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[1]Officials say IMF chief Dominic Strauss-Khan is on suicide watch in his New York jail. He's charged with sexual assaulting a hotel maid. Meanwhile financial leaders are intensifying1 calls for him to resign.
[2]The government says more older Americans are getting addicted2 to drugs. The rate more than double from 1992 to 2008, more older adults say they got addicted to heroin3, cocaine4 and other illicit5 drugs, but alcohol remains6 the substance of choice.
[3]Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords will have surgery today as her astronaut husband Mark Kelly leaves the final mission of space shuttle Endeavour, Giffords was shot in the head in January. Doctors are replacing a piece of skull7 with a plastic implant8.
[4]Space shuttle Endeavour arrived at the International Space Station this morning. Once the hatch is open shortly after 8:30 am Eastern Time, Endeavour's six astronauts will deliver a two-billion-dollar piece of technology. This is Endeavour's final mission.
1 intensifying | |
v.(使)增强, (使)加剧( intensify的现在分词 );增辉 | |
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n.海洛因 | |
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n.可卡因,古柯碱(用作局部麻醉剂) | |
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adj.非法的,禁止的,不正当的 | |
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n.剩余物,残留物;遗体,遗迹 | |
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n.头骨;颅骨 | |
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vt.注入,植入,灌输 | |
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