I'm Doug Johnson. This week:
We tell about the growing importance of young voters in the presidential election next month ...
我们谈谈在下个月的总统竞选中，年青选民不断增长的重要性
Listen to new music from Conor Oberst ...
听听来自康纳的新歌
And answer a question about the actor, race car driver and humanitarian Paul Newman who died two weeks ago. 回答一个关于演员，赛车手和人道主义者保罗纽曼的问题，他在两星期前刚去世。
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Youth Vote
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Political experts are predicting a record number of voters in the American presidential election next month between Senators Barack Obama and John McCain. Many believe this increase is partly because of the number of young people who will be voting. Both candidates have made big efforts to reach out to the more than forty million Americans between the ages of eighteen and thirty. Barbara Klein has more.政治专家正在预测下个月的在欧巴马和麦凯恩之间的竞选的选民数量。许多人认为数字的增长一部分是由于年青选民的参与。两个竞选者为了抓住18岁到30岁之间的选民都做出很大努力。芭芭拉卡莱茵为我们报道。
BARBARA KLEIN:
In the past, many young Americans did not think it was important to vote in elections. Experts say candidates and their political parties ignored young voters. But young people are becoming more politically active.过去，许多美国年轻人不认为投票选举很重要。专家说竞选者和他们的党忽略了年轻人。但年轻人正变得更具有政治积极性。
For example, in the election of two thousand four, twenty million young people voted. This was an increase of two million voters from the election of two thousand. 例如，在2004的竞选中，2000万年轻人投票。相对于2000年的竞选的200万选民来说是个增长。
Political expert Larry Sabato predicts high numbers of young voters next month.政治专家劳瑞萨巴托预测下个月将会有很多年轻人投票。
LARRY SABATO:"They are going to equal their percentage of the population and I think that is remarkable. They had been well below their percentage of the population at least since that early period when young people got the vote in the early nineteen seventies."劳瑞萨巴托：这个数字将达到他们在人口中所占的比例，我认为这值得注意。至少在早期，在年轻人得到投票权的70年代，这个数字是大大小于他们在人口中的比例的。
Across the United States, students at colleges and universities are helping their classmates complete the documents necessary to vote. Jessica White is a twenty-one year old student at the University of Virginia who is helping students register to vote.在美国全国，大学生们正在帮助他们的同学完成投票所必需的文件。杰西卡怀特，弗吉尼亚大学的21岁学生，正在帮助学生们登记。
JESSICA WHITE: "I have seen a lot of enthusiasm in a lot of the first-years coming in for orientation sessions here at school, and they seem really excited."杰西卡怀特：我看过很多刚入学的（？）学生的太多热情，他们看起来很兴奋。
Stephanie Young works for the organization Rock the Vote. She says this year's election is based on issues that are very important to young people. Miz Young says these include the economy, the war in Iraq and health care. She says young people are unhappy with the direction the country has been going. And she says many young people agree with Senator Barack Obama's call for change on these issues.
A recent study by the Harvard University Institute of Politics shows that fifty-five percent of young voters support Senator Obama. Thirty-two percent support Senator McCain. Mister Obama's campaign has been built around paying attention to these young voters.
Organizations like Rock the Vote and Declare Yourself are using technology to get young people interested in the political process and to help them register to vote. They use Web sites like Facebook and MySpace to connect with large numbers of young people. People from these organizations also travel to schools and colleges to meet with young people. The candidates also are using these Web sites to stay connected to the young voters who may decide the election on November fourth.
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Paul Newman
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This week's listener question comes from Iran. Mohamed Firouzi wants to know about the actor Paul Newman, who died last month.
Paul Newman was one of the most famous, well respected and good- looking actors in American movies. He often played rebellious characters who were very likeable and real. During his more than fifty-year career he made over sixty-five movies. Some of his most famous roles were in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof", "Cool Hand Luke" and "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid." "The Hustler" came out in nineteen sixty-one. Paul Newman plays the role of Fast Eddie Felson who plays the game of pool against other players to gain money.
Eddie: "How should I play that one, Bert? Play it safe? That's the way you always told me to play it, safe, play the percentage. Well, here we go, fast and loose. One ball, corner pocket. Yeah, percentage players die broke too, don't they, Bert?"
Paul Leonard Newman was born in Cleveland, Ohio in nineteen twenty-five. During high school and college, he enjoyed acting in plays. After serving in World War Two, Newman continued acting in small professional theater companies. He also studied theater at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. Paul Newman acted in television plays and on Broadway in New York City before finding work in the movies. His first movie, "The Silver Chalice" was not successful. But Paul Newman made up for a bad start with a series of great movies that have become favorites around the world.
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Paul Newman met his second wife, Joanne Woodward, while he was acting in New York City. They married in nineteen fifty-eight and appeared in several movies together. Newman also directed several movies starring his wife, including "Rachel, Rachel" and "The Glass Menagerie."
During his career he received ten Academy Award nominations. He won for his performance in the nineteen eighty-six movie "The Color of Money." This movie continues the story of Fast Eddie Felson from "The Hustler."
Paul Newman was not only a great actor. He was also a skilled racecar driver. And he was a political activist who fought for liberal causes. But what Paul Newman would probably most like to be remembered for was his social activism. The "Newman's Own" food company has donated more than two hundred fifty thousand dollars in profits to humanitarian causes. He helped create the Hole in the Wall Gang Camps in the United States and several other countries. This organization provides free summer camp experiences for children with serious sicknesses like cancer.
Paul Newman died on September twenty-sixth of cancer. He was eighty-three. He was a star both in the movies and in real life.
You can learn more about Paul Newman on the Special English program People in America on Sunday.
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Conor Oberst
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Conor Oberst has been making music since he was thirteen years old. The twenty-eight year old musician from Omaha, Nebraska is best known for his band, Bright Eyes. Conor Oberst released his latest album under his own name. His aim was to create simplified songs with only a few musicians. These songs tell about love, death and traveling. Bob Doughty has more.
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BOB DOUGHTY:
That was the song "Moab" from the album "Conor Oberst." It expresses the ways in which travel can be healing. Oberst and his Mystic Valley band would know. They recorded this album in Mexico. Oberst said he did not feel like being in a studio while making this new album. He wanted to be somewhere warm, beautiful and far away.
Here is the song " I Don't Want to Die (in the Hospital)." It may sound like a sad song. But Oberst says it is a "jailbreak song." Oberst's seventy-five year old friend told him that he was not afraid of dying, but did not want to die in the restricted space of a hospital. The friend wanted to be outside under the stars instead. He told Oberst to help him escape if he ever became stuck in a hospital.
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Critics have praised Conor Oberst as a musician and songwriter. He is often compared to the great musician Bob Dylan. And, Rolling Stone magazine named Oberst one of the best songwriters of this year. This fall Oberst and his band will travel in Australia and the United States performing their music. We leave you with the poetic song "Cape Canaveral."
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