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From NPR News in Washington, I'm Jack¹ Speer. 

 

Iraq's prime minister is here in Washington asking for help to battle insurgent² Al Qaeda. As NPR's Michele Kelemen explains Iraq is asking for weapons and more intelligence sharing not boots on the ground. 

 

Two years after he refused to let US troops stay in his country, prime minister Nouri al-Maliki, says his government needs America's help to battle a local Al Qaeda affiliate³, that has once again become a regional threat in Iraq and in neighboring Syria. Speaking through an interpreter at a Washington think tank , he described Al Qaeda as a dirty wind that wants to spread worldwide. 

 

They carry their rotten ideas everywhere. 

 

Some leading senators have blamed Maliki from mismanaging Iraqi politics and fueling the violent by disfranchising Sunnites, but the Iraqi prime minister says all Iraqis, Sunnites, Kurds and Shiah have been victims of terrorism bombings. Michele Kelemen NPR News, Washington. 

 

The number of people applying for unemployment benefits fell last week to 340,000. NPR's JamesRollyxx, reports the drop comes at the time when the jobs market is lightening. 

 

The labor⁴ department said the number of people filing for unemployment compensation for the first time fell by 10,000. Overall the four-week average of first-time claims has been rising. But labor department official say that's partly because of the government shutdown, which temporarily forced a lot of people out of work. But the shutdown is over now and the officials say the labor market appears to have recovered, still the trend in the jobs market is down for the year. The average number of new jobs created has been fallen somewhat every quarter. The government is expected to release its unemployment report for October Next week. JamesRollyxx, NPR News New York. 

 

It's official vice⁵ president Joe Biden doing the honors as former Newark mayor Cory Booker was swearing, as the democratic senator from New Jersey⁶ today. 

 

As you take this obligation filing without many mental reservation, our purpose of a vision, and you are aware and faithfully discharge the duties of the office, on which you are about to honor, so help you god. 

 

I do.  

 

Congradulations, senator, welcome...

 

Booker becoming the second African American in the senate, senate majority leader Harry⁷ Reid said the 44-year-old Booker will be a welcome edition to the body. 

 

We're gonna find Cory Booker is going to be a great asset to this nation and to the senate. 

 

Booker was like to fill out the term of senator Frank Lautenberg, who died earlier this year. 

 

Federal appeals court has moved today to reinstate a list part of Texas's tough new abortion⁸ restrictions⁹, a requirement the doctors who work at the clinics have the admitting privileges in a nearby hospital, so it means as many as a dozen clinics provide abotions in the state will not be able to perform the procedures starting as soon as tomorrow.  Handle of judges at the fifth circuit court of appeals ruling just three days after a judge ruled the provision requiring admitting privileges serves no medical purpose. 

 

On Wall Street today, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 73 points; the S&P 500 lost six points. This is NPR. 

 

Shell Oil says it will submit its plans for increased oil exploration in the arctic, the company says while no firm plans have been made, drilling more to take place most likely spot would be in the Chukchi sea. The plans submitted a proposal in the next few weeks, will announce to Shell's parent company, Royal Dutch Shell PLC, unveiled its third quarter earnings¹⁰ numbers, Shell attempted to drill both in the Chukchi sea and the Beaufort sea in 2012, but suffers from some serious setbacks. 

 

The legal battle behind one of the year's biggest pop song, is soon getting more complicated. As NPR's Neda Ulaby reports the family of Marvin Gaye, fought a lawsuit¹¹ against the writers of his song, Blurred¹² lines. 

 

Maybe you remeber, that over the summer, the Blurred lines' writers, preemptively sued the Gayes family, it appeared Robin¹³ Thicke,  Pharrell Williams and rapper T.I. were pretty share they were going to get sue themselves. They were riot, on Wednesday, Gayes family filed a suit claiming copyright infringement¹⁴ of not one, but two of Gayes songs, including "After the dance".  Of course, the Blurred lines song writers say they are only paying tribute to Marvin Gaye, not inappreciation on his copyright.  At this point, that fictive suits and counter suits, has assumed proportions had been intellectual property so popular. Each said it hired its own musicologists to help prove its point. Neda Ulaby NPR news. 

 

US official say they have found a tunnel connects  Tijuana, Mexico to an industrial area in Sandiego. Authority say the tunnel equipped electricity, ventilation and a rail system was apparently¹⁵ designed to smuggle¹⁶ large quantity of drugs. Nation immigration and custom enforcement official say as more than eight tons of mariguana and 325 pounds of cocaine¹⁷, three people are in custody¹⁸. 

1 jack   

n.插座，千斤顶，男人；v.抬起，提醒，扛举；n.（Jake）杰克

参考例句：

• I am looking for the headphone jack.我正在找寻头戴式耳机插孔。
• He lifted the car with a jack to change the flat tyre.他用千斤顶把车顶起来换下瘪轮胎。

2 insurgent   

adj.叛乱的，起事的；n.叛乱分子

参考例句：

• Faruk says they are threatened both by insurgent and government forces.法鲁克说，他们受到暴乱分子和政府军队的双重威胁。
• The insurgent mob assembled at the gate of the city park.叛变的暴徒聚在市立公园的门口。

3 affiliate   

vt.使隶(附)属于；n.附属机构，分公司

参考例句：

• Our New York company has an affiliate in Los Angeles.我们的纽约公司在洛杉矶有一个下属企业。
• What is the difference between affiliate and regular membership?固定会员和附属会员之间的区别是什么？

4 labor   

n.劳动，努力，工作，劳工；分娩；vi.劳动，努力，苦干；vt.详细分析；麻烦

参考例句：

• We are never late in satisfying him for his labor.我们从不延误付给他劳动报酬。
• He was completely spent after two weeks of hard labor.艰苦劳动两周后，他已经疲惫不堪了。

5 vice   

n.坏事；恶习；[pl.]台钳，老虎钳；adj.副的

参考例句：

• He guarded himself against vice.他避免染上坏习惯。
• They are sunk in the depth of vice.他们堕入了罪恶的深渊。

6 jersey   

n.运动衫

参考例句：

• He wears a cotton jersey when he plays football.他穿运动衫踢足球。
• They were dressed alike in blue jersey and knickers.他们穿着一致，都是蓝色的运动衫和灯笼短裤。

7 harry   

vt.掠夺，蹂躏，使苦恼

参考例句：

• Today,people feel more hurried and harried.今天，人们感到更加忙碌和苦恼。
• Obama harried business by Healthcare Reform plan.奥巴马用医改掠夺了商界。

8 abortion   

n.流产，堕胎

参考例句：

• She had an abortion at the women's health clinic.她在妇女保健医院做了流产手术。
• A number of considerations have led her to have a wilful abortion.多种考虑使她执意堕胎。

9 restrictions   

约束( restriction的名词复数 )； 管制； 制约因素； 带限制性的条件（或规则）

参考例句：

• I found the restrictions irksome. 我对那些限制感到很烦。
• a snaggle of restrictions 杂乱无章的种种限制

10 earnings   

n.工资收人；利润，利益，所得

参考例句：

• That old man lives on the earnings of his daughter.那个老人靠他女儿的收入维持生活。
• Last year there was a 20% decrease in his earnings.去年他的收入减少了20%。

11 lawsuit   

n.诉讼，控诉

参考例句：

• They threatened him with a lawsuit.他们以诉讼威逼他。
• He was perpetually involving himself in this long lawsuit.他使自己无休止地卷入这场长时间的诉讼。

12 blurred   

v.（使）变模糊( blur的过去式和过去分词 )；（使）难以区分；模模糊糊；迷离

参考例句：

• She suffered from dizziness and blurred vision. 她饱受头晕目眩之苦。
• Their lazy, blurred voices fell pleasantly on his ears. 他们那种慢吞吞、含糊不清的声音在他听起来却很悦耳。 来自《简明英汉词典》

13 robin   

n.知更鸟，红襟鸟

参考例句：

• The robin is the messenger of spring.知更鸟是报春的使者。
• We knew spring was coming as we had seen a robin.我们看见了一只知更鸟，知道春天要到了。

14 infringement   

n.违反；侵权

参考例句：

• Infringement of this regulation would automatically rule you out of the championship.违背这一规则会被自动取消参加锦标赛的资格。
• The committee ruled that the US ban constituted an infringement of free trade.委员会裁定美国的禁令对自由贸易构成了侵犯

15 apparently   

adv.显然地；表面上，似乎

参考例句：

• An apparently blind alley leads suddenly into an open space.山穷水尽，豁然开朗。
• He was apparently much surprised at the news.他对那个消息显然感到十分惊异。

16 smuggle   

vt.私运；vi.走私

参考例句：

• Friends managed to smuggle him secretly out of the country.朋友们想方设法将他秘密送出国了。
• She has managed to smuggle out the antiques without getting caught.她成功将古董走私出境，没有被逮捕。

17 cocaine   

n.可卡因，古柯碱（用作局部麻醉剂）

参考例句：

• That young man is a cocaine addict.那个年轻人吸食可卡因成瘾。
• Don't have cocaine abusively.不可滥服古柯碱。

18 custody   

n.监护，照看，羁押，拘留

参考例句：

• He spent a week in custody on remand awaiting sentence.等候判决期间他被还押候审一个星期。
• He was taken into custody immediately after the robbery.抢劫案发生后，他立即被押了起来。