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This is AP News Minute.
1. Engineers trying to cap the pipe that's sending oil into the Gulf1 of Mexico may have to bring in a second saw to finish cutting the pipe. The one they’ve been using became stuck in the pipe. Crews are still hoping to free it and then finish the cut.
2. President Barack Obama says the country's dependence2 on fossil fuels jeopardizes3 its national security, the economy and the environment and must be ended. He called for rolling back billions of dollars in oil company tax breaks and using the money in clean-energy technologies.
3. The Dutch government says an international arrest warrant has been issued for Joran van der Sloot. He was twice arrested in the disappearance4 of Natalee Holloway. Police say he is the prime suspect in the murder of a woman in Peru.
4. An international team of researchers will try to experience what it would be like to travel to Mars in mass. They are locking themselves in a windowless capsule for a year-and-half. The six-man crew will follow a harsh regimen of experiments and exercise.
I'm Nat Friedman, the Associated Press.
1 gulf | |
n.海湾;深渊,鸿沟;分歧,隔阂 | |
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2 dependence | |
n.依靠,依赖;信任,信赖;隶属 | |
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3 jeopardizes | |
危及,损害( jeopardize的第三人称单数 ) | |
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4 disappearance | |
n.消失,消散,失踪 | |
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