CNN Student News 2012.3.2
Hi, I'm Carl Azuz, and you're watching CNN Student News. Today we're talking about political primaries政治初选, a matriculation入学考试 milestone and a musical mentor良师益友. But we're beginning in the state of Ohio.
Residents and officials in the city of Chardon are trying to make sense of a shooting at a high school there. One student was killed in the attack; four others were wounded. According to reports, the suspected gunman is also a student at the school. He was arrested yesterday.
As students ran from the shooting, some of them used their cell phones to call police, or text their parents to let them know they were OK. A lot of schools practice what to do in these types of situations. They run drills for shootings or natural disasters. And one student at Chardon High said he thinks what happened yesterday could have been even worse if it wasn't for that preparation.
I think that's what really helped keep it at a minimum of what it was, as bad as it was already. I think it could have been a lot worse if it -- we didn't do the drills that we -- that they had us to do.
Jumping now to the presidential campaign trail, it's been a few weeks since the last Republican contest. But two states are taking over the political spotlight today, and those two states are Arizona and Michigan. Voters are heading to the polls民意调查 there, casting投向 their ballots为投票 for Republican presidential candidates.
Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, former Senator Rick Santorum, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and U.S. Representative Ron Paul -- they're trying to win delegates代表 in these primaries and caucuses开干部会议. Win enough, and you get the party's nomination任命，提名 for president.
There are 59 delegates up for grabs大家有份 today in Arizona and Michigan.
One issue that comes up a lot during presidential campaigns is education. According to a new report from the U.S. Census Bureau, the country just marked an educational milestone. Has to do with how many Americans have a college degree.
In March of last year, 30 percent of adults who are at least 25 years old had a degree. Back in 1998, it was less than 25 percent. The director of the Census Bureau called this, quote, "an important milestone," saying the more education people have, the more likely they are to have a job and earn more money.
According to another census report, workers with a bachelor's degree earned around $20,000 more on average than workers with a high school diploma.
Today's Shoutout goes out to Ms. McElroy's social studies classes at Hilton Head Christian Academy in Hilton Head, South Carolina.
Which of these places is divided by the 38th parallel? Is it the Bering Strait白令海峡, Korean Peninsula朝鲜半岛, Aleutian Islands or Marianas Trench? You've got three seconds, go.
The parallel at 38 degrees north latitude divides North and South Korea. That's your answer, and that's your Shoutout
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When those countries fought against each other in the Korean War, the United States was on the side of the South. And the United States and South Korea are still allies同盟国. They're both the target of harsh words from North Korea right now.
That is because of military drills, like the ones you see right here. The U.S. and South Korea are running joint operations right now . They're working together. But North Korea says the drills are designed to provoke them. And officials from the north say they're ready to fight a war against South Korea and the U.S.
North Korea's relationships with other countries have been uncertain since long-time leader Kim Jong-il died in December.
Well, part of the tension surrounding North Korea has to do with its nuclear program. Similar situation in Iran. You've heard us talk about sanctions制裁, penalties put on Iran by the U.S. and the United Nations. The goal of those sanctions was to get Iran to stop its nuclear activities. Matthew马太福音 Chance has more on the tension between Iran and the integrity正直，廉正 community.
But Iran says very clearly that it is not building a nuclear bomb核弹. It says that it's never done any research into building a nuclear bomb. It says that all of its nuclear activities are directed towards purely peaceful purposes.
The trouble is that it's, you know, not many people in the international community believe Iran. They do believe -- and there's evidence to suggest that, in the past, they may have conducted some research which would be relevant to making a nuclear bomb.
What we know is that it certainly doesn't have a nuclear weapon. I mean, that's one thing to make absolutely clear. What it does have is the ability to enrich uranium. Uranium is the substance which is needed to fuel nuclear reactors. And if you enrich it even more, it's the substance that you need to create a nuclear bomb.
Iran has been enriching this uranium for years now, as it has every right to do, because it's a member of the Nuclear Non-proliferation扩散 Treaty. It's allowed, under that treaty, to enrich uranium. But the trouble is, in the past, it's not disclosed some of its activities to the international community, and that's why there's such a lack of trust with Iran at the moment.
Well, IAEA is the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog看门狗 agency. It's the independent body, which has, you know, a whole range of nations that are members, including Iran, that inspects nuclear facilities, not just in Iran, but all over the world.
There are a lot of questions that the IAEA has that Iran has not answered. For instance, it wants access, the U.N. does, to search suspicious nuclear sites that it suspects may have been the location where nuclear weapons testing may have been carried out or development for those weapons may have been carried out. And so there are lots of areas, lots of gaps in Iran’s story, that it has yet to fill out填写.
嗨,我是卡尔·阿祖
兹,你正在收看CNN学生新闻。今天我们谈论政治的初选,大学入学的里程碑,还有一位音乐导师。但我们俄亥俄州开始。
居民和官员在这个城市正试图理解一起高中枪击案。一名学生在袭击中丧生,四人受伤。据报道,枪手被怀疑也是一名在学校学生。他昨天已经被捕。
学生在开枪后逃跑,有人用手机打电话报警,或给他们的父母发短信,让家长知道自己没事。很多学校会提前练习这一类型的情况，教学生该做什么。他们练习枪击事件或自然灾害。有一名学生说认为昨天发生的事情如果事先没有预演过可能会更糟。
我想那是真的很有帮助。我认为这可能是更糟糕——如果我们不做这个练习,我们——他们让我们去做。
现在我们来到总统竞选,自从上次共和党的竞选已经有几个星期。但是两个州今天受到了政治聚焦关注,这两个州是亚利桑那和密歇根。选民们前往投票站,投票给他们心中的共和党总统候选人。
前麻萨诸塞州州长罗姆尼,前参议员瑞克·桑托姆,前众议院发言人纽特·金里奇和美国代表罗恩·保罗——他们想赢得这些初选和党内预选的代表。赢得足够的支持,你就会得到总统候选人提名。
今天在亚利桑那州和密歇根州有59名代表参与争夺。
出现在总统竞选中最多的一个问题就是教育。根据美国人口普查局数据一项最新的报告,这个国家标志着教育的一个里程碑。有这么多的美国人拥有大学学位。
在去年3月份,30%的成人至少在25岁有一个学位。早在1998年,这个数字小于25%。美国人口普查局的主任称为:“一个重要的里程碑,”人们受到的教育更多,就越有可能有一份工作,挣更多的钱。
根据另一项调查报告显示,有学士学位的工人比高中毕业文凭的工人获得平均高出约20000美元。
今天的大喊答题节目环节由南卡罗莱那州希尔顿海德基督徒学院McElroy女士的社会科学班级提出。
下面哪些地方经过38度线?是白令海峡,朝鲜半岛,阿留申群岛还是马里亚纳海沟?你有三秒钟时间，3,2,1，现在揭晓答案。
北纬38度划分朝鲜和韩国。你答对了吗？这就是本期的大喊答题节目环节。
当这些国家在朝鲜战争中相互对抗时,美国支持南方。美国和韩国仍然是盟友。现在他们都是朝鲜的目标。
那是因为军事演习,像你在这里看到的一样。美国和韩国正在联合行动。他们一起合作。但朝鲜表示这些演习的目的是出于挑衅。朝鲜的官员表示他们已经准备好和韩国，美国的战斗。
自从领导人金正日在十二月死亡以来，朝鲜与其他国家的关系一直不确定。
嗯,紧张的氛围使朝鲜开展核项目。类似的情况也在伊朗出现。你听过我们谈论美国和联合国
对伊朗制裁惩罚。这些制裁的目的是为了伊朗停止浓缩铀活动。马修·查斯有相关的详细报道。
但是伊朗说得很清楚,它不是制造原子弹。它没有进行任何制造原子弹的研究。它所有的核活动都是出于纯粹的和平目的。
麻烦的是,你知道, 在国际社会中没有多少人相信伊朗。他们相信——而且有证据表明,在过去,他们可能已经进行了制造核弹的一些研究。
我们所知道的是,它当然不会拥有核武器。我的意思是,那是绝对清楚的。它做什么都是有能力来进行铀浓缩。铀物质需要的是核反应堆燃料。如果你进行更多浓缩,你就需要它制造核弹。
伊朗一直在这几年一直在进行这种行动,而且它完全有权利这样做,因为它是《核不扩散条约》的成员国。这是允许的,在这个条约下来进行铀浓缩。但麻烦的是,在过去它没有透露给国际社会这样的一些活动, ,这就是为什么在这个时候伊朗缺乏信任。
嗯,联合国国际原子能机构是联合国的核监察机构。它是独立机构,你知道,一系列的成员国家,包括伊朗等都要接受检查其核设施,不只是在伊朗,而是在世界各地都是如此。
国际原子能机构的很多问题伊朗没有回答。例如,它要访问,联合国所能做的,搜索可疑核设施,它怀疑核武器测试可能地点及武器发展已经实现。而且在那里有很多地区, 伊朗的故事有很多的空白,我们仍不知晓。