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1. President Barack Obama is offering his birth control plan so that religious employers won't have to cover the cost. Instead, he shifts that responsibility to insurance companies, who will have to provide free contraception.

2. An Islamic extremist who killed two US airmen in an attack at a German airport last year has been convicted of murder. He has been sentenced to life in prison.

3. Republican presidential hopefuls are making their pitch to the party's conservative base. Mitt¹ Romney, Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich are all talking to the conservative group knowns as CPAC, each telling members they are the best candidate to challenge President Obama.

4. You could say this contest is the pits. Actually, it's a pit spitting contest in Israel, the goal to see who could spit an olive pit the furthest.

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1 mitt
n.棒球手套，拳击手套，无指手套；vt.铐住，握手
参考例句：
I gave him a baseball mitt for his birthday.为祝贺他的生日，我送给他一只棒球手套。 Tom squeezed a mitt and a glove into the bag.汤姆把棒球手套和手套都塞进袋子里。