CNN 2011-10-31

 If you take out a student loan to help pay for college, you're going to have to pay back the money you borrow plus the interest. And with college getting more expensive, more people are turning to loans to help pay for it. President Obama has a couple of plans that he thinks it will help students manage their student loan debt. He talked about them during a speech in Denver, Colorado yesterday. The first plan deals with how loan get repaid. Specifically, how much you pay and for how long. Congress already passed this, it's scheduled start in 2014, but the president wants it sooner. The other plan would let students who have multiple loans combine them in a one repaid program, that way they might be able to get a break on the loan's interest rates. Something to keep in mind, we're only talking about government loans, a lot of students have got loans from private companies and those students wouldn't benefit from this. Also this covers new loans. If you've already borrowed money, nothing will change. And if you're behind on your loan repayments¹, you won't be able to be part of this program.The bad news, college costs thousands of dollars a year. The good news, many students get scholarship or grants to help pay for it. We're asking about this hour on our blog today. If you're planning to go to college, how you plan to cover the cost? Will you work your way through, get a student a loan, or is your family saving up. Tell us, at cnnstudentnews.com.

Today's shoutout goes out to Mr. Burn's world geography class at Morris Middle school in Huston, Texas.

What part of the human body makes red blood cells, you know what to do. Is it the heart, lungs, pancreas or bone marrow². You've got three seconds. Go!

Your red blood cells are made of marrow which is the tissue inside your bones. That's your answer, and that's your shoutout. 

1 repayments   

偿还，报答，偿付的钱物( repayment的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The repayments of the loan are spread over 10 years. 贷款可在十年内分期偿还。
• The repayments of the loan are spread over 25 years. 这笔贷款分摊二十五年偿还。

2 marrow   

n.骨髓；精华；活力

参考例句：

• It was so cold that he felt frozen to the marrow. 天气太冷了，他感到寒冷刺骨。
• He was tired to the marrow of his bones.他真是累得筋疲力尽了。