CNN Student News 받아적기 (11.2)
- ENGLISH
- 2011. 11. 2.
First up the connections between the financial bailout, a vote in Greece and global swap markets. The bailout is a part of a deal that the European leaders came up with last week. It's designed to help Greece with its massive debt. but the bailout comes up with rules. Greece would have to raise taxes and cut government's spending. That's something that Greek citizens have been protesting against for months.
Yesterday, the Greek Prime minister called for a national referendom. He wants Greek citizens to vote on whether they want the bailout and the rules that come with it. This is where the global stock markets come in. If Greece can't turn it's debt problem around, this could affect the entire world economy. So the news of this referendom made some investors worried. Many of them started selling off stocks. and that's why a lot of international stock markets dropped yesterday.
Well, from Greece, we are moving to Japan and a long range plant for the Fukushima daiichi power plant. You have heard this before. It suffered a meltdown after a deadly earthquake and Tsunami back in March. The temperatures in the plant have come down inside the reactors.
But according to a new report, it could take decades for the plant to become fully decommissioned. That's because this is a long and complicated process. First, officials have to do a cold shutdown. The plant's owners say that should happen by the end of this year, but it probably take ten years to get all of the nuclear feul out. and probably more than 30 years to completely finish the clean up.
That is what each of the people running for president wants to be.
On the democratic side, you have presient Obama, expected to get his party's nomination.
On the republican side, there are more than a half of a dozen people out on the campaign trail.
Right now, they are working to stand out in that crowd, so they travel from state to state. They meet voters and they participate in debates. CNN is hosting two of those this month.
When the calender turns to 2012 that's when those primaries and caucuses start happening. Voters will cast their ballots for individuals. and you will see this field of candidates get smaller untill one of them eventually becomes the official nominee, the national conversation in late August.
On this day in history back in 1947, the Spruce Goose made its one and only in flight. The flying boat was the largest aircraft ever built. It cost 23 million dollars. One year later, in 1948, Harry Truman was reelected to the U.S. presidency. His vitory over Tomas Deway is considered the biggest upset in presidential election history. And in 2002, Russians and an American arrived at an international space station. They were the first crew of the ISS. They spent more than 4 months on the station.
A U.S millitary commander says the keys to his forces being successful are team work and the ability to react quickly to different threats. but he's not talking about troops in the field. His battle is online. Barbar star looks at some of the challenges the government has to deal with, when warfare takes place on a virtual battle field.
Reporter:
Is cyberspace a warzone? The U.S secretary of defense could not be more clear. "that the next pearl harbor that we confront, could we very well be a cyber attack."
There has already been one serious attact. In 2008, an infected flash drive was inserted into a lap top on a U.S millitary base. A foreign spy agency had placed a mallicious code on the drive, secret data was tranferred to foreign control. The pentagon won't name the suspect country. On the very day the Pentagon unveiled its plan for operations in cyberspace. Another breach revealed. "A single intrusion, this past march, 24000 files were taken."
Cyberspace is now full of attacks. Experts warn, however, just hacking into a network or taking down an electric power grid doesn't mean an automatic millitary response. "but if in the course of knocking down electronic grid, if people were to die or your were to knock out hospitals, knock out the ability to provide for services for people, then certainly, I think that would meet the definition of an act of a war."
The new Pentagon strategy focuses on defending millitary systems from theft and denial or disruptions of service. But cyberspace has a particular attraction for attackers.
"Yet, also, there was a fairly low cost of entry in this business. They don't have to have a massive millitary industrial complex to actually build an offensive capability and employ it" And if they attack, they can remain largely anonymous, making it difficult to find and target them, becoming the enemy right on the computer screen.
All right. think about you usual morning routine. what do you do from the time when you wake up until when you get to school. Around the world people at your age are doing the same thing. But this next report focuses on four girls on four different continents and it shows how doing the same baic thing -getting ready for school- can be very different based on where and how you live.
In Denver colorado, getting ready for school is different for Lauren Robinson, too. It's because she doesn't leave her house to get to class. Instead, she logs in her computer and uses the key board as a remote control to operate her robotic stand-in. She has a severe diary alergy, so she's not allowed to go to the school. This robot does it for her. Lauren says She's sad she can't be there in person. She also feels like the robot keeps her from missing out on the experience of going to a high school.
Well, we have come to the last segment of our show today. You know how the wedding vow goes "till deat do its part"? This couple is doing things backwards, rising from the grave to start their ceremony. It's now a zombie wedding. Just a really morbid more to that one. The bride and groom are huge fans of halloween. They decided to get married in an costumed event. Since they arrived in a coffin and body bag, it made sense that they left in a vehicle nomally used for funeral processions. Actually, it was a set of matching cars for his and "hearse. "Something to tell me anybody who stands in the way of that marriage could face grave consequences, but that couple is anything but a pair of deathbeats.
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