美联社新闻一分钟 2007-06-10

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1. President Bush meets Pope Benedict XVI defending his humanitarian¹ record after the Pope expresses concerns about what he calls the worrisome situation in Iraq. On the streets of Rome, thousands of anti-American protestors denounced Bush.

2. It's a small fold in thermal² insulation³ on the space shuttle Atlantis. Cameras spotting it during a post-launch inspection⁴. NASA says it's not too concerned. Atlantis is on the way to the International Space Station.

3. Paris Hilton remains⁵ at a treatment center at a Los Angeles County jail undergoing medical and psychiatric evaluation⁶. A judge ordered the hotel heiress back to jail serving out her 45-day sentence.

4. A climber is rescued in North Carolina at the bottom of a practice wall. He apparently⁷ fell off the sheer rock face. Rescue teams carried him back up to cliff, then to an ambulance, headed to the hospital. His condition isn't known.


WORDS IN THE NEWS

1. worrisome: adj
making you anxious

2. thermal: adj
relating to or caused by heat

3. psychiatric: adj
relating to the study and treatment of mental illness

4. sheer: adj
a sheer drop, cliff, slope etc is very steep and almost vertical

5. rock face:
a very steep surface of rock on the side of a mountain