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路透快讯:狗狗用体温帮助失踪3岁女孩过寒夜
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Obama warns about cost of sequestration
奥巴马警告削减的代价
Just hours after across-the-board spending cuts kicked in, U.S. President Barack Obama pressed Congress to work with him on a compromise in his weekly address.
全面削减开支几个小时后，在每周讲话上，美国总统奥巴马敦促国会与他一道制定折中方案。
UNITED STATES PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA, SAYING: "These cuts are not smart. They will hurt our economy and cost us jobs. And Congress can turn them off at any time - as soon as both sides are willing to compromise." Obama issued a warning on the cost of the impasse.
美国总统奥巴马说：“这些削减是不明智的，会损害我们的经济，降低我们的就业。国会可以随时取消——只要双方都愿意妥协。”奥巴马就此僵局的代价发出警告。
UNITED STATES PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA, SAYING: "The longer these cuts remain in place, the greater the damage. Economists estimate they could eventually cost us more than 750,000 jobs and slow our economy by over one-half of one percent." Without a resolution government agencies will have to slash $85 billion from their budgets by October 1.
美国总统奥巴马说：“削减搁置的时间越长，危害就越大。经济学家估计，其最终成本可能会损失750，000个工作，经济放缓0.5个百分点。”如果没有解决方案，政府机构将不得不在10月1日前从他们的预算中削减850亿美元。
Dog helps missing 3-year-old survive cold frosty night
狗狗用体温帮助失踪3岁女孩过寒夜
The tale of a 3 year old girl gone missing in the frigid cold in Poland had a happy ending thanks to a dog. Rescue workers searched for a 3-year old girl named Julia who wandered into the forest near her village in south-western Poland. She made it through the night -- thanks to the dog who kept her warm -- and alerted rescue workers as to where to find her.
因为这条狗，寒冷的波兰一名3岁女孩失踪的故事才能圆满的结束。在兰西南部，3岁的小女孩茱莉亚在她附近的村庄走失了，救援人员展开营救。多亏狗狗保住了体温小女孩才得以熬过这个夜晚，它还通知了救援人员在那里找到了她。
FIRE-FIGHTER GRZEGORZ SZYMONOWSKI, SAYING: "This dog is the most important part of this story, he is a hero. It is thanks to this dog that the girl survived the night." Her grandmother says the dog was the girls best friend.
消防员Grzegorz Szymonowski说：“狗是这个故事最重要的部分，它是个英雄。因为这只狗，女孩在这个夜晚才得以幸存。”她的祖母说狗是女孩最好的朋友。
RESCUED GIRLS GRANDMOTHER, DANUTA BALAK, SAYING: "She was with this dog all the time. She didn't go anywhere without it. When she was with me, when I was looking after her, she constantly said, 'Granny, the dog needs to come in the house. And she told me to cut bread and she fed it all the time." Julia is now is being treated for light symptoms of frostbite.
女孩的祖母Danuta Balak说：“她一直和这只狗呆在一起，形影不离。当她和我在一起，当我照顾她的时候，她经常说：”奶奶，狗狗要进房子里来。她一直叫我给狗切面包喂给它吃。”茱莉亚因冻伤现在正在接受治疗。
Secret bakery feeds people of Aleppo
秘密面包店供应阿勒颇人
As the war continues to tear Syria apart, residents in Aleppo are increasingly desperate for food. Hunger is the latest threat to survival as supplies fail to arrive. This bakery is providing around 1,000kg of bread every day. Its location has been kept secret, as opposition fighters say bakeries have been targeted by government shelling. Residents say the Free Syrian Army is paying to keep the bakery running amid fuel shortages and fights over flour. One local resident, who wants to remain anonymous, says the opposition is helping civilians.
随着战争继续撕裂叙利亚，食物成为阿勒颇居民日渐渴望的物品。由于供应物资不能到达，饥饿成了最近生存的威胁。面包店的地点一直是保密的，因为反对派战士称面包店一直是政府炮轰的对象。居民称，尽管燃料短缺、面粉抢占，叙利亚自由军仍在运营着这家面包店。一名不愿公开身份的当地军民称，反对派正在帮助平民。
MAN WHO DID NOT WANT TO SHOW HIS FACE OR GIVE HIS NAME SPEAKING OUTSIDE BAKERY, SAYING: "Before eight months, the Free Army has taken control of this area." REPORTER ASKING "The Army help you..." "For surviving." Not all residents blame the government for the suffering. Even in some rebel-held areas, civilians are finding dire living conditions too much to bare. Aid groups warn of a worsening crisis if relief fails to reach people desperately in need.
面包店外一名不愿公开身份的男人说：“八个月前，自由军占领了这个地区。”记者问“军队帮助你……”“为了生存。”并不是所有的居民都将苦难归结于政府。即使在一些反政府控制的地区，平民的生活条件仍极度困难。援助机构警告称，如果未能满足人们日切的需要，危急将恶化。
CCTV资讯：聚焦两会,专访姚明如何当好委员?
Exclusive interview with CPPCC member Yao Ming
聚焦两会,专访姚明如何当好委员?
For more celebrity CPPCC members, CCTV News correspondent Fei Ye sat down with former basketball player Yao Ming, a first time CPPCC member discussing Chinese politics and public diplomacy.
FEI YE: Yao Ming thank you for your time. You were a professional basketball player, a businessman, and a philanthropist and now a CPPCC member. What does this title mean to you? And what is the responsibility for this role?
YAO MING: The CPPCC can provide a platform for the ruling party to hear the different voices of the people and to solve their problems. Our responsibility is that we have to voice the truth. We should have our own opinions. It is important to have an independent thinking toward everything. Communicating with others who work in the same field or different fields is also important. With this, we can see things in an objective way. Working this way can provide us with different kinds of answers.
FEI YE: This is your first year participating in China’s politics, what are your expectations?
YAO MING: I’m hoping I can learn the rules here, every organization or conference has their existing rules; like how to communicate with each other effectively or how to utilize your resources. I would like to adapt to the environment first, understanding every bit of it and then make my contributions to the society.
FEI YE: As a Vice Chairman of the Shanghai Public Diplomacy Association, how are you planning to push the work in this area?
YAO MING: The way public diplomacy works, is just like visiting your neighbors, your relatives or your friends. The atmosphere is very relaxed, but through this process you get to know each other’s families, personalities and thoughts in a very natural and fluid way. If a problem arises in the future, this base that you have established with each other will help you in better communicating and understanding the situation and that’s public diplomacy.
FEI YE: CPPCC is the country's top Advisory body that has people from different professions and famous people. How does fame play into this role?
YAO MING: In America, participations and discussions of politics are very common. And there are professional politicians. However in China, politics has been very closed for a long time, but now slowly it’s becoming more open. At this stage, there are a lot of celebrities involved in politics...because the participation of celebrities has attracted people who were not interested in politics before, increasing public interest. When the public pays more attention to politics, it helps in maturing our political system. Of course I agree with that not every celebrity is a good politician. But you can’t deny all of their contributions. We are still growing. If celebrities don’t get involved, it might be the same closed political system as in the past, which I’m sure nobody would like to see.
FEI YE: How do you see yourself playing a role in the future of China’s policy and current issues?
YAO MING: I would like to observe more things and visit more places around the country. To get to know and learn about other industries that I’m not familiar with and see if there’s anything can be changed or improved in those areas.
CNN学生新闻:污水池吞没佛罗里达州男子
Sinkhole Swallows Florida Man
污水池吞没佛罗里达州男子
CARL AZUZ, CNN ANCHOR: First up today on CNN STUDENT NEWS, this Florida resident was in his bedroom last Thursday night, suddenly, the ground underneath opened up and swallowed him. A sinkhole about 20 feet wide and 50 to 60 feet deep formed underneath Jeff Bush`s room.
His brother Jeremy talked about what happened when it started.
JEREMY BUSH, VICTIM`S BROTHER: I heard a loud crash like a car coming through the house. And I remember my mother screaming, so I ran back there, and tried going inside his room, but when I turned the light on, all I see was this big hole, real big hole.
AZUZ: Jeremy Bush jumped into that hole to try to save his brother, but he couldn`t find him. And officials called off their search on Saturday, partly because of the same reason why workers began demolishing the house. The sinkhole was expanding, and there were concerns that house might collapse at any time. Sometimes sinkholes are smaller, they might cause the ground to sag or cause or cause a small panda form. Other times, they can be huge, like this one you`re looking at it right now from Guatemala.
Or the great blue hole, an underwater sinkhole off the coast of Belize. Florida actually gets a lot of sinkholes, and that`s because the ground across a lot of the state is made up of limestone, a sedimentary rock. Nick Valencia explains how that can lead to this sinkholes.
NICK VALENCIA, CNN CORRESPONDENT: How do sinkholes form? Let`s break this down for you here. Sinkholes are usually a naturally occurring event. Now, what happens is, rain water, that heavy rain water sorts of sits on top of that bedrock sanding clay. If you take into account Florida`s landscape, but it gets a lot of that very porous limestone. It allows the rain, this acidic rain to sort of percolate down into this oil forming this cave like -- cave like sinkholes here.
And also, sometimes, it`s drought that causes these caves-like formations. And that`s further punctuated by that heavy rain that sort of sits on top of there, causing this to open up and perhaps, some of the scariest scenarios in Florida, is that you cannot predict sinkholes. It`s highly expensive to predict them yet. To use very expensive equipment and it`s really tough to pinpoint where these sinkholes are. In fact, it`s so common about the currents in Florida.
All of these little blue dots freckled up and down the state of Florida are past instances of sinkholes. Now, here, where it happened on Thursday night in early Friday morning in Hillsboro County at the Bush residence, this is the place that the Florida Department of State says is susceptible to abruptly forming collapse sinkholes. It`s an area that`s dominated by them, an area that`s had problems with sinkholes in the past.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Just the facts -- Affirmative Action aims to improve opportunities for women and members of minority groups. It started as a way to help people who had been discriminate against in the past. Critics argue that it uses reverse discrimination to accomplish its goals. Affirmative action policies have been used in employment and education.
AZUZ: Abigail Fisher says Affirmative Action is the reason why she didn`t get in the University of Texas. She sued the school over its admissions policies, and the case went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. The decision on it could come out today. Joe Johns breaks down the details of the case and some of the arguments on both sides.
Abigail Fisher dreamed of going to the University of Texas at Austin for most of her life. After applying, she didn`t get in, attending Louisiana State University instead. But the rejection from U.T. led Fisher to file a lawsuit against the school claiming she was squeezed out, unfairly denied admission because of her race. She is white. She said in a statement, "There were people in my class with lower grades who weren`t in all the activities I was in who were being accepted into U.T., and the only other difference between us was the color of our skin."
Whether race should be part of the application process at the University of Texas is the issue before the Supreme Court. Edward Bloom recruited Abigail Fisher to file the lawsuit.
EDWARD BLURN, PROJECT ON FAIR REPRESENTATION: The most important question is, should a university judge a student by his or her skin color when it comes time for admission. And the answer is no.
Here`s how the admissions process at U.T. works: the top ten percent of each high school class statewide gets in automatically. For those below the top ten percent, like Abigail Fisher, who was in the 11th percent, the university uses what it calls, a holistic review where race is one of many factors considered. One that University President Bill Powers says, doesn`t get much weight, and didn`t play role in Fisher`s rejection.
BILL POWERS, PRESIDENT, UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN: We take ethnicity as one of many, many factors in our holistic review to make sure that the three quarters coming in under automatic admission, that we add to that with a quarter coming in where we can work for these other characteristics including diversity.
BRADLEY POOLE, PRESIDENT, UT BLACK STUDENT ALLIANCE: I think she`s fighting the wrong fight.
POWERS: Minority student leaders on campus like Bradley Poole, agree with Powers that the process is fair, despite Fisher`s claims.
POOLE: Seeing as race is probably one of least the parts of the holistic review process. I feel like it`s harping on the wrong -- on one of the things that -- on the easiest thing that she could have -- she could have win against.
POWERS: Others take offense that the lawsuit implies some minority students are less deserving of admission than the white counterparts.
CATHERINE RODARTE, STUDENT UNIVERSITY OF TEXAST AT AUSTIN: To hear people saying that some of us, Latinos, got in here easily, and the only reason we got in here is because of the race. That`s really disappointing. We worked just as hard as anyone else to get here to U.T.
POWERS: But conservative groups siding with Fisher argue it`s not just about getting in. The U.S. civil rights commission says studies show that using racial preferences can hurt minorities by starting them out near the bottom of their classes.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Today`s "Shoutout" goes out to Mr. Brown students at Clinton High School in Clinton, Michigan.
Nairobi is the capital of what African country?
You know what to do. Is it Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda or Zambia? You`ve got three seconds, go!
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Nairobi is a capital of Kenya. It`s also the country`s largest city. That`s your answer and that`s your "Shoutout."
AZUZ: Nairobi is a unique place. There is a national park, about four miles from downtown where zebras, rhinos and giraffes run free. The park also had predators. 13-year old Richard Terrere (ph) lives in a farm near the park. He says that at night lions from the park used to eat his family`s cattle. When he noticed when people walked around with flashlights, the lions stayed away. That gave Richard an idea: first, he set up a solar panel that charged a battery during the day. That powered what you`re about to see, these lights right here at night. Richard made the lights flash, so it looked like someone was walking around with the flashlight, and that`s been keeping the big cats away.
Next up today, the NFL combine gives players a chance to show off their skills to pro-teams. Lauren Silberman was at original combine yesterday making history as the first woman to try out for the NFL as a place kicker. Our Women`s History Months coverage rolls on with some other sporting famous firsts. Back in 1977, Janet Guthrie was the first woman to drive in the Indianapolis 500. Julie Krone displayed a different kind of horse power becoming the first female jockey to win a Triple Crown race. Babe Didrikson Zaharias broke golf`s gender barrier in 1938. She was also an Olympic gold medalist in track and field.
Ila Borders makes the list twice. The first female pitcher to win in men`s baseball game and the first woman to earn a college baseball scholarship. In 2002, Lisa Leslie threw down the first slam dunk in the woman`s pro game. Ten years earlier, Manon Rheaume manned the net for a post-season hockey game with the Tampa Bay lightning. And in the tennis match, that was known as the battle of the sexes -- Billie Jean King beat Bobbie Riggs head to head in 1973. Whether it`s as individual or part of a team, what do you think about women competing in traditionally male-dominated sports? Sound off in our blog at cnnstudentnews.com. And teachers, we`re always looking for your feedback. Head to the resources box on our home page, tell us what you thought about today`s show.
You might have known that the Iditarod is called the last great race on earth. You probably didn`t know that most competitors cover about 110 miles a day. It`s not much if you are driving, but if you are driving a team of sled dogs across the Alaskan wilderness in frigid temperatures, it`s much more intimidating. It starts in Anchorage and ends in the remote town of Nome, Alaska. Recalling a time around the year 1900 when dogs sleds were used to get supplies and mail there. Planes have been doing it since the 1920s, except in 1925, when there was an outbreak of the disease diphtheria, and pilots couldn`t get through.
Then in temperatures far below zero, sled dogs were called on once again to get medication where it was needed. The story became so famous that a statue of a lead dog Balto was put up in New York. It`s still there today. The modern Iditarod route changes from year to year. It crosses miles of ice and two mountain ranges. And it required teams to rest, provides dog food at race checkpoints, and has veterinarians and advisers to ensure that mushers and their dogs are kept safe along a trail that used to be anything but.
It`s always good to know the races and dogs are watched over when they embark. It helps keep the whole race from going downhill. And we tried to come up with a pun on Iditarod, but it just didn`t amount to mush. CNN STUDENT NEWS sets off again tomorrow. See you then.
