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How a groundbreaking study led to an allergy breakthrough  October 23, 2025

 

Hello, sunshine. Welcome to the show, your show. I'm Coy Wire.

 

This is CNN 10, and we have your 10 minutes of news with no opinion, no slant for this Thursday, October 23rd. Happy Friday Eve. We begin with some big news regarding one of the most common and often most serious food allergies, peanuts.

 

allergy [ˋælɚdʒɪ] n.【医】过敏症

 

10 years ago, a landmark study provedthat introducing peanut products to young babies could help prevent them from developing life-threatening allergies. Now, a decade later, new research is showing just how effective the unique approach has been. Our Meg Terrell has more.

 

Well, about 60,000 U.S. kids are estimated to have avoided having a food allergy after guidelines were changed in 2015, specifically about the early introduction of peanuts to their diet.

 

Now, this is a study from researchers at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. They used electronic health records to look at diagnoses of food allergies and specifically peanut allergies around this guidance change.

 

And the reason the guidance was changed was there was a landmark study in 2015 that showed early introduction of peanuts to babies between about four months and 11 months of age was associated with a significantly decreased risk of developing dangerous peanut allergies and for having them later in life.

 

And so the guidance was changed. And what they found is that after that 2015 guidance, specifically for high-risk babies, there was a 27% decline in peanut allergies.

 

And then after that guidance was expanded in 2017, that decline went to 40%. And so obviously food allergies and specifically peanut allergies are a huge issue. 8% of U.S. kids is estimated to have a food allergy and 2.2% of kids are thought to have peanut allergy.

 

And so the researchers here say this is evidence that introducing peanuts and other allergens as well potentially is a good way to reduce risk of developing these allergies over time.

 

And the guidelines right now are around four to six months of age in consultation with pediatricians.

 

consultation [͵kɑnsəlˋteʃən] n. 咨询; 会诊

 

Now to the global manhuntfor the thieves who stole crown jewels from the Louvre Museum in Paris in broad daylight in just seven minutes time.

 

Museum officials say there are now around 100 investigators working on this case. The Louvre's curator estimates the stolen jewelry is worth $102 million.

 

curator [kjʊˋretɚ] n. 馆长

 

A Paris prosecutor gave a warning to the thieves saying that they will quote, never obtain these considerable sums if they were to dismantle, melt down or resell the artifacts.

 

considerable [kənˋsɪdərəb!] adj. 相当大的；相当多的；值得考虑的；重要的

 

French police have recovered one of the two getaway scooters that was used in the heist. They're also searching for DNA evidence in and on the truck and the ladder that was left outside of the museum.

 

heist [haɪst] n. 抢劫，拦劫

 

Space news now.As NASA races to return astronauts to the moon, it appears they may be rethinking their reliance on Elon Musk's SpaceX to do so. U.S.

 

Department of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, the acting head of NASA, says he is ready to reopen the bidding process for Artemis 3, the historic moon landing mission slated for as soon as the year 2027.

 

SpaceX currently holds that contract, but Duffy says they are falling behind schedule in their bid to deliver the Starship, which will be used for the mission.

 

It's the most powerful rocket ever created, but it is still in the early stages of development. Industry leaders have expressed concern that the long timeline could cause NASA to lose the new moon race against countries like China, India and Russia.

 

Duffy says he's willing to let other companies bid, including Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin, which has its own contracts for other future Artemis missions.

 

NASA hasn't landed an astronaut on the moon since the Apollo missions more than 50 years ago.

 

Pop quiz, hot shot.What does the term etude mean in piano music?

 

etude [eˋtjud] n. 练习曲

 

Slow lyrical work, study or exercise piece, fast dance piece or improvised solo? If you said study or exercise piece, you better work.

 

lyrical [ˋlɪrɪk!] adj. 抒情的

 

Frederick Chopin is the composer most famous for his etudes, short, technically challenging songs that also have a great emotional and musical depth.

 

Have you ever heard of the Piano Olympics? They're formally known as the International Chopin Competition, taking place in Warsaw, Poland.

 

They're held just once every five years, and competitors perform pieces by the iconic Polish composer Frederick Chopin, who's become somewhat of a patron saint for emotional and beautiful classical music.

 

patron saint 最高的典范; 保护圣徒；守护神

patron [ˋpetrən] n.（土地，职业等的）守护神

 

This year's winner, Eric Liu, a 27-year-old classical pianist from Massachusetts, was selected the winner by a panel of 17 judges. He beat more than 180 other talented musicians. Here's part of this Chopin Showdown.

 

Liu's prize? 60,000 euros, or about 69,000 US dollars, along with a gold medal.

 

On this day in history,October 23rd, 2001, the Apple iPod was officially announced. For all of us old heads, when the iPod came out, it was epic.

 

I was in love like music. Fallen like Alicia Keys. Make like Nelly and ride with me as I reminisce a little more.

 

reminisce [͵rɛməˋnɪs] v. 追忆；回想

 

The iPod is now like an ancient ancestor of the iPhone. No calling, no texting, it was just music. Like a high-tech, tiny jukebox about the size of a deck of cards, with a library of our favorite songs at our fingertips.

 

jukebox [ˋdʒuk͵bɑks] n.（投币式）自动唱机

deck [dɛk] n. 一副牌

 

You could store about 1,000 songs on it. And at the time, that was crazy like Casey and Jojo, because most people were still storing their music in stacks of CDs or cassette tapes.

 

cassette tape 卡式录音带

 

We tapped our CNN 10 vault, so you can see how we reported on this at the peak of its popularity more than 20 years ago.

 

vault [vɔlt] n. 地下储藏室

 

To grab hold of the hottest selling consumer gadget on the planet, you must move fast. A polished, beautiful iPod is sold every two seconds.

 

grab hold of 抓住

polished [ˋpɑlɪʃt] adj. 有光泽的；精炼的；优美的；圆滑的

 

It's sleek, it's modern.

 

It's small, and it has a lot of music. Really, really easy to use. We have sold now over 10 million iPods.

 

Hard to walk down any street now and not see white headphones coming out of people's ears.

 

On the surface, this darling of the tech world is simply a hypercharged music machine, a portable computer hard drive capable of recording and playing 10,000 songs, 21 days of nonstop music.

 

The problem is, unless you're a radio station, you don't own that much music.

 

So the rapidly expanding cult of Pod is coming up with all sorts of ideas about what to do with that extra space.

 

At the Brewerly School in New York, students study foreign languages on iPods. Now they can hear any time how they sound compared to a native speaker of French or Chinese.

 

And that helps us with like hearing other people speak and hearing how we're supposed to be pronouncing things.

 

We would love to use it more for the history department. There are quite a few applications in the sciences. I can see this expanding to many other departments in the coming year.

 

The applications go on. Catherine Cornelius is an artist buying an iPod with photo storing capabilities.

 

It's easy for me to have my portfolio on that while I'm, you know, who knows who I can run into and show my work to.

 

Critics complain that the rechargeable battery must be replaced by a technician. Competitors say their mock pods offer better sound quality.

 

But everyone watching the tech business knows little Pod sets the pace.

 

Basically, if you want to compete with Apple on this thing now, you got to, you got to have an iPod knockoff. You can't do something much different. So it's changed the world that way.

 

knockoff [ˋnɑkˋɔf] n.（售价低廉的）冒牌服装；名牌仿制品

 

Today's story, getting a 10 out of 10, a selfless St. Louis teen using a once in a lifetime chance to help others in need. 17-year-old Kat Gaylord has been in and out of the hospital for nearly her entire life battling a brain tumor.

 

And she wanted to find a way to give back to those who helped save her life.

 

I wanted to really raise money for my surgeon who's been a big part of my life since I was three years old. I didn't know exactly what way I wanted to do it.

 

She used her wish through the Make-A-Wish Foundation to launch her own line of special bracelets. Each color has its own meaning. And 100% of the proceeds go to fund pediatric brain tumor research at a local children's hospital.

 

bracelet [ˋbreslɪt] n. 手镯；臂镯

 

She had some help from the pros too. Kat partnered with Atlanta-based jewelry creator Elizabeth Newton to bling this idea to life. Newton is still in awe of Kat's altruistic act.

 

bling [blɪŋ] v. 打扮得珠光宝气；使闪亮华丽

altruistic [͵æltrʊˋɪstɪk] adj. 利他的；爱他的；利他主义的

 

Being a part of it, it's truly surreal. She could have gone anywhere or met anybody, but instead she wanted to use her wish to make a difference in this world.

 

Kat's bracelets are now for sale at a local boutique, being sported on wrists across the country.

 

sport [sport] v. 得意地戴着

 

It's a dazzling example of how even small things can have a huge impact and we can turn our struggles into a strength. Rise up.

 

Let's get to our Friday Eve shoutouts.

 

This first one goes to Coach Dice at Saltillo ISD in Saltillo, Texas. Go Lions! And this shoutout goes to Mr. Simmons at MidCarolina Middle School in Prosperity, South Carolina. Thank you for making me and my team a part of your day.

 

Thanks to all of you who've been subscribing and commenting on our CNN 10 YouTube channel for your shoutout requests. Hope you have a thoroughly thoughtful and thriving Thursday. I'm going to see you right back here tomorrow for Fri-Yay.

 

thoroughly thoughtful 极其周到的; 深思熟虑的

 

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