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Courtesy of Angela Caragan

Angela Caragan's A Cupcake Co. offers gourmet cupcakes for special events. Like more than 20 million other small-business owners in the U.S., she has no employees.

The House is scheduled to vote Thursday on a GOP measure to cut taxes on small businesses.

Now, the mental image most of us have of a small business is probably something like this: a handful of employees, a shop, maybe a restaurant or a little tech firm.

It turns out the reality of the nation's 28 million small businesses is, in many cases, quite different.

House Republicans say their tax cut would help millions of small businesses.

"This is a bill which will directly help small businesses create jobs," says Rep. Eric Cantor, R-Va., the majority leader and author of the bill.

The total cost of the one-year measure is $46 billion. An analysis commissioned by a pro-GOP outside group and now posted on Cantor's website says if the tax cut only lasts for one year, it will create 40,000 jobs. Some quick back-of-the-envelope math puts that at more than $1 million per job.

NPR asked House Speaker John Boehner whether that was cost-effective.

"I think we expect it will create far more jobs than that," says the Ohio Republican. "But listen, small businesses who file as individuals, as I did in my business, face enormous challenges. And rather than pay these taxes, that money could stay in their business to help them buy more equipment, hire more workers and expand their business."

 

Courtesy of Makini Howell

Small-business owner Makini Howell offers up vegan fare in Seattle. With her family, Howell owns a minimart, a vegan sandwich wholesale business, and small group of vegan restaurants.

But Seattle small-business owner Makini Howell says the bill wouldn't help her at all.

Well, technically, the tax cut might help her a little. With her family, Howell owns a minimart, a vegan sandwich wholesale business, and a small group of vegan restaurants. All told, Howell has about 30 employees.

"It was great to open up and to be able to create like 25 more jobs than were there and to become a viable part of the neighborhood that we're in," she says. "That was awesome."

Less awesome are the company's profits at the end of the year, because its margins are thin and so much gets poured back into the business.

"The reality is, you make $25,000, $35,000," she says. "My income has decreased steadily since I became a small-business owner."

Under the bill from House Republicans, small-business owners — those with fewer than 500 employees — would be able to deduct 20 percent from their business income, with some exceptions. For Howell, the tax savings would work out to a few hundred bucks.

"For a business like mine, if you just do the math, it's not going to help," she says.

It's not like she'd turn down the extra cash, but it certainly wouldn't be enough to hire anyone else or to make a major equipment purchase.

Much larger firms and much more profitable companies would get most of the tax benefit, says Joe Rosenberg of the Tax Policy Center. "Your typical small business — what we might think of as your mom and pop store — is probably not going to see much benefit from this tax provision," Rosenberg says. "The largest benefits go to larger businesses that report a lot of income."

Although the image of a small-business owner is someone like Howell, under the Small Business Administration definition used by the House bill, a business with 499 employees could also be considered small.

Some 99.9 percent of the businesses in the country are small by this definition. And according to SBA data, the vast majority of them — more than 20 million firms — don't employ a single person, other than the owner.

Angela Caragan is the owner of A Cupcake Co. in Northern California. She's also the chief pastry chef, marketing director — the whole thing. Last year, she made less than $1,000 baking gourmet cupcakes. But for her, it's not really about the money.

"It's my way of sharing a little bit of smile and happiness with someone on their special day," Caragan says.

Like many people who report business income on their taxes, Caragan has another job. A full-time job. She wouldn't qualify for the tax cut, because businesses are required to have employees to take advantage of it.

So the full-time freelance photographer, or consultant who works alone, would be out of luck. Although the assumption is that many of these sole proprietors would reorganize their books and add a family member to the payroll, to get in on the new tax break.

★  성격 - 문장

She is unkind. 그녀는 불친절해요.
She is cold. 그녀는 냉정해요.
She is mean. 그녀는 비열해요.
She is pessimistic. 그녀는 비관적 이예요.
She is miserable. 그녀는 불쌍해요.
She is tense. 그녀는 긴장을 해요.
She is weak. 그녀는 약해요 .
She is dishonest. 그녀는 부정직해요.
She is insensitive. 그녀는 둔감해요.
She is introverted. 그녀는 내성적 이예요.
She is unambitious. 그녀는 의욕이 없어요.
She is always late. 그녀는 항상 늦어요.
She is unreliable. 그녀는 믿을 수 없어요.
She is inflexible. 그녀는 완고해요.
She is lazy. 그녀는 게을러요.
She is stupid. 그녀는 어리석어요.

He always talks big. / He has a big mouth.  그는 허풍이 심해요.

She"s very clever, but she can be a lazy. 그녀는 아주 영리하지만 게으르다고 할 수 있다.
She"s not exactly witty, but she"s extremely hard-working.

영리하다고는 할 수 없지만 근면한 편이다.

Well, he"s rather boring. 좀 따분한 편이다.
Oh, he"s a little overwhelming.좀 황당한 사람이다.
I"m sort of a pessimist. 좀 비관적인 성격입니다.
I"m very forgetful. 건망증이 심하다.
I"m afraid I"m a poor talker.말주변이 없습니다. 
I sometimes speak too much. 때때로 수다스럽습니다. 
He is very impatient. / He is hot-tempered. 그 사람은 성격이 급해요.

He"s very particular about trivial things. 그는 사소한 일에 잔소리가 심한 사람이다.
Her weakness is that she"s a bit narrow minded and obstinate.

그녀는 마음이 좁고 완고한 것이 결점이다. 
He"s probably just quiet. 그는 아마 그저 말이 없는 성격일 겁니다.
You have quite a personality. / You have a rich personality. 당신은 참 개성적이요.

I"m rather short-tempered, and sometimes get easily excited about unimportant things.

나는 성질이 급해서 사소한 일에 때때로 쉽게 흥분합니다. 
He has a straightforward personality. 그 사람 성격이 시원시원해요.

He"s lively, generous and clever.  그는 활달하고 관대하고 머리가 좋은 사람이예요.
I"m not that strong. 나는 그리 강인한 성격이 못돼요.
I"m not really sociable. 그렇게 사교적이지 못합니다.
I"m rather mischievous. 심술궂은 편이다.
I"m now much outgoing than I used to be. 전과 비교하면 숙기가 좋아졌습니다.
I tend to be withdrawn. / I"m fairly reserved. 소극적인 편입니다.
You"re really arrogant. 너 무지 뻔뻔한 애로구나.

I"m fed up with him. / I"m sick and tired of him. 그 사람이라면 진절머리가 나요.

She stood me up. 그녀가 나를 바람 맞췄어요.
I"ve had it up to here with this lousy job. 이 더러운 직장은 이제 더 이상 참을 수가 없습니다.

He was speaking off the top of his head. 그는 즉흥적으로 연설했죠.

Sometimes I think you"re very fickle. 이따금 당신은 꽤 변덕인 것 같아요. 
It"s a pain in the neck. 정말 견디기 어려운 것이다.

Sometimes being frank is the best policy.
때로는 솔직하게 털어 놓는 것이 최선의 길이지요.

I didn"t mean to offend you. 기분을 상하게 하려고 한 말은 아니었습니다.

★ Bad character (나쁜 성격-단어)

- 사람의 성격을 positive(긍정적)와 negative(부정적)로 나누어보면....
* Positive - hardworking(근면한), creative(창의적인), strict(엄격한), level-headed(분별있는)

   efficient(유능한), punctual(꼼꼼한), reliable(믿음직한), generous(관대한),
* Negative - bad-tempered(심술궂은), impatient(성급한), critical(비판적인),

  disorganized(혼란스러운), moody (변덕스러운), forgetful(잘 잊는)

1. rude 무례한
2. impolite 무례한
3. dishonest 정직하지 않은
4. cruel 잔인한
5. ruthless 무자비한
6. greedy 탐욕스러운
7. mean 심술궂은
8. cunning 교활한
9. mischievous 짓궂은
10. malevolent 악의있는
11. selfish 이기적인
12. warlike 호전적인
13. negligent 태만한
14. jealous 질투심이 많은
15. brutal 잔혹한
16. hostile 적개심을 품은
17. aggressive 공격적인, 침략적인
18. arrogant 거만한, 건방진
19. cold-blooded 냉정한
20. cold-blooded 냉혈한, 피도 눈물도 없는, 냉혹한
21. communicative 이야기하기 좋아하는, 숨김없이 말하는
22. conservative 보수적인, 무사주의의
23. courageous 용기있는, 용감한
24. cruel 잔학한, 잔인한
25. extrovert 외향적인 사람
26. frank 솔직한
27. handicapped 심신장애의
28. hen-pecked 공처가의
29. hot-tempered 다혈질
30. ill-mannered 무뢰한
31. notorious 악명높은
32. reserved 체면 차린, 말없는, 수줍어하는
33. stern 엄격한, 완고한
34. stingy 인색한, 부족한
35. stubborn 완고한, 확고한
37. talented 재능이 있는
38. talkative 수다스러운
39. thoughtless 지각없는, 경솔한, 부주의한
40. timid 겁이 많은, 자신이 없는
41. unscientific 비과학적인, 비학술적인

You must be a man of ability. 당신은 능력이 대단하시군요.

Is there anything you can't do? 못하는 게 없으시군요.

I wish I had your will power. 당신 같은 강한 의지력 좀 있었으면 해요.

You are coming along well. 아주 잘 하고 있어요.

How come you speak such good English? 어떻게 그렇게 영어를 잘하십니까?  

You speak English without an accent.마치 미국 사람처럼 영어를 잘하십니다.
You are in good command of English.영어를 훌륭하게 구사하시는 군요.

You always know the right thing to say.당신은 참 인사성이 밝으시군요.

Oh, that's keen !어마, 멋있군요 ! 

He's a gentleman in every sense of the word.그는 어느 모로 보나 신사입니다.  

You're lovelier than your pictures. 사진보다 실물이 더 예쁘네요.

You look fit. 건강해 보이시는 군요.
How do you keep in shape? 어쩜 그렇게 날씬하세요? 

You're all dressed up. 자네 쪽 뺐군. (굉장하게 차려입었군.)

You did a fine job. 참 잘하셨어요. 

Mary Altaffer/AP

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."

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.

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.

STUDENT NEWS

Titanic Remebered; More Than a Hundred Tornadoes Reported

Aired April 16, 2012 - 04:00:00   ET

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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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