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The bodies of 19 firefighters killed in an Arizona wildfire have been retrieved¹. The lone² surviving member of the 20-person elite³ team -- known as Hotshots -- was moving the crew's truck at the time.

Russia's Vladimir Putin says if Edward Snowden is going to get asylum⁴ in Russia, he'll have to stop leaking US secrets. But he believes Snowden has no intention of doing that. Russian media reports Snowden

requested asylum today which the US State Department has yet to confirm.

Egypt's military is giving the country's president and his opponents 2 days to reach an agreement before it steps in. For a second day, hundreds of thousands of protesters were calling on President Mohammed Morsi

to step down.

It's been 150 years since the Battle of Gettysburg. But for some it's still going on today. 10,000 people have descended⁵ upon the town to take part in the reenactment. Nearly 1,500 people were killed or wounded

in the pivotal Civil War battle.

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1 retrieved
v.取回( retrieve的过去式和过去分词 )；恢复；寻回；检索（储存的信息）
参考例句：
Yesterday I retrieved the bag I left in the train. 昨天我取回了遗留在火车上的包。来自《简明英汉词典》 He reached over and retrieved his jacket from the back seat. 他伸手从后座上取回了自己的夹克。来自辞典例句

2 lone
adj.孤寂的，单独的；唯一的
参考例句：
A lone sea gull flew across the sky.一只孤独的海鸥在空中飞过。 She could see a lone figure on the deserted beach.她在空旷的海滩上能看到一个孤独的身影。

3 elite
n.精英阶层；实力集团；adj.杰出的，卓越的
参考例句：
The power elite inside the government is controlling foreign policy.政府内部的一群握有实权的精英控制着对外政策。 We have a political elite in this country.我们国家有一群政治精英。

4 asylum
n.避难所，庇护所，避难
参考例句：
The people ask for political asylum.人们请求政治避难。 Having sought asylum in the West for many years,they were eventually granted it.他们最终获得了在西方寻求多年的避难权。

5 descended
a.为...后裔的，出身于...的
参考例句：
A mood of melancholy descended on us. 一种悲伤的情绪袭上我们的心头。 The path descended the hill in a series of zigzags. 小路呈连续的之字形顺着山坡蜿蜒而下。

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美联社新闻一分钟 AP 2013-07-05