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2008.08.12
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1. Georgia's president says Russian troops have effectively cut the country in half. Troops have seized a strategic city that straddles the country's 1 . Meantime, a State Department spokesman says the US wants to see the Russians stand down. 2. Six people were hospitalized after an early-morning fire ripped through three residential buildings in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood. Two responding police officers were treated 2 for smoke inhalation. The Red Cross is helping about 30 people who were left homeless. 3. Police in Montreal say they were trying to 3 when last night's rioting broke out. One police officer was shot, stores were looted and firefighters were pelted with beer bottles. The rioting followed a peaceful protest a day after police shot three people, one fatally. 4. And this 700-pound man was once considered the world's most obese person. Now for the first time in five months and 4 a forklift, Manuel Uribe has left his home. He traveled to the shore of a lake in northern Mexico without ever leaving his specially designed bed. |
WORDS IN THE NEWS
1. straddle: v.
If something straddles a river, road, border, or other place, it stretches across it or exists on both sides of it.
2. seize: v.
When a group of people seize a place or seize control of it, they take control of it quickly and suddenly, using force.
3. inhalation: n.
Inhalation is the process or act of breathing in, taking air and sometimes other substances into your lungs. (FORMAL)
4. loot: v.
If people loot shops or houses, they steal things from them, for example during a war or riot.
5. pelt: v.
to attack someone by throwing a lot of things at them.
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