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• The name comes from the Boston Tea Party, a colonial tax protest in seventeen seventy-three. This week, attention centered on the victory of a supporter in the small eastern state of Delaware. CHRISTINE O'DONNELL: "Don't ever underestimate the power of We, the People!“ • Christine O'Donnell won the Republican nomination for the Senate seat formerly held by Vice President Joe Biden. Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin supported her. But many people never expected Ms. O'Donnell to defeat Representative Mike Castle. Now, many say she is too conservative to appeal to Democrats and independent voters.
• The poverty rate was the highest since nineteen ninety-four. But the number of people was the largest since estimates began in nineteen fifty-nine. • One-fourth of blacks and Hispanics were in poverty. So were twelve and a half percent of Asians and almost nine and a half percent of non-Hispanic whites. • A family of four that earned less than about twenty-two thousand dollars last year was considered to be living below the poverty line.
Listen and fill the blanks In September, Japan 【 】a Chinese ship captain near disputed islands in the East China Sea. China 【 】 that it stopped exports of rare earth metals to Japan to force his 【 】. But the incident raised concerns. Japan is the world's biggest importer of rare earths. And China produces 【 】. percent of the world supply.
• SAMUEL BADER: "Rare earth metals provide the world's strongest 【 】. This is why they're important. It's that simple."Rare earth magnets are lightweight and 【 】 by conditions like high temperatures. So they work well in places like 【 】 in hybrid vehicles or generators for 【 】. Physicists use super-powerful magnets to 【 】 and control radiation like X-rays. • And the list goes on, says George Haley, who has studied the subject.
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• This week, in the United States, dissident Republicans succeeded again in defeating more established candidates within their party. Seven states and the nation's capital held primary elections on Tuesday to choose candidates for the November elections. There were more victories for supporters of the Tea Party movement. This movement centers on cutting taxes and government spending. It brings together conservatives and libertarians -- strong believers in individual liberty.
• Also this week, the Census Bureau reported that the nation's official poverty rate was fourteen and threetenths percent last year. It rose by just over a full percentage point from two thousand eight. Almost forty-four million people were in poverty, the third year of increase. The number included one in five children.
• Peter Brown at Quinnipiac University in Connecticut finds that about one in eight voters support the Tea Party movement. He says the big question is whether the activists will be as successful in getting people to vote in November as in the Republican primaries.
• Public opinion surveys show that voters are angry at Congress -- and unhappy even with their own member of Congress. • Candidates supported by Tea Party activists won primaries earlier this year in Colorado, Connecticut, Kentucky, Nevada and Utah. But the biggest test yet will come when they face Democrats on November second.
In the news ： The Tea Party Movement dissident 持不同政见的 • libertarian 自由论的，持自由论的人 • nomination 提名 • Senate 参议院 • the Census Bureau 统计局 • coverage 覆盖
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• Voters will decide all seats in the House of Representatives and thirty-seven of the one hundred seats in the Senate. Republicans are fighting to retake Congress from the Democratic Party of President Obama and make gains in state elections.
• Samuel Bader, a physicist at the Argonne National Laboratory near Chicago, says rare earths are often found together. • SAMUEL BADER: "They all have similar 【 】. Once you do find them, they are very difficult to 【 】 from each other." • But Mr. Bader explains that the same properties that make them hard to refine also make them valuable.
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Few people had ever heard of the 【 】known as rare earth metals before a recent 【 】 between China and Japan. Yet these metals are used in 【 】 like smart phones, flat screens, hybrid car 【 】, MP3 players and military equipment.