Assignment #8

SUMMARY LEADS:
1) CLEVELAND, Ohio (CNN) -- A passenger jet skidded off a runway and smashed through a fence while landing Sunday in windy and icy conditions at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport.
à The weather has increasingly become more icy and wind causing accidents to occur.
2) LONDON, England (CNN) -- The British police protection officer responsible for Prince Harry has flown to Iraq to begin making security arrangements for the royal soldier's deployment to Iraq amid fears for his safety, according to British press reports.
à In any instance, war is dangerous, but Prince Harry has extra protection as he goes off to face the dangers in Iraq.
3) PANIPAT, India (CNN) -- Witnesses have described the horrific scenes which followed two explosions on an Indian passenger train early Monday which killed at least 67 people.
à "I saw flames leaping out of the windows," said Vinod Kumar Gupta, the assistant manager in the Dewana station, who pulled the signal ordering the train to stop as it passed through the village shortly after the explosions had occurred.

FEATURE LEADS:
4) NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (AP) -- Chilly temperatures did not deter the revelers who turned out Sunday to watch the parades roll through the city on the last weekend before Mardi Gras.
à No matter how cold the weather got, it did not stop the many who gathered to celebrate Mardi Gras last weekend in New Orleans.
5) NEW YORK (Reuters) -- Police called to a Long Island man's house discovered the mummified remains of the resident, dead for more than a year, sitting in front of a blaring television set.
à Vincenzo Ricardo appeared to have died of natural causes at the age of seventy after police discovered his mummified body sitting in front of a television set for over a year in the Hampton Bays area of New York.
6) (CNN) -- Robert Thompson, head of the Center for the Study of Popular Television at Syracuse University, hates the phrase "famous for being famous." You can't be famous for your celebrity, he says; you have to somehow achieve fame in the first place.
à Anna Nicole Smith has been the most covered media story in every news station, she is such a huge celebrity, yet her fame was achieved through marrying an elderly man and becoming a part of lawsuits for his riches after he died, and being a playmate.