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LONDON, England (CNN) -- The view will be one unlike any other.

Climbing up through the clouds at a rate faster than the speed of sound, the sky will darken to a deep blue and then to black. Below, entire mountain ranges, coastlines and cities will shift into focus as the horizon bends around the curvature of the Earth - the thin veil of its atmosphere shimmering against a backdrop of stars.

An emerging space tourism industry may give thousands of travelers a new view of Earth.

And then, of course, there will be the feeling of weightlessness.

"It is just life changing," said Col. Richard Searfoss, a retired NASA shuttle commander."To be outside the atmosphere and see the curvature of the Earth and see so much land area at once, it gives you a sense of separateness but connectedness."

The view of Earth from outer space is a sight that in the history of mankind only a few hundred people have ever seen. But that could soon change as what was once an almost nonexistent space tourism industry slowly matures into what some analysts predict could be a billion dollar enterprise with thousands of passengers by the end of the next decade.

"This is just the beginning of the golden age of space flight," said Peter Diamandis, chairman of the X Prize Foundation, which awarded the $10 million Ansari X Prize in 2004 for the first privately funded human flight to the edge of space."Looking back a thousand years from now, this will be the period of time when the human race irrevocably moved off the planet."

Look back roughly ten years, though, and the idea of sending tourists into space seemed more like science fiction than a viable business plan, said John Gedmark, executive director of the Personal Spaceflight Federation, a trade association representing the space travel industry.

"No one ever thought this was real at all," said Gedmark."It was just completely unthinkable."

But that perception began to change in 2001 when American multimillionaire Dennis Tito became the world's first so-called space tourist, traveling aboard a Russian Soyuz capsule to the International Space Station for a price of around $20 million. Four more tourists have since made the trip.

Another major milestone for the industry has been a growing interest and investment from entrepreneurs like Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, who financed the development of SpaceShipOne, winner of the Ansari X Prize, and British billionaire Richard Branson, founder of the space tourism company, Virgin Galactic.

"Since then the activity has been more evenly spread and steadier and more consistent and more determined," said Gedmark. "Now you have a number of companies working on multiple fronts to get people into space."

There are now at least a dozen space tourism endeavors worldwide, offering experiences that range from a flight to the fringe of space to astronaut training on a tropical island.

While the companies make up a varied landscape of technological know-how, financial wherewithal and enterprising ideas, they all share one common goal: The desire to conquer what is widely considered to be the final frontier of mankind -- the universe.

"The human species is about evolution and is about moving forward," said Eric Anderson, president of Space Adventures Ltd., the Virginia-based company responsible for arranging civilian trips to the space station on the Soyuz. "Space is filled with infinite resources that can make our lives better."

This October, Richard Garriott, a computer-game developer and son of former NASA astronaut Owen Garriott, is scheduled to become Space Adventures' sixth client to leave the planet followed by a seventh yet-to-be identified passenger next April.

Space Adventures is also planning to build commercial spaceports near Dubai and in Singapore. But Anderson said the next big step involves something slightly further afield - a trip to the Moon.

With a price tag of $100 million per seat, two tourists and a pilot would spend around two weeks board a modified Russian spacecraft with the chance to see an Earth rise from lunar orbit and cruise around the far side of the Moon. The excursion will launch when contracts are finalized with travelers, Space Adventures said.

Suborbital space tourism is also set to take off soon.

For $200,000, Virgin Galactic passengers will undergo several days of training before taking a two-hour flight to the fringe of space - 70 miles above sea level.  From there, the company says, passengers will experience the feeling of weightlessness and see a view of the Earth that spans a 1,000 miles in any direction.

Will Whitehorn, president of Virgin Galactic, said the company has collected $35 million in deposits from 250 would-be space tourists. Another 80,000 have registered interest with the company, he said.

"That figure has been growing month by month the past year, especially as we get finished building the technology," said Whitehorn.

Virgin will begin testing WhiteKnightTwo this summer, said Whitehorn.  The carrier vehicle will ferry suborbital craft SpaceShipTwo, modeled after Ansari X Prize winner SpaceShipOne, 50,000 feet in the sky before releasing it.

"Once we have tested that sufficiently, we will put the spaceship underneath it," said Whitehorn.

Other companies are also jumping in the suborbital space race.

In March, California-based XCOR Aerospace announced plans to build the Lynx, a two-seater rocketship that will carry passengers up into the atmosphere for about $100,000. The vehicle will be the size of a small business jet, capable of making several flights a day, the company said.

And last year, European aerospace giant EADS announced plans for its Astrium space division to develop a line of suborbital jets to satisfy a space tourism market that it predicts could grow to as many as 15,000 passengers a year by 2020.

"The market is there," said Robert Laine, chief technical officer of EADS Astrium."The question is how to build the planes that can satisfy that market and to understand what profits at the end we can make out of it."

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answer: $100 million per seat,

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question: How many people will go to space by 2021?

answer: 15,000 passengers

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question: what is billion dollar business

answer: space tourism industry

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question: what is eads doing

answer: announced plans for its Astrium space division to develop a line of suborbital jets

text: announced plans for its Astrium space division to develop a line of suborbital jets

question: how many space ventures operating worldwide?

answer: at least a dozen

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question: What will space tourism be in the future?

answer: a billion dollar enterprise with thousands of passengers by the end of the next decade.

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MOSCOW, Russia (CNN) -- A team of experts gathered Friday on Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula to decide how to deal with marauding bears that reportedly have killed two people recently.

As many as 12,000 bears live on Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula.

The bears are blamed for the deaths of two guards at a geological station near a platinum mine on the peninsula in far eastern Russia.

Russian media reports cite local law enforcement officials as saying the remains of the two men had been "gnawed on."

Groups of bears have been reported in the region since the deaths, and many people have refused to work at the mine, saying they are afraid.

Three hunters and a representative of Koryakgeoldobycha, employer of around 400 people at the mine, will evaluate the danger and decide whether killing a few animals is necessary, said Vladimir Rudeyev of the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry in Kamchatka.

"All decisions are made locally," he told CNN. "No licenses [for shooting bears] have been issued yet. Reports came out that they were, but that's incorrect."

Hunters might need to kill only the most aggressive bears, he said. Generally, bears are timid animals and need only to be scared off.

Exterminating wild bears that are not afraid of humans is relatively common in Canada and the United States.

Trouble in northeastern Kamchatka began when the two unarmed geological station guards were found dead July 17. More than 93 miles (150 kilometers) away, about 20 bears came into another station several days later. Then, dozens more wild bears were seen 25 to 50 miles (40 to 80 kilometers) away, around various stations and villages in the area.

"Bears came out to where they used to live before," Rudeyev said. "It constantly happens on the Kamchatka Peninsula, on various rivers, places where people work."

Humans are to blame because they attract the animals by leaving out trash or they frighten bear cubs, turning them into aggressive grown-ups, he said.

Laura Williams, senior adviser for the World Wildlife Fund in Russia, also said it's the search for food that probably drives bears close to human camps. Kamchatka bears are used to feeding on salmon in the summer, but there have been fewer of the fish in local rivers this year because of overfishing, contamination or natural causes.

"When [bears] don't have salmon, they go into some of the settlements, creating bad situations both for themselves and people," Williams said. "When you're in bear country, it's important to know how to act when you meet a bear."

The Kamchatka Peninsula has long been known for its brown bear population, estimated at 8,000 to 12,000. In some areas of the peninsula, the population density is the greatest in the world.

Human deaths from bears are rare, and Williams said it would be an overstatement to say the situation this year is out of hand.

CNN's Mike Sefanov contributed to this report.

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question: Where were groups if bears seen?

answer: Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula.

text: Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula.

question: how many guards were killed?

answer: two

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question: what is driving bears closer to humans?

answer: leaving out trash

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question: what killed them?

answer: bears are blamed for the deaths

text: bears are blamed for the deaths

question: What is driving bears into closer contact with humans?

answer: the search for food

text: the search for food

question: What killed two guards?

answer: marauding bears

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question: Where were groups of bears seen?

answer: Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula.

text: Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula.

question: When were two guards killed?

answer: July 17.

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(CNN) -- Michael Jackson's upbringing was shaped by two very different parents.

An image of Michael Jackson and his parents was on the big screen during his funeral in Los Angeles.

His mother, Katherine Jackson, has been portrayed by her children as the loving glue that bonded the family together, while her husband, Joe, was the harsh disciplinarian whose iron hand not only shaped one of the most successful musical families in the world, but also elicited enough fear in his superstar son that it sometimes made him ill.

Now the couple of 60 years stands at the center of a custody drama surrounding their grandchildren.

Michael Jackson's will, filed in 2002, designated his mother as caregiver for Prince Michael, 12, Paris, 11, and "Blanket," 7.

It is the latest installment in the many trials that have tested the Jackson family, not least of which has been the unexpected loss of its most famous member.

"[Katherine's] taking it real hard," Joe Jackson told ABC News about his wife's coping with their son's death. "When you start talking about Michael, she starts crying."

By many accounts, Katherine Jackson, 79, shared a special bond with her second-youngest son.

In a 1993 interview with talk show host Oprah Winfrey, Michael Jackson spoke glowingly of the matriarch.

"My mother's wonderful," he said. "To me, she's perfection."

According to a biography posted by A&E Networks, Katherine Jackson was born Kattie B. Screws in 1930 in Barbour County, Alabama.

Her family reportedly relocated to East Chicago, Indiana, when she was 4, and her name was changed to Katherine Esther Scruse. A childhood bout with polio left her with a permanent limp.

She was a teenager when she met Joe Jackson, an aspiring musician and a boxer whose first marriage dissolved. Katherine said it was love at first sight.

"I just had a feeling that he was going to be my husband," Katherine Jackson said in an interview shot last year by Xonger Global Entertainment Networks for a planned reality show about the family. The video was obtained by ABC News. "The first time I saw him, I fell in love with him."

Together, they raised 10 children in a modest Gary, Indiana, home, while Joe worked as a crane operator, according to the A&E biography.

A devout Jehovah's Witness, Katherine nurtured the children's love of music by singing with them, made her sons' costumes as their father booked local gigs, and served as the family's backbone.

"As best as I could tell from both talking to [Michael] and my observations of the family throughout the years, Katherine was the one that had really unconditional love for Michael and was always there, was always supportive and was always comforting," said journalist and CNN contributor Bryan Monroe, who conducted the last major interview with Michael Jackson. "It was the epitome of a mother's love."

Joe Jackson's relationship with his famous son was a bit more complicated.

Monroe said the hard taskmaster -- who Michael said sometimes held a belt in his hand as he and his brothers rehearsed -- evoked mixed emotions from the singer.

"In my interview with him, [Michael] spoke almost in the same breath of the fear he had of Joseph's sternness ... and at the same time the respect he had for Joseph's work ethics and his teachings," Monroe said. "He said [Joseph] taught him and his brothers an awful lot about discipline and performance."

According to the biography posted by A&E Networks, Joe Jackson was born in Arkansas in 1929 and pursued fame early on, first as a Golden Gloves contender and later as a member of The Falcons, a band he started in the mid-1950s.

When he noticed musical talent in his brood, he formed the Jackson Brothers with his three oldest sons and served as their manager.

The group later became The Jackson 5, with young Michael serving as lead singer, and shot to superstardom.

Psychotherapist Daniel Aferiat, who never treated any Jackson family members, said such an awesome responsibility for a young Michael Jackson could account for the conflicted emotions he expressed in his 1993 interview with Oprah Winfrey. "I just wish I could understand my father," he told her.

"If as a small child Michael Jackson was involved in making business decisions and had to have the burdens in some ways of the financial responsibility for the family, then it can turn around who's the caretaker and who's being taken care of," Aferiat said.

Aferiat said children identify with their parents and learn how to operate in the world based on how they are treated by their parents. The drive for stardom and perfection that Joe Jackson reportedly instilled in his children would have long-lasting effects, Aferiat said.

"People are complicated, and while we all would like to think in more black-and-white terms -- someone's good and someone's bad -- [Michael Jackson] had a very complicated, very difficult and, what I would unequivocally say from what I've heard in the news, a traumatic life," Aferiat said. "If you are a child and you have to give up your childhood, it's not like a pair of shoes that you just get to replace at a later time. You don't get that back."

By many accounts, Katherine Jackson tried to keep her children's lives as normal as possible given their fame, even during their adulthood.

Author Richard Hack co-wrote the 1995 book "Jackson Family Values: Memories of Madness" with Margaret Maldonado, the mother of two of Jermaine Jackson's children. He said Katherine Jackson was "like Mother Earth" to her family.

"She kept everyone pretty well grounded because she didn't buy into all of the publicity and a lot of the glitz," said Hack, a noted biographer who has written 17 books. "Mind you, she did drive around in a Rolls Royce, but she still knew how to make a meal. She would get into the kitchen and bring the family together."

Back then, Hack said, most of the family lived together in the Encino compound. These days, Katherine still resides in California, while her husband reportedly has relocated to Las Vegas, Nevada.

"We're not together all of the time," Katherine Jackson said in footage from the planned reality show. "We stayed together for many, many years."

"But we see each other all the time," she added. "I go to Vegas and he'll come here."

Their living arrangement could become an issue during a custody hearing.

Katherine Jackson was granted temporary guardianship of the children by a judge several days after her son's death.

It is still unknown whether Debbie Rowe, the biological mother of two of the children, will seek custody.  Watch opinions on who should get the kids Â»

While Katherine is the only parent seeking legal custody of Michael Jackson's children, his father has been quoted by ABC News as saying he believes the two of them are ideally suited to take care of and raise the children "to be strong Jacksons."

Hack, the co-author of "Jackson Family Values," said that in the past Joe Jackson's children viewed him as the "instigator and dictator" who no longer managed their careers but still viewed himself as their voice.

A bit of that behavior was on display last year when the elder Jackson returned to Gary, Indiana, and endorsed a planned family museum.

The Post-Tribune newspaper reported that he didn't believe the city needed to gain his famous children's approval to build the project.

"I'm Joe Jackson," he was quoted as saying. "I don't need them to approve anything."

But when it comes to Michael Jackson's children, the court will have the final say.

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text: belt

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text: singer

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text: same

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text: same

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text: respect

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text: his

text: brothers

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text: lot

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text: performance

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text: biography

text: posted

text: by

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text: Arkansas

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text: Golden

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text: member

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text: any

text: Jackson

text: family

text: members

text: said

text: such

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text: awesome

text: responsibility

text: for

text: a

text: young

text: Michael

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text: account

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text: conflicted

text: emotions

text: he

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text: his

text: interview

text: with

text: Oprah

text: Winfrey

text: I

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text: wish

text: I

text: could

text: understand

text: my

text: father

text: he

text: told

text: her

text: If

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text: a

text: small

text: child

text: Michael

text: Jackson

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text: involved

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text: had

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text: burdens

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text: ways

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text: financial

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text: family

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text: 's

text: the

text: caretaker

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text: 's

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text: care

text: of

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text: Aferiat

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text: with

text: their

text: parents

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text: learn

text: how

text: to

text: operate

text: in

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text: world

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text: on

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text: they

text: are

text: treated

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text: their

text: parents

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text: drive

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text: stardom

text: and

text: perfection

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text: in

text: his

text: children

text: would

text: have

text: long

text: lasting

text: effects

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text: while

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text: to

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text: more

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text: white

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text: would

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text: say

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text: what

text: I

text: 've

text: heard

text: in

text: the

text: news

text: a

text: traumatic

text: life

text: Aferiat

text: said

text: If

text: you

text: are

text: a

text: child

text: and

text: you

text: have

text: to

text: give

text: up

text: your

text: childhood

text: it

text: 's

text: not

text: like

text: a

text: pair

text: of

text: shoes

text: that

text: you

text: just

text: get

text: to

text: replace

text: at

text: a

text: later

text: time

text: You

text: do

text: n't

text: get

text: that

text: back

text: By

text: many

text: accounts

text: Katherine

text: Jackson

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text: to

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question: Who is seeking custody of Michael Jackson's children?

answer: His mother, Katherine

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question: who got custody

answer: ckson was granted

text: ckson was granted

question: What did they have different styles of?

answer: parents.

text: parents.

question: Who is viewed as the backbone of the family?

answer: Katherine Jackson,

text: Katherine Jackson,

question: What did joe think?

answer: "I don't need them to approve anything."

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LONDON, England (CNN) -- Graeme Le Saux played more than 400 matches for Blackburn, Chelsea and Southampton, winning a Premier League title and 36 international caps. CNN's Don Riddell talks to the former England star about homophobia and racism in the game.

Graeme Le Saux, pictured here playing for Chelsea, endured homophobic abuse throughout his career due to false rumors he was gay.

Don Riddell: Graeme, you're happily married with two children but during your football career everyone thought you were gay and the experience was pretty miserable.

Graeme Le Saux: The culture of football back in the 80s was very different, something I found very hard to relate to and subsequently I found myself a little bit isolated and ostracized from certain people.

That eventually led to rumors being spread that I was gay. In the context of modern life that's not defamatory but in terms of the dressing room culture that existed then -- and to an extent now -- it was very difficult for me to deal with and had the potential to damage my career.

I think that the joke very quickly got out of hand. And I think where I was at fault was that I was probably a little sensitive about it, because I could actually see the potential of this sort of thing to get out of control. And it did. We played in a game at West Ham and the terraces started singing something particularly defamatory about me and I remember being, you know, really, really shocked that it got to that level so quickly.

DR: And that carried on as well and the most notable incident is the one involving Robbie Fowler. Tell me about that?

GS: It all culminated in a game that we played at Stamford Bridge against Liverpool and Robbie Fowler, he stood in front of 40,000 people and he bent over and invited me to perform a homosexual act upon him... That's the politest way I can put it!

That really was the point at which it couldn't get any worse. It wasn't just people singing on the terrace, it was a colleague -- an international colleague -- humiliating you in front of all those people, an international audience. He will maintain to this day that it was just a laugh but that is exactly the point. If you look at anything like this, whether it is racism or homophobia or whatever, as if it is just a laugh that can be a very serious issue. I'm all for a good laugh but when you offend someone and you are damaging relationships then it goes way beyond being a laugh and you can't hide behind that as an excuse.

DR: It's thought that only one professional soccer player in the world has ever declared himself to be gay. That was the Englishman Justin Fashanu and he committed suicide a decade ago. John Amaechi became the first gay player to be associated with the NBA last year, but such declarations are extremely rare. In many cases homosexuality remains pro sport's last taboo.

GS: It's such a terrible reflection on a sport that has so much positive impact across the globe that there is still this issue about gay people within the sport. If you look at so many other professions in terms of business and politics, across the board the gay community is represented but in football it still isn't and I find that disappointing. There may not be many gay players in the game but the sport should be grown up enough to be able to support those people in the football environment.

DR: Football's obviously made great strides, certainly in Britain, in the last 10 years with regards to racism, but how much prejudice is there generally in the game? Do you think we'll ever be free of it?

GS: I think there's always going to be an undercurrent of prejudice. But ultimately I think it's important for any business really to be responsible, inclusive and representative of its employees. And football is in a very privileged position and can lead by example. And so I hope that, you know, the people in authority really make some serious attempts, I suppose to create parity between all walks of life.

DR: We've come across a couple of black footballers who say that fans who shout racist abuse aren't really racist, they are just trying to put us off our game. How much do you buy into that approach?

GS: Well, I can't speak for individual black players! But sometimes I think the perception of people it is not happening to is different to the individual.

It used to baffle me when I first started playing that you'd have Chelsea fans being racist to black players from the opposition but there would be three or four black players on the Chelsea's team. And if you spoke to them or confronted them about it, they would be like, "Oh yeah, but we know them... they are, you know, they are fine." And it's like, well how do you pick the bones out of that? Because there is just no logic.

But then you know prejudice is built on ignorance. You know it really is. I think that sometimes you know individuals have to take responsibility for themselves and actually take a step back and look at what they are doing and not use ignorance as an excuse and say, "Well, would I like to be on the receiving end of this sort of abuse?"

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text: all

text: those

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text: international

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text: He

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text: to

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text: day

text: that

text: it

text: was

text: just

text: a

text: laugh

text: but

text: that

text: is

text: exactly

text: the

text: point

text: If

text: you

text: look

text: at

text: anything

text: like

text: this

text: whether

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text: is

text: racism

text: or

text: homophobia

text: or

text: whatever

text: as

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text: is

text: just

text: a

text: laugh

text: that

text: can

text: be

text: a

text: very

text: serious

text: issue

text: I

text: 'm

text: all

text: for

text: a

text: good

text: laugh

text: but

text: when

text: you

text: offend

text: someone

text: and

text: you

text: are

text: damaging

text: relationships

text: then

text: it

text: goes

text: way

text: beyond

text: being

text: a

text: laugh

text: and

text: you

text: ca

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text: hide

text: behind

text: that

text: as

text: an

text: excuse

text: DR

text: It

text: 's

text: thought

text: that

text: only

text: one

text: professional

text: soccer

text: player

text: in

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text: world

text: has

text: ever

text: declared

text: himself

text: to

text: be

text: gay

text: That

text: was

text: the

text: Englishman

text: Justin

text: Fashanu

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text: he

text: committed

text: suicide

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text: decade

text: ago

text: John

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text: first

text: gay

text: player

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text: associated

text: with

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text: NBA

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text: cases

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text: pro

text: sport

text: 's

text: last

text: taboo

text: GS

text: It

text: 's

text: such

text: a

text: terrible

text: reflection

text: on

text: a

text: sport

text: that

text: has

text: so

text: much

text: positive

text: impact

text: across

text: the

text: globe

text: that

text: there

text: is

text: still

text: this

text: issue

text: about

text: gay

text: people

text: within

text: the

text: sport

text: If

text: you

text: look

text: at

text: so

text: many

text: other

text: professions

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text: terms

text: of

text: business

text: and

text: politics

text: across

text: the

text: board

text: the

text: gay

text: community

text: is

text: represented

text: but

text: in

text: football

text: it

text: still

text: is

text: n't

text: and

text: I

text: find

text: that

text: disappointing

text: There

text: may

text: not

text: be

text: many

text: gay

text: players

text: in

text: the

text: game

text: but

text: the

text: sport

text: should

text: be

text: grown

text: up

text: enough

text: to

text: be

text: able

text: to

text: support

text: those

text: people

text: in

text: the

text: football

text: environment

text: DR

text: Football

text: 's

text: obviously

text: made

text: great

text: strides

text: certainly

text: in

text: Britain

text: in

text: the

text: last

text: years

text: with

text: regards

text: to

text: racism

text: but

text: how

text: much

text: prejudice

text: is

text: there

text: generally

text: in

text: the

text: game

text: Do

text: you

text: think

text: we

text: 'll

text: ever

text: be

text: free

text: of

text: it

text: GS

text: I

text: think

text: there

text: 's

text: always

text: going

text: to

text: be

text: an

text: undercurrent

text: of

text: prejudice

text: But

text: ultimately

text: I

text: think

text: it

text: 's

text: important

text: for

text: any

text: business

text: really

text: to

text: be

text: responsible

text: inclusive

text: and

text: representative

text: of

text: its

text: employees

text: And

text: football

text: is

text: in

text: a

text: very

text: privileged

text: position

text: and

text: can

text: lead

text: by

text: example

text: And

text: so

text: I

text: hope

text: that

text: you

text: know

text: the

text: people

text: in

text: authority

text: really

text: make

text: some

text: serious

text: attempts

text: I

text: suppose

text: to

text: create

text: parity

text: between

text: all

text: walks

text: of

text: life

text: DR

text: We

text: 've

text: come

text: across

text: a

text: couple

text: of

text: black

text: footballers

text: who

text: say

text: that

text: fans

text: who

text: shout

text: racist

text: abuse

text: are

text: n't

text: really

text: racist

text: they

text: are

text: just

text: trying

text: to

text: put

text: us

text: off

text: our

text: game

text: How

text: much

text: do

text: you

text: buy

text: into

text: that

text: approach

text: GS

text: Well

text: I

text: ca

text: n't

text: speak

text: for

text: individual

text: black

text: players

text: But

text: sometimes

text: I

text: think

text: the

text: perception

text: of

text: people

text: it

text: is

text: not

text: happening

text: to

text: is

text: different

text: to

text: the

text: individual

text: It

text: used

text: to

text: baffle

text: me

text: when

text: I

text: first

text: started

text: playing

text: that

text: you

text: 'd

text: have

text: Chelsea

text: fans

text: being

text: racist

text: to

text: black

text: players

text: from

text: the

text: opposition

text: but

text: there

text: would

text: be

text: three

text: or

text: four

text: black

text: players

text: on

text: the

text: Chelsea

text: 's

text: team

text: And

text: if

text: you

text: spoke

text: to

text: them

text: or

text: confronted

text: them

text: about

text: it

text: they

text: would

text: be

text: like

text: Oh

text: yeah

text: but

text: we

text: know

text: them

text: they

text: are

text: you

text: know

text: they

text: are

text: fine

text: And

text: it

text: 's

text: like

text: well

text: how

text: do

text: you

text: pick

text: the

text: bones

text: out

text: of

text: that

text: Because

text: there

text: is

text: just

text: no

text: logic

text: But

text: then

text: you

text: know

text: prejudice

text: is

text: built

text: on

text: ignorance

text: You

text: know

text: it

text: really

text: is

text: I

text: think

text: that

text: sometimes

text: you

text: know

text: individuals

text: have

text: to

text: take

text: responsibility

text: for

text: themselves

text: and

text: actually

text: take

text: a

text: step

text: back

text: and

text: look

text: at

text: what

text: they

text: are

text: doing

text: and

text: not

text: use

text: ignorance

text: as

text: an

text: excuse

text: and

text: say

text: Well

text: would

text: I

text: like

text: to

text: be

text: on

text: the

text: receiving

text: end

text: of

text: this

text: sort

text: of

text: abuse

question: Who is Le Saux?

answer: former England star

text: former England star

question: Which sport does "undercurrent of prejudice" lie?

answer: football

text: football

question: What were the rumors?

answer: he was gay.

text: he was gay.

question: Who was taget of a false rumor?

answer: Graeme Le Saux,

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Editor's note: CNN contributor Bob Greene is a best-selling author whose current book is "When We Get to Surf City: A Journey Through America in Pursuit of Rock and Roll, Friendship, and Dreams."

"Tumbling tumbleweeds" have been romanticized in song, but they're no fun in some parts of the U.S.

(CNN) -- "Do we like them?"

Patrick Victor, a game and fish commission employee in San Carlos, Arizona, repeated the question back to me as if I had proved my lunacy by asking it in the first place.

"Do we like tumbleweeds?" he said. "No one likes them. They're not like in the cowboy movies. We consider them garbage -- worse than garbage. There is nothing to treasure or cherish about a tumbleweed."

We were talking about tumbleweeds because of a theory I had been pondering:

In this country, because of the immediacy of news, it seems as if everyone from one coast to the other is worrying obsessively about the same thing at the same time. You name it: the banking meltdown one day, the feared floods in Fargo, North Dakota, the next; the forced ouster of the head of General Motors one morning, followed soon after by the street demonstrations in London during the Group of 20 summit. We all tend to fret together about one crisis at a time; undoubtedly there will be something new for all of us to be nervous about together before sundown tonight.

So the goal here was to come up with something utterly unlikely -- something that, in 2009, you wouldn't think would bother people -- and find out if it does.

Tumbleweeds. That, just picked at random, was the test case.

"They can be a pretty big problem out here," said Scott McGuire, a code enforcement inspector in Greeley, Colorado. "When the wind is right, they'll pile up right to the roofline of a house. Seriously -- people can't see out of their windows or even easily get out of their homes."

There was something instructive, even (in an off-kilter way) comforting, about learning this: the affirmation that, in this increasingly monolithic country, there are still local vexations that override the breaking news bulletins on the national networks, that people in one pocket of America are routinely dealing with forces that people a few hundred miles away are blissfully unaware of.

Just hearing about it makes life seem somehow more life-size.

"I meant what I said literally," McGuire said, continuing on his pinned-in-the-house-by-tumbleweeds theme. "They are big and prickly -- they can blow for hundreds of miles, sometimes all the way from Wyoming. They go until the wind dies out or they run into something. That's when people can have piles of them pressing against their homes -- when the tumbleweeds stop there."

Tumbleweeds, if you haven't thought about them in years, may seem like a gauzy memory from old Western movies, a nostalgic high-plains symbol of desolation and loneliness. There was that campfire song by Roy Rogers and his group, the Sons of the Pioneers; once you think of the lyrics and melody again, you can't get it out of your head:

"See them tumbling down/Pledging their love to the ground/Lonely but free I'll be found/Drifting along with the tumbling tumbleweeds."

But in the 21st century? In our connected-by-broadband, addicted-to-cell phones, technologically tethered nation?

Tumbleweeds? As something to be concerned about?

"They're ugly and nasty," said Charlene Hardin, the county manager of Roosevelt County, New Mexico. "They can make our roads impassable. You can see 12-foot-high, chain-link fences with tumbleweeds piled all the way up to the top. They're very flammable -- toss a cigarette, and you have a big fire.

"Tumbleweeds are more than a nuisance out here. We'll get complaints from people who can't even get out of their own driveways because the tumbleweeds have them hemmed in."

Tumbleweeds are mainly a plague in the West and Southwest: certainly not dire on the level of, say, a national security issue, but a perpetual pain in the neck. They're a gnarled and unpleasant-looking plant, useless as a crop or nutritionally; they dry up, separate from their roots and blow across the land, spreading seeds. They're thorny, are often painful to the touch and can grow as big as trash bags -- it's not uncommon to see tumbleweeds 4 feet in diameter rolling speedily along.

As Velda Bucklen, who lives west of Kersey, Colorado, and who was concerned about people just heaving errant tumbleweeds off their property and thus onto nearby lawns, wrote in a letter to the editor of her local newspaper: "They are prickly and strong. ... I have been guilty of tossing them into the street and sending them on their way. .... Please don't fight with your neighbors."

The people of the United States, though, are nothing if not resourceful. Just as you may have been unaware that tumbleweeds are a contemporary problem, so you may be heartened to learn that, as always, where some people see bad news, others see opportunity.

"I thought there might be some money in tumbleweeds," said Linda Katz of Garden City, Kansas.

She was right. She runs a company called Prairie Tumbleweed Farm (its motto is "If they don't tumble, we don't sell them!"), and she said she has found a steady mail-order market for tumbleweeds.

"Personally I'm not fond of them, but apparently some people are," she said. "They're just big, rolling weeds. But people order them for wedding decorations. People order them for dances. Servicemen say tumbleweeds remind them of home. I've taken two orders already today."

Finding them is not a challenge: "They just roll by the house." She grabs them, puts them in boxes and mails them off. And, to answer your question before you can ask it: $25 for a large tumbleweed, $15 for a small.

Before we leave this topic so we can all return to more conventional news, a word from Bob Lee, director of weed and pest control in Cheyenne, Wyoming:

"I've seen people here who have gone away for a two-week vacation, and when they come back, there are so many tumbleweeds in front of their house that they have to chop their way to the front door."

So, Mr. Lee, is there one stirring and inspirational parting message you'd like to convey to people?

"Just that tumbleweeds don't have any redeeming features, as far as I'm aware of."

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

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