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1. President-elect Barack Obama holds his first news conference since claiming the top job, saying hard work is needed to fix the economic crisis. In particular, he wants his transition team to come up with ideas to help the hard-hit auto1 industry.
2. A jury in Atlanta convicts a 36-year-old man of murder in a 2005 shooting spree in a courthouse that left a judge and three others dead. Brian Nichols confessed to the killings2 but said he was legally insane.
3. In Haiti, at least 30 people are dead in the collapse3 of a school building. And the death toll4 could rise as rescuers search for victims among the rubble5. Roughly 500 students from kindergarten on up went to the school.
4. A zoo in Australia has a new addition--this rare pygmy hippo, about the size of a puppy. Fewer than 3,000 of these hippos are left in the wild, inhabiting the lowland tropical forests of western Africa.
WORDS IN THE NEWS
1. pygmy: adj.
used to describe a type of animal or plant that is much smaller than other similar types.
2. hippo: n. 河马
informal a hippopotamus6.
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