1.利比亞第一次大選宣告成功
參考譯文:國際觀察員稱,繼卡扎菲后利比亞第一次大選是成功的。Alexander Graf Lamsdorff 是歐盟選舉團隊的發(fā)言人。他說:“我能說的是,利比亞的選舉已經非常好了,當用這些標準來衡量,已經進展的非常好。在不到一年的世界里,這個國家經歷了的黎波里的垮臺和獨裁統(tǒng)治的終結到民主選舉。”這是由總部設在美國的凱特中心研究員們反饋的觀點。選舉的舉辦代表真一項非凡的成就,利比亞人引以為豪。盡管該國缺乏選舉的經驗,選舉委員會在政治敏感問題以及潛在的動蕩局面上進行了有效的民意調查。大選前的暴亂和抗議并沒有影響到周末選民們前往選舉。官方報道稱,全國280萬注冊選民中有65%參與了選舉。并且婦女的權利得到了很好的代表。60年來北非國家第一次自由選舉的結果預計要周一晚些時候出來。Deborah Gembara,路透社。
2.Scientists find new particle, probably the Higgs
TEXT:Well, they found... something. Scientists in Geneva announced the discovery of a new subatomic particle that might be the elusive Higgs boson, the basic building block of the universe. Scientist Joe Incandela described the finding from the CERN research centre near Geneva. JOE INCANDELA SCIENTISTS: "So keep that in mind, this is a very very preliminary result, but we think it's very strong and very solid. Otherwise we wouldn't present it." The Higgs particle has been described as the missing link that explains how particles clumped together to form stars, planets and even life. Scientists used this, the Large Hadron Collider, the world's biggest particle accelerator, to smash atoms together at the speed of light. The energy produced from the collisions led them to Higgs. The Higgs is the last undiscovered piece of the Standard Model theory-- which is to physicists what the theory of evolution is to biologists. Julie Noce, Reuters