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1. An elderly priest is acknowledging that he was naked in saunas with Mark Foley decades ago, but denies having a sexual relationship with the former congressman, calling a report in the Sarasota Herald-Tribune exaggerated.
2. Dozens were killed in two separate suicide bombings in Iraq. In Kirkuk, the target was a local bank; in Mosul, a major police station was attacked.
3. In an accident similar to the one that killed "Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin, an 81-year-old Florida man is in critical condition after a stingray flopped into his boat. Surgeons removed a foot-long barb from his heart.
4. And a dramatic video from southern Turkey where fierce tornadoes swirled about in the open sea as unfazed tourists watched the scene unfold from shore.
WORDS IN THE NEWS
1. stingray: n-count刺鳐
A stingray is a type of large flat fish with a long tail which it can use as a weapon.
2. flop: verb
If something flops onto something else, it falls there heavily or untidily.
3. faze: verb
If something fazes you, it surprises, shocks, or frightens you, so that you do not what to do. (INFORMAL)
unfazed: adj.
=calm, composed, unperturbed, untroubled
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