The recession was more than a year old when Mr. Obama took office, the Fed already had cut interest rates to zero and the economy was still in free fall.

在奥巴马上任时，经济衰退已经持续一年多时间了，美联储也已将利率下调到了零，但经济仍在大幅下滑。

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"This is a protest against corporate greed and we come to Wall Street because Wall Street is the Ground Zero for corporate greed," said Julia River Hitt, a 22-year-old philosophy student.

“这是一次对企业贪婪的抗议，我们来到华尔街，是因为华尔街是企业贪婪的归零地，”朱莉娅河伊特，22岁的哲学系学生如是说。

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When the zero hour, young and old happy ying ying to firecrackers sound welcome the New Year.

当零时一到，老老少少喜气盈盈，以爆竹声声迎接新年。

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Despite the public love affair with Mark Zuckerberg, he is only a 28-year-old with zero experience running a publicly traded company or even working at another publicly traded company.

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Meanwhile, Mexican authorities are focusing on a young boy being referred to as "patient zero" by his doctors -- 5-year-old Edgar Hernandez, who survived the earliest documented case of the swine flu outbreak.

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"I knew zero about retail or owning a business, " says the 29-year-old New Yorker, then a real estate agent.

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