NPR 2012-05-27

 President Barack Obama is paying tribute to veterans this Memorial Day weekend, honoring those willing to sacrifice their lives for their country. The President opened his weekly * and * an address that reflected on the meaning of the holiday. The President also says it’s important to provide for veterans.

We have to serve them and their families as well as they’ve served us, by making sure they * get the health care and benefits they need, by caring for our wounded warriors 1 and supporting our military families, and by giving veterans the chance to go to college, find a good job, and enjoy the freedom that they risk everything to protect.
Mr. Obama will honor veterans and their families at Arlington National Cemetery 2 in Virginia and the Vietnam Veterans’ Memorial in Washington. Thousands of people are visiting the Vietnam Veterans’ Memorial in Washington DC this Memorial Weekend. Argon *, who served on an ammunition 3 ship of the coast of the Vietnam in 1970’s, says returning to the memorial wall brings back a rush of sad memory about friends who never came home.
When you are here visiting and you talk to the other veterans, you start remembering things that experienced. Lot of them were very unpleasant.
More than 58,000 names are on the wall at the memorial.
 
 
Good news for drivers this holiday weekend, NPR’s Asama Holed reports gas prices are down, according triple A, the average price for a gallon of regular gas is around $3.65.
Drivers can expect to pay less at gas pump this Memorial Day weekend, though, not much less. The average price for a gallon of gas is only about 15 cents cheaper than this time last year.
Well we are still about 80 cents above where we were 2010.
That’s Tom Kloza. He is chief oil analyst 4 with oil pricing information service.
So it’s an expensive weekend, just not as expensive as we were led to believe that may be.
And prices aren’t consistently across the country. In California, drivers are likely to pay a Memorial Day weekend record, around $4.3 a gallon. Asama Holed, NPR news.
 
 
A wild fire in Michigan Upper Peninsula is continuing to grow. State officials say the * fire * 20% contained. It’s burned more than 21,000 acres and stretches some 11 miles. Access has been tricky 5 because there are few roads.
 
 
Japanese officials say the unprecedented 6 effort to remove spent fuel rods from one of the crippled Fukushima nuclear reactor 7 was on track, despite * concerns about the structure vulnerability to another earth quake. Japan’s minister spoke 8 to reporters after his first tour of the part destroyed building that houses Fukushima’s No.4 reactor. It is marked as effort by Japanese officials to show that they’re addressing international concerns about the risk of a second accident of Fukushima.
 
 
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Student groups in Quebec and their supporters have launched a legal challenge to a recent provincial 9 law restricting demonstrations 11. As Dan * reports, at the same time protests against * wishing hikes continue.
It’s not just that the students are going to court. Lawyers from major labor 12 unions and large community groups have also filed motions against Bill 87. They say it’s unconstitutional and a violation 13 of basic rights, including the right to assembly an association. That allow * protest organizers to give out notice for every demonstration 10 as well as full itinerary 14. While the government says it has experts who believe the law will stand within 24 hours of its passage the Quebec Association and 45 law professors sign a letter saying it was unacceptable. As many as 500 lawyers are working on the case on volunteer bases. During a demonstration last night, the Montreal students marched through the downtown, banging * and pants. For NPR news, I’m Dan,*.
 
 
The head of the UN observer team in Syria says at least 32 children under 10 years age and more than 60 adults were killed in fighting in central Syria yesterday. General Robert is condemning 15 the attack in a village northwest of Homs as a brutal 16 tragedy. Mood says in a statement Saturday, that whoever started it, whoever responded it and whoever carried out this deplorable(可悲的) act of violence should be held responsible.
 
 
The judge in the case of a former * student who used a webcam to spy on his gay roommate has released more than 100 letters he received about the case. They came from a hate crime victim and the group representing lesbian, gay and transgender people and others nearly all urge * Mavi was sentenced to 30 days in jail.