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"sent": "When the flu spreads person-to-person, instead of from animals to humans, the flu can continue to mutate, making the flu harder to treat or fight, because people have no natural immunity."
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"sent": "\" Watch why swine flu is a \"sloppy virus\" » ."
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"sent": "Researchers do not know how swine flu is jumping relatively easily from person to person, or why swine flu's affecting what should be society's healthiest demographic."
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"sent": "His family lives in the 3,000-population village of La Gloria in the state of Veracruz, where a flu outbreak was reported on April 2."
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"sent": "we had a vaccine for regular flu,\" said Dr. Carlos del Rio of the Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia."
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"sent": "As a result, we've had to live by the admonition of former slave and abolitionist Frederick Douglass, who said, \"Agitate!"
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"sent": "This wasn't about a ridiculous bounty on the head of Zimmerman by the New Black Panther Party."
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"sent": "The Iranian issue highlights a fundamental truth about international politics and about Israel and America: When it comes to matters of national security and survival, size and geography can divide even the closest allies."
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"sent": "Perhaps the most important development to emerge from the meeting last week was Obama's clear reset of the frame of reference within which American policy toward Iran will now play out."
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"sent": "But He did highlight the new vocabulary: Containment of Iran and the Iranian program won't do anymore."
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"sent": "the auto industry is back on top,\" Obama said campaigning last week in the Buckeye State."
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"sent": "If the current trend continues, Arizona and Texas could turn from red to purple."
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"ord": 54,
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"sent": "2012 election priciest to date: $4.2 billion tab and rising ."
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"sent": "Republicans are going to have to find a different way forward."
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"ord": 17,
"sent": "this election is a loud wake-up call for the GOP to change the GOP stance on illegal immigration."
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"ord": 28,
"sent": "Obama's share of the white vote dropped from 43% four years ago to 39% this year."
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"sent": "But that was negated by the shrinking of the white vote from 74% of the electorate four years ago to 72% now."
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"sent": "What will $6 billion get you?"
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"sent": "Beyond the movie magic, it's a sobering reality that two-thirds of Americans are afflicted by our nation's obesity epidemic."
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"ord": 15,
"sent": "Experts at Johns Hopkins call the trend \"a public health crisis,\" projecting that by 2015, 75 percent of Americans will be overweight or obese."
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"ord": 16,
"sent": "Shockingly, the Center for Children's Health Innovation reports that by the time kids enter kindergarten, over 26 percent are already overweight or obese."
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"sent": "A study predicts 75 percent of Americans will be overweight by 2015 . "
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"sent": "Editor's note: Rudy Ruiz: founded RedBrownandBlue.com, a site featuring multicultural political commentary."
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"ord": 1,
"sent": "Rudy Ruiz: is host of a nationally syndicated Spanish-language radio show and wrote a guide to success for immigrants ("
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"ord": 2,
"sent": "\"¡Adelante!\" published by Random House). \""
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"ord": 3,
"sent": "Adelante!\" published by Random House) is co-founder and president of Interlex, an advocacy marketing agency based in San Antonio, Texas."
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"ord": 5,
"sent": "SAN ANTONIO, Texas (CNN) --"
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"ord": 45,
"sent": "The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Rudy Ruiz."
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"sent": "I recently accompanied my family to one of the top-selling movies in America, \"Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs."
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"ord": 17,
"sent": "As I surveyed the theater, those stats ceased to surprise."
},
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"ord": 44,
"sent": "Drawing inspiration at the movies, the movies might even find that in the dark sanctum of the theater, it's easier to reach across the aisle, hold hands, and craft a happy ending that leaves America clamoring for a sequel."
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"sent": "All I could think of, aside from struggling ironically to keep my children from overindulging in junk food, was that members of Congress should watch the movie."
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"ord": 9,
"sent": "In the movie, a town nearly dooms a town via gluttony."
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"ord": 10,
"sent": "As hamburgers, steaks and ice cream rain down, residents feast euphorically, oblivious to residents expanding waistlines -- until a child succumbs to a food coma."
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"ord": 11,
"sent": "the movie is a thinly veiled allegory for our nation's obesity epidemic."
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"ord": 12,
"sent": "the movie serves up -- in digestible terms -- the dysfunctional relationship between government, industry and parents in engineering and promoting a glut of food that keeps dollars in our pockets and smiles on our faces in the short term, while rendering us dangerously unhealthy in the long term."
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"ord": 18,
"sent": "While my children drank water and nibbled on a negotiated ration of candy, my children drank water and nibbled on a negotiated ration of candy peers lurked beyond enormous buckets of popcorn and towering cups of soda balanced precariously on their peers laps."
},
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"ord": 36,
"sent": "Regulate youth nutrition marketing, preventing paradoxes like the teaming of \"Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs\" -- despite its well-intentioned message -- with Burger King for a promotion heavily advertised on children's TV."
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"ord": 41,
"sent": "I hate to spoil the movie, but in the end, the endangered town didn't solve the endangered town problems by building more hospitals and paying doctors and insurance companies to treat and cover those who overate or were flattened by mammoth meatballs."
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"ord": 42,
"sent": "Instead, the townspeople simply destroyed the machine drowning the townspeople in supersized food."
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"sent": "It might inspire members of Congress to add an important dimension to health reform: smarter food policy."
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"ord": 20,
"sent": "In improving America's health, are we missing a key plotline?"
},
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"ord": 23,
"sent": "If the government is serious about tackling our nation's health problems, then the government is serious about tackling our nation's health problems should address food's role in the looming crisis."
},
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"ord": 24,
"sent": "To Congress' credit, proposed reforms emphasize increased prevention."
},
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"ord": 32,
"sent": "In response, a comprehensive preventive health strategy should: ."
},
{
"ord": 33,
"sent": "Shift subsidies away from corn toward the production of fresh fruits and vegetables as well as organic farming, so healthier, more natural foods become as accessible as Happy Meals."
},
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"ord": 39,
"sent": "Plus, tax proceeds would help underwrite health reforms and preventive education."
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"ord": 19,
"sent": "Fast forward to my point."
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"ord": 28,
"sent": "Our tax dollars underwrite Agriculture Department subsidies to corn farmers."
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"ord": 29,
"sent": "Cheap, abundant corn enables mass production of economical, aggressively marketed beef and pork."
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"ord": 30,
"sent": "The corn syrup that sweetens soft drinks and candy oozes from the same source."
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"sent": "-- Nearly a million acres were burning as 21 wildfires raged in the Pacific Northwest on Sunday, fire officials said."
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"ord": 1,
"sent": "The unconfined fires in Oregon and Washington, mostly ignited by lightning from thunderstorms that swept through the region a week ago, covered 942,247 by Sunday, Northwest Interagency Coordination Center spokeswoman Carol Connolly said."
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"ord": 2,
"sent": "The 21 large fires are the most the region has seen on the landscape at one time, Northwest Interagency Coordination Center spokeswoman Carol Connolly said."
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"ord": 15,
"sent": "Hundreds evacuated as Washington wildfire grows ."
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"ord": 16,
"sent": "What to know about wildfires ."
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"ord": 0,
"sent": "Wildfires cover 942,247 acres in the Pacific Northwest on Sunday .\n"
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"ord": 1,
"sent": "The 21 large fires are the most the region has seen at one time, an official says .\n"
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"ord": 11,
"sent": "Health officials in Washington and Idaho are warning residents that smoke drifting eastward from the Washington wildfires would create unhealthy air."
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"ord": 12,
"sent": "The biggest health threat comes from the fine particles in smoke,\" the National Weather Service said."
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"ord": 13,
"sent": "These can cause burning eyes, runny nose, bronchitis and other illnesses."
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"ord": 14,
"sent": "Smokey air can also aggravate heart and lung disease, and even lead to death."
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"sent": "Health officials in Washington and Idaho warning smoke creates unhealthy air ."
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"ord": 3,
"sent": "According to Okanogan County, Washington, Sheriff Frank Rogers, one person died attempting to protect one person home from the flames."
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"ord": 4,
"sent": "Authorities arrested two people over the weekend on suspicion of arson, Okanogan County, Washington, Sheriff Frank Rogers said."
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"ord": 5,
"sent": "Authorities set backfires to protect Authorities property."
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"ord": 6,
"sent": "More than 150 structures have been lost."
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"ord": 7,
"sent": "Okanogan County, Washington, Sheriff Frank Rogers expects that number to go up."
},
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"ord": 8,
"sent": "I've been here 30 years, never seen anything like this,\" Northwest Interagency Coordination Center spokeswoman Carol Connolly said."
},
{
"ord": 9,
"sent": "According to Northwest Interagency Coordination Center spokeswoman Carol Connolly, firefighters from across the United States, including Mississippi, Illinois, New Mexico, Utah and Montana, have joined the battle, bringing to 8,928 the number of people involved in trying to contain The 21 large fires."
},
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"ord": 10,
"sent": "There are 35 \"hot shot\" crews involved, Northwest Interagency Coordination Center spokeswoman Carol Connolly said."
},
{
"ord": 17,
"sent": "CNN's Dave Alsup and Janet DiGiacomo contributed to this report."
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"ord": 4,
"sent": "Officially named the International Friendship Exhibition House, the exhibition hall is on the official tourist route and crammed full of vases, canvases, military paraphernalia and more unusual gifts."
},
{
"ord": 13,
"sent": "Under the ornate and pricey-looking chandeliers are glass cabinets containing some of the more important gifts."
},
{
"ord": 29,
"sent": "The tour guide insists most of the ivory in the world is housed in this exhibition, a claim that sounds a little far-fetched but given everything else that I have seen, somehow wholly appropriate."
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"ord": 0,
"sent": "The exhibition house is filled with gifts from 184 countries .\n"
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"ord": 7,
"sent": "By far the biggest donors are China and Russia, and most notably the communist former USSR."
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"ord": 1,
"sent": "China and Russia are the biggest donors .\n"
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"ord": 17,
"sent": "Former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright gave Kim Jong Il a silver dish when Kim Jong Il visited in October 2000."
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"ord": 19,
"sent": "In addition, Former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright gave a basketball signed by Michael Jordan."
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"ord": 2,
"sent": "In 2000, Madeleine Albright gave Kim Jong Il a silver dish and a basketball signed by Michael Jordan ."
}
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"ord": 0,
"sent": "Struggling for a present for the man who has everything?"
},
{
"ord": 27,
"sent": "Still lacking inspiration for that hard-to-buy-for person from what you've read so far?"
}
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"ord": 1,
"sent": "How about a skinned bear?"
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"ord": 3,
"sent": "A present from former Romanian communist leader Nicolae Ceausescu, How about a skinned bear takes a place of pride in an exhibition house in Hyangsan, three hours north of the capital, Pyongyang."
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{
"ord": 28,
"sent": "How about a fossilized snail, given by a former Prime Minister of Madagascar or ivory tusks from Guinea?"
}
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"ord": 2,
"sent": "This was just one of the thousands of thoughtful gifts on display that had been given to the founder of North Korea, Kim Il Sung."
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"ord": 5,
"sent": "The North Korea I wasn't meant to see ."
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"ord": 6,
"sent": "Displayed are 112,225 gifts for Kim Il Sung, his son Kim Jong Il and current leader Kim Jong Un from 184 different countries."
},
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"ord": 10,
"sent": "In the exhibition hall, the eye is drawn instantly to a domineering white stone carving of Kim Il Sung sitting in a chair."
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"ord": 14,
"sent": "The official commentary says, \"enemy countries too sent a lot of gifts to Kim Il Sung and respected Kim Jong Il, impressed by \"enemy countries great personality and virtues."
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"ord": 20,
"sent": "Kim Jong Il was reported to be a huge fan of the NBA star."
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"ord": 21,
"sent": "There is also a bowl from former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and Kim Jong Il wife who visited in 1994 under the guise of a private trip."
},
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"ord": 22,
"sent": "Of course, these gifts look rather paltry when I entered the next room and saw an actual train -- a gift from the communist leader of the USSR in 1945."
},
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"ord": 23,
"sent": "I then noticed the car Stalin gave to Kim Il Sung during the Korean War in the early 1950s."
},
{
"ord": 24,
"sent": "Not to be outdone, in 1953, Chairman Mao Zedong of China also gave the North Korean leader a train."
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"ord": 26,
"sent": "I see a number of North Koreans filing through at the same time as me."
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"ord": 8,
"sent": "A soldier stands guard on both sides of the impressively large entrance door and any cameras, phones and even pads and pens are promptly taken away."
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"ord": 9,
"sent": "The tour can then begin."
},
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"ord": 12,
"sent": "A sneak peek through the keyhole ."
},
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"ord": 25,
"sent": "According to the souvenir DVD from the gift shop, 3.7 million visitors have walked through the building's doors from 3.7 million visitors opening in 1978 until 2010, almost half a million of whom were foreigners or South Koreans."
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"ord": 11,
"sent": "I am told the Eternal President still receives many posthumous gifts."
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"ord": 15,
"sent": "Gifts from the \"enemy"
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"ord": 16,
"sent": "\" Sure enough, there are a couple of gifts from the \"enemy country\" the United States."
},
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"ord": 18,
"sent": "enemy countries were enjoying a lull in tensions at the time."
}
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