Italian PM Promises Rebuild After Quake

Italian PM Promises Rebuild After Quake
Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi is promising to rebuild parts of central Italy after Sunday's 6.6 magnitude earthquake, Italy's most powerful quake in 36 years.
"We will rebuild everything, the houses, the churches and the businesses. Everything that needs to be done to rebuild these areas will be done," Renzi said.
No one was killed Sunday, but at least 20 minor injuries were reported.
Many people had already fled that area after an August quake killed about 300 people, followed by two strong aftershocks last Wednesday.
Large boulders and rockslides blocked several highways, completely cutting off some villages from the outside. A nearly non-stop series of small aftershocks were making conditions difficult for emergency workers.
The U.S. National Geological Survey says Sunday's quake was centered near Norcia and was relatively shallow, at a depth of 10 kilometers, making it felt over a widespread area, and as far south as Rome, 90 kilometers to the south.
Schools will be closed in Rome Monday so buildings can be inspected for structural damage, according to the Rome municipality website.

boulder: a very large rock

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1 in 7 of World's Children Exposed to Toxic Air Pollution
One in seven of the world's children is exposed to pollution levels six or more times higher than international standards set by the World Health Organization, according to a new report by UNICEF. The report was released a week ahead of the United Nations Climate Change conference in Marrakech.
"Air pollution is a major contributing factor in the deaths of around 600,000 children under five every year," says UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake, "and it threatens the lives and futures of millions more every day."
Some two billion children live in regions where outdoor air pollution exceeds WHO's minimum air quality guidelines, with 620 million of those children living in South Asia, followed by 520 million children in Africa, and 450 million children in the East Asia and Pacific region.
UNICEF says young children are particularly susceptible to indoor and outdoor air pollution because their lungs, brains and immune systems are still developing and their respiratory tracts(呼吸道) are more permeable.
UNICEF says it will ask the countries attending the climate change conference to take "four urgent steps" to protect children from air pollution. Those steps are:

1. adopt measures to reduce pollution;
2. increase children's access to healthcare;
3. minimize children's exposure to pollution; and
4. establish better monitoring of air pollution.
Lake said "We protect our children when we protect the quality of our air. Both are central to our future."

guildeline: information intended to advise people on how something should be done or what something should be: 
susceptible: easily influenced or harmed by something: 
respiratory: relating to breathing: 
permeable: If a substance is permeable, it allows liquids or gases to go through it: 
adopt: 1 to legally take another person's child into your own family and take care of him or her as your own child:  2 to accept or start to use something new: