[00:02]universe

[00:05]Hydrogen is the fundamental element of the universe in that it provides

[00:10]the building blocks from which the other elements are produced.

[00:18]diverse

[00:20]Several massive leakages of customer and employee data this year-

[00:26]from organizations as diverse as Time Warner,

[00:29]the American defense contractor Science Applications International Corp

[00:34]and even the University of California.

[00:41]reverse

[00:43]In 1950, the U.S. spent $12.7 billion on health care.

[00:50]In 2002, the cost will be $1540 billion.

[00:56]Anyone can see this trend is unsustainable.

[01:00]Yet few seem willing to try to reverse it.

[01:09]adverse

[01:11]The effects of the levitation on the mice could provide insight into

[01:16]how to prevent adverse health effects - like bone loss - on astronauts

[01:22]who spend long periods of time in low gravity.

[01:28]traverse

[01:32]Stars twinkle, the moon beams; thousands upon thousands of people,

[01:37]from gum-chewing Babbitts to omniscient Congressmen,

[01:42]traverse the Atlantic year after year.

[01:47]pledge

[01:49]Obama did manage to come away with a modest pledge by the Chinese government

[01:54]on global warming, a useful ingredient in persuading Congress

[01:59]to take on the issue but a relatively minor prize.

[02:08]acknowledge

[02:11]As a linguist, he acknowledges that all varieties of human language,

[02:16]including non-standard ones like Black English,

[02:20]can be powerfully expressive-there exists no language

[02:24]or dialect in the world that cannot convey complex ideas.

[02:29]He is not arguing, as many do, that we can no longer think straight

[02:33]because we do not talk proper.

[02:39]sprawl

[02:41]A: The paper says the wild fire sprawled very quickly

[02:45]on the mountains of California last week and damaged many homes.

[02:51]B: Yeah, I watched it on TV.