美联社新闻一分钟 2006-09-12

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1. A day of remembrance around the country. President Bush laid a wreath¹ at the Pentagon for victims of the 9/11 attacks in the afternoon, and stood with first responders in New York in the morning.

2. Passengers aboard a United flight had to calm their nerves² when the plane was diverted³ to Dallas. It was heading from Atlanta to San Francisco. The airline says an unclaimed hand-held computer was found on board/onboard. All 50 passengers had to get off and be rescreened before the flight could continue.

3. Police in the Bahamas say Anna Nicole Smith was in the hospital room with her son when he died on Sunday. 20-year-old Daniel Smith was in the Bahamas visiting his mother who gave birth to a little girl last week. No word on how Daniel Smith died.

4. Hurricane Florence has passed Bermuda, leaving behind blown-out windows and knocking out power. Strong winds and rain are expected to last for the next several hours. Forecasters expect Florence to lose strength as it heads northeast. It is not expected to hit the US, but it is causing high surf and strong rip⁴ currents along the Eastern Seaboard.

WORDS IN THE NEWS

1. remembrance : n-uncount
If you do something in remembrance of a dead person, you do it as a way of showing that you want to remember them and that you respect them.

2. unclaimed : adj
If something is unclaimed, nobody has claimed it or said that it belongs to them.

3. rip current : n-count
A strong, narrow surface current that flows rapidly away from the shore, returning the water carried landward by waves. Also called rip tide, tiderip.