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1. Hurricane Wilma slams Mexico's Caribbean coastline for a second day in a row, ripping away storefronts and peeling back roofs.
2. Amid more violence elsewhere in Iraq, US forces report killing 20 insurgents sheltering foreign militants near the border with Syria.
3. India proposes allowing Pakistani quake victims to cross the ceasefire line in Kashmir and get aid at relief camps it's setting up.
4. Damascus disputes UN report implicating Syrian and Lebanese officials in the murder of Lebanon's former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.
5. And authorities in Croatia begin killing thousands of domestic birds, one of the latest fronts in the global fight against avian flu
WORDS IN THE NEWS
1. storefront
1 storefront storefronts
A storefront is the outside part of a shop which faces the street, including the door and windows. (mainly AM; in BRIT usually use shop front)
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2. peel
3 peel peels peeling peeled
If you peel off something that has been sticking to a surface or if it peels off, it comes away from the surface.
One of the kids was peeling plaster off the wall.
It took me two days to peel off the labels.
Paint was peeling off the walls.
The wallpaper was peeling away close to the ceiling.
...an unrenovated bungalow with slightly peeling blue paint.
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3. front
7 front fronts
In a war, the front is a line where two opposing armies are facing each other.
Sonja's husband is fighting at the front.
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See also front line |