AP美联社一分钟新闻 2009-04-16

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1.President Barack Obama is using this tax-filing day to say he wants to get the dread¹ out of deadline day with “a simpler tax code.” "For too long we've seen taxes used as a wedge to scare people into supporting policies that actually increased the burden on working people instead of helping² them live their dreams. That has to change."

2.Dozens of young women took to the streets of Kabul to protest an Afghan law that lets husbands demand sex from their wives. About 800 counter-protestors showed up. Some of the women were pelted³ with small stones.

3.A close call at a Phoenix⁴ elementary school. The pilot of a small plane made an emergency landing on the playground just feet from a jungle gym and nearby classrooms. The pilot walked away, no one on the ground was hurt.

4.Follow that boat. A teenager pulling a boat behind his truck led police officers in a high-speed chase in Kingston, Tennessee. During the entire chase, another man was lying down in the boat. The teen's been charged with DUI.