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1. It will be next week at the earliest before Republican Lisa Murkowski knows whether she will be defending her Senate seat from Alaska this November. The vote count from yesterday's primary shows about 2,000 votes behind challenger, Sarah Palin-backed Joe Miller¹.

2. A homeless man has been arrested and is facing charges related to a fire that destroyed 11 houses in southern Oregon. Forty-year-old John Thiry was arrested at 3 a.m. under a freeway overpass².

3. A team of Kentucky doctors spent much of the day, performing a rare double hand transplant. They started the complex procedure Tuesday night. It's only the third operation of it's kind in the US.

4. Tiger Woods says he feels more sadness than relief two days after his divorce was finalized³. Ex-wife Elin Nordegren said she has been through hell since her husband's infidelity surfaced, but she never hit him. She spoke⁴ to People magazine.

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1 miller
n.磨坊主
参考例句：
Every miller draws water to his own mill.磨坊主都往自己磨里注水。 The skilful miller killed millions of lions with his ski.技术娴熟的磨坊主用雪橇杀死了上百万头狮子。

2 overpass
n.天桥，立交桥
参考例句：
I walked through an overpass over the road.我步行穿过那条公路上面的立交桥。 We should take the overpass when crossing the road.我们过马路应走天桥。

3 finalized
vt.完成（finalize的过去式与过去分词形式）
参考例句：
The draft of this article has been finalized [done]. 这篇文章已经定稿。来自《现代汉英综合大词典》 The draft was revised several times before it was finalized. 稿子几经删改才定下来。来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

4 spoke
n.（车轮的）辐条；轮辐；破坏某人的计划；阻挠某人的行动 v.讲，谈（speak的过去式）；说；演说；从某种观点来说
参考例句：
They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。 The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。