The British author Howard Jacobson has won this year's Man Booker Prize for his novel The Finkler Question. The announcement was made a short time ago at ceremony in London. The prize is worth about eighty thousand dollars. The BBC Art reporter has said the book's main themes are age and death and what it means to be Jewish. However, Mr.Jacobson said he had no intension of writing a Jewish novel and the main character was a gentile.
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几个小时之后,预期拯救智利被困地下的33名矿工的行动即将开始。这些被困矿工在地下700米的位置生存了两个多月。Gideon Long报道。
有消息来源告诉BBC,第一个升井的将是最有经验的矿工之一Florencio Avalos。他的弟弟和姐夫也被困井下。随后是Mario Sepulveda ,紧接着是玻利维亚矿工Carlos Mamani,他是被困矿工中唯一一个非智利公民。救援人员表示,每名矿工成功升井需要大约一个小时的时间。其中的10至12分钟,他们将处于救生舱内,通过620米的隧道被拉到地面。在救生舱中有氧气和对讲机,这样他们就可以跟营救人员通话。智利总统皮涅拉(Sebastian Pinera)将亲临矿区见证营救工作的开始。皮涅拉总统表示,必须从这次事故中吸取教训。
下井的矿工再也不会遭遇即将获救的被困矿工一样的经历,智利也不会再是过去一样的国家,智利公民也不再是同样的公民。我们学习到了一