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1. Shortly after his arrival in St. Petersburg, President Obama met on the sidelines of the G20 summit, the Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. He planned similar meetings Friday with the leaders France and China. The President took notes of the economic decisions taken by Abe to improve consumer demand and investment in Japan.

2. He is at the G20 summit, but that isn’t stopping President Obama from lobbying members of congress back home. Obama has been making a phone calls to lawmakers even as he attends the economic summit in St. Petersburg. The President is looking to build the support for a resolution authorizing¹ a military strike on Syria.

3. Hundreds of people were hurt, 8 seriously, when more than 100 vehicles were involved in a pile-up on a bridge in Kent, in the south east England. Visibility was reportedly a problem over the New Sheppey crossing bridge at the time. And eyewitnesses² claimed there was a very thick early morning fog.

4. And it’s a girl. The Smithsonian National Zoo announced that its 2-week-old giant panda cub³ is a female and her father is National Zoo panda Tian Tian, It takes time to determine a cub’s gender⁴. And a DNA⁵ sample was collected to determine the paternity of the cub born August 23rd.

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1 authorizing
授权，批准，委托( authorize的现在分词 )
参考例句：
Letters of Marque: Take letters from a warning friendly power authorizing privateering. 私掠许可证：从某一个国家获得合法抢劫的证书。 Formal phavee completion does not include authorizing the subsequent phavee. 阶段的正式完成不包括核准随后的阶段。

2 eyewitnesses
目击者( eyewitness的名词复数 )
参考例句：
The examination of all the eyewitnesses took a week. 对所有证人的质询用了一周的时间。 Several eyewitnesses testified that they saw the officers hit Miller in the face. 几位目击证人证明他们看见那几个警官打了米勒的脸。

3 cub
n.幼兽，年轻无经验的人
参考例句：
The lion cub's mother was hunting for what she needs. 这只幼师的母亲正在捕猎。 The cub licked the milk from its mother's breast. 这头幼兽吸吮着它妈妈的奶水。

4 gender
n.（生理上的）性，（名词、代词等的）性
参考例句：
French differs from English in having gender for all nouns.法语不同于英语，所有的名词都有性。 Women are sometimes denied opportunities solely because of their gender.妇女有时仅仅因为性别而无法获得种种机会。

5 DNA
(缩)deoxyribonucleic acid 脱氧核糖核酸
参考例句：
DNA is stored in the nucleus of a cell.脱氧核糖核酸储存于细胞的细胞核里。 Gene mutations are alterations in the DNA code.基因突变是指DNA密码的改变。

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美联社新闻一分钟 AP 2013-09-10