美联社新闻一分钟 2005-10-14

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1. Rescue and relief efforts continue in Pakistan. The UN's emergency relief chief fears they are running out of time to get help to remote villages cut off by blocked roads.

2. Scores of Islamic militants¹ launch simultaneous attacks on police and government buildings in this city in Russia's turbulent Caucasus region, sparking battles that killed at least 49 people.

3. The European Union says the bird flu virus found in Turkish poultry² was the H5N1 strain that scientists worry it might mutate into a human virus.

4. British playwright³ and poet Harold Pinter has won the 2005 Nobel Prize in Literature. In its citation⁴, the academy said the 75-year-old playwright was one who restored the art form of writing plays.

5. And a course in exorcism supported by the Vatican is underway at one of \Rome's most prestigious⁵ pontifical⁶ universities

WORDS IN THE NEWS

1. turbulent
1 turbulent
A turbulent time, place, or relationship is one in which there is a lot of change, confusion, and disorder⁷.
They had been together for five or six turbulent years of rows and reconciliations⁸.
The turbulent world of Middle Eastern politics defies prediction.
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2. strain
11 strain strains
A strain of a germ, plant, or other organism is a particular type of it.
Every year new strains of influenza⁹ develop.
...a particularly beautiful strain of Swiss pansies.
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3. mutate
2 mutate mutates mutating mutated
If something mutates into something different, it changes into that thing.
Overnight, the gossip begins to mutate into headlines.
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4. exorcism
exorcism exorcisms
Exorcism is the removing of evil spirits from a person or place by the use of prayer.
The exorcism was broadcast on television.
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