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./cnn/stories/ac203e33ae36a0a3e7fb86dff378b76713d1a6c1.story | -LRB- CNN -RRB- -- Tokyo has a dynamic and varied nightlife , although , as with the city 's restaurants , many of the best bars are tucked away off the beaten track . Tokyo has a buzzing clubbing scene . The ultra-stylish New York Bar is among the best rooftop bars in the world . Located on the 52nd floor of the Park ... | Which is Tokyo 's finest club ? | 457:458 |
./cnn/stories/86f30844d0c2682851f1cb92ac3a11f89d74745e.story | NEW YORK -LRB- CNN -RRB- -- A federal judge on Monday ruled against a Web site operator who was seeking to publish an encyclopedia about the Harry Potter series of novels , blocking publication of `` The Harry Potter Lexicon '' after concluding that it would cause author J.K. Rowling `` irreparable injury . '' Steven V... | How much did the judge awars J.K.Rowling ? | 89:90 |
./cnn/stories/b5cb9fe9bae4f2f48ecec4299d3c6d3ba7649063.story | Editor 's Note : Al Vivian is president & CEO of BASIC Diversity , Inc. , a 35-year-old consultancy that specializes in diminishing cross-cultural biases that has worked with clients such as Coca-Cola , Ford , Kroger , McDonald 's , the National Security Agency and CNN . He is also an adviser to the United States Army ... | From whose perspective was written the history accoding to Vivian ? | 1479:1480 |
./cnn/stories/f7709df3257aafd7b4f8f4e7bce939b98b63951c.story | -LRB- CNN -RRB- -- Back in 2005 , when he stopped studying third down tendencies long enough to work on a motivational self-help book , Nick Saban kept hammering on one phrase . The book 's title was `` How Good Do You Want to Be ? A Champion 's Tips on How to Lead and Succeed at Work and in Life . '' The phrase the Un... | Who is the only coach to take two different schools to BCS championship ? | 446:447 |
./cnn/stories/ce4e63913c098d552f9b55f38ac5c6ce02fdf359.story | -LRB- CNN -RRB- -- Sen. Barack Obama cautioned supporters Thursday against becoming complacent during the final days leading up to the election , noting he lost the New Hampshire primary despite a lead in the polls . After debating Sen. John McCain , Sen. Barack Obama says there 's still plenty of campaigning to be don... | what mccain says ? | 530:544 |
./cnn/stories/39280855cddc7319a86f51622d68933b8bd15013.story | -LRB- CNN -RRB- -- Should he stay or should he go ? Manchester United insist Cristiano Ronaldo will still be wearing a red shirt next season but the Portuguese winger , courted by Real Madrid , has refused to rule out a move to Spain . Cristiano Ronaldo has refused to commit himself to Manchester United . Football Fan ... | Who is linked to a big move ? | 396:397 |
./cnn/stories/a5f40be052cb9500c1a61072d11e3ee58cb85b39.story | Washington -LRB- CNN -RRB- -- Bush administration lawyers who wrote `` torture '' memos have been cleared of allegations of professional misconduct after a Justice Department internal investigation , which recommends no legal consequences for their actions . The report by the Justice Department concludes the high-ranki... | when will Steven Bradbury be cleared ? | 223:225 |
./cnn/stories/2ae28b67fde367a14c93bd05fbbdbb53e4b436f4.story | LONDON , England -LRB- CNN -RRB- -- Russian supermodel Natalia Vodianova 's life has been a classic rags-to-riches fairytale , taking her from poverty in provincial Russia to a cosmopolitan life of wealth and aristocracy . Supermodel Natalia Vodianova was discovered in Moscow in a classic rags-to-riches tale . Her inte... | In what kind of neighborhood did Natalia Vodianova grow up ? | 227:232 |
./cnn/stories/c03cd67baa8d84240b962876a5aaa2036d4f5275.story | -LRB- CNN -RRB- -- Brendon Pelser said he saw pure terror in the faces of his fellow passengers after an engine fell from a wing as it took off from Cape Town , South Africa , Wednesday . Men were sweating profusely , women were crying . `` There was fear on their faces , '' Pelser said . `` Everyone started panicking ... | What airline had a pilot dumping fuel ? | 69:70,312:313,415:416,460:461 |
./cnn/stories/63ba648eb30a301f1cf9045f80a3ab2aa21eb07b.story | -LRB- Sunset -RRB- -- ' `` I had such a crush on him when I was a kid , '' says my friend Didi Linburn , pigtails peeking out from beneath her pink ski helmet rather than the wool pompom hat she wore as a kid . I peer into the tiny ski shop at the Alta Peruvian Lodge and catch a glimpse of a cute guy in glasses behind ... | how many resorts ban snow boarders ? | 386:387 |
./cnn/stories/c77efeae1cefa1b9cc48b3c3a1a431c5a2ff17e4.story | -LRB- CNN -RRB- -- It has become a commonplace that it is hard to comprehend the disaster in Haiti . If so , and if we hope to provide Haitians with anything like the help that they need , then we must understand where our minds fail us . One problem that we do not yet face is having our compassion numbed by the sheer ... | Where was the earthquake ? | 18:19 |
./cnn/stories/eb25a443051a27521c077279afc544e0226cbc68.story | -LRB- CNN -RRB- -- England striker Wayne Rooney is expected to be fit for the World Cup in South Africa despite suffering another injury setback on club duty with Manchester United on Sunday . The 24-year-old , who last month was sidelined with ankle damage , went off with a recurrence of his recent groin problem 13 mi... | On what team does Wayne Rooney play ? | 29:31 |
./cnn/stories/f24742181a7bceaf471d8483749a1fee981fd5ee.story | -LRB- CNN -RRB- -- From soup kitchen director Rita Baldwin 's perspective , the notion that `` homeless people are the scum of the earth '' has returned to her Gulf Coast town , which still struggles four years after Hurricane Katrina . Loaves and Fishes executive director Rita Baldwin poses with her son , Scott Blain ... | What does the mayor say ? | 846:854 |
./cnn/stories/4ab30c1a4e8761bd49cd922f4bc4d1eef77c071d.story | Mountain View , California -LRB- CNN -RRB- -- At this moment we have reached a major turning point for both science and the public at large . The SETI Institute is now offering the world the first taste of raw SETI -LRB- Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence -RRB- data collected by the Allen Telescope Array in Calif... | what seti means | 42:46 |
./cnn/stories/8c838abc5efa4f7cf0dfdf6b6a550031f56def81.story | SEATTLE , Washington -LRB- CNN -RRB- -- An accident involving de-icing solution being sprayed on an Alaska Airlines plane in snow-covered Seattle sent seven people to a hospital Wednesday , airport and hospital officials said . Emergency vehicles gather around Alaska Airlines planes in Seattle , Washington , on Wednesd... | Crew members from which Airline were sent to the hospital ? | 16:17 |
./cnn/stories/5f4c049521f99380d8cd7055e7717734f2e67510.story | Editor 's note : The author has ridden motorcycles more than 125,000 miles since 1999 , including solo trips from Georgia to California and Canada . She takes us inside the world of motorcycle travel . Bikers approach Mount Mitchell , North Carolina , during a road trip through the Blue Ridge Mountains . SHENANDOAH NAT... | how many people were involved | 166:167 |
./cnn/stories/ced2d08def3fd24c5eb6c12f29c43067fd7085ef.story | -LRB- CNN -RRB- -- Survivors of a deadly earthquake-triggered tsunami which hit the Samoan islands Tuesday have described how they watched the inrushing sea swallow up coastal towns and villages leaving devastation in its wake . iReporter Alden Tagarino captured this image of the damage caused by the tsunami in Pago Pa... | How many dead in Samoan islands after Pacific tsunami ? | 53:62 |
./cnn/stories/9d38743af3b241a1fdfa9903526b909867a8a638.story | Editor 's note : Roya Hakakian is the author of `` Journey from the Land of No : A Girlhood Caught in Revolutionary Iran . '' Her web site is http://www.royahakakian.com/live/ . Roya Hakakian says she lived through an earlier moment when Iranians thought freedom was at hand . -LRB- CNN -RRB- -- Since last Saturday , th... | what did Hakakian say | 35:48 |
./cnn/stories/dff78b728f51137110b5d4561da02b81938723c4.story | -LRB- CNN -RRB- -- Some of the worst fighting to hit Somalia 's capital city in recent months uprooted nearly 34,000 people in less than a week , according to a United Nations report released Monday . A young girl feeds her baby brother at a refugee camp on the outskirts of Mogadishu , Somalia . Relief workers said the... | When was the latest violence ? | 15:18 |
./cnn/stories/a2a25e700212b7bf7fba0b5224eb1150a2509d6c.story | New York -LRB- CNN -RRB- -- More than 80 Michael Jackson collectibles -- including the late pop star 's famous rhinestone-studded glove from a 1983 performance -- were auctioned off Saturday , reaping a total $ 2 million . Profits from the auction at the Hard Rock Cafe in New York 's Times Square crushed pre-sale expec... | What were the items auctioned ? | 11:12 |
./cnn/stories/2e89346e03a9a7ac4af8a807c76c4c3a9f32c5fc.story | Islamabad , Pakistan -LRB- CNN -RRB- -- Pakistan 's military said Tuesday that its forces have taken over a Taliban stronghold during the ongoing ground offensive in the tribal region of South Waziristan . Pakistani security forces have secured Sararogha and have started to clear the town of weapons and ammunition , th... | How many militants died ? | 89:90 |
./cnn/stories/65f1110c4060f78a14b9b206eef4ead7d7e80404.story | Brussels , Belgium -LRB- CNN -RRB- -- European Union leaders named Belgian Prime Minister Herman Van Rompuy as the first `` president of Europe '' Thursday , edging out former British Prime Minister Tony Blair for a still-vaguely defined job . `` I did not seek this high position , and I did n't take any steps to achie... | Who conducts selections ? | 7:10 |
./cnn/stories/2dc7794eece34f8199306223e265dab2289e6165.story | -LRB- CNN -RRB- -- Margaret Sanger opened the first American family-planning clinic in 1916 , and nothing would be the same again . Since then the growing proliferation of birth control methods has had an awesome effect on both sexes and led to a sea change in moral values . And as I 've grown older over the past five ... | What is the loss of caution and discernment in choice of sexual partners ? | 660:662 |
./cnn/stories/afadfd44e5cdd9fa747dbd020f194f0a7a022444.story | LONDON , England -LRB- CNN -RRB- -- From four leaf clovers to a severed rabbit 's foot , when it comes to lucky mascots reason and taste often go out of the window . David Beckham 's teammates give his bottom a squeeze after scoring his first goal for AC Milan in their 4-1 defeat of Bologna . No more so than at AC Mila... | What is the name of the team Beckham plays for ? | 49:51 |
./cnn/stories/ee80d6424d533f3cf38096a5a2eb62062b04cd42.story | -LRB- CNN -RRB- -- Motor Sport 's governing body , the FIA , have formally confirmed the entry list for the 2010 Formula One season -- with potential newcomers US F1 omitted from the grid . The financially-troubled team had asked the FIA if they could miss the first four races of the season in order to attract extra sp... | what confirm FIA ? | 15:25 |
./cnn/stories/937717a38bf1a174febfd009a9bc991d54d3ce6e.story | -LRB- CNN -RRB- -- Global activist and U2 frontman Bono attended the United Nations General Assembly in New York to push world leaders to join his ONE campaign in fighting disease , poverty , and hunger . He talked to CNN 's John Roberts on `` American Morning '' about recent successes and what 's next . Bono said poli... | What did Bono say he was punching the air about ? | 1180:1188 |
./cnn/stories/5619cb4eb06709d10613f010fb88ec550b5626c4.story | Men who are circumcised are less likely to get sexually transmitted infections such as genital herpes and human papillomavirus -LRB- HPV -RRB- , but not syphilis , according to a study of adult African men published this week in the New England Journal of Medicine . Circumcision rates have traditionally been higher in ... | What does reduce the risk of HPV infection ? | 111:114 |
./cnn/stories/5245fa11b56ff0161822c9b2bc038a7fcd35cee2.story | -LRB- CNN -RRB- -- Changing winter conditions are causing Scotland 's wild Soay sheep to get smaller , according to a study that suggests climate change can trump natural selection . Ca n't see me now : Climate change could be shrinking Soay sheep in Scotland . The authors of the study published in `` Science '' believ... | Where did the study take place ? | 188:193 |
./cnn/stories/938357445ba10ac9d82bc266aa917983c7845caa.story | WASHINGTON -LRB- CNN -RRB- -- Iran may be holding a former FBI agent in a bid to exchange him for Iranians seized by U.S. troops in Iraq in 2007 , a U.S. senator suggested Tuesday . Christine Levinson , wife of Robert Levinson , went to Tehran in 2007 to try to learn her husband 's fate . Robert Levinson disappeared fr... | What did the Iranians say about missing man ? | 286:303 |
./cnn/stories/cdcfe11f1f65bbd66cf63e7cc3e83c938ae3b3f6.story | -LRB- CNN -RRB- -- Paul O'Neill , who was appointed treasury secretary in 2001 by President Bush , says the federal government is not doing enough to fix the U.S. financial system . Former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill says he 's hoping for a '' V-shaped '' recession . O'Neill appeared on CNN 's `` Fareed Zakaria GPS... | What did Oneill say ? | 39:46 |
./cnn/stories/6c1a1cf59028ba2567b0a1941e510c40133da1c0.story | DETROIT , Michigan -LRB- CNN -RRB- -- A defiant Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick addressed Detroit on Thursday night listing what he said the city had accomplished under his leadership just hours after announcing his resignation amid a sex and perjury scandal . Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick has agreed to resign from office , a ... | What were the charges | 202:207 |
./cnn/stories/7161844a9bf770f2f3b5949fa5adf0dfe726a7b6.story | LONDON , England -LRB- CNN -RRB- -- Madame Tussauds unveiled a wax figure of Michael Jackson on Thursday , showing the late entertainer in a pose from the concerts he had planned to hold this month . The new waxwork of Michael Jackson -- only Queen Elizabeth II has been portrayed more times by Madame Tussauds . Sculpto... | What was the model meant to coincide with ? | 83:97 |
./cnn/stories/2cb366c30e1763f2b68c3048887cd5759ca3d1f8.story | Asheville , North Carolina -LRB- CNN -RRB- -- President Obama prayed Sunday with the Rev. Billy Graham at Graham 's mountaintop home before leaving North Carolina to attend the memorial service for 29 West Virginia coal miners killed in a recent explosion . Obama became the first sitting U.S. president to visit Graham ... | Graham presented Obama with two what ? | 255:256 |
./cnn/stories/f3c4b7ccb7c70ee1f79d1cb5f9d9d981e86330f6.story | Spin bowlers Harbhajan Singh and Murali Kartik are back in India 's squad for the test series against Pakistan . Harbhajan has been out of test cricket since July 2006 . They are included in a 14-man party for the first two games , in Delhi , starting on November 22 and Calcutta -LRB- Kolkata -RRB- eight days later . H... | When are the games in Calcutta ? | 49:51 |
./cnn/stories/9c8b206b729777def7a308a2722e0e0c0fdc2886.story | -LRB- CNN -RRB- -- A cop killer and child molester who has been on the U.S. Marshals Service 's 15 most-wanted fugitive list for nearly four years was captured early Wednesday , authorities said . Paul Clouston , 73 , was taken into custody at a men 's group home in Merced , California , said Deputy U.S. Marshal Kevin ... | who was convicted | 35:37 |
./cnn/stories/327ae4c12a2253aad4703380923b52d1cc6f506b.story | WASHINGTON -LRB- CNN -RRB- -- President Barack Obama reached out to Iran on Friday -- the start of the Iranian New Year -- in a video message offering `` the promise of a new beginning '' that is `` grounded in mutual respect . '' Obama 's message to Iran echoes his inaugural speech , where he said `` we seek a new way... | What did the video message coincide with ? | 19:22 |
./cnn/stories/fc0b3815ee470441231ef90a20a726b412bb4abb.story | KUALA LUMPUR , Malaysia -LRB- Reuters -RRB- -- Malaysia defended on Friday its practice of caning criminals after a disturbing video of a prison-yard caning session burst onto the Internet , reigniting criticism from lawyers and human rights advocates . In the video , a naked man is shown strapped to an upright wooden ... | how long are rattan sticks ? | 66:67 |
./cnn/stories/964c2cbd65b59ec927a6358cd86505b37da8fcf3.story | TEGUCIGALPA , Honduras -LRB- CNN -RRB- -- The U.S. State Department is calling on Honduras ' de facto president to immediately rescind an emergency decree that limits constitutional rights such as freedoms of expression , travel and public congregation . Robert Micheletti , de facto president of Honduras , says he 'll ... | to where did he return | 160:179 |
./cnn/stories/4987829d04a89d82b3b66bc7fad79060b8b2ff92.story | New Delhi , India -LRB- CNN -RRB- -- An explosion Saturday at an eatery in the western Indian city of Pune killed at least nine people and injured 33 others , authorities said . `` It appears to be a bomb blast , and bombs obviously are related to terrorism , '' said U.K. Bansal , special secretary for security in Indi... | who noticed the bag | 95:97 |
./cnn/stories/32729e17019f1076f3d6f7c80a660e55bd53b790.story | -LRB- CNN -RRB- -- The Indian city of Mumbai exploded into chaos early Thursday morning as gunmen launched a series of attacks across the country 's commercial capital , killing scores of people and taking hostages in two luxury hotels frequented by Westerners . CNN 's Christiane Amanpour says India and Pakistan might ... | What Pakistani leader has reached out to India ? | 209:213 |
./cnn/stories/774f7adb2e8c4501d02ef8388d752c87c9d958ed.story | -LRB- Entertainment Weekly -RRB- -- It could n't top its predecessors , but `` X-Men Origins : Wolverine '' still brought in quite a haul , grossing an estimated $ 87 million for the opening weekend of the summer movie season . Hugh Jackman stars as the title character in `` X-Men Origins : Wolverine . '' The Hugh Jack... | How much did Wolverine take at the box office ? | 27:32 |
./cnn/stories/df797773b9e8d16817cad44d9a023506dac4a7c6.story | MINNEAPOLIS , Minnesota -LRB- CNN -RRB- -- Abayte Ahmed and her husband learned of their son 's death in the most heinous fashion . A family acquaintance called and told them to click on an Internet site . There on the screen were photographs of their 20-year-old son -- the boy with the movie-star looks -- shot through... | What is the Somali group doing ? | 177:178 |
./cnn/stories/68f3087b6d588d77d02726e206fa030545bfb115.story | -LRB- CNN -RRB- -- Doctors chose a woman who survived a shotgun wound to her face as the first recipient of a face transplant after treating her for nearly four years . This image projects what Connie Culp , 46 , may look like two years after the face transplant . Connie Culp knew of the Cleveland Clinic 's interest in... | What did she tell CNN ? | 157:195 |
./cnn/stories/f9288ed2c6003798da48582b1d629f1983055043.story | LONDON , England -LRB- CNN -RRB- -- On March 30 the Open Skies treaty went into effect , liberalizing air travel between the U.S. and Europe . But how will the ease of restrictions on transatlantic routes affect business travelers ? Under Open Skies , European and U.S. airlines will be given unlimited access between Eu... | what is the biggest challenge | 324:329 |
./cnn/stories/5e7c990b12d43b077d476413a16c05fad2398c35.story | CNN -LRB- CNN -RRB- -- The FBI interrogator who bluffed al Qaeda detainees into giving up significant intelligence began his career in an unusual way . Ali Soufan 's fraternity brothers bet him that the agency would never hire a guy like him . A Lebanese-born American studying international relations at a Pennsylvania ... | what does Soufan 's book argue against ? | 532:551 |
./cnn/stories/7c06e091d7294c87ba42df50008783d9f3cab9b2.story | -LRB- CNN -RRB- -- They feature characters such as hat-wearing cats , very hungry caterpillars , nice girls named Madeline and naughty boys named Max . `` The Very Hungry Caterpillar '' by Eric Carle turns 40 this year , and 29 million copies of it have sold since 1969 . Parents read them to their children , forming a ... | what is this pattern is all about ? | 327:371 |
./cnn/stories/7b2b414d8cbc968f4df05bcefb2f9f0fd3052083.story | BAGHDAD , Iraq -LRB- CNN -RRB- -- Three of five Americans contractors detained in Baghdad have been ordered released by an Iraqi judge , because of insufficient evidence , a court spokesman said Thursday . In a CNN exclusive , video shows U.S. contractors taken into custody by Iraqi authorities . The other two other co... | what are the men being detained for | 429:436 |
./cnn/stories/4566e90ca5e65f0323c41319030ca4349357cd67.story | -LRB- CNN -RRB- -- Didier Drogba is backing his Ivory Coast team to make history by becoming the first African country to reach the final of the World Cup next year . Drogba is contemplating a big challenge by the Ivory Coast in South Africa . The Chelsea striker scored the decisive goal as the Elephants sealed their p... | In what year didIvory Coast exit in group stages at the World Cup finals in Germany ? | 248:249 |
./cnn/stories/3666f90c41e7c7f184b5d237fa84fc0705af20ec.story | -LRB- CNN -RRB- -- The mayor of Gary , Indiana , and Michael Jackson 's father , Joe , on Wednesday will announce `` a major move forward '' to bring a museum and performance arts center bearing the singer 's name to the city . Mayor Rudy Clay has said the project has the potential to bring 500,000 to 750,000 visitors ... | Where was Jackson born ? | 7:10 |
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