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Others offered more unconventional ways to help the miners recover. Adriana Barrientos, a reality show personality in Chile, offered to do a striptease for each of the 33 miners.
“It’s something to improve their spirits, one dance for each of the 33, in private,” Ms. Barrientos told La Cuarta, a Chilean newspaper. “The government should take care of them for life, so they never have to work again and can live a dignified life.”

Rewards for Miners Rescued in Chile

SAN JOSÉ MINE, Chile — The lucky ones now have more than $10,000 in the bank and a free vacation in Greece awaiting them.

A Greek mining company, ELMIN Hellenic Mining Enterprises, has offered each of the miners and a travel companion a fully paid, one-week vacation in Greece.

“It was our employees’ idea, as they work under similar conditions to the Chileans and immediately felt solidarity with them,” the company’s managing director, Lyberis Polychronopoulos, said in an interview Thursday.

He and four of the company’s employees traveled to Chile early last month to deliver an official written invitation for the trapped miners.

“The letter said that ‘we would like to invite you to come to Greece and enjoy our sun and sea, once you are able to,’” Mr. Polychronopoulos said.

“The credit really goes to our workers for their initiative,” Mr. Polychronopoulos added. “We just helped them by attracting sponsors and covering some of the expenses.”

The company employees who traveled to Chile were congratulated on Thursday by Greece’s president, Karolos Papoulias.

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Benoit Mandelbrot, the father of fractal geometry, has died at the age of 85, the AFP reports. The French-American mathematician discovered mathematical shapes called "fractals," and developed a geometry that was used to analyze naturally occurring shapes that were previously thought unmeasurable.

WikiLeaks released nearly 400,000 classified U.S. files on the Iraq war on Friday, some detailing gruesome cases of prisoner abuse by Iraqi forces that the U.S. military knew about but did not seem to investigate.

The Pentagon decried the website's publication of the secret reports -- the largest security breach of its kind in U.S. military history, far surpassing the group's dump of more than 70,000 Afghan war files in July.

U.S. officials said the leak endangered U.S. troops and threatened to put some 300 Iraqi collaborators at risk by exposing their identities.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said the documents showed evidence of war crimes, but the Pentagon dismissed the files as "ground-level" field reports from a well-chronicled war with no real surprises.

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Those media organizations given advance access to the database -- 10 weeks in one case -- broadly concluded that the documents showed that U.S. forces had effectively turned a blind eye to torture and abuse of prisoners by Iraqi forces.

In one case, an Iraqi policeman shot a detainee in the leg. The suspect was whipped with a rod and hose across his back, cracking ribs, causing multiple lacerations and welts. "The outcome: 'No further investigation,'" the Guardian wrote.

The documents also cited cases of rape and murder, including a videotaped execution of a detainee by Iraqi soldiers.