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Pie days are awesome. They only bake up once a year.
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We`ll bring you a slice of info about that later today on CNN STUDENT NEWS.
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First up, a vote: will Crimea, a region of Ukraine, become part of Russia?
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2 million people leave there, and their local government has scheduled a referendum for Sunday that could determine their political future.
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Many Crimeans want closer ties to Russia.
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There`s a good chance they`ll vote for it, but the new leaders of Ukraine as well as the U.S. and some other members of the international community say the vote goes against Ukraine`s constitution.
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That this part of the country can`t just break off from it and join another country.
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Russia would likely welcome that decision.
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We`re bringing you two very different perspectives on this today.
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First, from the capital of Ukraine, where many people want closer ties with Europe than with Russia.
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This is Independence Square, the Maidan, they call it, where the protest movement began and so many people lost their lives.
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But the story, of course, has now moved hundreds of miles away to Crimea.
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So, we are going to ask young people here what they think about the possibility of losing part of their country.
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I think that this would be the disaster.
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This definitely would be the disaster because we consider Crimea as a part of Ukraine and those people who live there despite the fact that they speak Russian, they are Ukrainian.
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This referendum is completely illegally.
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And all this is inspired by Russian agents and foolish people who thinks that in another country they will have a better life than in their own country.
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Already some in Crimea are leaving, many heading to Kiev to be with family and friends,
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not wanting to wake up next week in another country.
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not wanting to wake up next week in another country.
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Michael Holmes, CNN, Kiev, Ukraine.
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Very different take on this in the Russian capital of Moscow.
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We`ve talked about how Crimea gives Russia access to its only warm water port in the Black Sea.
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So, it`s important strategically to Russia, but as Phil Black found, it`s important in other senses as well.
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At Moscow`s Danilovsky (ph) Market, you`ll find quality food, middle class shoppers and workers who aren`t quite so well off.
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This microcosm of the Russian capital is a long way from the Crimean Peninsula, but almost everyone here says they feel a connection to it.
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Crimea was always Russian, and it should stay Russian, and it`s all he says.
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Not surprisingly, Vladimir Putin`s handling of the crisis is popular, which explains approval ratings up around, 68 percent.
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Absolutely, I support it. That`s not even up for discussion, Irina says.
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Well done, Putin, I`m extremely grateful we have such a leader.
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Most of these people admit they are informed by Russian media, much of which is controlled by the state.
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Inna knows Western reporting tells a different story.
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She wants Crimea to stay with Ukraine. It`s a minority view.
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Most believe Crimea is like the delicacies available here at the market, a vital part of Russia`s history and culture.
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It`s been more than six days since Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 vanished over Southeast Asia.
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And when we produced this show, there was no word on what happened to it or the 239 people aboard.
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U.S. officials said on Thursday, they might expand their search area to look in parts of the Indian Ocean.
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That`s far west of the last known location of the flight between Malaysia and Vietnam.
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They said there`s new information that the plane could have flown for hours after its transponder stopped working,
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and quit sending signals of the plane`s location and altitude.
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Some experts are saying, it`s possible that the jet`s engines might have been sending info to satellites for four or five hours after the last transponder signal.
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But even that`s not certain.
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And Chinese satellites photos that appeared to show something floating off the Malaysian coast, turned out nothing.
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Time for the Shoutout. A 22-year old is considered to be part of which generation?
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If you think you know it, shout it out. Is it Millennials? Baby boomers, Silent Generation or Generation X? You`ve got three seconds, go!
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People born in the 1980s or `90s are generally considered to be Millennials.
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That`s your answer and that`s your shoutout.
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When it comes to money, Millennials tend to have less of it than previous generations like Gen Xers or baby boomers.
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Millennials student loan debt is higher.
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Their unemployment is higher.
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Despite that, they are optimistic about the future.
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In a recent Pew survey, 85 percent of Millennials said they either had enough money to live the lives they want, or that they expect to one day.
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It`s interesting how their generation is impacting housing in the U.S.
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It`s the fastest growing part of the housing market you may not see in your neighborhood.
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New apartment buildings popping up everywhere.
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Now, at the largest share of total new home construction, since the 1970s.
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New rental apartment projects surged 56 percent in 2011.
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36 percent in 2012, 25 percent last year.
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And they are forecast to rise nine percent this year.
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So, has this rental rise reached the top floor?
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Experts say not yet. Why?
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Call it housing`s millennial effect.
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Unemployment still stubbornly high for younger Americans.
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And many already owe tens of thousands in student loans.
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When Millennials find a job, they just want a roof over their head, not a mortgage.
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Plus, credit is tight.
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So, buying is tough, a down payment even tougher.
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Also, Millennialls value mobility. And urban areas offer convenience.
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That demand pushing up rent prices across the U.S.
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Rent is up three percent over the past year, and nearly twice that in renter-heavy cities like San Jose, San Francisco, Seattle and Boston.
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But long term, the Millenniall effect could produce a familiar result.
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As this generation grows up, as children finds more steady employment,
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the need for more space and the financial prospects of owning a home could push Millennialls into single family homes.
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And lift the housing market for everyone else.
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Christine Romans, CNN, New York.
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A royal welcome to all our kingly viewers in the Midwest today.
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Starting with the River Kings and Queens of Clinton, Iowa, they are watching from Washington Middle School.
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Next, long live the Kinsman (ph) of Penn High School.
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They are online in Mishawaka, Indiana, and we`ll wrap our royal journey in Kingman, Kansas, home of the Eagles of Kingman High School.
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Anyone can learn the solve for explit (ph), no one has solved Pi.
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he Guinness world record for reciting numbers in Pi is held by a Chinese man who memorized just under 68,000 digits.
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We usually just abbreviate it to 3.14. That makes today 3.14, March 14, Pi Day.
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Who doesn`t like Pi? Whether it`s an old fashioned apple pie, the Oscar- winning Life of Pi, a pepperoni pizza pie.
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Unless it`s a slice of humble pie, it brings us together.
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Of course, if you dropped the E in it, you`ll drop some of the enthusiasm.
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But the true mathletes out there can always bake up a little fun on Pi day.
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It`s celebrated every year on March 14.
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That`s 3/14 is in the first few digits of Pi, the ratio of a circle circumference to its diameter.
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You could call our fascination with it irrational, and that`s just the kind of number it is.
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An irrational one.
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It just goes on and on without stopping or repeating.
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At least as far we know.
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Computers have calculated Pi to its 2 quadrillions digit.
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Don`t ask me what that means, I majored in telecommunications.
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What I can tell you is that when it comes to this ratio, the Pi is the limit.
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I know a lot of you like it when we pike on puns. A lot of you count on it.
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We could just say, good pie without any good pie puns, without waiving good pie, without adding a single word.
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But given the chance to cook up a report like that, something that could apple to a lot of students, something that could really oven things out at the end of the week - well,
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you can always crust us to try our berry best, make a bake and aim for a refreshing batch of Friday pie day puns.
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All right, we are going to leave you with some images we`ve seen on CNN STUDENT NEWS throughout the week.
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I`m Carl Azuz. See you Monday.