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1. The Dow Industrials rose nearly 142 points after more than a 500-point drop Monday. The move came as the Fed left interest rates unchanged and also pumped 70 billion dollars into the financial system.

2. Residents of Galveston in Texas have been allowed to look at their homes or what’s left after Hurricane Ike, but they're then supposed to leave. A judge may order people who never left during the storm to leave due to health concerns. President Bush surveyed the damaged region by air today.

3. Federal investigators¹ used stand-in train engines to do site tests at the scene of last week's deadly commuter² train crash in Los Angles. The tests were done to show when the trains came into view with each other. Meanwhile California Senator Dianne Feinstein has introduced legislation to mandate³ technology that would automatically stop trains if they bypass a red signal as the Metrolink train did.

4. The Food and Drug Administration defended its assessment⁴ that a chemical often found in baby bottles and other plastics is safe. The statement came the same day that a new study suggested possible links between BPA and diabetes⁵ and heart attacks.

WORDS IN THE NEWS

1.pump [VERB: V n into n]
If you pump money or other resources into something such as a project or an industry, you invest a lot of money or resources in it. (INFORMAL)
The Government needs to pump more money into community care.

2..stand in phr v
to temporarily do someone else's job or take their place

stand in for

Would you mind standing⁶ in for me for a while?

stand-in n.[c]
someone who does the job or takes the place of someone else for a short time
Gilbert failed to find a stand-in and so could not go to the party.
someone who takes the place of an actor for some scenes in a film
stand-in for
a stand-in for Tom Cruise

3.come into view

view【SIGHT】 [U and C]
what you are able to see or whether you can see it
be in view/come into view
Suddenly the pyramids came into view.

4.BPA 双酚A
Bisphenol A is a chemical compound containing two phenol functional⁷ groups. It belongs to the phenol class of aromatic⁸ organic compounds. It is widely prepared and sold and various important polymers/plastics are made from it.