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Today's Highlight in History:

On November 27th, 1973, the Senate voted 92-to-3 to confirm Gerald R. Ford as vice president, succeeding Spiro T. Agnew, who'd resigned.

On this date:

In 1901, Army War College was established in Washington DC.

In 1910, New York's Pennsylvania Station opened.

In 1939, the play "Key Largo," by Maxwell Anderson, opened at the Ethel Barrymore Theater in New York.

In 1942, during World War Two, the French navy at Toulon scuttled its ships and submarines to keep them out of the hands of the Nazis.

In 1945, General George C. Marshall was named special US envoy to China to try to end hostilities between the Nationalists and the Communists.

In 1953, playwright Eugene O'Neill died in Boston at age 65.

In 1970, Pope Paul the Sixth, visiting the Philippines, was slightly wounded at the Manila airport by a dagger-wielding Bolivian painter disguised as a priest.

In 1978, San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and City Supervisor Harvey Milk, a gay-rights activist, were shot to death inside City Hall by former supervisor Dan White.

In 1983, 183 people were killed when a Colombian Avianca Airlines Boeing 747 crashed near Madrid's Barajas airport.

In 1985, the British House of Commons approved the Anglo-Irish accord giving Dublin a consultative role in the governing of British-ruled Northern Ireland.

Ten years ago: 107 people were killed when a bomb blamed by police on drug traffickers destroyed a Colombian jetliner, minutes after the plane had taken off from Bogota's international airport.

Five years ago: Defense Secretary William Perry, appearing on NBC's "Meet the Press," suggested the Bosnian government had lost the war in the Balkans, and acknowledged NATO was powerless to stop the Serbs.

One year ago: Answering 81 questions put to him three weeks earlier, President Clinton wrote the House Judiciary Committee that his testimony in the Monica Lewinsky affair was "not false and misleading."

每日格言：

"Compromise makes a good umbrella but a poor roof; it is a temporary expedient."

-- James Russell Lowell, American editor (1819-1891).

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Washington Redskins star safety Sean Taylor is in critical condition after being shot in the leg at his Florida home. Miami-Dade police are investigating the shooting as a possible armed robbery.

Police have now tentatively identified Baby Grace as two-year-old Riley Ann Sawyers. Her mother and stepfather are in police custody. The cause of death has not been determined. Investigators are still waiting for DNA test results.

Trent Lott is stepping down as the number two Republican in the Senate and leaving Congress at the end of the year. Mississippi 's Republican governor will pick a temporary replacement for Lott. The Senate seat is expected to remain in Republican hands.

Some are calling it an ''Inconvenient Reunion'' at the White House. President Bush congratulated this year's American Nobel Prize winners. Among them, former Vice President Al Gore, he and the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change share the Nobel Peace Prize.

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Today's Highlight in History:

On November 28th, 1520, Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan reached the Pacific Ocean after passing through the South American strait that now bears his name.

On this date:

In 1919, American-born Lady Astor was elected the first female member of the British Parliament.

In 1925, the Grand Ole Opry, Nashville's famed home of country music, made its radio debut on station WSM.

In 1942, nearly 500 people died in a fire that destroyed the Cocoanut Grove nightclub in Boston.

In 1943, President Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Josef Stalin met in Tehran during World War Two.

In 1958, the African nation of Chad became an autonomous republic within the French community.

In 1964, the United States launched the space probe "Mariner Four" on a course to Mars.

In 1975, President Ford nominated Federal Judge John Paul Stevens to the US Supreme Court seat vacated by William O. Douglas.

In 1979, an Air New Zealand DC-10 en route to the South Pole crashed into a mountain in Antarctica, killing all 257 people aboard.

In 1987, a South African Airways Boeing 747 crashed into the Indian Ocean with the loss of all 159 people aboard.

In 1990, Margaret Thatcher resigned as prime minister of Britain during an audience with Queen Elizabeth the Second, who conferred the premiership on John Major.

Ten years ago: Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci arrived in New York after escaping her homeland by way of Hungary.

Five years ago: Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer was murdered in a Wisconsin prison by a fellow inmate. Norwegian voters rejected European Union membership. Sixties war protester Jerry Rubin died in Los Angeles, two weeks after being hit by a car; he was 56.

One year ago: Some Republicans expressed disappointment and outrage over President Clinton's written responses to 81 questions from the House Judiciary Committee concerning the Monica Lewinsky affair, with one accusing the president of "word games."

每日格言：

"No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach."

                                                                             -- William Cowper, English poet (1731-1800).


AP NEWS



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One of Michael Vick's attorneys left Virginia court room today,saying his client has a decision to make.The former NFL quarterback did not appear in the Surry County court room for judges scheduled in April 12 date on state felony dogfighting charges.He is already in another count this year although in sentencing on federal dogfighting charges.Previously,his attorney said they would fight the state charges on grounds that a person could not be convicted twice of the same charge.

Michael is considering all this.I can't take we are fighting.I can't take we accept the plea deal.Michael was,my first day down,we're going to look at this matter and give some legal advice that has not been decided yet.

Protesters with people for the ethical treatment of animal stood outside the court house,holding signs,urging people to report dog fighters.Vick pleaded guilty to the federal charges.And he is scheduled to be sentenced December 10th.He could face 5 years in prison.



Words and their stories Report





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Now the VOA Special English program Words and Their Stories.

Computer technology has become a major part of people's lives. This technology has its own special words.

One example is the word "mouse". A computer mouse is not a small animal that lives in buildings and open fields. It is a small device that you move around on a flat surface in front of a computer. The mouse moves the pointer or cursor on the computer screen. Computer expert Douglas Englebart developed the idea for the mouse in the early 1960s. The first computer mouse was a carved block of wood with two metal wheels. It was called a mouse because it had a tail at one end. The tail was the wire that connected it to the computer.

Using a computer takes some training. People who are experts are sometimes called "hackers". A hacker is usually a person who writes software programs in a special computer language. But the word hacker is also used to describe a person who tries to steal information from computer systems.

Another well-known computer word is "google", spelled G-O-O-G-L-E. It is the name of a popular search engine for the Internet. People use the search engine to find information about almost any subject on the Internet. The people who started the company named it google, because in mathematics, googol spelled G-O-O-G-O-L, is an extremely large number. It is the number one followed by one hundred zeros. When you google a subject, you can get a large amount of information about it. Some people like to google their friends or themselves to see how many times their name appears on the Internet.

If you google someone, you might find that person's name on a blog. A "blog" is the short/en name for a web log. A blog is a personal web page. It may contain stories, comments, pictures and links to other websites. Some people add information to their blogs everyday. People who have blogs are called "bloggers". Bloggers are not the same as spam.

Spam is unwanted sales messages sent to your electronic mailbox. The name is based on a funny joke many years ago on a British television show "Monty Python's Flying Circus". Some friends are at an eating place that only serves a processed meat product from the United States called "Spam". Everytime the friends try to speak, another group of people start singing the word "spam" very loudly. This interferes with the friends' discussion, just as unwanted sales messages interfere with communication over the Internet.

This VOA Special English program Words and Their Stories was written by Jill Moss. I'm Faith Lapidus.



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