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The etiquette of swine flu
猪流感期间需要注意的礼节
As the number of UK swine flu cases rise, a whole host of social questions arises if a person is infected. When exposed to the virus, you may find yourself temporarily shunned by friends and family, says the BBC's Bella Hurrell, whose five-year-old daughter recently had the virus. How should you behave?
Medical advice can be pretty confused as health authorities adjust their containment policy on the hoof in a frantic attempt to stop the spread of the virus.
One minute you can find yourself being told it's fine to carry on as normal, only to be advised a short time later by someone else that you shouldn't be setting foot outside your house.
原文链接
由于英国感染猪流感的人数增加，当一个人被感染后，出现很多的社会问题。BBC的Bella Hurrell说，当你感染到病毒的时候，你会发现，你的朋友和家人都会暂时性地躲避你。然而Bella Hurrell自己五岁的女儿也感染了猪流感。如果发生在你身上，你会怎么做呢？
医学权威们忙不迭地调整他们的控制政策来阻止病毒扩散，人们在寻求医生的建议时变得很茫然。
前一秒钟，可能有人告诉你，就跟平时一样生活是没有问题的，后一秒钟就有可能有人告诉你，最好是不要出门。
版主点评：虽然猪流感来势汹汹，但还是可以预防的，平时注意个人卫生和公共卫生，少去人多的地方，避免接触到被感染的人群。
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It’s Now Legal to Catch a Raindrop in Colorado
科罗拉多州雨水收集合法化
DURANGO, Colo. — For the first time since territorial days, rain will be free for the catching here, as more and more thirsty states part ways with one of the most entrenched codes of the West.
Precipitation, every last drop or flake, was assigned ownership from the moment it fell in many Western states, making scofflaws of people who scooped rainfall from their own gutters. In some instances, the rights to that water were assigned a century or more ago.
Now two new laws in Colorado will allow many people to collect rainwater legally. The laws are the latest crack in the rainwater edifice, as other states, driven by population growth, drought, or declining groundwater in their aquifers, have already opened the skies or begun actively encouraging people to collect.
原文链接
自从设立建制领土以来的第一次，人们可以免费收集落到地上的雨水，这也表示将有越来越多缺水严重的州开始跟西北法令里最牢不可破的法典分庭抗礼。
那时在美国西部很多州里，从降水开始直到雨点落尽，所有落在地上的雨水都是归政府支配，“不守规矩的刁民们”只能偷偷从自家排水沟里舀水。在有些案例里，可以看到早在一个世纪或更早的时候收集雨水的权力是需要经过分配的。
如今科罗拉多州颁布了两条新法令，将允许人们合法收集雨水。这些法令给雨水制度体系带来了新的裂痕，而其它州因为人口增长，土地干旱，或是地下水日趋枯竭，也已经开放禁令，开始积极鼓励人们收集雨水。
版主点评：想不到美国人民也有不自由的时候，收集雨水还犯法。
点一个词：territorial days：1787年颁布的西北法令划分了美国第一块建制领土，是此后联邦州地位的序曲。
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Algae Farm Aims to Turn Carbon Dioxide Into Fuel
水藻养殖场寻求将二氧化碳转换为燃料
Dow Chemical and Algenol Biofuels, a start-up company, are set to announce Monday that they will build a demonstration plant that, if successful, would use algae to turn carbon dioxide into ethanol as a vehicle fuel or an ingredient in plastics.
Because algae does not require any farmland or much space, many energy companies are trying to use it to make commercial quantities of hydrocarbons for fuel and chemicals. But harvesting the hydrocarbons has proved difficult so far.
The ethanol would be sold as fuel, the companies said, but Dow’s long-term interest is in using it as an ingredient for plastics, replacing
natural gas. The process also produces oxygen, which could be used to burn coal in a power plant cleanly, said Paul Woods, chief executive of Algenol, which is based in Bonita Springs, Fla. The exhaust from such a plant would be mostly carbon dioxide, which could be reused to make more algae.
原文链接
道氏化工与Algenol燃料（一家新成立的公司），周一宣布他们将启动一项示范工程项目，如果成功的话，将借助水藻把二氧化碳转化为酒精用作车用燃料，或者是生产塑料的材料。
由于水藻不需要大量的农田或者空间，很多能源公司都在试着将其用于商业化，大量生产燃料和化学物所需的碳氢化合物。但目前为止，如何收集碳氢化合物成为了最大的难题。
该公司表示，酒精将会作为燃料出售，然而道氏的长远目标在于将其用作生产塑料的原料，以取代原有的天然气。Algenol（总部位于位于佛罗里达州的博妮塔春城市）首席执行官Paul Woods表示，转化过程中还会产生氧气，这些氧气将被用于火电站的清洁燃煤发电，而火电站排放出来的绝大部分二氧化碳，又可以循环利用来繁殖更多的海藻。
版主点评：挺有新意的一个清洁能源项目，其实中国也有类似的项目正在开展。
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BET Awards celebrate Michael Jackson
BET盛典向迈克尔·杰克逊致敬
这就是乔老爷子
The star-studded BET Awards got under way without "the greatest star in the world," Joe Jackson, father of the late Michael Jackson, said on Sunday night.
"I wish the world had recognized him when he were living," Joe Jackson told CNN's Don Lemon outside the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California.
"Right now he's bigger than ever. But I wish he was here to see all this, to hear all this," Joe Jackson said.
When asked about circumstances surrounding his son's death, he said, "I have a lot of concerns but I can't get into that. ... I don't like what happened."
The awards opened with a fleet-footed New Edition, with Bobby Brown, performing an energized version of the Jackson 5 hit "The Love You Save," to raucous praise.
原文链接
上周日晚，迈克尔·杰克逊的父亲乔·杰克逊表示，星光熠熠的2009年黑人娱乐电视台音乐颁奖盛典（BET Awards）唯独缺少了“世界上最伟大的巨星”。
乔·杰克逊站在加州洛杉矶市的Shrine Auditorium大礼堂外接受CNN记者唐·雷蒙采访时说：“在他在世的时候我就希望人们能承认他，如今他比任何时候都要闪耀，但我希望他能在这儿看到这一切，听到这一切。”
当被问及儿子死时的情况时，这位老父亲说：“我极为焦虑，但我什么忙也帮不上……我不愿再谈那些事了。”
音乐盛典一开场，伴随着乐队歌手波比·布朗沙哑的声音，步调轻快的New Edition组合表演了一曲当年the Jackson 5合唱团的经典曲目"The Love You Save,"，向迈克尔·杰克逊致敬。
版主点评：乔大叔显得苍老很多，看来儿子的死对他打击很大，不过现在世人能还儿子一个清白，我想他应该会感到欣慰的。
PS：这些文章是KaykeyTao版主编译的，因为有事所以今天由我给她代发了，呵呵~大家继续支持哦。
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