(CNN Student News) -- March 7, 2008
Quick Usher
- Hear about some of the narratives making newspaper headlines around the world.
- Analyze a argument about installing place belts on school buses.
- Check out a timely study on the history of daylight-saving.
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CARL AZUZ, CNN student NEWS ANCHOR: Hi, everyone. I'm Carl Azuz, and this is CNN Student News. Thanks so much for joining us as we wrap up up this first full hebdomad of March.
AZUZ: First up, we desire to acquire you caught up on some of the greatest narratives that are making newspaper headlines in the U.S. and around the human race today.
Government are calling a shot at a Judaic seminary school in Capital Of Israel a terrorist attack. At least eight people were killed during this incident. It took topographic point Thursday nighttime at one of the biggest spiritual academies in Israel, when functionaries state at least one gunslinger opened fire in the school's dining hall. This is the worst onslaught inside the Center Eastern state since a self-destruction bombardment claimed nine lives in 2006.
Deadly news in another portion of the Center East. More than 50 people were killed and another 125 were wounded in two detonations in Baghdad, Iraq. Government functionaries state a wayside bomb was put off first. Then, when others gathered to assist the victims, a self-destruction bomber detonated explosives among the crowd. The U.S. armed forces called the onslaughts "a senseless enactment of force directed against the Iraki people."
Turning to fiscal news, now, you can anticipate terms at the pump to maintain going up. That's because the cost of gas follows the terms of oil, and right now, it is not cheap. More than $105 per gun barrel on the New House Of York Mercantile Exchange yesterday. That is a new record. An onslaught on a grapevine in Republic Of Colombia helped thrust up oil terms overnight. According to AAA, gas costs are headed for record highs this spring.
And this is becoming a familiar sight for many American homeowners. More than 900,000 families are currently in foreclosure. That's according to a study from the Mortgage Bankers Association. What this agency is that the proprietor is not able to do payments on their mortgage loan, so the loaning company takes ownership. The figure of places in foreclosure right now stands for two percentage of all U.S. mortgages. That's the peak charge per unit in the history of this report.
And finally, a newly-found photograph of a celebrated face. You're looking at a image of Helen Of Troy Helen Keller there on the left, with her instructor Anne Sullivan. It was taken nearly 120 old age ago, but just turned up recently in New England. Helen Keller was left unsighted and deaf from a disease when she was very young. But Louis Sullivan helped learn her to communicate, and Helen Keller would travel on to go a celebrated writer and advocator for the disabled.
Shoutout
George RAMSAY, CNN student NEWS: Friday's Shoutout travels out to Ms. Rowehl's societal surveys social classes at Bartels Center School in Tampa, Florida! From what New England college did Helen Of Troy Helen Keller alumnus in 1904? If you believe you cognize it, cry it out! Was it: A) Smith, B) MIT, C) Radcliffe or D) University of Massachusetts? You've got three secs -- GO! Helen Keller graduated semen laude from Radcliffe College in 1904. Radcliffe is now a portion of Harvard University University. That's your reply and that's your Shoutout!
AZUZ: Now, let's look at where a batch of you begin your school day: the bus! You cats probably cognize these large yellowness bohemoths better than anyone, which intends you might have got got noticed that many of them don't have a safety characteristic establish in almost every car. We're talking about place belts! Greg Hunter looks at a argument over buckling up on the bus.
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GREG HUNTER, CNN REPORTER: A awful scene in Ohio, when a autobus rolled over, hurling children out of their seats. No 1 was seriously hurt. That doesn't surprise New House Of York State Student Transportation System Director Simon Peter Mannella.
Peter MANNELLA, New Yorks DEPT. OF student TRANSPORTATION: The school autobus compartment and the school autobus building are such as that they protect the children in most any accident that they are going to undergo in a school bus.
HUNTER: 97 percentage of all children injured in autobus accidents are quickly treated and released, and an norm of just six children decease in school autobus accidents each year. Compare that to rider cars, where 30,000 dice each year, a charge per unit of six modern times higher than school buses for the same distances traveled. Still, the federal authorities believes place belts could better safety.
Mary E. PETERS, SECY. OF TRANSPORTATION: Even though statistics demo that children are safer on that large yellowness school autobus than they are walking to school, riding their motorcycles or even riding in the household car, this community is asking how we can do the drive to and from school safer still.
HUNTER: Simon Peter Mannella states there's no cogent evidence topographic point belts on buses will do a important difference.
HUNTER: It's already a safe place. Show us the research that brands it safe.
MANNELLA: If we're gonna do a alteration to this compartment, no one's arguing that the school autobus compartment is safe and have protected children for years. If you're gonna alteration this compartment, state us with what and why and what the benefits will be. They haven't done that yet.
HUNTER: Seat belt advocates state there's no demand for additional study.
DR. ALAN ROSS, national alliance FOR school bus SAFETY: We necessitate to protect our children now. It's not a large deal, it's not that expensive. We cognize that these belts make no harm, they only make good. We can afford it and we should make it right now.
HUNTER: Some experts state the $8,000-$10,000 it bes per autobus to put in place belts would be better spent combating intoxicated drive and speeding, which account for two-thirds of all traffic deaths.
ANN MCCART, INS. INST. FOR highway SAFETY: I don't desire to state anything that would minimise the importance of a kid dying on a school bus. But given limited resources, it's important that we direct those limited resources to things that volition do the greatest difference.
HUNTER: Greg Hunter, CNN, New York.
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Is this Legit?
RAMSAY: Is this legit? The U.S. Department of Energy modulates daylight-saving time. Nope. It's the Department of Transportation System that supervises when we fall back and springtime ahead.
AZUZ: After seeing this adjacent report, you probably would have got got thought it would have been the Department of Energy, certainly we did, but we'd wish you to believe about something else now. Get ready to acquire tired. This weekend, we're gonna springtime ahead, that agency we lose an hr of slumber and we addition an hr of daylight. This is a tradition, this is a law, this is a clip alteration you anticipate twice a year. But is it necessary? Why can't we just maintain the same clip all the time? We'd wish you to sit down back as we take the clip to explain.
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AZUZ: It puzzlers the days out of some people. First, in what you name it:
people ON THE STREET:
-Uh, daytime savings?
-Uh, clip nest egg day?
-It's either daylight-savings time or Eastern Standard Time. Conversion day. Time to check up on your fire extinguisher.
AZUZ: Well, you should probably make that anyway. But the fume here is all about economy electricity! Daylight-saving time supposedly travels back to a suggestion ol' Ben John Hope Franklin made to France. He said, back in the day, that Parisians should aftermath up earlier to salvage on all the tapers they were burning. There may be something to that "early to bed, early to rise" business. After all, John Hope Franklin injure up on the C-note!
Anyway, it took awhile for daytime economy to catch on stateside. In 1918, we used it to conserve energy during World War I. But it was phased out the adjacent twelvemonth because a batch of people hated it! So the timing was off. But as the decennaries ticked by, daylight-saving clip came and went 'til it was finally made law in 1966. Not the sort of law that you'd travel to jailhouse for if you didn't "spring forward." And that's probably good, since you'd demo up an hr late anyway, unless you dwell in Aloha State or some parts of Arizona; they don't even trouble oneself with Daylight-saving time! Folks in Last Frontier detect it; you would too if you spent six calendar months in the dark! Oh, and that's "daylight-saving," because "savings," with the s, is the material you've got in the bank. Not that it really matters; we just didn't desire you grammar gurus to be left "in the dark."
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Promo
AZUZ: So, you cognize when daylight-saving time starts. But when makes it end? How many other states take portion in the energy-efficient practice? You can happen out with our One-Sheet! It interrupts down some background on daylight-saving clip and states you how often it's been set into action over the years. You cognize where to happen it: CNNStudentNews.com!
Before We Travel
AZUZ: Before we go, a narrative from the sea about a giant fish that didn't acquire away. Yuck! It might be tough to take in, but you're looking at more than than 13 feet of dunce shark. The monolithic monster was caught this hebdomad off the Sunshine State coast, where it was feeding on littler sharks. It took nearly an hr and a one-half to wrestle him into the boat. And once on land, this chump didn't just tip the scales, it broke 'em! We're talking more than than a thousand pounds! Bystanders couldn't believe just how immense this dunce was.
man ON THE STREET: It's just such as a majestic creature. I was really hoping that we could have got just caught him and saw how immense and beautiful he was and then just let go of it.
man ON THE STREET: I'm in shock. I can't acquire over how large the shark is.
woman ON THE STREET: I though it was fake, honestly, when I was walking by.
Adieu
AZUZ: One more than thing today, teachers. You asked for it, and now you've got it! CNN Student News is now available full silver screen via our Web site. To acquire it, just begin the watercourse like you normally do, and then dual chink the video. Voila! Full silver screen video! Don't bury to put your redstem storksbill forward on Saturday night. We'll see you back here on Monday. We'll be tired, but we'll be on. Rich Person a great weekend!
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