美联社新闻一分钟 2007-03-06(在线收听

1. A suicide bomber struck a Baghdad book market killing more than two dozen people. The blast shattered a relative calm in the capital and triggered a series of raging fires.

2. Funerals start today for two of the eight students who died in last week's Alabama tornado. Some have questioned why officials didn't dismiss local schools when the weather warnings were first announced.

3. Investors are clearly still nervous. But stocks appear to stabilize today in New York even as overseas markets continue to see big declines.

4. And two Texas teenagers are facing felony charges after police uncovered a videotape of them allegedly showing two young children how to smoke marijuana. One of the boys is just two years old.

 

WORDS IN THE NEWS

1. shatter: verb
If something shatters your dreams, hopes, or beliefs, it completely destroys them.

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