NPR美国国家公共电台 2013-02-28

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　　federal reserve chairman XX is defending fed's bound-buying program aimed at keeping the interest rates low and boosting the economy.   but house republicans are skeptical¹.   XX reports XX was testifying before the house financial committee today.  chairman of the penal² XX says fed's policy is taking the us to what he calls the monetary³ outer-limits.    if one remembers the science fiction TV program, typically the episodes didn't end well. XX says the fed's policy created considerable risk.  XX was asked about the looming⁴ spending cut known as the sequester⁵.   He says it will be better to do less in near turn when sweeping⁶ cuts hamper⁷ economic growth.   Instead to focus on the longer turn where i think the real problem remains⁸.

 

　　The late civil rights icon⁹ XX was honored today with ? stature¹⁰ in the capital statuary hall.   President XX paid tribute to the women who he says helped change the world the day she refuse,back in 1955,to give up her seat back to a white man on a but in XX.   It was XX's help now i elected the office.she possessed¹¹ no fortune,lived a life far from the former seats of power, yet today she take the right place among those who shape the nation's course.   House speaker XX calls this a historical moment. It's the 1st stature of a Africa america women that to be placed in this ? .   Meanwhile a section of a landmark¹² civil rights law has come under debate in the supreme¹³ court . Justices are considering whether there is ongoing¹⁴ need for keeping the provisions of the voting right act of 1965.   The section requires states with discrimination mainly the deep south to obtain approve before they any changes in a way of elections are held.

 

　　Pop Benedict the 16th bid a emotional farewell to crowd estimated at 150,000 in the XX square for the pop's final general audience.   The pop dropped his usual theological tone to explain why tomorrow he will be the 1st pop in 600 years to resign voluntarily.   Pilgrims and well-wishers holding banners with words saying think you pop the 16th took a long victory lap along the square on his pop mobile.   Many chanted ? ? his name in Italian which also mean blessing¹⁵.   In his remarks, the pop reviews that as the pop he has the moments of joy and light, but also times of great difficulty , moments of turbulency and rough winds.    He says sometime to love the church means also to have the courage to take the painful difficult decisions.   Many cardinals¹⁶ will choose the benedict's successor are already in rome including XX the target of a grass-root campaign calling on him to recuse himself for having covering up clerical sex abuse.

 

　　Members of senate judiciary committee heard from the teachers and the parents of the children affected¹⁷ by the mass school shooting in XX in December.   The father of one of the first graders who was killed appealed to lawmakers to ban assault weapons. says he support the second amendment¹⁸ right to bear arms but he says assault weapons are far different.   Republicans at the hearing says the ban will be unconstitutional.

 

　　a boat hit a ?at last night in a shallow waters off the coast of XX.   reports that an oily water mixture was still spilling out into the fragile ecosystem¹⁹ this afternoon.   According to the coast guard that a swift energy crew boat hit an well-head owned by the same company.   The company says the well had been shot down for several years after it became inactive.   Still when it was struck it's started discharging a mixture of oily water.   Two boats at the are trying to stop the apill and contain the oil.   The accident took place about 9 miles south-west of port xx xx.   The coast guard doesn't know yet how much oil it is spilling or whether it has the potential to harm the ? or water life in the area.

 

　　In XX, authorities spent a day trying to reach to people who were stranded²⁰ in a snow storm and some drivers called for help after they got stuck on mostly side roads.   The XX county sheriff office says it also had to help about 60 students who were forced to spend the night in their school because the roads were too dangerous to travel.

 

　　in a sign the business investment will pick up, the commerce department says the orders for long-lasting factory goods rose last month by the most in a year.

 

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