美联社新闻一分钟 2007-04-07（在线收听）

1. Moments before being captured, a suspected New Jersey bank robber begged police to shoot him. The man is one of the three suspects in a string of robberies. One led to the shooting of an FBI agent accidentally shot by a colleague.

2. Video from four years ago shows this Brooklyn divorce judge accepting cash and a 250-dollar box of cigars. They are from a lawyer seeking leniency in his own bribery case.

3. Passengers say crew members on this sinking cruise ship were more frightened than they were. Some leaving before passengers got off the ship. It eventually sank after striking rocks off an island in the Aegean Sea.

4. In the Florida Keys, they are hunting for Easter eggs underwater. One dive shop features a scuba diving Easter bunny hiding hard boiled eggs. Divers search for eggs on the sea floor dodging schools of fish, then turning in eggs for prizes.

WORDS IN THE NEWS

1. leniency: n-uncount
Leniency is a lenient attitude or behavior. When someone in authority is lenient, they are not as strict or severe as expected.

2. scuba diving: n-uncount
Scuba diving is the activity of swimming underwater using special breathing equipment. The equipment consists of cylinders of air which you carry on your back and which are connected to your mouth by rubber tubes.

3. dodge: verb
If you dodge something, you avoid it by quickly moving aside or out of reach so that it cannot hit or reach you.