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In the headlines, the President last night asked congress to give his Iraq strategy 전략 a chance. The next day, senators 상원의원 say it won’t work. Reality Check <구어> 현실의 점검<직시>. Can tax breaks 세금우대 really heal the health care system? We look at the President’s proposal.

 

Bitter Homecoming. The reservist 재향군인, 예비군 who put her life on the line and her family on hold to serve in Iraq. Her reward 보상, 보답? She says she got fired from her job. And Secrets of the Pope. The private thoughts of the late 고, 작고한 Pope, John Paul the second. From ABC News, this is World News with Charles Gibson, reporting tonight from Washington.

 

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Moscow has never known anything like it. Red Square 붉은 광장 should be covered in white snow. But the cobblestones <철도·도로용> 자갈, 조약돌 around Kremlin are as gray as the skies overhead. There’s no queue 줄, 열 for the ski lift and you wouldn’t have to wait long for a go 차례 on the ski jump. The problem is there’s no snow to ski on.

 

This time last year, it was so different. Temperatures tumbled 급속히 떨어지다 below -20. The Russian capital shivered 추위로 떨다, the Moskva River was frozen solid 단단한. This year, it’s flowing freely. And the air above it is a lot warmer. The experts are astonished <깜짝>놀란 and they’re comparing it to a heat wave 장기간의 혹서. “This winter in Russia, especially in the Moscow regions, the weather is very warm. And we have very high temperatures this winter. The level of the temperature is above the normal, about 15 degrees.”

 

Some Russians are actually missing all the frost 서리, 결빙 and snow. And they’re feeling pretty down about it. So doctors have been giving advices to how to beat 이기다 this kind of winter blues <단수취급> 우울. And it seems, if you want to cheer yourself up, bananas and chocolates should do the trick <약이> 효과가 있다.

 

It’s not just humans who are troubled. These bears at St. Petersburg zoo are supposed to be hibernating 겨울잠 자다, but it’s too warm for them to get to sleep. An ice chess challenge between London and Moscow might have taken minds off the weather. But the temperature in the Russian capital was more typical of the British one. A draw 비김, 동점 was agreed just as the pieces started to melt. James Rogers, BBC News, Moscow.

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