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1. Blind Chinese activists¹ Chen Guangcheng has left the US embassy in Beijing to receive medical care and be reunited with his family. He has told his lawyer that he is free.

2. At least seven people were killed in Kabul in a Taliban attack on a compound for foreigners. The attack came just hours after President Obama's visit there.

3. Police in Oakland, California fired tear gas, flash bang grenades to disperse² bottle-throwing crowds. After the May Day occupy march had largely ended, 23 arrests were reported. Arrests were also reported in other cities.

4. And lawyers for a pair of Hungarian students killed in a 2010 tour boat accident in Philadelphia have released a new video of that accident. The video shows the 80-yard long barge³ plowing⁴ over the smaller duck boat. The civil wrongful death law sue goes to court on Monday.

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1 activists
n.（政治活动的）积极分子，活动家( activist的名词复数 )
参考例句：
His research work was attacked by animal rights activists . 他的研究受到了动物权益维护者的抨击。 Party activists with lower middle class pedigrees are numerous. 党的激进分子中有很多出身于中产阶级下层。来自《简明英汉词典》

2 disperse
vi.使分散；使消失；vt.分散；驱散
参考例句：
The cattle were swinging their tails to disperse the flies.那些牛甩动着尾巴驱赶苍蝇。 The children disperse for the holidays.孩子们放假了。

3 barge
n.平底载货船，驳船
参考例句：
The barge was loaded up with coal.那艘驳船装上了煤。 Carrying goods by train costs nearly three times more than carrying them by barge.通过铁路运货的成本比驳船运货成本高出近3倍。

4 plowing
v.耕( plow的现在分词 )；犁耕；费力穿过
参考例句：
"There are things more important now than plowing, Sugar. "如今有比耕种更重要的事情要做呀，宝贝儿。来自飘（部分） Since his wife's death, he has been plowing a lonely furrow. 从他妻子死后，他一直过着孤独的生活。来自辞典例句