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1. Treasury¹ Secretary Timothy Geithner wants Congress to give him new powers to regulate huge companies like AIG. During a hearing in Congress, Geithner said the government must ensure the country never has to slog through a massive bailout again.

2. A dip in the Red River upstream from Fargo, North Dakota is providing some encouragement to sandbaggers. Crews trying to get ready for an expected 39- to 41-foot crest². Forecasters say this is good news, but it is too early to say if Fargo will be spared.

3. A fourth police officer in Oakland, California has died after being shot by a man wanted on a parole violation³. The officer was declared brain-dead on Sunday but kept alive, so organs could be donated to patients.

4. This is Elke, a five-day-old monkey in Australia that's being hand-raised by zoo staff. For now, rejected by her mother, the palm-size primate⁴ is making do with a warm quilt instead of her mum's belly⁵ and chest.

WORDS IN THE NEWS

1. slog through:

If you slog through something, you work hard and steadily⁶ through it.

2. be spared:

If a person or a place is spared, they are not harmed, even though other people or places have been.

3. make do:

If you make do with something, you use or have it instead of something else that you do not have, although it is not as good.