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内容提要：<br />爱荷华州的总统选情<br />油价首次高达100 美元<br />在法国的公共场合有些习惯被禁<br /><br /><br /><br />(CNN Student News) -- January 3, 2008<br /><br />Quick Guide <br /><br />Iowa Caucuses - Learn about what takes place during a presidential caucus meeting.<br /><br />Oil Hits $100 - Examine what some see as a silver lining to the rising price of oil.<br /><br />French Smokeout - Discover what habit has been banned in public settings in France.<br /><br /><br /><br />Transcript <br /><br />THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. <br /><br />CARL AZUZ, CNN STUDENT NEWS ANCHOR: <br />You\'ve found your way to a new day of CNN Student News, and we\'re glad to have you with us. My name is Carl Azuz. We\'re going to start things off with some timely political trivia. <br /><br /><br /><br />Is this Legit?<br /><br />GEORGE RAMSAY, CNN STUDENT NEWS: <br />Is This Legit? The Iowa caucuses are held exclusively in the state capital. No! The caucuses are held all over the state.<br /><br /><br /><br />First Up: Iowa Caucuses<br /><br />AZUZ: <br />And they\'re being held today! Yeah buddy, Iowa is going caucus crazy, and the whole nation is paying close attention. That\'s because these are the first presidential caucuses of this election year, and the results just may show us which White House hopefuls are starting to pull ahead to an early lead. So, Iowans are heading to their caucus centers all across the state. But what will they do once they get there? Jeffrey Toobin explains how it\'s going to happen.<br /><br />(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) <br /><br />JEFFREY TOOBIN, SR. LEGAL ANALYST: <br />Imagine an election with no secret ballot, no all-day voting. The age requirement? Only seventeen. And finally, you can vote for more than one candidate! If that sounds un-American, it\'s actually how the Iowa Democratic caucuses operate. And listen up: You care because those folks in Iowa may actually choose your next president. In fact, the rules here are so strange that the campaigns in Iowa run training sessions on how to vote. Step one: Stand up and be counted.<br /><br />CHELSEA WALISER, MOCK CAUCUS ORGANIZER: <br />What you\'ll do is then get up out of your seat and you\'ll go walk to the corner or space by the wall designated for the candidate of your choice. Okay, ready? Go.<br /><br />TOOBIN: <br />At Obama\'s Iowa rehearsal caucus, they practiced without candidates. Instead, they used winter activities. We\'ve got ice skating here, drinking hot cocoa, snowboarding, building snowmen and, of course, snowball fights. After the first round, anyone who\'s standing for a candidate -- well, activity in this case -- that doesn\'t meet the threshold of 15% of the room is out of luck. Turns out on this night, not enough snow boarders. Very sad. So, what happens now? If the snowboarders want their votes to count at all, they have to pick a new candidate before the second and final tally.<br /><br />WALISER: <br />Each group that is viable gets to send one ambassador over to the snowboarding group and try to persuade them to join your group.<br /><br />TOOBIN: <br />Now it\'s "let\'s make a deal." The other groups all send someone over to the snowboarders to say, "Come on, join our side;" a little arm twisting.<br /><br />ICE SKATING AMBASSADOR: <br />Ice skating, you feel free. You can go on one foot, two feet; you can twirl around.<br /><br />SNOWBOARDER: <br />Oh, I liked that one.<br /><br />SNOWBOARDER: <br />I did too.<br /><br />TOOBIN: <br />The snowboarders decide ice skating is their second choice, and they all make the switch. Understanding the persuasion period and how to win over second-choice voters is so important, candidates have Web videos to explain it.<br /><br />JOHN EDWARDS, (D) PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: <br />Don\'t just go to the caucus, bring your friends.<br /><br />TOOBIN: <br />And even highlight it on the stump.<br /><br />ED: <br />You hit that floor and work it and try to get them. It\'s like a fun game. It\'s like Monopoly. You go over and say, "Well, your man isn\'t going to make it. Come over. Remember I loaned you that snow shovel?"<br /><br />TOOBIN: <br />Because the rules are so complicated, organization is key. You need to get your supporters to the caucus locations by 7:00 sharp or they can\'t vote. And this is Iowa in the wintertime; sometimes the weather\'s a factor. By comparison, the Republican caucuses are pretty simple, though the campaigns -- here, Fred Thompson\'s -- are also training their supporters. It\'s a secret ballot, and there\'s no viability threshold. Every vote counts.<br /><br />TOOBIN: <br />The complicated rules make for one sure thing, that the results here are very hard to predict. So, after all this, who wins? Well, that\'s not simple either. The party keeps the popular vote totals of the caucuses a secret. They only announce the percentage of delegates each candidate will receive at the state party convention later in 2008. And there\'s more, of course. The caucus rules are 72 pages long. Jeffery Toobin, CNN, New York.<br /><br />(END VIDEO CLIP) <br /><br /><br /><br />Promo<br /><br />AZUZ: <br />It\'s time to start "Talking Democracy." Each month, we\'ll be breaking down an election-related topic. We just started on January\'s: caucuses and primaries. And as we make our way to the election, we want to hear from you with some Talking Democracy I-Reports. Find out more about all of this at CNNStudentNews.com! <br /><br /><br /><br />Oil Hits $100 <br /><br />AZUZ: <br />Black gold, Texas "T"; we\'re talking about oil. And right now, the crude commodity is more expensive than ever. In fact, oil hit a new record cost of $100 per barrel yesterday. And those rising prices mean consumers are paying bigger bucks to fill their gas tanks. But as Becky Anderson tells us, there may be a silver lining to the situation. <br /><br />(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) <br /><br />BECKY ANDERSON, CNN REPORTER: <br />Oil at sky high prices: It may not be what most people want, but environmental groups like Friends Of The Earth say, if you make it dearer to burn oil, maybe fuel users will use less on the road and in their homes.<br /><br />ROGER HIGMAN, FRIENDS OF THE EARTH: <br />It forces us to think about the use of energy, and will encourage us to use less energy and be more energy efficient when we need to do that anyway because of climate change. It will also encourage those countries that have been more energy efficient in the past, as they\'ll suffer less. Whereas those countries that haven\'t, such as North America, will actually be hit hardest by this news.<br /><br />ANDERSON: <br />Environmental activists say there are all sorts of ways people could burn less fuel. Ditch the gas-guzzler for a car with a hybrid engine, take public transportation more often and explore alternative fuel sources like solar and wind power. But even at these prices, are fuel users hurting enough to change their ways? At least one expert thinks not.<br /><br />MARK NICHOLLS, EDITOR, ENVIRONMENTAL FINANCE: <br />I think recent years have shown consumers to be surprisingly resilient when it comes to paying up for higher energy prices. On the margins, it will certainly encourage them to buy smaller cars, maybe to travel a bit less. But I think higher oil prices are fairly marginal in terms of those sorts of decisions.<br /><br />ANDERSON: <br />Friends Of The Earth contends whether or not the price of fuel affects consumption, government can do more to help encourage using less fuel.<br /><br />HIGMAN: <br />Investing the money raised, for example, in motoring taxes in better public transport, more facilities for cycling and walking are also part of that. We can\'t rely on pain simply to solve this problem. We have to have some incentives as well.<br /><br />ANDERSON: <br />All interesting discussion, but all consumers may be interested in is how much more they must now pay to run their cars and heat their homes, and when, if ever, they\'ll get a tax break. Becky Anderson, CNN, London.<br /><br />(END VIDEO CLIP) <br /><br /><br /><br />Shoutout <br /><br />RAMSAY: <br />Time for the Shoutout! Which of these is a French word for "goodbye"? If you think you know it, shout it out! Is it: A) Ciao, B) Bonjour, C) Adieu or D) Peugeot? If you wanna say farewell in French, you\'re saying adieu! That\'s your answer and that\'s your Shoutout! <br /><br /><br /><br />French Smokeout <br /><br />AZUZ: <br />And France is saying adieu to cigarettes, at least in some public settings. Quitting smoking is always a popular New Year\'s resolution. But the European country has gone a couple steps beyond that, banning the butts from cafes, clubs and restaurants. And anyone who lights up will pay the price, literally! Jim Bitterman has more on France\'s nationwide smoke-out. <br /><br />(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) <br /><br />JIM BITTERMAN, CNN REPORTER: <br />In the recent film "Paris Je T\'Aime," a thoroughly modern French woman who is trying to quit smoking collapses before she can get help from her doctor. Luckily, romance ensues and attempting to quit does not prove fatal. But some here might say otherwise.<br /><br />FRED PERRIOT, MUSICIAN: <br />It\'s impossible to be drinking without smoking, without smoking.<br /><br />BITTERMAN: <br />After years of debating a smoking ban, months of restrictions on smoking being phased in and a reprieve for New Year\'s Day, France\'s bars and restaurants finally went smoke free Wednesday. The minister of health celebrated by having lunch in a smokeless restaurant and predicting the 14 million of her countrymen who smoke, more than one fifth of the country, will survive the smoking ban.<br /><br />One bar here held a special evening to bid adieu to tobacco. And it\'s true, now that smoking is banned in all public buildings including bars and restaurants, it could become a thing of the past. But should anyone grow nostalgic for the good old days of lighting up? Should school children need to learn about their nation\'s rich smoking heritage? In this land of 4,000 museums, it seems only natural that one is dedicated to smoking. Jim Bittermann, CNN, Paris.<br /><br />(END VIDEO CLIP) <br /><br /><br /><br />Before We Go <br /><br />AZUZ: <br />Before we go, getting some wedding planning help from your favorite football team. This couple is a huge fan of the New England Patriots, maybe now more than ever! You see, her engagement ring was free, and it\'s all thanks to the team\'s perfect season. The store where the die-hard fan bought the bling offered a full refund on some items if the Patriots went undefeated. The couple plans to spend the money on, what else, the wedding!<br /><br /><br />Goodbye <br /><br />AZUZ: <br />Football history and discounted diamonds, a marriage made in Massachusetts. That\'s gonna do it for us for today. We\'ll see you right back here tomorrow. 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