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1. Investigators are sifting through debris both in and around this luxury Manhattan high-rise. Just yesterday, a plane carrying New York Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle slammed into the building killing him and the flight instructor.
2. In Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, workers demolished this one-room Amish schoolhouse where gunman Charles Roberts fatally shot five girls before taking his own life.
3. At least 11 people are dead following an attack on a Sunni-Arab television station in Baghdad. Gunmen pulled up to the station in seven cars, stormed the office and opened fire. The head of the station's board of directors is among the casualties.
4. And soft drink giant Coca-Cola is ready to reveal Enviga, a beverage containing caffeine and green tea extract. Coke says together those two ingredients can help dieters burn calories quicker.
WORDS IN THE NEWS
1. sift through: phrase
If you sift through something such as evidence, you examine it thoroughly.
2. demolish: verb
To demolish something such as a building means to destroy it completely.
3. pull up: phrase
When a car or driver pulls up, the vehicle slows down and stops.
4. storm: verb
If a place that is being defended is stormed, a group of people attack it, usually in order to get
inside it.
5. board: n-count
The board of a company or organization is the group of people who control it and direct it.
board of directors: 董事会
6. extract: n-mass
An extract is a substance that has been obtained from something else, for example by means of a chemical or industrial process.
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