A new campaign is focused on convincing the world not to eat chickens, pigs, and other animals — just one day per week.

致力于说服人们不要食用鸡、猪和其它动物———每周只一天。

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“This has been the week of silly proposals,” says one observer. “The question for the world is whether we will move on quickly to serious ones.

“这周的提议都太荒唐了”一位评论者称：“问题对于全球来说是我们是够能够尽快的处理严重的问题。”

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"This has been the week of silly proposals," says one observer. "the question for the world is whether we will move on quickly to serious ones."

一位观察员如此说：“过去的一周是愚蠢提案的一周，整个世界的疑问就是我们能不能快点处理严重的问题”。

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The World Health Organization this week declared the first pandemic, or worldwide spread, of influenza in forty-one years.

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Next week is the one hundredth anniversary of the Paris Air Show, the biggest in the world.

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The World Food Program said last week that the number of hungry people will pass one billion this year for the first time in history.

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The annual Consumer Electronics Show is geek heaven on Earth -- a Super Bowl, Disney World and New York Fashion Week all rolled into one for the techies who flock to Vegas to eyeball the newest gadgets from the world's leading manufacturers.

CNN: What is CES anyway?

Europe's number one will leapfrog American Phil Mickelson to take the world number two spot next week - with only Tiger Woods standing between himself and the number one spot.

BBC: Ryder Cup 2010: Westwood aims to lead Europe by example

And, indeed, last week the world witnessed not one but two significant opinion-leader shifts.

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