美联社新闻一分钟 2006-12-31

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1. The head of Saddam Hussein's family has reportedly retrieve¹d his body from Baghdad. The delegation³ including a provincial⁴ governor negotiated with US and Iraqi officials to be able to bury the executed dictator tomorrow near his hometown.

2. Many Arabs are overjoyed at the news of Saddam Hussein's execution. They are dancing, singing and chanting in the streets. The area is home to one of the nation's largest concentrations of people with roots in the Middle East, many who fled their homeland during the rule of Saddam.

3. Former President Ford⁵'s body is now in Washington. He arrived Saturday evening for a state funeral and public viewing. Ford will be buried next week in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

4. Thousands packed in Augusta, Georgia arena⁶ to pay their respects to the late singer James Brown. Michael Jackson's arrival at the event sparked a roar from the crowd. He told the crowd that Brown was his greatest inspiration and he had never seen a performer move like James Brown.

WORDS IN THE NEWS

1. retrieve: verb
If you retrieve something, you get it back from the place where you left it.

2. concentration: n-count
A concentration of something is a large amount of it or large numbers of it in a small area.

3. pack: verb
If people or things pack into a place or if they pack a place, there are so many of them that the place is full.

4. spark: verb
If one thing sparks another, the first thing causes the second thing to start happening