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Question: (CNN) One person has died and 11 others are hospitalized after eating packaged salads linked to a listeria outbreak. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday that the salads were sold under a variety of names and came from a processing facility in Springfield, Ohio, run by Dole. The dozen who were hospitalized come from six states -- Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and Indiana. The fatality was in Michigan. Reports about these infections started coming in July. An investigation began in September, the CDC said, but the source of the infections was unknown until this month when lab tests confirmed listeria in salads collected from the Springfield facility.Twelve people hospitalized, with one person dying from a listeria infection tied to packaged saladDole shuts down plant that made salads and has pulled all products made from that plant 
 Question:The _ estimates there are about 1,600 illnesses and 260 deaths per year due to listeriosis infections.

Answer: CDC


Question: WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Members of the Senate Finance Committee met Tuesday with treasury secretary nominee Tim Geithner over concerns involving his personal taxes and the immigration status of a former housekeeper, transition officials said. Timothy Geithner has been nominated for the post of treasury secretary in the Obama administration. The Geithners employed a housekeeper whose employment authorization document expired about three months before she stopped working for them in October 2005, according to a written statement from the Senate Finance Committee. Later, the housekeeper, who is married to a U.S. citizen, was granted a green card, transition officials said. The second concern involves Geithner's taxes while he worked for the International Monetary Fund (IMF). According to a statement released by the committee, Geithner failed to pay self-employment taxes while the IMF paid him from 2001 to 2004.Committee: Housekeeper worked for 3 months after employment document expiredGeithner failed to pay self-employment taxes while working for IMF, committee saysErrors were "honest mistakes," don't rise to "level of disqualification," chairman saysTax issue a "common mistake," incoming White House spokesman says 
 Question:After _ nominated him for treasury secretary, Geithner voluntarily amended his taxes for 2001 and 2002, paying $25,970 for those taxes and interest, the committee said.

Answer: Obama


Question: (CNN) -- October has been the deadliest month for the US and NATO militaries fighting in Afghanistan as well as UN workers trying to organize an election runoff. Surely the surge in deaths serves to underscore why Afghanistan matters. For all the debate happening away from the battlefield, here are a couple of important bottom-line questions: Is the world prepared to see the Taliban and their opportunistic allies al Qaeda return to power in Afghanistan? Are people prepared for the terrorists' dream- photo-op of Mullah Omar and Osama Bin Laden sitting smiling together in Kabul? And here's what's at stake:Amanpour: Is the world prepared to see the Taliban return to power?They'll bring their allies, al Qaeda, with them, she saysMajority of Afghans want nothing to do with the Taliban, she saysBut they feel NATO, U.S. troops have fallen short of their promises, she says 
 Question:They want the U.S. and _ out, they try to convince the people those outsiders are occupiers bent on harming them.

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NATO