美联社新闻一分钟 2007-01-25

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1. President Bush made energy of big topic in his State of the Union speech last night. Today he's following up. Bush toured an experimental station in Delaware to talk about finding and using alternative energy sources.

2. U.S. officials say four of the five Americans killed yesterday when a chopper went down in a Baghdad neighborhood were shot in the head. The helicopter was owned by a private security firm, Blackwater USA.

3. Mike Nifong, the district attorney in the Duke lacrosse rape¹ trial, faces more trouble. The state bar has added an ethics² charge against Nifong, which could lead to his removal from the state bar. The charge alleges³ that Nifong's office did not turn over DNA⁴ test results to the defense⁵ in a timely manner.

4. Scientists in Japan got to see a rare creature from the deep. The froward shark just showed up on its own in water southwest of Tokyo. Prehistoric⁶ shark is rarely seen alive as it usually lives 4,200 feet deep in the sea. But sometimes the creature surfaced to find warmer waters. The shark died though hours after it was seen.

WORDS IN THE NEWS

1. state bar: noun
A state bar is the government agency in one of the United States responsible for licensing⁷ attorneys.

2. froward: adj.
Froward means stubbornly contrary and disobedient; obstinate⁸.

3. surface: verb
If someone oe something under water surfaces, they come up to the surface of the water.