090325 T’s News Digest
奥巴马政府打击墨西哥枪支走私及暴力犯罪
Obama targets flow of guns, profits from U.S. to Mexico
The Obama administration promised Tuesday to help Mexico fight its drug war by cutting off the cartels' supply of guns and profits, while resisting the Texas governor's call for a troop surge at the border to ward off spillover violence.
Cartel 卡特尔，企业联合 类似于 trust
Cut off 切断
Troop surge 增兵
Border 边境 类似的有boundary, bound, edge, brink, limit
Ward off 驱逐，避开
Spillover violence （指墨西哥）外流人口引发的暴力
世界卫生组织强调结核病与HIV有关联
WHO Stresses TB-HIV Link
HIV patients accounted for roughly a quarter of people who died from tuberculosis in 2007, according to new World Health Organization estimates that highlight a closer connection between the two diseases than previously known.
In addition, of a total of 9.3 million new TB cases world-wide in 2007, 1.4 million, or 15%, occurred in people infected with HIV, according to the WHO's annual TB report. The overall number of those infected with both diseases is roughly twice as high as found by the United Nations agency in previous years.
TB-tuberculosis 结核病
WHO-World Health Organization 世界卫生组织
Highlight v. 使…凸显出，强调
TB case 结核病例
Occur 突发
Be infected with 染上…疾病
环保署复查煤矿开采许可证
EPA to review coal-mining permits
The Environmental Protection Agency put hundreds of mountaintop coal-mining permits on hold Tuesday to evaluate the projects' impact on streams and wetlands.
The decision by EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson targets a controversial practice that allows coal mining companies to dump waste from mountaintop mining into streams and wetlands. Between 150 and 200 applications for new or expanded surface coal mines, many of the mountaintop removal operations, are pending before the federal government. EPA spokeswoman Adora Andy said the agency did not expect problems with the overwhelming majority of permits.
解析：
EPA-Environmental Protection Agency 美国环境保护局
Permit 许可证，执照, 相当于license, charter
Coal-mining 煤矿开采
Put…on hold 留待处理，相当于suspend
Evaluate 评估，检查
Streams and wetlands 河流和湿地
Removal operations 除污操作（remove 单纯表示“除去，去掉”,这个需要再考证？）
Dump waste 倾倒废料
Controversial practice 引起争议的做法
Targets 针对
Pending a. 迫近的
Pend v. 等候决定
Feral government 联邦政府
Overwhelming majority 压倒性多数，绝大多数
evaluate 评估
