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Thank you for taking ten minutes for commercial free current events.
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This is CNN STUDENT NEWS. I`m Carl Azuz, and I`m glad to see you.
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We are kicking off the second week of our 2014-2015 coverage.
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And we are starting in Iraq.
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There was a battle going on as we put this show together.
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There was a battle going on as we put this show together.
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On one side, a terrorist group named ISIS that`s trying to take control of Iraq, on the other - Kurdish forces representing a group of people who live in northern Iraq.
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They are supported by U.S. military air strikes, and at the center of this battle, a dam near the Iraqi city of Mosul.
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It`s Iraq`s largest hydroelectric dam, it`s on the Tigris River, and it`s strategically important because ISIS extremists took control of it earlier this month.
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If the dam would have failed, experts say it could cause catastrophic flooding all the way to the Iraqi capital of Baghdad.
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We are going to spin the globe now to take you to South Korea.
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That`s where Pope Francis, the leader of the Roman Catholic Church spent the weekend.
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It was the first papal visit to South Korea in a quarter of a century.
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Roman Catholicism is the world`s largest denomination of Christianity.
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But that`s not the case among South Koreans.
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Most Christians there are protestant. The pope did speak to thousands of the country`s young Catholics, though, he held a mass for Asian Youth Day and encouraged the faithful to live a simple and humble life.
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Pope Francis also held a mass to address peace and reconciliation.
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The Korean Peninsula is divided. The armistice that ended the fighting in 1953 never officially ended the Korean War.
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And North Korea fired missiles into the ocean just before the pope arrived on the peninsula.
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So, the pope`s prayers included peaceful relations between North and South Koreans.
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Breaking away from his prepared speech on Friday, he delighted the young crowd.
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Are you ready to say yes? Are you ready?
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This is why Pope Francis came to South Korea. Only about ten percent of the population is Catholic, but the church is growing fast.
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And across Asia, the congregation is young.
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Surrounding himself with Asian youth, there was, of course, the inevitable selfie, which the Pontiff didn`t seem to mind.
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His transport from the airport, a Kia hatchback, it had to be South Korean.
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The next day, another Kia, modified into a Pope Mobil, though the open top end and the wind proved a tricky combination.
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May the Lord welcome the dead into his peace .
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He offered words of sympathy and hope for the parents of schoolchildren killed in South Korea`s recent ferry sinking and for those who survived.
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Pope Francis is making speeches in English on this trip for the first time.
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Officials say he`s been practicing so he can reach more people. He called for peace and reunification for the two Koreas.
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From the Far East, we are jumping over to the central U.S. where St. Louis, Missouri suburb was under curfew last night.
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Things in Ferguson have been unstable for more than a week now.
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On August 9, a white police officer shot and killed an unarmed African American man, but we don`t know exactly what happened right before that.
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It looks like there was some sort of scuffle between the officer and 18-year old Michael Brown.
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Witnesses say Brown was trying to surrender to police when he was shot.
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Police say Brown struggled with the officer and reached for his gun.
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Protests began after the shooting, some of them have involved violence, looting, the burning of a convenient store.
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Last night`s curfew was scheduled from midnight to 5 a.m.
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It wasn`t the first one in recent days, but it had the same goal, aimed at helping restore calm to the troubled city.
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Time for The Shoutout. Cambria, Magneto and Papyrus are all examples of what? If you think you know it, shout it out.
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Are they all plants, wheels, fonts or engine components?
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You`ve got three seconds, go!
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Individually, the words all mean something different, but you can find them together on the list of fonts.
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That`s your answer and that`s your shoutout.
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It would have been easier if we`d gone with Aerial or Times New Roman.
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Harder if we`d gone with Chavez Pro. That recently invented font is how some supporters are remembering former Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.
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The controversial leader, a self-declared socialist died of cancer in early 2013.
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On what would have been his 60th birthday, a new type of tribute was introduced.
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A new font, Chavez pro was unveiled during birthday celebrations.
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The font mimics the commandante`s clear, bold block handwriting style.
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It`s a neat idea. If you`re shooting for the history books, you may not be able to get your face on a coin or dollar, but you might be able to get your handwriting in a typeface.
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We thought we tried out a few fonts of our own: the Secret Service might have something to say about Barack Obama oblique.
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Easy access to the president`s handwriting would surely invite forgeries.
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It`s a bit hard to read anyway.
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Our neighbors to the north might enjoy Steven Harper M.S. It`s immaculate cursive certainly easier on the eyes.
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If you thought a font fit for a queen would be even neater, think again.
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Queen Elizabeth`s distinctive handwriting is even more difficult to decipher, so Times New Royal is a bust, but I suppose the queen has her face on all the money anyway.
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This year, we are selecting Roll Call Schools from our transcript pages at cnnstudentnews.com.
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So you`re welcome to make a new request on each day`s transcript until your school is called.
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If you are located in Falcon country, say, Paton, Colorado and you are named Falcon High School,
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you know what your mascot ought to be.
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Next mention goes to Northwest High School in Clarksville, Tennessee.
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As the request itself stated, let`s go at that Viking Pride.
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And I think this is the first time we`ve ever had Cobras as a mascot.
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They are at Lee Early College in Centford North Carolina.
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You probably haven`t heard of Masdar City.
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It`s located near the Persian Gulf in the United Arab Emirates, it`s basically this large scale experiment, a model for the city of the future.
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But its cost is $18 billion. Its success is uncertain.
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As Erin Burnett found out on the tour of Masdar City, part of the project`s value lies in what could be.
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About 20 miles outside Abu Dhabi, Masdar City is striving to be the greenest city on Earth.
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So, I think a city of the future is going to be based on people walking to where they live, to where they work and to where they play.
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And if you aren`t walking, city director Tony Mallows says you can take a magnetically controlled car wherever you need to go.
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Welcome to Masdar City.
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This is a little car? Yeah, this is personal rapid transit. This is how you get around this city.
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It`s driveless, it`s electrical and the solar power. It comes when you want it and it takes you anywhere - you want to go and you leave it alone.
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So it`s driveless. Yes.
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Navigating the city`s 2.4 square miles is relatively easy.
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This is a dream of what the future could be, but is it really going to happen?
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e future could be, but is it really going to happen?
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It`s a model for open development that is really sustainable because it`s not only environmentally sustainable, socially and economically.
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Fewer than 500 people live here. That falls far short of the original goal of 40,000 by next year.
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A goal set at the pick of the economic boom.
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Right now, about 1200 people work here every day, in buildings that are specially designed to help produce water and energy consumption,
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by as much as 40 percent, according to city officials.
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With more than 87,000 solar panels, the city produces its own electricity,
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of setting 15,000 tons of carbon emissions a year.
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City engineers say that`s the equivalent of taking about 3,300 cars off the road in Abu Dhabi.
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City engineers say that`s the equivalent of taking about 3,300 cars off the road in Abu Dhabi.
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And walking around the city innovation can be seen everywhere.
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So, you are looking at a wind tower, which is a traditional Arabic designed, cool, right?
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Yes, absolutely. So, you take a traditional Arabic element on cooling, totally pass of energy, totally sustainable.
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And then you use modern technology to make it even more efficient.
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The Masdar Institute is also partnered with MIT to develop new renewable energy sources,
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like making jet field from the seed of a weed that grows here, in the desert.
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So, this is obviously happening here. Yes. In the middle of a desert.
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Your ambition on what you are trying to prove is much bigger.
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Absolutely. I mean globalization is a key issue for the future, not only because cities are going to attack global warming.
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We have to understand how to build cities that are low carbon, and that`s why Masdar City is such an important contribution to globalization and urbanization.
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At a California hotel, room service is about to be automatic.
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This thing is named Butler. Get it? When a guest needs something simple, say, a bottle of water and a toothbrush, for instance,
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Butler can get the items, roll up to the rooms and make the delivery.
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The company that makes the robot won`t say how much it costs,
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but a hotel rep says it`s not intended to replace people, just enhance customer service.
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It`s not the fastest thing you`ve ever seen, but if you accuse room service of being robotic, remote, emotionless, cold-bloodied indifferent, dispassionate or just plain inhuman,
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well, it`s hardly an insult. Just remember, that guy is a machine.
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I`m Carl Azuz and CNN STUDENT NEWS delivers more puns and news tomorrow.