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1. President Barack Obama accepts the Nobel Peace Prize in Norway. The president says he may be able to live up to the honor if he can make progress on the nuclear-free world and tackling¹ climate change.

2. Pakistani investigators² are trying to find out if five Americans being held in Pakistan have links to terrorism. Police in the country say the D.C area men had confessed coming to Pakistan to take part in "jihad".

3. First it was a deadly winter storm. Now extreme cold is settling in parts of the Midwest in New England. The storm that dropped more than a foot of snow in those areas killed at least 17 people, pronouncing wind chill³ as low as 40 below.

4. Check out these huge waves in Hawaii for surfers competed in the annual competition, known as "The Eddie". The contest only takes place when average wave heights are above 20 feet

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1 tackling
n. 扭住, 抱住, 卷起
参考例句：
a bottom-up approach to tackling the problem 处理这个问题的自下而上的方法 There are three essentially different ways of tackling the problem. 解决这个问题有三种根本不同的方法。

2 investigators
n.调查者，审查者( investigator的名词复数 )
参考例句：
This memo could be the smoking gun that investigators have been looking for. 这份备忘录可能是调查人员一直在寻找的证据。 The team consisted of six investigators and two secretaries. 这个团队由六个调查人员和两个秘书组成。来自《简明英汉词典》

3 chill
vt.使变冷，使冷却，使沮丧；n.寒冷，风寒
参考例句：
With the chill factor,it's nearly minus forty here.加上风寒指数，气温接近零下40度。 The bad news cast a chill over the whole family.这坏消息使全家人感到沮丧。