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1. Hundreds of schools won't be open today because of a weekend storm in the northeast that dumped more than two feet of wet heavy snow in some areas. Millions of customers lost power, some could be without it for days.

2. Crews hope to stabilize¹ the shattered wreckage² of a Kansas grain elevator that blew up Saturday, killing³ at least three people. Three others are trapped and feared dead at the facility in Atchison, about 50 miles northwest of Kansas City.

3. A campaign spokesman for Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain blames "inside-the-Beltway media" for allegations that Cain was twice accused of sexual harassment⁴ while he was the head of the National Restaurant Association in the 1990s. Cain's campaign told the Associated Press that the allegations reported by politico aren't true.

4. Arab leaders have submitted a plan to Syria to end its bloody⁵ crackdown in a 7-month-old uprising. The panel expects a response today. The UN says the violence has left more than 3,000 people dead.

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1 stabilize
vt.（使）稳定，使稳固，使稳定平衡；vi.稳定
参考例句：
They are eager to stabilize currencies.他们急于稳定货币。 His blood pressure tended to stabilize.他的血压趋向稳定。

2 wreckage
n.（失事飞机等的）残骸，破坏，毁坏
参考例句：
They hauled him clear of the wreckage.他们把他从形骸中拖出来。 New states were born out of the wreckage of old colonial empires.新生国家从老殖民帝国的废墟中诞生。

3 killing
n.巨额利润；突然赚大钱，发大财
参考例句：
Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。 Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。

4 harassment
n.骚扰，扰乱，烦恼，烦乱
参考例句：
She often got telephone harassment at night these days.这些天她经常在夜晚受到电话骚扰。 The company prohibits any form of harassment.公司禁止任何形式的骚扰行为。

5 bloody
adj.非常的的；流血的；残忍的；adv.很；vt.血染
参考例句：
He got a bloody nose in the fight.他在打斗中被打得鼻子流血。 He is a bloody fool.他是一个十足的笨蛋。