CNN 2011-11-14

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Up eve,at Penn State University,it's part of all the fallout from the story we told you about yesterday ,the school's board of trustees has made dramatic changes at some of the highest levels,starting with the school's president.

effective immediately,Doctor Spanew is no longer president of University ,in addition,Joe Pertenal is no longer the head football coach,effective immediately. Coach Joe Pertenal has got more winds than any other coach in major college football.After the scandal broken,he anounced  plans to step down at the end of the season,but many people including the Penn State  board of trustees didn't think Pertenal did  enough to address the scandal at the school.So they forced him out immediately along with the state president on Wednesday night. Hundreds of students turned out to support Pertennal,one rally turned into a riot that you see in this Youtube vedio.

 

See if you can ID ME,I became independent from Japan in 1945,I'm about the size of Indiana,but I have one of the world largest economies.I'm the asian country whose capital is Seoul. I'm South Korea,and about 98% of my population can read and write.

 

The students in South Korea,there's no mess around senior year.More than 80% of high school students there go on a college.and it's the college entrance exam that determines which university students will get into.That test was given on Tursday ,it lasts for 8 hours and whole country changes its schedule for this.You see underclassmen here lining³ up in a public pep rally to cheer on seniors' taking the test. Stock markets open later,there are more bus in subway rods police even give rides to some students to make sure they won't be late. 700,000 South Korean students took the tests on Thursday,many of those who don't do well will take another year to study for the next test.

 

Another animal has gone extincted in our time,it's Africa's western black rhinoceros⁵ ,it's a subspeceis of black rhino⁴ which is considered critically endangered because of approaching and lack of places for these animals to live.But some conservationists are doing something about that ,they recently moved 19 black rhinos⁶ to an area where scientist think they'll have a better shelter of surviving.How do they move a rhino.Watch this, they're trunk lies

to keep them calm,blindfolded to keep them from getting scared,and then transported by helicopters to their new home.That may not seem very pleasant for the rhinos,but in many cases,conservationists say there is just no other way to do it.This is the kindest way we've yet discoverd of moving a rhino from the field to a vehicle,it is a B corporation it's a lot animals to try to move in a really short time,they are on the roads,there's no access whatsover,in almost of these parks are roadless area. The animals are taking a thousand miles away to a place where they will have more space and less chance of being approached. There are estimated 4000 black rhinos left in this world ,it's hoped a new home for these 19 will make a difference needed to keep these things around.

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