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VOA 听写原文(1)Harvad researcher David Rans said the most successful behavior proved to be cooperation. The groups that rewarded the most earned about twice as much in the game as the groups that rewarded the least. And the more a group punish themselves the lower it's earnings. The group with the most punishment earned 25 percent less than the group with the least punishment .The study appeared last month in the Journal Science. The other study involved children .It was presentd last month in California at a conference on violence and abuse. Reseachers used intelligent tests given to two groups, More than 800 children were ages 2-4 the first time they were tested. More than 700 children were ages 5 to 9.(2)Many people think the search for cleaner energy leads only to renewable resources like sun, wind and water. But it also leads to a fossil fuel(化石燃料). Natural gas is considered the cleanest of the fossil fuels, the fuels created by plant and animal remains over millions of years. Burning it releases fewer pollutants（污染物质）than oil or coal. The gas is mainly methane（沼气，甲烷）. It produces half the carbon dioxide （二氧化碳）of other fossil fuels. So it may help cut the production of carbongases linked to climate change. Russia is first in what are called "proved reserves" of natural gas. The United States is sixth. Over the years, big oil and gas companies recovered much of the easily reached supplies of gas in America. They drilled straight down into formations where gas collects. As these supplies were used up, big drillers looked for similar formations in other countries.(3)Two recent studies have found that punishment is not the best way to influence behavior. One shows that adults are much more cooperative if they work in a system based on rewards. Researchers at Harward University in the United States and Stockholm school of economics in Sweden did the study. They had about two hundred college students play a version of the game known as the prisoners dilemma. The game is based on the attention between the interests of individual and group. The students play in groups of four. Each player could win points for the group so they would all gain equally. But each player could also reward or punish each of the other three players and cost to the punisher.(4)But now the industry is taking a new look. Companies are developing gas supplies trapped in shale rock two to three thousand meters underground. They drill down to the shale, then go sideways and inject high-pressure water, sand or other material into the rock. This causes therock to break, or fracture, releasing the gas. Huge fields of gas shale are believed to lie under theAppalachian Mountains, Michigan and the south-central states. Gas shale exploration is being done mainly by small to medium sized companies. Eric Potter is a program director in the Bureau of Economic Geology at the University of Texas at Austin.I rememberdo u know that i'm okare there things you wanna saythinking of u night and dayhopping you'll come back and stayi remember when u told mei'll be all rightdon't worryi try and try to understandis all this just a sad goodbyethinking of u night and dayno matter if you'll come and stayi remember when u told mei'll be all rightjust hold mei don't wanna close my eyes tonightmissing u make me cryyour love will give me strengths to carry onyou'll always be my heart and mindso i don't wanna close my eyes tonighti know it's just a miss match in time...why..oh why... miss match in timei try and try to understandis all this just a sad goodbyethinking of u night and dayno matter if you'll come and stayi remember when u told mei'll be all rightjust hold meso i don't wanna close my eyes tonightmissing u make me cryyour love will give me strengths to carry onyou'll always be my heart and mindso i don't wanna close my eyes tonighti know it's just a miss match in time...why..oh why... don't wanna close my eyes tonight.。
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篇简短的v o a新闻文本 Document serial number【UU89WT-UU98YT-UU8CB-UUUT-UUT108】1VOA新闻听力100篇News Item 1This week, the chairman of America’s nuclear agency said there is little chance that harmful radiation from Japan could reach the United States. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairman Gregory Jaczko also said America has a strong program in place to deal with earthquake threats. No new nuclear power centers have been built in the United States since nineteen seventy-nine. That was when America’s worst nuclear accident happened at the Three Mile Island center in Pennsylvania. The accident began to turn public opinion against nuclear energy.News Item 2Most restaurants in the United States offer their customers a glass of tap water at no charge with their meal, but this week many restaurants are asking diners to pay a dollar, or more,for a glass of water. Placards on their tables explain thatthis small amount helps bring clean water to children around the world. It’s called the UNICEF Tap Project.News Item 3Japan has confirmed radiation contamination of someagricultural products near a nuclear power plant crippled by last week’s earthquake and tsunami that is still spewing radiation. Yukio Edano, the chief Cabinet secretary, says high levels of radiation have been detected in milk in Fukushima prefecture and spinach from Ibaraki prefecture have been found to be contaminated. He tells reporters there is no immediate health risk and the government is considering regulating shipments of farm products from the affected area. At the Fukushima-1 nuclear power plant efforts continue to try to cool overheating reactor cores and water in tanks containing spent fuel rods.News Item 4Some of America’s brightest students came to Washington for the 2011 Intel Science Talent Search, the nation’s oldest and most prestigious science competition. The awards ceremony was the culmination of an intense week during which the 40finalists were queried by judges and the public. They met with scientists, politicians and even President Barack Obama, who welcomed them to the White House. These high achievers were whittled down from nearly 2,000 contestants’ nationwide, representing excellence across many disciplines.News Item 5The billionaire s’ club is growing. Forbes magazine’s annual list shows there are now 1,210 billionaires around the world—that is 199 more than last year. Although the world’s top three earners are unchanged from last year, the newcomers in the list of the world’s richest did not come from the U.S. or Western Europe, but from Russia and the Asia Pacific region. Magazine chairman Steve Forbes says of the 200 new billionaires this year, the majority are from the BRIC countries—Brazil, Russia, India and China.News Item 6Defense attorneys for former Liberian president Charles Taylor say testimony from prosecution witnesses is tainted by cash payments from a special fund provided by the United States. Mr. Taylor’s war crimes trial is drawing to a close after more than three years. Defense attorney Terry Munyard says money “lavished” on prosecution witnesses has polluted “the pure waters of justice.” He told the court that those payments went far beyond the simple reimbursement of expenses and were usedin such a way “as to taint the testimony of some of the prosecution witnesses.”News Item 7Many world leaders are expressing shock and sympathy following the devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan, and areoffering to assist the country as it struggles to recover from the disaster. . President Barack Obama pledged assistance for what he called a potentially catastrophic disaster in Japan. Mr. Obama called Japan one of America’s strongest allies and said the U.S. is offering whatever assistance is needed. . Defense Secretary Robert Gates said a preliminary assessment indicates that American troops, ships and military facilities were not seriously damaged by the quake or tsunami.News Item 8Women are joining together all over the world to mark the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day on March 8. Women poured through London’s streets on Tuesday singing loudly for women’s rights. The banners they carried trained a spotlighton the range of issues still at hand: health, education, and politics to name a few.News Item 9Food prices continue to rise, threatening to push more and more people into poverty and hunger. A new report from the UN foodagency says one of the best ways to boost agricultural productivity worldwide would be to remove the barriers women farmers face that their male counterparts do not. Studies show when women have financial resources, they are more likely than men to spend them on food, health and educating their children. Women farmers tend to be less productive than men, but there are good reasons for that, says Agnes Quisumbing, an economist with the International Food Policy Research Institute.News Item 10Ronald Reagan’s Hometown Celebrates His 100th Birthday. Though he gained prominence as an actor in Hollywood and later as President of the United States, the people of Dixon, Illinois, remember Ronald Reagan as a hometown hero who saved the lives of 77 people while working as a lifeguard. The town is honoring Reagan’s 100th bir thday this year, with a year-long celebration. The 40th President’s hometown was never very far from his heart.News Item 11The National Football League wrapped up the 2010 season with the biggest football game of the year: Super Bowl XLV—played in a huge stadium in Arlington, Texas. But without the small,Midwestern town of Ada, Ohio—population 5,400—the game would not have been the same. Ada is where the Wilson Sporting Goods company makes footballs. Wilson has been the official football maker of the National Football League since 1941, and many of the 130 employees at its factory in Ada have spent most oftheir lives there—many working for 25 to 45 years.News Item 12Scientists say a common headache medicine dramatically reduces the risk of developing P arkinson’s disease, a physically-disabling brain disorder that mostly strikes elderly adults. In a six-year study of just over 136,000 nurses and health professionals, researchers at Harvard University School of Public Health in Massachusetts found that people who take ibuprofen（布洛芬镇痛药）regularly for headache or other pain reduced their risk of developing Parkinson’s disease by nearly 40 percent. Taking one or two pills of ibuprofen two or more times per week was considered regular use. Other non-prescription pain relievers, including aspirin and acetaminophen, did not show a similar protective benefit.News Item 13Insurgents opposed to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi continue to hold two strategic towns along the road to eastern Libya, after unsuccessful attempts by pro-Gadhafi forces to retake them. Libyan warplanes launched new air strikes Thursday against the key eastern oil port of Brega, but the son of embattled leader Moammar Gadhafi says the bombs were only intended to“frighten” rebels warplanes s truck at the rebel-held oilport of Brega on Thursday, a day after anti-government fighters turned back an assault by forces loyal to the country’slongtime leader Moammar Gadhafi.News Item 14A new study of more than million people in six Asian countries finds that, like Westerners, Asians are more likely to die if they are overweight or obese. However, some of the highestdeath rates were seen in people who were severely underweight. Many previous studies have found that the risk of deathincreases as body-mass index increases. Body-mass index, or BMI, is a measure of body fat based on height and weight. Thetrouble is, those studies mostly analyzed Europeans and other Westerners. So scientists couldn’t be sure if the results applied to other groups.News Item 15Agriculture is one of the most important economic activities in Africa. In addition to providing employment, agriculture has the potential to transform African societies through the increased export of produce to Western markets. Many agree that transformation will not take place without increased investment in agriculture, including public or private loans to small farmers. Statistics show that Africa has about 12% of the world’s arable land but 80% of it is not in use.News Item 16In July 2012, the world’s largest AIDS conference comes to Washington, D.C. It’s the first time the gathering will be held in the United States since 1990 and preparations are already underway. Despite the massive U.S. financial, medical and scientific contributions to the fight against HIV/AIDS, a major issue blocked the conference from being held here. That was a law that prohibited HIV infected people from traveling to the United States. It was passed in 1987 in the early days of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Efforts to lift the ban began during President George W. Bush’s second administration. It wasfinally repealed in January 2010 under President Obama.News Item 17As Discovery begins its 39th and final mission into Earth’s orbit Thursday, America’s 30-year space shuttle program comes one step closer to its scheduled end this April. Discovery has been a regular visitor to Earth’s orbit since its maidenflight in 1984. It is the oldest and longest-serving vehicle in the U.S. space agency’s shuttle fleet. Discovery’s finalflight follows several delays due to technical problems and repairs to its external fuel tank, but NASA’s mission launch director Mike Leinbach says the shuttle is still spaceready. News Item 18Not long ago, most professional musicians lived in a world far removed from the nitty-gritty of business management, distribution and promotion. But today, social media, laptop production techniques and fragmented musical tastes havelargely replaced the old relationship between musicians, their audiences and the marketplace, making entrepreneurial savvy more important than ever. A leading U.S. conservatory now teaches students how to create successful careers in this brave new world.News Item 19Egypt’s most famous tourism sites, including the great pyramids and the antiquities museum in Cairo, have reopened after being closed during the popular uprising and political tumult. Egypt’s key industry— tourism—returns after weeks of protests and celebrations, while other countries in the region deal with unrest. The sound of hooves as horses pull jostling carts of people within the Giza pyramids’ complex is the sound of money to the men who make their livings from tourism—a dominant industry in Egypt.News Item 20Demonstrations against long-serving governments continue toroil the Middle East and North Africa Friday from Libya eastward to Bahrain. In Libya, more protests as well as funerals for those killed in recent unrest were held after midday prayers, and witnesses said demonstrators gathered in the port city Benghazi, a bastion of resentment against the government. Human Rights Watch said Friday that 24 people have been killed in recent violence in Libya, many of them in Benghazi. Graphic videos posted on the Internet have shown shootings described as being inflicted by armed forces against protesters.News Item 21The National Park Service says the largest slave village in the Washington region is buried on the grounds. Archeologist Joy Beasley walks across the land now known as Best Farm. But approximately 200 years ago, it was a 300-hectare plantation called L’Hermitage, owned by the Vincendieres, French farmers from Haiti. Their stone home and outbuildings still stand. The National Park Service archeologist says her team discovered evidence of six other homes on the property where slaves were kept. The Vincendieres owned 90 slaves.News Item 22Cameroon’s new mineral research center will begin operations this year. South Korean mining researchers are making trips to Cameroon to determine the overall cost of the facility, to be located in the capital, Yaounde. They say the center will cost several millions of dollars and will ultimately be offered to the Cameroon government as a gift. The Korean investors say the facility will also have geological engineers to help in the design and construction of mines—and economic geologists to determine the commercial feasibility of projects. They willdecide whether there are enough minerals to justify the cost of a mining venture.News Item 23A major study by the World Health Organization shows that most people with high cholesterol levels around the world are not getting the treatment they need, to avoid such serious diseases as heart attacks and strokes. And the authors of the study—the largest ever undertaken—say the problem is especially serious in the developing world. The study was done on 147 million people, and found an increasing incidence of high levels of cholesterol the world over. Even more worrying, the researchers say, is that many of those patients are going untreated.News Item 24A huge crowd has gathered in central Cairo calling for President Hosni Mubarak to step down. The opposition has called for one million people to protest. Crowds headed on foot for Cairo’s Tahrir S quare throughout the day Tuesday. They included women with babies in strollers. Their confidence is boosted after the army, in an official statement, described the demonstrations as legitimate and promised it would not fire ondemonstrators. Army helicopters dropped leaflets calling on demonstrators to keep the protests peaceful.News Item 25The popular revolts roiling Egypt and other Arab countries are being driven by young people clamoring to oust autocratic governments they have known all their lives. The hardscrabble Tunis neighborhood of Ettadhamen provides a representative look at the hardships, and aspirations, of some of the young people behind Tunisia’s so-called Jasmine Revolution.6News Item 26A new study has tracked how low self-control can predict poor health, money troubles and even a criminal record in theiradult years. The study began with 1,000 children in New Zealand. Researchers followed them for decades. They observed the levelof self-control the youngsters displayed. Parents, teachers, even the kids themselves, scored the youngsters on measureslike “acting before thinking” and“persistence in reaching goals.” The children of the study are now adults in their thirties. Terrie Moffitt of Duke University found that kidswith self-control issues tended to grow up to become adults with a far more troubling set of issues to deal with.News Item 27President Barack Obama delivers his second State of the Union Address to the nation on Tuesday, before a joint session ofthe . Congress. President Barack Obama will face a dramatically altered balance of power in the House of Representatives when he addresses Congress and the nation Tuesday in his State of the Union address. Republicans are now in the majority in the House, and they have already approved a repeal of Mr. Obama’s landmark reform of the U.S. health care system. The move was symbolic, since the bill will die in the . Senate, where Democrats and Independents still hold a majority.News Item 28New research suggests a relatively simple blood test might make it possible to predict who is at a higher risk for developing dementia. The most common form of dementia is Alzheimer’s Disease, and currently, it can only be definitively diagnosedin an autopsy, by examining the brain. Beta-amyloid is aprotein that shows up the brains of Alzheimer’s victims. It’salso present in spinal fluid and, in very small quantities, in the blood.News Item 29Health Services in eastern and central Kenya are getting a big boost through a new $100 million dollar program. The U.S. development agency, USAID, has awarded the funds to an international non-profit organization affiliated with Johns Hopkins University. For the past four years, Jhpiego has led a nearly $34 million program in eastern Kenya called APHIA II. APHIA stands for AIDS, Population and Health Integrated Assistance. The goal is to “empower front-line health workers” with effective, low cost solutions to delivering quality health care.News Item 30Over the past 20 years, the United Nations says the Asia-Pacific population has been growing, but at a slower rate compared to the rest of the world. Asian fertility fell by 39 percent in a 20-year period from the late 1960s while remaining above the population-replacement level of children per woman. By 1990,nearly two-thirds of Asian countries had experienced declines of at least 25 percent.News Item 31President Barack Obama will go to Tucson, Arizona, Wednesday to speak at a memorial service for those killed in Saturday’s shootings. The president will try to help the nation deal with the rampage, which left six people dead and a U.S. congresswoman critically wounded. President Obama and his wife Michelle will cross the country to attend Wednesday night’s memorial service at the University of Arizona.The presidentwill speak there, in an effort to help Americans cope with the tragedy.News Item 32New medical research into a possible cure for Parkinson’s disease is focusing on finding biomarkers in patients so that doctors can start treatment early before tremors and other symptoms start. Actor Michael J. Fox’s recent commitment of$40 million toward finding a cure for Parkinson’s is helpingto fund the new research. The current clinical diagnosis of Parkinson’s is based on visible tremors and stiffness o f limbs. But researchers say a more comprehensive diagnosis is needed. News Item 33. President Barack Obama used his weekly radio and Internet address Saturday to outline the benefits of a tax cut package he signed into law in December. He says the tax cut compromise reached with Republicans will help grow the U.S. economy. Mr. Obama encouraged business owners to take advantage of a new incentive included in the legislation that allows any business to write off the full cost of most of their capital investments for one year.News Item 34A U.S. congress woman is in critical condition and six people are dead after a gunman opened fire in an Arizona parking lot where Representative Gabrielle Giffords was meeting with constituents. The dead include a federal judge. More than a dozen people were wounded, including Giffords. A federal probe has been launched amid a national outpouring of sorrow and outrage.News Item 35Three-dimensional cell phones and batteries that last much longer are just two of the technologies that could become commonplace in the next few years. For the fifth year, IBM has looked at the horizons of research, picked five technologiesand announced them as tomorrow’s innovations. “Individual technologies take different times to matri culate,” says John Cohn, IBM’s Chief Scientist. “But the thing that’s common about them is that we think in 2015, all these predictions will actually be something that we take for granted.”News Item 36The killing of the governor of Pakistan’s most populous province has highlighted the ongoing clash in Pakistani society between secularism and religious radicalism. Some of that radicalism is fueled by resentment against privileged and often secular-minded elite who govern the country.8News Item 37I n India’s main tea-growing region, scientists say tea production is being impacted by climate change. India produces nearly one third of the world’s tea. The rolling Himalayan hills in India’s northeastern state, Assam, are carpeted with lush tea bushes wh ose leaves produce some of the world’sfinest teas. But there are concerns that rising temperatures may be affecting the tea plantations, resulting in decliningproductivity of the brew to which millions of people across the world wake up.News Item 38African leaders are in Abidjan for more talks with Ivory Coast’s rival presidents. The country’s political crisis has sent thousands of refugees into Liberia. Leaders met with defiant Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo Monday, offering him an amnesty deal on condition he cedes power to rival Alassane Ouattara.News Item 39More signs that the U.S. economy is moving in the right direction: The . Labor Department says new claims for unemployment benefits declined last week, dropping below400,000 for the first time since July 2008. Other data also shows that businesses expanded in the month of December while home sales grew modestly in November. Despite the encouraging numbers, investors remain cautious as 2010 comes to a close. New estimates show the snowstorm that lashed parts of the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic last week cost retailers about a billion dollars in lost sales.News Item 40The Holy Land enjoyed a flood of visitors last year, which benefited Israelis and Palestinians alike. It was a record year for tourism in Israel thanks to a lull in violence. There were million visitors in 2010, percent more than the previous record two years ago. Mark Feldman, who heads the Israelitravel agency Zion Tours, says tourism is booming. Most of the visitors were Jews and Evangelical Christians. Some 625,000 Americans came, more than any other country.News Item 41Voters in Ivory Coast have official results from only a small number of polling stations outside the country. About 10,000 ballots in an election of more than four million registered voters shows former Prime Minister Alassane Ouattara leading President Laurent Gbagbo by about 60 percent to 40 percent. As the wait for domestic results continues, President Gbagbo’s party is already calling on the electoral commission to annul returns from three northern districts. Both the Gbagbo and Ouattara campaigns say some of their supporters were prevented from entering polling stations Sunday.News Item 42Diplomatic cables released by the website Wikileaks indicate the U.S. is concerned about the security of Pakistani nuclear material. They also indicate questions about Pakistan’s commitment to fighting9insurgents along the country’s border with Afghanistan. The New York Times and the Guardian newspapers reported details of the cables today. A French news agency quoted a Pakistani Foreign Office spokesman as saying the fears are misplaced. Meanwhile, Interpol has placed Wikileaks’ founder Julian Assange on its most wanted list after Sweden issued an arrest warrant for him as part of a rape investigation.News Item 43. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe needs to boost its role in Afghanistan and foster greater economic development throughout the region. Clinton spoke today at the OSCE Summit in Kazakhstan. “Our goal here in Astana should be to move forward on democracy, human rights, economic growth and strengthening our security community. In other words, let’s embrace the vision of Helsinki and apply it faithfully in this newcentury.” The OSCE is celebrating the 35th anniversary of the Helsinki Accords, which gave birth to the OSCE structure. Clinton said insecurity anywhere in Central Asia is a challenge for all members and that protracted conflicts remain dangerously unresolved.News Item 44Russia’s prime minister says his country will have to build up its own nuclear weapons capability if the United States fails to ratify the new strategic arms reduction treaty signedearlier this year. Vladimir Putin told CNN’s Larry King program in an interview to be aired later today that the new treaty is in the United States’ best interest and it would be, in his words, dumb for U.S. legislators to ignore that. President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed the new START in April. The agreement would cut nuclear stockpiles in the U.S. and Russia by about 30 percent.News Item 45Thai police say they arrested two Pakistani men and one Thai woman this week on forgery charges, as they attempted to flee to neighboring Laos. The three were arrested in cooperation with Spanish authorities, who on Thursday arrested sixPakistanis and one Nigerian in raids in Barcelona. Spanish authorities believe the group supplied fake passports used by Muslim militants who bombed Madrid commuter trains in 2004. They also suspect the group supplied fake passports to al-Qaeda-linked Lashkar-e-Taiba, the Pakistan-based group accused of the 2008 Mumbai attacks that killed 166 people.News Item 46The U.S. unemployment rate rose in November while the economy added far fewer jobs than expected. Today’s closely-watched report from the Labor Department says the unemployment rate rose % to %. The economy had a net gain of 39,000 jobs far fewer than the 150,000 most experts had predicted.News Item 47Iranian media reports say officials are calling for the removal of a Star of David painted on the roof of the headquarters of the country’s national airline after the Jewish symbol was revealed in a satellite image. Reports say Internet media company Google took the image of the building which was reportedly built by Israeli engineers who worked in Iran before the 1979 Islamic Revolution.News Item 48President Obama is calling a new free-trade deal between the U.S. and South Korea a landmark agreement. Mr. Obama accepted the deal Friday after a three-year stalemate and said it will deepen the two nations’ alliance, and he urged the . Congress to ratify it. President said the agreement will increase U.S. exports by up to $11 billion a year and support at least 70,000 jobs. As part of the deal, South Korea has agreed to let the U.S. keep a % tariff on Korean-built cars for five more years rather than end it immediately.News Item 49The World Food Program is teaming up with the World Meteorological Organization and other agencies to help subsistence farmers increase their crop yields. The WFP says 2010 has been a year with many climate related emergencies which have created a havoc with the agricultural produce of many developing countries.News Item 50Some of the most dramatic, climate-related emergencies include flooding in Pakistan, Haiti, Burma and Burkina Faso. World Food Program spokeswoman Emilia Casella says the number of people affected is expected to reach about 375 million a year by 2015.“We are estimating that by 2020, some countries having their agricultural yields halved by weather&climate emergencies-drought or flood.” Casella says a detailed food insecurity analysis could pinpoint areas that are most at risk. She says WFP is working with the Food and Agriculture Organization to help small subsistence farmers increase their food yields.News Item 51International firefighting teams are battling day three of what officials are calling the worst fire in Israel’s history. Police said Saturday the huge wildfires continued to burn out of control near the northern port of Haifa. The firefighting aircraft are coming in from Russia and have been dropping water on the blaze with additional help from the U.S., France and Britain. Middle East neighbors Jordan and Egypt sent equipment. So far, 41 people, at least, have been killed and thousands have been forced to evacuate from the area.News Item 52A Russian rocket carrying three navigation satellites has crashed into the Pacific Ocean after failing to reach orbit. Russian news agencies said the rocket and the satellites wentdown about 1,500 kilometers northwest of Honolulu, Hawaii after veering off course.News Item 53British lawmakers plan to vote on a bill today that would increase university tuition charges. If approved, the college tuition in Britain would jump from just under 5,000 dollars to about 14,000 dollars per year. That proposal has sparked student protests. British authorities say the increase in tuition is necessary to bring a large deficit under control. News Item 54Delegates at the end of a two-week UN climate conference heldin Cancun, Mexico have approved a modest plan to combat global warming. More than 190 nations approved the agreement Saturday, which includes a multi-billion-dollar fund to administer assistance to poor nations. Bolivia was the only country to object the deal, saying the agreement does not go far enough to curb climate change.News Item 55Police in Sweden say a car explosion in what appeared to be a suicide attack killed one person and wounded two others in central Stockholm on Saturday. Police say the first blast。
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Canada was the only (6) non-Asian country in the top five. It rose two percent to fourth place. Almost thirty thousand Canadian students enrolled for the school year that began last (7) autumn.
China has the world's largest number of Internet users. But it also has what is often called the Great Firewall of China. (8) The government restricts political content and blocks some social networking and news Web sites. President Obama said he is a strong supporter of open Internet access.
Japan fell to fifth place. The number of Japanese students in the United States decreased for the fourth year, to just over twenty-nine thousand.
(8) Taiwan also sent fewer students, and the number from Mexico was nearly unchanged.
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Top News Stories of Two-Thousand-Four 01-01I'm Steve Ember with In the News in VOA Special English.This week we tell about some of the biggest news stories of two thousand four. We start in Asia, with what is being described as one of the worst natural disasters ever.Last Sunday, huge waves moved across the Indian Ocean and flooded coastal areas across southern and southeast Asia to East Africa. The waves were caused by one of the most powerful earthquakes ever recorded, measuring nine on the Richter Scale.The countries hardest hit were Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India and Thailand. More than one hundred thousand people are reported dead. Millions of people have been left homeless.Two thousand four was also filled with news about the war in Iraq and daily reports of violence in the country. Militants increased their attacks against American soldiers, Iraqi police officers and civilians working with the United States. American-led forces battled militants in the cities of Fallujah and Najaf. In May, news organizations around the world reported about the mistreatment of Iraqis by American soldiers at Abu Ghraib prison.More than one thousand American soldiers have been killed in Iraq since the war began almost two years ago. And the number of Iraqis killed is reportedly many times higher.Terrorism was a top story in other parts of the world. In March, suspected Islamic militants exploded bombs on crowded passenger trains in Madrid, Spain. About two hundred people were killed. Days later, Spanish voters defeated the country's conservative government, which had supported the American-led war in Iraq.In September, armed Chechen militants seized more than one thousand children, parents and teachers in a school in Beslan, Russia. The seizure ended in gunfire and explosions after days of negotiations. More than three hundred people were killed, most of them children.The African nation of Sudan was in the news because of a major humanitarian crisis in the Darfur area. Reports said government-supported Arab militants killed more than seventy thousand people in a two-yearcampaign of violence against black tribal farmers. More than one million people have been displaced from their homes.Two thousand four was also a year of historic political elections. In Afghanistan, voters elected Hamid Karzai in the country's first presidential election. Voters in the United States re-elected George W. Bush after a hard fought presidential campaign against the Democratic Party candidate, John Kerry.And a political crisis eased in Ukraine after the Supreme Court cancelled the election victory of Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych. The court decided there had been widespread cheating and ordered a new presidential election. Opposition candidate Viktor Yushchenko won that election on Sunday and has promised democratic changes in Ukraine.In the News, in VOA Special English, was written by Cynthia Kirk. This is Steve Ember.Aid for Tsunami Victims 01--02I'm Steve Ember with In the News in VOA Special English.Kofi Annan says helping survivors of the earthquake and killer waves in the Indian Ocean last week is a race against time. The United Nations secretary-general says countries that have offered aid must hurry and provide it. The offers add up to around four thousand million dollars. United Nations officials say one-fourth of that is needed during the next six months. The concern about offers of international aid is based on history. For example, the earthquake in Bam, Iran, in December of two thousand three killed more than twenty-six thousand people. Countries and groups offered hundreds of millions of dollars worth of assistance. The United Nations says it has confirmed only about seventeen million dollars in aid received so far. Governments and organizations that offered help dispute that, however.On Thursday Mister Annan met with world leaders in Jakarta, Indonesia to discuss aid for victims of the tsunami. The leaders discussed and welcomed the idea of suspending some debt owed by affected nations. But the leaders did not say they would do so. Some said that making direct payments to survivors would be more helpful.The top U.N. aid official, Jan Egeland, has said the number of dead will be "much bigger" than one hundred fifty thousand. The World Health Organization says about a half-million people are injured. Millions more are homeless. TheW.H.O. has called for clean water along with food and medicines needed to help prevent the spread of disease.Australia has offered eight hundred ten million dollars in aid. The European Union says it will provide four hundred sixty-six million dollars in aid. Germany, Japan and the United States follow in their amounts offered. American military forces are also providing services.Representatives of twenty-six countries and international organizations attended the meeting in Jakarta. Officials say they will cooperate to develop a tsunami warning system for the Indian Ocean and the South China Sea.A small group of countries including the United States began to direct aid efforts after the events of December twenty-sixth. Now American officials say the group is being suspended so the United Nations can start to take control. The earthquake measured nine on the Richter scale. The quake and resulting waves proved most deadly on the Indonesian island of Sumatra. More than one hundred thousand people are reported dead there.On Friday, American Secretary of State Colin Powell expressed shock at the destruction caused by the earthquake and waves. The same day, Kofi Annan flew by helicopter over western Sumatra and visited Meulaboh. About four thousand bodies were discovered in that town Friday. Mister Annan said he had never seen such destruction as he saw on Sumatra. In his words, "Where are the people?"In the News, in VOA Special English, was written by Jerilyn Watson. I'm Steve Ember.Middle East Peace Prospects 01--03I'm Steve Ember with In the News in VOA Special English.A Palestinian attack on Israelis at a border crossing has added to the pressures Mahmoud Abbas will face in his new job. The attack came two days before the swearing-in ceremony for the next president of the Palestinian Authority.A truck bomb exploded Thursday at the Karni crossing between Israel and Gaza. Then gunmen killed six Israeli civilians and seriously wounded five others. Three groups took responsibility: Hamas, the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades and the Popular Resistance Committees.Later, Israeli helicopters raided a target in Gaza linked to militants. Goods enter Gaza through the Karni crossing. After the militant attack, Israel closed all border crossings with Gaza.On Friday, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon ordered that all communication with the Palestinian Authority be cut. He said communications would stop until the new Palestinian President controls militants and halts attacks. The announcement came hours before Mahmoud Abbas was to be sworn-in.Yasser Arafat was Palestinian Authority president until his death in November. Israel and the United States had refused to negotiate with him as attacks against Israel continued.The peace plan known as the road map calls for Israel and the Palestinians to take steps toward an independent Palestine. The plan is meant to end more than four years of most recent violence.World leaders say the election Sunday of Mister Abbas offers new possibilities for peace. He received sixty-two percent of the vote. He defeated independent candidate Mustafa Barghouti and five others.The Israeli Prime Minister congratulated Mister Abbas. Both sides expressed support for a meeting, but did not set a date. President Bush said he would welcome the new Palestinian leader to Washington if he wants to come. Israeli lawmakers this week narrowly approved a new government. Most cabinet members support the plan by Israel to withdraw from Gaza and part of the West Bank this year.Mister Abbas has said attacks against Israel make life harder for Palestinians. He also says he would not use force against militants, but would try to negotiate a truce.A Hamas official told the Associated Press that Egypt has renewed a proposal for a one-year suspension of attacks. Hamas boycotted the presidential election, but may join legislative elections in July.After the Karni attack, Reuters news agency reported that several thousand marchers celebrated in the Jabalya refugee camp in Gaza.But the head of a Palestinian research group says the majority of people, especially in Gaza, support Mister Abbas. Mahdi Abdel Hadi says the people are tired of violence. In his words, "They are looking for this small window of fresh air and warm sun to come through the Palestinian election."In the News in VOA Special English was written by Jerilyn Watson. I'm Steve Ember.Iraqi Elections 01--04This is Steve Ember with In the News in VOA Special English.On Sunday, for the first time in almost fifty years, Iraq will hold parliamentary elections with more than one party competing. Some Iraqis have already been voting in other countries.Around fourteen million names are on voter lists in Iraq. Voters face threats of violence from groups like the one that calls itself al-Qaida in Iraq. On Friday, Iraqi officials announced the arrests of three top aides to its Jordanian-born leader, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.Iraqi soldiers and police will guard voting centers. United States officials say American troops will be prepared to assist.The election is to choose two hundred seventy-five members for what is called a Transitional National Assembly.One of the duties of this temporary assembly will be to name a three-member presidency council. Another duty is to write a constitution. If Iraqis approve the constitution in October, then they will elect a new government at the end of the year.On Sunday, Iraqis will vote from a single national ballot. They will choose lists of candidates representing parties or coalitions. Seats will be divided in the National Assembly based on the share of votes that a list receives. A goal is to have women in at least one-fourth of the seats.Many political groups are competing. Commentators say the United Iraqi Alliance appears to have the strongest support. A Shiite Muslim leader, Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, heads the candidate list.The alliance wants Iraq to be an Islamic state with a federal government. The alliance has the support of the highest religious leader in Iraq, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani. Its candidate list is mainly Shiite. Iraq is about sixty percent Shiite. But the list also contains other religious and ethnic groups including Iraqi Kurds and ethnic Turkmens.Another group of candidates that may do well in the voting is called the Iraqi List. Its candidates are Shiite and Sunni. Iyad Allawi, now the temporary prime minister of Iraq, heads this list.About twenty percent of Iraqis are Sunni. Some Sunnis have called for a boycott of the voting. Their Iraqi Islamic Party withdrew its candidate list from the election. Members said the security situation was too threatening.President Bush has urged Iraqis to vote. So has the president of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai. On Friday he urged Iraqis to follow the example of the Afghan people. Mister Karzai called the election a necessary risk to bring order to Iraq.And, in Washington, Condoleezza Rice was sworn in Friday as secretary of state. She was national security adviser to the president. Miz Rice replaces Colin Powell who resigned.At her confirmation hearings, some Democratic senators condemned her handling of the war in Iraq. They said she used bad judgment and misled the public about the reasons for going to war. On Wednesday the Senate voted eighty-five to thirteen to confirm Miz Rice as secretary of state.In the News, in VOA Special English, was written by Jerilyn Watson. I'm Steve Ember.Bush Discusses Middle East Policy in 01--05State of the Union SpeechThis is Steve Ember with In the News in VOA Special English.American Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will meet with Israeli and Palestinian leaders before those leaders hold talks next week. Her trip is part of the Middle East peace efforts that President Bush discussed this week in his State of the Union speech.Miz Rice is to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in Jerusalem on Sunday. She visits Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank on Monday.Then, on Tuesday, Mister Abbas and Mister Sharon are to meet in Sharm-el-Sheikh, Egypt. It will be the first time Israeli and Palestinian leaders have met in more than four years. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is holding the talks. King Abdullah of Jordan also is expected to take part.President Bush announced that he will ask Congress for three hundred fifty million dollars for the Palestinians. He said the money would go for political, security and other reforms. In his words: "The goal of two democratic states, Israel and Palestine, living side by side in peace is within reach – and America will help them achieve that goal."In his speech Wednesday night in Congress, Mister Bush also called for greater freedoms in other parts of the Middle East. He said reform is already taking hold from Morocco to Jordan to Bahrain.He called on Saudi Arabia to give its people more power to decide their future. And he spoke of Egypt, another American ally, which he called "a great and proud nation." He said, "Egypt, which showed the way toward peace in the Middle East, can now show the way toward democracy in the Middle East."In much stronger language, Mister Bush said that Syria still permits its territory and parts of Lebanon to be used by terrorists. And he said Iran remains the world's main state supporter of terrorism. He said Iran is seeking nuclear weapons while denying its people freedom. The president had a message for Iranians. "As you stand for your own liberty," he said, "American stands with you."In London Friday, reporters asked Secretary Rice if the United States might ever attack Iran. In her words: "The question is simply not on the agenda at this point." She said diplomatic steps remain. Miz Rice is on her first trip as top American diplomat. London was the first stop among European capitals.In his State of the Union speech, the president praised the Iraqi people for voting in elections. He said terrorists are trying to destroy the hope that Iraqis expressed. Millions of people voted Sunday for a new Transitional National Assembly.Leaders of the opposition Democrats in Congress criticized Mister Bush for not saying when American troops will leave Iraq.The president introduced an Iraqi human rights activist whose father was killed by the Saddam Hussein government. Safia Taleb al-Souhail shared an emotional hug with another guest, Janet Norwood, the mother of a United States Marine killed in battle in Iraq.In the News in VOA Special English was written by Jerilyn Watson. I'm Steve Ember.Israeli-Palestinian Truce; 01--06Historic Elections in Saudi ArabiaI'm Steve Ember with In the News in VOA Special English.Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon met in Egypt this week and declared a cease-fire. The meeting Tuesday was the first in more than four years between leaders of the two sides. The current violence between Palestinians and Israelis began in September of two thousand.Both men spoke of increased chances for peace. But violence resurfaced on Thursday. Members of Hamas fired shells and rockets at Jewish settlements in Gaza, although no one was hurt.Mister Abbas had deployed a large security force in the area to prevent attacks on Israelis. After the shelling, he dismissed three top security officials. Israel praised the action. But cabinet members said Israel would have to act if the Palestinians cannot control the situation.Hamas said it was not trying to break the cease-fire. It said the attack was in answer to the killing of a Palestinian in Gaza on Wednesday.Israel has been urging Mister Abbas to disarm militant groups. On Friday he went to Gaza to demand that they observe the truce announced in Sharm el-Sheikh. Earlier he sent a representative to meet with Hezbollah officials in Lebanon, where that group is based. Palestinian and Israeli officials have both accused Hezbollah of plotting to wreck the cease-fire.In return for Palestinian promises to control violence, Israel said it would free hundreds of Palestinian prisoners within weeks. Israeli also promised to withdraw troops from five West Bank towns.President Bush recently said he would ask Congress for three hundred fifty million dollars for the Palestinians. The money would be used to help them develop an independent state.Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met separately with Mister Sharon and Mister Abbas this week. Secretary Rice said the United States would give the Palestinians forty million dollars immediately.In other news this week in the Middle East, Saudi Arabia held its first openelections. Candidates competed for half the seats on local councils in the Riyadh area. The national government will choose the other half.Close to two thousand men competed for one hundred twenty-seven seats. Women could not be candidates. They also could not vote. The government said it did not have enough time to set up separate voting stations for them.Still, many voters said the local elections marked the beginning of democratic reforms. The ruling family is under pressure to give Saudis more political power.About one hundred fifty thousand men in and around the capital signed up to vote. Up to six hundred thousand could have registered.Unofficial results were announced Friday. News agencies said Islamist candidates supported by clergy appeared to have won in Riyadh.Elections are set for March and April in other parts of the kingdom.In the News in VOA Special English was written by Jerilyn Watson. I'm Steve Ember.Syria, Lebanon and the Killing of Rafik Hariri 01--07I'm Doug Johnson with In the News in VOA Special English.President Bush says the United States supports the international investigation that will take place to identify the killers of Rafik Hariri. The former prime minister of Lebanon died Monday in a powerful bomb explosion along a street in Beirut. At least fourteen other people were also killed.Recently Mister Hariri had opposed the large part that Syria takes in Lebanese politics. He called for the withdrawal of Syrian troops. Syria has at least fourteen thousand troops in Lebanon. Syria borders Lebanon on the north and east.Mister Hariri, a Sunni, was a very wealthy builder. He resigned as prime minister last October. He did so after Syria extended the term of the Lebanese president. But Mister Hariri had been expected to run in elections planned this May.His family and the Lebanese political opposition link Syria to the car bombing. Syria denies any involvement. President Bashar al-Assad condemned the murders.Lebanese President Emil Lahoud, a Christian allied with Syria, promised a full investigation. His government says it has asked for help from Swiss and other foreign experts.On Wednesday, an estimated two hundred thousand people attended the funeral for Mister Hariri. His family told President Lahoud and cabinet members not to attend. Protesters shouted "Syria out!" The Beirut newspaper An-Nahar called the funeral "a huge vote for unity and sovereignty."On Friday Lebanese opposition leaders called for a peaceful "uprising for independence." And Lebanon's tourism minister resigned. He said the government was unable to solve what he called the "dangerous situation in the country."On Thursday, President Bush said Syria must honor a United Nations Security Council resolution passed last year. Resolution fifteen-fifty-nine calls for foreign troops to leave Lebanon. Mister Bush described Syria as "out of step" with progress in the Middle East. Syria is not "moving with the democratic movement," in his words.The United States recalled its ambassador to Syria, Margaret Scobey, after the killing of Mister Hariri.His murder comes after years of relative calm in Lebanon. Civil war between Christians and Muslims began in nineteen seventy-five. An Arab force led by Syrian troops intervened in nineteen seventy-six in an effort to end the war. Later, Israel occupied southern Lebanon, staying until two thousand. The civil war was complex and lasted fifteen years.Syria and Lebanon reached a cooperation agreement in nineteen ninety-one. Since the war, the Lebanese have kept a political balance by dividing leadership positions among different religious groups.Rafik Hariri was popular for his efforts to rebuild Lebanon after the war. There are worries that violence could return now that he is gone.In the News, in VOA Special English, was written by Jerilyn Watson. I'm Doug Johnson.Bush Trip to Europe 01-08I'm Steve Ember with In the News, in VOA Special English.President Bush was in Europe this week for the first time since his re-election in November.On Thursday he met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia. They discussed Russian democracy and the fight against terrorism. The two leaders also said Iran and North Korea should not have nuclear weapons. On Friday Mister Putin told reporters that he is satisfied with the meeting.Bratislava was the last city visited by Mister Bush on his five-day trip to Europe. In addition to Slovakia, he visited Belgium and Germany.President Bush said he placed importance on a free press and observance of the rule of law during his talks with Mister Putin. Mister Putin rejected any suggestions that Russia is restricting democracy. In his words, "There can be no return to what we had before." The Russian leader also says he and Mister Bush are "very close" on a number of issues such as Iraq, Iran and North Korea.They called for speeding up negotiations for Russian entry into the World Trade Organization. They also said they would work together on international ways to improve the safekeeping of nuclear material.An agreement calls for Russia and the United States to share information about improving nuclear security. They are to jointly develop emergency plans to fight nuclear and radiological attacks. And they are to work together to develop a replacement for highly enriched uranium fuel used in research reactors. The goal is to prevent the uranium from being used to make nuclear weapons.On Wednesday, Mister Bush met in Mainz, Germany, with Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder. The German leader had strongly opposed the war in Iraq. But Mister Schroeder says Iraq's future is what is important now.Mister Bush called Europe "America's closest ally." And, he said, "in order for us to have good relations with Europe we have to have good relations with Germany."The two leaders agreed to cooperate on environmental issues, even though the United States is not part of the Kyoto treaty. The United States and Germany are to increase efforts to develop cleaner energy technologies. The aim is to reduce pollution and the industrial gases blamed for atmospheric warming, without limiting economic growth.Several thousand demonstrators marched in Mainz to protest the visit by Mister Bush. There were also protests earlier in Brussels, the headquarters of the European Union and NATO. There, the president met with European Union leaders. And the North Atlantic Treaty Organization announced that all twenty-six of its members would help train Iraqi security forces. But several nations, including Germany, say they only want to do training outside Iraq.In The News, in VOA Special English, was written by Jerilyn Watson. I'm Steve Ember.I.R.A. Ties Put Pressure on Sinn Fein in 01-09Northern Ireland Peace EffortsThis is Steve Ember with In the News, in VOA Special English.This year is the one hundredth anniversary of Sinn Fein, the main political party for Roman Catholics in Northern Ireland. But these days there is little to celebrate.Sinn Fein serves as the political organization of the Irish Republican Army. And the I.R.A. is being widely condemned over recent cases of robbery and murder. The Irish Republican Army began in nineteen nineteen. This week the American diplomat for Northern Ireland said it is time to "go out of business."On Thursday, the British House of Commons voted to take away the right of parliamentary pay for Sinn Fein members. The party holds four seats in the British Parliament. The European Parliament is considering similar action.Next Thursday is Saint Patrick's Day, an Irish celebration. Gerry Adams, the leader of Sinn Fein, was not invited this year to join President Bush for the traditional observance at the White House. The heads of other political parties in Northern Ireland were not invited either. But White House officials have invited the five sisters of a truck driver killed in January by the I.R.A.In the Gaelic language, Sinn Fein means "we ourselves" or "ourselves alone." The group started in nineteen oh five as a loose coalition of labor organizations. At that time, Britain ruled all of Ireland. Sinn Fein supporters wanted at least some independence from the British.Today the territory is separated into the Irish Republic and Northern Ireland. Most Irish citizens are Roman Catholic. But Northern Ireland is a British province, and the population is mostly Protestant.Years of violence between Protestants and Catholics in Northern Ireland began in nineteen sixty-nine. Bombings were common. In nineteenninety-seven, the Irish Republican Army declared a ceasefire. Peace talks led to a power-sharing agreement in April of the following year, on the Christian observance of Good Friday.But political troubles continued. In October of two thousand two, British Prime Minister Tony Blair suspended the administration of Roman Catholics and Protestants. Sinn Fein wants a place in any renewed government. But political observers say its efforts are hurt by evidence against the Irish Republican Army.In December, robbers stole up to fifty million dollars from a Belfast bank. Hostages were taken. Investigators found the I.R.A. responsible, which the group denies. The I.R.A. was ordered to pay a large fine.Then, in January of this year, I.R.A. members killed a Roman Catholic truck driver. His name was Robert McCartney. It happened after a dispute at a drinking place in Belfast.In reaction, the I.R.A. expelled some of its members. It also offered to shoot the men who killed Robert McCartney. But his family wants the killers to face justice. In the words of a family member, "Only in a court will the truth come out."In the News, in VOA Special English, was written by Jerilyn Watson. I'm Steve Ember.Wolfowitz and the World Bank 01-10I'm Steve Ember with IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English.President Bush this week nominated Paul Wolfowitz to become president ofthe World Bank. The current head of the bank, James Wolfensohn, has held that position for ten years. His second term ends May thirty-first.Mister Wolfensohn announced in January that he would not seek a third term as leader of the development bank. It provides loans, policy advice and other assistance to help countries reduce poverty.Paul Wolfowitz has served in both the State Department and the Defense Department. For the last four years he has been deputy defense secretary under Donald Rumsfeld. Mister Wolfowitz was a major planner of the invasion of Iraq two years ago. He is often called the "architect" of the war.Some aid groups and others criticized the choice of an official so closely linked to the Iraq war to lead the World Bank. European reaction was mixed. Japan welcomed the nomination.Mister Wolfowitz recently traveled to South Asia to see the damage from the earthquake and tsunami waves in December. He helped plan American military assistance to the area.His nomination must be approved by the twenty-four directors of the World Bank. They represent one hundred eighty-four member countries. Traditionally, an American leads the World Bank while a European heads the International Monetary Fund.Paul Wolfowitz has taught at Yale and Johns Hopkins universities. During the late nineteen eighties, he served as ambassador to Indonesia. He won praise as a diplomat.Later, Mister Wolfowitz served as undersecretary of defense for policy under the first President Bush. As such, he developed policy during the Persian Gulf War after Iraq invaded Kuwait in nineteen ninety.In two thousand one he was a leading supporter of military strikes against al Qaida and the Taliban in Afghanistan. That was after the September eleventh terrorist attacks on the United States.Each year, the World Bank provides thousands of millions of dollars to developing countries. Education and health programs often receive money. But critics of the World Bank say programs for the poor are often cut as a result of financial reforms required to get loans. 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You can use this phrase in any situation, and everybody in America will understand you.
And that's English in a Minuer heard American English, you might have heard this: Hit the sack.
To find out what this one means, let's listen to this conversation.
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voa英语听力中英对照原文Hello, I'm Jerry Smit with the BBC News.杰里·斯密特为您播报BBC新闻The Greek government has submitted new proposals tosecure a third bailout from its international creditors. The Head of the Eurozone's Group of Finance Ministers, Jeroen Dijsselbloem, said the plans would now be assessed in detail. The proposals include tax rises, pension reforms, spendingcuts and promises of privatisation. Tim Willcox in Athenssays this may cause problems for the Greek government希腊政府提交了一份新的改革方案以确保能从其债权国得到第三次财政援助，欧元区金融主席杰洛恩称该项方案将会详细讨论。
这项方案包括提升税收，退休金改革，减少支出和承诺私有化。
下面是威克斯在雅典发回的报道：.“They think, the source I've been speaking to, that the E.U. will take this, but it's going to be very difficult for Alexis Tsipras, the Greek Prime Minister, internally here in Greece, following that referendum last weekend with that massive vote, a NO vote against any more austerity measures.”威克斯称这项方案有可能对希腊政府造成问题。
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1、加勒比海热带风暴“厄尔”升级为飓风Weather officials said Hurricane Earl was moving northward off the U.S. coast, after skirting parts of the eastern Caribbean this week, and that residents in low-lying areas should be prepared to evacuate if needed.Forecasters at the National Hurricane Center in Miami said they are closely watching the storm for signs that it will remain in open waters, or turn west and impact the U.S. coastline. They said the outer fringes of the category four storm are expected to reach the barrier islands of North Carolina by Friday.National Hurricane Center Director Bill Reed said the storm should continue to produce very dangerous conditions in Atlantic waters as it moves north."We are going to have an impact in the way of dangerous swells and surf, rip currents and beach erosion as the storm moves up the coast," said Reed. "Even a minor shift back to the west could bring direct impacts to portions of the coastline from the mid-Atlantic northward."Emergency officials said residents in low-lying coastal areas from North Carolina to Maine should be prepared for possible evacuations in coming days. They said residents should monitor local weather officials, who may begin issuing storm warnings as Earl moves closer to the U.S. mainland.Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator Craig Fugate said the main concern is possible flooding."The primary threat here is going to be storm surge. We use tropical force winds, however, as a benchmark to have an evacuation completed because many of the overland routes will include high bridges and other things that tropical force winds make it extremely dangerous," said Fugate.Earlier, heavy rains from Earl caused flooding in low-lying areas of Antigua, and winds ripped out trees and blew down power lines on the nearby island of St. Martin. Officials in the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico said they are working to restore electricity to more than 200,000 people who were affected by the storm.Meanwhile, forecasters said residents of the eastern Caribbeanshould prepare for possible impact from another storm that has formed in the Atlantic. Tropical Storm Fiona is expected to reach parts of the area by Wednesday.Bill Reed of the National Hurricane Center says Fiona is not expected to come as close to land as Earl did."It is forecast to remain northeast of the islands and not impact the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico in the same places that were hit by Earl. It is running parallel to Earl and off to the east, maybe impacting Bermuda by the weekend," said Reed.Current forecasts show Fiona moving north on a path that will keep it far off the U.S. East Coast.2、第62届艾美奖揭晓爆出两个“三冠王”U.S. television honored its best programs Sunday at the annual Emmy awards in Los Angeles. Mad Men was named best dramatic series. Modern Family was named best comedy. Key Emmys also went to television movies and a mini-series based on real-life stories.Mad Men, which is set at a 1960s New York advertising firm, won its third consecutive Emmy as best drama series. And a satirical look at the modern American family, Modern Family was named best comedy and earned Emmys for its writing and for supporting actor Eric Stonestreet.The musical-comedy series Glee had 19 nominations heading into the awards, but the series won just two Emmys, for supporting actress Jane Lynch and series creator and director Ryan Murphy.Bryan Cranston was honored for his portrayal of a drug dealer in the series Breaking Bad and Kyra Sedgewick for her role as a deputy police chief in The Closer.Top comic acting honors went to Edie Falco of Nurse Jackie and Jim Parsons of The Big Bang Theory, a series about nerdy scientists.Temple Grandin, a TV film about a noted animal scientist who has struggled with autism, was named best television movie, and earned an acting award for Claire Danes, who portrays Grandin. Supporting performers Julia Ormond and David Strathairn anddirector Mick Jackson also earned Emmys.Autism is a developmental disorder that causes problems in communicating with others, but Grandin has overcome her disability to become a respected author and advocate for the humane treatment of livestock. Producer Emily Gerson Saines, who is herself the mother of an autistic child, thanked Grandin for her work in spreading knowledge about the condition."Autism has reached epidemic proportions, so on behalf of all the parents like myself who have a child with autism, Temple Grandin, you are our hero," Saines said.The Pacific, a 10-part miniseries from producers Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg and Gary Goetzman, was named best miniseries. The project cost more than $200 million, and it tells the intertwined stories of American Marines fighting in the Pacific during World War II. Hanks thanked his Australia-based crew, who worked under harsh conditions."So here's hoping that some very bright person right here in the room or at home watching can help find a way to keep the spotlightburning on these heart-breaking situations that continue to be heart-breaking long after the cameras go away," Clooney said.The Emmys are presented by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and are considered the highest honor in American television. Late-night talk show host and comic Jimmy Fallon hosted this year's show.3、蛙的皮肤可能为细菌带来“死亡之吻”Worldwide threatThe emerging battle against drug-resistant bacteria poses a huge threat to public health worldwide. That threat has loomed larger as the number of effective antibiotic drugs has dwindled.J. Michael Conlon, a biochemist at the United Arab Emirates University, says frog skin, which protects the amphibians from injury and disease, is coming to the rescue by providing a wealth of new antibiotic compounds to fight drug resistant fungi and bacteria."Frogs of necessity have to live in a warm moist environment that is very conducive to the growth of micro-organisms. They've been around for a long, long time, at least 300 million years" says Conlon. "So, it's not so surprising that, over the course of evolution, theyhave developed defenses against these invading pathogens." Conlon has identified germ-fighting chemicals from more than 200 frog species from around the world by isolating peptides or strings of proteins that have the ability to kill bacteria and fungi.He says the challenge is to get those agents to work in humans. "The problem is that as well as efficiently killing micro-organisms, they are to various degrees toxic to mammalian cells. So it's not a great idea to cure infection if you kill the patient at the same time."Fighting two major pathogensConlon's laboratory in the United Arab Emirates works with samples from frogs gathered collaboratively by scientists in Japan, France and the United States.The naturally occurring compounds are first purified and then synthesized. At that point, structural changes are made in the molecules. The results have proved to be less toxic to human cells.Conlon says the new compounds show promise in fighting two major pathogens, the well known methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and a new emerging bacterium,Acintobacter baumanni. "This has been called the Iraqibacter because many wounded soldiers in Iraq have developed infections by this microorganism."Frog mouthwashConlon also sees great potential for other antibiotic applications from creams and ointments for wounds to treatment of foot ulcers. He adds that the peptides have shown to be very effective against oral pathogens. "So we are interested in the possibility of incorporating of incorporating them into a mouth wash."But Conlon says as a researcher in a small university lab, he can only take the product so far. "To bring a drug from the laboratory to the pharmacy literally costs hundreds of millions of dollars. We really need a partner in the pharmaceutical industry with which to collaborate."Should that partner step forward, J. Michael Conlon predicts that some frog-skin derived compounds could make their way into clinical trials and into marketable drugs within five years.4、美军撤离伊拉克对中国意味着什么？In announcing the withdrawal of U.S. combat troops from Iraq,President Obama made it clear that Afghanistan's turn is next."Next August,we will begin a transition to Afghan responsibility,"he said."The pace of our troop reductions will be determined by conditions on the ground,and our support for Afghanistan will endure.But make no mistake-this transition will begin because open-ended war serves neither our interests nor the Afghan people's."Analysts say the Iraq withdrawal has highlighted for leaders in Iran,Pakistan and other regional states that the United States intends to pull out its forces.Larry Goodson of the U.S. Army War College says no one is considering the implications more than Afghan President Hamid Karzai."All of the regional actors now alter their calculus a bit,but none more obviously and skittishly than Karzai because he is really the one whose neck is in the noose.He is the one who would literally behanging from a lamppost within a month,let us say,if the U.S. and NATO forces withdrew today.Or at least that is what I think would happen."'Morale boost for the Taliban'President Karzai recently told a visiting U.S. congressional delegation that the withdrawal date is a morale boost for the Taliban.Larry Goodson says Mr. Karzai might be looking for ways to keep U.S. troops around longer than President Obama and his advisors have planned."I think he is looking for the,'O.K.,the U.S. is no longer here or maybe I can,through certain political moves and maneuvers,continue to play the United States and keep them here a bit longer or keep them engaged in some fashion a bit longer.'I realize I attributed some Machiavellian sort of tendencies to Hamid Karzai.But I think that he has demonstrated that he has got some political skills,"he said.The U.S.-Karzai relationship has been through some rough patches,especially lately.President Karzai has been sharply critical of the United States,especially over civilian casualties,and U.S. officials continue to pressure the Afghan leader to clean up corruption in his government. Analyst Brian Katulis of the Center for American Progress in Washington says the United States has been inconsistent in its approach to President Karzai."We have wavered under President Bush and even under President Obama," he said."One moment it seems like we are reading him the riot act;the next moment we are rolling out the red carpet for him here in Washington,D.C. And none of it seems to work."The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq are radically different,but the overall strategy is similar-to build up indigenous forces to the point that they can handle security duties on their own,thus allowing U.S. troops to go home.But many analysts voice concern about when or if Afghan security forces will be capable to stand on their own.The presence of Taliban sanctuaries across the border in Pakistan remains a nagging issue. Analyst Brian Katulis says the handling ofthe matter of Pakistan has been what he terms a quiet success for the Obama administration.He says the U.S.-Pakistan relationship was "hanging by a thread" in 2007,but that Pakistan has since become more energetic about taking on the militants."So there has been a much more aggressive counter-terrorism approach,"said Katulis."There has been an outreach to a range of Pakistani leaders to take a different approach.They have changed." "They have not changed 100 percent,but they have moved in the right sort of direction.And I think what we need to see,and ultimately a key to Afghanistan and our ability to complete the mission there,is actually getting actors like Pakistan to play a more responsible role.And I think we have taken some modest steps in the right direction there,"he added.But Taliban fighters have not reduced their attacks on international forces,although the coming winter is expected to slow them down.Many analysts say the Taliban wants to keep up the pressure on the Karzai government until the United States and its allies leave and then try to strike a political deal with President Karzai,or whoever is in charge of the Afghan government at the time.5、【盘点】人类十位伟大的数学家For many, if not most people, math can be intimidating. But Alex Bellos finds it intriguing. The journalist has degrees in mathematics and philosophy from Oxford University.After 20 years as a reporter,Bellos decided to combine his profession and his degrees.He traveled around the world-and back in time-to uncover fascinating stories of mathematical achievements and to profile people whose lives are intertwined with numbers.Alex Bellos discovered that mathematics-which seems so absolute-is not the same everywhere around the globe."While two plus two is indeed four all over the world,the approach to math is so,so different,"Bellos says."I came from the U.K. where being good at math is seen as being uncool.This is not the case even in France.The French love their math.It's quite cool to be a mathematician.Mathematicians in France are seen as great intellectuals.And being good at arithmetic in India is almost seen as a badge of national pride.In Japan,which is a culture most different from mine,a million children study the abacus for fun after school.Counting is seen as fun.It's quite fun to be able to calculate and do multiplication very,very quickly." Japan was one of theplaces Bellos visited on his year-long journey.There,he met the creator of the popular Sudoku puzzles and talked about the brain-teasing delights of mathematical games. In a town near Tokyo,he spent time with a guru of origami,the traditional Japanese art of paper folding.Origami,Bellos says,is one of the hottest areas of mathematical work today. "It turns out that origami is a brilliant way to understand geometry,"he says."And if you start to think about paper folding,there are lots of things you can't do with the methods that have been taught in schools really since the Greeks.For instance,trisection of an angle.Just using a compass and straight-edge,you cannot construct an angle which is a third of another angle,but you can do that with origami.So it's quite interesting to think that origami in Japan,it may be a cultural thing for children,but now people study origami at the highest level in academia."While in Japan,Bellos also met a math whiz who is not human."I met the world's most numeric chimpanzee,he says."And it's fascinating just to see that chimpanzees can learn to count." Bellos recounts his adventures in a new book,"Here's Looking at Euclid."The title is a play on Humphrey Bogart's famousline,"Here's looking at you,kid,"from the movie "Casablanca." The ancient Greek mathematician Euclid is known as the father of geometry.Bellos also had fun with the title of the UK edition of the book,"Alex's Adventures in Numberland,"an obvious takeoff on the British classic,"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland." The book is subtitled,"A Surprising Excursion through the Astonishing World of Math."In it,Bellos talks to two Ukrainian-American brothers who have built the world's biggest supercomputer in their New York apartment.He also went to Reno,Nevada to meet the man who sets the odds for more than half of the world's slot machines.While in Missouri,Bellos met with the president of the Dozenal Society of America. "Dozenalists are people who believe the decimal system - the system of 10 digits,zero to nine-is not very good,is not sufficient,and suggest we need to add two extra digits,"say Bellos."One might say it's crazy,trying to introduce two new numbers to the number system,but mathematically it makes a perfect sense because multiplication and division become much easier if we count in twelves rather than tens.In exploring the wonder of math,Bellos discovered numbers are notinnate to humans.They were first used only about 5,000 years ago.And he found groups of people today that don't use numbers at all or very few of them."In the Amazon,I spoke to a man who has been researching the tribe,the Munduruku,who have numbers up to five and that's it,"he says."Actually,they maybe even have numbers up to four because they have a word for one, for two,for three-ish,for four-ish and then they use the word palm or handful for five."Bellos also stopped in Germany this summer to report on the bi-annual Mental Calculation World Cup.The 10-year-old competition has several categories:addition,multiplication,square root and calendar calculation.In that last event,contestants are given a number of dates and they have to figure out which days of the week those dates fall on-all in their head. The winner of the 2010 competition is 11 years old. "Priyanshi Somani from India.She learned to calculate using an abacus,"he says."So when she's calculating,she's moving her hands around in the air in front of her as if there is an abacus there."Somani later told Bellos she imagined she was using an abacusduring the competition.When asked whether she could do the mental calculations without using her hands,Somani told Bellos that she didn't think so.Bellos embarked on his around-the-world excursion to prove that mathematics is not a dry field of learning.The stories in his book prove that it's surprising and astonishing,as surely as the square of the hypotenuse of a right triangle equals the sum of the square of its two other sides.6、新西兰地震“零死亡”不是奇迹New Zealand's second-biggest city, Christchurch, is facing an enormous clean-up after being struck by the country's worst earthquake in 80 years. The magnitude 7 quake devastated parts of Christchurch early Saturday.Christchurch awoke Sunday to another grim day as shell-shocked residents assess the damage inflicted by one of the country's most powerful earthquakes.Mayor Bob Parker is urging residents to stay indoors.This is not a good time to go out, as curious as you may be, and have a look around if it means driving out onto the streets because we need to keep them free for emergency services," Parker advised. "Use common sense; emergency services are flat out at the moment. The assessment is underway. Take sensible precautions, but don't go out sightseeing. Check on your neighbors. Do the things that communities do so well at times like this."Authorities say it is a miracle no one was killed after disaster struck Saturday before dawn, when most people were still asleep. A small number of serious injuries have been reported.Roads and bridges have been left in ruins and troops are expected to be deployed to help in the emergency effort. Power and water supplies have also been disrupted. Authorities say the clean-up will be long and expensive. The damage bill is estimated at about $1.5 billion.A night time curfew was imposed in parts of Christchurch, while schools offered emergency shelter to those left homeless.A series of aftershocks have unnerved a wary population.New Zealand sits on the so-called Pacific Ring of Fire, a vast area of unpredictable seismic activity. The South pacific country of more than 4 million people experiences more than 14,000 earthquakes each year. Most are minor but occasionally nature displays its destructive power.This weekend's earthquake is among the 10 strongest the country has ever recorded.7、朝鲜决定释放扣留的韩国渔船和船员The squid fishing boat was seized last month at a time of rising tension on the Korean peninsula.North Korea's official news agency says it made a "compatriotic and humanitarian" decision to send the boat and the seven men aboard it home.The dispatch calls the boat's alleged incursion into the North's exclusive economic zone "an intolerable infringement upon the sovereignty" of the country. It says the crew - four South Koreans and three Chinese - admitted to the violation and pledged to neverrepeat it.A senior research fellow at the Korea Institute for National Unification in Seoul, Choi Choon-Heum, calls the release surprising. He says Pyongyang apparently wants to improve relations with Seoul.Choi terms North Korea's timing for the action clever and meant to ease tension so South Korea will more readily consider giving aid, including rice, to the impoverished communist country.North Korea, according to aid agencies, faces a worsening food shortage. The country has relied on aid to feed its people since a famine in the 1990s killed thousands of people.The release of the crew of the fishing boat also comes as North Korea prepares to convene a rare gathering of its Workers Party. North Korea experts speculate that leader Kim Jong Il called the meeting as a step toward passing power to his third son, Kim Jong Un.The elder Kim last week made a surprise visit to China, hiscountry's only powerful ally.Tensions have been high on the peninsula since the sinking in late March of a South Korean naval vessel. An international investigation concluded the Cheonan was hit by a North Korean torpedo. Pyongyang denies responsibility.South Korea and the United States responded with a series of joint war games they say are meant to deter the North from further provocative acts.The latest such exercise, in the Yellow Sea, was to begin Sunday. It was postponed because of an approaching tropical storm.8、英法罢工皆因“饭碗”London's tube workers went on a 24-hour strike starting Monday evening that left commuters struggling to make it to work Tuesday morning.Buses were diverted from central London because streets were at a standstill. Many people were on foot.This London worker didn't arrive at work until two in the afternoon."Normally it takes me 45 minutes and today it took me five hours," she said. "I think it was totally unnecessary; it should have been avoided rather than costing all the people trouble because there's been a lot of traffic and disruptions all over."Thousands of workers on London's transport system walked out because they say proposed job cuts will hurt the service and create safety risks.Bob Crow is leader of transport union RMT. VOA asked him if the strike is successful."Very successful," said Crow. "There's been major disruption and I think London Underground know we're serious now about trying to defend our members' interest."London wasn't the only European city to be hit by workers' strikes on Tuesday. In Paris and across France unions mounted major strikes in protest against planned pension reforms. Train and airtravel, as well as schools and hospitals were disrupted by the strikes.French President Nicolas Sarkozy says he'll raise the retirement age from 60 to 62, a plan that has met with virulent protest from many French workers. Union leaders said they hoped up to two million people would take to the streets.65 is a common retirement age. Germany and Britain have plans to raise that threshold to 67 or beyond.British Union leader Crow says workers across Europe are fighting for their rights. "Workers in France are fighting back, they're fighting back all over the place -- Greece, in Ireland, in Portugal, in Spain," added Crow. "And it's quite clear that people are not prepared to be pushed around, they're prepared to stand up and fight."In London, the strike was set to carry on into the evening. Tuesday afternoon, one worker said she was dreading the commute home."When it's cold and wet I don't think I'm going to like walking very much, so yeah, it will probably annoy me a lot more then. And I'mdreading trying to get home tonight," she explained.London's tube workers have more strikes planned for October and November.9、美国牧师坚持烧古兰经或引爆反美浪潮The Vatican office responsible for relations with Islam issued a stern statement saying every religion has the right to respect and protect its sacred books, places of worship and symbols.While deploring the September 11 terror attacks, the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue said they "cannot be counteracted by an outrageous and grave gesture against a book considered sacred by a religious community."Pastor Terry Jones of a small church in Gainesville, Florida, has said he will go ahead with plans to burn copies of Islam's holy book this weekend, despite opposition.Pastor Jones said he is determined to go ahead because this is a very important message to radical Islam, whom he considers "theenemy." He said it has a growing influence around the world and cannot do (in the U.S.) what it appears to be doing in Europe."They appear to begin, as they grow in numbers, to push their agenda, to push real law," said Jones. "What we are saying to them is that if they are in America they need to respect, honor and obey our constitution and not slowly try to push their agenda upon us."Pastor Jones said he has received more than 100 death threats and has started wearing a 40-caliber pistol strapped to his hip since announcing his plan to burn the book Muslims consider the word of God. The 58-year-old minister proclaimed in July that he would stage "International Burn-a-Quran Day."The planned Quran-burning by the small Florida church sparked protests this week by several-hundred Afghans in Kabul. They chanted "Death to America."The head of the United Nations Mission in Afghanistan, Staffan de Mistura, expressed concern and outrage "in the strongest possible terms." He said, "If such an abhorrent act were to be implemented,it would only contribute to fueling the arguments of those who are indeed against peace and reconciliation in Afghanistan."And two of the top U.S. commanders in Afghanistan have said the plan risked undermining U.S. President Barack Obama's efforts to reach out to the world's 1.5 billion Muslims.10、睡不饱学不好，真的如此吗？Dozing at their desksSixteen-year-old Danny is a typically active teenager.He plays lacrosse and football and likes listening to rock music.But Danny is also part of a growing number of teenagers who are sleep deprived."Getting up in the morning is pretty terrible,"he says."I'm just very out of it and tired.And then,going to school,I'm out of it.And through first and second period [classes],I can barely stay awake."Danny is not alone.Surveys show that half of all teenagers in the country are missing an average of one to 1? hours of sleep every school night,and that's having negative consequences on theirperformance-in and out of the classroom.While some believe that a teenager's reluctance to get up in the morning is sheer laziness,sleep experts say that's not necessarily the case.Michael Breus,a clinical psychologist who specializes in sleep disorders,says kids like Danny aren't just a bunch of lazy kids."These are children whose biological rhythms,more times than not,are off,"says Breus.Negative consequencesTeenager's biological rhythms-often referred to as their circadian rhythms-favor later bedtimes and later wake-up times.But,with many school systems starting classes as early as seven a.m.,teenagers like Danny often come to school half asleep.And that,says Breus,has consequences."We have long known that the more sleep deprived you are,the more cranky you are.So when your child,who really needs eight or。
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VOA原文001From VOA Learning English, this is the Education Report.South Africa has 11 official languages. If you want to say hello, it's "sawubona" in Zulu, and "hallo" in Afrikaans. Now, South Africa's school children may start using "ni hao" to say hello.The country's education minister says, the nation is adding the Mandarin language teaching in some schools. Mandarin is the official spoken language of China. That country is a major trading power for South Africa.A recent agreement between the two nations centers on five areas of cooperation. They include development in basic education, school books and lessons, mathematics and science, teacher training and career education and research.South Africa officials have not said how much they teaching Mandarin will cost. Troy Martens is an officials with South Africa's Ministry of Basic Education. She says the new partnership is extremely valuable."So it is very exciting and both countries have indicated that for them education is a high priority, and that is why education is high on the agenda of collaboration between the two countries," said Martens.The part of the plan that has garnered the most attention is the inclusion of the Mandarin language in schools.A public opinion study last year found that South Africans have mixed feelings about China. The survey showed 46 percent of South Africans do not like the spread of Chinese ideas and customs in their country, the results also showed that 60 percentdislike Chinese music, movies and television.But Ms Martens said Chinese trade is more important than those feelings. She said it is extremely helpful to learners in South Africa to study Mandarin as well as Chinese culture. And she said not every school will offer Mandarin."Now this will not be compulsory, it will not be for every school, and it will not be for every child. But for schools that feel they have the capacity to offer Mandarin as a subject, we think it is a great opportunity for South African learners to be exposed to this international type of language," said Martens.South Africa's population studies do not say how many native Chinese speakers are among its nearly 51 million people.Lisette Noonan heads the 80-year-old Pretoria Chinese School in South Africa's capital. The school serves about 500 students from kindergarten to grade 12. Every student studies Mandarin.Ms Noonan says the school welcomes the new cooperation between South Africa and China. She said it is in the best interests of children to study Mandarin. She said that especially true with China becoming what she called "ahuge economic power in the world".South African schools suffer from the country's history of apartheid.And from VOA Learning English, that's the Education Report. I'm Bob Doughty.1. include vt.包括; 包含例句：What questions do you include?你在其中包含了哪些问题？2. extremely adv.极端地; 非常例句：Unemployment benefit is extremely limited.失业救济也极为的有限。
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Artist Pieces Life Back Together After Katrina卡特里娜过后:艺术家让人重拾生活希望Losing everythingIn a small art gallery in the seaside village of Bay St. Louis,Gordon is drilling a piece of wood to mount a new work of art.Her drill is one of the few things she has from before HurricaneKatrina. When she and her husband evacuated their home near the water, they boarded up thehouse. Her husband took the drill so he could remove the wood from the windows when theyreturned. Gordon says there was nothing to come back to.在圣路易斯一个滨海村长的一个小型的艺术画廊里,Gordon正在钻一根木头准备将她的一幅新作给挂上.这个钻孔机是少数在飓风卡特里娜中保存下来的东西之一.当时,她和她的丈夫在讲家附近的水疏通后,爬上屋顶.她的丈夫拿上了这把机子用来割挡在他们前方窗户上的树木.Gordon说,当时根本就没什么必要回去."Hurricane Katrina hit, the house went, the studio went, even the tree house didn’t quite make it,and of course all of my art supplies and tools went with that."As so did 30 years worth of her art that had been in the studio.Mississippi artist Lori Gordon works on a new outdoor piece, made from almost all Katrina debrisexcept for a few glass prisms and the hardware holding it together."I lost all that, but what was really hard at the time was not only not having a place to live, but nothaving a place to work and not having any tools to work with. That was difficult, because we all,you know, have de fined our own ways of dealing with Katrina. And the only way I’ve ever had hasbeen my art."Emotional survivalBefore Katrina, Gordon mostly painted landscapes of the land and water around her. Her focuschanged with Katrina. She says art became emotional survival."I started digging through the rubble where my house had been and pulling out bits of brokenfurniture and broken dishes. Anything I could find. It’s really weird, when you’ve lost everything, abroken coffee cup can take on really significant meaning."When Gordon discovered some pieces of debris had meaning, she knew she was onto something."So I just started pulling all that stuff together and, because I was really feeling pretty crazy, Istarted gluing it together, and puting it together any way I could, making mixed media pieces."Gordon was not the only local artist shaking by the hurricane. Jenise McCardell, who works inclay....... After the storm, she and her husband purchased an undamaged building in town andopened a door to hope."There were quite a group of artists, 10 artists that needed a place to work and create their art.Some were homeless, some had nowhere to work, so we began a coop art gallery here at 220."TransformationIt became Gallery 220, named after the street address. In a town known for its artists, they foundstrength in each other’s company. McCardell says artists from other states heard about the galleryand sent tools, clay, paint and canvas."We put up tables, and, I mean, this is where we worked because we had nowhere else. Lori hadnothing, you know, was living in a tent."Gallery 220 now just place Gordon's work, and lot of the other artists. And one Saturday a monthhost a community open house that draws locals and visitor to see and purchase the art.Gordon was surprised to see her Katrina pieces sell quickly. Many of the buyers were volunteerswho came from all over the country to help after the disaster.Local residents also bought Gordon’s art, often recognizing pieces of their lives in the collages.Gordon says, she began to see her work in a new way.“I was able to take bits and pieces of all that negative stuff, and put them together and transformthem not only into something I found beautiful and life-affirming. But that made me some money,which was very significant at that point in time.Margaret Woodward, owns several pieces of the Katrina Collection. She is still repairing damage toher home in nearby Long Beach.Woodward says, when everyone is leaving town after the hurrican, and thinking a returning tonormal life was impossible. Lori Gordon's artworks made a difference. “Lori made the impossibleseem possible and not only possible but beautiful again, because there was very little that waspretty after the storm. It was just tragic.”Go rdon, still works at the artists’ co-op two days a week, and shows her work across the country.“You don’t have to have experienced a Katrina to understand what loss is. Whether it’s the loss ofyour community, whether it’s much more singular and personal, like a divorce, we all have to dothe same things. We have to find way to pick up the broken pieces and put them back together ina way that makes sense, and in a way that will bring happiness and joy back to our lives.”。
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1 a quick lessonThis is the VOA Special English Economics Report.Businesses are structured in different ways to meet different needs.The simplest form of business is called an individual or sole proprietorship. The proprietor owns all of the property of the business and is responsible for everything. For legal purposes, with this kind of business, the owner and the company are the same. This means the proprietor gets to keep all of the profits of the business, but must also pay any debts.Another kind of business is the partnership. Two or more people go into business together. An agreement is usually needed to decide how much of the partnership each person controls.One kind of partnership is called a limited liability partnership. These have full partners and limited partners. Limited partners may not share as much in the profits, but they also have less responsibility for the business.Doctors, lawyers and accountants often form partnerships to share their risks and profits. A husband and wife can form a business partnership together. Partnerships exist only for as long as the owners remain alive. The same is true of individual proprietorships.But corporations are designed to have an unlimited lifetime. A corporation is the most complex kind of business organization.Corporations can sell stock as a way to raise money. Stock represents shares of ownership in a company. Investors who buy stock can trade their shares or keep them as long as the company is in business.A company might use some of its earnings to pay dividends as a reward to shareholders. Or the company might reinvest the money back into the business.If shares lose value, investors can lose all of the money they paid for their stock. But shareholders are not responsible for the debts of the corporation.A corporation is recognized as an entity -- its own legal being, separate from its owners.A board of directors controls corporate policies. The directors appoint top company officers. The directors might or might not hold shares in the corporation. Corporations can have a few major shareholders. Or ownership can be spread among the general public.But not all corporations are traditional businesses that sell stock. Some nonprofit groups are also organized as corporations.And that's the VOA Special English Economics Report, written by Mario Ritter. You can learn more about business and economics on our website, . We're also on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube at VOA Learning English. I'm Barbara Klein.2 baboonsThis is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report.When farmers and wild animals share land, conflicts can be hard to prevent. But the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization is trying to help.The FAO and other groups are developing what they call the Human-Wildlife Conflict Mitigation Toolkit. This toolkit is a collection of advice and information that farmers in southern Africa have been testing.Wild animals are considered a top problem for the physical and economic security of rural populations in Africa.FAO official Rene Czudek says the main aim is to provide low-cost methods to deal with wild animals without harming them.For example, some farmers in Kenya use donkeys to guard against lions and cheetahs.In Zambia and Mozambique, crocodiles are blamed for more deaths than any other animal. Nile crocodiles kill an estimated three hundred people each year in Mozambique alone.Strong fencing at watering points can offer protection. And people should always enter the water several at a time, in groups armed with weapons like sticks and stones, axes and spears.But the FAO also points out that crocodile attacks are less likely in places that have not been overfished.The toolkit also has ideas to control baboons. These large monkeys raid crops and they can kill sheep and other livestock.One suggestion is to remove the center from a loaf of bread and hide a snake inside -- a live one if possible. Baboons have a fear of snakes. They also have good memories. Rene Czudek at the FAO says a baboon frightened by a snake sandwich will probably not come back.Another animal with a good memory -- the elephant -- often raids field crops, especially maize and cassava. Mr. Czudek says the loss of a maize crop can mean the loss of a family's food supply for a year.Did you know elephants hate chili pepper?Farmers can grind pepper, mix it with elephant waste and form bricks. The idea is to burn these bricks around the edges of fields to keep elephants away. Farmers can also grow fields of chili peppers -- and sell the surplus.Another way to control elephants is with a plastic gun called the Mhiripiri Bomber. It fires balls that burst and release a chili solution when they hit the elephant's skin. You might also be able to stop an elephant or a hippopotamus by shining lights in their eyes.The FAO toolkit is supposed to be available online soon. People will be able to comment on the suggestions and offer their own.And that's the VOA Special English Agriculture Report, written by Jerilyn Watson. I'm Bob Doughty.3 Fighting CancerThis is the VOA Special English Health Report.Health experts are calling for action to expand cancer care and control in the developing world. A paper published by the medical journal Lancet says cancer was once thought of mostly as a problem in the developed world. But it says cancer is now a leading cause of death and disability in poor countries.Experts from Harvard University and other organizations urge the international community to fight cancer aggressively. They say it should be fought the way HIV/AIDS has been fought in Africa.Cancer kills more than seven and a half million people a year worldwide. The experts say almost two-thirds are in low-income and middle-income countries.They say cancer kills more people in developing countries than AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria combined. But they say the world spends only five percent of its cancer resources in those countries.Felicia Knaul from the Harvard Medical School was one of the authors of the paper. She was in Mexico when she was found to have breast cancer. She received treatment there. She says the experience showed her the sharp divide between the rich and the poor in treating breast cancer.FELICIA KNAUL: "And we are seeing more and more how this is attacking young women. It's the number two cause of death in Mexico for women thirty to fifty-four. All over the developing world, except the poorest-poorest, it's the number one cancer-related death among young women. And, I think we have to again say that there is much more we could do about it than we are doing about it."Professor Knaul met community health workers during her work in developing countries. She says they were an important part of efforts to reduce deaths from cervical cancer. They were able to persuade women to get tested and to get vaccinated against a virus that can cause it.The experts say cancer care does not have to be costly. For example, patients can be treated with lower-cost drugs that are off-patent. This means the drugs are no longer legally protected against being copied.In another new report, the American Cancer Society says cancer has the highest economic cost of any cause of death. It caused an estimated nine hundred billion dollars in economic losses worldwide in two thousand eight.That was one and a half percent of the world economy, and just losses from early death and disability. The study did not estimate direct medical costs. But it says the productivity losses are almost twenty percent higher than for the second leading cause of economic loss, heart disease.And that's the VOA Special English Health Report, written by Caty Weaver with Vidushi Sinha. I'm Barbara Klein4 GoogleThis is the VOA Special English Economics Report.Last week, Verizon and Google proposed a plan they say could keep the Internet open while supporting investment in high-speed Internet service.Verizon has the nation's biggest wireless network while Google is the biggest Internet search engine. The proposal was a surprise because the two companies have been on opposite sides of the debate over net neutrality.That is the idea that all content on the Web should be treated equally.Internet service providers want to be able to charge more for heavy Internet traffic or users who want special services. The Federal Communications Commission regulates telephone, cable and satellite communications. But its power to regulate Internet service has been questioned in the courts.The new proposal calls for rules barring service providers from preventing users from sending and receiving legal information of any kind. Users also could not be prevented from linking any application, service or device they choose to the Web. And broadband Internet providers would be barred from discriminating against content and would have to be open about their policies.Supporters of net neutrality criticized the proposal for not including wireless providers. Wireless broadband is among the fastest growing parts of the Internet. Others oppose the creation of a "two-tiered" system on the Internet in which some content gets a fast lane and other content goes slowly.But Daniel Brenner says such a system already exists.DANIEL BRENNER: "In some ways there are two tiers today. In other words, there's the public Internet which we all use for Web surfing, e-mail and sometimes for voice. And then there are managed networks."Daniel Brenner is a partner at the law firm Hogan Lovells in Washington. He says service providers want to be able to charge more because they build networks out to their customers across the country. Such companies are the so-called "last mile" providers.But, the Internet is really a network of networks which exchange traffic all the time and compete with each other. And not all networks reach the last mile to a customer's door.Paul Kouroupas of Global Crossing says his company wants to make sure agreements between service providers are honored on all networks. That way, a service promised by Global Crossing on its fiber optic network will be extended all the way to a customer's door - even if another company carries the service that last mile. The Verizon-Google proposal offers suggestions for a debate that is not likely to end soon. Daniel Brenner says the FCC needs clearer guidelines from Congress. And that's the VOA Special English Economics Report, written by Mario Ritter. I'm Steve Ember.5 happierThis is the VOA Special English Health Report.Old age may not sound exciting. But recent findings offer good news for older people and for people worried about getting older.年老可能听起来不中听，但对老年人和担心变老的人们来说，最近的研究结果传递了一些好消息。
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CARL AZUZ, CNN STUDENT NEWS ANCHOR: Right smack in the middle of November with the Thanksgiving break right around the corner, CNN Student News is bringing you the latest from your world!First Up: Discussions at APECAZUZ: President Obama is back in Washington after a 10-day trip to Asia, his longest trip overseas since he became president. It wrapped up over the weekend in Japan, where he attended APEC, the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation. This is a group of 21 member countries, from Australia to Canada -- from China to Mexico to the U.S. -- and their mission is to improve economies and help the Asia-Pacific region to become more prosperous. No surprise, they talked about how the world economy is still hurting from the recession. And they acknowledged that it's still hard to say whether things are improving, with so much uncertainty in its members' economies. APEC nations did agree to work toward increased trade, though. And during the meeting, President Obama talked about some other concerns as well. This soundbiteyou're about to hear, came after a meeting he had with Russian leaders.U.S. PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: We spoke about a range of security issues. I reiterated my commitment to get the START Treaty done during the lame duck session and I communicated to Congress that it is a top priority.The Work AheadAZUZ: Okay, you heard the president mention two things there: the start treaty and Congress. Here's the deal on start: it's an agreement between the U.S. and Russia to reduce the number of nuclear weapons they have. Because it's a treaty, it has to be ratified by the U.S. Congress, and tha is one of the things that'll be brought up in Congress' lame duck session, which starts today and ends in December. Another task for lawmakers: What to do about tax cuts that date back to President George W. Bush. Do they keep them in place for everybody, meaning taxes don't go up but neither does government revenue? Or do they let the cuts expire, as they're scheduled to do. Meaning taxes do go up, but the government takes in more money? Or do lawmakers compromise, raising taxes only on wealthier Americans? You're going to hear more about these issues as 2010 winds down.Activist ReleasedAZUZ: A speech made in an Asian country the size of Texas, catches the world's attention. Myanmar is also known as Burma. It's the home of Aung San Suu Kyi. She's the winner of the 1991 Nobel Peace prize and a renowned activist for Democracy. But Myanmar is controlled by a military regime that has all the power. So Suu Kyi, who wants to change that, says she's going to need her supporters' help. Here's CNN's April Williams.(BEGIN VIDEO)APRIL WILLIAMS, CNN CORRESPONDENT, ATLANTA: A prisoner in her own home no more, Saturday, Myanmar's military regime released democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi from house arrest, which she has been under for 15 of the past 21 years. Members of her National League for Democracy party now hope for the best with Suu Kyi free. UNIDENTIFIED MEMBER OF NATIONAL LEAGUE FOR DEMOCRACY PARTY, [TRANSLATED]: We really want her to come back to the party, she will be the leader of the National League for Democracy forever.WILLIAMS: Suu Kyi was first locked up in 1989, in the aftermath of a student uprising against the government. The release of the Nobel Peace Prize laureate comes a week afterMyanmar's first elections in two decades. Critics blasted the ballot as rigged, and international monitors and media were not allowed in to observe. One of Suu Kyi's attorney s says she should never have been detained in the first place, and sought to put her release in perspective.JARED GENSER, SUU KYI'S INTERNATIONAL LAWYER: One must remember that we're dealing with a brutal military dictatorship here, and ultimately they have the ability to arbitrarily detain her, arrest her, or imprison her at any time WILLIAMS: Suu Kyi's supporters vow to fight on, no matter what the cost.UNIDENTIFIED MEMBER OF NATIONAL LEAGUE FOR DEMOCRACY PARTY, [TRANSLATED]: We know we're doing the right thing so we don't fear the pressure of the government and the military.WILLIAMS: I'm April Williams reporting from Atlanta.(END VIDEO)Is This Legit?CNN STUDENT NEWS: Is this legit? The structure shown here is in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. This is true. The Kaaba is considered the most sacred shrine in Islam.Hajj BeginsAZUZ: Millions of Muslims will be circling the Kaaba in the coming days, as part of the Hajj-- The annual pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia. Attending the Hajj is one of the five main tenets of Islam. Every Muslim who is able to, is required to make this journey once in his or her life. The holy city of Mecca sees more than two million people arrive around this time every year. Islam is the world's second-largest religion, after Christianity. The CIA estimates that Muslims make up about 21 percent of the world's population.Freeze on Building?AZUZ: Israel's government is considering incentive s from the United States: Hold off from building settlements in the west bank, and the U.S. would sell Israel fighter jets and give the country more diplomatic support. But some Israeli lawmakers have already said, U.S. support for Israel didn't come with conditions before. And the settlements are a major sore spot in relations between Israelis and Palestinians. They both see parts of the west bank as their land. So many Israelis want to build settlements there; Palestinians don't want them to. The United States thinks a 90-day freeze on building settlements, could be a step toward getting both sides to talk permanent peace. But Palestinians say a temporary stop in building isn'tenough. And Israeli settlers say stopping construction, would be a sign of weakness by their government.ShoutoutCNN STUDENT NEWS: Today's Shoutout goes out to Ms. Van Winkle's publications class at Lux Middle School in Lincoln, Nebraska! What do Colin Powell, John McCain and Bill Cosby have in common? Are they all: A) Politicians, B) Actors, C) Veterans, or D) Lawyers? You've got three seconds -- GO! Before their successful careers, all three served our country in the U.S. military. That's your answer and that's your Shoutout! Career ConnectionsAZUZ: Like any other company, CNN has a number of veterans who work for it. Our Associate Producer Tomeka Jones returns for another behind-the-scenes report on "Career Connections." Tomeka:TOMEKA JONES, ASSOCIATE PRODUCER, CNN STUDENT NEWS: Carl, as you and I know, a producer decides what to cover on the news. That's a role, James Curry is in now working at CNN International. But, prior to fulfilling his dream of becoming a producer he served in the military. James said it was something he always had an interest in. And, it helped prepare him in pursuing his career.(BEGIN VIDEO)ANDERSON COOPER, CNN HOST, ANDERSON COOPER 360°: We are back with this remarkable breaking coverage from the historic mine rescue in Chile.HALA GORANI, CNN INTERNATIONAL ANCHOR: Some breaking news coming in from Scotland Yard...JAMES CURRY, CNN INTERNATIONAL PRODUCER: A producer guides the newscast and decides what stories are going to be covered, all the elements, graphics, video, sound, etc. Everything you see on TV a producer decided it should be there. Basically, you put everything into the rundown: video, sound, graphic elements, and this is used as a guide during the show in the control room, of what's going to happen and when it's going to happen. When I come in I see what stories CNN is covering and what stories CNN has devoted resources to, so for example have we assigned reporters to certain things that are happening around the world, etc.? And then, I decide what we're going to lead with, what's going to be the top story. The A block is usually the most important, we devote most of our resources to the A block, because it's the top of the newscast and that's what viewers are watching first.I credit the Marine Corps with all of the success that I have had so far because I have been on every continent except Australia and Antarctica. I went in the Marine Corps. I was an engineer, and then I deployed to Iraq, I was in Fallujah in 2004. That really set me up for success coming to CNN International. I know the geography, a little bit about the politics of all the different countries that I served in. The experience I got overseas serving with the Marine Corps, it's not an education you can pay for, it's just experience that you get.One of the best pieces of advice I was given is treat every job like you're running for political office. That doesn't mean go shake hands and kiss babies and all that kind of stuff. It just means get your name out there, let people know you're interested. And pursue it, and don't stop.(END VIDEO)CNN Teachers' LoungeAZUZ: Taking it to teachers, now -- we hear a lot about the struggles and problems of school systems -- what's going wrong in education. Some say, not enough attention is being paid to what's going right. We're doing it at our Teachers' Lounge at . Take a moment to brag a bit, and tell us what your school or district is doing that works!Before We GoAZUZ: It's the biggest pet I've ever seen and it's not a mastiff and it's not a pony. It's a bison! This is bailey junior, though there's not much about him that's junior. He's an "indoor" bison, when he's not out for a ride in the car -- the poor car. Baley's owners say he bonded with them like a dog: A 1,500 pound dog that could get up to 2,200 pounds. He is affectionate. Sorta cuddly. Not potty trained. And not cheap to feed. So if you want your very own buffalo...GoodbyeAZUZ: ..there's a lot to think about before you buy, son. We have a load, a buffa-load, of stories coming your way this week, so please hoof your way back to CNN Student News. I'm Carl Azuz and I'm shameless!。