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NEW YORK (CNN) -- When singer-pianist Peter Cincotti showed up to speak to CNN in 2004, he was fresh-faced and impeccably dressed in a suit and shiny shoes.

Peter Cincotti rose to fame as a jazz pianist. His new album features pop songs.

Seated at a piano, and under the watchful eye of his very sweet mother Cynthia, Cincotti performed the standard "How High the Moon," showing off piano skills you'd expect from someone far beyond his 21 years.

His debut album had just topped the Billboard traditional jazz chart -- the youngest artist to claim such a feat.

Now 25, Cincotti is still fresh-faced, but he sings to a very different tune. Looking trendy in a fitted sweater, his hair a little looser, his personality more playful -- mom didn't come to this interview -- Peter has gone pop.

"He's this great jazz pianist," says producer David Foster, who worked on Cincotti's new album. "And he just turned the whole thing 180 and wrote these incredible pop songs."

To Cincotti, whose pop debut "East of Angel Town" was released last week on Warner Bros. Records, the switch isn't that big a deal.

"I'm a musician," he says. "I was just playing what I love then, and I'm playing what I love now."  Watch Cincotti do what he loves Â»

Enlisting Foster to help navigate the transition was crafty: Foster is a 15-time Grammy winner with an undeniable knack for generating pop hits. He also has a reputation for getting his way in the studio. But Cincotti, a native New Yorker, didn't make things easy.

"He's a control freak, too, so we butted heads a lot," says Foster. "And he actually made me come to New York to make the record. And I don't like New York because I'm claustrophobic and I don't dig elevators. But he made me come here for three months. That's how much I loved his music."

Cincotti smiles when he recalls the expletive-ridden voicemail message Foster left him expressing his displeasure over having to vacate his Los Angeles base to work on the project.

"I saved that message," Cincotti says. "It's great."

Cincotti talked to CNN about new beginnings, old influences and playing piano in the fast lane. The following is an edited version of the interview.

CNN: What do you love about pop?

Peter Cincotti: To be honest I don't even categorize (my music) as that. It's just what I'm doing now. This is my first record that I've written everything. It's my first record of original material so the style changed and that's basically what I'm doing right now.

CNN: When a 25-year-old is writing songs, what experiences are you drawing on?

Cincotti: Well, this record is ... kind of like a debut, and I wanted to write about things that I never sang about before in songs. Things that either happened to me, personal experiences. And I didn't want to write a record of "I love you and you love me."

So a lot of the subject matter I think is a bit atypical of what's out there right now ... at least to me.

CNN: You've been playing the piano since you were how old?

Cincotti: I started when I was 3. My grandma bought me this ten-key toy piano, and she taught me how to play "Happy Birthday." It was my third birthday, and I sat down and I never stopped.

CNN: Which pianists have inspired you over the years?

Cincotti: There are so many. I'm still going through phases. I'll just listen to a certain musician. The first guy I remember ... I got my first cassette ... it was a Jerry Lee Lewis tape. I remember I was 5 years old and I went with my uncle to the record store. And I always liked "Great Balls of Fire" ... and I just couldn't stop trying to play like Jerry Lee Lewis.

So he was the first piano player guy that really got under my skin. And then that led to many others ... piano players like Ray Charles, Stevie Wonder, Billy Joel. From Art Tatum to Shirley Horne ...

CNN: Jerry Lee Lewis played fast. Do you like to play fast?

Cincotti: Back then I did. Back then I was fascinated. The faster the better. Now, if it's called for, sure.

CNN: What was it like working with David Foster?

Cincotti: It was great. He was a pain in the ass! In a good way. And I was a pain in the ass back to him. But I love working with him. There was no BS. It was just a very honest relationship.

And I went through a period of taking my time figuring out what kind of producer I wanted for this record, and when he and I met ... we said "let's just do one song together and see if it works out." I was honored that he was interested, but at the same time I wanted the record to be right for what the vision was. But we got together and did 11 songs in three days. And it was one of those things that just clicked and happened. I couldn't imagine doing it with anyone else.

CNN: What do you have against Los Angeles?

Cincotti: I don't know if I have anything against it, but I'd rather spend my time elsewhere.

CNN: Like New York?

Cincotti: Like New York.

CNN: You're a New Yorker through and through aren't you?

Cincotti: I guess so (laughs).

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(CNN) -- Around 200 new species of frogs have been found in Madagascar, one of the world's biodiversity hotspots.

A study has found nearly 200 new species of frogs in Madagascar.

A study identified between 129 and 221 new species of frogs on the island. The Spanish Scientific Research Council (CSIC), who carried out the study, believe the find could practically double the number of amphibians known in the world if the results are extrapolated at a global scale.

The study, published in the journal "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA," suggests that the number of amphibian species in Madagascar has been significantly underestimated.

"The diversity of species in Madagascar is far from being known and there is still a lot of scientific research to be done. Our data suggest that the number of new species of amphibians not only has been underestimated but it is spatially widespread, even in well studied areas," said Professor David R. Vieites, CSIC researcher to the press at the Spanish National Natural Sciences Museum in Madrid.

"For example, two of the most visited and studied national parks, Ranomafana and MantadÃa/Analamazaotra, harbor 31 and 10 new species respectively."

Dr. Frank Glaw, curator of herpetology at the Zoologische Staatssammlung from Munich was part of the research team: "During the past 15 years, we discovered and described over 100 new frog species from Madagascar, which led us to believe that our species inventory is almost complete. But as our new surveys show, there are many more species than we suspected," he said in a press statement.

The paper suggests that the total biodiversity on the island could be much higher in other species as well, so the actual destruction of natural habitats may be affecting more animals than previously thought.

This has important consequences for conservation planning, as the rate of destruction of rainforests in Madagascar has been one of the highest in the planet, with more than 80 percent of the historic surface of rainforest already lost, according to the study's authors.

Almost a quarter of the new species discovered have not been found yet in protected areas, but the unstable political situation in Madagascar has also been cited as hampering conservation efforts.

"Although a lot of reserves and national parks have been created in Madagascar during the last decade, the actual situation of politic instability is allowing the cut of the forest within national parks, generating a lot of uncertainty about the future of the planned network of protected areas", said Vieites.

Madagascar is the fourth largest island in the world and one of the most biodiverse areas globally, with a high degree of endemic species. "To get an idea of its biodiversity --while in the Iberian Peninsula [there] are about 30 species of amphibians and in Germany about 20, in a single locality in Madagascar we can find around 100 species of frogs," said Vieites.

Dr. Miguel Vences, professor at the Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany, who was also part of the study team, and believes that a century of new species discovery is just beginning: "People think that we know which plant and animal species live on this planet. But the majority of life forms on Earth is still awaiting scientific recognition."

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text: many

text: more

text: species

text: than

text: we

text: suspected

text: he

text: said

text: in

text: a

text: press

text: statement

text: The

text: paper

text: suggests

text: that

text: the

text: total

text: biodiversity

text: on

text: the

text: island

text: could

text: be

text: much

text: higher

text: in

text: other

text: species

text: as

text: well

text: so

text: the

text: actual

text: destruction

text: of

text: natural

text: habitats

text: may

text: be

text: affecting

text: more

text: animals

text: than

text: previously

text: thought

text: This

text: has

text: important

text: consequences

text: for

text: conservation

text: planning

text: as

text: the

text: rate

text: of

text: destruction

text: of

text: rainforests

text: in

text: Madagascar

text: has

text: been

text: one

text: of

text: the

text: highest

text: in

text: the

text: planet

text: with

text: more

text: than

text: percent

text: of

text: the

text: historic

text: surface

text: of

text: rainforest

text: already

text: lost

text: according

text: to

text: the

text: study

text: 's

text: authors

text: Almost

text: a

text: quarter

text: of

text: the

text: new

text: species

text: discovered

text: have

text: not

text: been

text: found

text: yet

text: in

text: protected

text: areas

text: but

text: the

text: unstable

text: political

text: situation

text: in

text: Madagascar

text: has

text: also

text: been

text: cited

text: as

text: hampering

text: conservation

text: efforts

text: Although

text: a

text: lot

text: of

text: reserves

text: and

text: national

text: parks

text: have

text: been

text: created

text: in

text: Madagascar

text: during

text: the

text: last

text: decade

text: the

text: actual

text: situation

text: of

text: politic

text: instability

text: is

text: allowing

text: the

text: cut

text: of

text: the

text: forest

text: within

text: national

text: parks

text: generating

text: a

text: lot

text: of

text: uncertainty

text: about

text: the

text: future

text: of

text: the

text: planned

text: network

text: of

text: protected

text: areas

text: said

text: Vieites

text: Madagascar

text: is

text: the

text: fourth

text: largest

text: island

text: in

text: the

text: world

text: and

text: one

text: of

text: the

text: most

text: biodiverse

text: areas

text: globally

text: with

text: a

text: high

text: degree

text: of

text: endemic

text: species

text: To

text: get

text: an

text: idea

text: of

text: its

text: biodiversity

text: --while

text: in

text: the

text: Iberian

text: Peninsula

text: there

text: are

text: about

text: species

text: of

text: amphibians

text: and

text: in

text: Germany

text: about

text: in

text: a

text: single

text: locality

text: in

text: Madagascar

text: we

text: can

text: find

text: around

text: species

text: of

text: frogs

text: said

text: Vieites

text: Dr.

text: Miguel

text: Vences

text: professor

text: at

text: the

text: Technical

text: University

text: of

text: Braunschweig

text: Germany

text: who

text: was

text: also

text: part

text: of

text: the

text: study

text: team

text: and

text: believes

text: that

text: a

text: century

text: of

text: new

text: species

text: discovery

text: is

text: just

text: beginning

text: People

text: think

text: that

text: we

text: know

text: which

text: plant

text: and

text: animal

text: species

text: live

text: on

text: this

text: planet

text: But

text: the

text: majority

text: of

text: life

text: forms

text: on

text: Earth

text: is

text: still

text: awaiting

text: scientific

text: recognition

question: What did the study find?

answer: has found nearly 200 new species of frogs in Madagascar.

text: has found nearly 200 new species of frogs in Madagascar.

question: Nearly 200 news species of what found in madagascar?

answer: frogs

text: frogs

question: What makes conservation efforts extra difficult?

answer: the unstable political situation in Madagascar

text: the unstable political situation in Madagascar

question: What was found on biodiversity hotspot?

answer: 200 new species of frogs

text: 200 new species of frogs

question: Where were they found?

answer: Madagascar,

text: Madagascar,

question: Conservation efforts are made difficult by what?

answer: the unstable political situation in Madagascar

text: the unstable political situation in Madagascar

question: where were many species found?

answer: Madagascar,

text: Madagascar,

question: How many new species of amphibians were found?

answer: between 129 and 221

text: between 129 and 221

question: What makes conservation efforts difficult?

answer: unstable political situation in Madagascar

text: unstable political situation in Madagascar


text:
Editor's note: This story is part of an ongoing series of profiles CNN is doing about economic survival in this time of financial crisis.

Married couple Lindsay  De Vore and Eliot Kohan on their delayed honeymoon to Orlando, Florida.

(CNN) -- At age 23 and fresh out of college, Eliot Kohan was diagnosed with an aggressive form of leukemia. He was told he had four months to live.

He survived. But the disease left him and his wife, Lindsay De Vore, who live in St. Paul, Minnesota, saddled with thousands of dollars of medical bills on top of their student loans and daily expenses.

But their struggles taught them an important lesson in saving money.

"When you have medical issues, it's easy to spiral into some sort of depression," the 26-year-old a technology analyst for a private contracting company in St. Paul said.

"My goal was to keep moving forward. I wanted to create some stability for our us."

All of that hard work saving for the past few years has paid off.

The couple is elated to be closing next month on their first home in St. Paul, thanks to the troubled economy.

De Vore and Kohan first told their story on CNN's iReport.com. Share your economic survivor story with CNN.

The timing couldn't have been better for the couple to purchase a modest three-bedroom, one-story stucco house. De Vore and Kohan locked into a historically low mortgage rate of 4.9 percent this month. The couple selected a foreclosed home, slashing nearly $20,000 off the final price.

"We wouldn't have been able to buy this house if the economy weren't the way it is," said De Vore, 25, who works in the financial aid office at a private college in St. Paul. "We were in the perfect position."

There were more than 300,000 foreclosure filings reported nationwide in December, marking a 17 percent increase from the previous month and a 41 percent increase from December 2007, according to RealtyTrac, a foreclosure listing service. Meanwhile, unemployment continues to climb to rates unseen in decades. Yet the rocky economy is having a positive effect on some Americans, who are finding it the ideal time to buy a home.

Similar to many married couples, Kohan and De Vore envisioned owning a house perhaps two or three years down the road, they say. Soon the couple says they noticed interest rates and home prices dipping so low that they found themselves nabbing a home as soon as they could afford the down payment.

But the couple's ability to afford their first home is a story about fiscal responsibility, patience and determination.

De Vore and Kohan, who met in their freshman year at St. Paul's Hamline University in 2002, moved into a two-bedroom apartment during their last year of college. For the past five years, they have remained in the same collegiate apartment, furnished with Craigslist finds and family hand-me-downs.

"Money was a reason we've stayed here so long," Kohan said last week, bundled up with his wife because their apartment's heater broke. "But at a certain point, we felt like we were growing out of it in more ways than just physically. We wanted a change of pace."

The couple says they've always been tight with money, keeping credit card usage limited to emergencies and being picky about what they spend their money on.

But they became more "money-conscious" in June 2006, when Kohan was diagnosed with leukemia. He needed a costly stem cell transplant, and the couple did not have enough money. The sickness was evident in his frail face and bruised body.

Luckily, when he went on leave from his job, his employers offered to hold his position until he recovered. Back in his hometown of Fergus Falls, a small city in western Minnesota, Kohan's family and friends threw a benefit, raising $12,000 toward the costly medical bills.

He soon recovered, but the experience forced him to refocus his goals in life, including buying a house..

The couple began saving in small ways. They bring their lunch to work and eat out only once or twice a month. They cut extra expenses that many couples in their 20s enjoy, such as nights at bars with friends and date nights to the movie theater. To save on gas money, Kohan takes public transportation, a 45-minute bus ride each way, to downtown Minneapolis for work.

"The house was a big motivation," says De Vore, who tracks their expenses meticulously each month.

When the couple married a year after his leukemia diagnosis, she opted for a small, intimate wedding. That helped cut costs too, she said.

They waited nearly nine months before heading on their honeymoon trip. Instead of a grand trip abroad, they settled for a smaller trip to Orlando, Florida.

Knowing that higher education would help her earn more, De Vore is taking night classes to earn her master's degree in student affairs. Her tuition is free because she chose to attend the university where she works.

By December, the couple began to realize all the saving had amounted to a down payment on a home. They wanted to invest in a home for at least 10 years, they say, so they can try to build equity.

De Vore found the home through a real estate agent on her lunch break one afternoon in early January. It was "nothing fancy," she says, but the 1960s ranch-style house had a spacious kitchen and a small yard with enough space for a dog that they want. She knew instantly that it would be their new home, she says.

"We worked hard. We didn't cut corners," she said. "We did everything we did to get here, and it's worth it, to our opinion."

text: Editor

text: 's

text: note

text: This

text: story

text: is

text: part

text: of

text: an

text: ongoing

text: series

text: of

text: profiles

text: CNN

text: is

text: doing

text: about

text: economic

text: survival

text: in

text: this

text: time

text: of

text: financial

text: crisis

text: Married

text: couple

text: Lindsay

text: De

text: Vore

text: and

text: Eliot

text: Kohan

text: on

text: their

text: delayed

text: honeymoon

text: to

text: Orlando

text: Florida

text: CNN

text: At

text: age

text: and

text: fresh

text: out

text: of

text: college

text: Eliot

text: Kohan

text: was

text: diagnosed

text: with

text: an

text: aggressive

text: form

text: of

text: leukemia

text: He

text: was

text: told

text: he

text: had

text: four

text: months

text: to

text: live

text: He

text: survived

text: But

text: the

text: disease

text: left

text: him

text: and

text: his

text: wife

text: Lindsay

text: De

text: Vore

text: who

text: live

text: in

text: St.

text: Paul

text: Minnesota

text: saddled

text: with

text: thousands

text: of

text: dollars

text: of

text: medical

text: bills

text: on

text: top

text: of

text: their

text: student

text: loans

text: and

text: daily

text: expenses

text: But

text: their

text: struggles

text: taught

text: them

text: an

text: important

text: lesson

text: in

text: saving

text: money

text: When

text: you

text: have

text: medical

text: issues

text: it

text: 's

text: easy

text: to

text: spiral

text: into

text: some

text: sort

text: of

text: depression

text: the

text: old

text: a

text: technology

text: analyst

text: for

text: a

text: private

text: contracting

text: company

text: in

text: St.

text: Paul

text: said

text: My

text: goal

text: was

text: to

text: keep

text: moving

text: forward

text: I

text: wanted

text: to

text: create

text: some

text: stability

text: for

text: our

text: us

text: All

text: of

text: that

text: hard

text: work

text: saving

text: for

text: the

text: past

text: few

text: years

text: has

text: paid

text: off

text: The

text: couple

text: is

text: elated

text: to

text: be

text: closing

text: next

text: month

text: on

text: their

text: first

text: home

text: in

text: St.

text: Paul

text: thanks

text: to

text: the

text: troubled

text: economy

text: De

text: Vore

text: and

text: Kohan

text: first

text: told

text: their

text: story

text: on

text: CNN

text: 's

text: iReport.com

text: Share

text: your

text: economic

text: survivor

text: story

text: with

text: CNN

text: The

text: timing

text: could

text: n't

text: have

text: been

text: better

text: for

text: the

text: couple

text: to

text: purchase

text: a

text: modest

text: three

text: bedroom

text: one

text: story

text: stucco

text: house

text: De

text: Vore

text: and

text: Kohan

text: locked

text: into

text: a

text: historically

text: low

text: mortgage

text: rate

text: of

text: percent

text: this

text: month

text: The

text: couple

text: selected

text: a

text: foreclosed

text: home

text: slashing

text: nearly

text: off

text: the

text: final

text: price

text: We

text: would

text: n't

text: have

text: been

text: able

text: to

text: buy

text: this

text: house

text: if

text: the

text: economy

text: were

text: n't

text: the

text: way

text: it

text: is

text: said

text: De

text: Vore

text: who

text: works

text: in

text: the

text: financial

text: aid

text: office

text: at

text: a

text: private

text: college

text: in

text: St.

text: Paul

text: We

text: were

text: in

text: the

text: perfect

text: position

text: There

text: were

text: more

text: than

text: foreclosure

text: filings

text: reported

text: nationwide

text: in

text: December

text: marking

text: a

text: percent

text: increase

text: from

text: the

text: previous

text: month

text: and

text: a

text: percent

text: increase

text: from

text: December

text: according

text: to

text: RealtyTrac

text: a

text: foreclosure

text: listing

text: service

text: Meanwhile

text: unemployment

text: continues

text: to

text: climb

text: to

text: rates

text: unseen

text: in

text: decades

text: Yet

text: the

text: rocky

text: economy

text: is

text: having

text: a

text: positive

text: effect

text: on

text: some

text: Americans

text: who

text: are

text: finding

text: it

text: the

text: ideal

text: time

text: to

text: buy

text: a

text: home

text: Similar

text: to

text: many

text: married

text: couples

text: Kohan

text: and

text: De

text: Vore

text: envisioned

text: owning

text: a

text: house

text: perhaps

text: two

text: or

text: three

text: years

text: down

text: the

text: road

text: they

text: say

text: Soon

text: the

text: couple

text: says

text: they

text: noticed

text: interest

text: rates

text: and

text: home

text: prices

text: dipping

text: so

text: low

text: that

text: they

text: found

text: themselves

text: nabbing

text: a

text: home

text: as

text: soon

text: as

text: they

text: could

text: afford

text: the

text: down

text: payment

text: But

text: the

text: couple

text: 's

text: ability

text: to

text: afford

text: their

text: first

text: home

text: is

text: a

text: story

text: about

text: fiscal

text: responsibility

text: patience

text: and

text: determination

text: De

text: Vore

text: and

text: Kohan

text: who

text: met

text: in

text: their

text: freshman

text: year

text: at

text: St.

text: Paul

text: 's

text: Hamline

text: University

text: in

text: moved

text: into

text: a

text: two

text: bedroom

text: apartment

text: during

text: their

text: last

text: year

text: of

text: college

text: For

text: the

text: past

text: five

text: years

text: they

text: have

text: remained

text: in

text: the

text: same

text: collegiate

text: apartment

text: furnished

text: with

text: Craigslist

text: finds

text: and

text: family

text: hand

text: me

text: downs

text: Money

text: was

text: a

text: reason

text: we

text: 've

text: stayed

text: here

text: so

text: long

text: Kohan

text: said

text: last

text: week

text: bundled

text: up

text: with

text: his

text: wife

text: because

text: their

text: apartment

text: 's

text: heater

text: broke

text: But

text: at

text: a

text: certain

text: point

text: we

text: felt

text: like

text: we

text: were

text: growing

text: out

text: of

text: it

text: in

text: more

text: ways

text: than

text: just

text: physically

text: We

text: wanted

text: a

text: change

text: of

text: pace

text: The

text: couple

text: says

text: they

text: 've

text: always

text: been

text: tight

text: with

text: money

text: keeping

text: credit

text: card

text: usage

text: limited

text: to

text: emergencies

text: and

text: being

text: picky

text: about

text: what

text: they

text: spend

text: their

text: money

text: on

text: But

text: they

text: became

text: more

text: money

text: conscious

text: in

text: June

text: when

text: Kohan

text: was

text: diagnosed

text: with

text: leukemia

text: He

text: needed

text: a

text: costly

text: stem

text: cell

text: transplant

text: and

text: the

text: couple

text: did

text: not

text: have

text: enough

text: money

text: The

text: sickness

text: was

text: evident

text: in

text: his

text: frail

text: face

text: and

text: bruised

text: body

text: Luckily

text: when

text: he

text: went

text: on

text: leave

text: from

text: his

text: job

text: his

text: employers

text: offered

text: to

text: hold

text: his

text: position

text: until

text: he

text: recovered

text: Back

text: in

text: his

text: hometown

text: of

text: Fergus

text: Falls

text: a

text: small

text: city

text: in

text: western

text: Minnesota

text: Kohan

text: 's

text: family

text: and

text: friends

text: threw

text: a

text: benefit

text: raising

text: toward

text: the

text: costly

text: medical

text: bills

text: He

text: soon

text: recovered

text: but

text: the

text: experience

text: forced

text: him

text: to

text: refocus

text: his

text: goals

text: in

text: life

text: including

text: buying

text: a

text: house

text: The

text: couple

text: began

text: saving

text: in

text: small

text: ways

text: They

text: bring

text: their

text: lunch

text: to

text: work

text: and

text: eat

text: out

text: only

text: once

text: or

text: twice

text: a

text: month

text: They

text: cut

text: extra

text: expenses

text: that

text: many

text: couples

text: in

text: their

text: enjoy

text: such

text: as

text: nights

text: at

text: bars

text: with

text: friends

text: and

text: date

text: nights

text: to

text: the

text: movie

text: theater

text: To

text: save

text: on

text: gas

text: money

text: Kohan

text: takes

text: public

text: transportation

text: a

text: bus

text: ride

text: each

text: way

text: to

text: downtown

text: Minneapolis

text: for

text: work

text: The

text: house

text: was

text: a

text: big

text: motivation

text: says

text: De

text: Vore

text: who

text: tracks

text: their

text: expenses

text: meticulously

text: each

text: month

text: When

text: the

text: couple

text: married

text: a

text: year

text: after

text: his

text: leukemia

text: diagnosis

text: she

text: opted

text: for

text: a

text: small

text: intimate

text: wedding

text: That

text: helped

text: cut

text: costs

text: too

text: she

text: said

text: They

text: waited

text: nearly

text: nine

text: months

text: before

text: heading

text: on

text: their

text: honeymoon

text: trip

text: Instead

text: of

text: a

text: grand

text: trip

text: abroad

text: they

text: settled

text: for

text: a

text: smaller

text: trip

text: to

text: Orlando

text: Florida

text: Knowing

text: that

text: higher

text: education

text: would

text: help

text: her

text: earn

text: more

text: De

text: Vore

text: is

text: taking

text: night

text: classes

text: to

text: earn

text: her

text: master

text: 's

text: degree

text: in

text: student

text: affairs

text: Her

text: tuition

text: is

text: free

text: because

text: she

text: chose

text: to

text: attend

text: the

text: university

text: where

text: she

text: works

text: By

text: December

text: the

text: couple

text: began

text: to

text: realize

text: all

text: the

text: saving

text: had

text: amounted

text: to

text: a

text: down

text: payment

text: on

text: a

text: home

text: They

text: wanted

text: to

text: invest

text: in

text: a

text: home

text: for

text: at

text: least

text: years

text: they

text: say

text: so

text: they

text: can

text: try

text: to

text: build

text: equity

text: De

text: Vore

text: found

text: the

text: home

text: through

text: a

text: real

text: estate

text: agent

text: on

text: her

text: lunch

text: break

text: one

text: afternoon

text: in

text: early

text: January

text: It

text: was

text: nothing

text: fancy

text: she

text: says

text: but

text: the

text: ranch

text: style

text: house

text: had

text: a

text: spacious

text: kitchen

text: and

text: a

text: small

text: yard

text: with

text: enough

text: space

text: for

text: a

text: dog

text: that

text: they

text: want

text: She

text: knew

text: instantly

text: that

text: it

text: would

text: be

text: their

text: new

text: home

text: she

text: says

text: We

text: worked

text: hard

text: We

text: did

text: n't

text: cut

text: corners

text: she

text: said

text: We

text: did

text: everything

text: we

text: did

text: to

text: get

text: here

text: and

text: it

text: 's

text: worth

text: it

text: to

text: our

text: opinion

question: what did they benefit from?

answer: raising $12,000 toward the costly medical bills.

text: raising $12,000 toward the costly medical bills.

question: Who offered the mortgage?

answer: De Vore and Kohan

text: De Vore and Kohan

question: what city is the first home in?

answer: St. Paul,

text: St. Paul,

question: what cancer did eliot kohan have?

answer: leukemia.

text: leukemia.


text:
ROME, Italy (CNN) -- The world's richest countries committed to "any further action that may prove necessary" to restore confidence in the global financial system, their finance ministers said as they wrapped up a two-day meeting in Rome.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is calling on governments to help restart the flow of credit.

The Group of Seven finance ministers also urged countries not to close their markets to goods and services from abroad.

"An open system of global trade and investment is indispensable for global prosperity," they said in a statement at the end of their meeting Saturday.

"Protectionist measures ... would only exacerbate the downturn" in the worldwide economy.

The ministers said the global banking crisis had revealed "fundamental weaknesses in the international financial system" and called for urgent reform.  Watch workers put pressure on the ministers Â»

New U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, making his international debut at the meetings, called on governments to focus on stabilizing and strengthening financial systems and help restart the flow of credit.

"Although the precise mix of measures must be tailored to each country's situation -- our financial systems are different, [the] structures of our systems are very different -- there is a common recognition of more capital and government financing to help restart credit markets," he said.

Italy hosted the meeting in its role as G-7 president for 2009. G-7 members includes the United States, Germany, Japan, France, Italy, Britain and Canada.

The agenda drawn up by Rome calls for adopting global measures and economic policy reforms capable of stabilizing the world economy and ensuring transparency to allow markets to function correctly.  Watch CNN correspondents on the impact of job losses around the world Â»

Geithner spoke just after the U.S. Senate gave final approval late Friday to a $787 billion recovery package to boost the U.S. economy. He told attendees that the package "provides a very powerful mix of investments and tax cuts to create jobs and to strengthen our long-term growth potential."

"As we act together to build a strong foundation for economic growth and recovery, we need to begin the process of comprehensive reform of our financial system, so that we never again face a crisis of this severity," Geithner said.

Another attendee, International Monetary Fund Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn, said he supports such stimulus packages for advanced countries.

"The question is no more to convince the governments to move today, but for them to implement the policies they need to manage," Strauss-Kahn said.

He also warned of the dangers of protectionism, which he said may still come "through the back door, especially in the financial sector."

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The U.S. Navy apprehends suspected pirates February 12 in the Gulf of Arden.

The pirates were released because the Navy did not have enough evidence to hand them over to Kenya for prosecution in court, in accordance with a recent agreement between the United States and Kenya, the officials explained.

The nine were brought into Somali waters and then handed over to the Puntland coast guard. Puntland is the self-proclaimed Somali state that includes the point of the horn of Africa.

The suspected pirates were detained by the Navy after the captain of the Indian-flagged ship Premdivya broadcast a distress call to all ships in the area that it had come under attack by a small boat.

The Navy saw a small boat meeting the description given by the Premdivya, and the occupants were detained and moved to the nearby USS Vella Gulf, where they were held.

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(CNN) -- Thousands of people turned out Saturday in the southern Austrian city of Klagenfurt for the funeral of politician Joerg Haider, a popular but polarizing figure who led right-wing Austrian politics for decades.

Harald Scheucher, mayor of Klagenfurt, speaks in front of the coffin of Joerg Haider Saturday.

Among those attending the service at the town's central Neuen Platz square were Austrian President Heinz Fischer and Chancellor Alfred Gusenbauer. Haider's widow sat in the front row with her two daughters, all of them dressed in black.

"Many people expected things of Joerg Haider that they themselves weren't able to fulfill, and he too expected things of people that he wasn't able to fulfill," Gusenbauer said at the funeral. "Therefore his death, and the end of his life, may be a time to think about whether death's only consolation is that we can now reconcile things that seemed irreconcilable during his lifetime."

Haider's coffin was draped in the yellow, red and white flag of the southern state of Carinthia, where he was governor, and topped with red roses.

Haider, 58, died last Saturday in a car accident while driving out of Klagenfurt, the state capital. He had just passed another car on a highway when his car hit a concrete post and rolled over several times, police said.

His spokesman said this week that Haider was drunk at the time of the crash.

Besides being Carinthia's governor, Haider was also head of the right-wing BZO party (Alliance for the Future of Austria), which he founded in 2005 after years with the conservative Freedom Party.

Haider came to prominence in 1986, when he became head of the Freedom Party while still in his 30s.

A politician who projected youth and style, Haider appealed to many working-class Austrians, promising to cut their taxes and give money to those with children. Some older Austrians responded to his demands for strict law and order.

But he drew widespread criticism both at home and abroad for his anti-immigrant stance and remarks considered anti-Semitic, and in 1991 he publicly praised Nazi Germany's employment policy.

Asked in 2000 about the statement, Haider told CNN the quote was taken from a long speech and that he never praised the Third Reich. He called the remarks a mistake and publicly denounced Nazism.

But Haider continued to draw attention for his controversial remarks. They included an address to veterans of the Waffen S.S., Adolf Hitler's elite soldiers, in which he praised their character.

The address created an uproar after it was broadcast on German television. Haider said he had simply been speaking to elderly citizens of Carinthia who included some former Waffen S.S. members.

Despite the controversy, Haider said he was not racist: "You will not find any anti-Semitic position in our party program, and you will not find any anti-Semitic speech or statement by me."

The policies of the Freedom Party drew international attention during the elections in 1999. Party campaign posters urged voters to stop the flood of immigration and used the term "over-foreignization," the same word used by Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels in 1933 to criticize what he called Jewish influence in Germany.

Haider told CNN he favored restricting immigration simply because of Austria's small size, but that he wanted to keep an open border for refugees.

It was his family background, Haider said, that kept singling him out for criticism.

Haider's parents were activists in the Nazi Party long before Austrian-born Hitler annexed Austria to Germany in 1938. Haider's father, Robert, volunteered for the S.A., the notorious brown shirts who terrorized Jews and others before the war. He then served in the German army.

His biographer, Melanie Sully, said Haider felt a strong sense of loyalty to his parents and those in the war generation.

"He feels that what they sacrificed after the war in rebuilding Austria in very difficult circumstances needs to be honored and that they weren't all criminals," Sully told CNN in 2000.

Under Haider's leadership, the Freedom Party made a strong showing in the 1999 elections, winning 27 percent of the vote and shaking up the traditional two-party system that had ruled Austria since World War II.

When the two main parties in that election failed to agree on forming a government together, the Freedom Party was invited to share power.

Haider retired as party leader after that but remained governor of Carinthia.

When Haider formed the BZO party three years ago, he took with him a number of Freedom Party lawmakers. Haider was credited with helping the BZO make significant gains in last month's general elections alongside the Freedom Party, though Austria's two largest parties, the Social Democrats and the People's Party, came out on top.

The vote reflected reflected public dissatisfaction with the two largest parties as well as support for the social populism, anti-European Union and anti-immigrant rhetoric of the BZO and Freedom Party.

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(CNN) -- Former Philippine President Corazon Aquino, whose "People Power" movement pushed out longtime strongman Ferdinand Marcos less than three years after her husband's assassination, has died at age 76, her family announced Saturday.

"She was the agent of change in Philippine democracy," said Ray Donato, the nation's consul-general in Atlanta.

Aquino, the first woman to lead the Philippines, had been battling colon cancer since March 2008 and died of cardio-respiratory arrest at 3:18 a.m. Saturday (3:18 p.m. Friday ET), said Mai Mislang, a spokeswoman for her son, Philippine Sen. Benigno Aquino III.

Funeral arrangements were being set up, Mislang said.  Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo has also announced a 10-day mourning period for the former president, said Ray Donato, the country's consul-general in Atlanta.

"She was the agent of change in Philippine democracy, and almost all the Filipinos I know revered her during her presidency," Donato said.

Aquino had been born into a wealthy family and was educated in the United States. She had not been involved in politics before her husband, opposition leader Benigno "Ninoy" Aquino Jr., was gunned down at Manila's airport in August 1983 as he returned from exile.

The political novice took over the leadership of her husband's movement after his death and challenged Marcos in a 1986 election, making a yellow dress her trademark and bolstered by the support of the country's Roman Catholic churches.

Marcos had been backed by the United States, the former colonial power in the Philippines, for two decades as a stalwart anti-communist. He and his wife Imelda were friends of then-President Ronald Reagan and his wife, Nancy. But widespread allegations of electoral fraud and a mutiny by the country's military led the Reagan administration to withdraw its support, and Marcos went into exile in Hawaii.

Aquino took office in a country with a $28 billion debt, widespread poverty and a persistent Marxist insurgency. She put in place a U.S.-style constitution that limited presidents to a single six-year term and survived seven coup attempts -- including one that was supressed with American help.

She also oversaw the closure of the major U.S. military bases in the country before leaving office in 1992. The bases had been a bulwark of American power in the Pacific since the early 1900s and employed nearly 80,000 Filipinos, but Aquino's opponents argued the country was too dependent on the United States. Aquino announced in 1990 that it was time to begin negotiating the "orderly withdrawal" of U.S. forces.

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question: How long is the mourning period?

answer: 10-day

question: What is the president's name?

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NEW YORK (CNN) -- A three-vehicle crash north of New York killed eight people, including four children, state police said on Sunday.

One of the vehicles in the three-vehicle wreck was heading the wrong direction, police said.

A fifth child is being treated for injuries suffered in the crash near Pleasantville, about 30 miles north of New York. Police initially reported no survivors.

The crash happened when a minivan carrying the five children and one adult was heading the wrong way on a northbound lane of the Taconic State Parkway, police said. It crashed head-on into an SUV carrying three adults.

The minivan then careened into a third vehicle before rolling over and bursting into flames, state police said.  Watch investigators examine wreckage Â»

The two adults in the third vehicle were being treated for minor injuries, police said.

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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The House of Representatives on Tuesday night passed an energy bill clearing the way for more oil drilling off U.S. coasts, but not nearly as much as Republican leaders wanted.

The bill was passed by a vote of 236-189.

Many Republicans opposed the bill because it would allow new oil drilling only between 50 and 100 miles offshore. Republicans generally want to allow new drilling starting 3 miles from shore.

Republicans also objected to provisions repealing tax cuts for the oil industry and what they said was a lack of incentive for states to allow drilling on their land.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a California Democrat, told reporters Tuesday: "The American taxpayers have been ripped off for years on offshore drilling. This bill changes that."

Before the vote, Pelosi said the bill presented a choice between "the status quo, which is preferred by Big Oil," and "change for the future to take our country in a new direction."

Fifteen Republicans voted for the largely Democrat-backed bill. Thirteen Democrats voted against it.

The Senate, meanwhile, could vote on various energy proposals, including more offshore drilling, as early as this week.

The House bill would require states to give their permission for drilling on their land. It also would offer incentives for renewable energy, require the government to release oil from its emergency reserve, and force oil companies to drill on federal lands they already lease from the government.

Democratic leaders had previously opposed Republican-led efforts to repeal a 1981 law barring most offshore drilling. But they changed course over the August recess, saying their new plans would allow some expanded drilling.  See where U.S. offshore drilling is banned Â»

But Republicans say the House bill wouldn't expand offshore drilling enough. Before the vote, Rep. Mike Pence, an Indiana Republican, called the bill "a charade," denying it would do what its backers claim.

"This is not 'yes' to drilling. This is 'yes, but,' " he said.

"This is 'yes, but no drilling in Alaska, no drilling in the Eastern Gulf, no drilling inside 50 miles,' " Pence said. "This is 'yes, but no litigation reform that will prevent radical environmental attorneys from tying up leases even before a single shovel of dirt is turned.' "

Democrats and Republicans traded harsh words on the House floor Tuesday in the debate over the bill.

Rep. Anthony Weiner, a New York Democrat, said President Bush's "idea of an energy policy is holding hands with the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, embracing him with a big smooch."

When the Republicans "controlled Congress, [they] passed their own energy bill, signed into law by the president. We got into this mess," Weiner said.

But Rep. Jeb Hensarling, a Texas Republican, shot back that the Democrats' bill is a "sham" and a "fraud."

"This is a bill designed to ensure Democrats' re-election, not designed to ensure affordable energy in America," Hensarling said.

Hensarling also complained about how the bill was brought to the floor: "No amendments, no substitutes, no committee hearings. Is this democracy? No."

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question: Who said "This is not 'yes' to drilling."?

answer: Rep. Mike Pence,

text: Rep. Mike Pence,

question: How mny votes did the bill pass?

answer: 236-189.

question: What would the Democrats plan expand?

answer: more oil drilling off U.S. coasts,

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question: What was the result of the bill vote?

answer: of 236-189.

text: of 236-189.

question: What would the Democrat's drilling plan do?

answer: only between 50 and 100 miles offshore.

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question: What vote did the bill pass by?

answer: 236-189.

question: What would the Democrats' plan do?

answer: allow new oil drilling only between 50 and 100 miles offshore.

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question: Who fought the proposal?

answer: Many Republicans

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question: What is the Republican response to the Democrats' drilling plan?

answer: opposed the bill

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question: How many votes did the bill pass by?

answer: 236-189.

question: What do democrats plan to expand offshore?

answer: oil drilling

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