ABC (2010-11) (2회)

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ABC NEWS STORY2: MORE LIFE: STAND UP

DIANE SAWYER (ABC NEWS): (OC) 이 뉴스를 듣기 위해서 혹시 앉으실 건가요?

So, are you sitting down for this story? 

사무실 공간에서이든 집에서이든, 앉는 것이 우리 국민들에게 일상화 된 것으로 연구 결과 나타났습니다.

Well, it turns out, whether you spend the day in a cubicle or at home, sitting has become the new national past time. 

한데 오늘 전해 드릴 소식은 얼마나 오래 앉아 있는가에 따라 몸의 화학 구조가 바뀐다는 것입니다.

But we have news tonight that how long you sit actually changes your body chemistry. 

수명에도 영향을 미치게 됩니다.

And affects how long you can live. 

데보라 로버츠가 설명합니다.

Deborah Roberts explains.

DEBORAH ROBERTS (ABC NEWS): (VO) 컴퓨터를 하시느라 그리고 전화를 받느라 웅크려 앉은 자세.

Hunching over keyboards and phones. 

우리 대다수가 하루 종일 그런 자세입니다.

So many of us do it all day.

EMPLOYEE (SALO): 오후 중반쯤 되면, 눈이 피로하고 등이 아프게 되며 지칩니다.

By the middle of the afternoon, you're exhausted, you know, eyestrain, back strain.

DEBORAH ROBERTS: (VO) 더욱이, 그 앉아 있는 자세가 치명적일 수도 있습니다.

And even worse, all that sitting could be deadly.

PROFESSOR MARC HAMILTON (PENNINGTON BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER):

흡연 그리고 지나치게 앉는 것은 일부 비슷한 효과를 초래합니다.

Smoking and sitting too much have some striking parallels. 

전세계적인 현상이며 일반적이고 아주 위험합니다.

It's global and it's common and it's hazardous.

DEBORAH ROBERTS: (VO) 해밀튼 박사가 실험용 쥐를 통해 발견한 놀라운 사실입니다.

Dr Hamilton made the stunning discovery with lab mice. 

쥐를 달리지 못하도록 하자, 살이 쪘습니다.

When prevented from running around, they put on weight. 

가만히 있게 되면 지방을 태우는 중요한 화학 물질이 나오지 않습니다.

They found that being sedentary turns off an important chemical that burns fat. 

못지 않게 놀라운 사실은, 하루에 여섯 시간 이상 앉아 있는 경우 당뇨, 심장 질환 및 비만으로 죽을 가능성이 더 높아집니다.

And just as frightening, people sitting longer than six hours a day are more likely to die from diabetes, heart disease and obesity. 

STORY3. DODGING TAXES? : A LOOPHOLE

DIANE SAWYER (ABC NEWS): (OC) It's a conventional saying among Americans, that nothing is certain except death and taxes, but not if you're a clever corporation.  Turns out, some of the big American companies so much apart of your day are finding innovative ways to dodge the tax man.  David Muir is on that money trail.

DAVID MUIR (ABC NEWS): (VO) The report finds Google has done some searching of its own - for countries overseas - where it can avoid US taxes.

JESSE DRUCKER (REPORTER FOR BLOOMBERG): Over the last three years, Google has saved $3 billion in income taxes.

DAVID MUIR: (OC) $3 billion?

JESSE DRUCKER: $3 billion with a B, yeah.

DAVID MUIR: (VO) Even though Google is primarily a US Company based in northern California, all of the profits it makes overseas never come back to the US, and therefore, never get taxed here, and here's how.  Google licensed some of the intellectual property it created here in the US to a subsidiary in Ireland.  But it turns out, Google's overseas profits don't even get taxed there, because Google then reportedly funnels those profits through the Netherlands, and then to, of all places, Bermuda, where the corporate tax rate is zero.  But how much of what Google does is actually in Bermuda?

(OC) So you went to Bermuda?

JESSE DRUCKER: Yes.

DAVID MUIR: (OC) Did you find a massive Google headquarters there?

JESSE DRUCKER: No.

DAVID MUIR: (VO) Instead, what he found was this simple office building.  No Google sign to be found anywhere.  And it turns out, just three employees, two lawyers and a manager.  And had Google not set up this money trail that ends up in Bermuda?

(OC) Those profits would all come back to the US, where they would be taxed here.

JESSE DRUCKER: Correct.

DAVID MUIR: (VO) But what Google is doing is all perfectly legal, all allowed by US tax law.  Bloomberg reports that Microsoft uses a similar strategy and that Facebook reportedly is in the process of doing so too.  All declined comment, but economists say there are countless companies doing this, costing the US about $60 billion in tax dollars every year.  That's enough to pay for 1.2 million public schoolteachers, to pave 48,000 miles of highway, to pay for a year of college for 8.5 million students.

(OC) The average American family in the middle of this country is going to look at this and say "I can't send my assets to Bermuda to get a lower tax rate, why should Google or any other company be able to do this?"

JESSE DRUCKER: That's a very fair question and I don't have a great answer for that.

DIANE SAWYER: (OC) And what is Google saying tonight?

DAVID MUIR: (OC) Well, they are telling us the same thing they told Bloomberg at first, that their practices are similar to those at countless other global companies.  But Diane, I talked to a former US Treasury official who said, don't completely blame the companies, the corporations here, blame Congress.  He says lawmakers know full well what's going on here.

DIANE SAWYER: (OC) All right, and our thanks to Bloomberg for all their reporting on this story.