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The Supreme Court today has struck down a law allowing the execution of individuals convicted of child rape.The High Court in a five to four vote said the Louisiana law permitting the the death penalty to be imposed in such cases violates a constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment. Case involved the man convicted for the rape of his eight-year-old stepdaughter writing for the majority Justice, Anthony Kennedy, says the death penalty is not a proportional punishment for the rape of a child.
Exxon Mobil will be forced to pay punitive damages for the Exxon Valdez's oil spill in Alaska. However ,the Supreme Court today slashed those damages to about five hundred million dollars,far less the fishermen and landowners and native Alaskans' hope for.NPR's Frank Langfitt reports.
This is Joseph Hazelwood,the captain of the Exxon Valdez in March,1989."******". That leak of quote some oil became eleven million gallons,the largest bill on record in North America.A lower court had ordered the company to pay 2.5 billion dollars in punitive damages.But today,the Supreme Court found that amount excessive.The Court said that under Federal Maritime Law,punitive damages shouldn't be bigger than the compensatory damages the company had already been ordered to pay. Frank Langfitt,NPR News,Washington.
The Fed wrapped up a two-day meeting in Washington today leaving a key bank limit rate unchanged that two percent.Stuart Hoffman,the chief economist with PNC Financial Services Group, maintain blues that the Fed is likely to stay on hold in terms of interest rates and time being with consumer long rates following suit .
"It tells me that the drop in rates is not about this part is gonna go and both savers and borrowers are gonna see the rates stationary,they face now,pretty much there for the next few months at least." PNC economist Stuart Hoffman.
Even with persistent high oil prices,global energy demand won't led up.That's according to new projections from the Energy Department.NPR's Debbie Elliott Reports.
"The Energy Information Administration forecast global energy demand will grow by fifty percent over the next two decades.And the agency predicts the amount of carbon dioxide resulting from energy use will also grow by about that same amount,without mandatory actions to reduce global warming.Despite increases and renewable energy from wind and bio-fuels,the government says fossil fuels,mostly oil and coal,will continue to supply most of the world's energy needs.The growing energy demand is most dramatic in China and other developing countries. It says oil consuming nations will rely even more on OPEC for supply,as for prices,the report says they'll stay high.Debbie Elliott,NPR News,Washington.
On Wall Street,the Dow was up four points.
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Presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain said today if elected, he would seek to break US reliance on foreign oil by 2025.Speaking in Las Vegas,Mccain said he would do that through a combination of being increased offshore drilling,step up for nuclear power and conservation. It is the Arizona Senator said the aim would be to have the US economy where oil is no longer the primary fuel lessening dependence on cartels like OPEC. McCain made the press during the speech at University of Nevada,Las Vegas. Critics have claimed McCain's proposal to build forty-five new nuclear reactors would generate waste that would have to be disposed of.
The Vatican has described a sensationalist,Italian media reports linking the late Archbishop Paul Marcinkus,to the alleged murder of a teenage daughter. The Vatican plea twenty-five years ago. NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports from Rome.
"Twenty-five years after the mysterious disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi , posters of the teenager have reappeared all over Rome,and Italian Daily are filled with / alleged claims by the girlfriend of a slain mobster that the late archbishop,who died two years ago had hired hit man to kidnap and murder Orlandi in 1983. A Vatican stateman said the accusations are defamatory and baseless,and chided the media republishing the charges without any checks.At the time Orlandi disappeared,Marcinkus was the head of the Vatican Bank * in a financial scandal. Itanlian authorities issued an arrest * for Marcinkus on suspicion of involvement in the fraud and bankruptcy of Banco Ambrosiano.The director of that bank Roberto Calvi was found hanging from London's Blackfriar's Bridge in 1982.An Italian court has ruled he was probably murdered by the Mafia.Sylvia Poggioli,NPR News,Rome.
(中午的时候听到这很累了~所以没去查,不好意思哦)
And I'm Jack Speer,NPR News,in Washington
请教:
1,Even with persistent high oil prices,global energy demand won't led up.
这一句好像和下文矛盾。
2,最后一段新闻真的很难明白其中的逻辑关系。
3,不知道大家是听了几次才听写完成的。我至少听了两个小时,真是惭愧。
您的问题都好抽象哦~

第一个,Even with persistent high oil prices,global energy demand won't let up. 哪里和下文矛盾啦 "global energy demand won't let up"呼应下文"

global energy demand will grow by 50% over the next two decades"~~~"with persistent high oil prices"呼应下文"As for prices, the report says they’ll stay high"

第二个,额,指撒逻辑关系?杀人的逻辑啊?

不就是这个人既牵扯这事又涉及那事的~

第三个,因人而异,没撒惭愧,慢慢进步 ——

April
那里你听成了led up所以不对,应该是let up,减弱的意思。
最后一段逻辑关系是酱紫饿:Paul Marcinkus这个人是一个archbishop,.同时也是分管一家梵蒂冈银行的。是个banker.他被指控雇佣杀手杀死了Emanuela Orlandi,而这个Emanuela Orlandi又是一个Vatican employee的女儿,可谓是内部自相残杀,晕,cannibalism同类相残这种丑事梵蒂冈当然希望回避咯,所谓家丑不可外扬

另外,这个

Emanuela Orlandi究竟有没有被杀也是个迷。当年神秘失踪以后人们就推断其已死。但是也只能是legally dead,不排除现在是人猿泰山的可能所以注意:他用了

alleged murder,alleged这个词,表示不确定____LULU