美联社新闻一分钟 2007-03-21（在线收听）

1. The White House has offered a plan for congressional investigators looking into the firings of eight federal prosecutors. Presidential advisor Karl Rove and former counsel Harriet Miers will be made available for questioning, but not testimony under oath.

2. A homecoming for a Boy Scout lost in North Carolina, lost since last Saturday. A tracking dog helped find 12-year-old Michael Auberry on a wooded ridge weak and dehydrated about a mile from where he wandered away.

3. The baseball season is on for Bluffton University less than three weeks after the team's bus toppled off an Atlanta overpass killing five players. The players made the decision after getting approvals from the families of their dead comrades.

4. A purse snatching caught on tape in Denver. First the grab, then the victim goes after the robber who is now driving a car. She hangs on, but eventually falling away from the vehicle. Police want your help in finding the suspect.

WORDS IN THE NEWS

1. ridge n-count
A ridge is a long, narrow piece of raised land.

2. dehydrate verb
If you dehydrate or if something dehydrates you, you lose too much water from your body so that you feel weak or ill.

3. wander verb
If a person wanders from a place where they are supposed to stay, they move away from the place without going in a particular direction.

4. hang on
If you hang on, you avoid failure in spite of great difficulties or opposition.