長生きの秘けつ

What do sisters get to be
when they're born
within 15 minutes of each other?

Which of the two of you is older?

I am.

And then spend their
California childhoods together
and beyond for 100 years?

Yes, identical twins,
Inez Harries and Venice Shaw,
turned 100 not long ago.

These are ladies that
Howard Friedman and
Leslie Martin wanted to
meet in person,
psychologists who study longevity.

Their new book reports
some surprising data
about who gets to live longer.

Worrying may increase longevity.

A moderate amount of worry
actually is not a bad thing.

Are you worriers?
Do you worry about things?

Some, but not too much.

Just that... a little bit.

Yes.

To stay safe.

Well, you know, life goes on.
And no matter what happens
you have to accept it.

15分違いで生まれた姉妹の
気になる人生

どちらがお姉さん？

私よ

幼少時代を共に過ごし
100年後も一緒だったら？

最近100歳になった
一卵性双生児の2人

長生きを研究する心理学者が
会いたかった2人だ

研究によると 長生きには
心配ごとがある方が良いらしい

適度な心配は良いことです

心配性ですか？悩みますか？

それほどでもないわ

多少の心配は？

あるわ

必要な心配ですね

生きる上では
受け入れることも必要よ

abcニュースシャワー"オバマ大統領の支持率"

07/1４/10　

Fewer than four months

before the midterm elections,

some bad numbers

about a tough environment

for President Obama

and the Democrats.

In just one month,

President Obama has suffered

a seven-point drop

in the number of Americans

who approve of

his handling of the economy,

from 50% approval in June

to just 43% now.

And those economic numbers

are a big part of the reason

why the number of

Americans confident

President Obama will make

the right decisions

for this country's future

has plunged

from 61% a few days before

his inauguration

to a record-low 43% now.

Now, the numbers of approval

are worse for Republicans

but, perhaps paradoxically,

51% of those polled

would rather have

the Republicans run Congress

"to act as a check

on Obama's policies."

中間選挙まで4か月弱。

オバマ大統領にとって状況は厳しい。

大統領の経済政策に対する支持率は

1 か月で7ポイントも下がり―

6月の50％から43％まで落ちた。

経済政策への不満が大きな原因で―

大統領は正しい決断ができると

考える人の数は―

就任数日前は61％だったが

今では43％まで下がった。

支持率は共和党の方が低いが―

それとは裏腹に51％が

議会を共和党に任せたいと回答。

大統領の政策を監視するためだ。

abcニュースシャワー"認められない補償請求"

07/13/10　

At marinas

across the Gulf today...

I had to give them this paperwork

three times.

Frustrated fishermen who

haven't been able to work

since the oil spill told us that

BP is doing everything

to refuse paying their claims.

Today, Darrell Moreaux

went to the claims office

for the fourth time

with a fistful of receipts

hoping he prove his way

into a $5,000 check.

BP says it's swamped with claims:

more than 100,000 so far.

And they told us today that,

yes, about half the claims

had not yet been approved,

as many as 50,000.

We have to do our due diligence

to ensure

that the people who are

coming in and filing claims

truly have a legitimate claim

against BP.

Where am I going to go?

Who do I need to talk to

to pay my electric bill

for this month, my water bill?

メキシコ湾岸では…

3回も申請しました。

仕事ができず

いらだつ漁師たちは―

「BPは請求を 認める気がない」と言う。

この男性が窓口に来るのは4回目。

領収書の束を手に

5,000ドルの支払いを求めた。

BPには10万件以上の請求が

殺到しているが―

まだその半分の5万件しか

承認されていないと言う。

我々も精査する必要があるのです。

請求の内容が妥当だということを

途方に暮れています。

今月の電気代すら払えません。

abcニュースシャワー"米ロ“スパイ”の身柄交換へ"

07/09/10　

Under a deal worked out

with the US and Russia,

the 10 pleaded guilty in court

to one criminal count

of acting as unregistered agents

of a foreign country,

and were sentenced to

time already served, just 11 days.

In Moscow, at least four Russians

accused of spying for the CIA

were to be sent west today,

including Igor Sutyagin,

a nuclear arms scientist,

who continued to

maintain his innocence

and was described by his lawyers

as depressed by the spy swap

because he said he'll never

have the chance to prove

he was not guilty.

The three others to be set free

by the Russians in the swap

are also Russians described as

senior military and

intelligence officials,

who were serving

long prison sentences

for their contacts with the CIA.

米ロ間で取り引きが成立。

スパイ容疑で起訴された10人は

法廷で罪を認めた。

刑期はこう留期間と同じ11日間だ。

一方 ロシアはCIAの

スパイとされた4人を釈放する。

そのうち無罪を主張し続けている

核兵器の専門家は―

このスパイの交換に落胆した。

無罪を証明する機会を失うからだ。

釈放される残りの3 人も

ロシア人で―

軍や情報機関の元高官だという。

CIAと接触した罪で服役していた。

abcニュースシャワー"猛暑の中の節電"

07/0８/10　

It is the fourth day now

of 100-degree temperatures

and the heat is taking its toll.

We've seen water mains bursting.

Surprisingly, there are

no widespread outages tonight,

but utility companies tell us

the worst problems may be ahead.

So cities around the country are

taking extreme measures.

Office buildings voluntarily

shut down banks of elevators,

lowered the lights,

turned up the thermostat.

At homes,

they made sacrifices too.

I turned the air conditioning off.

My heart sinks when I say that.

In Boston, a new strategy

to protect the grid:

Paying commercial customers

to cut consumption.

You might see only two thirds of

the lights on at the grocery store.

Utility companies worry

the worst is yet to come.

4日連続で気温がカ氏100度を超え

影響が出ている。

水道管も破裂した。

今夜は大規模な停電はないが―

電力会社は

事態が悪化すると予測する。

各地で思い切った対策が取られた。

オフィスビルはエレベーターを止め

照明を落とした。

家庭も協力している。

空調を切りました

つらいですね。

企業にお金を払って消費を

抑えてもらっている電力会社も

照明を落としている店もあります。

まだ悪化するおそれもある。

abcニュースシャワー"猛暑で電力危機"

07/07/10　

A nation of so many 100-degree

temperatures.

All of us in the baking, boiling

record heat

across one-third of the country.

Power grids are strained

to the break point.

People asked not to use

dishwashers or other appliances

until after dark.

Keeping the power on and

the AC cranking is now crucial.

So, utility companies have set up

command centers like this one

to monitor and maintain

what is expected to be

a day of record energy use.

Transformers blew around

the East Coast last night.

Today, more spotty outages

as millions struggled to stay cool.

New York's power company

is now asking that customers

conserve electricity.

They say the power grid

is clearly strained.

気温が軒並み100°Fを超えた。

猛暑に見舞われた地域は

全米のほぼ3割。

送電網はもう限界だ。

食器洗い機などは

夕暮れ以降の使用を求められた。

エアコンが動かなければ致命的だ。

電力会社では

司令センターを設け―

消費電力の急増に対応できるよう

監視と管理を行う。

昨晩は各地で変圧器が発火。

今日も停電が多く

市民は暑さ対策に苦慮した。

ニューヨークの電力会社は

節電を呼びかける。

送電網は明らかに限界だ。

abcニュースシャワー"飛行機ニアミスの増加"

07/06/10　

It's a high stress job,

safeguarding thousands of lives

every minute.

But as many as one out of four

air traffic controllers

at any given control center

are barely out of training.

The problem dates back to

the 1981 strike

by air traffic controllers.

President Ronald Reagan

fired the lot of them.

The young controllers

hired to replace them

are now hitting

mandatory retirement age,

forcing the FAA to train

a brand-new crop of

twenty-somethings.

The FAA has planned for this,

hiring and training some

17,000 new controllers.

But inevitably, critics argue

that all those novices

make the system less safe.

Today the Washington Post

reports that so far this year,

there have been 22 near misses

in the skies above

the Washington DC area,

more than took place

in all of last year.

それは大勢の命にかかわる

大変な仕事。

だが航空管制官の4人に1人が

訓練を終えたばかりの新人だ。

1981年に管制官が

ストライキを起こし―

一斉に解雇されたのが発端。

代わりに雇われた人々が

今や定年を迎えるため―

若者を雇って

訓練せざるをえなくなった。

連邦航空局は事態を見越して

1万7,000人を採用したが―

その初心者たちが

安全性を脅かすとの声も。

ある新聞によると今年に入って

首都上空で22回のニアミスがあり―

昨年をすでに上回った。

abcニュースシャワー"新司令官の就任"

07/05/10　

On this Independence Day,

General David Petraeus

took command of the war

in Afghanistan.

We got a glimpse

behind the scenes today.

Gen. Petraeus practicing

for his ceremony:

the passing of the colors,

a microphone test.

Can you hear me now?

Rehearsal hardly seemed

necessary for Petraeus.

He has been through similar

ceremonies so many times:

2008 at Central Command,

and the most significant,

Iraq 2007,

a move that helped lead to

a dramatic improvement

in security.

And today, the official ceremony

in Afghanistan,

"Gen. David Petraeus now

assumes command."

where Petraeus clearly has

the same hopes for improvement.

独立記念日の今日

新しい司令官が就任した。

ABCニュースが

その舞台裏をとらえた。

式の予行演習をする新司令官。

軍旗の引き継ぎに

マイクテスト。

聞こえる？

何度も経験している式なので

リハーサルなど必要ないほどだ。

2008年 中央軍司令官に就任。

最も意義深いのは

2007年のイラク。

治安の目覚ましい改善に寄与した。

そして今日はアフガニスタンだ。

“ペトレアス司令官に指揮を委ねる”。

イラクと同じ成果への意気込みだ。

abcニュースシャワー"ウミガメを救え"

07/01/10　

They're returning home,

paddling hundreds of miles

across the Gulf to give birth here,

on the very same beaches

where they were born.

Tonight, it's a race against time

and the encroaching oil.

In what may be the largest

man-made migration in history,

US Fish and Wildlife

hopes to relocate every egg

in every turtle nest they find

in the northern Gulf Coast,

up to 70,000 eggs.

Next month, they will be

trucked 500 miles

to Florida's Atlantic coast.

We believe that any hatchlings

that would crawl into

the Gulf Coast at this point

would not survive.

But usurping

Mother Nature's role is also risky.

These eggs are so fragile that

just turning them upside down

could kill a hatchling.

カメたちは何百マイルも泳いで―

自分が生まれた海岸に産卵しに戻る。

海岸に原油が迫る。

今は時間との戦いだ。

人工的にカメの卵を移動させる。

政府による史上最大の引っ越し作戦。

対象の海岸には

最大7万個の卵が埋まっていて―

500 マイル先の大西洋岸に

移送される。

今のメキシコ湾では

ふ化しても生きられません。

だが自然への介入は危険だ。

卵をひっくり返すだけで

死ぬ可能性がある。

野菜嫌いの直し方

06/30/10　

Onions don't have it easy.

They smell funny,

they make you cry;

the natural born enemy

of many vegetable-phobic kids.

If you are a banana or

a strawberry or a blueberry

or something

that kids actually eat readily,

it's not so hard to market to them.

But if you are an onion,

what do you do?

You call in a secret weapon.

They launched a national

marketing campaign

tied in with the new Shrek movie.

The committee estimates that

sales of Vidalia onions are up

50% this year.

Can one monster make

that much of a difference?

Do you like onions?

Uh...not really.

What if I told you that

Shrek likes onions.

（nodding)

タマネギは手ごわい。

においは変だし 泣かされるし

野菜嫌いの子どもの天敵だ。

バナナやイチゴなど

子どもたちが喜んで食べるものなら―

売るのは簡単です。

でも タマネギではねぇ…

そこで秘密兵器だ。

キャンペーンに

人気キャラクターを起用した。

今年このタマネギの売上は

5割増しを見込んでいる。

そんな効果が本当にあるのか？

タマネギは好き？

あんまり好きじゃない。

シュレックの大好物だったら？

銃規制に違憲判決

06/29/10　

We begin with that pivotal ruling

on gun control in America.

In a five-to-four ruling,

the justices said no to

Chicago's strict ban on handguns,

saying Americans have

a right to bear arms.

Justice Samuel Alito announced

the Court's sweeping decision

declaring that

"self-defense is a basic right."

What that means is that

the justices have undermined

state and local gun bans and

restrictions across the country

and awarded a huge victory

to gun owners

and the National Rifle Association

by making the Second

Amendment right to bear arms

a private individual civil right.

The case came out of Chicago

where laws ban virtually all

private ownership of handguns.

That law is now doomed.

銃規制に関し

重要な判断が下された。

最高裁は銃の所有を禁じた

シカゴの法律を違憲とし―

武器を持つ権利を認めた。

アリート判事は発表の際に

自衛は基本的な権利だと明言した。

今回の判断で州や自治体の

銃に関する規制が限定される。

銃所有者や

全米ライフル協会の勝利だ。

憲法にある武器を持つ権利は

個人の権利とされた。

発端となった拳銃所持を禁止する

シカゴの法律は覆されたのだ。

abcニュースシャワー"最高裁判事の指名承認公聴会"

　06/28/10　

Tomorrow in Washington,

hearings start,

the confirmation hearings for,

in the Senate for Elena Kagan,

the President's nominee

for the Supreme Court.

Kagan herself once wrote

that confirmation hearings

have become

a "vapid and hollow charade."

Now those words may well

come back to haunt her.

Ranking Republicans

made it clear today,

they are gearing up

for a political fight,

indicating where Elena Kagan's

record might make her vulnerable.

Having never served as a judge,

senators won't be able to

dissect her rulings,

so the focus has turned to

Kagan's politics.

Democrats expect

Kagan will be confirmed,

but the woman who once called

the hearings process

"vapid and hollow" may have to

eat her words this week.

明日、ケーガン氏の―

連邦最高裁判事 指名承認の

公聴会が開かれる。

以前 彼女はこの公聴会について

"うわべだけの茶番"と書いたが―

今後 何度も蒸し返されそうだ。

共和党幹部は

一層の政治論争をしかけ―

ケーガン氏の過去を

攻撃すると明かした。

判事としての経験がない彼女を

攻撃するには―

政治的な姿勢が焦点になる。

民主党は承認を見込んでいるが―

彼女は"茶番"という前言を

撤回することになるかもしれない。

abcニュースシャワー"メキシコ湾にハリケーンのおそれ"

06/25/10　

In the Gulf tonight,

now, a tropical hot spot:

a storm just developing,

so new it has no name.

But everyone involved in the spill

is watching the clot

because if it grows

and starts to move,

ships have to flee, the cap

on the oil well has to be lifted.

It's still unclear

where the system is heading

but were it to

form into a tropical storm,

it would be called Alex, the first

named storm of the season.

And these trajectories show

it could make a beeline

for the Gulf.

If it does, hundreds of miles

of boom could be wrecked.

And Diane, if that storm

does hit this area,

they would have to lift

all those ships.

And a roundtrip to

get them out into safety

and then back over to that spill

would take 10 days.

In that time,

up to 20 million gallons of oil

could spill again

into the Gulf of Mexico.

メキシコ湾の天候に注目が集まる。

嵐が発生し今まさに発達している。

原油流出の関係者は―

嵐が直撃すると

作業を中断することになる。

進路はまだ不明だが―

勢力を増せば

この夏初めて名前が付く嵐となる。

もし被災地へまっすぐに向かうと―

オイルフェンスが壊れる可能性も

直撃の場合には

作業船をみな退避させる。

一度避難すると現場に戻るまで

10日間かかり―

その間に最大2,000万ガロンの

原油が流出する。

abcニュースシャワー"アフガニスタン司令官を「更迭」"

06/24/10　

A Source close to President Obama

described this as a sad, tragic day;

it was certainly

a day of consequence.

The Oval Office meeting between

the President and the General was

tense and short, only 30 minutes,

after which Stanley McChrystal's

command in Afghanistan

came to an abrupt

and inglorious end.

It started with

those disparaging remarks

McChrystal and his aides

made about

the President and key members of

his national security team

in Rolling Stone magazine.

The conduct represented

in the recently published article

does not meet the standard

that should be set

by a commanding general.

In some ways, General McChrystal

made it easy for the President.

He didn't put up much of a fight,

as one official told me,

"The General knew what was

coming and he took it like a man."

大統領の側近は今日を

“残念な日”と表現。

過ちの結果が表れた。

大統領とのわずか30分間の

緊迫した会談のあと―

マクスタル司令官は

不名誉な形で地位を失った。

事の始まりは司令官の侮辱的な発言。

雑誌の取材で

大統領らを批判したのだ。

記事から読み取れるような態度は―

司令官として許されません。

司令官は特に逆らわず―

きぜんと受け止めていたと

関係者は語った。

abcニュースシャワー"司令官がオバマ政権を批判"

06/23/10　

The top commander in Afghanistan ordered home by an angry Commander in Chief after a magazine interview critical of the President and the key players in the war.General McChrystal and his aides spent a month with Rolling Stone reporter, Michael Hastings, and they let almost no top administration official go uninsulted.First, the Commander in Chief, described by an advisor, as looking uncomfortable and intimidated when he first met the General.I think it's clear that the article in which he and his team appeared showed poor judgment.General McChrystal did issue a statement saying that he extends his sincerest apologies, it was a mistake reflecting poor judgment and he has enormous respect and admiration for President Obama and his team.

アフガニスタン駐留の司令官が召還された。雑誌に載った政権批判が大統領を怒らせたのだ。司令官と側近は記者と１か月を過ごし―関係する政府高官ほぼ全員を侮辱した。初めて司令官に会った大統領は“不安でおどおどしていた”そうだ。あの雑誌に掲載された司令官らの発言は―稚拙な判断の表れだと思います。司令官は自分の稚拙な判断が招いた過ちだと謝罪し―大統領らへの尊敬と称賛を伝えた。

abcニュースシャワー"チアリーディングvs.バレーボール"

06/22/10　

A closely watched federal trial

that got underway

in Connecticut today.

The question at the center

of the case:

Is cheerleading a sport

as much of a sport as volleyball?

And this decision could impact

schools and athletes

all across the country.

No pom-poms or megaphones here.

The Quinnipiac University

cheerleaders are agile and strong.

They see themselves as gymnasts

and they think

what they do is a sport.

Last year, the university agreed.

They eliminated

women's volleyball

and replaced it with cheerleading,

officially recognizing them

as athletes.

That didn't sit well

with the volleyball team,

which filed a lawsuit against

the school saying "not so fast."

Cheerleading will

always have a stereotype.

But for right now, it doesn't matter

what they say, I know what I do.

連邦裁判所で始まった注目の裁判。

争点になっているのは―

チアリーディングは

スポーツかどうか。

判決は全米に影響を及ぼす可能性も。

ポンポンなどは使わない。

この大学のチアリーダーは

機敏で力強い。

自らを体操選手だと

とらえている。

大学側もバレーボール部をやめて

チアリーディング 部を設置し―

彼女たちをアスリートだと公認。

バレーボール部はこれを不服とし

大学を提訴した。

私はチアリーディングは

スポーツだと確信しています。

abcニュースシャワー"「ジョーズ」公開から35周年"

06/21/10　

The movie that scared

everybody out of the water

is now turning 35.

Millions came, saw and left

scared witless.

Shark mania gripped the country.

Well, sharks,

most particularly their jaws,

have become a phenomenon

in this country.

That's "Jaws" junior there.

Fishing charters offered

a chance to hunt sharks.

All sharks became maneaters

in the collective consciousness.

In the last couple of weeks,

I have kind of been uneasy.

The film's psychological impact

on beachgoers

hasn't ever quite gone away.

There's hardly

an American over 40

that hasn't at least once

looked out over the ocean

fearing the telltale sign

of a great white.

誰もがおびえた映画が

35周年を迎えた。

その映画に

大勢の観客が震え上がった。

人々はサメに熱狂。

全米でサメが

社会現象になっている。

小型の“ジョーズ”だ。

サメ狩りのツアーも登場。

集団心理で

サメはみな“人食い”に。

ここ数週間

言い知れぬ不安を感じます。

映画が与えた心理的な影響は

今も消えていない。

40 歳以上のアメリカ人なら―

サメを恐れて

海を見渡したことがあるはずだ。

abcニュースシャワー"ガザの経済封鎖を緩和"

06/18/10　

After the outcry because of the

Israeli commando confrontation

on that cargo ship last month,

the government of Israel

announced

the three-year-old land blockade

of Gaza will be eased.

This morning, the government of

Israel took decisions

to liberalize the system

under which civilian goods

may enter the Gaza Strip.

The blockade was imposed

three years ago

after Hamas took control.

And some of it

never made much sense.

For the last three years,

frozen meat allowed in,

fresh meat not.

Candles, yes,

toys and schoolbooks, no.

Israel says all of it

will be allowed in now.

Building materials have been

banned too,

leaving much of Gaza

looking like this.

Desperately needed cement and

steel were approved today

but only for UN projects.

支援物資を乗せた船を強襲し

批判を受けたイスラエルが―

3年前に始めた地上封鎖を

一部緩めると発表。

イスラエル政府は―

ガザへの民生品の輸入制限を

緩和します。

ハマスの支配に対して始まった封鎖。

不可解な規定もあった。

例えば冷凍肉はよくても生肉は禁止。

ろうそくはいいが教科書は禁止。

だが今後は許可される。

建材も持ち込めず

街はこのとおりだったが―

国連の事業に限り

セメントや鋼材が許可された。

100617オバマ大統領 BP幹部と会談

06/17/10　

In what resembled

a call to the principal's office,

BP's top executives

were summoned

to the White House this morning.

The President

immediately sat down

in the Oval Office with this man:

BP Chairman

Carl-Henric Svanberg.

I emphasized to him that

for the families that I met with

down in the Gulf,

this is not just

a matter of dollars and cents.

What was finally agreed upon:

BP will contribute $20 billion,

$5 billon each year until 2013,

to an independent escrow account.

Afterwards, BP's

Swedish-born Chairman said

he could feel

the President's concern.

He is frustrated because

he cares about the small people.

And we care about

the small people.

校長室に呼ばれたかのように

ホワイトハウスに入るBP幹部。

オバマ大統領はすぐさま

スバンバーグ会長と会談した。

私は会長に強調しました。

被害者にとっては

単なるお金の問題ではないと。

会談の結果。

BPは200億ドルの拠出に合意。

2013年まで毎50億ドルを

基金に拠出する。

大統領の気持ちが伝わってきたと

会長は言う。

大統領は被害者を気にかけています。

私たちも同じです。

ペトレアス司令官 倒れる

06/16/10　

Gen. David Petraeus,

the head of US Central Command,

the famously tough warrior,

suddenly slumped over

at the witness table

at a hearing on Afghanistan.

A muffled thud,

now just watch his face.

Pure shock as Gen. Petraeus's

head hit the table.

Aides rushed to help Petraeus,

all of them stunned

and for good reason.

The General is

a physical fitness fanatic

with a superhuman persona.

It wasn't

Sen. McCain's questions ...

Just got dehydrated.

Yes, Gen. Petraeus learned today

the lesson of even the strongest

of mere mortals;

even if you can take a bullet,

you have to stay hydrated.

タフな軍人として有名な

ペトレアス司令官が―

公聴会の証人席で

突然 倒れ込んだ。

鈍い音を聞いて

マケイン議員はこの表情。

司令官の様子に

ショックを受けている。

側近たちがあわてて駆け寄るのも

無理はない。

彼は常に鍛錬に励み

超人的な強さを誇っているのだ。

議員のせいではありません。

脱水症です。

この日 屈強なペトレアス司令官は

1つの教訓を得た。

銃弾に負けない男でも

給水は必要だ。