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(CNN) -- They've sung his praises on social networking pages, calling him a "hero," "the greatest man of our time," "a legend." They've said he deserves to be knighted and should be decorated with medals. They've cried out for his amnesty and have even proposed serving time for him.

A Lebanese student in Beirut attends a December rally to support the shoe-throwing Iraqi journalist.

The man many hundreds of thousands of Facebook users honor is no other than Muntadhar al-Zaidi, the Iraqi journalist who was sentenced Thursday to three years in prison for hurling his shoes at then-U.S. President George W. Bush.

The double-whammy size 10 shoe toss, neither of which hit Bush, took place in December at a news conference in Baghdad, Iraq. In many traditional Middle East circles, throwing shoes at someone is considered a grave insult.

To do this to an American president surrounded by Secret Service agents, no less, was as shocking to riveted viewers who watched the footage later as it was to the president himself.  Watch video about the shoe thrower's sentencing Â»

"First of all, it's got to be one of the most weird moments of my presidency," Bush said later. "Here I am getting ready to answer questions from the free press in a democratic Iraq, and a guy stands up and throws his shoe. ... I'm not angry with the system. I believe that a free society is emerging, and a free society is necessary for our own security and peace."

Expressing their own freedom on Facebook, a worldwide fan base rose up to laud al-Zaidi's actions. They formed hundreds of fan pages and groups, big and small, serious and light. One is even called the "Shoe-Throwing Appreciation Society."

Mike Trainor, 28, was watching a football game when a news break brought footage of the incident across his TV screen.

"I thought it was the funniest thing I'd ever seen," said Trainor, a Queens, New York, stand-up comedian behind "Guy Who Threw His Shoes at Bush," which has attracted nearly 270,000 fans.

The comedian may have created the post for laughs, but he quickly learned how loaded the issue was.

"It grew into this crazy thing," in which Bush supporters began to weigh in on message boards calling al-Zaidi supporters "a threat to America" and insults in reaction flew, he said. "It shows people have a lot of passionate feelings about it, that's for sure."

One message board on his page, titled "YOU GUYS HATE AMERICA," drew 384 posts in reaction. The creator started it with these words: "seriously you guys are all a**holes. why would you be happy about some freaking foreigner throwing his shoes at the leader of the free world? I don't care if he's dumb he's my president of my wonderful country [sic]."

And interspersed amid the groups of fans were those that spoke out against the al-Zaidi worship. "That shoe thrower is not a hero," attracted 94 members, many of them with Arabic names.

One London poster said the shoe thrower "did nothing but bring shame upon us iraqis [sic]," and another from Halifax, Nova Scotia added, "I dont care about bush but this guy was very disrespectful to the Iraqi Prime minister who was standing right next to him [sic]."

But the shoe-thrower fans, at least in the world of Facebook, seem to far outweigh those who decried his actions.

"This site is intended to express the appreciation of those who share the frustration and anger that you expressed when you blew Mr Bush those boot-kisses [sic]," reads the description on "Thank you Muntadhar al-Zaidi," a nearly 500-member page created by a teacher at the University of Auckland in New Zealand.

Protests of the journalist's arrest and now sentence brought Arab and Muslim demonstrators to the streets. But what Facebook has shown is that al-Zaidi's angry expression resonated with those beyond his religion and region. From England and Uruguay to China and Bush's own red, white and blue, supporters have made noise, at least virtually.

"We're talking about a common man, like me and you," who was "tired of years of lies from a self-called 'freedom saver,' " said Matteo Ferigo of Padova, Italy, the 30-year-old creator behind "Save Muntadhar al-Zaidi," which has 116 members. "I understand that his act was not so civil, polite or 'politically correct,' but I also understand how Iraqi people can see George Bush and what he represents to them."

Ari Vais, the creator of the page, "Free the Iraqi shoe throwing journalist!," said his own history taught him the value of free expression.

"I was born in the Soviet Union, where dissent like this was cracked down on severely," said Vais, a 39-year-old Queens, New York, musician. "We came to America when I was a boy because we knew that people should be free."

What al-Zaidi did was a reflection of the democracy Vais thought Bush intended to spread.

"We were supposed to be liberators, and what America stands for is freedom of self-expression and human rights," he said. "All he did was throw a couple shoes. And he missed! It was political theater and not jail-time stuff."

But it was serious business. Anyone, no matter where they live, would be tackled by Secret Service and face charges for such an attempted assault on the president. And if al-Zaidi had done this to Saddam Hussein, one has to wonder what would have come of the man who's now celebrated.

The shoe throwing, because it was so shocking, proved great fodder for late-night talk shows. Comedians, beyond Trainor, had a field day with this one. It inspired online games for people who wanted to play al-Zaidi.

Matt Love of Edmonton, Alberta, in Canada called the Iraqi journalist's move "an act of great courage" and said that in showing his disdain for Bush, "He spoke for many millions of people."

The 52-year-old retired Washington state department of transportation worker believes everyone can learn from the shoe thrower.

Commenting Thursday on several fan pages, including one calling for a Nobel Peace Prize for al-Zaidi, Love suggested that people turn out for Bush's March 17 speech at the TELUS Convention Centre in Calgary.

"Lets [sic] show some solidarity...and lob some loafers," he wrote. "Will the Canadian government lock us up for 3 years? Let's find out."

Reached later in the day, however, he assured CNN that this was written tongue-in-cheek.

"Let me be clear," Love said. "I won't be throwing shoes at anyone."

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Canadian NATO-led soldiers walk patrol near Kandahar, Afghanistan.

James Appathurai told reporters at a briefing that the move will help NATO meet Canada's requirement that it send more troops to the volatile southern province of Kandahar, where Canadian troops are based.

Canada agreed this month to extend its commitment of about 2,500 troops until 2011 so long as NATO contributes more troops to Kandahar.

There is a "clear unity in the alliance" that the mission in Afghanistan must succeed, Appathurai said.

Though 25 NATO allies and 13 other countries have contributed forces, the bulk of the recent fighting has been done by U.S., Canadian, British and Dutch troops.

Appathurai also said Thursday that he did not expect NATO applicants Georgia and Ukraine to be put on a membership action plan this summit but, he said, the general sense in terms of membership for the two countries is not "whether, but when."

Further discussions regarding those two countries is to resume Thursday, he said.

U.S. President George W. Bush has pushed for the admission of Ukraine and Georgia to the military alliance.

However, Russia -- which is not a NATO member -- has expressed concerns about the former Soviet republics joining NATO, which has already made members of other former Soviet countries Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia.

Appathurai also said a general consensus could not be reached on Macedonia's bid, because of Greece's objections.

Greece has threatened to veto Macedonia's bid if its northern neighbor does not agree to change its name. Athens has long argued that the name Macedonia implies territorial claims on its northern province of the same name -- the birthplace, also, of Greece's most revered ancient warrior, Alexander the Great.

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(CNN)  -- Trading two children for a bird landed three people in jail in Louisiana, authorities say.

The biological mother, who was not involved in the alleged trade, is to be interviewed by authorities Friday. Investigators seek further details about a case that they say unfolded this way:

Paul and Brandy Romero advertised that they were selling their pet cockatoo for $1,500.

A woman named Donna Greenwell responded and said she wanted to buy the bird. Greenwell then told the Romeros that she was taking care of three children whose biological parents were going through a separation.

Greenwell proposed selling two of the couple's children to the Romeros for $2,000, saying that her job as a truck driver made it hard to take care of the children, said Capt. Keith Dupre of the Evangeline Parrish Sheriff's Office in Louisiana.

The parties allegedly negotiated a trade involving the two kids, the bird and $175.

An anonymous tipster contacted authorities after the children began living with the Romeros.

As a result, Greenwell and the Romeros were arrested February 21 and charged with aggravated kidnapping, Dupre said.

The children were well taken care of when they were with the Romeros, who badly wanted children, according to Dupre.

Greenwell said she needed the cash for a lawyer to handle adoption paperwork, authorities said.

She had placed the third child with another Louisiana couple, Dupre said, but he didn't know whether bartering was involved.

The two children were ages 4 and 5, according to CNN affiliate WGNO.

Police did not identify the biological parents, and no other information was available. The children have been placed in foster care.

-- Sean Nottingham contributed to this report.

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(CNN)  -- The head of the U.N. Children's Fund has expressed concern over a Saudi judge's refusal for a second time to annul a marriage between an 8-year-old girl and a 47-year-old man.

UNICEF's Ann Veneman said consent cannot be free if either party is too young to make an informed decision.

"Irrespective of circumstances or the legal framework, the marriage of a child is a violation of that child's rights," said Ann Veneman, executive director of UNICEF.

"The right to free and full consent to marriage is recognized in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Consent cannot be free and full when either party to a marriage is too young to make an informed decision."

The most recent ruling, in which the judge upheld his original verdict, was handed down Saturday in the Saudi city of Onaiza, where late last year the same judge rejected a petition from the girl's mother, seeking a divorce for her daughter. Have your say by clicking here

A relative said the judge, Sheikh Habib al-Habib, "stuck by his earlier verdict and insisted that the girl could petition the court for a divorce once she reached puberty." The family member, who requested anonymity, added that the mother will continue to pursue a divorce for her daughter.

The case, which has drawn criticism from local and international rights groups, came to light in December when al-Habib declined to annul the marriage on a legal technicality. The judge ruled that the girl's mother -- who is separated from her father -- was not the girl's legal guardian and therefore could not represent her in court, Abdullah al-Jutaili, the mother's attorney, told CNN at the time.

The girl's father, according to the lawyer, arranged the marriage in order to settle his debts with the man, who is a close friend of his. At the time of the initial verdict, the judge required the girl's husband to sign a pledge that he would not have sex with her until she reaches puberty, al-Jutaili told CNN. The judge ruled that when the girl reaches puberty, she will have the right to request a divorce by filing a petition with the court, the lawyer said.

Last month, an appeals court in the Saudi capital of Riyadh declined to certify the original ruling, in essence rejecting al-Habib's verdict, and sent the case back to him for reconsideration.

Under the complicated Saudi legal process, the appeals court ruling meant that the marriage was still in effect, but that a challenge to the marriage was still ongoing. The appeals court in Riyadh will now take up the case again and a hearing is scheduled for next month, according to the relative.

The issue of child marriage has been a hot-button topic in the deeply conservative kingdom recently. While rights groups have petitioned the government for laws to protect children from such marriages, the kingdom's top cleric has said that it's OK for girls as young as 10 to wed.

"It is incorrect to say that it's not permitted to marry off girls who are 15 and younger," Sheikh Abdul Aziz Al-Sheikh, the kingdom's grand mufti, said in remarks last January, according to the regional Al-Hayat newspaper. "A girl aged 10 or 12 can be married. Those who think she's too young are wrong, and they are being unfair to her."

Al-Sheikh reportedly made the remarks when he was asked during a lecture about parents forcing their underage daughters to marry.

"We hear a lot in the media about the marriage of underage girls," he said, according to the newspaper. "We should know that sharia law has not brought injustice to women."

Sharia law is Islamic law. Saudi Arabia follows a strict interpretation of Islam called Wahhabism.

CNN was unable to reach government officials for comment.

Christoph Wilcke, a Saudi Arabia researcher for Human Rights Watch, told CNN in December that his organization has heard of many other cases of child marriages.

"We've been hearing about these types of cases once every four or five months because the Saudi public is now able to express this kind of anger -- especially so when girls are traded off to older men," Wilcke said.

Wilcke said that although Saudi ministries might make decisions designed to protect children, "It is still the religious establishment that holds sway in the courts, and in many realms beyond the court."

In December, Zuhair al-Harithi, a spokesman for the Saudi government-run Human Rights Commission, said his organization is fighting against child marriages.

"The Human Rights Commission opposes child marriages in Saudi Arabia," al-Harithi said. "Child marriages violate international agreements that have been signed by Saudi Arabia and should not be allowed." He added that his organization has been able to intervene and stop at least one child marriage from taking place.

Wajeha al-Huwaider, co-founder of the Society of Defending Women's Rights in Saudi Arabia, told CNN that achieving human rights in the kingdom means standing against those who want to "keep us backward and in the dark ages."

She said the marriages cause girls to "lose their sense of security and safety. Also, it destroys their feeling of being loved and nurtured. It causes them a lifetime of psychological problems and severe depression."

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(CNN) -- Progressive Catholic groups vented outrage Friday over the decision of a Roman Catholic school in Massachusetts to rescind the admission of an 8-year-old student because his parents are lesbians.

"The idea that a child might be punished because he does not live with his two biologic parents is antithetical to notions of Christian charity and Catholic social justice," said Patrick Whelan, president of Catholic Democrats, in a statement Friday.

Other liberal Catholic and gay groups issued similar statements Friday, responding to news reports this week that a child accepted to St. Paul Elementary School in Hingham, Massachusetts, for the fall was told he couldn't enroll after the school learned that his parents are gay.

In addition to pressuring the Massachusetts school to reverse its decision and accept the student, progressive Catholic activists are attempting to do something much more dramatic: get the Archdiocese of Boston, which includes the Hingham school, to set a precedent for how the American church treats students with gay parents.

In March, the Archdiocese of Denver, Colorado, supported a decision by a Catholic school in Boulder to block two students with gay parents from re-enrolling.

While the Denver archbishop who backed that decision, Charles J. Chaput, may be the most outspokenly conservative bishop in the nation, progressive Catholics think they can get more moderate Boston Cardinal Sean O'Malley to speak against Catholic schools rejecting students over their parents' sexual orientation.

"I'm very disappointed in Chaput's actions, but he has a history of politicizing issues," said Chris Korzen, executive director of the progressive Catholics United, which has asked O'Malley to intervene in the Hingham case and to allow the child to attend St. Paul.

"Cardinal O'Malley understands that there's a place to assert church teachings but that it doesn't make sense to discriminate against a child because of his parents' background," Korzen said.

Korzen and other left-leaning Catholics said they were concerned that the Hingham school was following the example of the Denver Archdiocese in the Boulder case.

"While the relationship between the events in Boulder and Hingham [is] not known, Catholic Democrats is concerned that a narrative will develop that legitimizes the exclusion of children of same sex parents from Catholic schools," the group Catholic Democrats, which is based in Boston, said Friday.

Conservative Catholic groups, meanwhile, have been mostly silent on the matter. "I don't really have a strong opinion on this one," said Deal Hudson, a prominent conservative Catholic activist, in an e-mail on Friday. "It's a matter of the individual bishop's discretion."

O'Malley has not publicly weighed in on the case, but the Boston Archdiocese said Thursday that the Hingham school was not acting in compliance with archdiocesan policy.

"The archdiocese does not prohibit children of same-sex parents from attending Catholic schools," said Mary Grassa O'Neill, the archdiocese's secretary for education and superintendent of Catholic schools. "We will work in the coming weeks to develop a policy to eliminate any misunderstandings in the future."

O'Neill said that the Boston Archdiocese met with one of the child's parents on Thursday and that it has offered to help enroll him in another Catholic school in the archdiocese.

The parents of the St. Paul student have insisted on anonymity for them and their son in press reports of the situation.

The Catholic Schools Foundation, a Boston-based group whose board is chaired by O'Malley, said Thursday that it would not support schools that discriminated against students based on their parents' sexual orientation.`

"[N]o school that promotes an exclusionary admissions policy or practice will be considered for support," said the foundation's executive director, Michael Reardon, in a Thursday letter to school administrators. "We believe a policy or practice that denies admissions to students in such a manner as occurred at St. Paul's is at odds with our values as a foundation, the intentions of our donors, and ultimately with Gospel teaching."

Calls to St. Paul Elementary School and church on Friday night were not returned.

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question: Which school rescinds the admission?

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question: what do the Massachusetts school rescinds?

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BEIJING, China (CNN)  -- Officials on Monday announced the death of a second child who consumed contaminated milk powder. More than 1,200 others have been sickened, according to China's Health Ministry.

Of that number, 340 infants are hospitalized and 53 are considered to be in serious condition.

Government inspectors are testing baby formula around China and plan to release their results on Tuesday, said Li Changjiang, head of the State Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine, according to the Xinhua news agency.

The manufacturer, Sanlu Group, has recalled more than 8,200 tons of the tainted formula following reports of babies developing kidney stones, Xinhua said.  Watch what Sanlu has done Â»

Sanlu, one of China's leading dairy producers, has also sealed off more than 2,100 tons of contaminated product, and another 700 tons still need to be recalled, the news agency said.

It is not the first time Sanlu has been connected to a scandal involving tainted milk powder, according to China Daily.

In 2004, at least 13 infants in the eastern Anhui province died of malnutrition after drinking milk powder that had little to no nutrition. The illegally manufactured milk was falsely labeled with the Sanlu brand, according to the paper.

More than 170 other babies were hospitalized as a result of drinking the cheap milk powder.

Chinese police have questioned 78 people -- including dairy farmers and milk dealers -- about the most recent contamination, a Chinese official told Xinhua Saturday. Sanlu would not say whether its employees are being investigated, Xinhua said.

Testing by Sanlu found tripolycyanamide, also known as melamine, in 700 tons of its product, said Zhao Xinchao, the vice mayor of Shijiazhuang, the news agency reported.

Zhao told the news agency that the suspects added water to the milk they sold to Sanlu to make more money, then added the chemical so the diluted milk could still meet standards.

Inspectors found the chemical in Sanlu infant formula produced by one of the company's partner producers in northwest Gansu Province, an official said Sunday.

Two of 12 samples randomly selected from the Sanlu milk powder produced by the Haoniu Dairy Company in Jiuquan City tested positive for melamine, said Xian Hui, the vice-governor of Gansu.

Health experts say ingesting melamine can lead to kidney stones, urinary tract ulcers, and eye and skin irritation.

The chemical is commonly used in coatings and laminates, wood adhesives, fabric coatings, ceiling tiles and flame retardants.

Hundreds of Wal-Mart and Carrefour stores in China are pulling the Sanlu milk powder from their shelves, Xinhua said.

This episode marks the latest in a string of tainted products produced in China.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recalled more than 150 brands of cat and dog food last year after finding that some pets became ill or died after eating food tainted with melamine, the same chemical found in the powdered milk.

Two Chinese businesses, a U.S. company and top executives of each were indicted by a federal grand jury in February in connection with tainted pet food, which resulted in deaths and serious illnesses in up to thousands of U.S. pets, federal prosecutors said.

In October 2007, regulators and retailers in the United States recalled at least 69,000 Chinese-made toys over concerns of excessive amounts of lead paint, which can cause hazardous lead poisoning.

In November, shipments of the popular toy Aqua Dots were found to have been contaminated with a toxic chemical that turned into a powerful "date rape" drug if swallowed, causing some children who ate the craft toys to vomit and lose consciousness.

And in February, a Maryland candy distributor pulled Pokemon-brand Valentine lollipops from store shelves after bits of metal were found in the sealed treats, authorities said.

Officials on Monday announced the death of a second child who consumed contaminated milk powder.

Of the more than 1,200 others who have been sickened, 340 infants were hospitalized, and 53 considered to be in serious condition, according to China's Health Ministry.

Government inspectors were testing baby formula around China and plan to release their results on Tuesday, said Li Changjiang, head of the State Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine, according to the Xinhua news agency.

The manufacturer, Sanlu Group, has recalled more than 8,200 tons of the tainted formula following reports of babies developing kidney stones, Xinhua said.

Sanlu, one of China's leading dairy producers, also has sealed off more than 2,100 tons of contaminated product, and another 700 tons still need to be recalled, the news agency said.

Chinese police have questioned 78 people, including dairy farmers and milk dealers, about the contamination, a Chinese official told Xinhua Saturday. Sanlu would not say whether its employees were being investigated, Xinhua said.

Testing by Sanlu found tripolycyanamide, also known as melamine, in 700 tons of its product, said Zhao Xinchao, the vice mayor of Shijiazhuang, the news agency reported.

Zhao told the news agency that the suspects added water to the milk they sold to Sanlu to make more money, then added the chemical so that the diluted milk could still meet standards.

Inspectors found the chemical in Sanlu infant formula produced by one of the company's partner producers in northwest Gansu Province, an official said Sunday.

Two of 12 samples randomly selected from the Sanlu milk powder produced by the Haoniu Dairy Company in Jiuquan City tested positive for melamine, said Xian Hui, the vice-governor of Gansu.

Ingesting melamine can lead to kidney stones, urinary tract ulcers, and eye and skin irritation, health experts said.

The chemical is commonly used in coatings and laminates, wood adhesives, fabric coatings, ceiling tiles and flame retardants. The chemical was also involved in the massive pet food recall last year.

Hundreds of Wal-Mart and Carrefour stores in  were pulling the Sanlu milk powder from their shelves, Xinhua said.

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text: eastern

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text: paper

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text: cheap

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text: powder

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text: milk

text: dealers

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text: most

text: recent

text: contamination

text: a

text: Chinese

text: official

text: told

text: Xinhua

text: Saturday

text: Sanlu

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text: not

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text: whether

text: its

text: employees

text: are

text: being

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text: tripolycyanamide

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text: melamine

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text: tons

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text: product

text: said

text: Zhao

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text: vice

text: mayor

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text: news

text: agency

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text: money

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text: company

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text: partner

text: producers

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text: an

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text: Sanlu

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text: powder

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text: Haoniu

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text: Hui

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text: vice

text: governor

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text: Gansu

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text: eye

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text: flame

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text: Mart

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text: Carrefour

text: stores

text: in

text: China

text: are

text: pulling

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text: Sanlu

text: milk

text: powder

text: from

text: their

text: shelves

text: Xinhua

text: said

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text: episode

text: marks

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text: latest

text: in

text: a

text: string

text: of

text: tainted

text: products

text: produced

text: in

text: China

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text: U.S.

text: Food

text: and

text: Drug

text: Administration

text: recalled

text: more

text: than

text: brands

text: of

text: cat

text: and

text: dog

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text: pets

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text: died

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text: food

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text: melamine

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text: same

text: chemical

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text: powdered

text: milk

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text: company

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text: top

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text: each

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text: indicted

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text: federal

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text: jury

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text: tainted

text: pet

text: food

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text: resulted

text: in

text: deaths

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text: serious

text: illnesses

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text: U.S.

text: pets

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text: prosecutors

text: said

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text: and

text: retailers

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text: United

text: States

text: recalled

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text: least

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text: toys

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text: concerns

text: of

text: excessive

text: amounts

text: of

text: lead

text: paint

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text: can

text: cause

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text: poisoning

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text: of

text: the

text: popular

text: toy

text: Aqua

text: Dots

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text: found

text: to

text: have

text: been

text: contaminated

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text: a

text: toxic

text: chemical

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text: a

text: powerful

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text: children

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text: Maryland

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text: brand

text: Valentine

text: lollipops

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text: store

text: shelves

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text: of

text: metal

text: were

text: found

text: in

text: the

text: sealed

text: treats

text: authorities

text: said

text: Officials

text: on

text: Monday

text: announced

text: the

text: death

text: of

text: a

text: second

text: child

text: who

text: consumed

text: contaminated

text: milk

text: powder

text: Of

text: the

text: more

text: than

text: others

text: who

text: have

text: been

text: sickened

text: infants

text: were

text: hospitalized

text: and

text: considered

text: to

text: be

text: in

text: serious

text: condition

text: according

text: to

text: China

text: 's

text: Health

text: Ministry

text: Government

text: inspectors

text: were

text: testing

text: baby

text: formula

text: around

text: China

text: and

text: plan

text: to

text: release

text: their

text: results

text: on

text: Tuesday

text: said

text: Li

text: Changjiang

text: head

text: of

text: the

text: State

text: Administration

text: of

text: Quality

text: Supervision

text: Inspection

text: and

text: Quarantine

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text: to

text: the

text: Xinhua

text: news

text: agency

text: The

text: manufacturer

text: Sanlu

text: Group

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text: recalled

text: more

text: than

text: tons

text: of

text: the

text: tainted

text: formula

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text: reports

text: of

text: babies

text: developing

text: kidney

text: stones

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text: said

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text: of

text: China

text: 's

text: leading

text: dairy

text: producers

text: also

text: has

text: sealed

text: off

text: more

text: than

text: tons

text: of

text: contaminated

text: product

text: and

text: another

text: tons

text: still

text: need

text: to

text: be

text: recalled

text: the

text: news

text: agency

text: said

text: Chinese

text: police

text: have

text: questioned

text: people

text: including

text: dairy

text: farmers

text: and

text: milk

text: dealers

text: about

text: the

text: contamination

text: a

text: Chinese

text: official

text: told

text: Xinhua

text: Saturday

text: Sanlu

text: would

text: not

text: say

text: whether

text: its

text: employees

text: were

text: being

text: investigated

text: Xinhua

text: said

text: Testing

text: by

text: Sanlu

text: found

text: tripolycyanamide

text: also

text: known

text: as

text: melamine

text: in

text: tons

text: of

text: its

text: product

text: said

text: Zhao

text: Xinchao

text: the

text: vice

text: mayor

text: of

text: Shijiazhuang

text: the

text: news

text: agency

text: reported

text: Zhao

text: told

text: the

text: news

text: agency

text: that

text: the

text: suspects

text: added

text: water

text: to

text: the

text: milk

text: they

text: sold

text: to

text: Sanlu

text: to

text: make

text: more

text: money

text: then

text: added

text: the

text: chemical

text: so

text: that

text: the

text: diluted

text: milk

text: could

text: still

text: meet

text: standards

text: Inspectors

text: found

text: the

text: chemical

text: in

text: Sanlu

text: infant

text: formula

text: produced

text: by

text: one

text: of

text: the

text: company

text: 's

text: partner

text: producers

text: in

text: northwest

text: Gansu

text: Province

text: an

text: official

text: said

text: Sunday

text: Two

text: of

text: samples

text: randomly

text: selected

text: from

text: the

text: Sanlu

text: milk

text: powder

text: produced

text: by

text: the

text: Haoniu

text: Dairy

text: Company

text: in

text: Jiuquan

text: City

text: tested

text: positive

text: for

text: melamine

text: said

text: Xian

text: Hui

text: the

text: vice

text: governor

text: of

text: Gansu

text: Ingesting

text: melamine

text: can

text: lead

text: to

text: kidney

text: stones

text: urinary

text: tract

text: ulcers

text: and

text: eye

text: and

text: skin

text: irritation

text: health

text: experts

text: said

text: The

text: chemical

text: is

text: commonly

text: used

text: in

text: coatings

text: and

text: laminates

text: wood

text: adhesives

text: fabric

text: coatings

text: ceiling

text: tiles

text: and

text: flame

text: retardants

text: The

text: chemical

text: was

text: also

text: involved

text: in

text: the

text: massive

text: pet

text: food

text: recall

text: last

text: year

text: Hundreds

text: of

text: Wal

text: Mart

text: and

text: Carrefour

text: stores

text: in

text: were

text: pulling

text: the

text: Sanlu

text: milk

text: powder

text: from

text: their

text: shelves

text: Xinhua

text: said

question: What is one of China's leading dairy producers?

answer: Sanlu Group,

text: Sanlu Group,

question: Who is on of China's leading dairy producers?

answer: Sanlu,

text: Sanlu,

question: What do the government inspectors plan to release?

answer: their results on Tuesday,

text: their results on Tuesday,

question: How much melamine was found in Sanlu's product?

answer: 700 tons

text: 700 tons

question: How many deaths have been announced?

answer: second child

text: second child

question: What was found in Sanlu products?

answer: tripolycyanamide,

text: tripolycyanamide,

question: Who is one of China's leading dairy producers?

answer: Sanlu,

text: Sanlu,

question: What can ingesting Melamine lead to?

answer: kidney stones, urinary tract ulcers, and eye and skin irritation.

text: kidney stones, urinary tract ulcers, and eye and skin irritation.

question: What is found in 700 tons of Sanlu's product?

answer: tripolycyanamide, also known as melamine,

text: tripolycyanamide, also known as melamine,

question: What was found in Sanlu's products?

answer: tripolycyanamide, also known as melamine,

text: tripolycyanamide, also known as melamine,


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(CNN) -- Investigators searching for a missing 8-month-old boy began an intensive excavation and search effort Tuesday at a Texas landfill.

"Let me say this, that we do remain hopeful that baby Gabriel is alive," William McManus, chief of the San Antonio Police Department, said at a news conference at the landfill.

"We are, however, conducting both a missing persons investigation as well as a homicide investigation," he said, adding that aspects surrounding Gabriel Johnson's disappearance involve elements of a possible homicide.

Gabriel has been missing since December 26 and was last seen in San Antonio, with his 23-year-old mother, Elizabeth Johnson, who has refused to disclose information on his whereabouts.

She told Gabriel's father she killed the boy and has also said she gave him away to a couple in San Antonio, police say. Johnson drove Gabriel to San Antonio from Tempe, Arizona, and she went to Florida a week later, according to investigators.

Johnson was arrested in Florida and extradited to Maricopa County, Arizona, where she remains behind bars, charged with kidnapping, custodial interference and child abuse.

A lead prompted investigators to focus on the landfill, which is owned by Republic Services, a waste and environmental services company based in Phoenix, Arizona. The part of the landfill that will be searched has been pinpointed, according to McManus.

First, it will take at least six days to remove 45 feet of garbage that has piled up since the time investigators believe evidence may have been dumped in the area.

"Once we have removed the debris and have searched our target area, we will begin the arduous task of sifting through layers in the search for possible evidence," McManus said.

"This phase will be a long and repetitive cycle. Search teams will be looking for anything of evidentiary value."

Cadaver dogs will assist the search teams in the effort, which will be conducted weekdays from 7:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., McManus said. He estimated more than 20 people will be involved.

Rain would not compromise any evidence but could cause dangerous toxic runoff, which Fire Department and hazardous materials experts would work to contain.

San Antonio police have been working with the FBI and Tempe police. They have been looking at every lead and "chasing them down very, very vigorously," McManus said.

"We are doing everything that we can to try to track down baby Gabriel, and hopefully we will find that baby alive."

text: CNN

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text: for

text: a

text: missing

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text: boy

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text: intensive

text: excavation

text: and

text: search

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text: Texas

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text: me

text: say

text: this

text: that

text: we

text: do

text: remain

text: hopeful

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text: baby

text: Gabriel

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text: William

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text: will

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question: Who said that she had killed him and that she gave him away?

answer: Elizabeth Johnson,

text: Elizabeth Johnson,

question: What cities police are excavating the landfill ?

answer: San Antonio

text: San Antonio

question: What say his mother?

answer: She told Gabriel's father she killed the boy and has also said she gave him away to a couple in San Antonio,

text: She told Gabriel's father she killed the boy and has also said she gave him away to a couple in San Antonio,

question: Who has been missing since December 26?

answer: 8-month-old boy

text: 8-month-old boy

question: Who  killed the baby?

answer: Elizabeth Johnson,

text: Elizabeth Johnson,

question: Who is excavating landfill?

answer: Investigators

text: Investigators