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1. On Wall Street, another volatile1 day. The Dow Jones Industrial is falling 733 points, the second largest point loss ever. Stocks dropped on disappointing economic news including a big drop in retail2 sales.
2. Tonight is the last time presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain face-off. This time debating at Hofstra University on New York's Long Island. Topics include the economy and other domestic issues.
3. Vice3 President Dick Cheney gets treated at a Washington hospital for an abnormal heartbeat. The second time in less than a year Cheney has gotten a procedure. Doctors say Cheney's heart rhythm has returned to normal.
4. High above Newark, New Jersey4, a high wire daredevil takes a bike-ride at 135 feet up without a net. He wants a place in the record books for the longest distance and greatest height travelled by a bike on a wire.
WORDS IN THE NEWS
1. Procedure: n.
a medical treatment or operation.
2. high wire: n.
a tightly stretched rope or wire high above the ground that someone walks along as part of a circus performance.
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