大楼。剧院中的一个人质通过手提电话说叛匪已在出入口、座位甚至在人质身上都安装了炸药。她的电话声中可以听到至少来自四个不同地方的自动步枪的枪声。
叛匪自称是敢死队，拒绝结束绑架，直到俄当局将其部队从他们的穆斯林家园撤出，并保证结束持续了三年的冲突。绑匪立即释放了20名儿童，成批饥渴的人质被定期释放。这一事件迫使俄罗斯总统弗拉迪米尔·普京取消了德国和葡萄牙之行，而在克里姆林宫紧急召集内阁商讨对策。
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俄罗斯政府迫于压力，解释了昨天在莫斯科剧院解决人质危机中使用的气体的类型。人们怀疑神秘气体致许多受害人死亡。死亡人数已上升到160人，其中包括118名人质和几十名车臣叛匪。
俄罗斯正计算以流血方式结束莫斯科剧院三天人质危机的代价。总统普京已前往医院探视在严酷恐吓下的幸存者。他发表电视讲话，对因未能拯救出所有人质而向受害者亲属表示歉意。但普京说，解决人质危机证明了俄罗斯不会屈服于恐怖分子。昨天早上，俄罗斯特种部队攻击大楼时向剧院释放了一种气体。
俄内政部长反驳使用了神经毒气，称如果车臣叛匪引爆大楼，将有更多的人被炸死。许多人质被救出时已不省人事。叛匪威胁要炸掉剧院除非俄罗斯军队从他们的穆斯林家园撤回。大多数车臣叛匪包括首领马斯哈多夫，在行动中被击毙。有些被击中头部，很明显是由于气体使其昏迷倒地时被击中。三个从剧院逃出来的持枪绑匪和约30个同谋在莫斯科地区被逮捕。
在受害者的具体数目上，官方一直保持沉默。卫生部长说，9名人质因心脏病问题受惊吓或缺乏药物而死，但其他人死因未明。人们猜想他们接触到行动中俄罗斯官方拒绝证实的气体而死。受害者亲属和朋友被禁止进入医院探视他们因受气体致害正在恢复健康中的亲人。
1 政治
联合国安理会在关于是否接受美国新的关于对伊拉克动武的强硬决议时陷入僵局。华盛顿遭到来自中国、俄罗斯和法国的强烈反对。
经过两天的激烈讨论，没有迹象表明联合国安理会在关于华盛顿新的关于对伊拉克动武的强硬决议上达成一致。中国、俄罗斯和法国希望首先给伊拉克领导萨达姆·侯赛因一个解除武装的机会。只有巴格达没能达到武器核查小组的要求时，通过第二轮决议才能授权使用武力。但是美国力图在第一次决议就通过关于对巴格达使用武力的决议。
约翰·尼格本特（美国驻联合国大使）：我们已经提上日程，关于这个决议的内容我们相信，如果伊拉克准备合作的话，就会达到这个目的。我们正在与安理会其他常任理事国成员进行非常激烈的对话，以便在这点上达成一致。
美国总统乔治·布什曾暗示他已快失去耐心，希望联合国能够加快步伐。
乔治·布什：看在拥有一个具有效率的国际性组织的面上，联合国必须作出决定，必须下定决心去对付那个人。必须使自己成为一个比仅仅是许多国家的简单联盟更有意义的组织，必须使自己成为一个比争论场所更有效的地方。
联合国首席武器核查员，汉斯·布里克斯与俄罗斯外交部长伊格·伊万诺夫在莫斯科会晤，他表示他对达成一致持乐观态度。但是伊万诺夫认为华盛顿的决议草案并未满足俄罗斯的要求。
2 体育
中国篮球明星姚明已经抵达美国开始他的职业篮球生涯。这则新闻成为今晚体育综合报导的头条新闻。
姚明终于在德克萨斯州的休斯顿落定，在那他将参加火箭队为即将到来的nba联赛做准备工作。姚明计划作为第一投球手与火箭队签了价值1780美元、为期四年的服役合同。他将于本周与他的新队友们一起开始练习。
3 体育
足球方面，阿森纳队将要起码等上一周才能锁定是否有资格参加第二轮的欧洲冠军联赛。阿森纳队意外地以二比一输给了法国欧塞尔队，但这支来自伦敦的球队还是稳居a组冠军。 利物浦队以三比一战胜了俄罗斯的莫斯科斯巴达队，给人留下深刻印象，落后小组第一名瓦伦西亚队三分。
注释:
1) militant n. 富有战斗精神的人，斗士
2) blow up 使爆炸，炸毁
3) standoff n.（比赛）打成平手，不分胜负
4) armored a. 装甲的
5) heighten v. 增加，提高；使显著
6) strap v. 用带捆扎，用带束住
7) play down 减弱，缩小
8) batch n. 一批，一组
9) interval n. 间歇，间隙
10) kremlin n. 克里姆林宫（莫斯科城堡，城墙内有苏联最高政府机关）
11) televise v. 电视播送，电视接收
12) accomplice n. 同谋，帮凶
13) deadlock v. 使陷入僵局，陷入僵持
14) clinch v. 使得到最后解决，确定
15) berth n. 职位，地位
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schopenhauer: a guide to love and happiness
in an 1)admittedly rather unromantic field, schopenhauer is the one philosopher who seems to understand the 2)intensity of what we feel when we fall in love. he thought we were absolutely right to build our lives around love, nothing else in life was quite as important. but the mistake he thought we made was to imagine that happiness had anything to do with it.
schopenhauer was born in danzig in 1788 but spent most of his life in frankfurt. from an early age he looked a lot for happiness.
he was intelligent, confident, good-looking and, after his father died when he was 17, extremely rich. but success with women 3)eluded him.
in 1821, at the age of 33, he did meet a woman who liked him, a 19 year-old singer called caroline maduog. but he was never comfortable enough in the relationship to settle down, he told her that two people to get married means to do everything possible to become an object of disgust to one another. after ten stormy years, the relationship broke up. schopenhauer continued to search for love but with ever less success.
in 1831, he developed a passion for flora vice, a beautiful spirited girl who had just turned 17. during a boating party in attempted to charm her, schopenhauer started talking to her about his philosophy. he smiled and offered her a bunch of grapes. flora later 4)confided in her dairy, "i didn't want them. i felt 5)revolted because old schopenhauer had touched them, so i let them slide quite gently into the water behind me."
so how could this romantically hapless philosopher have anything wise to tell us about love? well, for a start, he tells us that love is not a 6)trivial subject, we shouldn't see it as a 7)distraction from more important or grown up concerns. it's no accident that love is such an overwhelming emotion, but it can take over our lives and fill our every waking moment. and schopenhauer urges us not to be too hard on ourselves for the obsession and despair it can drive us to when it goes wrong, to be surprised at how much rejection hurts is to ignore just what acceptance would have involved. "nothing in life is more important than love," wrote schopenhauer, "because nothing less than the survival of our species is 8)at stake."
we imagine when we fall for someone that we are finding a partner whose going to make us happy, but schopenhauer saw it very differently.
he thought that we put ourselves through the 9)subconscious phone calls and the expensive candle lit dinners for one reason only: an overwhelming biological drive to 10)propagate the species. he called it "the will to life": love is a 11)cunning ruse designed by biology to push us towards having children. however romantic we like to think we are, we are all essentially slaves of "the will to life."
it might seem odd to say that schopenhauer could ever have anything helpful to tell us about love, given that he was