5.14 热门：鞋袭布什记者竞选议员

Shoe-thrower runs for office

鞋袭布什记者竞选议员

A man who threw his shoes at former US president George W Bush during a farewell visit to Iraq in 2008 is now running for a seat in the country's Council of Representatives. 

2008年朝正在伊拉克作告别访问的美国前总统乔治·W·布什扔鞋的男子如今正竞选伊拉克国民议会的席位。

Muntadhar al-Zaidi, 39, recently announced his campaign to run in the May 12 parliamentary elections and has even hinted at running for the presidency. 

现年39年的蒙塔达尔·扎伊迪近日宣布他将参加本月12日的议会选举，甚至暗示他有朝一日将竞选总统。

Al-Zaidi was arrested after the footwear attack and sentenced to three years in jail, but only served nine months before his release. 

鞋袭事件后扎伊迪被捕并被判三年监禁，但仅仅服刑了9个月即获释。

The journalist left Iraq and spent the better part of a decade in Lebanon, before returning two months ago to launch his campaign.

这名记者之后离开了伊拉克，过去十年中的大部分时间在黎巴嫩度过，直至数月前才回到伊拉克参加竞选。

City's war on fast food

威尼斯禁止新开快餐店

Venice officials have made yet another attempt to reduce the impact of mass tourism by banning takeaway food outlets from opening in the city. 

威尼斯官员为减少大量游客对环境造成的影响而祭出新招，在城市内禁止开设快餐店。

The regulation will prevent any new pizza outlets, kebab shops and street food stalls from opening in Venice, as well as the outlying islands of Murano and Burano, for the next three years. 

根据规定，威尼斯市以及周边两座小岛穆拉诺和布拉诺今后三年内禁止新开比萨店、烤肉店和路边小吃摊。

The mayor of Venice, Luigi Brugnaro, approved the policy on Wednesday in a bid to manage the amount of litter in the city and deter tourists from eating on church steps, historic bridges and canal banks. 

威尼斯市市长路易吉·布鲁尼亚罗周三(9日)批准了这一政策。新规旨在控制城市垃圾数量，阻止游客在教堂台阶、历史名桥以及运河堤岸吃快餐。

This is the latest in a series of policies introduced to curb overtourism in Venice. Other recent announcements include segregating tourists from locals, banning cruise ships of a certain size from docking in the city, and prohibiting new hotels from opening in the city.

威尼斯为了控制游客过多，之前已推出一系列政策。近期公布的其它政策还包括：分隔游客与当地居民、禁止超过一定尺寸的游船停靠、禁止城市内新开旅馆等。

Plastic-free bottle invented

英男子发明无塑料水瓶

A British inventor claims to have invented a plastic-free, single-use water bottle that can decompose within three weeks. 

近日，英国一名发明家声称发明了一种能在三周内完全降解的无塑料一次性水瓶。

This fully biodegradable bottle, developed by James Longcroft, aims to replace plastic bottles and help save the world's oceans from plastic waste. 

这种可完全生物降解的瓶子由朗克罗夫特研发，旨在取代塑料瓶，将海洋从塑料垃圾问题中解救出来。

The outer lining of the bottle is made out of recycled paper donated by businesses, while the waterproof inner lining is made with a composite material Longcroft has developed himself. 

水瓶的外层由企业捐赠的可回收纸张制成，水瓶能防水的内衬由朗克罗夫特自行研发的一种复合材料制成。

All the constituents of the bottle can fully decompose within three weeks when left in water or landfill, and can be eaten by sea creatures. The steel cap on the bottle will rust and fully decompose in about a year, Longcroft said. 

当被丢在水里或埋在土里时，水瓶所有成分都可在三周内完全降解，也可以被海洋生物吃掉。朗克罗夫特还表示，水瓶的钢制瓶盖会生锈，约一年内完全降解。

He is still waiting for patents and started crowdfunding for the bottle last Monday. He hopes to see the bottles available in stores by the end of the year, and sold for 85 to 90 pence.

朗克罗夫特仍在等待专利的审批，并于4月30日开启了这款产品的众筹。他希望能在今年年底前看到这款产品上市，其售价为85-90便士。

Serving coffee with warnings

美法院:咖啡须警示致癌

Starbucks Corp and other roasters and retailers must serve up a cancer warning with coffee sold in California, a Los Angeles judge has ruled. 

洛杉矶一名法官近日裁定，星巴克集团等咖啡烘焙商和零售商须为在加州出售的咖啡提供致癌警告。

Superior Court judge Elihu Berle said in a published ruling that Starbucks and other coffee sellers did not show the risk from consuming acrylamide, a possible cancer-causing by product created during coffee roasting, was offset by benefits from drinking coffee. 

高等法院法官伯利在近日发布的裁决中称，星巴克及其他咖啡销售商没有标明摄入丙烯酰胺的风险，这种在烘焙咖啡过程中产生的副产物存在致癌风险，但被饮用咖啡所获益处抵消。

The Council for Education and Research on Toxics (CERT), a nonprofit group, sued some 90 coffee retailers, including Starbucks, on grounds they were violating a California law requiring companies to warn consumers of chemicals in their products that could cause cancer. 

此前，非营利组织"毒物教育与研究委员会"对星巴克等约90家咖啡零售商提起诉讼，理由是这些商家违反加州要求企业对其产品中可能致癌的化学物质予以警示的法律。

Attorney Raphael Metzger, who represents CERT, hopes the final ruling will lead to a settlement where coffee sellers reformulate their product to remove acrylamide, as potato chip sellers did after a similar lawsuit.

代表该研究委员会的律师梅茨赫尔希望，最终裁决将使得咖啡销售商重新调整产品，像薯片销售商在经过类似诉讼后那样去掉丙烯酰胺。

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