(영어뉴스) VOA 5분 뉴스 (2012-2-13)

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그리스, 정부긴축정책반대시위 격화; 그리스 의회, 1720억불 긴급구조자금 도입위한 정부긴축정책안 심의/시리아 시위사태관련 하여 아랍연맹, 유엔아랍공동평화유지군 파견요청/알카에다, 시리아반정부군 지지/팔레스타인지하드멤버, 이스라엘교도소에서 58일째 1인 단식투쟁/이태리 난파 크루즈선에서 기름유출/티벳 여승, 중국지배에 대한 항의 분신자살; 최근1년간 총 1천명 분신자살/일왕 아키히토 심장수술/오바마, 정부지출 청사진 공개예정/휘트니 휴스턴 사망관련

(영어뉴스) VOA 5분 뉴스 (2012-2-8)

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시리아사태 관련 미국과 러시아의 대응책/터키, 시리아사태 개입 가능성/캘리포니아 연방고등법원, 동성결혼금지법 위법 판결/미공화당대선후보 예비선거, 밋롬니 계속 강세/몰디브 대통령 사임/그리스, 정부긴축정책 반대시위/미국, 알차이머병 퇴치노력

February 7 - In our Tuesday program, CNN Student News explores the latest developments involving the crisis taking place in Syria. We examine how some Ukrainians are trying to survive the severe winter weather that's striking across Europe. And we report on a genealogy project that aims to help some Americans fill the gaps in their families' ancestries.

STUDENT NEWS

Crisis in Syria

Aired February 7, 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. Thank you for spending part of your Tuesday with CNN Student News. You know how we do things here, 10 minutes, no commercials, global headlines delivered right to your class.

First up today, the U.S. embassy closed. The British ambassador called home. The U.N. Security Council, tense. All of this is over the crisis happening in the nation of Syria. It`s been going on for 11 months now. It started with people speaking out against Syria`s president and calling for change there.

The government responded with violence, and United Nations officials say thousands of people have died.

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AZUZ (voice-over): That includes more than 50 people who were reportedly killed in Syria on Monday. Intense blasts rattled some cities as the fighting went on. The U.S. closed its embassy in Syria, pulled all of its staff out. The British ambassador to Syria was called back to England for consultations.

As we told you about yesterday, the U.N. Security Council did not pass the resolution that would have demanded an end to the violence in Syria. Some members of the council are furious with Russia and China. Those are the two countries that voted against the resolution.

Russia and China say they want the fighting to stop, but they didn`t agree with the language in the resolution. One Syrian protector said Syria`s government stepped up its crackdown after the resolution failed to pass in the U.N. The protesters said, quote, "The U.N. gave them the green light to inflict more violence."

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AZUZ: Next up, we`re looking at some extreme winter weather that`s pounding countries all over Europe. Some spots are getting more snow than they have in decades.

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AZUZ (voice-over): Spain, Italy, Belgium and other parts of Western Europe are dealing with the winter storms, but Eastern Europe seems to be getting hit especially hard. We`re talking about countries like Rumania, Russia and Poland.

Sarajevo in Bosnia is suffering through the biggest snowfall since 1999. Some of the snowdrifts got up to 43 inches high. That`s almost four feet of snow. Schools there have shut down for the entire week. Ukraine may be getting the worst of it. In that nation, the highest temperatures of the day are still below freezing. Hundreds of people have died across Europe, and Matthew Chance looks at one way in which Ukrainian officials are trying to help their citizens survive these frigid conditions.

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MATTHEW CHANCE, CNN REPORTER: Well, Europe really is in a deep freeze. And no country has suffered more than Ukraine. It`s experienced some of the lowest temperatures in recent days. It`s also had the highest death tolls.

Health officials say 135 people have lost their lives because of these icy, frigid conditions. Most of them are homeless, and so what the authorities are doing is setting up tents like these.

Look, this one`s called Mabil Nicht Punt Obrivu (ph), which means a mobile heating point where people can just come in for a few days when they`ve got nowhere else to go, a few hours, and warm themselves and escape this ice and snow.

All right, so here we are, and you can see there are a number of people who are -- have gathered here to try and escape from the cold. They`re warming their hands around this room heating stove fueled by wood.

And it`s a very basic situation inside, but the smell`s not great. They`re offering some basic foods over here, some -- (speaking foreign language). Kasha? It`s porridge, and (inaudible). It`s porridge and bread, so basically -- and some hot tea as well.

There`s also a computer over the back there, where you can watch movies and I think even get on the Internet. But generally people are coming here, as you can see, this guy warming up his feet, to just try and escape from the icy, frigid conditions outside. And everybody here we`ve spoken to knows that if it weren`t for places like this, they`d be in real trouble.

Well, there you have it. These oases of warmth in the center of this freezing continent. The bad news is that the icy temperatures we`ve been experiencing here aren`t expected to get any warmer any time soon -- Matthew Chance, CNN, Kiev.

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AZUZ (voice-over): If you go to the "Spotlight" section on our home page, you`ll find a link to CNN`s Election Center. It`s where you can get tons of information about the U.S. presidential election process. You can read up on the candidates, learn more about some of the top political issues and check out the calendar to see when the next primaries and caucuses are happening.

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AZUZ: We can tell you that right now. They`re today. And we`ll do better than tell you where they`re happening, we`ll show you.

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AZUZ (voice-over): Colorado and Minnesota are holding caucuses today, and there`s a primary taking place in Missouri. So that`s where the Republican candidates are focusing their attention. They`re out on the trail, working to rally support as they try to win these individual contest.

They`ll get a little breather after today. The next votes won`t be cast until the end of the month when Arizona and Michigan hold their Republican primaries.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Today`s Shoutout is dedicated to all of our home school viewers. What is the study of family histories and ancestors called? You know what to do. Is it histology, genealogy, sociology or paleontology? You`ve got three seconds, go.

Sociology looks at the origins of society, but genealogy is specific to ancestries. That`s your answer, and that`s your Shoutout.

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AZUZ: A historical society in Virginia is running a unique genealogy project. It`s using information from millions of old letters, books and diaries to identify more than a thousand slaves whose names have been lost.

The historians running the project hope it`ll help Americans, both black and white, learn about their ancestors. Athena Jones has the details.

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ATHENA JONES, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): African slaves first arrived in Virginia in 1619. Now in fading ink and yellowed paper, more of their stories are being told.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: This is just the beginning.

JONES (voice-over): A new online database allows users to track down information about their ancestors in this state, whether they were slaves, free blacks or slave owners, says Dr. Lauranett Lee.

DR. LAURANETT LEE, VIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: You can see all of the enslaved people that were listed in this broadside.

JONES (voice-over): More than 80 people came to the Virginia Historical Society`s first workshop to learn how to navigate their site, including a history teacher, who flew in from Indiana --

GALE CARTER, HISTORY TEACHER: I think it is just innately human to want to know our origins.

JONES (voice-over): -- an amateur genealogist, Robert Payne --

ROBERT PAYNE, AMATEUR GENEALOGIST: Researching black folk is difficult. So, anytime you can find a new resource, it is always good to investigate.

JONES (voice-over): The Unknown No Longer project and workshops, made possible with $125,000 in grants from the energy company, Dominion, is aimed at helping people fill in the gaps in their own family history, and, in the process, the nations.

LEE: We`re not only looking at African-American history, we`re looking at American history, from a Virginia perspective.

JONES (voice-over): The society has amassed more than 8 million documents, donated mostly by well-to-do Virginia families.

JONES: More slaves lived in Virginia than in any other state. And this city, Richmond, was at the heart of the U.S. slave trade. Many black men, women and children were brought here to be sold to other states.

JONES (voice-over): Some 3,200 names of slaves, free blacks and slaveholders have been entered into the database so far, and the site is updated weekly.

LEE: For so long people did not know who their ancestors were, did not know where to even go to look for it. And it`s important for people to know who they are, because having that sense of identity enables people to have a sense of dignity, a sense of knowing who they are within this American landscape.

JONES (voice-over): The documents, deeds and wills, papers granting slaves their freedom, and even passes that allowed slaves from one plantation to visit another, are now searchable for free with the click of a button. Assistant archivist Paige Newman walked me through a search of a slave inventory list.

JONES: So, you`ve got the names, the ages, their occupation.

PAIGE NEWMAN, ASSISTANT ARCHIVIST: And values.

JONES (voice-over): The Virginia Historical Society is helping to fill in the details of America`s slave history, uncovering pieces of the past, name by name -- Athena Jones, CNN, Richmond, Virginia.

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AZUZ: Well, finally today, we`re going to check out a fundraiser for a North Carolina children`s hospital.

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AZUZ (voice-over): More than 7,000 people hit the streets to take part in this five-mile run. And just in case you need to carb up in the middle, you`re in luck, because this race requires you to down a dozen donuts as well.

It is the Krispy Kreme Challenge. You run half the race, devour a dozen donuts or attempt to, and then run back. The participants helped raise more than $100,000, so they really put their money where their mouths are.

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AZUZ: Sure, some might have suffered some horrific heartburn, but if you`re raising money for charity, it makes it all worthwhile, "donut?" Hopefully that "hole" story didn`t make you glaze over. But one thing you should know, donut puns, piece of cake. Enjoy the rest of your day. For CNN Student News, I`m Carl Azuz.

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STUDENT NEWS

Nevada Caucuses Results; Multi-Generational Households

Aired February 6, 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: Back from the weekend, I`m Carl Azuz, and this is CNN Student News. You`ve probably ordered fast food -- not like the guy you`re going to hear in a bit, though. First up, we`re heading to Nevada.

It`s a state that Mitt Romney has to be pretty happy with right now. The former Massachusetts governor finished in first place in Nevada`s Republican presidential caucuses over the weekend.

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AZUZ (voice-over): Now these caucuses are different from primaries, where each person casts a single vote. During a caucus, groups of people meet and declare which candidates they prefer. As the votes started being counted on Saturday, CNN projected that former Governor Romney would win Nevada. A lot of experts have predicted that, since he won the state`s caucuses four years ago as well.

But the result isn`t changing the Republican field of candidates. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, U.S. Representative Ron Paul and former Senator Rick Santorum have all promised to stay in the race. The next round of contests is tomorrow, caucuses in Minnesota and Colorado and a primary in Missouri.

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AZUZ: Looking at an economic headline that some experts are calling a nice surprise, the U.S. unemployment rate dropped to 8.3 percent in January. That is the lowest it`s been in nearly three years, and the economy added 243,000 jobs in January. That`s nearly double what experts were predicting.

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AZUZ (voice-over): But most economists say there`s still a long way to go here, and there`s no guarantee that the job growth we`ve seen lately will continue. President Obama had a similar message during a speech on Friday. He says these numbers will probably go up and down.

While the current news is good, the president said there are too many Americans who need a job or need one that pays better than the one they have now.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: See if you can ID me. I`m a group with members from different countries. I change presidents every month, I have 15 members and five of them are permanent. I`m part of the United Nations. I`m the U.N. Security Council, and my main responsibility is to maintain global peace and security.

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AZUZ: At this time, the Security Council is not taking action when it comes to the nation of Syria and the violence that`s been raging in that Middle Eastern country for months.

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AZUZ (voice-over): The Council was considering a resolution that would have demanded that Syria`s president stop the fighting in his country. But China and Russia voted against the resolution. Those countries say they want the violence in Syria to end, but they said the language of the resolution would have made the situation more complicated.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton responded to the no vote.

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Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State: What happened yesterday at the United Nations was a travesty. Those countries that refused to support the Arab League plan bear full responsibility for protecting the brutal regime in Damascus.

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AZUZ: In Australia, authorities are using military helicopters and a giant cargo plane to help evacuate areas that are being hit by flooding. The area being affected the most is the state of Queensland.

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AZUZ (voice-over): Weeks of heavy rains have caused river levels to rise up, and officials are predicting record-breaking floods there. Thousands of people have been told to get out of the path of the waters. Food and medical supplies are being flown into areas that are more isolated.

In the town you see right here, the water has started to go down after days of major flooding. Authorities have lifted evacuation orders and residents are gradually making their way back. But they have been warned: stay away from the waters.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It`s time for the Shoutout. Which of these generations came first? If you think you know it, then shout it out. Is it X, Baby Boomer, Millennial or Silent? You`ve got three seconds, go.

The so-called Silent Generation is the oldest on that list. It includes anyone born from the late 1920s through the mid-1940s. That`s your answer, and that`s your Shoutout.

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AZUZ: Well, we`re all used to multiple generations getting together for holidays or special celebrations, things like that. You, your parents, your grandparents, all together in the living room.

For some families, this is a daily thing. Millennials, Gen-Xers, Baby Boomers, the Silent Generation, all living under the same roof. As Christine Romans reports, it`s a trend that`s making a comeback.

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CHRISTINE ROMANS, HOST, "YOUR BOTTOM LINE" (voice-over): Meet the Loefflers.

TOM LOEFFLER, LIVES IN MULTIGENERATIONAL HOUSEHOLD: I`m Dad.

SHARON LOEFFLER, LIVES IN MULTIGENERATIONAL HOUSEHOLD: I`m the mom.

MATT LOEFFLER, LIVES IN MULTIGENERATIONAL HOUSEHOLD: I am the son.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I`m the grandmother and great-grandmother.

ROMANS (voice-over): Three generations, plus one dog, living under one roof. Make that four generations when granddaughter Ella visits.

S. LOEFFLER: I really value family. It means a lot to me to have everybody together a lot.

ROMANS: For the first time in decades, more generations are moving in together, reversing a trend that`s been in place since World War II. It`s about culture, it`s about convenience, it`s about money.

ROMANS (voice-over): The trend has grown 30 percent over the past decade, fueled by immigration, people living longer and more recently job losses and foreclosures.

DON DYRNESS, SPECTRUM CONSTRUCTION: We have a couple of bedrooms upstairs.

ROMANS (voice-over): New Jersey builder Don Dyrness renovates single family homes to accommodate more than one generation.

When you look at what`s been happening in the housing market, you can see that this is an area in housing that is showing growth, no question. Are you seeing that in your business?

DYRNESS: Absolutely. We`ve been doing multi-gen houses for 20- something years, it was spotty, one-a-year, two-a-year, zero, and then in 2009, it`s grown to three to five projects per year.

ROMANS (voice-over): One of those projects, building an addition for the Loefflers.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: This is the kitchen --

I could have never lived by myself. I could have never afforded it. I never -- I couldn`t --

S. LOEFFLER: Yes.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: -- you know.

S. LOEFFLER: To her, it was definitely economic. But for us, I think it was peace of mind having her here.

ROMANS (voice-over): Peace of mind also meant a new social dynamic to keep the peace.

S. LOEFFLER: Mom is sensitive to our family dynamics, too.

T. LOEFFLER: It was important for us to keep the -- her room separate. I mean, she`s an integrated part of the house, but you know, she could make it separate. And she has a separate entrance onto the back deck, so she -- hopefully, she feels like, hey, it is separate. I think those are the important things.

ROMANS (voice-over): But change comes with unexpected perqs, too.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: My washer and dryer right here.

M. LOEFFLER: (Inaudible) to bring my laundry down, drop it off, and when I come home from work, it`s all pressed and good to go.

ROMANS (voice-over): Christine Romans, Succasunna, New Jersey.

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AZUZ: Some of you might have heard the expression, "You`ve got to sing for your supper." Let`s say you`re a young musician who wants to get his name out there. You pull into a fast-food restaurant with a hankering for some chili cheese tater tots, and you think, maybe this. Maybe this is my big break. Jim Altman of affiliate WTIC explains what happened next.

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JIM ALTMAN, CNN REPORTER: In the midst of a chaotic Tuesday night at the Wallingford Sonic, there was harmony in stall six.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Good evening. Welcome to Sonic. My name is (inaudible). Whom do I have the pleasure of speaking with?

GIORGIO FAREIRA, SONIC SINGER: Giorgio.

ALTMAN (voice-over): Starving artist Giorgio Fareira brought more than his appetite here.

FAREIRA: Can I get a number eight with large chili cheese tater tots.

ALTMAN (voice-over): With guitar in hand and fast food on the mind, Giorgio decided to serenade his Sonic server. The video has gone viral in short order.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: (Inaudible) what would you like to drink?

FAREIRA: Cherry limeade.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I`m sorry. Could you repeat that?

FAREIRA: Cherry limeade, please.

I planned it all kind of like the song I`m playing now, just making it up.

Oh, he`s a wonderful young man. He`s got an incredible voice, obviously. And this completely blew me away. I`ve never seen anything like this before.

FAREIRA: Are you ready for the next part?

ALTMAN: So now, of course, the idea is for Giorgio to take this from the Sonic stall to the big stage.

FAREIRA: That`s absolutely right, and I couldn`t have put it better myself.

Do you have cheese on those number four tater tots?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: No, I do not. Would you like me to put some on the cheese tots?

FAREIRA: Please, please put cheese on them for me tonight.

ALTMAN (voice-over): He says he`s still the same.

FAREIRA: (Inaudible), still just Giorgio. People kind of like my name, (inaudible).

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I could not believe it. I didn`t think it would go this far.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Is there anything else I can get for you?

FAREIRA: Just have a wonderful night.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: OK, you too.

FAREIRA: Thank you.

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AZUZ: It really helps he didn`t have to rhyme everything, but a struggling musician who`s hungry for dinner, Giorgio is a true starving artist. And since so many people have heard this story, maybe some other singer will try to copy the routine note for note. But if he did it during breakfast, he`s need to order some "harmony" grits.

We -- some of you who have like had hominy grits before or even heard of them will get that. The rest of you are like, just finish up. All right. We hope you`ll get keyed up to tune in tomorrow for more CNN Student News. We`ll see you then. Bye-bye.

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STUDENT NEWS

Deadly Riot Breaks Out After a Soccer Match in Egypt

Aired February 2, 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 this is CNN Student News traditional versus virtual. How would you prefer to go to school? That`s what we asked on our blog. Today we`re sharing what you had to say.

First up though, a deadly riot breaks out after a soccer match in Egypt. This happened yesterday. Once the match ended, fans from both sides rushed the field.

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AZUZ (voice-over): You can see in this video the scene was just chaos. People hit each other with rocks and chairs. In the fighting, at least 73 people were killed. More than a thousand fans were injured. The Egyptian military sent two planes in to get the visiting team, some of its fans and some of the injured out.

A CNN contributor, who`s researched soccer in the Middle East, says you sometimes do get violence between soccer clubs, but he said he`s never seen anything this big before.

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AZUZ: If you want to own a company, it`s not as difficult as you might think. One way you can do it is to buy some of the company`s stock. You won`t own the entire company, but you will own part of it. Before you can do that, though, the company has to go public and to make its stock available. And the first way it does that is through something called an IPO, an initial public offering.

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AZUZ (voice-over): That`s what Facebook did yesterday. It went public and filed for an IPO. Experts predicted it would be the biggest IPO ever for an Internet company. Five billion dollars -- now that`s not what the company is worth. It`s how much money experts think Facebook is looking to make from its IPO.

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AZUZ: So what does this mean for a company to go public? What are the potential pros and consumption of this? Christine Romans has some answers.

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CHRISTINE ROMANS, HOST, "YOUR BOTTOM LINE": IPO stands for initial public offering.

An IPO is when a company, whether it`s a mom-and-pop little store that`s getting bigger and bigger, or say, a social network conceived in a Harvard dorm room that now has 500 million people who follow it, can get on the radar, get -- attract capital and basically grow up.

Companies want to go public because they want to unlock the value in their enterprise. When you can get investors to pay to buy shares of your company, and then those shares are trade on a stock market, like the NASDAQ or the New York Stock Exchange, it also gets you money.

When you go public, investors are putting money into your enterprise. It allows you to raise money quickly.

One of the down sides is when you are a public company, you are scrutinized by the government. You have to, every quarter, file your numbers, your balance sheet, to the Securities and Exchange Commission so that your investors and so that the markets can see exactly what you`re doing.

If you`re a private company, you don`t have that kind of scrutiny. You don`t have investors selling their stakes in your company if you have one or two bad quarters. So that`s one of the reasons why private companies like to stay private.

Well, eventually, it`s everyone, like you and me. Initially, at an initial public offering, it`s the big names who get in. It`s some of those original private investors, they usually get a good shot. Founders of the company get a good shot to buy more if they want.

Facebook is the Holy Grail of IPOs. It would be probably the biggest tech company IPO in history. Facebook already has 500 different private investors basically. And when you get to that level, that threshold, that`s when the Securities and Exchange Commission says, OK, now you`ve got to open your books. Now you`ve got to file and become a public company, you`re getting too big.

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AZUZ: We`re turning to U.S. politics now. With Florida`s primary in the rear view mirror, the leading Republican presidential candidates are setting their sights westward. That`s where several of this month`s contests take place.

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AZUZ (voice-over): This Saturday we have the Nevada caucuses. The main caucuses start on Saturday as well. Those last a week. On February 7th, Colorado and Minnesota hold caucuses, and Missouri holds its primary election. And the month wraps up with primaries in Arizona and Michigan.

We`ve talked a lot this week about delegates. Right now, we`re pretty early in the game. None of the Republican candidates has more than 10 percent of the number of delegates they need to win the party`s nomination.

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AZUZ: After Florida`s primary, CNN`s John King and Wolf Blitzer talked about how the numbers could shake to going forward.

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JOHN KING, HOST, JOHN KING U.S.A.: So we`re done with January. Now we`re on to February. Right now, February`s the month that looks like it`s built for Mitt Romney. I`m going to do this the hypothetical at home.

If you`re a Ron Paul supporter, Newt Gingrich supporter, Rick Santorum supporter, you might not like this. But let`s say hypothetically Mitt Romney runs the calendar in February. The Nevada caucuses, Minnesota, Missouri and Colorado.

Missouri`s a little complicated in how they award it, but I`m going to give it to him here. There`s another process later on. But Maine is a state where you had better watch Ron Paul here. But for the sake of argument, I`m going to give it to Mitt Romney again. Ron Paul could win the state of Maine.

So we get through February 11th there, and then you have the two big contests in February at the end, Arizona and Michigan. Again, this is a hypothetical.

I`m just saying if Mitt Romney runs the month of February, he would get to 256, Gingrich, Santorum and Paul would stay right there, 1,144 is what you need. So that`s a big lead, but, Wolf, it is a very, very long way to the finish line, which is why Newt Gingrich says I`m going to stay in the race, because then we move on to March.

March 3rd, the Washington caucuses, again, I`m going to give that one to Ron Paul. He may win one of these caucus states. That`s for the hypothetical, give that one to Ron Paul. He could win more than one, but let`s give him one there.

Then you move on here, Super Tuesday. This is why Gingrich is in the race right here. But you see Virginia flashing, an important point. Newt Gingrich is not on the ballot, a Southern state. This could come back to haunt him as this goes on. He also hasn`t filed some delegate slates in Tennessee, so he could win the state and not get all the delegates.

But this is a hypothetical, giving some states to Romney. You see them dark red. The southern states, Oklahoma to Newt Gingrich, that gets Gingrich, Romney`s still pulling ahead, but coming now -- let`s go through the month. Let`s just split right there, Kansas, the Virgin Islands in there. Then we come again. This is why Gingrich says he`ll stay in the race. You get Alabama and Mississippi.

If you give those over to Gingrich, then we`re moving on again. The Missouri caucuses, I told you that, it`s a two-step process. I give it back to Romney there again. For the sake of argument, we`ll give Puerto Rico. And then you come here.

Illinois would be Romney. You get later, Louisiana, another southern state. We`ll give that to Gingrich for the sake of argument. And here`s where Gingrich wants to stay in the race. Wisconsin, Maryland, the big prize of Texas.

Remember when Rick Perry jumped out, he endorsed Speaker Gingrich. So again, for the sake or argument, we`ll give up here to Mitt Romney, down here to Newt Gingrich, look what happens with Texas, Wolf. We could get to the point where we`re at April 3rd and Romney is ahead. And I`ll take this off now, because he`s closer to the finish line. He`s closer.

But Gingrich is in the ball park then. That`s what he`s hoping, to take this race on to then, and make it a case.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: See if you can ID me. I`m a North American rodent that`s part of the squirrel family. I`m sometimes called a woodchuck, marmot or whistle pig. And today is a very big day for some members of my species.

I`m a groundhog, and I stuff myself in the summer and early fall so I can hibernate during the winter.

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AZUZ: And it is one serious hibernation. A groundhog curls up into a tiny ball. Its body temperature drops. Its heart rate slows down to four beats per minute, and it stays that way until early February, when its hibernation ends. February 2nd, according to American tradition, it`s what happens that makes today special for the species.

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AZUZ (voice-over): It`s Groundhog Day. According to tradition, if the groundhog sees its shadow, we`re in for six more weeks of winter. This is last year`s ceremony in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. It`s home to Punxsutawney Phil. He`s the most famous whistle pig prognosticator, but more than a dozen states celebrate with their own groundhogs.

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AZUZ: Traditional school or virtual school? Would you rather be physically in class or learning online?

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AZUZ (voice-over): At cnnstudentnews.com, 63 percent of you were learning toward traditional school; 37 percent liked the idea of online virtual learning.

Cole says he`d rather take real classes. With online classes, you have no teacher to ask if you`re stuck, and you`re mostly just staring at a computer screen.

From Krysta, "Kids need to also learn communication skills. Without that, they won`t know how to interact with other people."

And Delaney says, "I wouldn`t have all the friends I have if I attended virtual school. Traditional school gives you a chance to interact with other students."

Cala tells us that a virtual school w2ould be safer, because there`s no bullying, and there are no students who are talking while you`re trying to work.

Jordan agrees that virtual school would keep some kids from getting bullied. If you have a computer at your house, you have peace and quiet to concentrate.

But Mar says, "I don`t have the self-motivation to keep up with virtual school."

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AZUZ: Before we go, a birthday surprise for one kindergartner in Utah.

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AZUZ (voice-over): This poster shows the things that Bailey loves. That includes her dad, who`s been serving in Afghanistan.

While she was sharing it with her class --

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Guess what, Bailey? Turn around.

(LAUGHTER)

BAILEY: Dad, (inaudible).

AZUZ (voice-over): Awesome stuff. Bailey`s dad has served for seven years. This is the first time he has lived at home since Bailey was born.

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AZUZ: Bailey was probably going to have a happy birthday anyway, but having her dad there to celebrate with her, just icing on the cake. We hope you have a great rest of the day. We`ll see you again tomorrow for more CNN Student News.

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STUDENT NEWS

Florida Primary Results

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CARL AZUZ, HOST, CNN STUDENT NEWS: Hi, I`m Carl Azuz, broadcasting from the CNN Center in Atlanta, Georgia. We welcome all of our viewers around the world to the first February edition of CNN Student News.

We`re leading things off today in Florida, with the race for the Republican presidential nomination. Three states held primary or caucus events earlier last month, and a different candidate won each contest. So some experts were looking to see if the Florida primary would bring some clarity to the Republican field.

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AZUZ (voice-over): The goal of these primaries and caucuses is to win delegates. You need 1,044 of them this year to be the Republican Party`s nominee for president. There were 50 delegates up for grabs in Florida, and yesterday`s primary was winner-take-all. You win the primary, you get all 50 delegates.

Representative Ron Paul and former Senator Rick Santorum moved on to campaign in other states, because they didn`t think they had much chance of winning Florida. That left former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich.

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AZUZ: As the results came in last night, CNN projected that Mitt Romney would win the Florida primary.

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AZUZ (voice-over): cnnstudentnews.com is where you can always get the latest details on developing stories, like yesterday`s Florida primary. The full results came in after we produced this show. But you can find them. They`re going to be in the "Spotlight" section on our home page.

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AZUZ: We`re staying in Florida now to talk about a series of car crashes that happened along a major highway over the weekend. At least 12 cars and seven tractor-trailers were involved in these accidents. You can see some of what happened in the pictures we`re showing you right here.

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AZUZ (voice-over): The highway was covered in smoke from a nearby brush fire. That made it very difficult for drivers to see. Ten people were killed in the wrecks. More than 12 other people were taken to hospitals.

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AZUZ: Chad Myers spoke with CNN`s Anderson Cooper about why the smoke was covering the highway. They also talked about the conditions that led to these crashes over the weekend. Have a listen.

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CHAD MYERS, CNN METEOROLOGIST: There was a fire in the swamp and in the forest, only 60 acres, not that big. But in a regular fire, smoke goes up and keeps going up. But in Florida, it didn`t keep going up. The reason why is because there was a layer of warm air up here. So as soon as the smoke tried to go up, it hit the layer of warm air and came back down. It`s called inversion.

The most famous inversion ever was in Donora, Pennsylvania, many, many years ago where people died because they suffocated from the smoke that just wouldn`t leave the valley.

That`s the Allegheny-Monongahela Valley near Pittsburgh I`m talking about, but that`s what happened. The smoke was trapped near the surface. It couldn`t go away. People drove into the smoke and they were hitting cars that were already stopped in the roadway.

ANDERSON COOPER, HOST, AC360: And a lot of survivors, I mean, they were saying the smoke and fog was so thick, they couldn`t see -- you know, a woman said they couldn`t even see the hazards. This isn`t that common, though, is it?

MYERS: It is not. What happened here, this smoke and fog got in a bowl, this bowl is just south of Gainesville. I`ve driven through this bowl many times on I-75, it`s the prairie right through here. Literally, it looks like you`re driving through the Serengeti.

You look to the left and you look to the right, and it`s completely flat, but all around you are hills. When you drive this, you`re literally - - you look for giraffes, because you think you`re in Africa. It looks crazy, high elevations here. High elevations there.

And right through there, it`s kind of a swampy area. And that air, that smoke settled right into that low area, into the bottom of that bowl and that`s what caused the visibility down to literally zero.

COOPER: And I guess, one thing investigators will be looking into, is could this have been avoided? I mean, should there have been warnings or road closures?

MYERS: Well, Anderson, there were road closures. The roads were closed for three hours, and then the smoke kind of cleared, because the wind blew just a little bit. But then half an hour after they re- opened the road, the crashes happened and 10 people died.

So I guess, you have to think the road probably should have stayed closed. There`s not much you can do. Once you are in this smoke, you are in it.

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AZUZ: February 1st marks the beginning of Black History Month. It`s a time to honor the accomplishments and contributions of African-Americans. When Dr. Carter G. Woodson started the tradition in 1926, it was a week long. The celebration was expanded into a month in 1976 by President Gerald Ford.

Throughout our coverage of Black History Month, we`re going to focus on some of the people, the places, the moments that have been significant in African-American history. We`re starting with a lunch counter and an event that happened 52 years ago today.

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AZUZ (voice-over): That`s when four black college students walked into a Woolworth`s in Greensboro, North Carolina. They sat down at the "whites only" counter to order lunch. They stayed in their seats after they were refused service, and launched a peaceful protest for civil rights. The Woolworth`s lunch counter in Greensboro was desegregated later on that year.

Some other events on February 1st: in 1790, the U.S. Supreme Court met for the first time. The first court had six justices, not nine like the U.S. has now.

In 1865, President Abraham Lincoln signed the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which would abolish slavery. The amendment was ratified by the states later on that year.

And in 2003, the space shuttle Columbia broke apart while reentering the Earth`s atmosphere. All seven crew members were killed.

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AZUZ: Checking out some other international headlines, starting off the coast of Italy, that`s where a cruise ship ran aground last month. And experts have been running a salvage operation around the ship. Now they`re recommending that the underwater part of that mission end.

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AZUZ (voice-over): The underwater salvage has stopped and restarted a few times before. But these experts say it`s getting too dangerous to continue at all. Salvage operations above the water line will still go on. Officials say it could take seven to 10 months to remove the wreckage of the ship. But that process won`t start until the fuel that was on board is removed.

Next up, the Middle Eastern nation of Syria. The Arab League sent in monitors to see if the Syrian government was ending the violence that`s been going on there.

Yesterday, Arab League officials told the United Nations Security Council that Syria is operating a quote, "killing machine" against peaceful protests. Syrian officials say they`re the victim of false information. They accuse the Arab League of interfering with Syrian affairs.

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AZUZ: The U.N. is considering a resolution that would call for Syria`s president to step down. Meantime, the violence has not stopped. Reports said at least 37 people were killed in Syria yesterday.

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AZUZ (voice-over): U.N. representatives are part of our next headline, too. This one is in Japan. It involves the country`s nuclear facilities.

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AZUZ: A team from the IAEA, the U.N.`s International Atomic Energy Agency, spent the past week in Japan. They were looking over the nuclear safety reviews that were ordered after last year`s meltdown at a nuclear power plant. The group said Japan can go ahead with so-called stress tests on the country`s other nuclear facilities.

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AZUZ (voice-over): Most of the country`s nuclear plants were taken offline after the meltdown, which one of the worst nuclear disasters ever. The IAEA also recommended that Japanese regulators create more comprehensive plans for dealing with severe accidents.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Is this legit? The U.S. federal government requires American children to attend school.

It`s not true. Individual states, not the federal government, set laws about school attendance.

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AZUZ (voice-over): Every state requires children to get an education. What they don`t say is how kids are supposed to get it. Last year, around 250,000 American students went to school online. They did that in what are called virtual schools, when your classes taught over the computer and the teacher`s there to kind of guide you through the lessons.

Some parents think their kids do better in virtual schools than traditional schools. Others like the flexible schedule. The critics say there`s more to learning than just getting information. There`s class discussion. There`s interacting with other students. One thing many supporters and critics agree on is that the effectiveness of online learning depends on the individual student.

We want to hear what you all think. Would you want to attend a virtual school? Think about the pros and cons of this one, then go to our blog at cnnstudentnews.com and tell us your opinions.

And remember, when you post on our blog, we only want you to tell us your first names, so please, no other information, just first names only.

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AZUZ: Before we go we want to show you a lineup from Australia.

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AZUZ (voice-over): But this one ain`t breaking any laws, just world records. Look at this. What you see is 145 water skiers all being pulled by a single boat.

The record-setting attempt started off with 154 people up on skis. Nine of them fell off. They`re OK, just all hurt that they won`t be part of the record. But it`s their own fault. They could have had their names in the record books, too. All they had to do was toe the line.

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AZUZ: But for those nine, their dreams were just washed out. Still, 145 people riding in unison? That`s a sight you have to "ski" to believe. Can the record be topped? You`ll just have to "wake" and see. It`s time for us to dock this program and its puns. For CNN Student News, I`m Carl Azuz. We`ll see you soon.

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