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(CNN) -- In Mexico City, the government ran out of surgical masks after handing them out to one of every five residents.

A mother and son wear face masks as protection from swine flu at Sydney international Airport in Australia.

Manufacturers and pharmacies in Europe are also reporting a surge in demand for face masks. And a Texas-based surgical mask producer says it's ramping up to meet demand and expects a shortage of masks.

But their real value seems to be in keeping people who are already ill from spreading the virus, rather than protecting healthy people, experts said.

Dr. Richard Besser, acting director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said Monday in a press briefing that the "evidence is not very strong" for masks' value outside of health care settings, and outside of settings in which people come into face-to-face contact with a person with an infectious disease.

"We would not recommend that people generally wear masks in their workplace as a precautionary measure," he said.  Watch for more on staying safe from swine flu Â»

The World Health Organization (WHO) also warns against relying on face masks, especially for those not infected with the virus.

"They are mainly useful for people who are already sick, to prevent spreading. Not so much to stop people from catching the virus," Sarah Cumberland of the WHO told CNN.

The United Kingdom's Health Protection Agency also told CNN that the use of face masks was not necessary or recommended for protection against the swine flu virus.

Although it's not known for sure how much benefit a surgical mask has in preventing the transmission of swine flu, people who have the illness may consider wearing one as a way to reduce the amount they cough and sneeze onto others, said Dr. Arthur Reingold, head of the epidemiology division at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Public Health.

"I think that this is a perfectly reasonable thing for someone with a respiratory illness to do," he said.

More effective than soft surgical masks is the N95, which is an example of a "respirator." This kind of tight-fitting face covering protects people against breathing very small particles, which may contain viruses. The downside is that it's more expensive, uncomfortable to wear for long periods of time and has to be custom fit, Reingold said, so it's suited for people working in high-risk laboratories.

Masks carry both physical and psychological benefits, said Dr. Julio Frenk, former health minister of Mexico and current dean of the Harvard School of Public Health.

Masks are a "reminder to people that they should avoid close contact with other persons," he said. "They also have this effect of isolating people and reminding them that they should not be kissing people, shaking hands, things like that."

For health care workers, it's important to have high-efficiency masks, which protect better against infectious diseases, he said.

But people in the United States should generally not have to wear masks because the cases are localized, he said. By contrast, it is more of a widespread problem in Mexico, especially in the capital city, a "huge urban conglomeration."

Measures such as closing schools are the most effective in stopping the spread of the disease, he said. Mexico's schools are closed until at least May 6.

By early Tuesday, the swine flu outbreak in Mexico was suspected in 152 deaths and more than 1,600 illnesses, the country's health minister said.

Swine flu has reached  phase 4 (out of 6) on the pandemic scale, according to the WHO guidelines, but has not yet attained the status of global pandemic.

During a flu pandemic, people should consider wearing a face mask if they are sick with the flu, live with someone who has the flu or need to be in a crowded place, the CDC Web site says.

If you are caring for a person thought to have pandemic flu or will be close to someone who may have it, consider a respirator, for example an N95 or high-filtering face piece respirator, the CDC Web site says. Some health care workers, such as nurses and doctors, use respirators when dealing with patients who have airborne diseases, the CDC said. iReport.com: Worried about swine flu?

In the current swine flu situation, rather than masks, the CDC is pushing hand-washing, covering coughs and refraining from "giving somebody that little kiss of greeting," Besser said.

"If you're in an infected area or if you have the swine flu, it's probably best not to, to not give a kiss, but we're not recommending an end of affection during the period. It's a period of time when we need a little more affection, but doing it in a way that isn't going to transmit a respiratory disease would be a CDC approach," he said.

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TAMPA, Florida (CNN) -- Don Stratton says he's just a good ol' boy. He's simple and plainspoken. But he has a painful past he can't leave behind. When he talks about it, the old emotions surface.

Don Stratton says he and others were abused at the Florida School for Boys during the 1960s.

Stratton attended a Florida reform school as a teenager in the early 1960s. Nearly half a century later, he's telling a chilling tale of alleged beatings, sexual abuse and violent death at the hands of reform school workers.

He said he believes the bodies of slain boys are buried in unnamed graves on the grounds of the former reform school in Marianna, Florida.

"These men are animals and need to be prosecuted to the full extent of the law," Stratton told CNN in an interview at his attorney's office in Tampa.

Stratton wore a black cowboy hat with a Harley Davidson logo. Despite his tough exterior, he fought back tears as he recounted how he was physically and sexually assaulted.

Stratton is among a group of men, now in their 60s, who are suing state agencies in Florida as well as two former reform school workers over alleged abuse they received as teenagers. The suit was filed this month.

"At 2 or 3 o'clock in the morning, you'd hear a boy crying," Stratton told CNN. "And then the door would open and you'd see these guys come in and come up to somebody they liked, and they'd just tell you, 'Come on with me, you're mine for tonight. You're my boy for tonight.' And they would take you and do what they wanted to do with you."

"They would take a leather strap, six inches wide and three feet long," he added, swinging his arm in a downward motion. "It's like a shotgun going off. And they beat you until you're bloody."

Stratton's attorneys said they've interviewed 80 former students who say they were abused. Stratton and the other alleged abuse victims who spoke with CNN all said the beatings took place in a small white cement building they called "the white house."

Gov. Charlie Crist has ordered an investigation into the alleged abuse. He has asked the Florida Department of Law Enforcement to uncover records, interview students and find former administrators. The agency also was asked to determine who, if anyone, is buried beneath the 31 rusting white crosses on the school grounds.

"Whatever is below those crosses is crying out -- and it's screaming for us to bring justice," Stratton said.

The truth of what happened at the Florida School for Boys may ultimately be lost to time. But investigators said they're making progress.

"There are challenges due to the length of time that has passed," said Florida Department of Law Enforcement spokeswoman Heather Smith. "We are confident that we can conduct a thorough and methodical investigation and establish, as much as we can, what happened here and what lies beneath in those grave sites."

Smith said it was much too early in the investigation to say whether there would be an exhumation.

Investigators said that, so far, the search for records from 50 years ago has been productive. They also have met with many of the men who have come forward.

When they meet with Stratton, they will hear his claim that he witnessed the violent death of one boy who exposed himself to reform school workers on a dare. The boy was taken to "the white house."

Stratton said that later, while he was working in the kitchen, he saw a brown 1949 Ford pull up. "They opened the back door and they carried him out and threw him in the back of the car," said Stratton, fighting tears.

"They took him out there and buried him in the woods," he said. "I know they buried him somewhere, 'cause he never showed up again."

Investigators will also hear Stratton's claim that he and many of the other boys were sexually assaulted. His story is so graphic that it cannot be repeated. He tearfully apologized to CNN.

"I don't pull no punches, but it's hard doing this on camera. See what I'm saying? This is tough, fellas," he said. "We're all men here, know what I mean? I'm not ashamed of it, but I was 13 years old and I had no choice ... and it haunts me today."

CNN has tried to find many of the men who are alleged to have committed the beatings and sexual assaults. Some have died.

The lawsuit names former worker Troy Tidwell, a one-armed man who still lives near the reform school grounds in Marianna. It alleges he participated in physical assaults and failed to report the abuse.

Tidwell refused to meet with CNN in December to respond to the allegations, but he recently told the Miami Herald that the boys were "spanked" but not injured.

''Kids that were chronic cases, getting in trouble all the time, running away and what have you, they used that as a last resort,'' Tidwell told the Herald. "We would take them to a little building near the dining room and spank the boys there when we felt it was necessary."

Tidwell, in his 80s, has hired a law firm to represent him in the lawsuit. In court filings, his lawyers are trying to get the suit thrown out. His attorney did not return CNN's calls for comment.

"You've got to realize what these guys did," Stratton said. "They mentally abused us, and they beat us. Is that something you should say: 'I'm sorry fellas. You're an old man now, live out the rest of your life in a rocking chair.' Well, no way."

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text: a

text: shotgun

text: going

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text: they

text: beat

text: you

text: until

text: you

text: 're

text: bloody

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text: attorneys

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text: they

text: 've

text: interviewed

text: former

text: students

text: who

text: say

text: they

text: were

text: abused

text: Stratton

text: and

text: the

text: other

text: alleged

text: abuse

text: victims

text: who

text: spoke

text: with

text: CNN

text: all

text: said

text: the

text: beatings

text: took

text: place

text: in

text: a

text: small

text: white

text: cement

text: building

text: they

text: called

text: the

text: white

text: house

text: Gov.

text: Charlie

text: Crist

text: has

text: ordered

text: an

text: investigation

text: into

text: the

text: alleged

text: abuse

text: He

text: has

text: asked

text: the

text: Florida

text: Department

text: of

text: Law

text: Enforcement

text: to

text: uncover

text: records

text: interview

text: students

text: and

text: find

text: former

text: administrators

text: The

text: agency

text: also

text: was

text: asked

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text: determine

text: who

text: if

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text: buried

text: beneath

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text: rusting

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text: school

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text: is

text: below

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text: crosses

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text: crying

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text: it

text: 's

text: screaming

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text: us

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text: bring

text: justice

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text: truth

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text: what

text: happened

text: at

text: the

text: Florida

text: School

text: for

text: Boys

text: may

text: ultimately

text: be

text: lost

text: to

text: time

text: But

text: investigators

text: said

text: they

text: 're

text: making

text: progress

text: There

text: are

text: challenges

text: due

text: to

text: the

text: length

text: of

text: time

text: that

text: has

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text: said

text: Florida

text: Department

text: of

text: Law

text: Enforcement

text: spokeswoman

text: Heather

text: Smith

text: We

text: are

text: confident

text: that

text: we

text: can

text: conduct

text: a

text: thorough

text: and

text: methodical

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text: and

text: establish

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text: much

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text: we

text: can

text: what

text: happened

text: here

text: and

text: what

text: lies

text: beneath

text: in

text: those

text: grave

text: sites

text: Smith

text: said

text: it

text: was

text: much

text: too

text: early

text: in

text: the

text: investigation

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text: say

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text: there

text: would

text: be

text: an

text: exhumation

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text: so

text: far

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text: search

text: for

text: records

text: from

text: years

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text: productive

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text: met

text: with

text: many

text: of

text: the

text: men

text: who

text: have

text: come

text: forward

text: When

text: they

text: meet

text: with

text: Stratton

text: they

text: will

text: hear

text: his

text: claim

text: that

text: he

text: witnessed

text: the

text: violent

text: death

text: of

text: one

text: boy

text: who

text: exposed

text: himself

text: to

text: reform

text: school

text: workers

text: on

text: a

text: dare

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text: boy

text: was

text: taken

text: to

text: the

text: white

text: house

text: Stratton

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text: later

text: while

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text: was

text: working

text: in

text: the

text: kitchen

text: he

text: saw

text: a

text: brown

text: Ford

text: pull

text: up

text: They

text: opened

text: the

text: back

text: door

text: and

text: they

text: carried

text: him

text: out

text: and

text: threw

text: him

text: in

text: the

text: back

text: of

text: the

text: car

text: said

text: Stratton

text: fighting

text: tears

text: They

text: took

text: him

text: out

text: there

text: and

text: buried

text: him

text: in

text: the

text: woods

text: he

text: said

text: I

text: know

text: they

text: buried

text: him

text: somewhere

text: 'cause

text: he

text: never

text: showed

text: up

text: again

text: Investigators

text: will

text: also

text: hear

text: Stratton

text: 's

text: claim

text: that

text: he

text: and

text: many

text: of

text: the

text: other

text: boys

text: were

text: sexually

text: assaulted

text: His

text: story

text: is

text: so

text: graphic

text: that

text: it

text: can

text: not

text: be

text: repeated

text: He

text: tearfully

text: apologized

text: to

text: CNN

text: I

text: do

text: n't

text: pull

text: no

text: punches

text: but

text: it

text: 's

text: hard

text: doing

text: this

text: on

text: camera

text: See

text: what

text: I

text: 'm

text: saying

text: This

text: is

text: tough

text: fellas

text: he

text: said

text: We

text: 're

text: all

text: men

text: here

text: know

text: what

text: I

text: mean

text: I

text: 'm

text: not

text: ashamed

text: of

text: it

text: but

text: I

text: was

text: years

text: old

text: and

text: I

text: had

text: no

text: choice

text: and

text: it

text: haunts

text: me

text: today

text: CNN

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text: tried

text: to

text: find

text: many

text: of

text: the

text: men

text: who

text: are

text: alleged

text: to

text: have

text: committed

text: the

text: beatings

text: and

text: sexual

text: assaults

text: Some

text: have

text: died

text: The

text: lawsuit

text: names

text: former

text: worker

text: Troy

text: Tidwell

text: a

text: one

text: armed

text: man

text: who

text: still

text: lives

text: near

text: the

text: reform

text: school

text: grounds

text: in

text: Marianna

text: It

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text: he

text: participated

text: in

text: physical

text: assaults

text: and

text: failed

text: to

text: report

text: the

text: abuse

text: Tidwell

text: refused

text: to

text: meet

text: with

text: CNN

text: in

text: December

text: to

text: respond

text: to

text: the

text: allegations

text: but

text: he

text: recently

text: told

text: the

text: Miami

text: Herald

text: that

text: the

text: boys

text: were

text: spanked

text: but

text: not

text: injured

text: Kids

text: that

text: were

text: chronic

text: cases

text: getting

text: in

text: trouble

text: all

text: the

text: time

text: running

text: away

text: and

text: what

text: have

text: you

text: they

text: used

text: that

text: as

text: a

text: last

text: resort

text: Tidwell

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text: the

text: Herald

text: We

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text: little

text: building

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text: dining

text: room

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text: spank

text: the

text: boys

text: there

text: when

text: we

text: felt

text: it

text: was

text: necessary

text: Tidwell

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text: his

text: has

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text: a

text: law

text: firm

text: to

text: represent

text: him

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text: lawsuit

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text: court

text: filings

text: his

text: lawyers

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text: trying

text: to

text: get

text: the

text: suit

text: thrown

text: out

text: His

text: attorney

text: did

text: not

text: return

text: CNN

text: 's

text: calls

text: for

text: comment

text: You

text: 've

text: got

text: to

text: realize

text: what

text: these

text: guys

text: did

text: Stratton

text: said

text: They

text: mentally

text: abused

text: us

text: and

text: they

text: beat

text: us

text: Is

text: that

text: something

text: you

text: should

text: say

text: I

text: 'm

text: sorry

text: fellas

text: You

text: 're

text: an

text: old

text: man

text: now

text: live

text: out

text: the

text: rest

text: of

text: your

text: life

text: in

text: a

text: rocking

text: chair

text: Well

text: no

text: way

question: What does the lawsuit allege?

answer: participated in physical assaults and failed to report the abuse.

text: participated in physical assaults and failed to report the abuse.

question: How many white crosses were they during the investigation?

answer: 31

question: What did former resident Don Stratton say?

answer: he and others were abused at the Florida School for Boys during the 1960s.

text: he and others were abused at the Florida School for Boys during the 1960s.

question: What state is named in the lawsuit?

answer: Florida

text: Florida

question: How many former residents have attorneys spoken to?

answer: 80

question: Don Statton, former resident, said what when asked?

answer: he and others were abused at the Florida School for Boys during the 1960s.

text: he and others were abused at the Florida School for Boys during the 1960s.

question: How many former residents have been spoken to by attorneys?

answer: 80

question: What is the number of crosses being looked into?

answer: 31

question: What is the name of the resident quoted?

answer: Don Stratton

text: Don Stratton


text:
(CNN) -- We have a tendency, when things in the news get bad, to tell ourselves that it's never been quite this dismal before.

We are tempted, when disputes become particularly acrimonious, to believe that the current bitterness is unprecedented.

So it's beneficial, once in a while, to look at our current problems in light of what has gone before.

And to remember just how much the United States has endured.

The newspaper USA Today reported last week that there has been a sharp increase in the unemployment rate for male veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. The paper said that such unemployment has tripled since the recession began, having reached 15 percent last month. More than 250,000 of the male veterans were said to be unemployed last month, with another 400,000 having left the workforce for various reasons: to raise children, or attend college, or because they have just stopped trying to find work.

Joe Davis, a spokesman for the Veterans of Foreign Wars, said: "It makes you almost want to go out and rip off all the 'Support Your Troops' bumper stickers. If you want to support your troops, give them a job."

Can't argue with that. After what American soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines are asked to sacrifice, there is something melancholy about the thought of them coming home and having trouble finding a way to support their families.

The nation is likely to work on a solution to this honorably and in good faith.

There was a time, during parallel circumstances, when that wasn't the case. It was one of the darkest moments in American history, and few people speak about it anymore.

The shorthand for it was "the Bonus Army."

In the spring and summer of 1932, with the Great Depression gripping the country, tens of thousands of World War I veterans and their families gathered in Washington to demand what they felt they had been promised. They set up shantytowns, and vowed to stay put until their entreaties were met.

The federal government had, in 1924, issued service certificates -- redeemable for bonuses -- to the soldiers who had returned from World War I. The certificates were intended to reward the veterans for the time they had spent fighting for their country. They were like long-term bonds -- they could not be redeemed until 1945.

But something happened between 1924 and 1932: The economy collapsed. Poverty and joblessness were everywhere. The veterans, many of them hungry and destitute, came to Washington asking Congress to allow them to collect their bonuses early.

It didn't happen. The U.S. Senate voted down the bill.

So there were the military veterans, amassed in the nation's capital. Out of money, out of luck, almost out of hope, they refused to leave. The government ordered their evacuation. Many of the veterans resisted; the police shot and killed two of them.

With that, the president of the United States, Herbert Hoover, fearing that radicals had infiltrated the veterans, ordered the Army to take over the involuntary evacuation.

And this country was confronted with the news that the Army was moving against the old soldiers.

At the highest level of the Army assigned to the task were men who would later become extraordinarily famous. Gen. Douglas MacArthur was in command; Maj. Dwight D. Eisenhower was the go-between with the local police force; Maj. George Patton was in charge of the cavalry.

Bayonets were drawn; tanks and soldiers on horseback advanced into the crowds; acrid gas was unleashed on the protesting veterans; the makeshift camps were torn down. Even though President Hoover didn't want it to happen, MacArthur sent his troops across a bridge to the site of the veterans' main living quarters. A fire broke out; it was never determined with certainty who set it, but there it was: the American veterans' cobbled-together homes in flames, as the Army drove them out.

There was no television back then; it is almost impossible to fathom what would have happened if the country had been able to see, live, the military moving relentlessly against former members of the military who were asking for the means to survive.

As rugged as the economy is now -- and as difficult a time as some veterans are having as they look for work in a dismal hiring environment -- no one foresees a day when soldiers will again be ordered to roust former soldiers and their families.

Later in their lives, MacArthur, Eisenhower and Patton all lamented, with varying degrees of emotion, having had to play a role in driving the Bonus Army out of Washington. Their commander in chief had decreed that it must be done, so they carried out his orders.

We've come a long way since then; no president with an eye toward his legacy would order the Army to do such a thing, and it's hard to believe that military officials would not, behind closed doors, try everything in their power to avoid having to use American troops that way.

But as much as things have changed, certain truths haven't. We ask our soldiers, in times of war, to cross the oceans and fight in our name. When they come home -- those who do come home alive -- we tell them, in bad economic times, that the jobs for them are just not there.

If our soldiers want to work, we owe it to them to make it easier for that to happen. There may never again, we should hope, be a Bonus Army camped in the streets of Washington, pleading for help. The best way to prevent such a sight is to provide the help before the despair of the unemployed veterans reaches that breaking point. You might call it our patriotic duty.

The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Bob Greene.

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text: a

text: long

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text: power

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text: use

text: American

text: troops

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text: truths

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text: home

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question: Among which group do we have a serious unemployment problem?

answer: male veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.

text: male veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.

question: Today's troubles are not equal to when?

answer: spring and summer of 1932, with the Great Depression gripping the country, tens of thousands of World War I veterans and their families gathered in Washington to demand what they felt they had been promised.

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question: Who chased jobless veterans protesting out of Washington?

answer: the Army

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question: Who said People have a tendency to think we live in the worst of times?

answer: Bob Greene.

text: Bob Greene.

question: Who does Greene say has a serious unemployment problem?

answer: male veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.

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Paris, France (CNN) -- Flash floods killed at least 20 people in the southern French region of Var, French authorities said Wednesday.

The flooding began Tuesday, and more storms were expected Wednesday evening, the Var prefecture said in a statement.

Authorities warned of "possible intense rain and thunderstorms, sometimes violent in the coastal area."

Eleven helicopters worked overnight to rescue people and 1,000 people have been placed in shelters, the prefecture said. Some 1,200 firefighters and 650 police officers were taking part in the rescue effort, it said.

All schools in the region were closed Wednesday and more than 96,000 people were without electricity.

Authorities earlier said 12 people were missing, but by the end of the day they said all the missing had been found, either alive or dead.

Var includes the Cote d'Azur, a popular tourist destination along the French Riviera.

CNN's Saskya Vandoorne and Pat Thompson contributed to this report.

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question: How many people are without electricity?

answer: 96,000

question: What did the officials say?

answer: Flash floods killed at least 20 people in the southern French region of Var,

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question: What have the 1000 rescued people been placed in?

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question: When are more storms expected?

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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) -- More than 1,300 pounds of explosives were packed into a construction truck that detonated outside an Islamabad hotel, killing 57 people, including two Americans and a diplomat, officials said Sunday.

A truck burns at the gate to the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad before a larger, deadly explosion Saturday.

Pakistani Interior Minister Rehman Malik said the Saturday attack at the Marriott Hotel "is the biggest attack, volume-wise" in Pakistan in seven years.

Two American military personnel who worked for the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad were among those killed, the U.S. military said. A Lithuanian and the Czech Republic's ambassador to Pakistan, Ivo Zdarek, also were among the fatalities, police superintendent Sheikh Zubair said.

The suicide truck blast injured 266 people, including 11 foreigners, according to Malik.  Watch guards scatter after an explosion Â»

British Airways temporarily suspended its flights to Islamabad as a result of the security situation, according to an airline spokeswoman who did not want to be named. A Sunday night flight has been canceled, and the airline is reviewing its operations for later in the week.

British Airways operates at least three flights a week to the Pakistani capital out of London's Heathrow Airport.

At a news conference in Islamabad on Sunday, Pakistani authorities released security video of the blast, showing a small explosion inside the truck before the larger, deadly explosion. Watch the truck bomb caught on tape

In the video, a large truck crashes into the security gate, sending one security officer scurrying for safety. Then, as security guards approach the truck, the top of the vehicle explodes and the security guards flee.

A small cloud of smoke appears above the truck, which is engulfed in flames minutes later. One of the security guards tries to put out the fire with a hand-held extinguisher, to no avail. The guards then walk away, and the camera freezes on the burning truck.

Pakistani officials said the blast apparently disrupted electricity to the area, causing the closed-circuit television camera to malfunction.

No arrests have been made in connection with the attack, Malik said Sunday, adding that militants in Pakistan's tribal regions are suspected of orchestrating the attack.

"I am not in a position to tell you who has done it, but [in] all the previous investigations, all the roads have gone to South Waziristan," he said.

South Waziristan is one of Pakistan's seven tribal areas where Taliban and al Qaeda militants are active.

At the bombing site, video showed a deep crater in the pavement where the bomb detonated. More than a dozen cars were reduced to twisted steel.

The crater was 24 feet deep and nearly 60 feet wide, Malik said. The blast also caused a natural gas leak that set the top floor of the five-story, 258-room hotel on fire, police said. The blaze quickly engulfed the entire structure.  Watch a witness describe walking over bodies Â»

Most of the fatalities appeared to be drivers, who were waiting with their cars outside the Marriott, and hotel security guards, Geo TV's Hamid Mir said.

The hotel, where a standard room costs more than $300 per night, is near the compound that contains the Parliament building, the prime minister's house, the Supreme Court and the presidency.

The blast occurred about 7:50 p.m., after the breaking of the fast during the holy month of Ramadan, Malik said.

Trees were felled by the explosion, which occurred hours after newly elected President Asif Ali Zardari addressed a joint session of Parliament and promised to root out terrorism.  Watch the scene the morning after the blast Â»

A few hours after the attack, Zardari addressed the nation on television, saying he knows the pain of terrorism after his wife, former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, was killed in December on the campaign trail.

"My heart cries tears of blood. I can understand your pain. I want to ask you to turn this pain into your strength," he said, describing extremism as "a cancer, which we will finish."

"In the holy month of Ramadan, no Muslim can act in this way. These people are not Muslims," he said. "I appeal to all democratic nations to help us get rid of this menace."

The Marriott, a Western brand-name hotel, has been the site of attacks in the past.  See where the attack occurred Â»

Malik said authorities had received a threat against Parliament two days ago.

"We had taken all security measures," he said. "There was heavy security in the city."

Located near the diplomatic section of the city and heavily guarded by police and the military, the hotel is popular among tourists and had been packed Saturday night. Any vehicle entering the facility is searched, its underside checked for bombs, before it is allowed to pass through heavy steel gates.  Watch bombing victims rushed into hospital Â»

The British High Commission in Islamabad said six British nationals -- five adults and one minor -- were injured in the attack, including three commission members. A Pakistani staff member of the commission was also injured, it said.

A spokeswoman for the German Foreign Ministry said six Germans in the hotel were slightly hurt in the attack, and that all embassy personnel were accounted for.

CNN's Zein Basravi and Reza Sayah, and journalist Tomas Etzler contributed to this report.

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question: What was the truck loaded with?

answer: More than 1,300 pounds of explosives

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question: What is the name of the Czech Republic's ambassador who died in the hotel bombing?

answer: Ivo Zdarek,

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question: Who is Czech Republic's ambassador to Pakistan?

answer: Ivo Zdarek,

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question: What was the truck loaded with according to an official?

answer: 1,300 pounds of explosives

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question: How many Americans died in the embassy bombing?

answer: two

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question: What was the number of Americans assigned to the embassy who were among the dead?

answer: Two

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answer: two

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question: What did the Pakistani president say about the perpetrators?

answer: "is the biggest attack, volume-wise"

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question: How many explosives were found in the truck?

answer: 1,300 pounds

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LONDON, England (CNN) -- What to do with 50,000 used, possibly smelly and dirty prison mattresses that need to be disposed of every year?

Discarded mattresses  pile up alongside trash in London in January of this year.

Britain's Prison Service won praise Thursday for its innovative solution to the problem: recycle the mattresses for carpet underlay, or break them down for fencing or even roof tiles.

Most of the mattresses are sent to landfills. There are enough of them each year to fill 30 double-decker buses, the National Audit Office said Thursday.

The Prison Service wanted to find a better way to dispose of the mattresses -- a "zero-waste" solution that also cost less money, the NAO said. It worked with suppliers and launched a competition to find the best solution.

They ended up coming up with several proposals to reuse the mattresses, and the Prison Service is now testing them out, the NAO said.

Thursday's report highlighted several other examples of ways that government departments have used innovation to their advantage.

"We have selected them as good examples of innovative approaches which have lessons for how innovation can be managed in government," the report said.

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(CNN) -- Panama City Beach, Florida, police are looking for a hotel security guard accused of raping an Alabama student and throwing her off a sixth-floor hotel balcony, a police spokesman told CNN.

Police released this photo of Shawn Wuertly, who worked as a hotel security guard in Panama City Beach, Florida.

The 18-year-old woman from Tuscaloosa, Alabama, remains hospitalized, but her injuries are not life-threatening, Lt. Dave Humphreys said.

The incident happened early Monday at the Sandpiper Beacon Beach Resort in Panama City Beach during spring break.

Police have issued an arrest warrant for Shawn Wuertly, 29, who worked as a security guard at the resort, Humphreys said.

He is wanted for attempted felony murder, sexual battery and false imprisonment.

Wuertly had been questioned by police regarding the attack, but they lacked the evidence to hold him, the spokesman said.

The police investigation has found that the suspect had seen the girl "several times" at the hotel and had "taken a liking to her at some point," Humphreys said.

Around 1 a.m. on Monday, the suspect grabbed the woman and pulled her into an unoccupied room on the sixth floor, using his key to get in, Humphreys said.

She said he sexually assaulted her and, after a brief altercation, threw her over the balcony, the police spokesman said.

She hit two smaller roofs on her way down, which likely saved her from more serious injuries, before she came to rest in a second floor stairwell, Humphreys said.

After his initial questioning, Wuertly told police he was leaving for Tennessee and would return on Wednesday. Wuertly has an outstanding arrest warrant, something that police did not discover until after he was released.

"Obviously no one checked his warrants because he has an outstanding warrant in Indiana," Humphrey said, noting that police are "not happy and will address that."

CNN's calls to the hotel's manager regarding Wuertly's outstanding warrant were not returned. E-mail to a friend

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answer: sexually assaulted her and, after a brief altercation, threw her over the balcony,

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question: What is the severity of the victim's injuries?

answer: not life-threatening,

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Washington (CNN) -- The head of the U.S. Department of Energy's Loan Program Office has resigned amid a fiscal firestorm over the bankruptcy of a company that received a $535 million federal loan, DOE Secretary Steven Chu said.

The loan program's executive director, Jonathan Silver, was planning to leave his post and return to the private sector this fall, Chu said in a written statement.

Silver informed Chu of his intentions in July, "shortly after the fiscal year 2011 budget was completed by Congress and it became clear that no significant new funds were included for the loan program," the energy secretary said.

However, two House Republicans looking into the bankruptcy of the solar energy company Solyndra linked the resignation to the loan.

Approved in May 2010, the loan allowed the company to build a factory in Fremont, California, to produce state-of-the-art solar panels.

The company filed for bankruptcy in August, laying off 1,100 workers.

Silver testified last month before a House subcommittee about the DOE's handling of the loan, which has been at the center of a fierce political debate over the amount of government subsidies issued to new businesses.

On Thursday, Republican Reps. Fred Upton of Michigan and Cliff Stearns of Florida said Silver's decision "does not solve the problem."

"American taxpayers are already on the hook for the half-billion-dollar Solyndra bust -- what other shoes does this administration expect to drop?" the representatives said in a joint statement that went on to criticize President Barack Obama's handling of the issue.

Upton is chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. Stearns heads up the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee, which conducted the September hearings in which Silver testified.

Self-described as the "The Financing Force Behind a Clean Energy Economy," the program "is currently supporting 28 projects with a total loan amount of $16 billion," Chu said in the written statement.

CNN has confirmed that Silver will serve as a fellow at Third Way, a centrist think tank in Washington that focuses on the economy, energy, national security and domestic policy.

CNN's Kevin Bohn, Diana Ozemebhoya and Ashley Killough contributed to this report.

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question: What observations Republicans has about his resignation?

answer: looking into the bankruptcy of the solar energy company Solyndra linked the

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question: How much money do the loans amount?

answer: $535 million

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question: What position had Jonathan Silver at Energy Dept.?

answer: executive director,

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question: What do Republicans say about resignation?

answer: "does not solve the problem."

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question: Who is Jonathan Silver?

answer: The loan program's executive director,

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question: How many billions of dollars will the project cost?

answer: $16 billion,"

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