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1. As Pakistani anger mounts, intelligence officials say al-Qaida's No. 2 man was invited to dinner at the village hit by a purported CIA airstrike but didn't show up.
2. A suicide car bomb hits a Canadian military convoy in a Southern Afghan city, killing 2 civilians and wounding 13 other people.
3. Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon will undergo a tracheotomy to help wean him off a respirator that's helped him to breathe since he suffered a massive stroke.
4. A space capsule ferrying the first comet dust samples to Earth parachutes on to a remote stretch of desert, drawing cheers from elated scientists.
5. Eminem remarries his high school sweetheart in Michigan, a month after the superstar rapper announced they were getting back together.
WORDS IN THE NEWS
1. tracheotomy
n.（名词）
【复数】 tra.che.ot.o.mies
The act or procedure of cutting into the trachea through the neck, as to make an artificial opening for breathing.
气管切开术：通过颈部切入气管的行为或程序，以制造人工呼吸通道
2. wean
2 wean weans weaning weaned
If you wean someone off a habit or something they like, you gradually make them stop doing it or liking it, especially when you think is bad for them.
He was mellowed by a wife who weaned him off violence and drink.
You are given capsules or pills with small quantities of nicotine to wean you from the habit.
Children should be weaned off television.
It's two years since I've seen Iain. I'm still trying to wean myself off him but it's hard.
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3. respirator
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A respirator is a device that allows people to breathe when they cannot breathe naturally, for example because they are ill or have been injured.
She was so ill that she was put on a respirator.
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4. capsule
4 capsule capsules
A space capsule is the part of a spacecraft in which people travel, and which often separates from the main rocket.
A Russian space capsule is currently orbiting the Earth.
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5. elated
elated
If you are elated, you are extremely happy and excited because of something that has happened.
I was elated that my recent second bypass had been successful.
`That was one of the best races of my life,' said an elated Hakkinen.
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= exhilarated
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