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Muhammad Ali dead: Boxing legend was a great warrior in the battle against Parkinson’s disease

No other moment in history did more to raise awareness of the disease, or to inspire the millions worldwide living with its cruel and often debilitating symptoms, than his lighting of the Olympic torch in Atlanta in 1996

When Muhammad Ali reached out a trembling arm to light the Olympic torch in 1996 – a moment that will live on in sporting folklore as long as his any of his knockout punches – he opened the world’s eyes to a disease that was then little understood, and became a hero for a whole new reason. 

He was diagnosed with Parkinson’s in 1984 – just three years after his last fight. Having been the centre of the world’s attention for more than 20 years, he made relatively few public appearances until that day at Atlanta 1996. It was a closely-guarded secret that he was going to light the torch. He did so despite visibly shaking – the tell-tale sign of Parkinson’s. No other moment in history has done more to raise awareness of the disease, or to inspire the millions worldwide living with its cruel and often debilitating symptoms. 

An incurable neurological condition caused by a loss of nerve cells in the brain, Parkinson’s leads to a loss of control over the body’s movements – leading to shaking, stiffness in the muscles and facial expressions, and slowness. 

It can be managed with drugs and other treatments that are improving and evolving all the time, but the symptoms gets progressively worse. It doesn’t directly cause people to die, but it can complicate other conditions. Muhammad Ali died from a respiratory illness, but had been admitted to hospital on several occasions in recent years with other conditions including pneumonia and a urinary tract infection that would all have been complicated by his condition.  

Boxing legend has it that it was the fierce, epic contests with George Foreman and Joe Frazier toward the end of his career that were the turning point for Ali’s health. 

In truth, his condition cannot be conclusively linked to any one or two fights. Indeed, while one recent study has drawn a link between severe and repeated head injuries - such as those sustained by boxers - and a greater risk of Parkinson’s, experts don’t fully understand the causes of the condition. In some cases there may be an underlying genetic cause, while external factors such as exposure to pollution and pesticides have been mooted as possibly increasing risk. 

We simply don’t know enough yet and experts have been at pains to point out that even if severe head injuries might increase the risk of Parkinson’s for boxers, that risk remains very low. 

Ali’s own condition followed the course of millions of others, becoming worse and worse. In 1996 he could walk independently and light the Olympic torch. By the time of the London 2012 Olympics, where he again appeared in the opening ceremony, he required assistance, and appeared very frail. 

The condition affected also his speech. People close to him had reportedly noticed it starting to slow even before his final fight in 1981. When he was interviewed on NBC, 10 years later, the interviewer struggled to make out what he was saying. 

The condition did not however, eclipse his personality or sense of humour. Presenting Ali with the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2005, George W. Bush’s playfully raised fists. The Greatest couldn’t deliver the sharp come-back one suspects he would have liked to, but he could make the crazy sign with his hand. 

But Ali's contribution to our understanding of Parkinson's extended beyond just visibility and publicity. 

With his wife Lonnie, in 1997 he helped to set up a Parkinson’s research centre that bears his name at the world-leading Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, Arizona. Its work is driving forward the hunt for better treatments and, ultimately, a cure. 

Dr Holly Shill, director of the Muhammad Ali Parkinson Center, paid tribute to the gift its founder had given to 1.5 million Americans, and millions more around the world, living with the condition.

“I have watched him face the disease with grace and humour, and he has inspired countless patients to do the same,” she said. “We have lost a great warrior in the battle of Parkinson’s, but hope continues for a better tomorrow. We will continue with the Center’s mission to improve the quality of life for those affected by Parkinson’s.”

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/muhammad-ali-dead-a-great-warrior-in-the-battle-against-parkinson-s-disease-a7065746.html

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1.exposure 暴露
2.fierce 兇猛的
3.neurological 神經系統
4.debilitating 使人衰弱的

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Obama lands in Cuba as first US president to visit in nearly a century

Barack Obama descended on Cuba with a pomp unmatched by the Pope on Sunday, becoming the first American president to visit Cuba in nearly a century, and the first since a revolution led by Fidel Castro toppled a US-backed strongman in 1959.

As he arrived, Obama used a Cuban phrase meaning “what’s up?” when he tweeted: “¿Que bolá Cuba? Just touched down here, looking forward to meeting and hearing directly from the Cuban people.”

“This is a historic visit,” Obama said as he greeted US Embassy staff and their families at a Havana hotel. “It’s an historic opportunity to engage with the Cuban people.”

A giant American delegation, estimated at somewhere between 800 and 1,200, swept into Havana this weekend, intent on closing a final chapter in cold war history and sealing the diplomatic legacy of Obama’s presidency. 

Joined by first lady Michelle Obama and his two daughters, Obama toured Old Havana by foot, walking gingerly on the slippery wet stones in front of the Havana Cathedral. The downpour notwithstanding, a few hundred people gathered in the square erupted in applause and shouted Obama’s name as the first family stepped forward.

Obama and his family are staying in a grand embassy mansion, reputedly first conceived as a possible winter White House for Franklin Roosevelt, and more than half the size of the one they live in back in Washington.

The rest of the official party – ranging from the Tampa Bay Rays baseball team and expectant business executives, to some of the congressional leaders who helped broker the December 2014 deal to normalise relations – is scattered in hotels where the cost of rooms first doubled, then trebled to $600 a night, as the scale of the windfall became clear.

Hundreds of tourists have been bumped outside the city, and even the Rolling Stones, who initially wanted Revolution Square for their concert venue on Friday, had to work their date around the president’s arrival, which coincides with his daughters’ spring break.

For many American journalists, also on their first ever trip to an island just 90 miles from Florida, this is a Berlin wall moment: a step toward liberation worthy of Nelson Mandela, at whose funeral Obama and president Raúl Castro famously first shook hands.

But while the US trade embargo has done much economic damage to the island, where even international ships were once forbidden from docking if they wanted future entry to American ports, Cuba was not hermitically sealed from the world like some Caribbean North Korea; it has been walled off primarily from the giant neighbour to the north.

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Those who study the torturous history of diplomatic relations between the two countries argue the symbolic wall that will come down when Obama and Raúl Castro meet again on Monday is at least as much about changes in American politics as it is about the new Cuba.

“There is a lot of talk that the purpose of opening up the relationship is to bring about change in Cuba, I don’t think that’s the case,” said Kevin Casas-Zamora, a director of the Inter-American Dialogue thinktank in Washington DC, and a former vice-president of Costa Rica.

“Obama is doing this not for Cuba’s sake, but the US’s sake, because this had become an embarrassment for the US – a major obstacle in the relationship with Latin America.”

The sense that US politicians are like lost Japanese soldiers, stumbling from the jungle to discover the war ended decades ago, was compounded last week, when one of the fiercest critics of Obama’s strategy, Florida senator Marco Rubio, was thrashed in the state’s Republican presidential primary by a much more relaxed Donald Trump. Rubio, a Cuban American who called for more sanctions on Havana, dropped out of the race after losing his native state.

Though complicated by other factors, Rubio’s defeat in all of Florida’s 67 counties, except his home town of Miami, is partly confirmation of what opinion polls have been suggesting for some time: that antipathy toward Havana’s communist government among Cuban Americans in the state is no longer a decisive electoral issue, as it once was.

The relative lack of backlash to Obama’s overtures came as a surprise even to White House officials, but a long-running poll by Florida International Universityhas charted a steady decline in support for the deep freeze on diplomacy, particularly among younger Cuban Americans. The younger generation has largely arrived or grown up in the US concerned about economic, not political, issues and primarily wish to see the country of their parents prosper again.

Even in Miami, excitement, not apprehension, was the mood among some Cuban Americans who spoke to the Guardian about the president’s trip.

Yet opposition in Congress remains fierce. White House officials say another reason for going to Havana well before Obama leaves office, next January, is to try to prevent the rapprochement from going the way of other failed reconciliations.

“We want to make the process of normalisation irreversible,” said US national security adviser Ben Rhodes, who led an advance party to Havana this week, and also oversaw the secret talks in Canada that led up to the 2014 deal.

Though the president announced last Sunday that he believes Congress will finally lift the trade embargo once has he gone, even some of his own party are nervous that he has already offered too much too easily.

“When we see a photograph of the president of the United States laughing and shaking hands with the only dictatorship in the western Hemisphere, I will be thinking of Berta Soler of the Ladies in White and her fellow human rights and democracy advocates,” said New Jersey Democrat Bob Menendez in a blistering Senate speech last week, referring to a Cuban dissident leader and her followers.

Three years of delicate negotiations have acclimatised officials to the need to tread more carefully when Obama delivers a speech to the Cuban people on Tuesday – in the theatre where Calvin Coolidge spoke 88 years ago, and where the current US president will call on them to decide their own fate, but not to demand instant democracy.

“The difference here is that in the past, because of certain US policies, the message that was delivered either overtly or implicitly suggested that the United States was seeking to pursue regime change,” Rhodes told reporters in Washington. “Obama will make clear that the United States is not a hostile nation seeking regime change.”

Jorge Domínguez, a Cuban born professor of international relations at Harvard University, agreed that an attempt to broker political reform inside Cuba would be flawed, even if it were Obama’s intention.

“On the larger question, which every president since Kennedy has faced: how to foster democracy and human rights – quid pro quo has been a perfect failure,” Domínguez told the Guardian. “Whenever it has been framed in that way, the Cuban government shuts down.”

Instead, US officials and commentators believe change is happening, but slowly and on Havana’s time. The Americans are hoping to encourage, not negotiate, further reform.

On the drive from the airport, where he lands at 4.30pm on Sunday, it would be hard for Obama to miss the various “Socialismo o muerte” (“Socialism or death”) slogans emblazoned on factory walls.

And when a White House press charter full of US-based journalists became one of the first direct flights from Washington to arrive the day before, the pilot was given a taste of the past: he was suddenly told Havana airport was closed just before the flight was due to land.

There is undoubted excitement in Cuba about Obama’s arrival, which begins with a tour of Havana’s historic centre and a trip to the cathedral to thank the Catholic church for helping bring both countries back together.

Residents of the old town were delighted. “It’s great. This is one of the big events of my life,” said Nora Tavares, a retired shop worker. “We never imagined this day would come. It fills me with hope of change.”

But others were frustrated at the high levels of security that meant they could not see the US president. ”I’m disappointed,” said a park sweeper who gave only the name Joel. “Obama’s visit is supposed to be about openness. But it was not at all open. It’s supposed to be for people but people can’t see him.”

Asked whether he had hopes for the visit, Joel shrugged. “Not really,” he started and then tailed off when a stranger sidled up to listen in on the conversation.

Mistrust and anxiety remain on both sides, but the excitement was captured ahead of the visit in a White House skit with Cuba’s best known comedian, Luis Silva, an unusually edgy host for state television. Poking fun at the elderly cars and airport delays that await, his elderly character Panfilo, accidentally reaches Obama by telephone and offers to put the first family up in his own home instead.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/20/barack-obama-cuba-visit-us-politics-shift-public-opinion-diplomacy

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2.misturst 不信任
3.sweeper 清潔工
4.slogan 標語
5.emblazon 裝飾
6.regime 政體

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AlphaGo seals 4-1 victory over Go grandmaster Lee Sedol

DeepMind’s artificial intelligence astonishes fans to defeat human opponent and offers evidence computer software has mastered a major challenge

Google DeepMind’s AlphaGo program triumphed in its final game against South Korean Go grandmaster Lee Sedol to win the series 4-1, providing further evidence of the landmark achievement for an artificial intelligence program.

Lee started Tuesday’s game strongly, taking advantage of an early mistake by AlphaGo. But in the end, Lee was unable to hold off a comeback by his opponent, which won a narrow victory.

After the results were in, Google DeepMind co-founder Demis Hassabis called today’s contest “One of the most incredible games ever,” saying AlphaGo mounted a “mind-blowing” comeback after an early mistake.

This was the fifth game in seven days, in what was a draining, emotional battle for Lee. AlphaGo had won the first three, but Lee took the fourth game on Sunday.

He remained in his seat as the game’s results were announced, his eyes swelling with tears. In a post-game press conference, he expressed regret over his defeat. “I failed,” he said. “I feel sorry that the match is over and it ended like this. I wanted it to end well.”

Throughout the match, Lee won praise from observers for a determined, creative approach to AlphaGo, an opponent that is invulnerable to stress and fatigue. In Tuesday’s press conference, Chris Garlock, one of the live commentators said the match was composed of “five beautiful and historic games,” adding, “I think we’ll be studying these for years to come.”

Due to Go’s complexity and the importance of reaction and intuition, it has proved harder for computers to master than simpler games such as checkers or chess. Go has too many moves for a machine to win by brute-force calculations, which is how IBM’s Deep Blue famously beat former world chess champion Garry Kasparov in 1997.

AlphaGo’s win over Lee is significant because it marks the first time an artificial intelligence program has beaten a top-ranked Go professional, a victory experts had predicted was still years away. AlphaGo beat European Go champion Fan Hui in October, but Lee was expected to be a tougher challenge.

The match has brought an unusual level of attention to Go, a game that is popular in east Asia but not widely played in the west. Go insiders say they are not used to being in the spotlight. “I’ve never seen this much attention for Go, ever,” Lee Ha-jin, secretary general at the International Go Federation and guest commentator on Tuesday’s live broadcast, said.

Google DeepMind has talked about applying the deep neural networks and machine learning techniques that AlphaGo used to master Go to more pressing areas such as healthcare and robotics. But with AlphaGo’s victory in the books, Hassabis was tightlipped, saying his team will need to return to the UK and spend “weeks or months” going over the results of the match before announcing their next moves.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/mar/15/googles-alphago-seals-4-1-victory-over-grandmaster-lee-sedol

Keywords
1.Go 圍棋
2.conference 會談
3.robotic 像機器人的
4.nural 神經的

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Brexit: What's happening now?

On 23 June 2016, the UK made a historic decision. It voted to leave the European Union (EU).

More than 33 million adults voted. Around 52% of them chose to leave the group of 28 countries, while 48% wanted to stay in it.

The UK has been a member of the EU for more than 40 years, so this was an extremely important moment.

Even though the vote happened more than 6 months ago, the UK is currently still a member of the EU.

Leaving the EU is a very significant change, which is why it hasn't happened overnight.

An official process for the UK to leave the EU has not started. Currently, the government is discussing how it might work.

So what has happened in the months since the vote?

What happened after the referendum?

Once the result of the vote was announced, the prime minister at the time David Cameron - who wanted the UK to stay in the EU - said he was going to resign.

So the UK needed a new prime minister before anything else could happen.

Theresa May took over the job the following month in July 2016.

Since then, the UK government has been talking about what sort of relationship it would like with the EU when it leaves.

This is the first time that a member of the EU has left since it was formed, so leaders say they are taking their time to make sure that the process runs smoothly.

What happens now?

The UK has not officially announced to the rest of the EU that it is leaving yet.

Prime Minister Theresa May wants to do this - and start the process to leave - by doing what is called triggering Article 50.

This is a way for the UK government to officially tell the EU that it no longer wants to be a member.

Article 50 is part of an agreement between members of the EU, called the Lisbon Treaty, which explains how a country should go about leaving the group.

If the prime minister triggers Article 50, this will start a two-year process, during which UK and EU leaders will discuss what their relationship would be like in future.

However, a big court case is taking place at the moment to decide if Theresa May is allowed to trigger Article 50, without parliament also agreeing to it.

What would happen if Article 50 is triggered?

If Article 50 is triggered, the UK will be left out from making big EU decisions.

However, it would still have to follow EU rules and agreements until it is officially no longer a member.

A two-year period of time would start during which the UK and the EU would need to come to an agreement about their future relationship.

There are many things that need to be discussed and agreed upon before the UK could officially leave the EU, including the following:

• Business

The UK is currently part of something called the "single market" - an agreement designed to make it easier for countries in the EU to buy and sell ("trade") things with each other.

Leaders will need to decide how the UK will trade with members of the EU, once it is no longer a member of the group.

The US, for example, currently sells products into this single market, but it has slightly different rules - for example, it may have to pay extra charges.

So the EU needs to agree how the UK will buy and sell things with them too.

• People

Around three million people from other EU countries currently live, work or study in the UK, and around two million British people live in other EU countries.

Leaders will need to decide whether these people will be able to stay where they are just as before, or if that will need to change.

Theresa May has said that she wants people from elsewhere in the EU who are living in the UK to be able to stay, and the same for people from the UK living in the EU.

The prime minister has also said the UK would like more control over immigrationif it leaves the EU.

Immigration is when people go to live or work in another country, so Theresa May wants to have more control over who can come to live and work here.

However, the EU says that if the UK wants to benefit from the single market, it might not be able to have as much control over its borders as it would like.

• Laws

Countries in the EU share some laws between them.

At the moment, British laws and European laws are closely connected.

If the UK leaves, it will need to decide which bits of EU laws it wants to keep for its own laws, and which bits it doesn't.

Given how connected EU and British laws are, it could take a while to separate them.

The UK might have to keep some rules if it wants to have certain relationships with the EU after leaving.

These are just some of the areas that the UK and EU will need to discuss and agree on.

The process for the UK to leave the EU could take even longer than two years, if all of the other countries in the EU agree it can be extended.

How long the process takes depends on whether or not the UK and the EU are able to agree on how their relationship will work.

If Article 50 is triggered, the UK will not be able to come back into the EU unless all the other 27 countries in the group agree that it can.

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 WHEN-not given
 WHAT-the effect of Brexit
 WHY-not given
 WHERE-not given

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Chinese man detained for downloading 2 IS attack videos

January 10, 2017

Beijing: A Chinese citizen was detained for downloading and storing two videos of prisoners being decapitated by the Islamic State (IS) terror group, authorities said on Tuesday.

The man, surnamed Kang, was arrested by the Public Security Bureau of Shijiazhuang, the capital of Hebei province, following an administrative detention procedure that does not require any trial, Efe news reported.

Kang admitted his mistake, saying he downloaded the videos only out of curiosity and insisted he had not shared them with anyone else, the magazine reported citing police sources.

China’s First Anti Terrorism Law, in force since January 1, provides for administrative detention of between 10 and 15 days for people who produce, disseminate, or illegally possess material that advocates terrorism or extremism.

Kang’s is the first such detention for downloading videos with sensitive content, though another man was held for 15 days in the same city of Shijiazhuang in July 2016 for storing six videos containing terrorism-related material in his computer.

Human rights groups and the US government expressed their concern over this law fearing it might strengthen censorship and suppression in the communist regime.

Beijing has defended the law on the grounds that it is similar to those in other countries hit by terrorism, and stressed its aim was to reduce propaganda by violent groups in China after more than 100 of its citizens joined the ranks of Islamic State in recent years.

http://www.siasat.com/news/chinese-man-detained-downloading-2-attack-videos-1106104/

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 WHO-a Chinese citizen
 WHEN-not given
 WHAT-been detained
 WHY-download two ISIS video
 WHERE-Beijin

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decapitate-斬首
detention-拘留
disseminate-散播

SpaceX!!!!!!

Wow! SpaceX Lands Orbital Rocket Successfully in Historic First

Today's launch was the first for SpaceX since June 28, when a Falcon 9 broke apart less than three minutes after blasting off from Cape Canaveral, scuttling the seventh uncrewed cargo mission the company is flying to the International Space Station for NASA. (SpaceX holds a $1.6 billion deal to make at least 12 such flights with the Falcon 9 and its robotic Dragon capsule.)

The June failure was likely caused by a faulty steel strut in the Falcon 9 upper stage. Musk has said that, going forward, the company will test every one of the hundreds of such struts that go into each Falcon 9.

SpaceX has also been revamping the Falcon 9 since the accident, adjusting its stage-separation system and electronics, among other features, Musk said.

"I think it's a significantly improved rocket from the last one," he said on Dec. 15 during a talk at the annual winter meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco.

Today's launch was originally scheduled for Sunday night (Dec. 20), but analyses showed that lifting off tonight provided a 10 percent better chance of landing success, Musk said.

The 11 satellites that launched aboard the Falcon 9 all deployed successfully, and will complete a 17-spacecraft Orbcomm network in low-Earth orbit.By Mike Wall, Space.com Senior Writer | December 21, 2015 10:28pm ET

The third attempt at a historic reusable-rocket milestone was the charm for SpaceX.

The private spaceflight company brought the first stage of its Falcon 9 rocket back to Earth for a soft touchdown tonight (Dec. 21), pulling off history's first-ever rocket landing during an orbital launch. (Blue Origin, the company led by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, landed its New Shepard booster successfully last month, but that occurred during a suborbital test.) The Falcon 9 mission also delivered 11 commercial satellites into orbit for SpaceX customer ORBCOMM. 

"I do think it's a revolutionary moment. No one has ever brought an orbital class booster back intact," SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk told reporters in a teleconference after the launch and landing success. "We achieved recovery of the rocket in a mission that also deployed 11 satellites. This is a fundamental step change compared to any other rocket that's ever flown." 

The Falcon 9 blasted off at 8:29 p.m. EST today (0129 GMT on Dec. 22) from Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, tasked with delivering to orbit 11 spacecraft for the satellite-communications company Orbcomm. The two-stage Falcon 9 separated, and then the rocket's first stage performed a series three "boostback burns," coming down for a pinpoint touchdown at Cape Canaveral. 

SpaceX's mission control in Hawthorne, California, erupted in raucous cheers when the first stage came into view of a camera near the landing site — then went even more nuts as the booster stage slowed and touched down successfully at SpaceX's "Landing Zone 1," a facility previously used by the Air Force for rocket and missile testing.

SpaceX had tried to land Falcon 9 first stages twice before, both times on an uncrewed "drone ship" hundreds of miles offshore in the Atlantic Ocean. On each occasion — once in January 2015, and then again in April — the booster stage hit its target but came in a little too hard and crashed on the ship's deck.

Today's landing was a milestone moment for SpaceX, which aims to develop fully and rapidly reusable rockets as a way to open the heavens to exploration. Such technology could slash the cost of spaceflight by a factor of 100, potentially making Mars colonies economically feasible, Musk has said.

Mars settlement is no idle dream for Musk; he established SpaceX back in 2002 primarily because he wants to help humanity become a multiplanetary species, Musk has repeatedly said.

http://www.space.com/31420-spacex-rocket-landing-success.html

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  WHY-not given

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  2.strut-在......上趾高氣揚的走

  3.revamp-改造

  4.adjust-調整

  5.separation-分離

  6.teleconference-視訊會議

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Elon Musk is expected to urge Trump not to abandon the Paris climate agreement

The serial entrepreneur is a longtime fan of creating a carbon tax.

BY APRIL GLASER@APRILASER  DEC 14, 2016, 6:57PM EST

Elon Musk is joining President-elect Trump’s policy advisory council, despite his comments before the election that Trump “doesn't seem to have the sort of character that reflects well on the United States."

Still, it’s probably in Musk’s favor to work with the incoming administration, especially as it starts to shape new policies that are dear to Musk’s heart, like regulations to bring self-driving cars to U.S. roadways and whether to abide by the 2015 Paris climate agreement or pull out, a threat Trump made on the campaign trail.

That doesn’t sit well with Musk, who will likely urge the Trump administration to remain a signatory on the international climate accord. Reps for Musk did not immediately respond to request for comment.

Shortly after Trump won the election, his team began sketching a plan to abandon the the Paris accord, reported Reuters. And Trump’s pick to head the EPA, Scott Pruitt, doesn’t think climate change science is real.

Musk, on the other hand, has long advocated for the U.S. to institute a gradual carbon tax, which he says is the only viable way to spur a transition from fossil fuels to more sustainable forms of energy.

Trump is unlikely to warm up to the idea of another tax — he’s promised to cut taxes across the board.

Even so, Musk might be able to persuade the president-elect not to renege on the Paris agreement, which already lacks strong mechanisms for enforcement.

Rex Tillerson, Trump’s pick for secretary of state and CEO of Exxon Mobil, also supported U.S. participation in the climate talks and endorsed the idea of a national carbon tax. Tillerson may also urge Trump not to leave the Paris deal.

Musk has a financial incentive for wanting the U.S. to start thinking progressively about transitioning from fossil fuel. Musk’s company Tesla acquired SolarCity, a leading U.S. firm building solar-powered energy systems, last month.

http://www.recode.net/2016/12/14/13959008/elon-musk-trump-paris-climate-change-carbon-tax

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  WHEN-this week
  WHAT-some expected to urge Trump not to abandon the Paris climate agreement
  WHY-not given
  WHERE-not given

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  2.council-議會
  3.abide-忍受
  4.signatory-簽約國
  5.accord-協約