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- 2012.04.19 (영어뉴스) NPR 5분 뉴스 (2012-4-19)
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- 2012.04.18 [음성+대본] If You Hate Tax Day, Just Wait Until Next Year
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- 2012.04.18 (CNN 학습용 10분 뉴스) CNN Student News Transcript - April 18, 2012
- 2012.04.17 [음성+대본] Why Women Suffer More Migraines Than Men (여성에게 편두통이 더 많은 이유) 1
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- 2012.04.17 (CNN 학습용 10분 뉴스) CNN Student News Transcript - April 17, 2012
- 2012.04.16 IMF chief's optimistic view of the world economy
- 2012.04.16 [음성+대본]Ignore 'The Mama's Boy Myth': Keep Your Boys Close (마마보이 관련 편견) 1
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- 2012.04.13 [음성+대본] 미국에서의 요가 (To Some Hindus, Modern Yoga Has Lost Its Way) 3
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- 2012.04.12 [음성+대본] NPR 모닝 이디션 : Your (Virtual) Future Self Wants You To Save Up
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(CNN 학습용 10분 뉴스) CNN Student News Transcript - April , 2012
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[음성+대본] If You Hate Tax Day, Just Wait Until Next Year
A tax service company in Brooklyn, N.Y, on Tuesday, the filing deadline for federal taxes.
More than 99 million federal taxpayers had filed their returns as of Tuesday, with more than 80 million of those expecting a refund.
People who file at the last minute — and Tuesday is this year's deadline — are somewhat more likely to owe money to the government. And if Congress and the president don't act, next year could see many more Americans paying higher taxes.
That's not because either President Obama or presumptive Republican challenger Mitt Romney advocate a tax increase for most Americans.
Last week in St. Louis, Romney received applause when he declared: "Instead of raising taxes, I'm going to cut 'em."
Obama is almost as tax averse, limiting his call for tax hikes to the wealthiest 2 percent of Americans. He has called for tax hikes only for those making $250,000 a year or more.
A Bush-Era Tradition
And yet, the way the tax law is now written, 2012 could mark the end of more than a decade of rock-bottom taxes.
"Potentially, we could see the biggest tax increase in modern history" in 2013, says Bob Williams of the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center.
The tax cuts championed by President George W. Bush a decade ago, and extended in 2010, are due to expire at year's end. That would mean higher taxes at every level of income, as well as higher taxes on dividends, inheritance and capital gains.
"The biggest hits would be on the very wealthy," says Williams. "Those are the people who've benefited most from the Bush-era tax cuts. But people at the very bottom would be hit as well."
All of this will happen automatically unless Congress and the president act in concert to prevent it.
"It's the do-nothing option," says Williams. "If Congress does nothing, taxes go up automatically."
Not everyone is alarmed by that.
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg told CBS last month that taxes have to go up for everyone in order to put a dent in the federal budget.
"Most of this country is middle class. And that's where most of the tax revenue is. So if you want to raise $4 trillion over the next 10 years, which gets you halfway — only halfway — to a balanced budget, everybody's taxes have to go up," said Bloomberg.
Action, Or 'Benign Neglect'?
Economist Diane Lim Rogers of the deficit-watchdog Concord Coalition agrees that stemming the tide of red ink will require more tax revenue. But she sees some problems with letting the Bush-era tax cuts expire all at once.
"It wouldn't be the worst thing that could happen," says Rogers. "I think economists would prefer that instead of things happening out of benign neglect, that better things could happen out of good policymaking."
And Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke warns that a sudden, automatic increase in tax rates across the board next year could weaken a still fragile economy.
Rogers says a better approach would be to gradually close some of the special loopholes and deductions in the tax code that cost the government more than $1 trillion a year.
"The federal government spends a lot of money on benefit programs for the rich," says Rogers. "It just spends that money through the tax system rather than on the direct spending side of the budget."
But any big rewrite of the tax code is politically challenging.
Hopes for a grand budget bargain fell apart last year when Obama pressed for more tax revenue, and Republicans refused. If Obama wins re-election in November, Bloomberg thinks the threat of automatic tax hikes will give him more negotiating leverage with Congress.
"All the president has to do is say, 'I am going to veto any bill that tries to stop the automatic ending of the Bush-era tax cuts for everybody,' " explains Bloomberg. "And then everybody's taxes will go up."
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[초보자용 VOA 30분뉴스] VOA Special English 2012-4-18
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(CNN 학습용 10분 뉴스) CNN Student News Transcript - April 18, 2012
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[음성+대본] Why Women Suffer More Migraines Than Men (여성에게 편두통이 더 많은 이유)
April 16, 2012
One in four women has had a migraine. And, it turns out, the debilitating headaches affect three times more women than men.
But why?
Decades ago, these headaches were attributed to women's inability to cope with stress, a sort of hysteria. Now experts are starting to figure out the factors that really make a difference.
Today scientists know a migraine is all in your head — but not in that old-fashioned sense. Migraines are biologically based, and they play themselves out as a wave of electrical activity traveling across the brain.
Dr. Andrew Charles directs the Headache Research and Treatment Program in the UCLA Department of Neurology. He describes what occurs during a migraine as a "spectacular neuro-physiological event" that involves bursts of electrical activity that start in the vision center of the brain. That, Charles says, is why the headaches include a "visual aura, those jagged lines or sparkling lights, that commonly occur in 20 to 30 percent of migraine patients."
The brain activity then travels like a wave across the landscape of the brain, moving into areas that control sensation. Patients feel numbness or tingling, like pins and needles. Then the wave hits the area that controls language, and, when that happens, Charles says, "it can cause dramatic difficulty finding words or garbling of speech."
Charles says the pounding pain of a migraine is believed to be generated from deep within the brain. Some scientists think the wave of activity triggers the pain. Others, including Charles, think pain occurs simultaneously with the electrical wave as it traverses the brain.
What triggers a migraine is nearly as complicated as the migraine itself. There are environmental changes like sounds, light, smells and movement. There are genes; migraine risk is hereditary.
But there is one major trigger, and this is why women have so many more migraines than men.
Neurologist Jan Lewis Brandes, founder of the Nashville Neuroscience Group, says migraines can be triggered by hormonal fluctuation. Migraines are slightly more common in boys than girls until girls begin menstruation. And once girls begin to menstruate, and hormones begin to fluctuate up and down, the number of their migraines increases dramatically.
A PET image of a migraine as it develops in the brain of a patient.
The main culprit is estrogen, although researchers think other hormones may also be involved. But the uncertainty contributes to the difficulty of migraine treatment.
There are drugs to reduce the pain and length of a migraine. Others cut down on the frequency of attacks. But there isn't a cure. As many as half of all patients say treatment isn't effective for them. And nearly all say they'd happily try a new treatment if it became available.
That's exactly what UCLA's Charles is trying to come up with in a lab that's stuffed with microscopes, cameras, lasers, computers and a few mice. Charles points to one mouse, under anesthesia, lying on its stomach under a scanner that tracks changes in brain activity after stimulation with a caffeine-like substance. Caffeine can trigger migraines in humans.
Finding effective treatment to reduce the number of attacks is critically important, says Charles, because "migraines beget migraines." The more of them you have, the more vulnerable you become to having another.
And that lends urgency to finding a way to reduce how often the headaches strike. "We've begun to see from researchers that the frequency of migraine attack is linked to permanent changes in the brain, and I think that changes the playing field for patients and those of us who take care" of them, Brandes says. "We really need to think carefully about how to control the frequency of attacks and really need to do it earlier rather than later."
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[초보자용 VOA 30분 영어뉴스] VOA Special English 2012-4-17
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(CNN 학습용 10분 뉴스) CNN Student News Transcript - April 17, 2012
STUDENT NEWS
Tax Day in the U.S.
Aired April 17, 2012 - 04:00:00 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Hey, Carl, this is English class from South Korea.
SAM (PH): I am Sam (ph).
DUNONG (PH): I am Dunong (ph).
NISO (PH): I`m Niso (ph).
MIGNON (PH): I`m Mignon (ph), and I`m teaching English to these kids as a volunteer.
DALE (PH): I`m Dale (ph).
HANNAH (PH): I`m Hannah (ph).
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: This is --
GROUP: CNN Student News.
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CARL AZUZ, HOST, CNN STUDENT NEWS: An introduction from halfway around the world -- awesome. Thank you to those students and thanks to all of you for spending part of your Tuesday with CNN Student News.
First up, today is the annual April deadline for Americans to file their taxes. All right. You hear about taxes all the time. There are different kinds of them, but they`re all basically fees that governments collect in order to pay for the goods and services that governments provide.
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AZUZ (voice-over): Federal, state, local governments can set different taxes for different things. For example, most of you have probably paid a sales tax. That`s extra money you pay when you buy something. If you have a job and notice that your paycheck is less than you expected, that might be because of what was taken out for income taxes.
The federal government and most states charge a fee on the money people earn. That`s what today`s deadline is all about. Every year, people have to file their income tax returns, which lists what they earned and what taxes they`ve already paid. Normally, that has to be done by April 15th. That was a Sunday this year, so people were given an extra two days.
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AZUZ: You might be wondering what the government uses tax money for or when all this started. That`s part of what Lizzie O`Leary is going to explain in this breakdown.
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LIZZIE O`LEARY, CNN CORRESPONDENT: If you don`t pay your taxes, the IRS will eventually find you. We know a lot of people get hauled into court for their back taxes.
About one-fifth of it goes to defense. About one-fifth goes to Social Security. Another fifth goes to health care, and a little less than that goes to veterans.
We had an income tax during the Civil War. Then it was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in 1895. Then the income tax came back in 1913, and that sets up the modern income tax as we know it today.
One of the reasons that historians think we pay in the spring was at one point, taxes were levied, mostly on the rich, and the rich started to get out of town for the summer in the spring. So the government wanted to collect taxes in the spring before rich people skipped town.
We have a very complicated tax structure, and a lot of it has grown up because interest groups have asked for certain things as our tax laws have been rewritten. The last time it got a full rewrite was back in 1986. Ever since then, most lawmakers have been talking about how complicated the tax code is, but no one`s rewritten it.
There are all sorts of battles about the tax code. Some people have proposed flat taxes, a national sales tax, whether the rich should pay more in taxes. Probably the biggest battle is whether tax cuts passed in 2001 and 2003 should expire or be made permanent.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Today`s Shoutout goes out to Mr. McConnell`s English class at Robert Louis Stevenson Middle School in Los Angeles, California. Riyadh is the capital of what country? You know what to do. Is it Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan or Oman? You`ve got three seconds, go.
Riyadh is the capital of Saudi Arabia. It`s also the country`s most populated city. That`s your answer, and that`s your Shoutout.
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AZUZ (voice-over): An area around that Middle Eastern capital was plunged into darkness last Friday by a massive sandstorm that hit Saudi Arabia. A CNN iReporter took this video of the storm. You can get a sense for how far it stretches.
The iReporter said he`s never seen a sandstorm this big before. Behind him -- you see it right there -- totally clear, but then there`s this giant cloud rushing forward on the other side. He said when the storm did finally reach where he was, it was a total blackout. He jumped in his car as the sand passed over, and said the vehicle shook for two straight minutes from the power of the storm.
Our next story takes us from Saudi Arabia up to Syria. We reported yesterday on renewed violence in that country after a temporary truce last Thursday. That was the deadline for a cease-fire and a peace plan put together by a United Nations representative.
U.N. observers are in Syria right now. They`re there to monitor the situation, see if a cease-fire can last. Yesterday both sides, government and opposition forces, reported fighting. The opposition said the government was launching attacks on Syrian cities. The government blamed the violence on armed terrorists, a claim it`s made many times.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Is this legit? in baseball scoring, the letter K represents a strikeout.
Yep. A forward K means the batter struck out swinging. A backward one means the batter was called out on strikes.
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AZUZ: Well, some Major Leaguers want to use their Ks to help strike out modern-day slavery. It`s part of a campaign called Free to Play, and you don`t have to be a pro to get involved. All you have to do is follow your favorite player`s stats. Mark McKay has more details on how this works.
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MARK MCKAY, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Spring is in the air, and baseball is back. But before these players get on the field, some are hoping to fight an off-the-field problem, helping children who have fallen victim to slavery and human trafficking.
JEREMY AFFELDT, SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS PITCHER: This is an opportunity for us as ball players to join together as one unit as a team to come together and to support something that`s very, very important, especially for people who dream. And when kids get trafficked and some of that kills their dreams, we`ve been provided tons of opportunities to dream, that`s how we`ve accomplished our dream.
MCKAY: Jeremy Affeldt, the San Francisco Giants pitcher, is one of the most vocal athletes helping to fight slavery. Last year, for every strikeout he pitched, Affeldt donated $250 to Not for Sale`s Free to Play campaign, which funds athletic programs for children who have been trafficked or exploited.
Last year, Affeldt convinced his friend, Matt Holliday of the St. Louis Cardinals, to take up the cause. Now more than 17 players have joined the fight, from pitchers to position players, on at least nine different teams.
PAUL GOLDSCHMIDT, ARIZONA DIAMONBACKS FIRST BASEMAN: To be honest, I didn`t even know it was an issue in the world. And glad that, you know, people are out there trying to help kids and people all over the world.
JOSH COLLMENTER, ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS PITCHER: It`s definitely something that I wanted to make sure I did, was be able to give back to the community and be a role model and help out where you can.
MCKAY (voice-over): And it`s not just players who can help. Not for Sale has launched a Facebook app, allowing baseball fans to create their own fantasy team to raise money.
DAVE BATSTONE, FOUNDER, NOT FOR SALE: A fan can chose a team for their favorite team, their favorite player, their favorite stat and pledge 50 cents, a dime, it doesn`t matter what the money is, but they can participate. That`s going to raise this program to another level.
MCKAY (voice-over): Fans can donate based on any player`s achievements, even if that player is not himself pledging.
BATSTONE: It really creates this community around we love baseball and we`re going to use it in a way that I sure that all kids around the world are free to play.
MCKAY (voice-over): Mark McKay, CNN.
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AZUZ: Speaking your mind came up last Wednesday, when we reported on controversial comments made by Miami Marlins manager Ozzie Guillen.
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AZUZ (voice-over): Chris wrote, "In `A League of Their Own,` Tom Hanks said, `There`s no crying in baseball.` Evidently there`s no freedom of speech, either. The suspension is a pitiful attempt to avoid an economic boycott and sets a terrible precedent."
Jody says, "It`s one thing to speak your mind. It`s another to hurt someone`s feelings. It`s not illegal, but that doesn`t mean it`s right"
Ruben called Guillen`s comments "kinda disrespectful for the people who left Cuba for freedom in America. Plus Guillen`s a baseball manager. He shouldn`t be worried about Castro, but about his baseball team."
Alexus thinks, "People need to keep their comments to themselves. Even though it`s right to speak your mind, some things just can`t be said because it can come out the wrong way."
And from Amy, "You should say what you want. But when you`re in the public eye and say something that`s going to offend people, you should be prepared to have less people like you."
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AZUZ: Before we go, I hope they have some extra wide spaces in the student parking lot, because these guys are going to need a little more room.
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AZUZ (voice-over): It`s Auburndale, Wisconsin`s "Bring Your Tractor to School" Day. The tradition begins with a parade, then a stop at the local elementary school. It raises awareness about tractor safety, and lets the riders celebrate their region`s farming heritage. This is the fifth year for the event.
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AZUZ: And it`s obviously able to "a-tractor" draw some attention. We`re pretty sure that next year you can expect a "reap-eat" performance, since this "farm" of fun is so popular. I planted this story on CNN`s education blog, "Schools of Thought," so you can "seed" it there. We plowed through all our time for today. We`ll put together another crop of headlines tomorrow. Whoo! CNN Student News, I`m Carl Azuz.
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IMF chief's optimistic view of the world economy
The International Monetary Fund’s managing director, Christine Lagarde, is offering a cautious, but optimistic view of the world economy. VOA’s Ken Bredemeier in Washington reports that Lagarde says the world has survived the immediate threat posed by the European debt crisis, but she warns that global economic fortunes remain fragile.
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[음성+대본]Ignore 'The Mama's Boy Myth': Keep Your Boys Close (마마보이 관련 편견)
There are plenty of pop culture references to the dangers of a close mother-son relationship going all the way back to the Oedipus myth, or more recently, the movie "Psycho."
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JANET LEIGH: (As Marion Crane) Do you go out with friends?
ANTHONY PERKINS: (As Norman Bates) Well, a boy's best friend is his mother.
SULLIVAN: The idea is if you're a man and your mother raised you with too much affection, then she has prevented you from being tough and independent, or conversely, if you're a mother of boys and you keep them too close, you will make them feminine, weak or even awkward. But for millions of men, the opposite has turned out to be true.
That's the basis of a new book by Kate Lombardi, a writer and mother herself. It's called "The Mama's Boy Myth: Why Keeping Our Sons Close Makes Them Stronger." Kate Lombardi joins us from NPR Studio in New York. Kate, welcome.
KATE LOMBARDI: Thanks for having me.
SULLIVAN: Kate, the common wisdom for decades has been that a good mother is one that leaves her son alone. Are boys who grow up with close mothers doomed?
LOMBARDI: Not at all. In fact, boys who grow up with moms who keep them close are kind of inoculated from a lot of behavioral problems they can have later on in life. They're lucky boys if their moms keep them close.
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SULLIVAN: And you have a son too.
LOMBARDI: I do. He's now an adult. He's 23. And he and I were very close. And for a long time, I thought that what we had was kind of unique, that I was somehow blessed with this especially sensitive, caring boy. But as I came to find out, I was far from alone.
SULLIVAN: It seems like it's okay for mothers and daughters to have a really close relationship, or even fathers and daughters to have a close relationship, but why have boys been left out of this?
LOMBARDI: You know, it's the only parent-child relationship that's been stigmatized in some way. As you say, mothers and daughters, everyone thinks that's swell. I'm very close to my daughter. It doesn't raise any eyebrows. A dad who is close to his daughter, that's a lucky girl. And certainly, you know, fathers and sons, everyone think that's very important. And it is.
But mothers and sons, that relationship is always looked at with a little skepticism and a little fear. And I think it's really a hangover from the Oedipus complex - for its Oedipus complex.
SULLIVAN: Is that - I mean, is that what you pin all this on? Is that where you think that this mindset came from?
LOMBARDI: I think some of this fear and anxiety around the mother-son relationship really predates Freud. But that said, Freud codified it. And I was amazed how many moms in 2012 were still bringing up the Oedipus complex.
SULLIVAN: So what does a close mother-son relationship look like? What are we really talking about?
LOMBARDI: Well, you know, let me just start by saying what it doesn't look like. It does not - it's not one of these relationships where a mom is dominating or controlling and she refuses to let her son grow up. That's the stereotype. A healthy, loving relationship is one where the mom is, you know, emotionally supportive of her son. She recognizes his individuality, his sensitivity and his vulnerability along with his strengths.
And there's kind of like a synchronicity there. A mom is able to respond to her son with what he needs when he needs it. I don't think it's that different from what a healthy mother-daughter relationship looks like, although I realize that that is a provocative point of view.
SULLIVAN: What has the message been to mothers up until this point? What were they supposed to do with their sons?
LOMBARDI: Moms get messages from remarkably early ages to push their little boys away. And it starts when they're little babies, and it goes on - I mean, I talked to moms who, you know, were comforting, you know, toddlers and told that their boys should learn to man up. One Seattle, Washington, mom told me that her pediatrician told her that when she comforted her boy when he fell, she was modeling anxiety.
These messages go on through the middle school ages and certainly when our boys are teenagers. We get the strong message that the last thing a boy needs is his mother, when in fact, the research shows just the opposite. Teenage boys clearly need their moms, and their moms can play a very positive influence in their life.
SULLIVAN: What kind of research is out there that would say that it is important for mothers and sons to be close?
LOMBARDI: There's a lot out there, and it starts from the time when guys are just, you know, little babies. Starting from very early ages, you see the benefits of keeping them close and the dangers of not. Boys, in particular, really suffer if that attachment is not good. And they go on to have much more aggressive behavior, they're much more disobedient, they're a little bit violent.
There's also some really interesting research that's been done on middle school boys. Boys who were closer to their moms had a little more flexible definition of what it meant to be a guy. They didn't think, for instance, that every time you got challenged you had to fight, or that being a guy means acting tough or going it alone.
Well, it turns out that those boys were a little more flexible in how they viewed masculinity, have less depression and less anxiety than their kind of tougher peer. So the closer to your mom actually translates into better mental health.
SULLIVAN: What has it done for the men out there who can look back at their own relationships to their mother and decide, was I very close to my mother? What kind of difference would you see in the kind of man that comes out of that?
LOMBARDI: Men who are brought up close to their moms go on to have an easier time in a lot of ways. They have an easier time in their adult relationships, because one of the things that moms tend to do with their boys is they teach them emotional intelligence. They teach them to recognize their feelings and talk about them starting from really young ages.
You know, like when they're - you see that kid in the grocery store having a meltdown and the mother goes: Use your words, which is always kind of annoying to me, but in fact, that is what the mom is doing, you know, right through to when she doesn't accept her high school kid coming home and slamming the door and saying: I don't want to talk about it, and then, you know, saying: Well, I know you don't and cool off, but when you're ready, you know, let's try and see what's going on.
Those guys do better in relationships as adults. They have stronger friendships. And most interesting to me, too, is they're actually going to have a better time at work.
SULLIVAN: How old is your son now?
LOMBARDI: My son is 23, and my daughter is 26. I don't like to leave her out of the story...
SULLIVAN: Not to leave her out.
LOMBARDI: ...even we are talking about mothers and sons.
SULLIVAN: What does he think of the book?
LOMBARDI: He is conflicted. He's read it, of course, and I vetted everything with him because I didn't - you know, there are some personal anecdotes, and I didn't want him to be, like, surprised or embarrassed. You know, he's proud of it. And he's not ashamed of our closeness. And, you know, he's a pretty big boost around this stuff.
SULLIVAN: That's Kate Lombardi. Her book is called "The Mama's Boy Myth." Kate, thank you so much for joining us.
LOMBARDI: Thank you so much for having me. It was fun.
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[초보자용 VOA 30분 영어뉴스] VOA Special English 2012-4-16
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(CNN 학습용 10분 뉴스) CNN Student News Transcript - April 16, 2012
STUDENT NEWS
Titanic Remebered; More Than a Hundred Tornadoes Reported
Aired April 16, 2012 - 04:00:00 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CARL AZUZ, HOST, CNN STUDENT NEWS: My name is Carl Azuz, reporting from the CNN Newsroom in Atlanta, Georgia, welcoming our viewers from around the world to a new week of CNN Student News.
First up, we`re reporting on some severe weather. Around the midwestern United States, people are recovering from a series of powerful storms and tornadoes. These things were going on all weekend. Forecasters predicted the most dangerous conditions yesterday would be in Wisconsin, Minnesota and Iowa. Several states got hit on Saturday, including Nebraska, Kansas and Oklahoma.
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AZUZ (voice-over): There were more than 120 reports of possible tornado touchdowns. You can see one of those here, along with some of the damage that came from it. There were reports of at least five deaths. Rob Marciano described the conditions as one tornado formed.
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ROB MARCIANO, AMS METEOROLOGIST: We just came on the eastern flank of this storm, and the tornado just dropped out of the clouds. This has had a history of producing tornadoes south and west of here towards Woodward. And it`s moving north at about 30-35 miles an hour.
Just pulled over to get a better look at it. You can see the condensation swirling around it. You can -- you can see also the inflow, the rear flank downdraft. This is just how they describe them in textbooks. Sirens from vehicles and sirens in the town of Carmen (ph) happening right now.
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AZUZ (voice-over): Checking out a few international headlines now, starting with North Korea, the country ran a controversial rocket launch late last week. The rocket broke apart less than two minutes after the launch, but it still led to harsh criticism from other countries. The U.S. suspended a deal to send food aid to North Korea because of this launch.
Moving west now to Afghanistan, where the Taliban says it`s responsible for a wave of attacks across the country on Sunday. The Taliban is the militant group that used to rule most of Afghanistan. Officials praise Afghan security forces for their quick and effective response to the attacks, saving lives.
Finally, last week`s temporary halt to the fighting in Syria, that seems to be over. Opposition groups reported that government helicopters were firing on the city of Homs yesterday. The government blames armed terrorists for breaking the ceasefire.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: See if you can ID me. I was founded in 1872. I`m a university that includes a military college. I`m located in Blacksburg, Virginia, and my mascot is the Hokie.
I`m Virginia Tech, attended by more than 30,000 students.
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AZUZ: Today will likely be a day of remembrance for many of those students and the Virginia Tech community. It was exactly five years ago today when a student went on a shooting spree at Virginia Tech. He killed dozens of people, including students and teachers, before he took his own life.
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AZUZ (voice-over): Every year since, special ceremonies and events have honored the victims of that shooting. This video from 2008 shows some of the memorials on the Virginia Tech campus. This year, the university`s day of remembrance includes the lighting of a ceremonial candle, which will stay lit for 24 hours. There will also be a candlelight vigil, a memorial exhibit and a statewide moment of silence.
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AZUZ: Yesterday marked another tragic anniversary. On April 15th, 1912, exactly 100 years ago, the Titanic sank after it hit an iceberg in the North Atlantic Ocean. There have been plenty of books, TV specials, movies about this disaster.
The story is almost as much pop culture as it is history. But what about the time in which Titanic existed. Michael Holmes has something really cool today. He`s going to give you an idea of what life was like in 1912.
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MICHAEL HOLMES, CNN CONTRIBUTOR (voice-over): Most of the passengers on the Titanic`s maiden voyage were dining and dancing that fateful night, dressed in their finest. 1912 was a more formal time. Men wore striped trousers and top hats. Women buttoned and squeezed themselves into tea gowns and corsets. The zipper, as we know it today, hadn`t been invented yet.
Ragtime music was all the rage as the hip couples danced the one-step and the tango. And going to the movies cost around 5 cents a ticket -- without snacks. In 1912, the hottest thing to own was not an iPad but a Model T Ford. Cars still shared the roads with horses back then. The car, about $690, roughly $15,000 in today`s money.
A gallon of gas to run it? As little as 7 cents -- 7 cents, $1.61 today. And forget the Happy Meal. It was the first year children could get a prize from a box of Cracker Jacks (sic). And in the U.S., everyone was trying out the brand new Life Savers candy, Pep-O-Mint flavor only.
Of course, there were no cell phones or Internet or television, but it was the dawn of radio. Before 1912, there was no such thing as the Dixie cup, the vitamin pill or stainless steel. In sports, boxing had its first African-American heavyweight champion, Jack Johnson.
And the fifth Summer Olympics -- yes, the fifth -- introduced women`s swimming and diving events. These Aussie ladies took the gold and silver in the 100 meter freestyle, in style.
It was how life was lived back then, as the Titanic left port, bound for tragedy and the history books -- Michael Holmes, CNN, Atlanta.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Time for the Shoutout. What city hosts the world`s oldest annual marathon race? If you think you know it, then shout it out. Is it New York, New York; London, United Kingdom; Boston, Massachusetts or Marathon, Greece? You`ve got three seconds, go.
Boston is home to the world`s oldest annual marathon. It`s been run there for more than 100 years in a row. That`s your answer, and that`s your Shoutout.
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AZUZ: Only 15 people ran the first Boston Marathon. Now tens of thousands of runners from all over the world come to the city to take on the 26.2 mile course. One of the participates in today`s race is Cameron Kerr, the military veteran was wounded while serving in Afghanistan and crossing the finish line today will the latest step in his recovery.
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CAMERON KERR, U.S. VETERAN, RUNNER: At Walter Reed, we had a thing called our Alive Day, which we celebrate just as anyone would a birthday. It`s the day that we didn`t die and we cheated death and got to see the sun rise the next day.
For most of us, it was the day we stepped on an IED or our vehicles hit an IED or we got shot or what have you.
My name is Cameron Kerr. I served as a platoon leader in Zhari District, Kandahar Province, Afghanistan. My Alive Day is February 16th, 2011. I didn`t sleep that first night. I started thinking about what life as an amputee would be like. But at a certain point, I switched from what`s going to be different to what`s going to be better.
And I started thinking about little things, like, oh, well, now I won`t have to fold socks. And I`m going to get to go to all these hospitals and meet a bunch of cute nurses. Back when I was 13 or 14 is when I started first getting involved, through my parents, with the Sudanese Lost Boys, and started getting a new kind of first appreciation for everything that was given to me, just by virtue of being born in the States.
As a high schooler, I started thinking very seriously about the Army, which terrified my mother, obviously.
Running the Boston Marathon is something I had never entertained as a thought. When I lost my leg, some of the folks at Achilles (ph) introduced me to the opportunities that they presented for wounded veterans. That`s when I started thinking about actually doing these events when I got my prosthetic and then I started walking and ditched my canes and my crutches.
Starting off small and just walking five miles in Central Park last June, I moved on to the Marine Corps Marathon 10K in D.C., the New York City Marathon. I hand-cycled 16 miles and then ran the last 10. Just in January, the Disney Half-Marathon, which today is the furthest I`ve ever run in my life. And myself, my running partner, decided if we can do that, why not Boston?
And after that, I feel I`d be completely ready for really anything that challenges me in the future. If I can run a marathon with one leg, really, I can do whatever I put my mind to.
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AZUZ: Great stuff.
Finally, today, we have a story for you about being in the right place at the right time.
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WOODY ROSELAND, WINNER: I live downtown. I have my glove, and so I said, let`s do that.
AZUZ (voice-over): That was Woody Roseland`s reaction when Colorado Rockies pitcher Jeremy Guthrie asked on Twitter if anyone wanted to play catch. Roseland replied. The next thing you know, he was at the Rockies Stadium tossing around the ball.
Roseland lost his leg to cancer. The 21-year old has been fighting the disease for five years. That`s why the visit to the stadium was the second-best thing that happened to Roseland that day. Earlier in the morning, he found out from his doctor that he`s cancer-free.
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AZUZ: That kind of great news followed by a random meeting with a Major Leaguer sounds like the perfect double header. It shows you should always keep your eyes open, because you never know when these kinds of opportunities might pop up. We`re going to throw it back to your teachers now, but we will catch up with you tomorrow for more CNN Student News. Have a great day.
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[음성+대본] 미국에서의 요가 (To Some Hindus, Modern Yoga Has Lost Its Way)
To Some Hindus, Modern Yoga Has Lost Its Way
April 11, 2012 - RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST:
Let's turn to another voice that wants to be heard. Something like 20 million people in the United States are practicing some form of yoga, from the very formalized Iyengar and Ashtanga forms to the much less formal Yoga Butt. But some Hindus want recognition that yoga is more than exercise, that it is part of a larger philosophy, one with deeps Hindu roots. NPR's Margot Adler reports.
MARGOT ADLER, BYLINE: The forms of yoga go back centuries. Even here in this young country, the United States, the transcendentalists were doing yoga. New York Times Science reporter William Broad, who just wrote "The Science of Yoga," has been a practitioner since 1970. He says it's an antidote for our chaotic world.
WILLIAM BROAD: You see a wild correlation between yoga studios and the most stressful places on the planet - lower Manhattan or areas of Los Angeles, you know, where the traffic, you just want to - road rage is like, out there, right? Ding, ding, ding, ding; one yoga studio after another.
ADLER: People go into yoga for all kinds of reasons - health, fitness, spirituality, energy, creativity.
BROAD: It's because yoga works. Yoga works to unplug, to relax, to help tense urbanites deal with that tension.
ADLER: But some Hindus have been taken aback seeing much yoga practice in the United States emphasizing only the physical.
Sheetal Shah is one of the leaders of the Hindu American Foundation's campaign Take Back Yoga. It all started, she says, when they noticed the word Hindu was never mentioned in yoga magazines. You saw vedic, tantric - all kinds of other words except Hindu. So they called up one of the most popular magazines and asked why.
SHEETAL SHAH: And they said well, the word Hinduism has a lot of baggage. And so we were like, excuse me?
ADLER: Shah says she understands why some people have a problem. When people think of yoga, they think of something pure and serene. When they think of Hinduism, she says, they think...
SHAH: Multiple gods, with multiple heads and multiple arms and colorful, you know; ritualistic. It seems like, how do these two things fit together?
ADLER: She says the Take Back Yoga campaign wants to acknowledge the Hindu philosophical roots of yoga, while at the same time emphasizing that yoga is universal and appropriate for everyone.
SHAH: What we're trying to say is that the holistic practice of yoga goes beyond just a couple of asanas on a mat. It's a lifestyle, and it's a philosophy. How do you lead your life in terms of truthfulness and nonviolence and purity? The lifestyle aspect of yoga, I think, has been lost.
ADLER: Now, there's all kinds of scholarly debate about yoga's origins. Certainly, it goes back to a time before the name Hindu was used to describe a spiritual tradition based on the Vedas, although Shah would argue vedic, Hindu - it's all the same thing. But science reporter William Broad says yoga was really reinvented in the 1920s and '30s. Some of the tantric and sexual aspects were taken out, and more health and exercise put in. It was kind of cleaned up.
BROAD: There is no yoga. There are hundreds and thousand of things that are labeled yoga.
ADLER: He remembers practicing laughter yoga in Bombay, and having a great time.
BROAD: But in truth, there is nothing yogic about laughter yoga.
ADLER: Alison West has been teaching yoga since the 1980s. West says it's important that yoga be accessible to Jews, Christians, atheists - people who have no affinity with Hindu spiritual traditions but who use it for personal satisfaction, even emotional and mental awakening.
ALISON WEST: The genius of yoga is to be accessible to all. It's very important to not overstress the Hindu origins of yoga and at the same time, nobody should dismiss the vast importance that Hinduism has played in the evolution of yoga over the centuries.
GENNY KAPULER: I do feel that it is Hindu in my understanding, in my sensitivity of it.
ADLER: For Iyengar Yoga instructor Genny Kapuler, what is that understanding? I ask?
KAPULER: Every thought, every action has a ramification; that there is this moral responsibility to own what you do.
ADLER: Sheetal Shah argues the campaign is working because it has brought about this discussion. Many practitioners would argue they are going far beyond a few poses and breaths. Ginny Kapuler says she is amazed at how the practice she does has led to emotional stability, happiness, and a deepening of human kindness.
KAPULER: And I still am amazed, all the time, that this practice of even your weight on your feet - you know, bring your thighs back; over and over and over. I practice it over and over, and I think it and I teach it, and I change.
ADLER: Margot Adler, NPR News.
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(CNN 학습용 10분 뉴스) CNN Student News Transcript - April 13, 2012
STUDENT NEWS
Cease-Fire in Syria?; North Korea`s Rocket Test
Aired April 13, 2012 - 04:00:00 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This is (inaudible) class at John (Inaudible) Middle School.
GROUP: Welcome to CNN Student News.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Take it away, Carl.
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CARL AZUZ, HOST, CNN STUDENT NEWS: Thanks to Ms. Bailey`s (ph) class for that introduction You know we always think Friday`s are awesome, although you friggatriskaidekaphobics might disagree about this particular Friday. Today CNN Student News is taking you all over the world. We start in the Middle East.
Different groups from around the world have been pushing for an end to the violence in Syria. Yesterday, that seemed to happen, even if it was only for a short time. The sound of artillery fire has been daily event in many Syrian cities. Part of a peace plan set a Thursday deadline for the cease-fire.
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AZUZ (voice-over): And listen to this.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: (Speaking foreign language).
AZUZ (voice-over): What you don`t hear is artillery fire, no explosions. This YouTube video does show a tank in the middle of the city, but there doesn`t seem to be any fighting going on, at least for a few moments.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said it was a critical moment for ending the violence in Syria. But he also said the world was watching with what he called skeptical eyes, since the Syrian government hasn`t kept several promises it`s made in the past.
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AZUZ: The window for a North Korean rocket launch is open. The nation announced last month that the launch could happen any time between yesterday and Monday. We`ve reported on the tensions surrounding this rocket.
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AZUZ (voice-over): North Korea says it`s using it to launch a weather satellite into orbit. But other countries, like the U.S. and South Korea think the launch is just a cover for North Korea to test a ballistic missile.
Tom Foreman explains how experts might be able to learn what this rocket is for.
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TOM FOREMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Intelligence analysts and rocket scientists all around the world have watched very closely the development of this rocket. They know that there has been input from the Russians and from the Chinese in terms of the technology used. They know that the North Koreans have also played with that a good bit.
But they don`t know a whole lot of other things about this rocket, other than the general shape and the possible capability. Last one, the Unha-2, is about 100 feet tall. This one seems to be taller than that a bit, 176,000 pounds in weight roughly. And the payload, boy, this is a big guess here, anywhere from 200 to 1,400 pounds, maybe a lot more.
It`s hard to say, because there`s so many specifics we don`t know about this. We do know that when it lifts off, there will be an awful lot of things to watch as it blasts up into space, things that will give intelligence services a sense of how well it`s performing.
For example, do the boosters drop off as they should in the drop zones indicated by North Korea? And beyond that how does this thing fly once it gets into space? They will look at the color of the flames coming out of the back. This will give them an idea of exactly what kind of fuel is being burned, how effectively it`s being burned.
They`ll look at the trajectory of the flight. Is it flying more like a satellite launching missile, or is it flying more like a ballistic missile? There are differences in the direction which they fly. They`ll also look at the telemetry, all of the information coming out of this as it flies.
That won`t only be professional services looking at it, but all sorts of amateurs around the world, in Australia and South America, keeping track of that, seeing what they can figure out. And the overall performance, is it acting like a well-disciplined, well-constructed rocket as it flies 17,000 miles an hour, 300 miles in the air, and tries to launch this little satellite right here, which is really the focus of it all.
When you think about it, because that little satellite is actually a very low performance piece of technology as far as we know, kind of like Telstar was back in 1962. The big question is: would you put all of that technology to work just to launch this? That`s what intelligence analysts think is the big question.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Today`s Shoutout goes out to Mr. Butler`s civics classes at Ben Gamla Charter School in Plantation, Florida. The Ring of Fire is located around which ocean? You know what to do. Is it the Arctic Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean or Pacific Ocean? You`ve got three seconds, go.
The perimeter of the Pacific Ocean is where you`ll find the Ring of Fire, although it`s shaped more like a horseshoe than a ring. That`s your answer, and that`s your Shoutout.
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AZUZ (voice-over): The Ring of Fire is a huge area of seismic activity. In fact, around 90 percent of all the world`s earthquakes happen inside that region. That includes the powerful quake that hit Indonesia on Wednesday. Had a magnitude of 8.6. It was followed by a shock that was an 8.2. No immediate reports of any major damage, but that wasn`t the only activity in the Ring of Fire.
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AZUZ: Early the next morning, a pair of earthquakes hit off the coast of Mexico. They weren`t as powerful as the ones in Indonesia. They registered with magnitudes of 6.9 and 6.2.
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AZUZ (voice-over): We`re jumping from the Pacific Ocean over to the Gulf of Mexico now, where representatives from the Royal Dutch Shell Oil company say a sheen of oil has been spotted out in the water. The company says the sheen covers about 10 square miles.
That estimate would mean it`s equivalent to around 6 barrels of oil. Shell said activated an oil response ship to come out and deal with the sheen. The Coast Guard is trying to figure out who`s responsible.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: See if you can ID me. I was founded in 1846. I`m where you`d find George Washington`s uniform, the Star-Spangled Banner and Kermit the Frog.
With 19 museums, I`m the world`s largest museum and research complex.
I`m the Smithsonian, and many of my museums are located on the National Mall.
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AZUZ: The Smithsonian`s National Museum of American History has a new exhibit called "American Stories." The museum`s curator says it uses well- known and less familiar stories to tell the tale of America, from the Pilgrims to the present day.
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AZUZ (voice-over): Visitors can see some iconic cultural items, like Dorothy`s ruby slippers from "The Wizard of Oz." Kermit the Frog is part of this exhibit as well. And you`re about to see the boxing gloves worn by Muhammad Ali.
Technology also plays a big role in our society and a big role in the "American Stories" exhibit. The curator says her hope is that visitors realize they are part of America`s history, too.
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AZUZ (voice-over): You`ve read about a lot of that stuff in your history textbooks. In fact, much of what we learn throughout life comes from books. So in the spirit of National Library Week, we`re asking what your favorite book is and why. Do you even read for fun in your free time? If so, put that book down for just a second, and talk to us on our blog at cnnstudentnews.com.
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AZUZ: In the "Spotlight" section on our home page, you`ll see a link for CNN Heroes. It`s where you can nominate someone whom you think is making a difference in his or her community. Dr. Benjamin LaBrot doesn`t work in just one community. He`s found a way to affect lives all over. And the work he`s doing is why he`s one of this year`s CNN Heroes.
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DR. BENJAMIN LABROT, MEDICAL MARVEL: My name is Dr. Benjamin LaBrot. I don`t have a private medical practice. I make no salary.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Ben, you want to take her? This is Ingrid (ph).
LABROT: I started an organization called Floating Doctors to use a ship to bring health care to communities that have fallen through the cracks and denied access to health care.
Floating Doctors has a 76-foot 100-ton ship that we refurbished from a completely derelict hull, and we use that to transport all of our supplies. Since we set sail about 21/2 years ago, our mission has been continuous. We were two months in Haiti. We transited to Honduras. And we`ve been working in Panama for about the last eight months.
(Speaking Spanish.)
In the last two years, we`ve treated nearly 13,000 people in three countries.
OK, we`re on our way. We should be there in, like, 15 minutes.
I`ll find patients who have never seen a doctor before in their lives.
That was about as good a result on that ultrasound as we could possibly hope.
Typical community is usually living with no electricity, with no running water, with no sewage, essentially living with none of the basic requirements as we understand it.
We`ve built schools. We`ve done community projects. We`ve provided health education for thousands of patients.
Floating Doctors is an all-volunteer organization. Nobody gets paid. All of our medical supplies are donated. I had to postpone many aspects of my own personal life. I don`t have a home somewhere. I had to give up a lot, but I gained everything.
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AZUZ: When it comes to blowing up balloons, there`s the easy way --
-- and there`s the hard way.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Two, one.
AZUZ (voice-over): This is the hard way. It`s called a Rube Goldberg machine, something that does a simple task in a hugely complicated way. These students at Purdue University broke their own world record with this 300-step machine. Bet you didn`t know you could peel an apple, make a burger, change a light bulb and sharpen a pencil, all on the way to blowing up a balloon.
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AZUZ: Setting a new world record may inflate those students` egos, but it`s also earned them a place in pop culture history. All right. Quick congratulations to the students at Jan Gingelwright (ph) Junior High, who got this week`s social media trivia question right. How did they accomplish that simple task? With a long series of steps.
First, they watched the video question. Then they figured out the answer. They typed up that answer, told us their school and city name, and then after that, we checked to make sure they were right. We confirmed their information, (inaudible) --
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[음성+대본] NPR 모닝 이디션 : Your (Virtual) Future Self Wants You To Save Up
Your (Virtual) Future Self Wants You To Save Up
Professor Hal Hershfield (left), 32, uses a computer program to get an idea of what he might look like at 70 (right).
Professor Hal Hershfield (left), 32, uses a computer program to get an idea of what he might look like at 70 (right).
April 11, 2012
A retirement crisis is looming. As people live longer, one study finds that half of all households are at risk of coming up short on retirement money. And while many working households may feel they simply don't have enough to spare for retirement, experts say some of the biggest barriers to saving up are psychological.
Now, new research has found a way around that barrier: providing a virtual glimpse into the future that could help motivate young people to save more for retirement.
Meet Your Future Self
"When you make a decision now about yourself in the future, that distant self almost feels like a stranger," says Hal Hershfield of New York University's Stern School of Business.
In fact, when we think about ourselves in the future we actually use the same part of our brain that we use when we think about a stranger. Hershfield and a group of researchers wanted to help young people vividly imagine their own old age, so they recruited college-age men and women, gave them goggles and sent them into a virtual reality laboratory where they encountered a kind of mirror.
"Just like a mirror you would see [at] the bathroom sink in the morning," Hershfield says. "And in front of them they would see an image of their future selves."
The image was digitally altered to make them look 68 or 70 years old, like special effects in a movie. Half the people in the study saw a version of their older selves while the rest saw a virtual version of their current selves. Hershfield says researchers prompted people to chat while gazing at their image, posing questions like, "Where are you from? Where did you grow up? What are your likes, dislikes, passions, hobbies?" Some participants were asked to talk about similarities they shared with the avatar.
Later, study participants were asked a series of questions about finances and retirement. Those who had seen their older selves answered that they were willing to put twice as much money into long-term savings accounts as those who had seen their current selves.
"It's fascinating. It really did have an effect," says co-researcher Laura Carstensen, who directs the Stanford Center on Longevity. She says three variations of the study yielded similar results.
"When people can really connect to themselves and say, 'That person at age 70, that's me, actually,' they tend to want to take care of that person more," Carstensen says.
If You're Brave ...
You can age your own photograph online through April Age or Face Transformer. Fair warning: NPR's Jennifer Ludden aged her mug shot in April Age and says it was not a pretty sight.
Wrinkles, Jowls And Hairlines
It's an experiment you can try at home, if you dare. There are a number of online programs that age uploaded photos, but Hershfield warns that such programs use rough, generic overlays to achieve their effect. He and his fellow researchers say their aim is to create an avatar realistic (and attractive) enough for people to bond with their septuagenarian selves. To accomplish that, they used a sophisticated, time-consuming program that's now being developed for wider use.
"You need to look at things like wrinkles and jowls and hairlines and hair colors, and to do that in an automated way," says Cathy Smith of the Center for Behavioral Finance, part of the life insurance company Allianz. "The idea is to create a tool that either financial advisers can use with their clients, or that could be incorporated into the services that a 401(k) plan provider offers to their clients."
Just imagine an employee orientation where you get to see yourself at 70 — now how much do you want to pony up for your 401(k)?
What Do You Want To Do When You Grow Old?
As we all live longer, Stanford's Carstensen hopes to see a cultural shift toward more long-term thinking. After all, she says, we're always asking small children what they want to be when they grow up.
"Nobody ever says to you when you're in your 20s and 30s, 'What are you going to do when you're retired?' " she says. "'What are you going to be like? What will your hobbies be?' You know, 'Where will you be traveling?' "
If we simply imagined such things, she says, we'd likely make all kinds of decisions today that would make our real future selves much happier.
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(CNN 학습용 10분 뉴스) CNN Student News Transcript - April 12, 2012
STUDENT NEWS
George Zimmerman Charged
Aired April 12, 2012 - 04:00:00 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CARL AZUZ, HOST, CNN STUDENT NEWS: Hi, I`m Carl Azuz and welcome to CNN Student News. We have a bit of breaking news leading off today`s show, news out of Florida that happened right as we were producing this show last night.
Special prosecutor Angela Corey announced that George Zimmerman has been charged with murder in the second degree. Zimmerman is the neighborhood watch leader who shot and killed Trayvon Martin back in February. He told police he acted in self-defense.
Prosecutors say Zimmerman turned himself in to authorities yesterday, and you can get more details on the shooting and the special prosecutor`s announcement by going to the "Spotlight" section at cnnstudentnews.com.
Once again, for you, though, George Zimmerman being charged with murder in the second degree in connection with the death of Trayvon Martin. The rest of today`s edition of CNN Student News starts right now.
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AZUZ: A massive earthquake followed the threat of a tsunami for people in Indonesia. That combination could bring up tragic memories. In 2004, there was an earthquake off the Indonesian coast, and that triggered a tsunami, this giant wall of water. It killed more than 200,000 people --
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AZUZ (voice-over): -- was absolutely catastrophic for the region. Well, yesterday, there was another major quake. This one had a magnitude of 8.6. It hit the same area, off the coast of the island of Sumatra. There was also a powerful aftershock a couple hours later.
Some residents were told to evacuate to get to higher ground, where they would be safer. Officials put out a tsunami watch, but they canceled that later in the day. Unlike the massive devastation of eight years before, there were no immediate reports of deaths or destruction from this quake.
We`ve been talking to you recently about this. It was a ship that was washed away by the tsunami that hit Japan last year. It was thought to be lost until it showed up off the coast of Canada. The thing was still intact.
It was part of this giant field of debris that the tsunami washed out into the Pacific Ocean. You see it moving across the Pacific in this simulation on your screen now.
Over the course of a year, this ship drifted all the way across the Pacific. The Japanese ship gradually drifted into U.S. waters. It was drifting at about a mile per hour, and heading toward fishing areas in the Gulf of Alaska. That`s when the U.S. Coast Guard decided to sink it. Officials said the Japanese vessel posed a threat to other ships in the area. They also said it might be an environmental hazard.
So late last week, the Coast Guard opened fire with cannons on this ship. They blew holes in its side. What`s interesting is it took more than four hours for it to sink.
On April 12th, back in 1861, Confederate forces opened fire on Fort Sumter in South Carolina. That marked the beginning of the U.S. Civil War. In 1945, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the longest-serving president in U.S. history, died a few months into his fourth term in office.
In 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first person to travel into space. His historic journey lasted just under two hours. And 20 years after that, in 1981, NASA launched the space shuttle program. The vehicle was Columbia; the program lasted for 30 years.
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AZUZ: April is National Autism Awareness Month. The goal is to educate people about this medical disorder and about issues in the autism community.
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AZUZ (voice-over): Autism is actually a series of developmental disorders. They usually appear before someone turns three years old. The symptoms are different from person to person, but all autism disorders affect the ability to communicate and to interact with others.
Last month, a report released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimated that about one out of every 88 of the 8-year-old children it surveyed has autism. These disorders are about five times more common among boys than among girls.
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AZUZ: While autism is often diagnosed in childhood, is a lifelong disorder, there`s no cure for it, and for adults with autism, finding a job can be a very difficult struggle. Gena Somra reports on one business that`s trying to help.
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GENA SOMRA, CNN REPORTER (voice-over): Tom Pinchbeck never dreamed he`d turn his family rose farm into an employment center for people with autism.
After fierce international competition forced him to close the farm started by his great-grandfather, a family friend worried about his own autistic son`s future, helped reshaped Pinchbeck`s legacy. Now Pinchbeck is working with the non-profit group, Ability Beyond Disability to put a dent in the staggering 88 percent unemployment rate among Americans with autism.
JOAN VOLPE, VICE PRESIDENT, ABILITY BEYOND DISABILITY: He likes for folks to come into our program, learn the skills that they need to learn and let us help them place them in their community where they live and find a job and hopefully a career.
SOMRA (voice-over): Will Swartzell, a 19-year old with autism, is one of Rose`s employees. He and his mother, Sondra, say potential employers should put aside stereotypes that may prevent them from hiring those with autism.
WILL SWARTZELL, ROSES FOR AUTISM EMPLOYEE: I believe that autism only -- for me, it tells me that I learn a certain way that the majority doesn`t really, you know, is used to learning.
SOMRA (voice-over): With the help of a few charitable grants, Roses for Autism is now helping young adults with autism improve their lives, and Pinchbeck`s rose farm is also back, producing close to 1 million flowers per year -- Gena Somra, CNN, Gilford, Connecticut.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Today`s Shoutout goes out to Ms. Chaney`s government class at Kuinerrarmiut Elitnaurviat in Quinhagak, Alaska. Which branch of the U.S. military was established most recently. Here we go. Is it the Army, Navy, Air Force or Marine Corps? You`ve got three seconds, go.
The United States Air Force was established as its own branch of the military in 1947. That`s your answer, and that`s your Shoutout.
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AZUZ: Members of the Air Force don`t just serve in the sky. In fact, today, we`re talking about a group of airmen that does most of its work on the ground. It`s a specialty unit. It`s credited with saving hundreds of lives. Reynolds Wolf caught up with some of them recently and learned how they unleash their unique skills.
REYNOLDS WOLF, AMS METEOROLOGIST: Robins Air Force Base in Georgia is home to some 7,000 airmen, six of them are among the most deployed and most vital in the military.
Like Azak, a 5-year-old German shepherd -- yes, he`s a dog, but he`s also considered an airman.
STAFF SGT. ROCKY FOREMAN, USAF: They`re not people, obviously, but they, you know, they`re almost like that for us. They`re our partners, so that`s how we look at them.
WOLF (voice-over): Staff Sgt. Rocky Foreman is Azak`s handler.
FOREMAN: (Inaudible) my dog (inaudible).
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I understand.
FOREMAN: Get out of here! Oh!
WOLF (voice-over): He says there`s a lot more to his job than just holding a leash.
WOLF: What is his specific role?
FOREMAN: Well, he can find certain types of explosive or narcotics. He is also a patrol certified dog, so that means he can do the bite work, the escort, the detention and apprehension of suspects.
Get it, boy. Get it, boy. Azak, get him.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Whoo! Get your dog. Get your dog. Get your dog off me.
FOREMAN: Whoa, buddy.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Get your dog.
FOREMAN: Azak, out.
And they can save lives, just like soldiers and airmen can. They can stop the whole line of patrol before you even get to a detonation or a hazardous area, due to their detection sense. That`s when you would halt everything and basically you would -- whoever`s with you, that`s how many lives you saved because of his nose.
WOLF (voice-over): It`s estimated these dogs save an average of 150 lives each.
LT. COL. TOM MORSE, COMMANDER, 78TH SECURITY FORCES SQUADRON: The dogs don`t know that they`re being heroes. They`re just doing what they think is right between their relationship that they have with their handler and themselves.
WOLF (voice-over): That partnership is critical to their success.
MORSE: It`s extremely that we do find the right handler with the right dog. The better the relationship, the better the detection capability, the better the capability they`re going to be having when they`re going out there and doing any kind of mission.
WOLF: How do they decompress? How do they separate themselves from a very violent, from a very frightening situation?
MORSE: They have some downtime, where they`re able to go and relax. And it might be just that handler having time with the dog, petting it, playing with it a bit more. And then they go out and do the mission again. It becomes routine, and it becomes something that the dog looks forward to.
WOLF (voice-over): Staff Sgt. Foreman is relying on that relationship.
FOREMAN: Azak, out. Sit.
WOLF (voice-over): The two will head overseas in a matter of weeks.
WOLF: Do you feel confident when you`re deployed, having this guy with you?
FOREMAN: I feel completely confident with him by my side overseas. We`re good to go.
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AZUZ: I`d be confident with him, too. And you know, dogs aren`t the only animals we`ve seen used in the military. We had a report recently about how dolphins are used to detect mines underwater. Always cool to see animals serving in our armed forces.
Well, before we go today, there is a new reason to think twice about texting while walking. This 400-pound black bear was wandering around the California neighborhood recently. The news helicopter tracking him had the perfect view for what`s coming up.
There`s a guy walking, looking down at his phone. Then he looks up -- there he goes. Takes off. Can you imagine, texting while walking, looking up and having a bear? A lot of people just walk into street signs. You can`t blame the guy for turning tail. He was actually texting to tell his boss he was going to be late because of some commotion outside his home. He was right.
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AZUZ: Should have just showed him the video of the close encounter though, because that would have put the story into context. Luckily, the man was a runner, so he was able to get away, but just "bearly." We hope you enjoy the rest of your Thursday. We will be back tomorrow with more CNN Student News, possibly more puns if you`re lucky. I`ll see you later. I`m Carl Azuz.
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Today in Your Health, we'll meet a woman who's opted for a new, quicker form of breast cancer treatment, a treatment some doctors worry is not as effective as traditional methods.
Let's go first, though, to a new study that suggests that women who are obese or diabetic during pregnancy are much more likely to have a child with autism. NPR's Jon Hamilton reports.
JON HAMILTON, BYLINE: A team of researchers looked at about 1,000 mothers. Half had a child with an autism spectrum disorder. The rest had a child with a developmental delay unrelated to autism, or no developmental problems.
Irva Hertz-Picciotto from the University of California, Davis says the team wanted to know whether autism was more likely if a woman was obese, diabetic or had high blood pressure during pregnancy.
IRVA HERTZ-PICCIOTTO: We found that if women had one of these three conditions, the increased risk for her child was about 60 percent.
HAMILTON: Although the overall risk was still relatively small. These conditions also more than doubled the chance that a child would have some other developmental delay.
Picciotto, whose study appears in the journal Pediatrics, says it appears that obesity and diabetes are affecting early brain development. That could be because they tend to cause inflammation in developing tissues. But she says another possibility is that obesity and diabetes reduce the nutrients reaching the fetus.
HERTZ-PICCIOTTO: We're talking about a fetal brain that could be, in fact, suffering from hypoxia, which is, sort of, a lack of oxygen.
HAMILTON: Picciotto says the findings are especially troubling because obesity and diabetes are on the rise, and so is the number of children diagnosed with autism. Government figures show that a third of women of child-bearing age are obese, and that one child in 88 now has an autism spectrum disorder.
Jon Hamilton, NPR News.
