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1. The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to three women for their non-violence struggle for the safety of women and for women's rights. The winners are Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberian activist¹ Leymah Gbowee and Tawakkol Karman of Yemen.

2. Police say the parents of a missing ten-month-old Missouri girl have stopped cooperating with detectives investigating the baby's disappearance². But police also say the parents aren't suspects at this time.

3. An effort by hundreds of police officers across Southern California has led to the arrest of at least a dozen members and leaders of the Vagos motorcycle club. Authorities say some Vagos members were involved in a large-scale drug distribution ring and took part in crimes ranging from theft to solicitation³ of murder.

4. Prosecutors⁴ are expected Friday to play a police interview conducted with the doctor charged in Michael Jackson's death. In it, Dr. Conrad Murray lays out his version of events in the final hours of the singer's life.

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1 activist
n.活动分子，积极分子
参考例句：
He's been a trade union activist for many years.多年来他一直是工会的积极分子。 He is a social activist in our factory.他是我厂的社会活动积极分子。

2 disappearance
n.消失，消散，失踪
参考例句：
He was hard put to it to explain her disappearance.他难以说明她为什么不见了。 Her disappearance gave rise to the wildest rumours.她失踪一事引起了各种流言蜚语。

3 solicitation
n.诱惑；揽货；恳切地要求；游说
参考例句：
Make the first solicitation of the three scheduled this quarter. 进行三位名单上预期捐助人作本季第一次邀请捐献。来自互联网 Section IV is about the proxy solicitation system and corporate governance. 随后对委托书的格式、内容、期限以及能否实行有偿征集、征集费用由谁承担以及违反该制度的法律责任进行论述，并提出自己的一些见解。来自互联网

4 prosecutors
检举人( prosecutor的名词复数 )；告发人；起诉人；公诉人
参考例句：
In some places,public prosecutors are elected rather than appointed. 在有些地方，检察官是经选举而非任命产生的。来自口语例句 You've been summoned to the Prosecutors' Office, 2 days later. 你在两天以后被宣到了检察官的办公室。