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Equifax`s Recent Data Breach; Response of North Korea to New U.N. Sanctions; NASA is Destroying the Cassini Spacecraft

CARL AZUZ, CNN 10 ANCHOR: I`m Carl Azuz for CNN 10. And Fridays are awesome! Hope yours is going well so far.

Financially speaking, your credit is your trustworthiness to pay back a loan, might be for a house or a car, or something you buy in a credit card.

trustworthiness [ˋtrʌst͵wɝðɪnɪs] n. 可信赖；可靠

One major company that keeps track of people`s credit is Equifax. You don`t sign up for Equifax and you can`t get rid of it. The agency just

collects credit information on hundreds of millions of people worldwide.

Here`s the bad news, Equifax has been hacked and that might have exposed a massive amount of personal information to people who should not have it.

This is so concerning that the U.S. government which doesn`t usually comment on ongoing investigations has confirmed that it`s gotten involved

to try to find out what went wrong.

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JOSE PAGLIERY, CNN INVESTIGATIVE CURNOW: Equifax, one of the three big credit monitoring companies, those companies that track all of your

finances and everything you do, just announced that hackers have broken into the company`s databases and stolen information on 143 million

Americans. For perspective, that`s more than half of American adults, and the thing is, you might be affected even if you don`t use Equifax, because

Equifax tracks everybody.

So, what happened exactly? Hackers, we`re not sure who, stole names, birthdays, addresses, Social Security numbers and importantly, driver`s

license numbers. This is extremely sensitive information that can be used to steal your identity.

According to the company, they also got access to 209,000 people`s credit card numbers. This is the kind of thing that hackers can try to sell on

the black market and fraudsters can then steal your tax refund at the end of the year, open up a bank account in your name, or in a pretty worse case

fraudster [ˋfrɔdstɚ] n. 欺骗者，骗子

scenario, print out fake IDs, get in trouble and police will be looking for you, not the fraudster.

You might be affected by this, even if you`ve never heard of Equifax, because this company tracks everyone who`s applied for a loan, a mortgage,

or open up a bank account.

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AZUZ: Lawsuits are expected over this. Equifax has been accused of not doing enough to protect people`s information from potential hacks. The

agency is offering free temporary credit monitoring to those who might have been affected. Experts say people should sign up for that to check their

own credit reports and they consider freezing their credit, which can make it harder for someone else to use your name to open an account.

The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency says many people in North Korea are malnourished and live under bad conditions, and the international penalties

malnourished [mælˋnɝɪʃt] adj. 营养不良的

on the country for its recent nuclear test are designed to squeeze its economy more than ever. But in the capital, where CNN`s Will Ripley was

recently allowed to travel, he didn`t hear people say they were worried.

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WILL RIPLEY, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Here in Pyongyang, government officials are strongly condemning this latest round of U.N.

Security Council sanctions, using words like evil, vicious, calling it a full scale economic blockade.

vicious [ˋvɪʃəs] adj. 邪恶的；恶意的

blockade [blɑˋked] n. 封锁

But when you go out on the streets and speak with regular people, they don`t seem concerned at all.

(voice-over): It`s tough to find a traffic light in Pyongyang. Traffic cops direct the flow of cars, the streets noticeably busier each time I

noticeably [ˋnotɪsəblɪ] adv. 显著地，明显地

come here, busier at least for now.

The U.S. says the latest U.N. sanctions threaten to cut North Korea`s oil supply by nearly a third, which could spike prices for everything from

taxis to energy. A ban on textile imports and the end of foreign labor contracts could further slash the income of this cash starve country.

But if you Ri Hye Hyang, she`s not worried. Her refreshment stand has a steady flow of customers. She says life is improving despite round after

refreshment stand 小吃部

round of increasingly heavy sanctions.

We have no problems, she says. Everything I`m selling is made local. We don`t worry. We rely on ourselves.

Kim Hye Song casually shrugs off threats from the United States.

shrug off 耸肩表示对...不屑一顾, 对...不当回事

(on camera): The U.S. President Donald Trump said that these sanctions are just not a big deal and that there`s much worse to come. Does that

worry you at all?

(voice-over): We don`t care what the U.S. president says or what the outside world thinks about us, she says. We don`t worry because we believe

in the leadership of Marshall Kim Jong-un.

Keep in mind this is a very thin slice of life in this closed country.

slice of life 人生的片断

(on camera): It`s good.

(voice-over): Reporters like us can only see what the government allows. But all over the North Korean capital, we see plenty of new construction,

an increasingly modern skyline, a mandate from North Korea`s leader Kim Jong-un, determined to prove he can grow the economy and the nuclear

program, all in the face of unprecedented sanctions for his repeated violations of international law.

(on camera): You see these posters all over Pyongyang and they pretty much sum up North Korea`s official response to increase pressure from the U.S.

sum up 形成看法; 总结

(voice-over): More missiles.

North Korean propaganda is built around their nuclear program. It symbolizes strength, independence, it`s key to their national identity.

(on camera): Is there anything, anything at all that could get North Korea to walk away from its nuclear program?

We`ll never give them up, says Ri Chang Son. If we did, it would mean our destruction.

Around town, new poster shows a pair of hands ripping up U.N. sanctions resolutions. North Korea`s defiant message: they will never give up their nukes, even if that means life is about to get a lot harder.

defiant [dɪˋfaɪənt] adj. 挑舋的,目中无人的

nuke [njuk] n.（常复数）核武器

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AZUZ (voice-over): Ten-second trivia:

Which of these astronomers is credited with discovering a gap between Saturn`s rings?

Saturn [ˋsætɚn] n.【天】土星

Galileo, Copernicus, Cassini, or Kepler?

Giovanni Domenico Cassini is the namesake of Saturn`s Cassini division, a gap in its rings.

namesake [ˋnem͵sek] n. 同名的人；同名物；以他人的名字取名的人

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AZUZ: Not coincidentally, he`s also the namesake of NASA`s Cassini spacecraft, which launched toward the ringed planet in October of 1997. At

a cost of over $3 billion, most of which was paid for by the U.S., Cassini sent back hundreds of thousands of pictures, and carried a probe that

landed on one of Saturn`s moons.

But NASA has set Friday as Cassini`s last, because it wants to control where the spacecraft goes when it runs out of fuel.

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ANNOUNCER: And liftoff of the Cassini spacecraft on a billion mile trek to Saturn.

ROBYN CURNOW, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Cassini left Earth almost two decades ago, and since then has beamed back a treasure trove of images

beam [bim]v. （定向）播送，发送

treasure trove 贵重的发现物

and information from Jupiter, Saturn and many of the ringed planet`s mysterious moons.

Jupiter [ˋdʒupətɚ] n.【天】木星

Cassini was also the mother ship for a probe that would land on Saturn`s largest moon Titan, a world of clouds made of methane and hydrocarbon

lakes. It was the most remote spacecraft landing yet.

While Titan`s close up was groundbreaking, another of Saturn`s moons, Enceladus, sparked even more attention.

MICHELE DOUGHERTY, PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR, CASSINI MAGNETOMETER: It`s a moon that my team discovered a water vapor plumes (ph). But not only is

there liquid water underneath the surface, but there`s organic material, there`s a heat source.

CURNOW: Those three things, if stable, over time, are all the ingredients needed to create life and scientists akin to protect it from any microbes,

stood away on Cassini.

NICO ALTOBELLI, PROJECT MANAGER, ESA CASSINI: The spacecraft is running out of fuel and it becomes increasingly difficult to navigate it for the

system and what you want to avoid is to crash on one, on the icy moon, like Enceladus, where habitability and (INAUDIBLE) astrobiological potential has been discovered.

habitability [hæbɪtəˋbɪlɪtɪ] n. 可居住

astrobiological 天体生物学的，太空生物学的

CURNOW: To avoid that scenario, Cassini is being sent on a suicide mission. On September 15th, it will die through Saturn`s atmosphere,

burning up in a process, but in those final minutes, its antennas will be pointed towards home, sending back pressure information, right up until its fiery end.

fiery [ˋfaɪərɪ] adj. 火的；火一般的；燃烧般的

Robyn Curnow, CNN.

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AZUZ: Hard to imagine a conductor who`s more robotic than this. Of course, that`s kind of a point. It`s called YuMi. It doesn`t seem to have

the finesse of Bugs Bunny, but it was recently taught to conduct a performance at Italy`s Verdi Theater. YuMi could not improvise on its own,

and it would have been thrown off altogether if the musicians had played something different. But it seemed to give a successful performance even

alongside superstar tenor Andrea Bocelli.

Even if they didn`t hit the concert circuit, they still hit the concert circuit, and though YuMi didn`t baton an eye of the challenge, it`s one

thing to have good conduct and conductors, it`s another thing to be one. And the human conductor ain`t passing the baton just yet.

I`m Carl Azuz for CNN 10. We hope you orchestrate one exceptional weekend.

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