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(CNN Student News) - September 10, 2012THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.*CARL AZUZ, CNN ANCHOR: Were back from the weekend and ready to go with 10 minutes of commercial-free headlines from around the world. I am Carl Azuz, and this is CNN STUDENT NEWS.First up, were reporting on a wave of violence across the Middle Eastern nation of Iraq yesterday. Officials say at least 62 people were killed and almost 200 others were wounded in these attacks, and many of them seemed to be aimed at members of Iraqs military and police forces. In this one, a car bomb and a roadside bomb targeted Iraqi security forces（保安部队）. These kinds of explosive devices caused a lot of violence on Sunday. Car bombs on a busy street in the Iraqi city of Amarra, another in an outdoor market in Basra. In Tikrit, gunmen targeted an army checkpoint at a military base.The violence in Iraq has decreased from what it was during the war, but it has been getting worse in recent months.(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: After losing 800,000 jobs a month when I took office, businesses added jobs for the 30th month in a row. Weve added more than 4.6 million jobs.But we know that thats not good enough. We can do better. We need to create jobs even faster.MITT ROMNEY, GOP PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE: There were four times as many people who dropped out of the workforce as the net new jobs created under this president. And its not just a one-month figure. The White House has I think now for 31 straight months said, well, just dont look at the monthly numbers, monthly numbers arent that critical. Well, if you take 30 months and put them together, thats pretty critical.(END VIDEO CLIP)AZUZ: The latest U.S. jobs numbers being discussed on the campaign trail. The report for August came out on Friday, and it wasnt good. The Labor Department says 96,000 jobs were added in August. Now, that might sound like good news, but at least 150,000 jobs need to be added each month just to keep up with the growing U.S. population. The August numbers were lower than economists expected, and a sharp decrease from the month before. Also, the unemployment rate, it went down from 8.3 percent in July to 8.1 percent in August, but that was because more Americans quit looking for work. In fact, for every person who found a job, almost 4 people gave up looking for one.You just recently wrapped up your summer vacations and so did the U.S. Congress. Yesterday, lawmakers from the Senate and House of Representatives got back to work after a five-week recess. They are facing a lot of issues, and theyre facing some questions about how much they can get done. Athena Jones gives us a preview of this congressional session.(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)ATHENA JONES, CNN CORRESPONDENT: As election season enters the home stretch（冲刺阶段）, lawmakers returned to Capitol Hill（美国国会山） this week, facing big issues. But given their recent of accomplishment or lack thereof, the question is whether any of it will get done.JENNIFER DUFFY, THE COOK POLITICAL REPORT: The voters want to know when Congress is going to stop kicking the can down the road（将问题流到以后解救）. I mean, they are sort of out of road.JONES: The only must-pass item is a short-term measure to keep the government running and avoid the kind of costly shutdowns we saw twice in the 1900s. Its expected to pass.Congress could also pass measures to help people hit hard by the drought and by Hurricane Isaac.But perhaps the biggest challenge - the so-called fiscal cliff. A series of tax increases and spending cuts（缩短预算案） that experts warn taken together could plunge the economy back into a recession.JEANNE SAHADI, SR. WRITER, CNNMONEY: Theyll have about four weeks after the election to deal with some of the largest tax increases and spending cuts that the country has ever seen at one time.JONES: $110 billion in cuts to everything from defense to education to food inspections next year alone, will take effect in January unless lawmakers reach agreement on reducing the deficit（赤字）.One problem - Republicans and Democrats disagree on the Bush tax cuts（税减） due to expire（满期） at the end of this year. Republicans want them extended for everyone.SEN. JOHN BARRASSO, R-WYOMING: Americans know what works. Low taxes, reasonable regulations, and living within our means（量入为出）.JONES: Democrats, led by President Obama, support extending them just for people making less than $200,000 a year.OBAMA: I dont believe and you dont believe that another round of tax breaks （税收减免，税额优惠）for millionaires is going to bring good jobs back to our shores or pay down our deficit.JONES: Uncertainty about just what Congress will do is already weighing on the economy.SAHADI: Its just going to be a very bumpy（颠簸的） ride. Businesses are slower to hire, government agencies are slower to give out contracts. So it is sort of creeping into the economy now, and that will just get worse the longer Congress waits to deal with this.JONES: But wait is what Congress is almost certain to do.Both parties are hoping the election in November will put them in a better negotiating position. Whether that will bring them closer to a deal is anybodys guess.Athena Jones, CNN, Washington.(END VIDEOTAPE)AZUZ: Last week on CNN STUDENT NEWS, we talked about FAMU, Florida A&M University. The school has been involved in a scandal（丑闻） since last year when a member of the marching band died in an apparent hazing incident. There have been more recent accusations about another hazing incident involving a FAMU dance team. The school has a new policy for all students. If you want to register for classes there, you have to sign an anti-hazing pledge（保证，誓言）. FAMU officials announced the new requirement on Friday at the start of the new school year. It will go into effect next spring. And when students sign it, they promise not to participate, quote, in any hazing activities, either as a hazer or hazee, on or off campus. Under the anti-hazing pledge, students also are required to report any information about hazing to campus authorities（当局）.So will this have an impact on hazing? Its against the rules in a lot of places, but it goes on anyway. Do you think that signing a pledge will cut down on hazing at FAMU? Were looking for your comments on our blog today at . Please remember, its first names only, so if you include a last initial or the name of your class, it wont be published.UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Its time for the Shoutout. Which of the following has been clocked moving at 27 miles per hour? If you think you know it, then shout it out. Is it Usain Bolt, gray squirrel, Michael Phelps, or roadrunner（走鹃）? Youve got 3 seconds, go.The fastest of these options is Olympic gold medalist Usain Bolt, whos reached speeds of just over 27 miles per hour. Thats your answer and thats your Shoutout.AZUZ: If Usain Bolt wants to keep an eye on his competition, he usually has to glance back over his shoulder. But one challenger recently surpassed the sprinters spectacular speed. Who is this new racing rival? The question isnt who, but what. Jonathan Mann runs the details.(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)JONATHAN MANN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Usain Bolt may be the fastest man on the planet, but hes been passed by a man-made marvel. This four-legged robot just broke its own land speed record, blowing past Bolt. The Olympic gold medalist peaked at 27.78 miles an hour when he set the world record in the 100-meter sprint back in 2009. The cheetah clocks in at 28.3 miles per hour. The robot was built by Boston Dynamics（波士顿动力公司） and funded by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency - DARPA.ALFRED RIZZL, CHIEF ROBOTICS SCIENTIST, BOSTON DYNAMICS: So the real challenge is one of coordinating（协调） the motion of the robot, so how it uses its back and its legs to make its feet to make contact with the ground and control the posture and pitch of the body while its running so it can actually propel itself forward at rather high speeds.MANN: Boston Dynamics is developing a number of robots with amazing mobility. Some walk on two legs. Another may look like a toy, but it can leap 30 feet in the air. And the big dog scrambles over rough terrain（不平地区） on four legs. What it lacks in speed, it makes up for in agility（敏捷，灵活）. Give it a kick and it wont fall over. Put it on ice, and the robot slips but still manages to stay upright.Scientists say eventually, these robots could be used for military, search & rescue, and humanitarian missions.RIZZL: The hope is that in the longer term, they will be able to develop systems that can gain access to a lot of terrain thats you know, inaccessible by air vehicles or tractor-wheeled vehicles.MANN: As far as the cheetah robot, theres still a way to go before it will come close to the real thing. Experts say the wo