美联社新闻一分钟 2007-03-21

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1. The White House has offered a plan for congressional investigators¹ looking into the firings of eight federal prosecutors². Presidential advisor³ Karl Rove and former counsel Harriet Miers will be made available for questioning, but not testimony⁴ under oath.

2. A homecoming for a Boy Scout⁵ lost in North Carolina, lost since last Saturday. A tracking dog helped find 12-year-old Michael Auberry on a wooded ridge⁶ weak and dehydrated about a mile from where he wandered away.

3. The baseball season is on for Bluffton University less than three weeks after the team's bus toppled off an Atlanta overpass⁸ killing⁹ five players. The players made the decision after getting approvals from the families of their dead comrades.

4. A purse snatching caught on tape in Denver. First the grab, then the victim goes after the robber who is now driving a car. She hangs on, but eventually falling away from the vehicle. Police want your help in finding the suspect.

WORDS IN THE NEWS

1. ridge n-count
A ridge is a long, narrow piece of raised land.

2. dehydrate⁷ verb
If you dehydrate or if something dehydrates you, you lose too much water from your body so that you feel weak or ill.

3. wander verb
If a person wanders from a place where they are supposed to stay, they move away from the place without going in a particular direction.

4. hang on
If you hang on, you avoid failure in spite of great difficulties or opposition¹⁰.