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The college student created a Lego version of herself to send out as a resume. It`s not an April Fools` joke, it`s coming today on CNN STUDENT NEWS.
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First up, though, we are taking you to the Korean Peninsula.
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North and South Korea haven`t been involved in open conflict since 1953 when an armistice ended the fighting in the Korean War.
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But yesterday, they were exchanging fire, not on the land, but at sea.
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The North sent a fax yesterday warning its southern neighbor that it would be doing live fire exercises meaning military exercises with actual weapons.
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This is the first time in recent years that North Korea has had these kinds of drills, and South Korea called it a hostile threat.
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It said some North Korean shells landed in South Korean waters.
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So, it responded by firing back again into the sea and sending fighter jets to patrol the area.
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North Korea often provokes its neighbors by firing rockets and missiles into the ocean around the Korean Peninsula.
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The United Nations is telling Japan to stop a yearly whale hunt.
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Since 2005 there`s been a Japanese program that`s captured hundreds of whales off the coast of Antarctica.
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Commercial whaling is illegal, but there`s a loophole in the law that allows whaling for scientific research.
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And Japan says its Antarctic program is for science.
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The International Court of Justice says that program is now banned.
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That there`s been more killing than scientific discovery.
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The ruling will not prevent Japan from hunting whales in other places, and smaller scale whaling by individuals is often allowed.
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But some Japanese say they are being unfairly singled out.
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ut some Japanese say they are being unfairly singled out. Their whaling in general is Japanese tradition and that it should be respected as long as the whales are in endangered.
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Is this legit? An estimated 65 percent of the world`s population has access to the Internet.
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Not legit.
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The CIA estimates there are just over 2 billion Internet users worldwide, or about 30 percent of the global population.
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And more than half of those with Internet access use Facebook.
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More than a billion people. Last year, Facebook`s founder controversially called Internet access a human right.
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And while that`s debatable, Facebook`s hoping to get people connected in places where they are not,
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increasing both the number of people on line and potentially the number of people on Facebook.
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Imagining for the first time in history humanity firing on whole cylinders.
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Facebook`s taking to the skies, in an effort to bring the Internet to the world.
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Turning its attention to unmanned aircraft or drones and satellites to reach the roughly 5 billion who can`t get the Internet.
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CEO Mark Zuckerberg explained the vision to CNN`s Chris Cuomo last August.
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Here, we use things like Facebook to share news and catch up with our friends, but there - they are going to use it to decide what kind of government they want,
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get access to health care for the first time ever, connect with family hundreds of miles away that they haven`t seen in decades.
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Getting access to the Internet is a really big deal.
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Internet.org is Facebook`s effort to bring together the world`s biggest tech companies, to find a way to reach people with no access to the Internet.
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But first, Facebook has to figure out how to use this technology to reach those people, many of whom live in underdeveloped places in Asia and Africa.
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Zuckerberg says the company has hired experts from NASA and U.K. based a center, the developer of the longest lying Solar power drones to help.
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Facebook`s Ciel Maquire (ph) says satellites are constantly on the move, so you have to figure out a way to capture the information,
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from which one of them while they are passing over specific place.
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Solo powered unmanned aircraft can offer solution in less populated areas.
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So we are looking at a new type of plane architecture that flies at roughly 20,000 meters, 20 kilometers,
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because that`s a point where the winds are the lowest, it`s above commercial airlines, it`s even above the weather.
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And actually can stay in the air for a month at a time.
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And these planes are solar powered and they sit there and they just circle around and they have the ability to just broadcast Internet down, but significantly closer than a satellite does.
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Facebook says its motives are altruistic. Internet for all.
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But others point out that universal online access also opens up a world of new potential Facebook customers.
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Ralitza Vassileva, CNN.
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Forget Internet. Today`s Roll Call mascots are going old school as in medieval legend old school.
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We`ll start with some dragons.
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Welcome to Gretna High School. Glad you`re watching in Gretna, Nebraska.
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Next, we have the Lancers.
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Next, we have the Lancers. Good to see you at Longfellow Middle School in Falls Church, Virginia.
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And how about the black nights? They are up in Syracuse, New York, on the roll at Henninger High School.
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Certain wind turbines are like giant three bladed fans.
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When the winds spins their blades then can generate renewal clean energy.
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They do make noise, which bothers some people and they are known to kill birds at wind farms.
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The U.S. is building several wind farms off shore.
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Scientists think they can survive weaker hurricanes.
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A Stanford professor says they could actually weaken hurricanes, though the number of turbines that that would take may not be feasible.
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Hurricane season won`t begin in the Atlantic basin until June 1st.
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But the South Pacific storm season is in full swing.
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At any point in time, in fact, it is the season for hurricanes, typhoons, or cyclones somewhere in the world.
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With winds up to an astounding 190 miles per hour, fierce storms can dump more than 2.4 trillion gallons of rain in a day.
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At this point the world really has nothing to defend against nature`s fury.
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But a Stanford study says there may be something that could stand in a hurricane`s way.
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Quite literally. It`s not some brand new technology or hypothetical machine I`m talking about.
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It`s wind turbines.
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According to the study, large numbers of wind turbines could slow down the outer winds of the hurricane, decrease wave heights, and cause it to dissipate faster.
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The authors say 78,000 300-foot turbines off the coast of New Orleans could have reduced Hurricane Katrina`s wind speeds by as much as 98 miles per hour by the time they reached land and decreased storm surge by an incredible 79 percent.
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Considering the billions of dollars of destruction a single storm can cause, a solution that provides renewable energy, pays for itself, and saves lives.
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April is financial literacy month.
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And if you are planning on pursuing higher education, we are planning a glossary of terms to help you understand what to expect,
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especially as a lot of you are in the application process right now.
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Today`s term cost of attendance or CoA.
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It`s not just tuition, it`s the actual amount you`ll be paying each year at college once you add in living expenses, books, transportation and other stuff that comes up.
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So while in-state tuition at a public school in Georgia, for example, is around $10,000 per year,
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once you throw in your dorm room, a seven day meal plan, books and other expenses, your CoA jumps up to $22,000 a year.
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So, it`s important to look and plan beyond tuition if you`re planning to go to college away from home.
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It started as a science fair project, 14-year old Suvir Mirchandani found that printer ink costs more per ounce than Chanel number five perfume.
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So, he focused on ways to use less of the ink.
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My research led me to conclude that the government could save almost $234 million, simply by switching to that one font.
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And that`s because the font is thinner, it`s lighter, it`s just simply uses less ink - just simply looking at it,
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you won`t be able to tell that it actually saves 30 percent of ink cost, so those are my conclusions.
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So, for state and federal governments using the times new Roman font on printouts,
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Suvir says the switch to the lighter Garamond fund would use less ink, saving a total of $400 million a year.
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But Garamond`s a smaller font.
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But Garamond`s a smaller font.
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So, some critics say it`d be less legible at the same size.
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And they say the government pays for ink differently, so the switch might not save that much, though it could save us a few bucks at home.
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It`s not a great job, market for recent college graduates.
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How can they make themselves and their resumes really stand out?
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Here`s one idea. Leah Bowman, a junior at Northwestern University built herself in Legos.
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She used some computer programs, including Lego`s free digital designer software for the resume, and she raided her dad`s Lego collection to actually build herself brick by brick.
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The resume alone may not land her a dream job just yet, but to get an employer`s attention this idea`s a blockbuster,
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even if they see other colorful resumes, how are they going to Lego off this one?
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It`s instructive and good self-marketing, it builds on her creativity and talent,
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it leaves the competition at pieces.
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This block party is over.
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We`ll put another show together for you on Wednesday. I`m Carl Azuz.