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NO2: China aims to improve peoples’ living conditions About three thousand delegates from around China are in Beijing for this year’s meeting of the National People’s Congress. The government wants to prevent social problems, and Premier Wen Jiabao says one way to do that is to help the poor. Premier Wen recently held a public online chat. He said improving peoples’ living conditions will be the starting point for every rule in China’s next five-year plan. The plan lists Communist Party(共产党) goals for 2011 through 2015. The legislature will give final approval to the plan during its week-long meeting starting Saturday. Premier Wen suggested that the government also plans to deal with two other problems, corruption and inflation. Inflation in January was just under five percent, but food prices rose more than ten percent. NO3：Japan’s disaster could hurt plans for nuclear energy Industry The crisis at Japan’s Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear energy center has raised about the future of the nuclear energy industry. No new nuclear power centers have been built in the United Stated since 1979.That was when America’s worst nuclear accident happened at the Three Mile Island center in Pennsylvania(宾夕法尼亚州). The accident began to turn public opinion against nuclear energy. To support more clean energy production, the Obama administration has been seeking billions of dollars in government loan guarantees build new centers. Currently, about twenty percent of electricity in the United States comes from nuclear energy. But critics say nuclear power is too costly and dangerous to be worth further expansion. German Chancellor Angela Merkel（德国总理安杰拉~默克尔） said Germany would temporarily close seven nuclear power centers while energy policy is reconsidered. The European Union is planning to test all centers in its 27member nations. No4: Remembering Hollywood legend Elizabeth Taylor Elizabeth Taylor was born in 1932 to American parents living in London. Her father Francis was an art dealer. H