CNN 2009-10-08

Hello everyone, I'm Catherine Callaway at the CNN center, with a look at what's happening NOW IN THE NEWS.

Today is the eighth anniversary of the war in Afghanistan, and the biggest strategic decision could be still to come. Seven hundred and seventy eight US troops have died there since the war against the Taliban began just a few weeks after 9.11. The US took less time to defeat Germany and Japan in World War II. In March President Obama announced he was sending twenty one thousand more troops to Afghanistan. Now published reports say that General Stanley Mcstone is asking for as many as forty thousand more. That would place more than a hundred thousand Americans’ lives at stake there.

Attorney General Eric Holder¹ and Education Secretary Arne Duncan are both meeting with Chicago's mayor later this morning. Mayor Richard J. Daley is expected to ask for more federal money to hire extra police officers. Some of these officers could be dedicated² to covering Chicago's schools. Forty children have been killed in violent crimes across the city of Chicago so far this year.

New details about an email scam. Even more people may have been affected³ . It started with hotmail. Microsoft says the users were tricked into revealing their passwords in a fishing scam. Now media reports say that some people using google, yahoo and other email services were also tricked. The big concern is that many people use one password for all of their online accounts.

Look at this stunning⁴ discovery, a space discovery, revealing Saturn's newest halo, NASA's scientists spotted⁵ an enormous ring around that planet. It is by far the largest of Saturn's rings. It is, its diameter is equal to three hundred Saturns⁶ lined up side by side. It would take about a billion earth to fill the ring.

Two Americans and an Israeli won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. And they will split the one point four million dollars for the work on their structure of ribosomes. Those are like construction workers inside your cells and they build protein.

Those are the headlines for you. Stay with CNN for more on these stories and other news of the day.

1 holder   

n.持有者，占有者；(台，架等)支持物

参考例句：

• The holder of the office of chairman is reponsible for arranging meetings.担任主席职位的人负责安排会议。
• That runner is the holder of the world record for the hundred-yard dash.那位运动员是一百码赛跑世界纪录的保持者。

2 dedicated   

adj.一心一意的；献身的；热诚的

参考例句：

• He dedicated his life to the cause of education.他献身于教育事业。
• His whole energies are dedicated to improve the design.他的全部精力都放在改进这项设计上了。

3 affected   

adj.不自然的，假装的

参考例句：

• She showed an affected interest in our subject.她假装对我们的课题感到兴趣。
• His manners are affected.他的态度不自然。

4 stunning   

adj.极好的；使人晕倒的

参考例句：

• His plays are distinguished only by their stunning mediocrity.他的戏剧与众不同之处就是平凡得出奇。
• The finished effect was absolutely stunning.完工后的效果非常美。

5 spotted   

adj.有斑点的，斑纹的，弄污了的

参考例句：

• The milkman selected the spotted cows,from among a herd of two hundred.牛奶商从一群200头牛中选出有斑点的牛。
• Sam's shop stocks short spotted socks.山姆的商店屯积了有斑点的短袜。

6 Saturns   

n.土星( Saturn的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• This one concerned the possibility of life on Saturns largest moon, Titan. 这次有关生命存在的发现地是土星最大的卫星—土卫六。 来自互联网
• That, he says, gives Saturns now-frigid moon all of the elements it needs for life. 而这，将会赋予这颗目前冰冷的土星月亮以生命所必需的一切元素。 来自互联网