美联社一分钟新闻 2009-03-01（在线收听）

1. Legendary investor Warren Buffett is warning shareholders of his Berkshire Hathaway that economic turmoil is likely to continue. Turmoil have helped bring a 62% drop in profits at the company last year.

2. President Barack Obama used his weekly message to say he will fight for change in heath care, energy and education. But he says change will be difficult because of what he calls "powerful vested interests" that will fight.

3. A pilots' group says turbulence from another plane may have caused this Turkish Airlines plane to crash, killing nine people and injuring scores more. The Boeing 737 went down just short of the runway at Amsterdam's airport.

4. Found in Peru, this 10-million-year-old fossil, a skull belonging to a giant marine bird with a wingspan of 20 feet. The bony-toothed bird went extinct some three million years ago.

WORDS IN THE NEWS

1. vested interests:

the groups of people who will gain from a plan, project, proposal etc

2. fossil: n. 化石

3. skull: n.

the bones of a person's or animal's head

4. wingspan: n.

the distance from the end of one wing to the end of the other

5. bony: adj.

a part of an animal that is bony consists mostly of bone