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路透社:意大利护士涉嫌杀害38名病人
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Italian nurse suspected of killing 38 patients
意大利护士涉嫌杀害38名病人
This is 42-year-old nurse, Daniela Poggiali, suspected by police of killing one of her patients at a hospital in northern Italy. Now prosecutors are looking into the suspicious deaths of 37 others at Lugo's Umberto 1 hospital. Residents say they're appalled at the allegations.
此人是42岁的护士Daniela Poggiali，警方怀疑她在意大利北部一家医院杀害了她的一位病人。现在检控官正在对卢戈Umberto医院其他37名病人的可疑死亡进行调查。居民们表示，他们对这些指控感到骇人听闻。
(SOUNDBITE) (Italian) ELDERLY MAN NANDO SCARPELLI SAYING: "I am so sorry for what has happened. I just can't put my feelings into words."
老年男子NANDO SCARPELLI：“我对所发生的一切感到遗憾。语言简直难以表述我的感受。”
(SOUNDBITE) (Italian) LUGO RESIDENT LORELLA GUIDOBONI SAYING: "I think there should have been more controls by the ward sisters."
LUGO居民LORELLA GUIDOBONI：“我认为应该有更多措施来对护士进行控制。”
Police allege the patients received injections of potassium, which can cause the heart to stop and is difficult to trace. Poggiali has denied all accusations, saying says she's a victim of a plot against her.
警方指控这些病人接受了钾注射，会导致心脏停止跳动，而且难以发现。Poggiali否认了所有指控，称她是阴谋的受害者。
Ohio officials look into Ebola case
俄亥俄官员检查埃博拉病例
The Ohio home where 29 year old Amber Vinson spent the weekend is now surrounded by police tape. Vinson, a nurse and now the second person to have contracted the Ebola virus, arrived in Cleveland, Ohio on Friday to visit family. She flew in from Dallas, Texas where she had been treating Eric Duncan who died of Ebola earlier this month. The mayor of the town where her family's home is located said transparency with information is key to keeping people safe.
29岁的Amber Vinson周末期间居住的俄亥俄的房屋现在被警戒线包围。Vinson是一位护士，她是第二个感染埃博拉病毒的美国人。周五，她抵达俄亥俄州的克里夫兰探访家人。她从得克萨斯州的达拉斯来到这里。此前，她曾在达拉斯对邓肯进行治疗。邓肯已于本月初死于埃博拉病毒。她的家乡所在市的市长表示，信息透明化是保证人们安全的关键。
(SOUNDBITE) (English) TALLMADGE MAYOR DAVID KLINE SAYING: "If it's not safe tell me. Gotta be honest with all the residents and schools if it's not safe let us know and we'll do what we need to do to take precautions."
TALLMADGE市市长：“如果觉得不安全的话可以告诉我。我一定会对所有居民和学校做到坦诚。如果你觉得不安全，一定要让我们知道，我们会采取所有必要措施进行防范。”
It's now known that Vinson had a fever before boarding the flight from Ohio back to Texas on Monday although officials say she was not sick during the flight. She is now in Atlanta receiving treatment at the same facility two other Ebola patients were successfully treated.
周一，Vinson登上从俄亥俄州返回得克萨斯州的航班之前还不知道她在发烧。然而官员们表示，她在航行期间并未出现不适。现在她正在亚特兰大一家医院接受治疗。这里曾经成功治疗了两位其他埃博拉病人。
Bermuda braces for Gonzalo's wrath
百慕大群岛迎接飓风贡蕯洛
While the white sandy beaches and blue waters of this resort island look nice for now... It could soon be very different as Bermuda braces for Hurricane Gonzalo, menacing a few hundred miles away. The Category 4 storm is sustaining 145 mile per hour winds, the U.S. National Hurricane Centers says. Just days ago Bermuda was hit by Tropical Storm Fay, and some 1,500 homes are still without power. Grocery stores are selling out of essential supplies like batteries, flashlights, and water. The storm is expected to hit Bermuda Friday.
尽管现在这座度假岛屿的碧水沙滩看上去非常美好，然而这种美好很快将被破坏，因为百慕大群岛将遭受飓风贡蕯洛的袭击。该飓风现在就在几百英里外的距离。美国飓风中心表示，这场四级飓风导致时速145英里的狂风。几天前，百慕大群岛还遭遇了热带风暴Fay的袭击，大约1,500个住户仍然没有电力供应。杂货店的电池，手电筒和水等必需供应品已经售罄。飓风预期将于周五袭击百慕大群岛。
路透社科技:纪录片介绍斯诺登生平
An intimate look at Edward Snowden
纪录片介绍斯诺登生平
A new documentary will take audiences inside Edward Snowden's world. "Citizenfour" tells the story of the former National Security Agency contractor who blew the whistle on the U.S. government's mass surveillance programs. Director and producer Laura Poitras premiered the movie at the New York Film Festival. "Citizenfour" takes its title from the alias Snowden used when he first approached Poitras in early 2013 through a series of encrypted emails with a view to leaking details of the top-secret programs to the media. SOUNDBITE: Laura Poitras, film maker, saying (English): "This is a continuation of looking at - focusing on post 9-11 American. And it's looking at how surveillance is used as a form of control on populations. And how the war on terror is kind of coming back to the U.S." Ben Wisner, Snowden's attorney, hopes viewers will walk away with a better understanding of his client. SOUNDBITE: Ben Wisner, attorney, saying (English): "One of the things that I'm so happy about with this film is that now for the first time much of the world will get to see Edward Snowden as I've gotten to know him over the last year. This is someone who is responsible, who is serious, who a visionary. Who is self effacing , who is brilliant and who made historic decision by himself without any legal advice and without know what the consequences would be for himself. So it was a privilege to have a change to advise him after the fact." The documentary will open in U.S. movie theaters on October 24th.
白宫发言:奥巴马:美国公共教育有所进步
Look, let’s face it: Some of these changes are hard. Sometimes they cause controversy. And we have a long way to go. But public education in America is actually improving. Last year, our elementary and middle school students had the highest math and reading scores on record. The dropout rates for Latinos and African Americans are down. (Applause.) The high school graduation rate -- the high school graduation rate is up. It’s now above 80 percent for the first time in history. We’ve invested in more than 700 community colleges --which are so often gateways to the middle class -- and we’re connecting them with employers to train high school graduates for good jobs in fast-growing fields like high-tech manufacturing and energy and IT and cybersecurity.
Here in Chicago, Rahm just announced that the city will pay community college tuition for more striving high school graduates. We’ve helped more students afford college with grants and tax credits and loans. And today, more young people are graduating than ever before. We’ve sent more veterans to college on the Post-9/11 GI Bill -- including several veterans here at Northwesten -- and a few of them are in this hall today, and we thank them for their service. (Applause.)
So we’ve made progress on manufacturing and creating good jobs. We’ve made progress on education. Of course, even if you have the right education, for decades, one of the things that made it harder for families to make ends meet and businesses to grow was the high cost of health care. And so the third cornerstone had to be health care reform.
In the decade before the Affordable Care Act, aka, Obamacare -- (laughter and applause) -- in the decade before the Affordable Care Act, double-digit premium increases were common. CEOs called them one of the biggest challenges to their competitiveness. And if your employer didn’t drop your coverage to avoid these costs, they might pass them on to you and take them out of your wages.
Today, we have seen a dramatic slowdown in the rising cost of health care. When we passed the Affordable Care Act, the critics were saying,what are you doing about cost. Well, let me tell you what we’ve done about cost. If your family gets your health care through your employer, premiums are rising at a rate tied for the lowest on record. And what this means for the economy is staggering. If we hadn’t taken this on, and premiums had kept growing at the rate they did in the last decade, the average premium for family coverage today would be $1,800 higher than they are. Now, most people don't notice it, but that’s $1,800 you don’t have to pay out of your pocket or see vanish from your paycheck. That’s like a $1,800 tax cut. That's not for folks who signed up for Obamacare. That's the consequences of some of the reforms that we’ve made.
And because the insurance marketplaces we created encourage insurers to compete for your business, in many of cities they’ve announced that next year’s premiums -- well, something important is happening here -- next year’s premiums are actually falling in some of these markets.
One expert said this is “defying the law of physics.” But we’re getting it done. And it is progress we can be proud of.
So we’re slowing the cost of health care, and we’re covering more people at the same time. In just the last year, we reduced the share of uninsured Americans by 26 percent. That means one in four uninsured Americans -- about 10 million people -- have gained the financial security of health insurance in less than one year. And for young entrepreneurs, like many of you here today, the fact that you can compare and buy affordable plans in the marketplace frees you up to strike out on your own, chase that new idea -- something I hope will unleash new services and products and enterprises all across the country. So the job lock that used to exist because you needed health insurance,you’re free from that now. You can go out and do something on your own and get affordable health care.
And meanwhile, partly because health care prices have been growing at the slowest rate in nearly 50 years, the growth in what health care costs the government is down, also. I want everybody to listen carefully here, because when we were debating the Affordable Care Act there was a lot of complaining about how we couldn’t afford this. The independent, nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office recently reported that in 2020, Medicare and Medicaid will cost us $188 billion less than projected just four years ago. And here’s what that means in layman’s terms: Health care has long been the single biggest driver of America’s future deficits. It’s been the single biggest driver of our debt.
Health care is now the single biggest factor driving down those deficits.
And this is a game-changer for the fourth cornerstone of this new foundation -- getting our fiscal house in order for the long run, so we can afford to make investments that grow the middle class.
Between a growing economy, some prudent spending cuts, health care reform, and asking the wealthiest Americans to pay a little bit more on their taxes, over the past five years we’ve cut our deficits by more than half. When I took office, the deficit was nearly 10 percent of our economy. Today, it’s approaching 3 percent. (Applause.) In other words, we can shore up America’s long-term finances without falling back into the mindless austerity or manufactured crises or trying to find excuses to slash benefits to seniors that dominated Washington budget debates for so long.
And finally, we’ve put in place financial reform to protect consumers and prevent a crisis on Wall Street from hammering Main Street ever again. We have new tools to prevent “too big to fail,” to stop taxpayer-funded bailouts. We made it illegal for big banks to gamble with your money. We established the first-ever consumer watchdog to protect consumers from irresponsible lending or credit card practices. We secured billions of dollars in relief for consumers who get taken advantage of. And working with states attorneys general like Lisa Madigan, we’ve seen industry practices changing.
Now, an argument you’ll hear oftentimes from critics is that the way to grow the economy is to just get rid of regulations; free folks up from the oppressive hand of the government. And you know, it turns out, truth be told, there are still some kind of dopey regulations on the books. (Laughter.) There are regulations that are outdated or are no longer serving a useful purpose. And we have scrubbed the laws out there and identified hundreds that are outdated, that don’t help our economy, that don’t make sense, and we’re saving businesses billions of dollars by gradually eliminating those unnecessary regulations. But you have to contrast that with rules that discourage a casino-style mentality on Wall Street, or rules that protect the basic safety of workers on the job, or rules that safeguard the air our children breathe and keep mercury or arsenic out of our water supply. These don’t just have economic benefits, these are rules that save lives and protect families. And I’ll always stand up for those -- and they’re good for our economy.
So here’s the bottom line: For all the work that remains, for all the citizens that we still need to reach, what I want people to know is that there are some really good things happening in America. Unemployment down. Jobs up. Manufacturing growing. Deficits cut by more than half. High school graduation is up. College enrollment up. Energy production up. Clean energy production up. Financial system more stable. Health care costs rising at a slower rate. Across the board, the trend lines have moved in the right direction.
