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MIAMI, Florida (CNN) -- The storm called Hanna weakened from a hurricane to a tropical storm Tuesday morning as maximum sustained winds eased down to 70 mph, the National Hurricane Center said.

This satellite image from Monday shows Hanna over the southern Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands.

Despite the downgrade, Hanna dropped torrential rain on the eastern Bahamas, the Turks and Caicos Islands, and Haiti. Hurricane warnings remained in effect.

Hanna's path and strength remain uncertain, but the latest forecast map from the National Hurricane Center predicts it still could make landfall as a major hurricane on the southeastern U.S. coast by Friday evening.

Hanna's path early Tuesday appeared to be a "meandering" loop across Turks and Caicos, but atmospheric changes over the western Atlantic are expected to steer the storm northwestward over the next two or three days, according to forecasters.

As of 5 a.m. ET, Hanna was a Category 1 storm on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale with sustained winds of 80 mph (129 kph) and gusts of up to 100 mph. iReport.com: Watch Hanna lash Turks and Caicos Islands

Three hours later, it was downgraded to a tropical storm as winds fell below the 74 mph threshold for hurricane status. It could return to hurricane status later Tuesday or on Wednesday, forecasters said.

Hanna's line of fire could include the U.S. Atlantic coast from Miami, Florida, to Massachusetts, according to the hurricane center's long-range forecast map. Charleston, South Carolina, appears in the middle of this "cone of uncertainty," with Hanna potentially making landfall there Friday.

"It appears that the center has been meandering," forecasters said.

The history of hurricanes that have been where Hanna is now might argue against its heading toward the southeastern United States. None of the September storms that passed within 200 miles of Hanna's current location has gone there, with most heading into the Gulf of Mexico and others going to New England or Nova Scotia.

Still, forecasters said, "the model guidance is remarkably well clustered" in support of its forecast path for Hanna.

Meanwhile, forecasters were keeping an eye on Tropical Storm Ike, which was gaining strength in the mid-Atlantic and appeared headed for the Bahamas later in the week. It had maximum sustained winds of 50 mph Tuesday morning.

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(CNN)  -- A roadside bomb in southern Afghanistan killed a female Canadian soldier and wounded four other troops, the Canadian military said Tuesday.

Trooper Karine Blais, 21, is the second Canadian female soldier to die in Afghanistan.

Trooper Karine Blais was killed Monday when the troops' armored vehicle struck the bomb. The attack occurred north of Kandahar in the Shah Wali Kowt District of Kandahar province.

Blais' death was the 117th Canadian troop fatality in the Afghan war, and she is the second Canadian female soldier killed in Afghanistan.

The first, Capt. Nichola Goddard, was killed in a May 2006 firefight with insurgents in Kandahar province, where Canadian troops have been based during the conflict.

Brig. Gen. Jonathan Vance, commander of Canadian troops in Afghanistan, called the 21-year-old Blais "an energetic soldier who gave 100 percent to every challenge she faced using a unique sense of humor based on her honesty and frankness."

Vance said Blais "demonstrated the qualities of a future leader" and was "respected by all members of her squadron."

"Our thoughts are with the friends and family of our fallen comrade during this difficult time," the Canadian Forces said in a news release. "All members of Task Force Kandahar are thinking of the family and friends of our fallen comrades during this sad time. We will not forget their sacrifice as we continue to bring security and hope to the people of Kandahar province."

Blais, from the 12th Canadian Armored Regiment at Valcartier, Quebec, near Quebec City, was serving with the 2nd Battalion, Royal 22th Regiment Battle Group.

A chopper evacuated the four other troops to a medical facility at Kandahar airfield.

Before Monday's attack, the last Canadian deaths in Afghanistan occurred March 20 when four soldiers were killed in two roadside bombings.

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BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- While violence decreases across Iraq, women in the war-ravaged country face worsening hardships as warfare has thrust them into the role of family breadwinners, an aid group's survey said.

An Iraqi woman who sells incense and candles to support her children says, "to work is to preserve your honor."

In a release dated Sunday coinciding with International Women's Day, Oxfam International issued, "In Her Own Words: Iraqi Women Talk About Their Greatest Concerns and Challenges."

Many women have been widowed and have had to run their families because their husbands "had been killed, disappeared, abducted or suffered from mental or physical abuse," the survey says.

As a result, many have been unable to earn a decent living. While there are no precise numbers, there are now an estimated 740,000 widows in Iraq, Oxfam says.

"Women are the forgotten victims of Iraq," said Oxfam International Executive Director Jeremy Hobbs, in quotes included in the survey.  See pictures of women working in Iraq Â»

The survey found that largely because of the conflict in Iraq, 35.5 percent of participants were acting as head of the household and that "nearly 25 percent had not been married."

"If this reflects Iraq as a whole, it is the highest rate in the larger region, a result of the loss of men of marrying age as a result of the conflict," the survey said.

Oxfam and its Iraqi partner group Al-Amal Association, conducted the survey in five provinces -- Baghdad, Basra, Tameem, Najaf and Nineveh. Questioners interviewed 1,700 respondents starting last summer.

While the survey doesn't represent the situation facing all Iraqis, it provides "a disturbing snapshot of many women's lives and those of their children and other family members."

"A quarter of the women interviewed still do not have daily access to water, a third cannot send their children to school and, since the war started, over half have been the victim of violence," Hobbs said.

"And to add further insult more than three-quarters of widows, many of whom lost their husbands to the conflict, get no government pension which they are entitled to."

The report urges Iraq to invest in social welfare essential services.

"A whole generation of Iraqis are at risk. Mothers are being forced to make tough choices, such as whether to pay for their children to go to school and receive health care, or to pay for private power and water services. These are choices no mother should have to make. And they are not only threatening individual families, they are also threatening the future of Iraq itself," Hobbs said.

Here are some of the survey results.

â¢ Security and safety are the top concerns of nearly 60 percent of women.

â¢ More than 40 percent of respondents said their security situation worsened last year.

â¢ 55 percent had been victims of violence since 2003.

â¢ Some 45 percent of women said their income was worse in 2008 than in 2007 and 2006.

â¢ 69 percent said access to water was worse or the same as in in 2006 and 2007.

â¢ 80 percent said access to electricity was more difficult than or the same as in 2007.

â¢ Nearly half of the women said access to quality health care was more difficult in 2008 compared with 2006 and 2007.

â¢ 40 percent of women with children reported that their sons and daughters were not attending school.

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ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- Millard Fuller, who founded Habitat for Humanity International along with his wife, has died, officials said Tuesday. He was 74.

Millard Fuller appears with President Bush at a Habitat for Humanity event in Tampa, Florida, in 2001.

Fuller died early Tuesday "after a brief illness," said a statement on the Web site of the organization he currently headed, Fuller Center for Housing, in Americus, Georgia.

"Family and friends are mourning the tragic loss of a great servant leader and a genuine heart," the statement said.

Fuller had suffered from chest congestion for three to four weeks, said Holly Chapman, spokeswoman for the Fuller Center. He died about 3 a.m. en route to a hospital, she said.

With his wife, Linda, Fuller founded Habitat for Humanity International in 1976.

The Alabama native rose "from humble beginnings" to become a "young, self-made millionaire," according to his biography on Habitat for Humanity's Web site. He and a college friend began a marketing firm while still in school, "but as his business prospered, his health, integrity and marriage suffered," the biography said.

"These crises prompted Fuller to re-evaluate his values and direction. His soul-searching led to reconciliation with his wife and to a renewal of his Christian commitment," it said.

The Fullers sold all their possessions, gave money to the poor and began searching for a new direction. They found Koinonia Farm, a Christian community near Americus in rural southwest Georgia, the biography said.

Along with Koinonia founder Clarence Jordan and a few others, the couple initiated several enterprises, among them a housing ministry that built modest homes on a no-interest, nonprofit basis and made them affordable to low-income families.

Homeowner families were expected to use their own labor to help defray costs on their home as well as homes for other families. Money to build homes was placed into a revolving fund, enabling more to be built, according to the biography.

In 1973, the Fullers moved to Africa to test their housing model, the biography said. Their project was launched in Zaire -- now the Democratic Republic of the Congo -- and was a success. "Fuller became convinced that this model could be expanded and applied all over the world," the biography said.

When Fuller returned to the United States three years later, he met with a group of associates to create Habitat for Humanity International. According to its Web site, Habitat has provided shelter for more than 1.5 million people in more than 3,000 communities.

"I see life as both a gift and a responsibility. My responsibility is to use what God has given me to help his people in need," Fuller once said, according to Habitat's Web site.

Former President Carter, a key Habitat supporter, fellow Georgian and a close friend, issued a statement Tuesday saying Fuller "was one of the most extraordinary people I have ever known."

"He used his remarkable gifts as an entrepreneur for the benefit of millions of needy people around the world by providing them with decent housing," Carter said. "As the founder of Habitat for Humanity and later the Fuller Center, he was an inspiration to me, other members of our family and an untold number of volunteers who worked side-by-side under his leadership."  See celebrities working on Habitat projects Â»

In 1996, President Clinton awarded Fuller the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, calling Habitat "the most successful continuous community service project in the history of the United States."

Fuller left Habitat for Humanity in 2005 amid a dispute with the organization's board. Habitat said in a statement at the time his termination culminated "several months of differences between the Fullers and the board over allegations of inappropriate personal behavior of Millard Fuller toward a now-former female employee," according to an article in the February 2005 edition of Christianity Today magazine.

The organization noted there was insufficient evidence to corroborate the complaint, according to Christianity Today, but said Fuller engaged in "a pattern of ongoing public comments and communications ... that have been divisive and disruptive to the organization's work."

For his part, Fuller told the magazine he feared the board used the controversy to push him out to find a "high-paid bean counter" instead of someone with "strong Christian commitment."

"We've overloaded the board with 'money' people, all of whom are nominal Christians, but many of whom are not spiritually grounded," he told the magazine. "Some seem put off by my overt declaration of Jesus."

After his departure, Fuller founded the Fuller Center for Housing, which its Web site describes as "a nonprofit, ecumenical Christian housing ministry dedicated to eliminating poverty housing worldwide."

The center was founded after Fuller "set out to expand his missionary vision" by returning to his roots at Koinonia Farm, a cooperative community dedicated to peace and service.

A new mission statement was issued at Koinonia dedicating the Fuller Center as "a Christ-centered, faith-driven organization witnessing the love of God by providing opportunities for families to have a simple, decent place to live," according to the site.

Funeral services are scheduled for Wednesday, said Chapman, the Fuller Center spokeswoman. Fuller will be buried at Koinonia Farm, according to the center's Web site.

CNN's Hank Bishop contributed to this report.

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question: What medal did Fuller receive?

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(CNN) -- It takes seven minutes to execute a death row inmate, according to the state of Texas.

Mike Graczyk poses outside the Texas death chamber prior to an execution in January.

At that rate, Mike Graczyk has spent about 40 hours of his life watching men -- and a few women -- die.

Graczyk, a correspondent for The Associated Press, is believed to hold a macabre record. He's almost certainly watched more executions than anyone else in the United States.

"I can't possibly imagine there's been someone present at more than Mike," said Michelle Lyons, the spokeswoman for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, which uses lethal injection at its execution chamber in Huntsville.

Since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976, no state has executed more inmates than Texas. And no one has witnessed more of them than Graczyk.

He's on the witness list for 315 of the state's 439 executions -- more than any other reporter, prison employee or chaplain --  and no records were kept for another 80.  Interactive map: See how Texas compares with other states Â»

In his early days, he kept count. But he eventually stopped. He didn't want to know.

"In one circle, I was perceived as putting notches on my gun belt," the 59-year-old reporter said. "I didn't like that."

Prison regulations in Texas require The Associated Press to be given one of the five designated media witness passes for each execution.

Graczyk works in the AP's Houston bureau -- it's closest to the state's execution chamber in Huntsville. Since the early 1980s, he's made the hourlong drive north almost every time an inmate has faced the needle.

The first was March 13, 1984, for the execution of James "Cowboy" Autry, convicted of shooting a female store clerk between the eyes with a .38-caliber revolver while arguing over a six-pack of beer.

She died, along with a former Catholic priest that Autry killed at the crime scene.

"The first time definitely leaves an impression on you," Graczyk said.

There are others that stand out along the way.

Graczyk remembers Bob Black, convicted of killing his wife and trying to collect the insurance money.

"I walked into the death house, and he was strapped to the table and he said, 'Hey Mike, how are you doing?' It threw me for a loop."

Graczyk said it's normal for him to know the name of the condemned and not uncommon for the reverse to be true. There have been others who greeted Graczyk by name with a needle in their arm.

Once, while waiting to be let into the death house, a prisoner phoned him in the media holding area.

It was the inmate whose execution Graczyk was about to witness.

"He said, 'I just wanted to call and make sure you were OK.' I was flabbergasted."

Over the years, the inmate's name has slipped from Graczyk's memory, but not the unexpected phone conversation.

"I don't think he had any family to call," he said.

There was Ponchai Wilkerson, who once nearly escaped from death row and, years later, coughed up a handcuff key as he lay dying from his injection.

There was the "Candy Man," Ronald Clark O'Bryan -- convicted of poisoning his child's Halloween candy with cyanide -- and the gauntlet of college students wearing Halloween masks who showed up to cheer.

And Karla Faye Tucker, the first woman executed in Texas since the 1800s. He remembers a network correspondent crying after her death -- and another blow-drying his hair.

Of the entire death chamber ritual, Graczyk said, it's the final statements that stick in his mind. Some have been confessions. Others were denials.

Poetry. Prayers. Bible verses. Curses. Emotions ranging from defiance to resignation.

There was Jonathan Nobles, an electrician who stabbed two people to death. He sang "Silent Night."

"Ever since then, I think of him on Christmas or Christmas Eve when I'm in church," Graczyk said. "That's the kind of thing that haunts you."

The person who may come closest to Graczyk's status also felt things that haunted him.

Don Reid, a writer for the AP and, before that, a Texas newspaper, witnessed 189 executions in the 1960s, when Texas still strapped inmates to "Old Sparky," the nickname for the state's electric chair.

The experience changed Reid, who died in 1981, from a supporter of the death penalty to an opponent. He wrote a book, "Have a Seat, Please," chronicling that transformation.

Graczyk said he doesn't worry about the mental toll of watching so many deaths. His bosses with the AP have offered counseling. He's declined.

"To see someone go to sleep -- not to sound insensitive -- but the carnage at the murder scene is harder than what you see in the death house in Huntsville," he said.

Over a 25-year career, Graczyk said, the executions have only been a small portion of his work. He finds balance in those other stories.

As a journalist, Graczyk never answers the question when friends ask his own views on the death penalty.

"I'm not sure I really know," he said.

But as long as Texas keeps executing people, Graczyk said, it's important that he keep showing up.

The next execution in Huntsville was scheduled for Thursday before the condemned, convicted murderer Kenneth Mosley, was granted a reprieve until September.

If the execution goes ahead then, Graczyk plans to make the drive.

"I would hate for the state of Texas to take someone's life and no one be there," he said.

CNN's Doug Gross contributed to this report.

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text: are

text: others

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text: along

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text: way

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text: Bob

text: Black

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text: wife

text: and

text: trying

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text: the

text: insurance

text: money

text: I

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text: death

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text: he

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text: he

text: said

text: Hey

text: Mike

text: how

text: are

text: you

text: doing

text: It

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text: a

text: loop

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text: 's

text: normal

text: for

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text: the

text: name

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text: not

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text: reverse

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text: be

text: true

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text: been

text: others

text: who

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text: name

text: with

text: a

text: needle

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text: their

text: arm

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text: to

text: be

text: let

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text: death

text: house

text: a

text: prisoner

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text: media

text: holding

text: area

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text: the

text: inmate

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text: execution

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text: was

text: about

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text: He

text: said

text: I

text: just

text: wanted

text: to

text: call

text: and

text: make

text: sure

text: you

text: were

text: OK

text: I

text: was

text: flabbergasted

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text: the

text: years

text: the

text: inmate

text: 's

text: name

text: has

text: slipped

text: from

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text: 's

text: memory

text: but

text: not

text: the

text: unexpected

text: phone

text: conversation

text: I

text: do

text: n't

text: think

text: he

text: had

text: any

text: family

text: to

text: call

text: he

text: said

text: There

text: was

text: Ponchai

text: Wilkerson

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text: once

text: nearly

text: escaped

text: from

text: death

text: row

text: and

text: years

text: later

text: coughed

text: up

text: a

text: handcuff

text: key

text: as

text: he

text: lay

text: dying

text: from

text: his

text: injection

text: There

text: was

text: the

text: Candy

text: Man

text: Ronald

text: Clark

text: O'Bryan

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text: poisoning

text: his

text: child

text: 's

text: Halloween

text: candy

text: with

text: cyanide

text: and

text: the

text: gauntlet

text: of

text: college

text: students

text: wearing

text: Halloween

text: masks

text: who

text: showed

text: up

text: to

text: cheer

text: And

text: Karla

text: Faye

text: Tucker

text: the

text: first

text: woman

text: executed

text: in

text: Texas

text: since

text: the

text: He

text: remembers

text: a

text: network

text: correspondent

text: crying

text: after

text: her

text: death

text: and

text: another

text: blow

text: drying

text: his

text: hair

text: Of

text: the

text: entire

text: death

text: chamber

text: ritual

text: Graczyk

text: said

text: it

text: 's

text: the

text: final

text: statements

text: that

text: stick

text: in

text: his

text: mind

text: Some

text: have

text: been

text: confessions

text: Others

text: were

text: denials

text: Poetry

text: Prayers

text: Bible

text: verses

text: Curses

text: Emotions

text: ranging

text: from

text: defiance

text: to

text: resignation

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text: was

text: Jonathan

text: Nobles

text: an

text: electrician

text: who

text: stabbed

text: two

text: people

text: to

text: death

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text: sang

text: Silent

text: Night

text: Ever

text: since

text: then

text: I

text: think

text: of

text: him

text: on

text: Christmas

text: or

text: Christmas

text: Eve

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text: I

text: 'm

text: in

text: church

text: Graczyk

text: said

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text: 's

text: the

text: kind

text: of

text: thing

text: that

text: haunts

text: you

text: The

text: person

text: who

text: may

text: come

text: closest

text: to

text: Graczyk

text: 's

text: status

text: also

text: felt

text: things

text: that

text: haunted

text: him

text: Don

text: Reid

text: a

text: writer

text: for

text: the

text: AP

text: and

text: before

text: that

text: a

text: Texas

text: newspaper

text: witnessed

text: executions

text: in

text: the

text: when

text: Texas

text: still

text: strapped

text: inmates

text: to

text: Old

text: Sparky

text: the

text: nickname

text: for

text: the

text: state

text: 's

text: electric

text: chair

text: The

text: experience

text: changed

text: Reid

text: who

text: died

text: in

text: from

text: a

text: supporter

text: of

text: the

text: death

text: penalty

text: to

text: an

text: opponent

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text: wrote

text: a

text: book

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text: a

text: Seat

text: Please

text: chronicling

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text: transformation

text: Graczyk

text: said

text: he

text: does

text: n't

text: worry

text: about

text: the

text: mental

text: toll

text: of

text: watching

text: so

text: many

text: deaths

text: His

text: bosses

text: with

text: the

text: AP

text: have

text: offered

text: counseling

text: He

text: 's

text: declined

text: To

text: see

text: someone

text: go

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text: not

text: to

text: sound

text: insensitive

text: but

text: the

text: carnage

text: at

text: the

text: murder

text: scene

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text: harder

text: than

text: what

text: you

text: see

text: in

text: the

text: death

text: house

text: in

text: Huntsville

text: he

text: said

text: Over

text: a

text: career

text: Graczyk

text: said

text: the

text: executions

text: have

text: only

text: been

text: a

text: small

text: portion

text: of

text: his

text: work

text: He

text: finds

text: balance

text: in

text: those

text: other

text: stories

text: As

text: a

text: journalist

text: Graczyk

text: never

text: answers

text: the

text: question

text: when

text: friends

text: ask

text: his

text: own

text: views

text: on

text: the

text: death

text: penalty

text: I

text: 'm

text: not

text: sure

text: I

text: really

text: know

text: he

text: said

text: But

text: as

text: long

text: as

text: Texas

text: keeps

text: executing

text: people

text: Graczyk

text: said

text: it

text: 's

text: important

text: that

text: he

text: keep

text: showing

text: up

text: The

text: next

text: execution

text: in

text: Huntsville

text: was

text: scheduled

text: for

text: Thursday

text: before

text: the

text: condemned

text: convicted

text: murderer

text: Kenneth

text: Mosley

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text: granted

text: a

text: reprieve

text: until

text: September

text: If

text: the

text: execution

text: goes

text: ahead

text: then

text: Graczyk

text: plans

text: to

text: make

text: the

text: drive

text: I

text: would

text: hate

text: for

text: the

text: state

text: of

text: Texas

text: to

text: take

text: someone

text: 's

text: life

text: and

text: no

text: one

text: be

text: there

text: he

text: said

text: CNN

text: 's

text: Doug

text: Gross

text: contributed

text: to

text: this

text: report

question: What has Graczyk decline?

answer: His bosses with the AP have offered counseling. He's declined.

text: His bosses with the AP have offered counseling. He's declined.

question: who was covered executions in texas?

answer: Mike Graczyk

text: Mike Graczyk

question: what did Graczyk not want?

answer: In his early days, he kept count. But he eventually stopped. He didn't

text: In his early days, he kept count. But he eventually stopped. He didn't

question: How long has the Texas reporter covered executions for?

answer: 40 hours of his life

text: 40 hours of his life

question: who didn't want notches on his belt

answer: Mike Graczyk

text: Mike Graczyk

question: what does the texas reporter cover

answer: executions

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(CNN) -- Solid support from registered Democrats and women in New Hampshire were crucial Tuesday as Sen. Hillary Clinton rebounded from her third-place finish in last week's Iowa caucuses.

Sen. Hillary Clinton has spent the past few days saying she has the experience to change Washington.

She narrowly defeated Sen. Barack Obama in the New Hampshire primary, with 39 percent of the vote to Obama's 37.

"Last week, I listened to you, and in the process I found my own voice," the New York senator said after her victory.

"Now let's give America the kind of comeback that New Hampshire has just given me."

Forty-three percent of self-styled independents said they voted for Obama, and 31 percent said they backed Clinton. Independents made up 43 percent of all voters polled.

Addressing his roaring supporters after the race was called, Obama congratulated Clinton. But he was a candidate determined to draw a distinction between Clinton and himself.

"But the reason our campaign has always been different, the reason we began this improbable journey almost a year ago, is because it's not just about what I will do as president," he said. "It is also about what you, the people who love this country, the citizens of the United States of America, can do to change it. That's what this election is all about."

But Clinton was ahead of Obama 45 percent to 34 percent among those who said they were registered Democrats. Those voters made up a majority -- 54 percent -- of all respondents.

Clinton also claimed the majority of women's votes, according to the polling. That's in contrast to last week's Iowa caucuses, in which Obama surprised observers by stealing the female vote from Clinton.

Analysts say that shift among female voters was crucial to the Clinton turnaround. "If I had a single word, the word would be 'women,' " said CNN political analyst Bill Schneider. "She got the women back."

And Schneider said the support of union voters that put Clinton over the top. "Union voters have her a 10 point lead," he said.

CNN projected former Sen. John Edwards to finish third.

College graduates, who made up 29 percent of the electorate, opted narrowly for Clinton -- 38 percent to Obama's 37 percent, according to the polling.

Those polled who called themselves very liberal, and moderate, went with Clinton over Obama -- although by less than 2 percentage points in each -- and those who said they are somewhat liberal were evenly split.

Pundits also were citing the role of former President Bill Clinton in helping his wife recover from what pre-primary polls were suggesting was a deficit of 9 percentage points to Obama in New Hampshire.

The former president spent Tuesday in Hanover -- home to Dartmouth College -- where Obama had been expected to win handily.

"They dispatched him to the area that Obama was surging," said CNN analyst Donna Brazille, who managed former Vice President Al Gore's campaign in 2000. "I think it had the effect of tamping down Obama support and giving Senator Clinton a real reason to come back in this race."

New Hampshire was considered crucial to Clinton's campaign. If Obama had been able to sweep Iowa and New Hampshire -- after months of Clinton being considered the front-runner among Democrats -- it could have given him powerful momentum going into future primaries.

"Age is also playing a big factor -- older voters are overwhelmingly outnumbering younger voters -- a proportion that is clearly benefiting Clinton," Schneider said. "Sixty-seven percent of Democratic primary voters are over the age of 40, and they are breaking heavily for Clinton over Obama."

Over the past several days, Clinton has trumpeted her experience, saying that she has delivered change as both first lady and as a senator.

After losing to Obama in last week's Iowa caucuses, it was unclear whether she could overcome what appeared to be Obama's ability to electrify American voters who had previously taken a sour and skeptical view of politicians and the political process.

The duel between the Obama and Clinton campaigns grew especially testy Monday and Tuesday. She said she had more experience than he, and was therefore more qualified. He accused her of representing the status quo of Washington.

And on the eve of the New Hampshire primary, Bill Clinton criticized the media for not pressing Obama more fully on Iraq, and accused the Illinois senator of shifting his position to reflect changing attitudes about the war in Iraq.

Then, there was an issue unto itself -- Hillary Clinton's almost-tears.

Clinton's eyes welled up this week while responding to a voter's question about her health and appearance.

Pundits and voters alike questioned whether Clinton's emotions were sincere or faked as part of some strategy to diminish criticism that she is too steely, too cold.

In front of the crowd of mostly female New Hampshire voters, an admittedly fatigued Clinton responded to a question by saying: "This is very personal for me, it's not just political, it's [that] I see what's happening, we have to reverse it."

Her voice broke, and she was then applauded by the crowd.

Polls indicated the show of emotions fared well with male voters, according to CNN's John King, but turned off some female voters.

Edwards was followed in votes by New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson and Ohio Rep. Dennis Kucinich. E-mail to a friend

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Mount Everest, Nepal (CNN) -- Even from more than 21,000 feet up the world's tallest mountain, 13-year-old Jordan Romero couldn't resist the opportunity to greet his mother in a live television broadcast Monday.

"Hi, Mom," Romero said with a wave of his hand during the interview broadcast on CNN from the advance base camp on Mount Everest in Nepal.

The interview followed the first day of real climbing in Romero's attempt to become the youngest person ever to reach the summit of Everest, 29,028 feet (8,847 meters) above sea level.

Accompanied by his father and his father's girlfriend, and backed by a team of sherpas and yaks that helped transport their 2,000 kilograms (4,400 pounds) of gear, Romero needed 13 days just to reach the point where real climbing began.

Paul Romero, Jordan's father, said the first day of the actual ascent Monday required technical climbing in tough weather conditions, including ice and snow.

For Jordan, it's all part of the journey.

"It could take ... a couple of weeks or a couple of years," he said, sitting in a tent wearing a parka and fluorescent yellow cap, and with a blue sleeping bag over his legs. "This is the first of many attempts."

His initial impressions? The trip is both hard and great.

"It's Mount Everest. It's a tough mountain. The altitude is tough," Romero said. "It's both physically and technically hard. There's a lot of new things."

At the same time, "I've been able to see Mount Everest from wherever I go. I'm already happy with that."

In addition, Romero said, he was learning "a lot about culture, politics, religion, people, everything about Nepal and China."

"So it's been such a great trip, and I've learned so much from it," he said.

Paul Romero praised his son's climbing Monday, noting that they spent 10 hours on ice and snow.

"Knock on wood, everybody's healthy," the elder Romero said, adding: "Jordan today had a stellar day."

Before they started, Jordan said he wanted to climb Everest for himself and to inspire more young people to get outdoors.

"Obese children are the future of America, the way things are going," he said on April 9 in Kathmandu. "I am hoping to change that by doing what I do: climbing and motivational speaking. I want to motivate children and inspire them to get outdoors."

With a smile, he added: "I am doing this a little for myself, too, to do something big."

Romero has climbed five of the seven highest peaks on seven continents, known as the Seven Summits.

Having a very encouraging father and his girlfriend, who have gone around the world participating in climbing expeditions and competing in endurance racing competitions, certainly helps.

"This is not an isolated vacation," Paul Romero said before the climbing began. "This is a lifestyle. We travel everywhere and climb together."

The family started tackling the Seven Summits in summer 2005. Jordan was just 9 when they climbed the 19,341 feet to the peak of Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania.

Since there is a debate about whether the tallest mountain in Oceania is Kosciuszko in mainland Australia or Carstensz Pyramid in Indonesia, Jordan and his family climbed both.

The only peak left for the adventurers to climb after Everest is the Vinson Massif in Antarctica; a trip is planned for December.

The idea to climb the Seven Summits came to Jordan when he saw a mural of the mountains in the hallway of his school when he was 9. Before sharing his dream with his father, he did all the necessary research and only two weeks later told him of his ambition.

"I was very shocked he even knew what the Seven Summits were," Paul Romero recalled. "But then, he is a complete nature fanatic."

Jordan's father and his girlfriend, Karen Lundgren, went to Kathmandu for the first time last year to see whether Jordan could make the Everest summit from the south face in Nepal. They decided instead to start their climb in the north, in China.

"The mountaineering world and Jordan may have their concerns about Jordan's age, but the boy is as strong and skilled a mountaineer as many of the people climbing," Paul Romero said. "There is a proficient support and safety system about him."

The highest peak Jordan has climbed is Aconcagua in Argentina, which stands at 22,841 feet. He spent weeks preparing for the ascent of Everest.

"I have been exercising hard, concentrating on cardio training and endurance training," Jordan said before the trip. "I have been sleeping in an altitude simulator tent for the past month to get my lungs ready."

Jordan has been an outdoor person all his life and takes kids to climb mountains in the Big Bear region of California, where he lives.

Despite his achievements, Jordan wants to be seen as a regular kid.

"I try to seem like an average kid who happens to be climbing," he said this month. "But I'm not really fitting in."

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