美联社新闻一分钟 2006-09-17

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1. Bill Clinton was one of the many mourners who attended a service for former Texas Governor Ann Richards in the state Capitol Rotunda¹. Her body will lie in state for the next two days before her funeral and burial.

2. Federal investigators² trace the source of a deadly E. coli outbreak to a California company. The outbreak hit 19 states, killed one woman--77-year-old Marion Graff.

3. A pathologist hired on behalf of Anne Nicole Smith is arriving in the Bahamas today. He will perform a second autopsy³ on her son Daniel who died just three days after Anne Nicole gave birth to a daughter.

4. Protesters made their voices heard during Mexico's 196th Independence Day celebrations. They chanted from the capital square in support of the leftist candidate defeated in the July 2nd presidential election.

WORDS IN THE NEWS


1. rotunda : n-count
A rotunda is a round building or room, especially one with a round bowl-shaped roof.

2. lie in state : phrase
If the dead body of an important person lies in state, it is publicly displayed for a few days before it is buried.

3. on behalf of :phrase
If you do something on someone's behalf, you do it for that person as their representative.