mass index (BMI) entered my life. This is a formula that tells you whether you need to drop pounds -- and while it's generally reliable, it doesn't take body composition into account.

At 5'4" and 140 pounds, I'm close to the overweight category, but that's only because I've got heavy bones and a sprinter's thighs. Every time I calculate my BMI, I get angry at myself, even though I'm aware that I am in good shape.

But what do feelings have to do with numbers? Most women know that it is possible to immediately gain 15 pounds by eating one pint of Ben & Jerry's. And when it comes to your butt (which can enlarge six sizes in the wrong pair of jeans), the rules of physics no longer apply. Oprah.com: Start loving the way you look

We need a better way to quantify these fluctuations -- a formula that goes beyond your BMI and calculates the feel of overweight. So I propose the personal body image index (PBII).

The general idea is as follows:

â¢ Start with your weight.  â¢ Subtract seven pounds if you have just worked out.  â¢ Add five if you've single-handedly finished a plate of guacamole and chips; four for macaroni and cheese; six for death-by-chocolate cake.  â¢ Subtract 10 pounds if people nearby are fatter than you. â¢ If you're wearing black pants, subtract two; if in a bathing suit, add eight.  â¢ If you are more than seven years older than the group average or are surrounded by bikini-clad undergraduates with toned stomachs and cellulite-free thighs, add 20. iReport.com: What kinds of things do you do you stay fit?

I don't advocate letting the PBII dictate how you live your life; it could turn you into one of those people who spend their beach time camouflaging their lower halves with sarongs. But once you acknowledge that the PBII exists, you can take steps to improve your score. Some suggestions:

Hang out with people older than you, preferably much older. This has three benefits:

(a) You probably have fewer varicose veins than they do.

(b) Truly old people are inspiring; they tend not to give a damn about what they look like in bathing suits.

(c) Except for my elderly neighbor, who once greeted me by announcing that I'd gained weight in my face, older people are usually effusive with compliments. My friend Luba, who lived to 99, used to tell me how beautiful I was every time I saw her, even though she was blind.

Watch those college girls on the beach. Notice how often they adjust their bikinis and glance at themselves in other people's sunglasses. They are totally insecure. Granted, they are probably also judging you, but still -- I find their self-doubt liberating. Isn't there some cosmic limit on how much body insecurity the universe can handle?

Embrace the bikini now: "Look how skinny I was!" my mother says every time she sees a picture of herself from the 1970s. "I thought I was so fat. I was 130 pounds." My mother, now 66, is living proof that you should do everything in your power to enjoy your body as it is right now so you never have to look at an old photograph of yourself and wish you'd spent more time in a two-piece bathing suit.

When it comes to my own PBII, I still have a way to go. It doesn't take too much extra chocolate to convince me that I should never be allowed to wear shorts. But recognizing the illogical logic behind my self-image helps me to control it better. And by my calculations, that's worth subtracting at least five pounds.

By Catherine Price from "O, The Oprah Magazine," July 2008

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(CNN) -- Why are some people amazingly successful -- and other people with the same intelligence or abilities just part of the crowd?

Malcolm Gladwell tries to find out why some people are successful in his new book, "Outliers."

Malcolm Gladwell, the New Yorker writer who's made a living dissecting questions such as how small trends become major movements ("The Tipping Point") and the value of snap judgments ("Blink"), was curious about that subject, and -- typically -- set out to find some answers.

The result is his new book "Outliers" (Little, Brown), which finds parallels between the Beatles, Bill Gates and Canadian hockey players -- as well as reasons why planes operated by members of particular cultures have a greater likelihood of crashing.

John Roberts of CNN's "American Morning" spoke to Gladwell on Friday. The following is an edited version of that interview.

CNN: We always think that it's the smartest people that become the most successful. You postulate in this new book [that] it's not always intelligence that leads to success. You say "it's not the brightest who succeed, it's rather a gift. Outliers are those given opportunities who have the strength and presence of mind to seize them." But there are also some commonalities with these outliers.

Malcolm Gladwell: Yes. I'm really interested in things like the effects of generation. So what does it mean? I have a chapter that looks at some of the most powerful people in Silicon Valley. And almost all of them are born in 1955: Steve Jobs at Apple, Bill Gates at Microsoft, Bill Joy -- who is one of those famous programmers -- a bunch of guys at Sun Microsystems. The argument there is that they were 21 when the computer revolution hit, and that's how old you want to be when you're confronted with a new revolution.

That's the kind of pattern that you see, over and over again, when you look at the lives of very successful people. That it's not just their own abilities, it's being in the right place at the right time, it's coming from a certain kind of culture, it's having certain built-in advantages.

CNN: There were also some happy accidents along the way. For example, if Bill Gates hadn't been put into a private school, which actually had a computer -- one of the first schools to ever have a computer -- perhaps he may not have become the mogul that he was.

Gladwell: Yes, he has this incredible childhood. ... I talked to him, and he was going through the extraordinary one-in-a-million lucky breaks that characterized his childhood. He got to start programming on a computer in 1968 as a 13-year-old when nobody was programming. So he was way ahead of the crowd by the time he starts Microsoft.

CNN: You and I both lived in Canada, developed a love for Canadian hockey, and you found by looking at Canadian hockey teams that there's a certain commonality between all of the best players, at least in the junior hockey league system, which I imagine translates to the pros as well.

Gladwell: Oh, absolutely. An extraordinary number of hockey players who are professionals are born in January, February and March. And that's because the cutoff date for age-class hockey is January 1st. So when they go to ... recruit kids for all-star teams when they're 8 or 9 years old, they think they're choosing the most talented ones, but actually they're choosing the biggest ones. Because if you're born in January and you're 8, you're a lot taller, more mature and taller and bigger and stronger than someone born in December.

CNN: Because development is much faster there --

Gladwell: At that age, and so that advantage you get as an 8-year-old, you get plucked out and given proper coaching and more games and more practice -- and by the time you're 18, you actually are better.

CNN: Another fascinating finding is that you are more likely to be in a plane crash if the pilot comes from a particular country. What's that all about?

Gladwell: Yes. That's a fascinating thing. The single most important variable in determining whether a plane crashes is not the plane, it's not the maintenance, it's not the weather, it's the culture the pilot comes from. Planes are flown safely when the pilot and co-pilot are in open and honest communication. And in cultures where it is difficult for a junior person to speak openly to a superior, you have lots of plane crashes.

CNN: And you said the Avianca crash here in [New York's] Oyster Bay ... is a very clear example of that.

Gladwell: Where the co-pilot was so intimidated by air traffic control, he could not tell them they were running out of fuel, and they crashed. They just go around and crashed.

CNN: Some of the ideas of this book were criticized by The New York Times, which said the book "is glib, poorly reasoned, thoroughly unconvincing. Much of what Mr. Gladwell has to say about superstars is little more than common sense: that talent alone is not enough to assure success, that opportunity, hard work, timing and luck play important roles as well." What do you say about that?

Gladwell: I don't think -- I start from a very common-sense premise, but it takes you in all kinds of interesting areas. I wouldn't say that you know the stuff about pilots, the stuff about hockey players being born in January, it doesn't sound like common sense to me. So you know, I think what's interesting about this book is I take a series of ideas which we all know, and then I say, look, it's more complicated and more interesting and more fascinating than we would have ever imagined.

CNN: Anything we can do to try to employ some of these techniques?

Gladwell: Well, the end of the book talks about what we should be doing as a country. It's less about what we can do. When we understand that success is so much a part of the world of which we're a part, we move away from this idea that's about self-help and we move towards this idea that it's time for us to be providing opportunities to a group.

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text: But

text: there

text: are

text: also

text: some

text: commonalities

text: with

text: these

text: outliers

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text: things

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text: effects

text: of

text: generation

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text: mean

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text: a

text: chapter

text: that

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text: of

text: the

text: most

text: powerful

text: people

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text: Silicon

text: Valley

text: And

text: almost

text: all

text: of

text: them

text: are

text: born

text: in

text: Steve

text: Jobs

text: at

text: Apple

text: Bill

text: Gates

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text: Bill

text: Joy

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text: is

text: one

text: of

text: those

text: famous

text: programmers

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text: bunch

text: of

text: guys

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text: Sun

text: Microsystems

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text: argument

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text: when

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text: computer

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text: that

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text: how

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text: new

text: revolution

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text: and

text: over

text: again

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text: lives

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text: very

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text: right

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text: right

text: time

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text: were

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text: computer

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text: old

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text: programming

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text: ahead

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text: the

text: crowd

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text: the

text: time

text: he

text: starts

text: Microsoft

text: CNN

text: You

text: and

text: I

text: both

text: lived

text: in

text: Canada

text: developed

text: a

text: love

text: for

text: Canadian

text: hockey

text: and

text: you

text: found

text: by

text: looking

text: at

text: Canadian

text: hockey

text: teams

text: that

text: there

text: 's

text: a

text: certain

text: commonality

text: between

text: all

text: of

text: the

text: best

text: players

text: at

text: least

text: in

text: the

text: junior

text: hockey

text: league

text: system

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text: translates

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text: pros

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text: well

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text: extraordinary

text: number

text: of

text: hockey

text: players

text: who

text: are

text: professionals

text: are

text: born

text: in

text: January

text: February

text: and

text: March

text: And

text: that

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text: because

text: the

text: cutoff

text: date

text: for

text: age

text: class

text: hockey

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text: January

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text: go

text: to

text: recruit

text: kids

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text: all

text: star

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text: or

text: years

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text: think

text: they

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text: choosing

text: the

text: most

text: talented

text: ones

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text: actually

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text: 're

text: choosing

text: the

text: biggest

text: ones

text: Because

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text: 're

text: born

text: in

text: January

text: and

text: you

text: 're

text: you

text: 're

text: a

text: lot

text: taller

text: more

text: mature

text: and

text: taller

text: and

text: bigger

text: and

text: stronger

text: than

text: someone

text: born

text: in

text: December

text: CNN

text: Because

text: development

text: is

text: much

text: faster

text: there

text: Gladwell

text: At

text: that

text: age

text: and

text: so

text: that

text: advantage

text: you

text: get

text: as

text: an

text: old

text: you

text: get

text: plucked

text: out

text: and

text: given

text: proper

text: coaching

text: and

text: more

text: games

text: and

text: more

text: practice

text: and

text: by

text: the

text: time

text: you

text: 're

text: you

text: actually

text: are

text: better

text: CNN

text: Another

text: fascinating

text: finding

text: is

text: that

text: you

text: are

text: more

text: likely

text: to

text: be

text: in

text: a

text: plane

text: crash

text: if

text: the

text: pilot

text: comes

text: from

text: a

text: particular

text: country

text: What

text: 's

text: that

text: all

text: about

text: Gladwell

text: Yes

text: That

text: 's

text: a

text: fascinating

text: thing

text: The

text: single

text: most

text: important

text: variable

text: in

text: determining

text: whether

text: a

text: plane

text: crashes

text: is

text: not

text: the

text: plane

text: it

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text: not

text: the

text: maintenance

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text: the

text: weather

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text: 's

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text: culture

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text: pilot

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text: co

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text: in

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text: and

text: honest

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text: is

text: difficult

text: for

text: a

text: junior

text: person

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text: speak

text: openly

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text: superior

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text: of

text: plane

text: crashes

text: CNN

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text: you

text: said

text: the

text: Avianca

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text: New

text: York

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text: Bay

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text: very

text: clear

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text: that

text: Gladwell

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text: co

text: pilot

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text: air

text: traffic

text: control

text: he

text: could

text: not

text: tell

text: them

text: they

text: were

text: running

text: out

text: of

text: fuel

text: and

text: they

text: crashed

text: They

text: just

text: go

text: around

text: and

text: crashed

text: CNN

text: Some

text: of

text: the

text: ideas

text: of

text: this

text: book

text: were

text: criticized

text: by

text: The

text: New

text: York

text: Times

text: which

text: said

text: the

text: book

text: is

text: glib

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text: reasoned

text: thoroughly

text: unconvincing

text: Much

text: of

text: what

text: Mr.

text: Gladwell

text: has

text: to

text: say

text: about

text: superstars

text: is

text: little

text: more

text: than

text: common

text: sense

text: that

text: talent

text: alone

text: is

text: not

text: enough

text: to

text: assure

text: success

text: that

text: opportunity

text: hard

text: work

text: timing

text: and

text: luck

text: play

text: important

text: roles

text: as

text: well

text: What

text: do

text: you

text: say

text: about

text: that

text: Gladwell

text: I

text: do

text: n't

text: think

text: I

text: start

text: from

text: a

text: very

text: common

text: sense

text: premise

text: but

text: it

text: takes

text: you

text: in

text: all

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text: of

text: interesting

text: areas

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text: would

text: n't

text: say

text: that

text: you

text: know

text: the

text: stuff

text: about

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text: stuff

text: about

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text: players

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text: born

text: in

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text: like

text: common

text: sense

text: to

text: me

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text: you

text: know

text: I

text: think

text: what

text: 's

text: interesting

text: about

text: this

text: book

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text: I

text: take

text: a

text: series

text: of

text: ideas

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text: we

text: all

text: know

text: and

text: then

text: I

text: say

text: look

text: it

text: 's

text: more

text: complicated

text: and

text: more

text: interesting

text: and

text: more

text: fascinating

text: than

text: we

text: would

text: have

text: ever

text: imagined

text: CNN

text: Anything

text: we

text: can

text: do

text: to

text: try

text: to

text: employ

text: some

text: of

text: these

text: techniques

text: Gladwell

text: Well

text: the

text: end

text: of

text: the

text: book

text: talks

text: about

text: what

text: we

text: should

text: be

text: doing

text: as

text: a

text: country

text: It

text: 's

text: less

text: about

text: what

text: we

text: can

text: do

text: When

text: we

text: understand

text: that

text: success

text: is

text: so

text: much

text: a

text: part

text: of

text: the

text: world

text: of

text: which

text: we

text: 're

text: a

text: part

text: we

text: move

text: away

text: from

text: this

text: idea

text: that

text: 's

text: about

text: self

text: help

text: and

text: we

text: move

text: towards

text: this

text: idea

text: that

text: it

text: 's

text: time

text: for

text: us

text: to

text: be

text: providing

text: opportunities

text: to

text: a

text: group

question: What do successful people have in their favor?

answer: right place at the right time,

text: right place at the right time,

question: What does Outliers study?

answer: why some people are successful

text: why some people are successful

question: What is the name of Malcolm Gladwell's new book?

answer: "Outliers."

text: "Outliers."

question: What form of media is "Outliers"?

answer: book,

text: book,

question: Who wrote "Outliers"?

answer: Malcolm Gladwell

text: Malcolm Gladwell

question: What is the main subject of the book "Outliers"?

answer: why some people are successful

text: why some people are successful

question: What is the name of Gladwell's new book?

answer: "Outliers."

text: "Outliers."

question: What does the book also touch on?

answer: reasons why planes operated by members of particular cultures have a greater likelihood of crashing.

text: reasons why planes operated by members of particular cultures have a greater likelihood of crashing.


text:
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Pledging to take "the air out of golden parachutes," President Obama announced Wednesday that executives of companies receiving federal bailout money will have their pay capped at $500,000 under a revised financial compensation plan.

$500,000 will be the limit on executive salaries at companies receiving tax dollars, President Obama says.

Last year's "shameful" handout of $18 billion in Wall Street bonuses "is exactly the kind of disregard for the costs and consequences of their actions that brought about this crisis: a culture of narrow self-interest and short-term gain at the expense of everything else," Obama said to reporters at the White House.

"For top executives to award themselves these kinds of compensation packages in the midst of this economic crisis isn't just bad taste -- it's a bad strategy -- and I will not tolerate it. We're going to be demanding some restraint in exchange for federal aid -- so that when firms seek new federal dollars, we won't find them up to the same old tricks," the president added.

Under Obama's plan, companies that want to pay their executives more than $500,000 will have to do so through stocks that cannot be sold until the companies pay back the money they borrow from the government. The rules will be implemented by the Treasury Department and do not need to be approved by Congress.

The restrictions will most affect large companies that receive "exceptional assistance," such as Citigroup.

The struggling banking giant has taken about $45 billion from the government's Troubled Asset Relief Program.

The new rules also will mandate that shareholders of banks have a greater say about the salaries paid to company heads. The measures will put in place greater transparency for costs such as holiday parties and office renovations.

Obama also pledged further reforms in the future, promising that the administration will "examine the ways in which the means and manner of executive compensation have contributed to a reckless culture and quarter-by-quarter mentality that in turn have wrought havoc in our financial system."  Watch Obama talk about limiting executive salaries Â»

"We're going to be taking a look at broader reforms so that executives are compensated for sound risk management and rewarded for growth measured over years, not just days or weeks," Obama said.

CNN's Suzanne Malveaux contributed to this report.

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text: air

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text: parachutes

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text: Obama

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text: Wednesday

text: that

text: executives

text: of

text: companies

text: receiving

text: federal

text: bailout

text: money

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text: pay

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text: disregard

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text: costs

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text: consequences

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text: actions

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text: culture

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text: expense

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text: Malveaux

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text: report

question: What was the bailout money capped at?

answer: $500,000

question: What is the executive pay capped at?

answer: $500,000

question: At what amount will compensation have to be in stocks?

answer: $500,000

question: What does Obama pledge?

answer: further reforms in the future,

text: further reforms in the future,

question: What will over 500,000 have to be?

answer: the limit on executive salaries at companies receiving tax dollars,

text: the limit on executive salaries at companies receiving tax dollars,

question: Which President is making these rules and laws?

answer: Obama

text: Obama

question: A company that would get affected by the plan?

answer: Citigroup.

text: Citigroup.

question: What is the cap for executive pay in these certain companies?

answer: $500,000

question: Amount of money that the bailout money is capped at?

answer: $500,000


text:
(CNN) -- Garrison Keillor, author and host of the folksy radio show "A Prairie Home Companion," was being treated Wednesday for a minor stroke he suffered over the weekend, a hospital spokesman said.

Author Garrison Keillor attends an event in New York on November 18, 2008.

Keillor, who turned 67 last month, was admitted to St. Mary's Hospital at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, on Sunday night, spokesman Karl Oestreich said in a news release.

"He is up and moving around, speaking sensibly, working at a laptop, and it's expected he'll be released on Friday," Oestreich said.

"He plans to resume a normal schedule next week."

The live variety show "A Prairie Home Companion" is aired on Minnesota Public Radio.

Keillor launched the program on July 6, 1974, in a St. Paul, Minnesota, college theater before an audience of 12 people.

According to a "Backstage Chat" on the show, Keillor got the idea for it from watching the Grand Ole Opry.

Keillor, also a storyteller and satirist, has written 11 books, including three for children. He was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame in 1994.

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question: Who was admitted to the hospital on Sunday?

answer: Author Garrison Keillor

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question: Who was admitted to a hospital?

answer: Garrison

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question: Who will resume a normal schedule?

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question: When does be plan to resume to normal schedule?

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question: Who is expected to be released fom hospital on Friday?

answer: Garrison

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question: What is Garrison's age?

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question: Who was admitted to a hospital in Rochester, Minnesota, on Sunday?

answer: Garrison Keillor

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question: When will he be released?

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