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Today's Highlight in History:

On November tenth, 1928, Hirohito was enthroned as Emperor of Japan.

On this date:

In 1775, the US Marines were organized under authority of the Continental Congress.

In 1871, journalist-explorer Henry M. Stanley found missing Scottish missionary David Livingstone in central Africa.

In 1919, the American Legion held its first national convention, in Minneapolis.

In 1954, the Iwo Jima Memorial was dedicated in Arlington, Virginia.

In 1969, the children's educational program "Sesame Street" made its debut on PBS.

In 1975, the UN General Assembly approved a resolution equating Zionism with racism (however, the world body repealed the resolution in December 1991).

In 1975, the ore-hauling ship "Edmund Fitzgerald" and its crew of 29 vanished during a storm in Lake Superior.

In 1982, Soviet leader Leonid I. Brezhnev died at age 75.

In 1982, the newly finished Vietnam Veterans Memorial was opened to its first visitors in Washington DC.

In 1989, workers began punching a hole in the Berlin Wall, a day after East Germany abolished its border restrictions.

Ten years ago: Secretary of State James A. Baker the Third returned to Washington, claiming success in his weeklong diplomatic tour aimed at shoring up the anti-Iraq coalition. Chandra Shekhar was sworn in as India's new prime minister.

Five years ago: Defying international appeals for clemency, Nigeria's military rulers hanged playwright Ken Saro-Wiwa along with eight other anti-government activists. Searchers in Katmandu, Nepal, rescued 549 hikers after a massive avalanche struck the Himalayan foothills, killing 24 tourists and 32 Nepalese.

One year ago: President Clinton decided to delay and shorten a trip to Greece in reaction to growing security concerns and the prospect of violent anti-American demonstrations. Investigators said the flight data recorder from EgyptAir Flight 990 showed things were normal until the autopilot mysteriously disconnected and the Boeing 767 began what appeared to be a controlled descent.

每日格言：

"Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you?"

-- Fanny Brice, American actress and singer (1891-1951).

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Seven cars of a freight train in Washington have derailed over the Anacostia River. A Fire Department official says there are no injuries and there is no cause for concern. Some coal and oil spilled into river but officials say the spill is contained.

Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazair Bhutto is free. Government officials ended the opposition leader's house arrest after pressure from the US. White House officials are concerned the crackdown might interfere with anti-terrorism operations.

Former New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik turned himself into the FBI today. In 2004, President Bush nominated him to head the Department of Homeland Security. Today he is charged with conspiracy, corruption and tax evasion.

A two-year-old girl born with four arms and four legs has regained consciousness after a 24-hour operation to remove the extra limbs. Doctors in India say the toddler is smiling but seems to be confused about the loss of her extra limbs.

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In the news Report



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This is In The News in Special English

The political criese in Pakistan deepen Friday, Opposition leader B.B tried to leaded a big protest against in emergency rule decleard last Saturday by President P.M. Instead the former prime minister spend the day under house arrest. She tried to leave her home in * to attend the demonstration that she organized in their *. But she could not get past barriers and hundreds of polices around her home.

Late in the day however, then as B was fleed. The government said the detention order had been with wrong. In *, polices crashed with several hundred protesters who violated the ban on demonstratons. B says she still plans to lead a protest march early next week from H to E. She returned to Pakistan last month after 8 years of exile to avoid corruption charges. Before she returned, she have been negotiating with president B on a possible positive alliances.

Last weekend the president dismisss the Supreme Court. He has placed the Chief Judgers and other judgers under house arrest. He also suspended the constitution and shut down privately owned television new stations. And he gave wide power to officials to crash decent. Protests had been suspected sometimes violently by polices recently days. How many people had been the detained is unclear. The number is in the thousands. Including opposition members, human right actives and lawers.

The opposition is demanding at President L in the emergency rule retired as army chief and hold election in January. World leaders including President Bush had also call of him to these things. President Bush considers the leader of the nuclear armed nation and improtant ally against terrorism.

Since 2001 the Unite State has give Pakistan alomost 10 billion dollars in aid mostly for its military. National election would plan for early Jaunary. This week, J. said elections would now be held by February 15. He also said he will resign as army chief before he is warmed again as president. He said he would keep that promise once the new supreme court confirms his reelection.

T. said the election announcement was simply an attempt to quiet the growing decent. J. see is power in 1999. Lated he is elected to a 5 years term. And last month , law makers elected him to another term. Many political observers say he declared emergency rule brcause he fear that the Supreme Court would cancel his reelection. The court had been considering weather he was permited by law to run for president while serving as army chief. J.M says he declared emergency rule because of the growing threat from his law makers and active judgers.

And that's In The News In VOA Special English, Written by B.B. For more news about Pakistan,go to voaspecialenglish.com. I'm S.E


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The prince’s Y chromosome mutations do lend support to his claim. They point to Middle Eastern ancestry. But it’s not definitive proof. With Genghis Khan, we have 16 million men pointing to one man. With Solomon, we may have one Ethiopian prince. There is simply not enough evidence to go on. The experiment shows how hard it can be to trace the Bible’s genealogy. It’s a book of faith, not forensic evidence. “What the Bible is saying about creation is way beyond the scope of science. It’s not about DNA and all that. It’s about who we are as people.” In Hebrew, the name Adam also means people. “What’s important about Adam is that Adam is every person.” The Bible gave us the idea of Adam. But finding the scientific version will take modern genetics. If we succeed, we will link all men today back to a scientific Adam and maybe even pinpoint his Garden of Eden.

As people move from place to place, they often end up far from where their lineage began. Our family tree is becoming tangled at the top. Tracing family lines is getting harder and harder. There is only one way to clear away the tangles- analyze Y chromosomes from people who still live in the land of their forefathers. To get a clearer picture of our family tree, Wells is leading a research project with the National Geographic Society and IBM. It’s called the Genographic Project. It’s a massive undertaking. It will take years. But when he’s done, Wells will be able to tell where anyone in the world comes from. Wells and his colleagues have crisscrossed the globe in search of DNA samples. From aborigines in Australia to tribesmen in South America, they’ve journeyed from Central Asia to South Africa to Siberia. Wells can already tell a lot about some men’s origins, just using their Y chromosome. And he thinks he’s found something unexpected in the background of one of America’s most famous figures—the third president, Thomas Jefferson.



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Today's Highlight in History:
On November eleventh, 1918, fighting in World War One came to an end with the signing of an armistice between the Allies and Germany.

On this date:

In 1620, 41 Pilgrims aboard the "Mayflower," anchored off Massachusetts, signed a compact calling for a "body politick."

In 1831, former slave Nat Turner, who'd led a violent insurrection, was executed in Jerusalem, Virginia.

In 1889, Washington became the 42nd state.

In 1921, President Harding dedicated the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery.

In 1939, Kate Smith first sang Irving Berlin's "God Bless America" on network radio.

In 1965, Rhodesia proclaimed its independence from Britain.

In 1966, "Gemini 12" blasted off from Cape Kennedy, Florida, with astronauts James A. Lovell and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin Junior aboard.

In 1972, the US Army turned over its base at Long Bihn to the South Vietnamese army, symbolizing the end of direct US military involvement in the Vietnam War.

In 1992, the Church of England voted to ordain women as priests.

In 1993, a bronze statue honoring the more than eleven-thousand American women who'd served in the Vietnam War was dedicated in Washington DC.

Ten years ago: Stormie Jones, the world's first heart-liver transplant recipient, died at a Pittsburgh hospital at age 13.

Five years ago: With a partial government shutdown looming, President Clinton and Republican congressional leaders clashed over Medicare and bickered over who to include in compromise budget talks.

One year ago: A car bomb ripped through a Bogota commercial district, killing at least eight people, but President Andres Pastrana defiantly signed extradition orders for three suspected drug traffickers. Sixty-seven people were killed when an apartment building collapsed in Foggia, Italy; an investigation blamed the collapse on cheap materials and slipshod construction. Argentine journalist Jacobo Timerman died in Buenos Aires at age 76.

每日格言：

"If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us."

-- Herman Hesse, German novelist (1877-1962).

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1.From his ranch in Crawford, Texas, President Bush said Saturday that Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf is making some positive steps. Pakistan has declared it will lift its state of emergency within a month.

2.Lights out on Broadway.More than two dozen shows have gone dark as unions representing stagehands are on strike. They have been without a contract since the end of July. Eight shows are not affected because they are in theatres with separate contracts, and off-Broadway shows will also keep running.

3.Literary giant Norman Mailer has died. Mailer won acclaim for his classic debut novel "The Naked and the Dead", and later won two Pulitzer Prizes for other works. His biographer says Mailer died Saturday morning of kidney failure at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. He was 84.

4.After safely reaching its launch pad at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, the space shuttle Atlantis now awaits its next major milestone for the upcoming STS-122 mission.The full launch dress rehearsal is scheduled for later in November.

WORDS IN THE NEWS

1. stagehand: noun.
someone who works on a theatre stage, getting it ready for a play or for the next part of a play

2. acclaim : noun.
praise for a person or their achievements

3. launch pad: noun phrase.
(also launching pad)a base from which a weapon or spacecraft is sent up into the sky

4. dress rehearsal : noun phrase.
You can describe an event as a dress rehearsal for a later, more important event when it indicates how the later event will be

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Words and their stories Report



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I'm Susan Clark with the Special English Program Words and Their Stories.

Tom Smith is the best hitter on his company's baseball team. For weeks during the playing season, Tom hit a homerun in every game the team played. But then suddenly he stopped hitting homeruns. He could not hit the baseball at all. One day he struck out three times in one game. He said I'm afraid I am losing it.

Mary Jones bought a dress in a woman's clothing store. She felt very happy about buying the dress until she got home. Then she remembered she had left her credit card at the store when she used it to pay for the dress. It was the third time that month that Mary had forgotten something important. Mary was angry with herself. She said: Am I losing it?

Emma Cleveland was teaching a class in mathematics at a college. She began to explain to the students how to solve a very difficult problem. She understood it very well, but somehow at that moment she could not explain it. Emma said I must be losing it.

Americans seemed to have a lot of concern about losing it. At least that is what you would think from hearing them talk. They use the expression when they feel they are losing control. It can mean losing emotional control, or losing the ability to do something, or losing mental powers.

Word/ experts differ about how the expression started. Some believe it came from television programs popular in the 1980s. Others believe that it began with psychologists and psychiatrists who deal with how people think, feel and act. One psychologist said we Americans have many concerns about controlling our lives, perhaps we worry too much.

She continued in many situations to say you are losing it eases the tension. It is healthy. And most of people who say they are having a problem are not losing it. People may feel more like they are losing when they are down in the dumps. People who are down in the dumps are sad. They are depressed.

Word expert Charles Funk says people have been feeling down in the dumps for more than four hundred years. Sir Thomas More used the expression in 1534. He wrote, our poor family has fallen in such dumps. Word experts do not agree what the word dumps means. One expert John Aital says the word dumps probably comes from the Scandinavian countries. The languages of Danmark and Norway both have similar words. The words mean to fall suddenly. Americans borrowed the saying. And over the years it has become a popular way of expressing sadness.

This Words and Their Stories Program was written by Jerry Watson. I'm Susan Clark.


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