AP美联社一分钟新闻 2009-02-13

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1. President Barack Obama's visit to Peoria, Illinois is the last event before the expected votes on the 789-billion-dollar economic stimulus¹ plan. Final House and Senate votes are on track as early as tomorrow. Illinois is the fourth state Obama has visited in as many days.

2. Doctors are praising today's court ruling against families who claimed a link between vaccines³ and autism. The special vaccine² court ruled the evidence overwhelmingly contradicts claims that certain vaccine combinations, including the measles-mumps-rubella shot, can cause autism in children.

3. The search for additional victims has come to an end in an Oklahoma community where nine people were killed by a tornado⁴ Tuesday night. The city manager in Lone⁵ Grove⁶ says 10 to 15 people are still unaccounted for. But they are believed to have left the area.

4. President Barack Obama is paying a very personal tribute to Abraham Lincoln on the former president's 200th birthday. Obama says he feels a special gratitude⁷ to the historical giant who in many ways made his own story possible.

WORDS IN THE NEWS

1. autism: n. 【医】孤独症

a mental disorder⁸ (=problem) that makes people unable to communicate properly, or to form relationships

2. measles-mumps-rubella shot:

【医】麻疹-流行性腮腺炎-风疹[疫苗]接种

3. unaccounted for: adj.

If people or things are unaccounted for, you do not know where they are or what has happened to them.