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Fridays are awesome. I`m Carl Azuz. Welcome to the week`s last edition of CNN STUDENT NEWS.
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Could part of Ukraine secede from the rest of the country and become part of Russia? That is the question.
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The protests in the capital that led to the ouster of Ukraine`s president were by Ukrainians who wanted closer ties with Europe.
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But in Crimea, a region of southern Ukraine, many people identify more with Russia, and its local government has decided to hold a vote later this month to let Crimeans decide whether they want to be part of Ukraine or Russia.
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Ukraine`s government says this is an illegitimate decision, and President Obama who supports the pro-Europe Ukrainians says borders can`t be redrawn without approval from democratically elected leaders.
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But Russia says Ukraine`s government broke the law when it kicked out its democratically elected president.
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And Crimea is important to Russia.
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It gives Russia`s Navy access to the Black Sea.
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The standoff has international diplomats working around the clock to find the peaceful solution.
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Next up today, the U.S. and South Korea have been allies since the Korean War.
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Every year, the two nations team up for a series of military exercises, and every year it makes North Korea mad.
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North Korea has been launching rockets into the ocean.
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They are not aimed at anything or anyone in particular, but one rocket came uncomfortably close to a Chinese passenger jet.
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South Korea is calling it a very dangerous situation.
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The Defense Ministry says that a Chinese passenger jet, which had more than 200 people on board, flew through the trajectory of a North Korean rocket,
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which had been fired just seven minutes earlier.
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The Chinese Southern Airlines plane was flying on Tuesday from Narita in Japan to Shenyang in China.
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Airline officials did not respond to CNN calls for comment.
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The rocket was just one of seven that Pyongyang fired that day.
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China said they would seek verification from relevant parties and express their concern.
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When a relevant country conducts military drills or training, I should take measures to ensure safety of civilian aircraft or ships in the relevant air or maritime space.
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According to international norms.
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South Korean says the North hadn`t given any navigational warning for the rockets.
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Pyongyang says that their recent rocket tests have not affected international navigational order, although it made no mention of the Chinese plane.
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North Korean claims that these rocket tests are justified and they are in self-defense,
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saying that the U.S.-South Korean joint military drills, in fact, are a provocation,
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but on Monday the U.S. said that these rocket tests do violate U.N. Security Council resolutions.
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Paula Hancocks, CNN, Seoul.
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What civil time is currently being observed throughout the U.S.? If you think you know it, shout it out!
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Is it: Standard time, Daylight-savings time, Central time or Atlantic Standard time? You`ve got three seconds, go.
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The civil time is the official time of a local region and the U.S is currently observing standard time.
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That`s your answer and that`s your shoutout.
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That all changes this Sunday when most U.S. states spring forward moving their clocks ahead one hour to daylight saving time.
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This year, it runs from March 9 to November 2.
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So it will actually spend more time in daylight saving time then we will in standard time.
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And we`re unlikely to get our standard amount of sleep unless we all suck out earlier on Saturday.
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It puzzles the day lights out of some people: Why have daylight saving time if daylight is just going to get longer any way,
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as the northern hemisphere approaches summer.
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Well, for one thing, it`s the law. Before 1966, states had different times and dates for springing forward and falling back.
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The Uniform Time Act was passed to get them all synched up.
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But unlike many other laws, if states don`t want to participate, they don`t have to.
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Most of the state of Arizona as well as Hawaii, don`t.
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So, if you go there, they`ll tell you what time it is.
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The idea is a lot older than the `60s, though.
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Ben Franklin apparently had enough time on his hands to propose saving daylight.
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And several countries took him up on it.
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Well, they did about 130 years later.
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World War One was on, so daylight saving time was used to help save electricity.
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With the sun up later, people didn`t need to turn lights till later.
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It stopped nationally after the war and stayed that way until Congress got around to setting times for it.
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But today, daylight saving time is sleepy time for many Americans, especially Monday morning after springing ahead.
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The Better Sleep Council says people struggle and slog around in bad moods.
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Sleepbetter.org says America loses hundreds of millions of dollars because workers aren`t as productive until they get used to it.
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They are not saying we should get rid of daylight saving time, but this sheds light on why some sleepy people might want to.
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The Winter Olympics are over for another four years.
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But the Paralympics start today in Sochi, Russia.
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They`ll run for the next nine days.
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Just like the February games we saw, this is an international competition
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It`s for physically disabled athletes.
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t will include five sports from skiing and biathlon to hockey and curling, and it will feature almost 700 athletes from 47 countries.
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All of them are exceptional. They are Olympians. And one from the U.S. will have competed in both the summer and winter games.
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Overcoming obstacles is nothing new for Tatiana McFadden. She was born with spina bifida.
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That`s a birth defect that prevents the spinal court from properly closing while the baby is still in the womb.
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As an unwanted disabled child in St. Petersburg, Russia, Tatiana was immediately sent to an orphanage after her surgery.
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I didn`t have a wheelchair, so my legs were atrophied behind my back, and I walked around on my hands all the time.
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Six years later, a chance visit by an American to the orphanage changed her life.
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I immediately knew that she was my mom.
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Adoption gave Tatyana an instant family. Her mom pushed Tatyana to participate in sports.
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Getting involved with sports, you know, saved my life.
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I wrote down my goals and I said I really want to be a Paralympic athlete and (INAUDIBLE)
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At 15 year old, became the youngest member of the USA track and field theme.
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At the Athens Paralympic Games. McFadden won four more medals in Beijing.
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And in London, she finally won gold. In 2013, McFadden won the Grand Slam title for marathon wheelchair racing, and then traded her wheelchair for a sitski.
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Now, McFadden is back in Russia where she`s competing in the Sochi Paralympic cross country Nordic skiing event.
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Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN reporting.
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Poland is not the capital of Oregon, but it is the largest city in the state.
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Of course, the Scotts already knew that.
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We are talking about the Scotts, the Mascot of David Douglas High School.
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They are watching in Portland.
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In New Mexico, there are some warriors on today`s roll.
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They are in Gallup in the northwest part of their state at Kennedy Middle School.
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And over in the northeast, we are roaring for the Lions of Bassick High School. Glad to see you in Bridgeport, Connecticut.
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Finally today, this is one challenging workout, baby.
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I mean the workout baby on the left.
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She`s actually the instructor here, showing her dad some superman crunchies.
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Then grabbing a quick nap. Millions YouTube video has gotten more than a million wraps.
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Her credentials include a lifetime of experience, almost seven months of it.
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One reviewer, a fitness enthusiast, no doubt, says this will strengthen you all muscles.
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One reviewer, a fitness enthusiast, no doubt, says this will strengthen you all muscles.
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It might not include everything in your core routine after all.
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It`s just toddler robbics. It`s not a heavy lift.
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But baby pushups can work your criceps and no one is going to argue when you change it up.
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It`s OK to carry baby fat, to wear your formula, to drink your post-workout shape from a bottle.
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You may have to stay near your crib, but you can bench on it being fun even if it`s just child`s play.
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I`m Carl Azuz. I`m glad we can work this out. Hope you have a great weekend.