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LESSON 3 The Kid Who Challenged a Giant Company (1362 words) 1. What did a high-school student, Kelydra Welcker, discover about a large company in her area? 2. What did she do to try to solve the problem? 地域の大企業に何を発見? 0 Sometimes one's identity is to be found in one's name. Kelydra Welcker's 個性 Bersonalitican その人の名前に見い出される uncommon first name tells us the personality of her parents and of her own, Being 一風変った =identity 人柄 いなので amateur naturalists enthusiastic about the wildlife in their hometown, Parkersburg, 熱心な素人の自然研究者 に住んでる West Virginia, which lies at the junction of the Ohio and Little Kanawha rivers the 川の合流点 Welckers named their daughter after the snapping turtle in the local area. Their いにちなんで 地元のかみつきがメに love for nature was inherited by Kelydra as well as their scientific mind. いに対する ①自然への愛と ②科学精でいとともに I encountered her name in my research on science fairs, where school kids 偶然出会う 調べているとき 大会 present their results of scientific study to compete with other contestants. Kelydra 発表する 競う and 出場者 was a well-known figure in Parkersburg, not merely as a devoted competitor since 分野でちゃんと 活動する人 として enthusiastic 以来の kindergarten\but as a young Erin Brockovich. I could easily find her name on social 比 環境運動家 networking site. Kelydra was in college now and willingly agreed to be interviewed. 今大学生 よろこんでインタビューに応じると ③ During her junior year of high school keen to come up with a winning project, 9年生~12年生で 思いつく勝てそうな計画を検索 Kelydra spotted an article in the local paper that got her gears turning. みつけた PFOA a ギ やる気をそえるような. というのは説 chemical used by a large corporation in the production of Teflon, had slowly leaked ある大企業によって用いられる、生産する際に それまでに徐なもれだす into the local ground water and shown up in residents' blood tests. According to one 検出された 血液検査 study, (the amount of PFOA in blood samples of people living near the company's 工場の近くに住む人とが
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factory was roughly six times that of the national average. Further studies showed 全国平均の6倍に達していた さらに the possibility that PFOA could cause cancer. While evidence was insufficient, it 同格 可能性 だが、 十分とはいえなかったが、 seemed that any living creature who drank Parkersburg's water was doing so at its どんな生き物も 水をのんでる生き物は、 ・危険を冒して水をのんで氷をのんでいる own risk. Kelydra was terribly shocked. This just didn't seem right. But when 自ら危険を うかして まったく正しくは思えない she decided to choose this topic for her science fair project, she was about to learn for まさに今いなうとしている the first time that right and wrong weren't the only factors she'd have to consider. 生まれてはじめて 正しいこと、まちがっていることが唯一の要素でないと学ぼうとしていたトコ W + In Parkersburg,\just about everyone worked at this big company and Kelydra's =almost ほとんどだれもが family was no exception. Kelydra's father had always encouraged her scientific 例外 父は研究を激励していた。 projects, but this time he frowned by criticizing the company Kelydra could be しかし今度は 可能性 accused of trying to put the company out of business. But Kelydra believed in what いが正しいと信じる be blaue for:~で攻められる企業の倒産をもくろんでいる she was doing, and no one was to stop her.\\ =could だれも彼女をとめれない。 ⑤ Her first challenge was to figure out how to accurately gauge PFOA levels in 課題 考え出す どのように正確に測るか water. An economical method was definitely necessary for a nonprofessional 経済的に節約できる=Inexpensive のことして high-school girl. During her research, one fact caught her eye: PFOA was a 時 surfactant. which meant it produced foam when shaken) like bubble bath. Kelydra 界面活性剤 意味したDFOA ゆすると泡立つ あわ立て剤 knew that the more bubble bath you used, the more bubbles you goty Could the solution be as simple as boiling down the PFOA-laden water, shaking it, and 解決策は 煮つめる 入った水を ゆすって、 measuring how much foam was on top? Kelydra gave it a shot. After plotting her はかる どれほどのあわが上に残るか giveita ・try results for weeks on a graph, \she found that this simple measurement worked with かんたんに 何週間もかけて 結果ブラフにすると
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high accuracy. 正確な測定できる The next and harder task was to find a way to remove PFOA from the water さらに難しい課題は supply entirely. The company's current method for removing PFOA, carbon filters, 水道水 完全に 現在の was too expensive to be easily sustained. Searching desperately for a better way, あまりに高価すぎて維持 よい方法を必死さがしたあげく、 Kelydra eventually started considering the idea of combining small amounts of A 少量の carbon with a process called electrosorption, which uses electricity to remove 会社はカーボン 自分は電気きゅうちゃく. particles from water. 水から粒子をとりのぞく B 電気を用いて、 ⑦ For electrodes, she grabbed the windshield wipers from her dad's old car. To 電極 increase their surface area, she attached chunks of stainless-steel wool, then sandwiched them together with a thin layer of carbon fiber. After hooking up her strange device to a battery from a local discount store, Kelydra stuffed it into a large syringe, poured PFOA-laden water into the top, and waited for it to pass through, drop by drop. If she was lucky, her technique would remove 30 percent of PFOA. Once her sample was filtered, Kelydra resorted to her old standby, the boil-and-shake. No bubbles being created, Kelydra was puzzled. That would mean that her filter had removed 100 percent of the PFOA in her sample, which would be impossible. Assuming she must have done something wrong, Kelydra filtered another water sample, boiled it, and shook it. Still no bubbles. Kelydra repeated the process その作業を何度もくり返した
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again. And again. Eventually, she allowed herself to think the thought she 結局ついに認めるようになった。思いもよらなかったことを wouldn't have dared to entertain if the proof were not staring her in the face: Oh my あえて~する 楽しませる 述べる。 なす 目の前にげんぜんたる証拠が す。 god. Then she started saying it over and over. Ohmygod-ohmygod-ohmygod!r. Nevertheless, her family was not as happy as Kelydra herself. Kelydra was disappointed, but she could see her family was scared. She was a little scared, too, 気果けなかった。 so when a documentary filmmaker showed an interest in her project, urging her to すすめる。 approach the company with her findings, she was reluctant to step up to the plate. Based on the reactions she'd gotten from family so far, she felt a little intimidated at 家族から受けた反応 それま しりごみした。 the prospect of confronting the company directly. She wasn't ready for it, át least いという見込み not yet. Meanwhile, the film crew shot footage at the company's factory, which caused a good deal of trouble! Several days later the Welckers were astonished to find an FBI agent standing on their front porch to inform them that videotaping a ため chemical plant was considered a breach of homeland security/ Kelydra was now suspected of being a terrorist. Of course that was not what Kelydra expected. She had no intention of attacking them. In fact, she longed to help them / to reduce PFOA and save the local environment./ 実験 However, things got worse. One day Kelydra was stunned to hear that the ・月か前と逆のことを言う状況はさらに悪く ぼうぜんとした "Mid Ohio Valley Regional Science Faiy where she hoped to present her findings, had 説明 研究が発表されるはず to 地区 been canceled. Typically the large company was the main funder in the area. =asis often the case 2 >cold off よくあることだが、 →金だせなくなった
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Kelydra couldn't help wondering Had they pulled out, and had it been because of せざるを得ない 援助を中止したのだろうか wonderの 内容 her? 自問せざるを得ない 自分のせい? もう一つあった 中止したこと W Fortunately,\there was another science fair she could attend the Junior Science 幸いなことに 参加できそうな. 科学と人間のため。 & Humanities Symposium (JSHS). It was held at West Virginia Wesleyan College, 青少年シンポジウム which Kelydra had always loved but considered financially out of her reach During あこがれていたが 経済的に手の届かないと考えてた入学 the science fair, people visited the booths of the competitors to see their presentations. Kelydra was happy to talk to anybody who had an ear for her 発売るため だれでもだ =whoever 耳を傾ける research. Unlike most competitors, she always explained what she had done with したことを easy words. You just boil it and shake it. Perhaps she was thinking that science 易しい言葉で 煮つめてくるだけでいいんだよ。 科学は単純で was simple it didn't need to be intimidating. 人をこわがらせるようなものであるこがつような 必要はない。 + A petite woman in her fifties showed interest in Kelydra's research. They talked 小柄な女性 50代の 彼女らは together for several minutes. When she drifted off, a fellow competitor came up to =Teft 数分間 仲間の参加者がやってきて、 Kelydra, open mouthed in surprise, and informed her that she'd been chatting with =Stunned 今まで学長と話をしてたんだよ the president of West Virginia Wesleyan College. The president? It struck her =move 1\ impressed (thes that for a college president, this woman seemed so modest,\so reserved. But later 学表にしては 謙虚で控えめ のらに she was to learn that the very best gifts in life arrived in surprisingly simple, humble いすると知人生で最高のギフトは驚くほど質ではない packages. 7 届くのだということ
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At the awards ceremony of the JSHS, Kelydra won first place. But her coup was 優勝した yet to come. まだ先 as =good Luck! The college president also took Kelydra under her wing, pointing her 本当の幸 さらに 世話をした=fook careo教えてくれた to scholarships Kelydra had never known existed. Kelydra could land enough unic存在していることを知らなかった。 money to attend the college the following year. 14 進学するための金 =the next year. it have been かりる get 4 Now Kelydra is at West Virginia Wesleyan studying chemistry. She is no longer standing up to the company in 2007, a spokesperson for the company 三対立する Jannounced their success in reducing PFOA emissions in the U.S. by 98 percent, and 成功したこと アメリカにおけるPFOAの放出を98%へらした Their commitment to eliminate the need to make, buy, or use PFOA by 2015. 製造、買う、使うを中止発表 までに Having already taken out a patent on her PFOA removal system, Kelydra hopes to As shema特許を自作のPFOX除の特許をすでにとっていたので already approach the company with her ideas one day and cooperate with eliminating PFOA from Parkersburg's water supply for good. 除去する 15 のぞんでいる them in TLY いつか自分の考を走っていって 協力を申し出たい 会社 水道水から永遠に二forever 単に に白い実験服を着て立っているだれかでない “What I learned was that science isn't just someone standing up in a white lab 学んだことは coat, giving terms ten syllables long," Kelydra said. "To me, what science is, is you ・専門用語を述べることではない 私にとって、科学というもの人 take that research and give it to people who really need it. research 研究して that 本当に必要としている人に届けるこ ①. 保護したい トリや湖み愛してやまだかった 16 And not just people Kelydra wants to preserve the rivers and lakes she's loved 人間だけの話じゃない for as long as she can remember, ánd wildlife that swim in those waters. There is 間 物心がついたころから still a lot more for her to do to gealize her dream. やるべきことたくさんある。夢実現のために K But knowing Kelydra Welcker, I have no doubt she will keep trying. Sea, river, laker Sがつく 人々為を知っているので 挑戦をつづけていくことを確信
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