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In the Philippines, participants waved glow-sticks as the lights were dimmed. In Paris they cheered as the Eiffel Tower went dark. Time zone by time zone nearly 4 thousand cities and towns in 88 countries joined the event sponsored by the World Wildlife Fund to dim nonessential lights for sixty minutes to send a message about the environment. 

“Tonight for the first time hundreds of millions of people around the world have had a chance to speak out to voice their concerns about climate change and tonight we'll send a very powerful signal to leaders everywhere that the time has come to confront this problem and to solve it.” 

China participated for the first time cutting the lights at two of the most prominent venues at last year's Olympcs including the Bird's Nest Stadium. Lights on Athens ancient Acropolis dimmed as did lights on Rome's Colesium. Organizers initially worried enthusiasms would wane with the world focused on the global economic crisis. But Earth Hour's executive director said it apparently had the opposite effect.     

Carlotta Bradley, The Associated Press

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dim 어둡게 하다
environment 환경
concern 우려, 걱정
confront 대처하다
prominent 유명한
venue 시설물
wane 시들해 지다 
apparently 아마도 한 듯하다

This tiny car will soon be ready for sale in India. The price tag? Just over 22 hundred dollars. "It never was conceived of as being the cheapest car, it was conceived of as being the car that would give people of India an opportunity to own a car that had not been within their reach before." The Nano will be sold by India's Tata Motors and hits showrooms in July. 

 The company is only guaranteeing a hundred-thousand cars at the current price. Tata Motors can only produce 50-thousand cars a year from its current manufacturing plant. When a new plant opens later this year, that number will grow ten-fold. And looking down the road, the company has already shown off a sturdier model for the European market.. 

The Nano was initially targeted at impoverished first-time car buyers in Asia and Africa. The global economic meltdown has amplified company chairman Ratan Tata's export ambitions. Extras like air conditioning and power windows will cost more. The Nano could have competition in as little as two years. Nissan, Renault and India's Bajaj auto plan a car that wholesales for 25-hundred dollars.      

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conceive 생각하다, 상상하다, 계획하다
showroom 전시장
guarantee 보장하다, 보증하다
manufacture 생산하다
sturdy 튼튼한
initially 처음에는
impoverished 가난한

 Hillary Clinton is in Asia for her inagural trip abroad as the nation's top diplomat. (힐러리 국무장관의 말)
"I have come to Asia as my first trip as Secretary of state to convey that America's relationships across the
Pacific are indispensable to addressing challenges and seizing the opportunities of the 21 century." 

 Clinton arrived in Tokyo on Monday. She will also visit Indonesia, South Korea and China. Clinto says the Obama
administration wants to broaden the US-Asia relationship and focus on issues like climate change and worldwide
economic crisis. (힐러리 국무장관의 말) "Its foundation has been, and always will be, a commitment to our
shared security and prosperity." But we also know that we have to work together to address the global financial
crisis which is affecting all of us."

 However Clinton's message is in danger of being overshadowed by north Korea, which is vowing to press ahead with
testing what are believe to be long-range missiles. Clinton will meet with families of Japanese citizens kidnapped
by North Korea in the 1970s and 1980s.

Julie Pace, The Associated Press

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* indispensable to : 절대로 빼놓을 수 없는, 없어서는 안 되는, 필수의, 긴요한[to, for].
* commitment : 공약
* overshadow : <비유적> …의 모습을 희미하게 하다, …을 못해 보이게 하다.
* vow : 맹세하다, 서약하다; 단언하다
* press ahead with : ...을 밀어붙이다, 강행하다

 A day after this, Chinese investigators are on the prowl, looking into who exactly is to blame. The unfinished,
520-foot Mandarin Oriental hotel went up in spectacular flames Monday night as a fireworks display went awry.
One firefighter was killed battling in the blaze.

 Officials now say China Central Television was behind the display. Officials there say they hired a company to
set off hundreds of large fireworks as part of the lunar new year celebration. They say it was supposed to be
set off in an open area beside the hotel, however video showed spectacular bursts of fireworks just above the top
of the building.

 The fireworks were also clssified as grade A meaning, CCTV was supposed to get a special permit to set them off in
the downtown area. However officials say organizers never bothered with the paperwork and ignored police warnings.
CCTV has apologized. Still, it's too soon to say how much damage was done to the structure of if it can be salvaged
or must be torn down.

Dianne Kepley, The Associated Press

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* on(or upon) the prowl :(먹이 따위를 찾아) 배회하며, 몰래 찾아다녀
                        : prowl - 배회하다, 거닐다, 답사하다
* be to blame : (~에 대하여) 책임이 있다[for], ~이 나쁘다
* fireworks display : 불꽃 놀이 대회
* unfinished : 완성[완료, 종료, 완결]되지 않은, 미완성의.
* foot :  피트, 복합 형용사에서는 a five-foot-high wall처럼 단수로 쓰는 것이 보통.
* go [or run, tread] awry : 실패하다; (예측 따위에서) 벗어나다, 틀어지다; 길을 잘못 들다.
* blaze : 불길, 화염, 화재, 불
* set off : …을 촉발[유발]하다; …을 폭발시키다
* grade A : (종종 G- A-) A급[클래스]의, 제1급의, 최고의(first-class).
* salvage : 재활용하다