(CNN) -- President-elect Barack Obama's transition team announced several key appointments to his communications team Saturday. Robert Gibbs will have one of the most highly visible roles in the Obama administration. Robert Gibbs, an Obama campaign spokesman who also has acted as spokesman for the transition, will become Obama's press secretary, one of the most highly visible roles in the administration. Gibbs, an Auburn, Alabama, native who has worked for Sen. Fritz Hollings, the Democratic Senatorial Committee and Sen. John Kerry's presidential campaign, was communications director and then a senior strategist for the Obama campaign. Ellen Moran, executive director of EMILY's List, will serve as Obama's communications director. Moran worked for the AFL-CIO, coordinating "Wal-Mart corporate accountability activities," before returning to EMILY's, an organization dedicated to helping Democratic women get elected to office. It had endorsed Sen. Hillary Clinton for president.  See who's on Obama's short list for cabinet posts » Dan Pfeiffer, current communications director with the transition team, will be Obama's deputy communications director. He began work with the Obama campaign in January 2007 as traveling press secretary before returning to Chicago, Illinois, to work as communications director. Unlike Gibbs and Pfeiffer, Moran is not already on Obama's communications team. "These individuals will fill essential roles, and bring a breadth and depth of experience that can help our administration advance prosperity and security for the American people," Obama said in a written statement. "This dedicated and impressive group of public servants includes longtime advisors and a talented new addition to our team, and together we will work to serve our country and meet the challenges of this defining moment in history." On Friday, sources indicated that some of Obama's Cabinet posts were close to being filled. Two sources close to the transition team said New York Federal Reserve President Timothy Geithner is "on track" to be offered the Treasury secretary post.  Watch CNN's Anderson Cooper discuss Obama's choices » Transition officials told The Associated Press on Saturday that Obama planned to announce Geithner's appointment on Monday, along with that of Lawrence Summers as director of the National Economic Council. Summers is a former president of Harvard University and served as treasury secretary under Bill Clinton. Two sources said Friday that Gov. Bill Richardson of New Mexico is a serious contender for commerce secretary but that he could be chosen for another senior post. Geithner has played a large role in the government's efforts to wrangle the credit crisis, which has damaged markets and economies worldwide. Although a number of those efforts have been controversial, Geithner remains a well-regarded figure from Wall Street to Washington. Geithner began working with the Treasury Department in 1988 in the International Affairs division. In 1999, he became under-secretary of the Treasury for international affairs. Geithner would be charged with restoring stability to the financial markets, the banking system and the housing sector through oversight of the controversial $700 billion financial rescue package, of which about half is still available for use at the discretion of the Treasury secretary.  Watch CNN's John King discuss the posts with panelists » The Dow Jones industrial index staged a late rally Friday after traders heard news of Geithner's possible appointment, rising by almost 500 points shortly before the market's closing time. The two sources close to the transition team said they do not consider Richardson's appointment to the Commerce Department to be a done deal. Richardson, 61, was a candidate for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination. Currently in his second term as New Mexico's governor, he served as ambassador to the United Nations and energy secretary in the Clinton administration. Richardson is also considered to be a possibility for the secretary of state post. Also Friday, Sen. Hillary Clinton's camp shot down reports that she had agreed to accept the secretary of state position. "We're still in discussions, which are very much on track," said Philippe Reines, Clinton's senior adviser. "Any reports beyond that are premature."

Question: who will be press secretary?

Question: Who is the EMILY's List executive director?

Question: who will be new communications director?

Question: What is the name of the Obama spokesman?

Question: Who will be treasury pick?

Question: Who is to be announced as a Treasury pick?

Answer: Robert Gibbs

Answer: Ellen Moran,

Answer: Ellen Moran,

Answer: Robert Gibbs

Answer: New York Federal Reserve President Timothy Geithner

Answer: Timothy Geithner

Summary:
NEW: Timothy Geithner to be announced as Treasury pick, AP reports .
Robert Gibbs, an Obama campaign spokesman, will be press secretary .
Ellen Moran, EMILY's List executive director, will be communications director .
Dan Pfeiffer named Obama's deputy communications director .


(CNN) -- President-elect Barack Obama, who in 10 days will be sworn in using the Bible of his political hero Abraham Lincoln, visited the Lincoln Memorial in Washington on Saturday night with his family. The Obama family walks down the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington on Saturday. Obama, wife Michelle and daughters Malia and Sasha made the unannounced stop shortly after 7 p.m. ET. The family walked up the steps of the memorial on a chilly night in Washington and then visited the museum at the site. On the way out, they stopped at the edge of the reflecting pool. The parents were seen pointing in the distance to the Capitol and the Washington Monument. The Obamas spent about a half-hour at the memorial before returning to the Hay-Adams Hotel, where they are staying.  Watch the family at the memorial » Obama will be the first president to use the Lincoln Bible for his inauguration since Lincoln used it in 1861. Inauguration organizers have said Obama's inaugural theme, "A New Birth of Freedom," was inspired by Lincoln's Gettysburg Address.  Learn more about the Lincoln Memorial » The president-elect also plans a train trip from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Washington three days before the inauguration, following the final leg of the train route taken by Lincoln.

Question: What will Barack Obama use?

Question: What memorial did Obama visit?

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Question: How long did they spend at the site?

Question: Obama made a stop where on Saturday?

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Question: What did Obama do?

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Question: What amount of time did they spend at the site?

Question: When will Obama's inauguration be?

Question: Obama will use whose bible at his inauguration?

Question: Who's bible will be used at the upcoming presidential inauguration?

Answer: using the Bible of his political

Answer: Lincoln

Answer: The family walked up the steps of the memorial on a chilly night in Washington and then visited the museum

Answer: about a half-hour

Answer: Lincoln Memorial in Washington

Answer: Abraham Lincoln,

Answer: visited the Lincoln Memorial

Answer: Saturday

Answer: half-hour

Answer: in 10 days

Answer: Abraham Lincoln,

Answer: Abraham Lincoln,

Summary:
Obamas made unannounced stop at memorial on Saturday .
They spent a half-hour at the site before returning to hotel .
Barack Obama will use Lincoln's Bible at his inauguration this month .


(CNN) -- Presidential candidates Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain are detailing their plans for solving the country's energy crisis and criticizing each other's proposals this week as they campaign in battleground states. Here's a look at the candidates' energy proposals: Overall strategy McCain, the presumptive GOP nominee, has proposed a national energy strategy that would rely on the technological prowess of American industry and science. McCain has said he would work to reduce carbon emissions 60 percent below 1990 levels by 2050. He has said he would commit $2 billion annually for 15 years to advance clean coal technology. He also has pledged to oppose a windfall profits tax on oil companies that, according to his campaign Web site, "will ultimately result in increasing our dependence on foreign oil and hinder investment in domestic exploration." McCain also believes the U.S. needs to deploy SmartMeter technologies, which collect real-time data on the electricity use of individual homes and businesses. Meanwhile, Obama laid out his comprehensive energy plan Monday in Lansing, Michigan. "If I am president, I will immediately direct the full resources of the federal government and the full energy of the private sector to a single, overarching goal -- in 10 years, we will eliminate the need for oil from the entire Middle East and Venezuela," the presumptive Democratic nominee told a crowd. Obama's plan also would invest $150 billion over the next 10 years and leverage billions more in private capital to build a new energy economy that he said would harness American energy and create 5 million new jobs. He also called on businesses, government and the American people to meet the goal of reducing U.S. demand for electricity by 15 percent by the end of the next decade and said he would modernize the national utility grid. Another prominent feature in the plan: Immediately give every working family in America a $1,000 energy rebate and pay for it from oil company profits. Offshore drilling McCain: Proposed lifting the ban on offshore drilling as part of his plan to reduce dependence on foreign oil and help combat rising gas prices. Would let individual states decide whether to explore drilling possibilities. Opposes drilling in some wilderness areas -- including the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge -- and said those places must be left undisturbed. Obama: Opposed new offshore drilling, but later shifted to say that he would consider it if it were part of a larger strategy to lower energy costs. Supports bipartisan energy plan from the Senate that combines alternative energy innovation, financial, nuclear energy and drilling proposals. Effort by five Democrats and five Republicans to break Congress' energy impasse would allow expanded offshore oil exploration and embrace ambitious energy efficiency and efforts to develop alternative fuels. Believes oil companies should drill on the 68 million acres they have access to but haven't used and would require oil companies that will not drill to give up their leases. Strategic oil reserves McCain advocates suspending the purchase of foreign oil for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve during periods of high prices to reduce demand. Obama called for tapping into strategic oil reserves as part of his plan to provide relief from high gas prices. (He previously said he was opposed to using the strategic reserves, but on Monday he proposed selling 70 million barrels of oil from the reserves to lower gas prices). Cars and driving McCain: Proposed a $300 million award for "the development of a battery package that has the size, capacity, cost and power to leapfrog the commercially available plug-in hybrids or electric cars." Called for the suspension of the 18.4-cent-a-gallon federal gas tax and 24.4-cent-a-gallon diesel tax from Memorial Day to Labor Day. Says the lost revenue would be paid for by money from the general fund. Obama: Would provide $4 billion in loans and tax credits to American auto plants and manufacturers so that they can retool factories and build fuel-efficient cars; would put 1 million 150-mpg, plug-in hybrids on U.S. roads within six years and would give consumers a $7,000 tax credit to buy fuel-efficient cars.

Question:
where is the oil coming from
which is Obama's plan ?

Answer: Middle East and Venezuela,"

Answer: invest $150 billion over the next 10 years and leverage billions more in private capital to build a new energy economy

Summary:
Sen. Barack Obama lays out comprehensive energy plan this week .
Obama vows to eliminate the need for Mideastern, Venezuelan oil in 10 years .
Sen. John McCain proposes an energy strategy relying on technology and science .
McCain says the federal government should lift restrictions on offshore drilling .


(CNN) -- Presidential candidates have been wooing voters in Iowa for months, but who wins Thursday may simply come down to where the caucus-goers live, where they meet and the weather. Iowa is a mixed bag politically, and one of the most evenly divided states in the nation. But the candidates will likely watch two regions more closely than others. The central part of the state -- including industrial Des Moines -- is Iowa's most Democratic area. Western Iowa, on the other hand, is home to the most Republicans -- especially the rural counties in the northwest. The Mississippi River city of Davenport is expected to be one of the most significant battlegrounds, with Linn County -- dominated by the university town of Cedar Rapids -- also attracting lots of attention from both parties. Past Iowa caucuses have been nail-biters for the candidates. Democrat Al Gore won the state by a margin of just 0.3 percent in 2000, while President Bush carried it in 2004 by 0.7 percent. In fact, Bush was the first GOP presidential candidate to carry Iowa in 20 years. Important endorsement The support of Iowa's largest newspaper, the Des Moines Register, may also play a role in Thursday's caucuses. The paper's presidential endorsements began in 1988 and have become a highly sought-after prize in Iowa presidential politics. George W. Bush was the Register's pick in 2000 and went on to win Iowa, the GOP nomination and the White House. Republican presidential hopeful Bob Dole won the state in 1996 and 1988 after receiving the paper's support. Democratic candidates haven't had as much success with the Register's endorsement. John Edwards finished in second place in Iowa in 2004, while Paul Simon was also a close second in 1988. The paper endorsed Sen. John McCain and Sen. Hillary Clinton for their respective parties' nominations. The candidates have to appeal to voters with strong opinions. On the Republican side, 37 percent of participants in the 2000 Iowa GOP caucuses identified themselves as members of the religious right and 73 percent described themselves as conservatives. Meanwhile, 56 percent of the participants in Iowa's 2004 Democratic caucuses described themselves as either very or somewhat liberal. About 37 percent said they were moderates. The weather Iowans who take part in the caucuses must traditionally brave freezing temperatures and lots of snow. Presidential candidates know bad weather may affect how many people turn out, but 1972 was the only time rough winter conditions played a role in the caucuses, according to Drake University's Hugh Winebrenner -- the nation's leading expert on Iowa caucus history. Caucus-goers that year encountered heavy snowdrifts from a blizzard the previous day. Temperatures dipped below zero across most of the state. The weather forced about one-fourth of Iowa's 99 counties to postpone their Democratic caucuses up to two days after the scheduled date. The forecast for Thursday is much better. Temperatures will be in the 20s during the day and dip just below that as the caucuses begin, according to the Des Moines Register. E-mail to a friend

Question: Who is affected by this?

Question: What part of Iowa is the state's most Democratic area?

Question: What may affect how many people turn out?

Question: When is this occurring?

Question: What is Iowa's largest newspaper?

Answer: Caucus-goers

Answer: The central

Answer: bad weather

Answer: Thursday

Answer: the Des Moines Register,

Summary:
The central part of Iowa is the state's most Democratic area .
Western Iowa is home to the most Republicans .
Support of Iowa's largest newspaper, the Des Moines Register, highly sought .
Weather may affect how many people turn out .


(CNN) -- Previously missing police records on the 1986 shooting death of the brother of Alabama professor Amy Bishop -- accused of gunning down her colleagues last week -- have been found, and investigators said Tuesday they back a state police report that deemed the shooting an accident.

The Braintree, Massachusetts, police records show that police in 1986 believed they had probable cause to arrest Bishop on some charges in her brother's death. However, no charges were filed in that case.

Bishop is charged with capital murder and three counts of attempted murder in a Friday shooting at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, where she was a biology professor. She is eligible for the death penalty in Alabama.

Authorities have said Bishop shot her brother, Seth, at the family's Braintree home in December 1986. A state police report on the 1986 incident was released to the news media over the weekend, but Braintree police said their records of the shooting were missing until Tuesday.

Probable cause existed in 1986 for charges of assault with a dangerous weapon, carrying a dangerous weapon and unlawful possession of ammunition, according to a statement issued Tuesday by the office of Norfolk County, Massachusetts, District Attorney William Keating.

The statute of limitations has passed on those charges, as well as on a potential charge of "wanton and reckless conduct," the lowest standard for manslaughter in Massachusetts, according to the statement.

The recovered documents don't contradict previously released information about the account of the siblings' mother, who told police she witnessed the shooting and said it was accidental, according to the statement.

The statement did not explain how the records came to be missing or when or how they were found.

The December 6, 1986, shooting of Seth Bishop came under renewed scrutiny after Friday's shooting at the University of Alabama in Huntsville.  Authorities said Bishop, also known as Amy Bishop Anderson, was attending a faculty meeting in a university building when she shot six colleagues. She was arrested as she was leaving the building.

On Saturday, Braintree Police Chief Paul Frazier told reporters that the department's records pertaining to the 1986 shooting were missing. Braintree Mayor Joseph Sullivan announced Sunday  a search for the documents had been started, which resulted in the find announced Tuesday.

Describing the 1986 shooting on Saturday, Frazier said that Bishop had fled her home with a gun after she shot her brother and had unsuccessfully attempted to pull over a driver in a vehicle. The newly recovered documents do not refer to an incident involving a vehicle.

Frazier also said that police spotted Bishop and arrested her nearby, but she eventually was released.

"I cannot tell you what the thought process was behind our releasing her at the time," he said Saturday about the decades-old case.

A 1987 state police report released over the weekend cited interviews between police and Bishop's parents, in which her mother said the gun discharged accidentally. Braintree police told state police investigators that "indications were that Amy Bishop had been attempting to manipulate the shotgun and had subsequently brought the gun downstairs in an attempt to gain assistance from her mother in disarming the weapon" when it went off, shooting her brother in the chest.

Read the report on the 1986 shooting

But Frazier said Saturday that Officer Ronald Solimini, who was involved in the case 23 years ago, said that Bishop had shot her brother during an argument.

John Polio, who was Braintree police chief in 1986, also said he recalled reports of an argument between the two.

But neither the 1987 state police report nor the newly found documents detail a disagreement between the siblings.

The state report references a disagreement between Bishop and her father, who was not home when the shooting occurred.

In an uncovered December 6, 1986, record, then-police Lt. James Sullivan wrote that Bishop "stated earlier there had been a family 'spat' and she had gone to her room. (Unknown at this time how much earlier this family 'spat' had been)."

Police decided not to file charges, the December 6, 1986

Question: who he was accused of killing their colleagues in Alabama

Question: Who wasn't charged in 1986 shooting?

Question: What says Police about Amy Bishop?

Question: who he was accused of killing three people, trying to kill three others on Friday

Question: Who is accused of killing colleagues in Alabama?

Answer: Amy Bishop

Answer: Amy Bishop

Answer: their records of the shooting were missing until

Answer: Bishop

Answer: Amy Bishop

Summary:
NEW: Massachusetts police department's '86 records don't dispute state report .
Amy Bishop, accused of killing colleagues in Alabama Friday, shot brother in '86, police say .
Bishop wasn't charged in 1986 shooting; mother told police it was an accident .
Bishop charged with killing three people, trying to kill three others on Friday .


(CNN) -- Prince Harry paraded alongside his fellow British servicemen in Scotland Wednesday, as he attended a memorial to service members who have died in Afghanistan. Prince Harry takes part in a memorial parade and service for troops killed during his tour of Afghanistan. Harry, 23, serves in the British Army and spent 10 weeks in Afghanistan earlier this year. He was withdrawn unexpectedly in March after news leaked out about his low-key deployment. The prince appeared in uniform alongside around 200 other sailors, soldiers, marines and airmen at the parade, which took place on Edinburgh's famous Royal Mile. They made their way to St. Giles' Cathedral for a private memorial and thanksgiving service for the fallen service members. Also attending the service was British Defense Secretary Des Browne, families of the fallen troops, and recovering wounded military personnel. Harry holds the rank of cornet, equivalent to a second lieutenant. He was deployed to Afghanistan's Helmand province where he served as a forward air controller. His duties included calling in airstrikes and air support when necessary, guaranteeing the accuracy of bombing on the ground and guarding against incidents of friendly fire. The parade and memorial service took place on the same day Britain's Ministry of Defense announced the deaths of four British soldiers in Afghanistan, and two days after Browne announced Britain will increase its presence in Afghanistan from 7,800 troops to 8,030 by next spring.  Watch Prince Harry at the memorial » Prince Harry is the younger son of Prince Charles, the heir to the British throne, and the late Princess Diana, who died in a Paris car crash in 1997. Last year, the military ruled he could not be sent to Iraq because publicity about the deployment could put him and his unit at risk. Shortly after the news of the prince's deployment broke, several Islamist Web sites posted messages alerting their "brethren" in Afghanistan to be on the lookout for the royal soldier. Several members of the British royal family saw combat in the past century. Prince Harry's grandfather, Prince Phillip, served aboard warships in World War II; his great-grandfather -- the future King George VI -- took part in the World War I naval battle of Jutland; and Prince Andrew, Prince Harry's uncle, flew Royal Navy helicopters during Britain's 1982 war with Argentina over the Falkland Islands. Prince Harry's brother, Prince William, is also an army officer. But as second in line for the throne, he is specifically barred from combat.

Question: Where was the parade that Prince Harry marched in?

Question: What army does Harry serve in?

Question: How long was Harry in Afghanistan for?

Question: What did Harry do in Edinburgh?

Question: How many people marched in Edinburgh?

Question: Who exactly is Harry?

Question: What did Harry do?

Question: Where did Harry Spend 10 weeks this year?

Question: What took place on the same day as the service?

Answer: memorial to service members who have died in Afghanistan.

Answer: British

Answer: 10 weeks

Answer: paraded alongside his fellow British servicemen

Answer: 200

Answer: Prince

Answer: paraded alongside his fellow British servicemen

Answer: Afghanistan

Answer: The parade and memorial

Summary:
Harry serves in British Army and spent 10 weeks in Afghanistan this year .
Decision was made to pull prince from Afghanistan amid fears for his safety .
Harry marched with 200 sailors, soldiers, marines, airmen at parade in Edinburgh .
Service took place on the same day four UK soldiers killed in Afghanistan .


(CNN) -- Prince William has spoken in depth publicly for the first time about death of his mother, Diana, Princess of Wales, 12 years ago, saying "mummy" is now a hollow word "evoking only memories." Diana, Princess of Wales, died in a Paris car crash 12 years ago. Prince William was only 15 and his brother Prince Harry 12 when Diana died in a Paris car crash along with Dodi Fayed in 1997. The Prince made the comment Thursday during a speech to mark his new role as patron of Britain's Child Bereavement Charity -- a group his mother was once involved with. The British Press Association reported that he told the launch of the charity's Mother's Day campaign: "My mother Diana was present at your launch 15 years ago, and I am incredibly proud to be able to continue her support for your fantastic charity, by becoming your royal patron. "What my mother recognized then -- and what I understand now -- is that losing a close family member is one of the hardest experiences that anyone can ever endure. "Never being able to say the word 'Mummy' again in your life sounds like a small thing. Tell us what you think about Prince William's moving comments "However, for many, including me, it's now really just a word -- hollow and evoking only memories. "I can therefore wholeheartedly relate to the Mother's Day campaign as I too have felt -- and still feel -- the emptiness on such a day as Mother's Day." Listen to Prince William discuss his mother. » The charity wants to raise awareness of the problems suffered by mothers bereaved of a child or children bereaved of their mother. Based in Buckinghamshire, a region west of London, it educates professionals and supports families after a death. Writing in Britain's Daily Mail newspaper about his new role, the Prince said the reality of losing a child or parent was "awful." "Initially, there is a sense of profound shock and disbelief that this could ever happen to you. Real grief often does not hit home until much later. "For many it is a grief never entirely lost. Life is altered as you know it, and not a day goes past without you thinking about the one you have lost." Mother's Day in the UK always falls on the fourth weekend of Lent, and this year is on March 22. Earlier this week France's leading society magazine, Point de Vue, reported that the Prince would marry his long-term girlfriend, Kate Middleton, this summer. The magazine claimed an official announcement was "imminent."

Question: What is  just a word?

Question: When did Diana die?

Question: What is really now just a word?

Question: Who died in a Paris car crash?

Question: who was Diana?

Question: Who feels "emptiness" every Mother's Day?

Question: What does he feel every Mother's Day?

Question: What does William feel every Mother's Day?

Question: On what holiday does Prince William report feeling an "emptiness"?

Question: Diana was the princess of What?

Question: What does Prince William say he experiences every Mother's Day?

Question: What city did Princess Diana die in?

Question: What country was Diana princess of?

Question: Amount of years that Princess Diana died ago?

Question: Who was Prince William's mother?

Question: What killed Diana?

Answer: 'Mummy'

Answer: 1997.

Answer: "mummy"

Answer: Diana, Princess of Wales,

Answer: Princess of Wales,

Answer: Prince William

Answer: the emptiness

Answer: emptiness

Answer: Mother's Day."

Answer: Wales,

Answer: the emptiness on such a day as Mother's Day."

Answer: Paris

Answer: Wales,

Answer: 12

Answer: Princess of Wales,

Answer: car crash

Summary:
Prince William says he feels "emptiness" every Mother's Day .
His mother, Diana, Princess of Wales, died in a Paris car crash 12 years ago .
Prince: "For many, including me, [Mummy is] now really just a word"


(CNN) -- Professor Peter Furth has ridden his bicycle to work at Northeastern University each day for the past six years. The two-mile trip through the Boston suburb of Brookline, Massachusetts, is usually without incident.

Furth's journey is worlds apart from his former Boston commute, which for 13 years was a battle with drivers who wanted him on the sidewalk.

"I've had motorists that drive a couple of inches from my elbow, trying to scare me," he said.

Furth would catch up with drivers at stoplights and ask them whether they knew how close they'd come to hitting him. Invariably, they would say, "Yes, move over."

It's a cultural thing, he said.

In the town of Cambridge, motorists see bicyclists all over the place and are considerate. In Brookline, only every now and then does someone honk or yell.

In the southern part of Boston, it's not quite war, but the relationship isn't very friendly.

Although the street signs say "Share the road," there's still a long road to travel before that sign reflects the reality, bicyclists say.

Motorists often see bands of bikes on the streets on the final Fridays of each month as cyclists across the nation gather for evening group rides called Critical Mass.

The purpose, advocates say, is to make cars and trucks more aware of bicyclists.

But to some drivers, Critical Mass participants are nothing more than spandex-wearing, stop-sign-running Lance Armstrong wannabes who slow traffic.

'They think they own the road'

It's somewhat symbolic of the tension on the roads.

"The roads were made for cars," KTAR-FM radio guest host John Hook said in Phoenix, Arizona, last month. "And bicyclists share the road, but sometimes they think they own the road."

One caller to the program was a long-haul truck driver who accused many bicycle riders of failing to respect the law and not riding with the flow of traffic.

A caller who identified himself as Jeff said he witnessed an incident in which a pack of bicyclists almost hit a car that had the right of way. Then the riders screamed at the motorist.

"I actually think the bikes are more disrespectful to the cars than the cars are to the bike," Jeff said.

The number of cyclists is increasing.

Although bike sales took a dip during the recession of 2009, more than 18 million were sold each year for the seven previous years, according to the National Sporting Goods Association.

About 27 percent of adults in the United States bike at least once a summer, according a survey released in 2008 by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

Most bicyclists ride for recreation or exercise, while a small percentage ride to work. In Portland, Oregon, which is ranked second on Bicycling magazine's list of Top 50 Bike Friendly Cities, more than 6 percent of residents commute by bike to work. That's up from 1 percent two decades ago.

See a map of the top 10 bike-friendly cities

Things are looking up, at least in the eyes of cyclists. Many cities are putting in bike lanes and paths.

Google adds bike routes to maps

More than $730 million in federal stimulus funds has been allocated for bike and pedestrian projects, according to AmericaBikes.org.

Washington is getting into the act. U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood drew cheers from the cycling world in March when he blogged that the administration was "integrating the needs of bicyclists in federally-funded road projects" and advising state departments of transportation to treat biking and walking "as equals with other transportation modes."

That drew an outcry from industry, which saw the new policy as taking money away from large transportation construction needs.

"Treating bicycles and other non-motorized transportation as equal to motorized transportation would cause an economic catastrophe," Carter Wood, a senior adviser at the National Association of Manufacturers, told The New York Times. "If put it into effect, the

Question:
How much money in stimilus funds?
what is money used for?
what is increasing?
what is causing the increase

Answer: $730 million

Answer: bike and pedestrian projects,

Answer: The number of cyclists

Answer: $730 million in federal stimulus funds has been allocated for bike and pedestrian projects,

Summary:
Number of U.S. bicyclists is increasing, according to government study .
More than $700 million in stimulus funds is being used for bike and pedestrian projects .
Critics question project in North Carolina that would add bike lanes to busy street .
Cities should choose wisely where to add lanes, paths, expert says .


(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.

Question: Which school rescinds the admission?

Question: what is the reason massachusetts school rescinds admision of student?

Question: who made a similar decision?

Question: who made a similar decision recently?

Question: Which school recently made a similar decision?

Question: what do the Massachusetts school rescinds?

Answer: Roman Catholic

Answer: his parents are lesbians.

Answer: Other liberal Catholic and gay groups

Answer: Other liberal Catholic and gay groups

Answer: Other liberal Catholic and gay groups

Answer: the admission of an 8-year-old student because his parents are lesbians.

Summary:
Massachusetts school rescinds admission of student because parents are lesbians .
Denver Catholic school recently made similar decision .
Progressive Catholic groups say they have better chance with fight in Boston .


(CNN) -- Prominent Chicago defense lawyer Ed Genson said Friday he intends to resign as attorney for embattled Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich in the criminal case against the governor. Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's impeachment trial is scheduled to start on Monday. "I never require a client to do what I say but I do require them to at least listen to what I say. ... I wish the governor good luck and godspeed," Genson said in brief remarks to reporters. Genson would not elaborate on his reasons for withdrawing from the case or any conversations he had with Blagojevich about his leaving the case. Genson had headed Blagojevich's defense team since soon after the governor was arrested on December 9 on federal corruption charges. Among other allegations, federal prosecutors said the governor tried to sell the U.S. Senate seat vacated by President Obama. Genson represented Blagojevich during proceedings in the Illinois state House in which legislators voted to impeach the governor. But on January 16, the U.S. attorney's office in the Northern District of Illinois said Genson would not represent Blagojevich in his state Senate impeachment trial. No explanation was given. Blagojevich has denied any wrongdoing and said the House impeachment vote was politically motivated.  Watch Blagojevich ask for fair trial » On Thursday, the outspoken Blagojevich called the Senate trial "a sham" and said the Senate is not allowing him to call witnesses in the trial, which is scheduled to begin Monday. The Chicago Tribune reported that Genson said his inability to call witnesses or to know the identities of some parties in alleged schemes made it impossible to defend Blagojevich in the impeachment trial. After Genson announced Friday he would leave Blagojevich's criminal defense effort, another of Blagojevich's attorneys, Sheldon Sorosky, said he was continuing to work on the case. "I'm on the case, absolutely," Sorosky, whose law firm is separate from Genson's firm, said at an impromptu sidewalk news conference as he was leaving an office building. "I was aware of Mr. Genson's position, and he's a good friend," said Sorosky. "The governor's a friend, and I understand his position and that's that." iReport.com: Do you trust your political leaders? Sorosky, who has worked on Blagojevich's defense since the arrest, would not elaborate. Asked by a reporter if he would recommend to Blagojevich that the talkative governor curtail his public comments, Sorosky said, "You can't tell the governor what to do or not to do."

Question: What was for sale?

Question: When is the trial set to start?

Question: Who is resigning?

Question: Who is resigned from the defense team?

Question: What kind of a trial is being held on Monday?

Question: What is Blagojevich accused of?

Question: When will the trial start?

Answer: U.S. Senate seat

Answer: Monday.

Answer: Ed Genson

Answer: Ed Genson

Answer: impeachment

Answer: federal corruption

Answer: Monday.

Summary:
Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's top attorney to resign from defense team .
Blagojevich is accused of trying to sell Senate seat vacated by President Obama .
Blagojevich's impeachment trial set to start on Monday .


(CNN) -- Prosecutors are investigating police actions during a protest earlier this month in which at least 16 people died, the Office of the General Prosecutor in Kazakhstan said Thursday.

At least 80 people were also injured in the December 16 clashes between police and striking oil workers in the oil town of Zhanaozen, according to state media.

A 20-day state of emergency was declared following the unrest, which also spilled over to a nearby village, where at least one person died as protesters blocked a passenger train in a show of support for the oil workers.

A spokeswoman for the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, Virginie Coulloudon, said Kazakhstan had told fellow OSCE states Tuesday that the general prosecutor's office had started its own inquiry into police actions.

Kazakh authorities said the internal security department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs had also launched an in-house investigation into claims of firearms use by the police, Coulloudon said.

"The conclusions of this investigation, according to Kazakh sources, should be available within a week," she told CNN via email.

The Kazakh general prosecutor's office said in a statement on its website Thursday that 20 people had been detained over involvement in the unrest in Zhanaozen, with 18 of the arrests ordered by the court.

A criminal case was opened Tuesday into the alleged excessive use of force by police who opened fire, it said, but some of the deaths reported from Zhanaozen were not related to the actions of law enforcement.

The investigation will be headed by a special prosecutor in order to guarantee its objectivity and measures have been adopted to ensure transparency, the statement said.

A separate committee has also been formed, with relatives of those detained among its members, to examine claims of unlawful detention and abuse of detainees, it said.

At least one person is being investigated for giving "false information" to the media about events in Zhanaozen, the prosecutor's office added.

The trouble came as the former Soviet republic celebrated its 20th anniversary of independence and prompted concern that unrest might spread across the oil rich Central Asian nation.

The protest was part of a long-running dispute over low pay and the sacking of some workers.

Video posted to YouTube appeared to show protesters in Zhanaozen fleeing a large square amid gunfire, as police advance with riot shields. An injured person is seen being beaten with a baton by what appears to be a policeman.

The workers' trade union puts the number of dead at 50 to 70 and says as many as 500 were injured, according to European lawmakers.

International rights groups have condemned the violence and subsequent emergency measures imposed by the government, including curbs on communications and freedom of movement, and called for a full investigation.

The U.S. State Department and a group of 48 European lawmakers also expressed concern.

The Kazakh authorities announced Wednesday that 1 million Kazakh tenge ($6,640) would be paid to the families of each of those killed and half that sum to those injured.

Analysts say the Kazakh government is keen to prevent discontent over increasing social inequality, in a country where most ordinary people have not shared in the wealth brought by oil.

Parliamentary and local elections are due to take place next month.

Kazakhstan has often boasted of its stability in a region that has seen its share of conflict. The ninth-largest country in the world by area, it has the largest economy of all the Central Asian states thanks mostly to its natural resources, according to the CIA World Factbook.

CNN's Alla Eshchenko, Sarah Jones and Laura Smith-Spark contributed to this report.

Question:
who will lead the inquiry?
who will head the investigation?
how many people died in clashes?
how many people died?

Answer: a special prosecutor

Answer: a special prosecutor

Answer: 16

Answer: 16

Summary:
NEW: The Kazakh general prosecutor's office has opened a criminal case over police use of force .
NEW: A special prosecutor will head the inquiry to ensure objectivity, the prosecutor's office says .
At least 16 people died and scores were injured in the December 16 clashes, state media reports .
Kazakhstan, which has large oil reserves, is due to hold elections next month .


(CNN) -- Prosecutors asked Wednesday for a 25-year sentence for Argentina's last dictator, who is on trial on charges that he violated human rights during his 17-month rule in the early 1980s. Former Gen. Reynaldo Benito Bignone is accused of torturing 56 people and depriving them of their liberty, as well as committing illegal searches. He ruled Argentina from June 1982 until the nation's return to democracy in December 1983. More than 100 people have testified at his trial since it started in November, the government's Judicial Information Center said. The trial is expected to last until March. Also facing the same charges are former intelligence chief Fernando Ezequiel Verplaetsen and ex-military officials Santiago Omar Riveros, Eugenio Guanabens Perello, Carlos Alberto Tepedino and German A. Montenegro. Prosecutors also asked for 25-year sentences for Verplaetsen and Riveros and a 20-year incarceration for Tepedino, the Judicial Information Center said. They want sentences of 12 years for Perello and two years for Montenegro. The alleged crimes occurred at the secret Campo de Mayo torture center in Buenos Aires, court papers say. Campo de Mayo was the main torture center during the 1976-83 right-wing dictatorship. Few who were taken there walked out alive. Up to 30,000 students, labor leaders, intellectuals and leftists who ran afoul of the dictatorship because of their political views disappeared or were held in secret jails and torture centers during the eight-year "Dirty War." Bignone, 82, has been under house arrest. He faces two other trials: in the abduction and disappearance of doctors and nurses at the Hospital Posada and of two soldiers when he was head of the Military College. The three-judge panel in the current trial was scheduled to hear testimony Wednesday from two groups representing Argentineans who were victims of the Dirty War. Trial will resume February 25 with the first defense testimony, the Center for Judicial Information said.

Question: when did the trial start?

Question: How many witnesses have testified at the trial?

Question: Who is accused of torturing 56 people?

Question: When is the former General alleged to have committed his crimes?

Question: How long is the trial expected to last?

Question: When will the trial conclude?

Answer: November,

Answer: More than 100

Answer: Gen. Reynaldo Benito Bignone

Answer: in the early 1980s.

Answer: until March.

Answer: March.

Summary:
Former Gen. Reynaldo Benito Bignone is accused of torturing 56 people .
More than 100 people have testified at his trial .
Trial is expected to last until March .


(CNN) -- Pulitzer Prize-winning author, radio host and activist Studs Terkel died in his Chicago, Illinois, home Friday at the age of 96. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Studs Terkel died at his home Friday at the age of 96. Terkel had grown frail since the publication last year of his memoir, "Touch and Go," said Gordon Mayer, vice president of the Community Media Workshop, which Terkel had supported. "I'm still in touch, but I'm ready to go," he said last year at his last public appearance with the workshop, a nonprofit that recognizes Chicago reporters who take risks in covering the city. "My dad led a long, full, eventful -- sometimes tempestuous -- satisfying life," his son Dan said in a statement. "The last time I saw him, he was up, about, and mad as hell about the Cubs," workshop President Thom Clark said in the statement. Terkel, known for his portrayal of ordinary people young and old, rich and poor, won a Pulitzer Prize in 1985 for his remembrances of World War II, "The Good War." iReport.com: Remebering the legacy of Studs Terkel Terkel was born in New York but moved to Chicago, where his parents ran a small hotel. Terkel would sit in the hotel lobby watching droves of people arguing, fighting, ranting and telling stories. "That hotel was far more of an education to me than the University of Chicago was," Studs told CNN in 2000. It seems that beginning would pave the way for Terkel's love of passing on people's oral histories. He could often be found behind a tape recorder talking to the people who would eventually become the basis for his books. Terkel became famous, if not synonymous with oral histories, for his ability to cast a light on the working class. "Oral history preceded the written word," Terkel told CNN in 2000. "Oral history is having people tell their own stories and bringing it forth. "That's what history's about: the oral history of the unknowns that make the wheel go 'round. And that's what I'm interested in." In an interview with Lou Waters on CNN in 1995, Terkel spoke about his book "Coming of Age," which explored the lives of people who have been "scrappers" all of their lives. Inside the book are the stories of people between the ages of 70 and 95, a group he called "the truth tellers." "Who are the best historians? Who are the storytellers?" Terkel asked. "Who lived through the Great Depression of the '30s, World War II that changed the whole psyche and map of the world, a Cold War, Joe McCarthy, Vietnam, the '60s, that's so often put down today and I think was an exhilarating and hopeful period, and, of course, the computer and technology. Who are the best ones to tell the story? Those who've borne witness to it. And they're our storytellers." After Terkel's wife died in 1999, he began working on a book about death, eventually called "Will the Circle Be Unbroken? Reflections on Death, Rebirth, and Hunger for a Faith." "It's about life," Terkel said in 2000 when asked about the project. "How can one talk about life without saying sometime it's going to end? It makes the value of life all the more precious."

Question: Who does the author believe makes the best storytellers?

Question: What prize did Terkel win?

Question: Who did the author think made the best storytellers?

Question: What book did Terkel write?

Question: Who can be quoted as saying death ""makes the value of life all the more precious"?

Question: Who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1985?

Question: Who is Terkel?

Answer: Those who've borne witness to it.

Answer: Pulitzer

Answer: Those who've borne witness to it.

Answer: "Coming of Age,"

Answer: Terkel

Answer: Studs Terkel

Answer: Prize-winning author, radio host and activist

Summary:
Terkel won Pulitzer Prize in 1985 for book about World War II, "The Good War"
Son: "My dad led a long, full, eventful -- sometimes tempestuous -- satisfying life"
Terkel once said death "makes the value of life all the more precious"
Author believed elderly, those "who've borne witness" to life are best storytellers .


(CNN) -- Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Thomas Friedman is never short of a word or two. Thomas L. Friedman: "Incredible opportunities masquerading as insoluble problems." The celebrated commentator occupies a position in his profession that many of his contemporaries would rival. He gets to go where he wants, when he wants and write about what he thinks, or as he puts it: "I get to be a tourist with an attitude." Officially, he's The New York Times'  foreign affairs columnist -- a position he's held since 1995 -- as well as the author of five books. Through his syndicated column his opinion has become a recognizable American voice on the international stage, and with it has come a sense of responsibility. "I agonize over every column. Precisely because I know it is going to be read by a lot of people and it's going to be in Google forever," he told CNN. "So there is that sense of responsibility, but at the same time you do have to take the attitude of 'This is what I think. This is why I think it.' I'm not in a popularity contest." Before his current position, Friedman served in various posts at the New York Times, including chief economic correspondent, chief White House correspondent and bureau chief in Beirut and Israel. His reporting from Lebanon in 1983 and work in Israel in 1988 won him Pulitzer Prizes for international reporting. Taking in the world provides never-ending fascination, he says. "I have the best job in the world, I mean, somebody has to have it." He's recently trained his eye on how America can reassert itself by leading the way in green technology, encapsulated in his latest book "Hot, flat and crowded." As he admits, the environmental aspect is not the point of the book; really it's a treatise on how America "lost its groove and why we need to get it back by taking the lead in the energy revolution." One man who will need to take a pivotal role is the incoming U.S. president, Barack Obama, Friedman says. "I have a lot of high hopes for him. I think we are very lucky to have someone with his raw material as the next president. I think he brings together several things that we haven't had," Friedman told CNN. Whether Obama can solve the raft of problems he faces is another matter. "Is he ready to be as radical as the moment? Really have the courage of our crisis? At the end of the day it's gonna be Barack Obama and (Chinese President) Hu Jintao. We're not going to get out of this without cooperating and working closely with China," Friedman said. While presenting a view from the United States, Friedman is still able to do a mea culpa on America's behalf when it comes to the current economic crisis. "We were in the middle of a huge credit bubble which in its own way was a Ponzi scheme. We gave the world financial SARs. We just spread it around the world." An optimist by nature -- "I do live by the motto that pessimists are usually right, but all the great change in history was done by optimists" -- he's sanguine when it comes to the planet in the current climate of economic depression and environmental urgency. "What I'm basically arguing is that you can look at the world today that is hot, flat, and crowded and you can have one of two reactions. One reaction is to say 'We're cooked, let's party,'" he said. "That's not the way I'd look at it. I'd look at it the way John Gardner, the founder of Common Cause, once described. I look at these problems that come from hot, flat and crowded and what I see are incredible opportunities masquerading as insoluble problems."

Question: Who said "We gave the world financial SARS"?

Question: Who is Barack Obama?

Question: What did the Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and author say?

Question: What did he say about Obama?

Question: What did he say about himself?

Question: Who said "I'm not in a popularity contest"?

Question: Regarding the U.S. and global economic situation, what did they give the world?

Answer: Thomas L. Friedman:

Answer: incoming U.S. president,

Answer: "I get to be a tourist with an attitude."

Answer: "I have a lot of high hopes for him. I think we are very lucky to have someone with his raw material as the next president. I think

Answer: "I get to be a tourist with an attitude."

Answer: Thomas L. Friedman:

Answer: financial SARs.

Summary:
Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and author: "I'm not in a popularity contest"
On U.S. and global economic situation: "We gave the world financial SARS"
On Barack Obama: 'Is he ready to be as radical as the moment?'


(CNN) -- Queen Elizabeth and the royal family cost British taxpayers an average of 66 pence ($1.32) per person last year, Buckingham Palace announced Friday in its annual report of royal finances.

The Queen and the royal family cost Britons a little bit more in the latest financial year.

The total cost of the queen and royal family was 40 million pounds ($80 million) in the past fiscal year, an increase of 2 percent from the year before, according to the Royal Public Finances report.

The man in charge of managing the queen's financial affairs said she has tried to keep costs down, pointing out that the queen's expenses are more than 3 percent lower in real terms than they were in 2001.

"The reduction in the amount of head of state expenditure in real terms reflects the continuous attention the royal household pays to obtaining the best value for money in all areas of expenditure," said Alan Reid, whose official title is "keeper of the privy purse."

Funding for property maintenance at the royal palaces increased by almost 1 million pounds ($2 million) from the year before to 15.3 million pounds ($30.6 million), but it will stay at that level for the next three years, the palace said.

Reid warned that the money is not enough to deal with a backlog of maintenance work.

"This backlog relates to essential maintenance and does not include any allowance for projects such as the redecoration of the state rooms at Buckingham Palace, most of which were last redecorated before the queen's reign," he said.

Available funds are also unlikely for replacing the lead and slate roofs at Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle (which would cost an estimated 16 million pounds, or $32 million); replacing heating and electrical wiring and removing asbestos at the palace (2.4 million pounds, or $4.8 million); and replacing Victorian cast iron and lead water mains at the castle (3 million pounds, or $6 million).

Travel was a major expense for the queen and her family over the past year, the reports showed.

The most expensive trip was the queen's six-day state visit to the United States, which cost a total of 414,042 pounds (about $828,000). It cost 316,061 pounds (about $632,000) for Prince Charles and his wife, Camilla, to take an eight-day trip to Uganda and Turkey in November for Britain's Foreign Office.

Prince Andrew, the Duke of York, also had a series of expensive trips as part of his role as the United Kingdom's special representative for international trade and investment. He visited more than 20 countries in that capacity last year, trying to attract investors to Britain and helping British companies improve their prospects overseas.

"This report is provided every year to show transparency in the royal accounts," said CNN royal watcher Richard Quest. "It is often used as an example to show profligacy, for instance with the cost of the royal train, which runs around 20,000 pounds ($40,000) a day."

Question: did this figure increase this year?

Question: How much did the royal family cost British taxpayers per person?

Question: Is this an increase over the previous year?

Question: What does the royal family cost per person per year?

Question: What did the accounts reveal?

Question: What do the accounts reveal need for?

Question: How much is the increase compered to last year?

Question: How much did the royal family cost taxpayers last year?

Answer: The Queen and the royal family cost Britons a little bit more in the latest financial

Answer: 66 pence ($1.32)

Answer: an

Answer: 66 pence ($1.32)

Answer: family cost British taxpayers an average of 66 pence ($1.32)

Answer: to keep costs down,

Answer: 2 percent

Answer: 40 million pounds ($80 million)

Summary:
Queen and royal family cost British taxpayers 66p ($1.31) per person last year .
Figure is a 4p (8c) increase on the previous year, according to Palace .
Accounts reveal need for more spending to maintain palaces .


(CNN) -- Queen Latifah has been on the hip-hop scene for so long that she has seen artists come and go and trends change. Queen Latifah remains one of the few female rap artists who garner attention in the music industry. But there has been one development that she said has disappointed her tremendously -- the lack of female rap stars. "There are not enough female rappers out there right now," she said. "The voice of the female is not strong enough in the game at all right now. It's almost nonexistent." While artists like Beyonce, Ciara and Rihanna have thrived in R&B and pop, high-profile success for female rap artists has been more elusive in recent years. From the beginning hip-hop has been viewed as a man's world, and discussions of sexism and inequality within the genre have come up often. In fact, many times such disrespect was the subject of the female rappers' tracks. Today, with the music industry struggling, there is a particular dearth of female rap artists taking center stage. It was a different hip-hop landscape when Queen Latifah first burst on the scene in the late 1980s. The all-female rap crew Salt-N-Pepa (whose DJ was also a woman) scored some hits. The arrival of Queen Latifah helped usher in artists such as Monie Love. Rapper MC Lyte was a teenager when she emerged, along with Queen Latifah, as one of the genre's first female superstars.  Check out some of the more successful female hip-hop artists » MC Lyte said the music industry is so focused these days on the bottom line  that there is little emphasis on cultivating female talent. "When you have this major business that has been kind of taken over by corporate hands, it's like, how necessary is the black woman's perspective?" she said. "Not unless she is talking about being that kingpin's main girl and she's wearing next to nothing and she's talking about nothing that is really going to nurture the people the way we are known innately as black women being able to do, there's really no space for that type." Alonzo Williams agrees. A founding member of the West Coast rap group the World Class Wrecking Crew, which also featured Dr. Dre of the group N.W.A., Williams said many female rappers are finding it hard to navigate today's industry. "It's a lot of women trying to get into it, but most young women don't know what direction to take," Williams said. "They don't know whether to be a gun moll for a gangster or a mother and they are confused as to what role they should take." Artists like Queen Latifah and MC Lyte have served as role models to rappers that came after them, Williams said. Having successful women in the industry also allowed for the rise of artists like Lil' Kim and Foxy Brown, who express their sexuality with hardcore lyrics. But all of the dialogue about misogyny in rap, coupled with music executives' hesitancy to spend money grooming new artists, has left some female rappers floundering, he said. "It can be hard for women to find an image that is street-marketable as well as radio-marketable," Williams said. "For the most part, men can get away with a whole lot more because of the double standard that exists among the sexes, and so it's difficult for women to find a niche." Not that the talent isn't out there. MC Lyte said she has encountered several accomplished female lyricists on the Internet and through her work with Hip Hop Sisters, a network she founded. And to help women gain more exposure in the industry, Queen Latifah is going to the grass roots, as she returns to her musical roots. Her new album, "Persona," marks her return to rap after having focused on her singing career for the past few years. Latifah, along with CoverGirl, for which she serves as a

Question: What does rapper MC Lyte say about business model?

Question: How many female artists are successful with hip hop music?

Answer: the music industry is so focused these days on the bottom line

Answer: few

Summary:
Female rappers finding it difficult to break through in music industry .
In recent years few successful female artists have emerged in hip hop .
Rapper MC Lyte says business model doesn't support cultivation of talent .
Queen Latifah using new album launch to discover new artists .


(CNN) -- Radical Islamist fighters seized control of the seat of Somalia's U.N.-backed transitional government Monday, raiding the parliament building and demanding that several lawmakers publicly surrender, according to a journalist who witnessed the spectacle. Members of the Somali Transitional Federal Parliament are meeting in the neighboring country of Djibouti. Al-Shabab fighters took over the parliament building and the presidential palace in Baidoa, in the southwestern part of the country, a day after the Ethiopian troops who had backed up the transitional government left the country. The insurgents captured five members of parliament and paraded them through the city streets, with hundreds of residents looking on, the reporter said. The five were released after publicly surrendering. The situation left Somali lawmakers stranded in the neighboring country of Djibouti, where they often convene and where talks on forming a new government are under way. "We have nowhere to return to," Parliament Speaker Aden Mohamed Nur told fellow lawmakers there. Somalia's U.N.-backed transitional government took office after Ethiopian troops invaded the country at its request in December 2006. The Ethiopian invasion ousted the Islamic Courts Union, an Islamist movement that had claimed control of the capital Mogadishu earlier that year. Ethiopia's invasion had the blessing of the United States, which accused the Islamic Courts Union of harboring fugitives from al Qaeda. But various Islamist groups -- including the hard-line Al-Shabab, which the United States has designated a terror organization -- rejected the presence of Ethiopian forces and mounted an insurgent campaign against the Ethiopians and the transitional government. Ethiopia announced on Sunday that all its forces have left Somalia. Last week, as Ethiopian troops began pulling out of the Somali capital, forces from different Islamist groups -- including Al-Shabab -- took control of bases the Ethiopians abandoned around Mogadishu. The transitional government maintained very little control outside of Baidoa, even with the support of the Ethiopian forces. It has also been wracked by an internal power struggle between Prime Minister Nur Hassan Hussein and President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, who resigned in December. In Washington, the State Department said U.S. officials are working to independently confirm the reports from Baidoa. But State Department spokesman Gordon Duguid said members of one of the major Islamic factions, which signed a peace agreement in October in Djibouti, are already joining the transitional government. Duguid said the Alliance for the Re-liberation of Somalia, another offshoot of the ICU, will choose up to 200 new members of the transitional parliament. Another 75 members will be drawn from other opposition groups, and the expanded parliament is expected to elect a new president soon. "We remain deeply concerned about the ongoing violence in southern Somalia, which continues to claim innocent lives," Duguid said. "Lasting peace and stability in Somalia can only be established through the reconciliation process underway through the Djibouti Agreement and rejection of extremism." With Monday's takeover of Baidoa, the transitional government only has control of the presidential palace in the Somali capital of Mogadishu and the road to the airport in the capital city, which it holds with the help of African Union forces. CNN's Ben Brumfield and journalists Mohamed Amiin Adow and Omar Faruk Osman contributed to this report.

Question: Who supported the city of Baidoa as being legitimate?

Question: Where is Baidoa located?

Question: What is Baidoa?

Question: Name of nation involved in the seizures?

Question: The town's seizure left the lawmakers stranded where?

Question: Who is stranded in Djibouti?

Question: Who was trapped in Djibouti because of what happened?

Question: Who gained control of Baidoa?

Question: Baidoa is headquarters of what backed government?

Question: What city did the Islamist fighters seize?

Question: Where is the base for Somalia's UN-backed government?

Question: Where were the country's lawmakers stranded?

Question: who seized control?

Answer: U.N.-backed

Answer: Somalia's

Answer: southwestern part of the country,

Answer: Somalia's

Answer: neighboring country of Djibouti,

Answer: Somali lawmakers

Answer: Somali lawmakers

Answer: Islamist fighters

Answer: Somali

Answer: Baidoa,

Answer: parliament building

Answer: Djibouti,

Answer: Islamist fighters

Summary:
Islamist fighters seize control of Baidoa, Somalia .
Baidoa is headquarters of Somalia's U.N.-backed government .
Town's seizure leaves country's lawmakers stranded in nation of Djibouti .


(CNN) -- Radovan Karadzic's arrest after a decade-long hunt is the equivalent of catching Europe's Osama bin Laden, the U.S. diplomat who brokered peace in Bosnia says. Radovan Karadzic, seen here in 1995, has been arrested after a decade-long hunt. Richard Holbrooke, who negotiated the 1995 Dayton Peace Agreement, led the chorus of congratulations from around the globe telling reporters it was "a historic day." "One of the worst men in the world, the Osama bin Laden of Europe, has finally been captured. A major, major thug has been removed from the public scene." "He was at large because the Yugoslav army was protecting him. But this guy in my view was worse than Milosevic [Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic]... he was the intellectual leader," Holbrooke told CNN.  Watch Holdbrooke talk about the arrest » David Miliband, Britain's Foreign Secretary, said it would "pave the way for a brighter, European future for Serbia and the region." The White House released a statement congratulating the government of Serbia, and thanked the people who arrested Karadzic on a bus in Belgrade for their "professionalism and courage." Paddy Ashdown, the former international administrator in Bosnia, told the BBC that it was a "longed hoped for day." "The four years that I was working with NATO to try and catch him were peppered by rumors of where he was -- in this cafe, on that mountain, in this valley."  Watch Karadzic's lawyer slam arrest » Ashdown also told Britain's Daily Telegraph newspaper that it was a "major breakthrough for the Balkans region." "Karadzic was accused of being the architect of the worst war crimes that have been perpetrated in Europe since the Nazis. "It is a major credit to Serbia and at last brings the prospect of justice for Bosnia," Ashdown said. The arrest brought Serbia's hopes of joining the EU one step closer to realization, EU foreign affairs chief Javier Solana lauding the news. "This ... gives us immense satisfaction. The new government in Belgrade stands for a new Serbia, for a new quality of relations with the EU." Vuk Jeremic, Serbia's Foreign Minister, said the arrest was proof Serbia was "serious when it comes to her European fate." However, Serb Radical Party Secretary General Aleksandar Vucic said it was "horrible" news and that the country was "on its way to disappear." Karadzic, 63, is accused of leading the worst acts of brutality Europe has seen since the Nazi campaigns of World War II. He is wanted over he deadly siege of Sarajevo, which left an estimated 10,000 people dead, and the 1995 massacre of 8,000 Muslims in Srebrenica.

Question: What did former U.S. peace broker say?

Question: What did former international administrator say?

Question: For what reason was Karadzic arrested?

Question: What continent is Balkans on?

Answer: Karadzic's arrest after a decade-long hunt is the equivalent of catching Europe's Osama

Answer: it was a "longed hoped for day."

Answer: leading the worst acts of brutality Europe has seen since the Nazi campaigns of World War II.

Answer: Europe

Summary:
"Karadzic's arrest is the equivalent of catching Europe's Osama bin Laden"
Former U.S. peace broker in Bosnia says arrest is an "historic day"
"Major breakthrough for the Balkans," Former international administrator says .


(CNN) -- Rafael Nadal and David Ferrer have put Spain on the brink of reaching the Davis Cup final after winning their opening two singles rubbers against France in convincing fashion.

With the red clay of Cordoba suiting the Spanish duo perfectly, world number two Nadal -- showing no ill effects from losing the final of the U.S. Open to Novak Djokovic earlier this week -- set the ball rolling with a crushing 6-3 6-0 6-1 success over Richard Gasquet.

And Ferrer doubled Spain's advantage, brushing aside Gilles Simon 6-1 6-4 6-1, to leave the four-times champions needing just a win in Saturday's doubles rubber to reach the final.

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Despite searing heat, Nadal never allowed Gasquet time to get into their match, with the 10-time grand slam winner telling reporters he was delighted with his performance, considering he felt tired.

"That worked out well, I managed to play with a cool head and do what I had to do throughout without losing concentration for a minute," said Nadal.

"There were moments where he helped me in making mistakes, not forcing me to play long points. My service was working well and that made me feel much more comfortable," added the Spanish No.1.

A despondent Gasquet added: "Even a tired Nadal remains an exceptional player. I couldn't find a way past him. It's a defeat that really hurts."

Spain are attempting to reach the final for the third time in four years, and are favorites to take the trophy with two of the world's top five players amongst their ranks.

They are also well on their way to avenging last year's 5-0 whitewash quarterfinal defeat to France

Spanish doubles specialists Feliciano Lopez and Fernando Verdasco can now finish the job on Saturday when they go up against Michael Llodra and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga.

Meanwhile, defending champions Serbia have a mountain to climb in order to retain their title after losing the opening two singles rubbers of their semifinal against Argentina in front of 15,000 partisan fans in Belgrade.

David Nalbandian set Argentina on their way with a 6-4 4-6 6-2 6-3 success over Victor Troicki, who replaced Djokovic in the opening singles after the world No.1 complained of fatigue and a back injury.

Then, former U.S. Open champion Juan Martin Del Potro saw off Janko Tipsarevic 7-5 6-3 6-4 to put Argentina within one victory of a place in the final.

Nalbandian told reporters he only knew of Djokovic's absence 30 minutes before the match started. "But I knew yesterday that I had to be prepared to play anyone. We are well prepared, in good form, and ready to write history."

Question: What score was in Serbia vs Argentina game?

Question: what country lead france after the opening singles

Question: Serbia trail who 2-0 after Novak Djokovic withdraws from opener?

Question: Spain lead France 2-0 after the opening singles rubbers where?

Question: what two men crushed their opponents

Question: Which pair crush their opponents for the loss of just 10 games?

Answer: 7-5 6-3 6-4

Answer: Spain

Answer: Argentina

Answer: Davis Cup

Answer: Nadal and David Ferrer

Answer: Rafael

Summary:
Spain lead France 2-0 after the opening singles rubbers in Cordoba .
Rafael Nadal and David Ferrer crush their opponents for the loss of just 10 games .
Holders Serbia trail Argentina 2-0 after Novak Djokovic withdraws from opener .


(CNN) -- Rafael Nadal ended the Paris Masters run of defending champion Jo-Wilfried Tsonga on Friday to help fellow-Spaniard Fernando Verdasco book his spot at the ATP World Tour Finals in London. Tsonga needed to retain his title to deny Verdasco a place at the prestigious eight-man tournament later this month, but found Nadal far too consistent and fell to a 7-5 7-5 quarterfinal defeat. The world number two struggled in his first two matches, saving five match points against Nicolas Almagro before edging out Tommy Robredo, but his form was much improved on Friday. Tsonga dominated much of the first set with his blistering groundstrokes but could not take advantage of five break points and gradually Nadal took the sting out of his opponent before breaking in the 11th game. The second set took on a similar pattern, although the errors were more frequent from the home favorite and Nadal again broke at 5-5 thanks to a poor game from Tsonga. The 23-year-old confidently served out for victory and will now face third seed Novak Djokovic in a superb semifinal showdown on Saturday. Djokovic was a 6-4 1-6 6-3 winner against Robin Soderling, who would needed to reach the final in Bercy to have a chance of reaching the London finals. The Swede dominated the second set and created 14 break points on his opponent's serve during the match, but took only three of them. Serb Djokovic admitted he was not at his best and was relieved to reach the last four after a fifth successive victory over Soderling. He told Sky Sports: "I'm very pleased to go through, it was a big struggle for me. Mostly I was fighting myself. In the second set I was not moving well and I was letting him control the match but in the end I managed to hold the nerves and focus." Nadal and Djokovic have met 19 times, with the Spaniard holding a clear lead at 14-5. However, Djokovic won their last encounter in Cincinnati in August for the loss of only five games.

Question: Who did Djokovic beat?

Question: Who is assured a place in the ATP World Finals?

Question: Where will the ATP World Finals be held?

Question: Who beat Jo-Willfried Tsonga?

Question: Who beat Jo-Wilfried Tsonga?

Question: Who will Nadal face in the semifinals?

Answer: Robin Soderling,

Answer: Fernando Verdasco

Answer: London.

Answer: Nadal

Answer: Nadal

Answer: Novak Djokovic

Summary:
Rafael Nadal beats holder Jo-Wilfried Tsonga to reach Paris Masters semifinals .
Nadal will now face Novak Djokovic who saw off Sweden's Robin Soderling .
Tsonga's defeat means Fernando Verdasco is assured a place in the ATP World Finals in London .


(CNN) -- Rafael Nadal must get past big-serving home hope Andy Roddick to have a shot at his first title in 11 months at the Sony Ericsson Open in Miami.

The Spanish fourth seed crushed No. 8 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga of France 6-3 6-2 on Wednesday night to move into the semifinals of the ATP Tour event, which has already seen top-ranked Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray fall by the wayside.

Sixth seed Roddick is hoping to repeat his 2004 victory, with the American in similarly dominant form as he dispatched Nadal's 33rd-seeded compatriot Nicolas Almagro 6-3 6-3.

Nadal, twice a losing finalist in the southern American city, also reached the last four at Indian Wells two weeks ago on his return from a knee injury.

"When you play against Andy, it always is a big challenge," he told the ATP Tour Web site.

"His serve, and he's a very good competitor. He's a winner. Gonna be a very tough match, no? I think I have to play my best tennis to try to win."

Roddick, who has not dropped a set so far, will take on a player who will return to No. 3 in the world rankings next week following defending champion Murray's second-round exit.

He reached the final at Indian Wells before losing to Nadal's conqueror Ivan Ljubicic, and was also a semifinalist in Miami in 2008.

"Sometimes when you're not playing well, everything feels a little bit forced. When you play a lot of matches and play a high level, it feels like everything kind of slows down a little bit," he told the ATP site.

"Muscle memory takes over a little bit more, and things kind of just happen. So I think I'm at that stage right now.

"Unfortunately with tennis you have to start every day and it's a new one. You're playing well, but you still have to go out and do it every day."

In Thursday's quarterfinals, fifth seed Robin Soderling of Sweden takes on No. 13 Mikhail Youzhny of Russia.

Czech 16th seed Tomas Berdych, who knocked out Federer on Wednesday, will play Spanish No. 10 Fernando Verdasco.

Meanwhile, Justine Henin will take on fellow Belgian Kim Clijsters in a battle of the former number ones in the semifinals of the women's event in Miami.

Henin came from behind to oust second seed Caroline Wozniacki, beating the young Dane 6-7 (5-7) 6-3 6-4.

"I was in a lot of trouble in the first set. It wasn't easy for me to find a good balance of aggression and patience," Henin, who was given a wildcard entry, told the WTA Tour Web site.

"It was the kind of match I really needed. Even though I was a bit tired in the end, I was able to win. In terms of my fighting spirit, I proved I can still do it. That was important for me."

Clijsters, the 14th seed, defeated No. 9 Samantha Stosur of Australia 6-3 7-5 as she broke to love in the 11th game and then served out for victory.

"Kim and I grew up together, arrived on the tour at the same time, played well at the same time, retired at the same time, and now we came back at the same time. It's amazing," Clijsters said.

"We have never stopped respecting each other. Never, ever, ever. Even if people talk about it, we never had any problems, Kim and I."

Henin has a 12-11 advantage in matches between the two, and the winner of Thursday night's match will take on either American third seed Venus Williams or France's No. 13 Marion Bartoli.

Question: Who faces Andy Roddick in semifinals?

Question: What position was Jo-Wilfried Tsonga?

Question: What is the nationality of Justine Henin?

Question: Who was Nadal's compatriot?

Question: Who will Rafael Nadal meet in semifinals?

Question: Did Nadal beat Tsonga after all?

Question: Who will Rafael Nadal face?

Question: Who is the American sixth seed?

Answer: Nadal

Answer: No. 8

Answer: Belgian

Answer: Nicolas Almagro

Answer: Andy Roddick

Answer: crushed No. 8 Jo-Wilfried

Answer: Andy Roddick

Answer: Andy Roddick

Summary:
Rafael Nadal faces Andy Roddick in semifinals of Sony Ericsson Open in Miami .
Spanish fourth seed continues comeback with 6-3 6-2 win over No. 8 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga .
American sixth seed Roddick crushes Nadal's compatriot Nicolas Almagro .
Kim Clijsters to take on fellow Belgian Justine Henin in last four of women's event .


(CNN) -- Ramping up pressure on Honduras' interim government, the United States has revoked the visa of the beleaguered country's leader, a senior Honduran official told CNN en Espanol on Saturday. Roberto Micheletti and his supporters say Honduras underwent a constitutional transfer of power, not a coup. De facto President Roberto Micheletti and 14 supreme court judges had their visas revoked, said Honduran Foreign Minister Carlos Lopez. Lopez said he, too, lost his visa privileges. The U.S. State Department recently announced that it would pull the visas of members of Honduras' de facto regime. In recent weeks, the United States has stepped up its call for the current Honduran government to restore ousted President Jose Manuel Zelaya to power. Zelaya was seized by the Honduran military in his pajamas and sent into exile on June 28. On Wednesday, the board of the Millennium Challenge Corporation, a U.S. government agency, voted to cut $11 million in aid to the government in Honduras, senior State Department officials told CNN. Prior to the vote, the board had only suspended the aid, the State Department said. The Millennium Challenge Account is a program started under the Bush administration to reward good governance. The agency's cuts followed an announcement last week by the United States that it was terminating all nonhumanitarian aid to Honduras to pressure the interim government to end the political turmoil and accept the terms of an agreement known as the San Jose Accord. The accord calls for Zelaya's return to power. The political crisis stemmed from Zelaya's plan to hold a referendum that could have changed the constitution and allowed longer term limits. The country's congress had outlawed the vote and the supreme court had ruled it illegal. Micheletti and his supporters say that Zelaya's removal was a constitutional transfer of power and not a coup. The United Nations has condemned Zelaya's ouster and does not recognize Michiletti's government. While the United States has called Zelaya's ouster a coup, it has not formally designated it a "military coup," which, under U.S. law, would have triggered a cutoff of all non-humanitarian aid regardless. Senior State Department officials said the Obama administration was reluctant to make the formal designation in order to preserve its flexibility for a diplomatic solution. A presidential campaign in Honduras kicked off last week. However, the United States said it would not support the outcome of the elections unless Zelaya was restored to power. CNN en Espanol's Maria Elisa Callejas contributed to this report.

Question: Who announced it would pull visas of the regime?

Question: Who was ousted on June 28 and sent into exile?

Question: Who was ousted on June 28?

Question: Who condemned the move?

Question: What announced U.S. State department?

Question: Who doesn't recognize de facto government?

Question: Who had visas revoked?

Answer: The U.S. State Department

Answer: Zelaya

Answer: President Jose Manuel Zelaya

Answer: The United Nations

Answer: that it would pull the visas of members of Honduras' de facto regime.

Answer: United Nations

Answer: President Roberto Micheletti and 14 supreme court judges

Summary:
Honduran official: De facto president, 14 supreme court judges had visas revoked .
U.S. State Department had announced it would pull visas of the regime .
President Jose Manuel Zelaya was ousted on June 28 and sent into exile .
U.N. has condemned the move and does not recognize de facto government .


(CNN) -- Randy Pausch, the professor whose "last lecture" became a runaway phenomenon on the Internet and was turned into a best-selling book, died Friday of pancreatic cancer, Carnegie Mellon University announced on its Web site. Randy Pausch emphasized the joy of life in his "last lecture," originally given in September 2007. Pausch, 47, a computer science professor, delivered the lecture, "Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams," at Carnegie Mellon in September 2007, a month after being told he had three to six months to live because his cancer had returned. The lanky, energetic Pausch talked about goals he had accomplished, like experiencing zero gravity and creating Disney attractions, and those he had not, including becoming a professional football player. He used rejections he was handed when he applied for jobs at Disney to comment on the importance of persistence. "The brick walls are there for a reason ... to show us how badly we want something," he said. "Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don't want it badly enough. They're there to stop the other people."  Watch what Pausch did for his wife » Starting with a joke about "a deathbed conversion" -- "I just bought a Macintosh" computer -- the educator went on to say that one of his childhood dreams was to write an entry in the World Book Encyclopedia. "I guess you can tell the nerds early,"  he added. An expert in virtual reality, Pausch did go on to write an encyclopedia entry on the subject. He discussed his fondness for winning stuffed animals at fairs, showed a slide of them, then -- pretending to be concerned his audience would think the image had been digitally manipulated -- produced them onstage. Donning silly costume items like a vest with arrows sticking out of it and a Mad Hatter's hat, he described working with students as a way to help other people achieve their dreams. He also played down his own importance, saying that after he got a Ph.D., his mother took to introducing him as "a doctor, but not the kind who helps people." The lecture has been viewed more than 3.2 million times since it was posted on YouTube in December. Pausch co-founded the university's Entertainment Technology Center and was known for developing interdisciplinary courses and research projects that attracted new students to the field of computer science. He also spent his career encouraging computer scientists to collaborate with artists, dramatists and designers, Carnegie Mellon said. The university's president, Jared Cohon, described Pausch as "a brilliant researcher and gifted teacher." "His love of teaching, his sense of fun and his brilliance came together in the Alice project, which teaches students computer programming while enabling them to do something fun -- making animated movies and games," Cohon added. "Carnegie Mellon -- and the world -- are better places for having had Randy Pausch in them." Pausch describes Cohon urging him to talk about having fun in his lecture, and telling him it's difficult because it's like asking a fish to talk about water. "I don't know how not to have fun," he said. "I'm dying and I'm having fun. And I'm going to keep having fun every day I have left." Pausch is survived by his wife, Jai, and three children.

Question: Where was Randy Pausch a  professor?

Question: What year was the "Last Lecture" ?

Question: What was the purpose of Pausch's lecture?

Question: What was Randy Pausch's proffesion?

Question: what was randy pausch?

Question: when was the last lecture

Question: What kind of was professor was Randy Pausch?

Question: Who was Randy Pausch?

Question: Where was Randy Pausch a computer science professor?

Question: what was the lecture about

Question: What did Pausch's lecture celebrate?

Answer: Carnegie Mellon University

Answer: 2007.

Answer: emphasized the joy of life

Answer: professor

Answer: a computer science professor,

Answer: September 2007.

Answer: computer science

Answer: professor whose "last lecture" became a runaway phenomenon

Answer: Carnegie Mellon University

Answer: "Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams,"

Answer: "Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams,"

Summary:
Randy Pausch was computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon .
His September 2007 "Last Lecture" became Internet sensation, best-seller .
Pausch's lecture celebrated living the life he always dreamed .


(CNN) -- Rangers restored their four-point lead over Celtic despite conceding the fastest goal in Scottish Premier League history on Sunday. The Glasgow side went behind after only 12.4 seconds as Hibernian striker Anthony Stokes surpassed the previous mark set by Saulius Mikoliunas for Edinburgh rivals Hearts back in 2006, but bounced back to register a 4-1 away victory. Scotland striker Kenny Miller scored in each half, while goals from fellow frontmen Kris Boyd and Nacho Novo ensured that third-placed Hibs' unbeaten run of 13 league games came to an end. Celtic had closed the gap to one point after beating Hamilton Academicals 2-0 on Saturday. Rangers, meanwhile, expect to have Madjid Bougherra available for Wednesday's home clash with fourth-placed Dundee United, but the Algeria defender will leave for African Nations Cup duty in Angola before next Sunday's Old Firm derby showdown with Celtic. "That's the way it's looking at the present moment," manager Walter Smith said. Smith will also be without United States winger DaMarcus Beasley for the next few weeks after he suffered an injury in training before the Hibs game. "He has a tear in his thigh. I'm not sure how long that will keep him out -- two or three weeks maybe," Smith said. "It's disappointing in the sense that he is just back in the team and doing exceptionally well, so it was disappointing it happened." However, Beasley's international teammate Maurice Edu boosted his chances of playing at next year's World Cup finals in South Africa after making his first appearance this season. The midfielder, who suffered a serious knee injury in the final SPL game of last season, came off the substitutes' bench for the final 15 minutes at Easter Road.

Question: What was it that Rangers conceded

Question: What is the reason Madjid Bougherra will miss the derby

Question: Who won the African Nations Cup?

Question: What was the final score?

Question: Who suffered a thigh injury?

Question: Who scored the goal after 12.4 seconds

Question: Who had the comeback?

Answer: fastest goal in Scottish

Answer: African Nations Cup duty

Answer: Rangers

Answer: 4-1

Answer: DaMarcus Beasley

Answer: Anthony Stokes

Answer: Rangers

Summary:
Rangers four points clear despite conceding fastest goal in Scottish Premier League history .
Anthony Stokes puts Hibernian ahead after 12.4 seconds but Rangers still win 4-1 .
Rangers defender Madjid Bougherra will miss derby with Celtic due to African Nations Cup .
United States winger DaMarcus Beasley out with thigh injury but Maurice Edu makes comeback .


(CNN) -- Rap star T.I. threw himself a going-away party Sunday night, less than two days before he was scheduled to begin serving a prison sentence on federal weapons charges. T.I. performed to a packed crowd Sunday, days before he was to start a prison term. The Grammy-winning rapper performed at Atlanta's Philips Arena before a packed house. He is scheduled to head to prison Tuesday to start a 366-day sentence. During Sunday's concert, the 28-year-old reiterated a message that's become familiar in recent weeks: He wants others to learn from his mistakes. "I'm doing the best I can to get out there, man, and put something positive on these young kids, man," T.I. said during the show. "I try my best. I need y'all help, though." The rapper played to a sell-out crowd of 16,000 people, said Kenan Woods, a spokesman for the arena. T.I., whose given name is Clifford Harris, played through much of his catalog, including the hits "Whatever You Like," "Live Your Life" and the Grammy-winning "Swagga Like Us," Woods said. At times in the show, Harris was joined on stage by fellow rapper Soulja Boy and by his five children and mother, Woods said. He was greeted by a welcoming crowd, and some members of the audience held up signs supporting him. Tickets for the show started at just $10, according to the arena, which called the event "T.I.'s Final Goodbye Bash." Harris has been the subject of an MTV reality show, "T.I.'s Road to Redemption," in the lead-up to the prison term. He was sentenced in March on weapons charges related to purchasing machine guns and silencers. In addition to serving prison time, T.I. was placed on house arrest, was given community service and was ordered to pay a $100,300 fine. Though he had been in legal trouble before, Harris' current situation began when he was arrested just hours before he was to perform at the BET Hip-Hop Awards in Atlanta. The rapper had provided a bodyguard with $12,000 to buy weapons. Harris was not permitted to own any guns, however, because he was convicted in 1998 on felony drug charges -- possession of crack cocaine with intent to distribute -- in Cobb County, in suburban Atlanta. After his arrest, he entered a plea agreement, which federal authorities called unique because it allowed the rapper to remain out of prison for a year while he performed community service. Harris has already left a strong mark on the hip-hop genre, music experts told CNN, which should position his career well when he is released. Harris had been named to the Forbes list of top-earning rappers, making an estimated $16 million in 2006. Some music industry observers have said T.I.'s prison term will only make him more popular. "I think that if anything, it will gain him more fans and actually support his fan base, because he's talked about making a mistake," Emil Wilbekin, editor in chief of Giant Magazine, told CNN. "He's talked about taking care of the error of his ways." The Atlanta rapper has expressed remorse for the situation. "I would like to say thank you to some and apologize to others," he said at his sentencing in March. "In my life, I have been placed in the worst-case scenario and had to make the best of it." In a March interview with CNN's T.J. Holmes, Harris said he no longer felt like he needed to carry weapons to protect himself. He said people should not idolize him for what he's gone through, but should take note of the fact that he has taken responsibility for his actions. "You shouldn't take the things that I've gone through, and the negative parts of my life, and admire me for that. If anything, admire me for how I've accepted responsibility for the part

Question: What did T.I. do two days before his prison term started?

Question: When will T.I. prison term start?

Question: who performed on sunday

Question: To what was the rapper sentenced?

Question: What was T.I. convicted for?

Question: How long is his prison term?

Answer: performed to a packed crowd

Answer: Tuesday

Answer: T.I.

Answer: federal weapons charges.

Answer: federal weapons charges.

Answer: 366-day sentence.

Summary:
T.I. performed Sunday, less than two days before his prison term starts .
The rapper has been sentenced in connection with federal weapons charges .
His prison term of one year and one day starts Tuesday .