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Daily News 2010-10-13
全球性別差距逐漸縮小

The first miner Florencio Avalos (L), one of the 33 miners trapped in the San Jose mine, 800 km north of the Chilean capital Santiago, is rescued successfully back to the ground on Oct. 12, 2010. The operation to lift out the 33 miners trapped for over two months in northern Chile is under way right now. [Martin Zabala/Xinhua]

Chilean miners rescued	智利礦工獲救
Rescuers using a missile-like escape capsule began pulling 33 men one by one to fresh air and freedom Wednesday, 69 days after they were trapped in a collapsed mine almost half a mile underground, AP reported. First to be rescued was Florencio Avalos, who wore a helmet and sunglasses to protect him from the glare of the bright lights. He smiled broadly as he emerged and hugged his son and wife, before getting a bear hug from Chilean President Sebastian Pinera. A second miner, Mario Sepulveda Espina, was pulled to the surface about an hour later. After hugging his wife, he handed out souvenir rocks from his underground prison to jubilant rescuers. A third miner, Juan Illanes, followed after another hour.	據美聯社報道，周三，救援人員用導彈狀救援倉將33名礦工一個一個拉回了地面，他們在距地面近半英里的塌陷礦井里困了69天，現在又呼吸到了新鮮的空氣，重獲自由。第一名獲救的礦工是弗洛倫西奧?阿瓦洛斯，他帶著安全帽和遮蔽強光的太陽鏡。露面時，他笑得很開心，然后擁抱了妻兒，接著智利總統塞巴斯蒂安?皮涅拉給了他一個擁抱。一小時后，第二名礦工馬里奧?塞普爾維達?意斯匹那升井。他擁抱了妻子之后，把從井下帶上來的石頭送給興高采烈的救援人員做紀念品。又過了一小時，第三名礦工胡安?伊利亞內斯升井。
Dolphins killed in Japanese hunt	日本大規模屠殺海豚
Residents of the Japanese seaside village Taiji, notorious for hunting dolphins, slaughtered another pod of dolphins Tuesday, AP reports. Most of the dolphins, which were caught Monday, were butchered, although two were saved to be sold to aquariums and six young dolphins were released back into the ocean. Taiji has a dolphin season from September to March each year, saving the best-looking ones to sell to aquariums and killing the rest. Activists are organizing a protest against the killings for Thursday at Japanese embassies around the world.	據美聯社報道，因獵捕海豚而臭名昭著的日本村莊“太地町”昨天又屠殺了一批海豚。前天被捕到的海豚有絕大多數都被殺了，只有2頭賣給了海洋館，6頭幼崽被放回大海。每年9月到次年3月，是“太地町”傳統的海豚漁獵季。通常，長相好看的海豚會被賣給海洋館，剩下的就全被殺死。據悉，動物保護者們將于14日在世界各地的日本使館門口示威，就日本屠殺海豚的行為進行抗議。
Argentine leader slams Royal Navy	阿女總統稱英軍為海盜
Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner sharply criticized plans by the U.K. Ministry of Defense to carry out military tests in the Malvinas (Falkland Islands) on Twitter, the Daily Telegraph reports. She called the Royal Navy "pirates." Her postings were deleted, but not before they had been re-posted by hundreds of Twitter users, many of them Argentines who enthusiastically endorsed the remarks.	據英國《每日電訊報》報道，阿根廷總統克里斯蒂娜?費爾南德斯?基什內爾在“推特”上激烈批評英國國防部在馬島（英稱?？颂m群島）進行導彈發射測試的計劃，并稱英國海軍為海盜。盡管帖文后來被刪除，但是已被網友廣泛轉載，轉載者多是強烈支持她評論的阿根廷人。
Mutilated Afghan woman gets new nose	阿富汗‘割鼻女孩’的微笑
The Afghan woman who was mutilated by her husband under Taliban rule and appeared on a Time Magazine cover was all smiles as she unveiled her new prosthetic nose for the first time after surgery, the Daily Telegraph reports. Bibi Aisha, 19, received the Enduring Heart award at a benefit for the Grossman Burn Foundation, a Los Angeles-based organization that paid for her surgery.	據英國《每日郵報》報道，在塔利班統治下遭丈夫殘忍割鼻而登上《時代》雜志封面的阿富汗女孩，在接受手術后，首次微笑著向公眾展示了她的新仿生鼻子。美國加州“葛羅斯曼?伯恩基金會”授予19歲的愛莎“永恒之心”獎，并為愛莎支付了手術費用。
Girl can eat only fruits, vegetables	女童患怪病只能吃蔬果
A 7-year-old girl from the U.K. faces brain damage if she eats anything but fruit and vegetables, the Daily Mail reports. Borsi Batki suffers from phenylketonuria (PKU), a metabolic disorder that if undetected, can lead to problems with brain development, progressive mental retardation, brain damage and seizures. Her condition means her body cannot process the amino acid phenylalanine, which is found in most protein-rich foods. Just one in 15,000 children is born with the condition, which is caused by a genetic mutation.	英國《每日郵報》報道，英國一名7歲小女孩波希?貝迪克患有先天怪病，只能吃蔬菜與水果，否則會損傷頭部。她患有苯丙酮酸尿癥，這是一種先天性代謝異常病，會影響大腦發育、損傷腦部神經和損害智力。這意味著她的身體不能吸收苯基丙氨酸，而這種物質存在于大部分富含蛋白質的食品中。在每1.5萬兒童中，有1人患有這種病癥，該病癥由遺傳基因突變引起。
Woman, 101, to become U.S. citizen	百歲老人終成美國公民
Eulalia Garcia Maturey has outlived two husbands, her two children, and decades of bygone immigration laws. At 101, Maturey will become a U.S. citizen on the 101st anniversary of her crossing into the United States from Mexico, CNN reports. The naturalization ceremony will take place Tuesday afternoon in a federal courtroom in Brownsville, Texas. On October 12, 1909, Maturey was just a baby in her mother's arms when they crossed the Rio Grande on a ferry boat from Matamoros, Mexico, to Brownsville. In 1941, she received a "Lawful Entry" card which she still has in her possession.	據美國有線電視新聞網報道，尤拉莉亞?加西亞?馬圖雷活過了兩任丈夫、兩個子女，也見證了數十載移民法的變更。在其101歲的時候，也是她從墨西哥進入美國的101周年之際，她即將成為美國公民。入籍儀式將于當地時間周二下午在德克薩斯州布朗斯維爾市的聯邦法院舉行。1909年10月12日，當馬圖雷還是個嬰兒的時候，母親抱著她乘坐渡船穿過里奧格蘭德河從墨西哥的馬塔莫羅斯來到布朗斯維爾市。1941年，她得到了一張“合法入境”卡并保存至今。 (China.org.cn)