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作者: Lepapillon0311 时间: 2006-1-24 00:19
标题: 英语国家生存英语精选
摘要：你曾经因为一字之差而闹笑话吗？有哪些字是你刻骨铭心的惨痛经验？你觉得有哪些关键字汇让你顿足捶胸，或茅塞顿开？\r 
 当考路的考官说“pull over”时，你是否会不知所措？有人邀请你参加“Potluck Party”时，你会不会空手赴宴？在速食店里，店员问“for　here　or　to　go?”你是否会丈二金刚摸不着头脑，莫名其妙？“Give　me　a　ring!”可不是用来求婚的。“Drop　me　a　line!”　更非要你排队站好。老美说“Hi!　What's up!”你可别说“I am fine!”你曾经闹过这些笑话吗？让我们来看看，这些字，你怎麽说？　
 
 Potluck　Party：一种聚餐方式，主人准备场地和餐具，参加的人必须带一道菜或准备饮料，最好事先问问主人的意思。\r 
 Pull　over！把车子开到旁边。　
 
 Drop　me　a　line！写封信给我。　
 
 Give　me　a　ring.　=　Call　me！来个电话吧！　
 
 For　here　or　to　go？堂食或外卖。　
 
 Cool：That's　cool!　等於台湾年轻人常用的囗语“酷！”，表示不赖嘛！用于人或事均可。\r 
 What's　up?　=　What's　happening?　=　What's　new?　见面时随囗问候的话“最近在忙什么？有什么新鲜事吗？”一般的回答是“Nothing　much!”或“Nothing　new!”\r 
 Cut　it　out!　=　Knock　it　out！=　Stop　it!　少来这一套！同学之间开玩笑的话。\r 
 Don't　give　me　a　hard　time!　别跟我过不去好不好！　
 
 Get　yourself　together!　振作点行不行！　
 
 Do　you　have　"the"　time?　现在几点钟？可别误以为人家要约你出去。　
 
 Hang　in　there.　=　Don't　give　up.　=　Keep　trying.　再撑一下。　
 
 Give　me　a　break!　你饶了我吧！（开玩笑的话）　
 
 Hang　on.　请稍候。　
 
 Blow　it.　=　Screw　up.　搞砸了。　
 
 What　a　big　hassle.　真是个麻烦事。\r 
 What　a　crummy　day.　多倒霉的一天。\r 
 Go　for　it.　加油　
 
 You　bet.　=　Of　course.　当然；看我的！　
 
 Wishful　thinking.　一厢情愿的想法。　
 
 Don't　be　so　fussy!　别那么挑剔好不好。　
 
 It's　a　long　story.　唉！说来话长。　
 
 How　have　you　been?　=　How　are　you　doing?　你过得如何？近来可好?
 
 Take　things　for　granted.　自以为理所当然。\r 
 Don't　put　on　airs.　别摆架子。　
 
 Give　me　a　lift!　=　Give　me　a　ride!　送我一程吧！　
 
 Have　a　crush　on　someone.　迷恋某人
 
 What's　the　catch?　有什么内幕？　
 
 Party　animal.　开Party狂的人(喜欢参加舞会的人)
 
 Pain　in　the　neck.　=Pain　in　the　ass.　眼中钉，肉中刺。\r 
 Skeleton　in　the　closet.　家丑　
 
 Don't　get　on　my　nerve!　别把我惹毛了！\r 
 A　fat　chance.　=A　poor　chance.　机会很小
 
 I　am　racking　my　brains.　我正在绞尽脑　
 
 She's　a　real　drag.　她真有点碍手碍脚
 
 Spacingout　=　daydreaming.　做白日梦
 
 I　am　so　fed　up.　我受够了！\r 
 It　doesn't　go　with　your　dress.　跟你的衣服不配。\r 
 What's　the　point?　=　What　are　you　trying　to　say?　你的重点是什么？
 
 By　all　means　=　Definitely.　一定是。\r 
 Let's　get　a　bite.　=　Let's　go　eat.　去吃点东西吧！\r 
 I'll　buy　you　a　lunch　(a　drink;　a　dinner).　=　It's　on　me.　=　My　treat.　我请客　
 
 Let's　go　Dutch.　各付各的　
 
 My　stomach　is　upset.　我的胃不舒服　
 
 diarrhea　拉肚子　
 
 吃牛排时，waiter会问“How would you like it?”就是问“要几分熟”的意思，可以选择rare，medium或　well-done。　
 
 I　am　under　the　weather.　=I　am　not　feeling　well.　我不太舒服!　
 
 May I take a rain check?　可不可改到下次？(例如有人请你吃饭，你不能赴约，只好请他改到下一次。)　
 
 I　am　not　myself　today.　我今天什么都不对劲!　
 
 Let's　get　it　straight.　咱们把事情弄清楚!　　
 
 What's　the　rush!　急什么!　
 
 Such　a　fruitcake!　神经病！
 
 I'll　swing　by　later.　=I'll　stop　by　later.　待会儿，我会来转一下。　
 
 I　got　the　tip　straight　from　the　horse's　mouth.　这个消息是千真万确的（tip指消息）!
 
 easy　as　pie　=　very　easy　=　piece　of　cake　很容易。　
 
 flunk　out　被当掉　
 
 take　French　leave　不告而别
 
 I　don't　get　the　picture.　=I　don't　understand.　我不明白。　
 
 You　should　give　him　a　piece　of　your　mind.　你应该向他表达你的不满。\r 
 hit　the　road　=　take　off　=　get　on　one's　way　离开。　
 
 Now　he　is　in　the　driver's　seat　=He　is　in　control　now.　　
 
 Keep　a　low　profile　(or　low　key).　采取低姿态。\r 
 Kinky　=bizarre　=wacky　=weird　古怪的。　
 
 klutz　(=clutz)　=idiot　白痴、笨蛋。　
 
 know　one's　way　around　识途老马。　
 
 lion's　share　大部份。\r 
 tailgate　尾随（尤其跟车跟得太近）。\r 
 take　a　back　seat.　让步。\r 
 take　a　hike　=leave　me　alone　=get　lost　滚开。　
 
 hit　the　hay　=go　to　bed　睡觉。　
 
 Can　you　give　me　a　lift?　=Can　you　give　me　a　ride?　载我一程好吗？
 
 green　hand　生手、没有经验的人。　
 
 moonshine　=　mountain　dew　指私酿的烈酒（威士忌）或走私的酒。胡说八道也可用moonshine。His story is　plain moonshine.　　
 
 chill　out　=calm　down　=relax（来自黑人英语）　
 
 rip　off　=steal：I　was　ripped　off.　我被偷了；rip　off　也常被用为“剥夺”My　right　was　ripped　off.　权利被剥夺(来自黑人英语)。\r 
 我们称美国大兵为G.I.　(Government　Issue)　or　GI　Joe,　德国兵或德国佬为　Fritzor　Kraut，称英国佬为John　Bull，日本人为Jap.或Nip，犹太人为Jew都是　很不礼貌的称呼。\r 
 mess　around　(with)瞎混；Get　to　work.　Don't　mess　around.　赶快工作，别瞎搅和。\r 
 snob　势利眼　
 
 sneak　in,　sneak　out　偷偷溜进去，溜出来 sneakers　运动鞋\r 
 She　is　such　a　brown-nose.　她是个马屁精。　
 
 This　is　in　way　over　my　head.　对我而言这实在太难了。\r 
 I　am　an　exam　jitter　and　I　always　get　a　cramp　in　my　stomach.　我是个考试紧张大师，一考试胃就抽筋。\r 
 Keep　your　study　(work)　on　track.　请按进度读书（工作）。\r 
 Did　you　come　up　with　any　ideas?　有没有想到什麽新的意见？　　　
 
 Don't　get　uptight!　Take　it　easy.　别紧张，慢慢来！　　
 
 Cheese!　It　tastes　like　cardboard.　天哪，吃起来味如嚼腊！　
 
 Get　one's　feet　wet.　与中文里的“涉足”或“下海”，寓意相同，表示初尝某事。I　am　going　to　try　dancing　for　the　very　first　time.　Just　to　get　my　feet　wet.
 
 美国总统到底是比尔·克林顿还是威廉·克林顿？吉米·卡特和詹姆斯·卡特是否同一人？根据语言学家William　Safire的分析，美国多数政客都喜欢使用昵名代替他们原来的名字，如Bill就是William的昵称，Jimmy等于James等。\r

作者: 红依榆美 时间: 2006-1-30 14:42
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作者: Lepapillon0311 时间: 2006-2-10 17:12
Give　me　a　ring.　=　Call　me！来个电话吧！\r 
 
 如果你不知道这个用法，很有可能会理解成“给我一枚戒指吧”\r 那可就要闹大笑话了

作者: Lepapillon0311 时间: 2006-2-12 13:23
whassssup
 
 
 添加一个\r 有人知道这是什么意思么？\r 嘿嘿

作者: Lepapillon0311 时间: 2006-2-12 13:46
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作者: Lepapillon0311 时间: 2006-2-12 13:49
<img src='images/smiles/agree.gif' smilietext=':agree:' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt=':agree:' />
 
 HHHHHHH

作者: 暴龙MM 时间: 2006-2-28 20:03
what's the matter?

作者: Vanish 时间: 2006-3-3 16:16
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作者: Lepapillon0311 时间: 2006-3-7 17:42
not at all

作者: kaoyanhunter 时间: 2006-3-17 16:48
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作者: Lepapillon0311 时间: 2006-6-3 23:42
Let's　get　a　bite.It's full of the ordinary wisdom and so funny.'cause usually only dogs will bite.<img src="images/smiles/glad.gif" border="0" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.src);" alt="" style="CURSOR: pointer" onload="javascript:if(this.width>screen.width-500)this.style.width=screen.width-500;" />?

作者: Lepapillon0311 时间: 2006-6-5 13:00
China to rival US as world power by 2020: surveyBERLIN (Reuters) - The United States will lose its position as the world's undisputed leading power over the next decade and a half, with China emerging as a formidable rival, according to a new survey from Germany's Bertelsmann Foundation. In the survey, based on interviews of 10,250 people worldwide, 57 percent of respondents said they believed the United States would be a world power in the year 2020 compared to 55 percent who saw China in that role.That compared to 81 percent who currently see the United States as a world power and 45 percent who believe China has already attained that status.The survey, entitled "World Powers in the 21st Century" was conducted by the Gallup and TNS Emnid polling institutes in nine countries -- Brazil, China, France, Germany, India, Japan, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States -- between October and December 2005. Between 1,000 and 1,500 interviews were conducted in each of the countries.The survey showed the Chinese themselves are confident they will gain influence on the global stage. A full 71 percent of Chinese respondents said their country would be a world power by 2020, compared to 44 percent who see China in that role today.By comparison, 54 percent of Americans see China as a global power in 2020, up slightly from the 51 percent who already view China that way.The survey showed that India would also rise as a world power, with 24 percent of respondents assigning it that status in 2020 against only 12 percent today.Besides the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, France and Japan were expected to decline in status, shedding 11, 6, 5 and 5 percentage points, respectively in the next 15 years.Of the respondents within those five declining countries, only those in France went against the international trend and said their country would gain in status from now until 2020 -- with 33 percent of French seeing their country as a world power today and 35 percent in 2020.DIFFERENCES ON MILITARY POWER, TERRORISMThe survey showed that people in the nine countries considered "economic power and potential for growth" as the most important quality for a world power.There was disagreement on the importance of "military power" as a factor, with a third of respondents in China and the United States listing it as crucial, but only 7 percent in Germany and 16 percent in Japan viewing it as important.There were also differences in how the countries viewed the main challenges confronting the world. In seven of the nine countries, over 50 percent of respondents listed international terrorism as the chief challenge.But in China and Brazil less than a third of those surveyed put terrorism in that category. The Chinese listed environmental destruction and scarcity of natural resources as top threats.

作者: Lepapillon0311 时间: 2006-6-5 13:15
Aniston and Vaughn's 'Break-Up' bests 'X-Men' at box officeLOS ANGELES (AP) -- Fueled by real-life romantic splits and hookups, Jennifer Aniston and Vince Vaughn's "The Break-Up" pulled an upset over the mutant world of the "X-Men.""The Break-Up" debuted more strongly than expected with $38.1 million to take over as the No. 1 weekend movie from "X-Men: The Last Stand," which slipped to second place with $34.35 million, according to studio estimates Sunday.Aniston's split from Brad Pitt last year and her reported romance that began with Vaughn while filming "The Break-Up" helped keep the movie in the public eye."They're always in the press," said Nikki Rocco, head of distribution for Universal, which released "The Break-Up." "Every time you turn around, somebody's talking about Jennifer, or Jennifer and Brad, or Jennifer and Vince. It's not why we made the movie, though.""The Break-Up" pulled in about $10 million more than Rocco had expected.After putting in a record four-day debut of $122.9 million over Memorial Day weekend, 20th Century Fox's third "X-Men" movie tumbled. The movie's domestic gross dropped a steep 67 percent from its Friday-Sunday haul the first weekend.Still, "X-Men" raised its total to a whopping $175.7 million in just 10 days, a mark it took "X2: X-Men United" 18 days to reach. Bruce Snyder, head of distribution for Fox, said the film should top out at $240 million to $250 million, beating the $157 million take for the first "X-Men" and the $215 million return for "X2."The huge decline in the second weekend was typical given how many people saw the movie over the holiday weekend, Snyder said."I'm not shocked at that drop," Snyder said.DreamWorks Animation's cartoon comedy "Over the Hedge" held up well, placing third with $20.6 million for a three-week total of $112.4 million.Sony's "The Da Vinci Code" was No. 4 with $19.3 million, lifting its three-week domestic gross to $172.7 million. Worldwide, the Tom Hanks film adapted from Dan Brown's best-seller has grossed $581 million and should hit at least $750 million globally, said Rory Bruer, Sony head of distribution.In its second weekend, the Al Gore documentary "An Inconvenient Truth" went into wider release and broke into the top 10 with $1.33 million, though playing in just 77 theaters.Released by Paramount Classics, the film averaged an impressive $17,292 a theater, compared to $12,410 in 3,070 cinemas for "The Break-Up."Chronicling the former vice president's campaign to educate people about the perils of global warming, "An Inconvenient Truth" expands to more theaters over the next two weekends."It's breakups and global warming that I think really are interesting people now," said Paul Dergarabedian, president of box-office tracker Exhibitor Relations.Overall business rose slightly, with the top 12 movies taking in $128.9 million, up 1.6 percent from the same weekend last year.After an 8 percent drop in movie attendance last year, Hollywood is positioned for a solid summer. Attendance is running about 1 percent ahead of last year's, with what looks like a solid crop of blockbusters still to come, including this Friday's animated comedy "Cars," from Disney and Pixar, and the Warner Bros. adventure "Superman Returns" on June 30.

作者: Lepapillon0311 时间: 2006-6-5 13:18
Jersey girl, 13, knows her 'ursprache'WASHINGTON (AP) -- A 13-year-old New Jersey girl making her fifth straight appearance at the Scripps National Spelling Bee rattled off "ursprache" to claim the title of America's best speller on prime-time television Thursday night.Katharine Close, an eighth-grader at the H.W. Mountz School in Spring Lake, New Jersey, is the first girl since 1999 to win the national spelling title.She stepped back from the microphone and put her hands to her mouth upon being declared the winner. (<a href="http://javascript:CN*Video('play','/video/us/2006/06/02/close.spelling.bee.champ.abc','2006/06/09');" target="_blank">Watch Katharine Close react to her win -- 5:09</a>)"I'm just in shock," Katharine said. Asked what she'll remember most, she said: "Probably just hearing 'ursprache,' which is a parent language."She recognized the word as soon as she heard it.The winner goes home with more than $42,000 in cash and prizes.Runner-up was Finola Mei Hwa Hackett, a 14-year-old Canadian, a confident speller during two days of competition who stumbled on "weltschmerz," which means sadness over the evils of the world.Third-place went to Saryn Hooks, a 14-year-old from West Alexander Middle School in Taylorsville, North Carolina, who was disqualified earlier in the evening, then returned to competition after the judges corrected their mistake.Saryn fumbled on "icteritious," which means of a jaundiced color.Driven by the popularity of recent movies, books and a Broadway musical on the seemingly improbable theme of spelling hard words, the bee featured prime-time television coverage for the first time in its 79-year history. ABC broadcast the final from 8 p.m. until the winner was crowned just after 10 p.m. ET.Spellers took to the stage minutes before the broadcast, huddling and chanting "1-2-3, Spell" before taking their seats. Their parents sat on stage, too, across the aisle.The broadcast had the flavor and style of a sports program, opening with a montage of the competitors and including a short profile of the first speller before he got his word.Each word or grimace by spellers triggered a blast of camera shutters, and the live TV camera followed the losers into the arms of comforting parents.Even gamblers got into the act, putting money down on questions including whether the final word would have an "e" in it and whether the winner would wear glasses.Simon Noble, CEO of PinnacleSports.com, said his offshore Internet sports betting company had received about $70,000 in wagers on seven propositions about the bee as of noon Thursday.The pace of competition, held in the basement ballroom of a Washington hotel, was slowed by the need to accommodate commercial breaks in the TV coverage provided by ABC, as well as earlier by ESPN."We're out for another two-minute commercial break," or "We're out for about a minute and a half," bee director Paige Kimble announced frequently, connected by headset to the network directors.The competition paused for ABC to air commercials pitching credit cards, fast food, cell phones, digital cameras, clothing stores, breath fresheners, allergy medication, storm doors, kids movies, spray-on sunscreen, electric shavers for men and pastel-colored razors for women.The competition began Wednesday with 275 fourth- through eighth-graders.The spellers sat below hot lights on the red-and-blue, made-for-TV stage. On Thursday, all wore matching white, short-sleeve polo shirts with the bee logo on the left breast.Spellers made it to the finals by winning contests in the 50 states, as well as in American Samoa, the Bahamas, Canada, Europe, Guam, Jamaica, New Zealand, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.ESPN has broadcast the second day of the bee since 1994. This year, in a nod to the popularity of reality TV, the championship rounds were moved to ABC for a live, prime-time event before a larger viewing audience. The Walt Disney Co. owns both networks.All the attention follows a series of bee-centered developments in popular culture."Akeelah and the Bee," a movie about a Los Angeles girl who overcomes adversity to win the national spelling bee, opened nationwide in late April.That followed last year's "Bee Season," about a man focused on his daughter's quest to become a spelling bee champ. It was based on the best-selling novel by Myla Goldberg.Also last year, the Broadway musical, "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee," won two Tony awards. And the 2002 documentary "Spellbound" followed eight teenagers during their quest to win the 1999 National Spelling Bee.The Louisville Courier-Journal started the bee in 1925. The E.W. Scripps Co., a media conglomerate, assumed sponsorship in 1941.

作者: Lepapillon0311 时间: 2006-6-5 13:22
Learning Activity: China's Three Gorges Dam<h3>Procedure</h3>Direct students to multimedia resources to learn about the history of the Three Gorges Dam project, and have them create a timeline of their findings. Next, have students conduct research to identify the benefits and drawbacks associated with building the dam. Instruct students to consider the following issues: energy generation, flood control, irrigation and the environmental, social, cultural and economic effects of the project. Then, divide your class into two groups to debate whether or not the Three Gorges Dam should have been built. Have students support their positions with visual aids, such as maps and diagrams. Following the debate, ask students: In your opinion, who stands to gain the most from the Three Gorges Dam? Who do you could experience the greatest loss? <a name="2"></a><a name="rv2"></a><h3>Correlated Standards</h3>Social StudiesStandard III: People, Places and Environments: Students will make informed and critical decisions about the relationship between human beings and their environment. Standard VII: Production, Distribution and Consumption: Students will learn about how people organize for the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services.Standard VIII: Science, Technology & Society: Students will examine the relationships among science, technology and society.The Curriculum Standards for Social Studies (<a href="http://www.socialstudies.org/standards/" target="_blank">http://www.socialstudies.org/standards/</a><img src="http://i.CN*.net/CN*/.element/img/1.3/misc/icon.offsite.gif" border="0" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.src);" alt="" style="CURSOR: pointer" onload="javascript:if(this.width>screen.width-500)this.style.width=screen.width-500;" />) are published by the National Council for Social Studies.<a name="3"></a><a name="rv1"></a><h3>Keywords</h3>Three Gorges Dam, China, Yangtze River, electricity, environment, hydropower, flooding, water quality

作者: Lepapillon0311 时间: 2006-6-5 13:27
Bill Wyman's view of the worldBill Wyman bought a camera and a complete set of lenses.Photography wasn't a new hobby for Wyman, the Stones' bassist until the mid-'90s. He was actually a photographer before he was a musician, an enthusiast who started with his uncle's box camera just after World War II. But life with the Stones gave him the money, and the time, to truly indulge in the pastime.He's been snapping away for more than 40 years now.Click: There are Marc and Vava Chagall, Wyman's neighbors from the south of France.Click: There's Mick Jagger, admiring Keith Richards' new python-skin boots at the 1968 "Rock and Roll Circus."Click: There's former Jagger squeeze Jerry Hall, the hint of a smile on her defiant face, casually smoking a cigarette.Click: There's a slightly haunted Nicky Hopkins, the famed session pianist, framed in the light of an airplane window.Wyman, now 69, sees similarities between being a photographer and being a bassist."When you're playing bass in the Stones, you have to be quite intuitive," he says in a phone interview from his home in England. Photography takes similar initiative: "You have to have an eye for the good shot," he says.<a name="1"></a><a name="rv2"></a><h3>'It's an incredibly boring lifestyle'</h3>Some of <a href="http://javascript:CN*_openPopup('/interactive/entertainment/0606/gallery.bill.wyman/frameset.exclude.html','770x576','toolbar=no,location=no,directories=no,status=no,menubar=no,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,width=770,height=576');" target="_blank">Wyman's best shots</a> will be on display at the San Francisco Art Exchange beginning June 9, in an exhibit put together with London-based Raj Prem Fine Art Photography. Wyman says he sorted through more than 22,000 negatives, slides and Polaroids before narrowing the group down to about 150 images.The works include candids of the Rolling Stones -- on- and offstage -- other bands and musicians, Wyman friends such as the Chagalls and landscapes taken on his travels all over the world.What's fascinating about many of the shots, particularly those of musicians, is how intimate they are. The rock 'n' roll life can be exciting, but it's also full of down time -- sound checks, airports, dinner on the run, quiet pensiveness in the ride to the show. Wyman kept his camera handy and chronicled all of it."It's an incredibly boring lifestyle, or it was then [in the 1960s] when you couldn't go out because of the fans," he says. "When the mad fan thing was going on ... once you got deposited in your hotel room you were there until you left the next day to go to the next place, or to go to the gig. And then you came back to that room and all there was to do was watch TV, unless you met a pretty young lady somewhere," he adds with a chuckle. "So the camera came in very, very useful."The Stones have also been in the viewfinders of some of the world's most notable photographers, including Terry O'Neill, Ethan Russell, David Bailey and Gered Mankowitz. (The latter took the striking cover shot for 1967's "Between the Buttons.") Indeed, O'Neill -- whose work ranges from portraits of the queen to profiles of rock stars -- has been a great supporter of Wyman's work over the years, and helped prompt him to set up the exhibition.Wyman has watched the photographers watch the Stones, picking up bits of expertise. But, he adds, he's strictly an amateur."I've never tried to be a professional photographer," he says. "I was an amateur who just tried to get a few good shots."

作者: Lepapillon0311 时间: 2006-6-5 13:29
Canada Muslims condemn alleged bomb plotCanadian Muslim organizations have condemned an alleged plot to bomb Toronto-area buildings, while a lawyer for one of the 17 suspects in custody called the charges against them "vague.""We are committed to the safety and security of Canada and Canadians," said Mohammad Alam, president of the Islamic Foundation of Toronto. "We of all Canadians are shocked at the recent arrests of young Muslim men and teenagers and the very serious allegation against them."Canadian authorities rounded up a group of 17 Muslim men and boys suspected of plotting to bomb major buildings in the Toronto area, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police announced Saturday. Assistant Commissioner Mike McDonell said the group posed "a real and serious threat."Luc Portelance, assistant director of operations for the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, said the suspects were followers of "a violent ideology inspired by al Qaeda."And McDonell said they had taken steps to acquire three tons of ammonium nitrate fertilizer -- three times the amount used in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.But while Canadian Muslims may be angry about issues like the war in Iraq or the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, "That should not be an excuse for any hateful extreme or violent behavior by any person or group," Alam said.And Sheik Husain Patel, a spokesman for the Canadian Council of Muslim Theologians, said the allegations against the young men represented "anti-Islamic behavior" if true."Any threat to Canada poses a threat to Muslims in Canada as well," he said. "Thus, we are relieved that the alleged plans to attack targets in Canada were thwarted."But Toronto police said they have increased patrols around mosques in the city after a northwest Toronto Islamic center was vandalized in what Police Chief William Blair called a possible hate crime."There is no accusation being made against the Muslim community. Our accusations pertain only to the actions of 17 young men," Blair said.He said Toronto was one of the world's most diverse cities, where people of all cultures, religions and languages lived together peacefully, "and we should not let anyone take that peace prosperity and respect away from us."Patel said the accused were innocent until proven guilty -- "But if they are proven guilty after being given due process, then this is a wake-up call -- especially for Muslim leaders -- that more must be done to make sure that our children do not get involved in activities that are contrary to the teachings of Islam."He said Muslim leaders had to emphasize to their followers that "You cannot justify even a legal goal by using illegal means."All 17 have been charged under Canadian anti-terrorism laws, Mountie spokeswoman Michelle Paradis said, but details of the charges were not likely to be made public until a bail hearing Tuesday in Brampton, Ontorio.Fifteen of the 17 were being held in Brampton, Paradis said. She did not disclose the locations of the other two suspects, but said they were likely to appear in court on Wednesday. (<a href="http://www.CN*.com/2006/WORLD/americas/06/03/canada.names/index.html/" target="_blank">Full list of adult suspects</a>)Attorney Rocco Galati, who is representing two of the suspects, told CN* both men were charged with assisting in the procurement of property to facilitate terrorist activity."These are absolutely vague, oblique charges," he said. "Not one single shred of evidence was presented to the clients in court and they won't release the alleged information to us."Galati identified his clients as Ahmad Ghany, 22, and Abdel Halim, 30. He said Ghany was a Canadian-born graduate of McMaster University with no criminal history.And he questioned the timing of the arrests, saying they came one week before the Canadian supreme court was to hear a case involving how evidence was heard in anti-terrorism cases.<a name="1"></a><a name="rv1"></a><h3>'Political move'</h3>"I believe these men are being rounded up as part of a political move to affect the judges," Galati said.Another attorney, Answer Farooq, said he was representing five of the suspects and had met with them briefly, but had not yet seen detailed evidence or charges.A U.S. counterterrorism official said some of the suspects in Canada, as well as the two arrested in the United States, had communications with suspected terrorists overseas -- including some taken into custody last fall in Britain. The counterterrorism official confirmed information originally reported by the Los Angeles Times.And FBI spokesman Richard Kolko said Saturday that some of the Canadian suspects had been in contact with two men arrested in Georgia who were accused of videotaping buildings in Washington, including the Capitol and the World Bank headquarters. But Kolko said, "There is no current outstanding threat to any targets on U.S. soil emanating from this case."A senior Canadian official told CN* the suspects were a self-contained group, connected through the Internet. (<a href="http://javascript:CN*Video('play','/video/world/2006/06/03/sot.ca.mcdonell.fertilizer.affl','2006/06/10');" target="_blank">Watch police chief describe how suspects got bomb materials -- 0:36</a>)The government had been watching the suspects for a while and decided to move ahead with arrests because of concerns they might be close to staging attacks, the official said. Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Saturday the target of the alleged terror plot "was Canada -- Canadian institutions, the Canadian economy, the Canadian people."As at other times in our history, we are a target, because of who we are and how we live, our society, our diversity and our values -- values such as freedom, democracy and the rule of law."

作者: Lepapillon0311 时间: 2006-6-5 13:33
Anderson Cooper's journeyAnderson Cooper is more succinct. He calls it "a memoir of loss."Some of the loss is personal: Cooper, the CN* anchor and host of "Anderson Cooper 360," lost both his father and brother before he'd graduated college.Some of the loss played out on the world stage. Cooper, who'd reported from Somalia, Rwanda and Bosnia while establishing a career as a journalist, spent 2005 going from Sri Lanka to Iraq to Niger to New Orleans -- a roll call of tragedy and death.It was the last, the city and region devastated by Hurricane Katrina, that finally prompted him to write "Dispatches" (HarperCollins), he says in a phone interview from New York."I was worried that one day people would come and forget what actually happened [in New Orleans]. It would only end up being the police and the citizens who were actually there, in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast, who remembered. ... It's important to not let the slate be wiped clean. I started writing down all the things behind the scenes, which we couldn't get on television."And at the same time, there were so many instances in which my own past kept intruding on my present," he adds, "and memories that I'd had in those cities, in New Orleans with my dad when I was a kid. In many ways I had tried to push a lot of my past ... away, and [it] kept rushing back. ... So it's a journey through loss."<a name="1"></a><a name="rv2"></a><h3>'Maybe it was all in my head'</h3>For Cooper, it was also a journey through disparate worlds.On the one hand, he is the son of Gloria Vanderbilt and a descendant of the Commodore himself, Cornelius Vanderbilt, builder of one of the great American fortunes and a man whose statue stands outside New York's Grand Central Terminal (near a street named "Vanderbilt Avenue")."After seeing it for the first time when I was six, I became convinced that everyone's grandparents turned into statues when they died," Cooper writes.But his father grew up in Mississippi and New Orleans, son of a poor family with deep Southern roots. Wyatt Cooper eventually journeyed to Hollywood and then New York; he became a successful writer. He and Gloria Vanderbilt had two sons: Carter, born in 1965, and Anderson, born two years later.Anderson Cooper says he was aware of his mother's family's wealth growing up, but says he felt closer to his father's clan, a much tighter group. "That felt more real to me than what I read in books about my mom's side of the family and my distant relatives on that side," he says. "That had much more reality and impact on my life than my mom's side of the family."When Cooper was 10, his father died after a series of heart attacks. The family struggled to cope with the loss. Cooper writes of his mother moving to newer, bigger residences, changing to a new one just after redecorating the present place. Anderson withdrew into himself; his relationship with his brother, once very tight, grew distant.It was with shock that he learned that his brother, who had been dealing with emotional problems, committed suicide by dropping from the family's 14th-floor balcony in 1988. Carter Cooper was 23."He was smarter than me, more sensitive, too," Cooper writes. "I thought we had a silent agreement, that we would both just get through our childhoods and meet up as adults on the other side. ... I'm not sure why he didn't keep his end of the bargain. Maybe he never knew about our silent pact. Maybe it was all in my head."<a name="2"></a><a name="rv1"></a><h3>'The more you see, the more it takes to make you see'</h3><div class="CN*IEFloatLeft"><div class="CN*InterActiveElementsContainer" style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px"><div style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 10px" align="left"><img src="http://i.a.CN*.net/CN*/2006/SHOWBIZ/books/05/31/anderson.cooper/story.cooper.anderson.jpg" border="0" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.src);" alt="" style="CURSOR: pointer" onload="javascript:if(this.width>screen.width-500)this.style.width=screen.width-500;" /> <div class="CN*StoryCaption" align="left">"It's important not to let the slate be wiped clean," Cooper says of his stories from the Gulf Coast.</div></div></div></div>"Dispatches" is rife with painful passages such as that; one gets the feeling that Cooper was attempting some sort of emotional catharsis, though he says that wasn't the idea."At this age, I see a lot more of a through-line through all these experiences, and a path that I took and things that I've learned along the way that keep occurring. ... A lot of what one sees in these places that are on the edge, whether it's Katrina, or Sri Lanka after the tsunami, or Rwanda and the genocide -- they're very similar. I wanted to sort of honor the people I've met and the stories I've been told."He admits to having mixed feelings about his job. "Dispatches" is full of self-deprecation, acknowledgements that preparing a news story is as much about separating your emotions from the story -- through gallows humor, tunnel vision or simple numbness -- as it is about investing your emotions in the story." 'I've become what I once hated,' I thought to myself -- sadly, not for the first time," he writes at one point, describing his presence at the scrum during Terri Schiavo's last days.But he's taken care to hold on to his humanity, aware that it's something that's easy to lose."The more you see, the more it takes to make you see," he says. "By the time I got to Rwanda and was seeing a field full of bodies, I realized a couple days later that I wasn't even viewing them as human. I had become fascinated with the details of death. ... I was more focusing on the interesting way that the skin of their hands peels off after it's been sitting in the sun for awhile. And that's when I realized that I'd crossed some line and was no longer doing the job I should have been doing."The book's reviews have been mixed, although sales have already put it on Amazon's Top 10. USA Today, though mostly favorable, noted the book's "disjointed narrative," while Publishers Weekly dismissed it as "self-involved."Cooper's career has led him to an anchor chair at CN*, though he still likes to be "on the front lines of the story," he says. Becoming one of TV's familiar faces has provoked odd sensations -- Cooper has seen himself on billboards, named in stories about company politics, touted as one of Playgirl's sexiest newscasters. But he's still a guy trying to connect -- to others, and to himself."Anyone who has experienced loss at a very young age ... deals with it in different ways. I sort of cauterized my feelings, my emotions, withdrew into myself, and it's something I still wrestle with," he says. "It was really in the wake of Katrina ... that made me realize that the past is never really in the past, and how those we've lost are in many ways so very present. And I found that very moving and something which has added great value in my life."

作者: Lepapillon0311 时间: 2006-6-5 13:35
Man arrested trying to jump White House fenceThe Secret Service arrested a man who was trying to jump the White House fence carrying a suspicious package on Sunday.Secret Service spokesman Tom Mazur said the man, 44-year-old Roger Witmer, was arrested before he made it over the fence. Mazur said Witmer will be charged with unlawful entry, disorderly conduct and destruction of government property."Evidently he had in his possession some type of plastic bag and that ended up on the South Lawn at the fence line," said Mazur. He characterized the bag as a "suspicious package" and said the Secret Service was still investigating its contents.Mazur said the incident happened shortly before noon on Sunday. President Bush, who had just wrapped up a late morning bike ride off-site, was on his way to the White House complex at the time.The destruction charge stems from the fact that Witmer, who has no previous record with the Secret Service, damaged some of the fence as he tried to scale it. Witmer is from the Washington, D.C., area, Mazur said.

作者: Lepapillon0311 时间: 2006-6-5 13:40
NEW BATWOMAN IS ...Years after she first emerged from the Batcave, Batwoman is coming out of the closet.DC Comics is resurrecting the classic comic book character as a lesbian, unveiling the new Batwoman in July as part of an ongoing weekly series that began this year. The 5-foot-10 superhero comes with flowing red hair, knee-high red boots with spiked heels, and a form-fitting black outfit."We decided to give her a different point of view," explained Dan DiDio, vice president and executive editor at DC. "We wanted to make her a more unique personality than others in the Bat-family. That's one of the reasons we went in this direction." (<a href="http://javascript:CN*Video('play','/video/moos/2006/06/01/moos.gay.batwoman.affl','2006/07/01');" target="_blank">Watch people on the streets react -- 2:17</a>)(DC Comics, like CN*, is a division of Time Warner.)The original Batwoman was started in 1956, and killed off in 1979. The new character will share the same name as her original alter ego, Kathy Kane. And the new Batwoman arrives with ties to others in the Gotham City world."She's a socialite from Gotham high society," DiDio said. "She has some past connection with Bruce Wayne. And she's also had a past love affair with one of our lead characters, Renee Montoya."Montoya, in the "52" comic book series, is a former police detective. Wayne, of course, is Batman's true identity -- but he has disappeared, along with Superman and Wonder Woman, leaving Gotham a more dangerous place.The "52" series is a collaboration of four acclaimed writers, with one episode per week for one year. The comics will introduce other diverse characters as the story plays out."This is not just about having a gay character," DiDio said. "We're trying for overall diversity in the DC universe. We have strong African-American, Hispanic and Asian characters. We're trying to get a better cross-section of our readership and the world."The outing of Batwoman created a furor of opinions on Web sites devoted to DC Comics. Opinions ranged from outrage to approval. Others took a more tongue-in-cheek approach to the announcement."Wouldn't ugly people as heroes be more groundbreaking?" asked one poster. "You know, 200-pound woman, man with horseshoe hair loss pattern, people with cold sores, etc.?"DiDio asked that people wait until the new Batwoman's appearance in the series before they pass judgment."You know what? Judge us by the story and character we create," he said. "We are confident that we are telling a great story with a strong, complex character."DiDio spent most of the morning fielding phone calls from media intrigued by the Batwoman reinvention."It's kind of weird," he said. "We had a feeling it would attract some attention, but we're a little surprised it did this much."

作者: Lepapillon0311 时间: 2006-6-5 13:41
Katie Couric gets 'Today' send-offWith co-host Matt Lauer bringing the tissues, the "Today" show threw a going-away party Wednesday for 15-year host Katie Couric, who is leaving to become the next anchor of the "CBS Evening News.""I'm feeling happy and sad and completely out of control," Couric said, "and you know how much I like that."Forty-two minutes into the show, Couric couldn't hold back the tears any longer.The first tear was spotted in the corner of her eye as "Today" talked to six people she had interviewed -- an inspiring school principal, a woman brutally raped in Central Park, survivors of the Columbine school shooting and the World Trade Center bombing and parents of a boy who had died of brain cancer."In meeting her and talking to her, I felt that it helped heal me as well," said Lauren Manning, who was burned during the terrorist attack.Couric's parents and two daughters were also in the audience Wednesday for what Couric jokingly called the "celebration of moi."At the end of three hours worth of tributes, Couric raised a glass of champagne and said, "to everyone in TV land, thanks so much."Couric's long goodbye began April 5, the 15th anniversary of her first day as Bryant Gumbel's co-host on "Today," when she announced that she would be leaving to accept CBS' offer to replace Bob Schieffer on the evening news. She said the time was right for a new challenge."Today" has dominated morning television for more than 10 years, never losing a week in the ratings, and is the most profitable show on television in advertising revenue.Couric said it was "the best job on television" and poked fun at Lauer, her TV mate since he replaced Gumbel in 1997."I know I'll never have a partner like you," she said, "because I won't be working with a partner."Lauer said he'll most remember all the laughs they shared, on and off the air."People talk about chemistry," Lauer said. "I have never been able to define it. From my end it came from genuine love and respect and I'm going to miss you."During her time on the air, "Today" fans watched as Couric, 49, grew from a chipper young reporter, to a mother with two girls and a young widow when her husband, Jay Monahan, died of colon cancer. She underwent an on-air colonoscopy that encouraged thousands of Americans to do the same, which doctors called the "Couric Effect."She called her work on colon cancer prevention by far her proudest accomplishment."Today" has had some troubles in recent years, going through three executive producers and nearly being dethroned by ABC's "Good Morning America" as Couric's increasingly glamorous on-air appearance turned some viewers off. But it has rebounded strongly in the past year.NBC is shutting down its streetside Rockefeller Center studio after Couric leaves for a summer makeover, preparing for Meredith Vieira of "The View" to take over as her successor in the fall. "Today" will spend the summer in an outside studio nearby."Today" began its tribute showing Couric awakened by an alarm clock at 5 a.m., followed by a back-up wakeup call from her driver. Al Roker joked how Couric sometimes made it to work with only about 15 minutes to spare.She recalled her first day with Gumbel, when she was five months pregnant and still trying to decide whether to be identified as Katherine. "I got up, threw up and came to work," she said.The first film clips of her career emphasized hard-nosed interviews of politicians like Ross Perot, the first President Bush and Colin Powell, perhaps offering a message to critics who questioned her news credentials after working on a show that mixed in so much lighter fare.But "Today" also showed Couric's off-key singing with guests Stevie Wonder and Tony Bennett."Some of the things I did -- whoa!" Couric said."We could do a whole three hours on that," Lauer replied.

作者: Lepapillon0311 时间: 2006-6-5 13:42
Disney to sell first-run movie downloadsLOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Disney films such as "Glory Road" and the animated "Chicken Little" will soon be available to own via computer download from the Internet-based movie site CinemaNow, but the movies can't be played on a standalone DVD player.The companies were expected to announce Wednesday that CinemaNow will sell the films for $19.95 and in June will allow consumers to transfer films to a portable device running Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Media software.In a deal similar to others announced in April, The Walt Disney Co. will sell its films online the same day they become available on DVD, thus closing the gap between DVD sales and video-on-demand by several months. The deal includes new releases plus some library titles.Consumers will be able to watch their films on up to three devices and will be able to make a backup DVD copy that will only play on a computer.CinemaNow will offer the option of transferring the film to a portable device later in June.Major Hollywood studios have not yet allowed films to be burned onto a DVD that can be played on a standard DVD player, although adult entertainment company Vivid Entertainment has started doing just that through CinemaNow.In April, Warner Bros., Universal Pictures, Sony Pictures, Paramount Pictures, Twentieth Century Fox and MGM began selling some first-run and older titles on Movielink, a PC-only download service jointly owned by five Hollywood studios.Those films are priced between $20 and $30.Sony and Lionsgate have also begun selling some films on CinemaNow, which is partly owned by Microsoft, Lionsgate, Cisco Systems Inc. and Blockbuster Inc. Lionsgate is owned by Lionsgate Entertainment Corp.CinemaNow said it is negotiating with other studios to offer films on the site. Announcements of similar deals could come as early as this week.Portability is a key factor for studios such as Disney, whose films are watched as often by children riding in cars as college students on their computers. Disney's deal with CinemaNow is it's first foray into the download-to-own market, although it rents its films online.Portability also makes it easier to transfer a movie from a computer in a den or bedroom to a large TV screen in the living room, where most people prefer to watch films.Movielink does not yet offer transfer of films to portable devices, although the company said it hopes to have that feature within a year.

作者: Lepapillon0311 时间: 2006-6-5 14:44
I haven't read foreign newspapers for years..............

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