美联社新闻一分钟 2007-06-23

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1. At a memorial service today in Charleston, South Carolina, thousands turned out to mourn nine firefighters killed in a warehouse¹ fire. Meantime officials say they are making progress in the investigation² into what sparked the blaze.

2. An Ohio sheriff says a baby found on a doorstep does not belong to a missing pregnant woman. Hundreds of volunteers have been searching for Jessie Davis who is nine-month pregnant. She vanished last week.

3. The space shuttle Atlantis has landed at California's Edwards Air Force Base after a two-week mission to the International Space Station. Clouds and rain in Florida forced NASA to land the shuttle at a backup landing site.

4. New York is about to become quieter at least a little. The noise code has been revised for the first time in 30 years and now has new restrictions³ on trucks in residential⁴ neighborhoods. It even reins⁵ in the levels on rover, more than ten minutes of barking could result in a ticket for the owner.

WORDS IN THE NEWS

1. sheriff: n-count
In the United States, a sheriff is a person who is elected to make sure that the law is obeyed in a particular county.

2. backup: n-count
If you have something such as a second piece of equipment or set of plans as backup, you have arranged for them to be available for use in case the first one doesn't work.