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Some 36,000 runners are expected to take part in Monday's Boston Marathon, the first since last year's deadly bombings. The number of spectators lining¹ the route is estimated in the hundreds of thousands.

South Korea's president says the captain and crew of that sunken ferry committed murderous acts by waiting more than half an hour before issuing an evacuation order. Divers² have now recovered more than 60 bodies from the

wreckage³.

The FBI says a 16-year-old managed to climb into the whell well of an Hawaiian Airlines jet flying from California to Maui over the weekend. He survived the flight and is now in custody⁴.

And in Denver, thousands of revelers raised joints⁵, pipes and vaporizer devices Sunday in a toast of 4-21, the April 20th pot celebration in the first state to legalize the recreational marijuana.

Matt Small, The Associated Press with AP News Minute.

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1 lining
n.衬里，衬料
参考例句：
The lining of my coat is torn.我的外套衬里破了。 Moss makes an attractive lining to wire baskets.用苔藓垫在铁丝篮里很漂亮。

2 divers
adj.不同的；种种的
参考例句：
He chose divers of them,who were asked to accompany him.他选择他们当中的几个人，要他们和他作伴。 Two divers work together while a standby diver remains on the surface.两名潜水员协同工作，同时有一名候补潜水员留在水面上。

3 wreckage
n.（失事飞机等的）残骸，破坏，毁坏
参考例句：
They hauled him clear of the wreckage.他们把他从形骸中拖出来。 New states were born out of the wreckage of old colonial empires.新生国家从老殖民帝国的废墟中诞生。

4 custody
n.监护，照看，羁押，拘留
参考例句：
He spent a week in custody on remand awaiting sentence.等候判决期间他被还押候审一个星期。 He was taken into custody immediately after the robbery.抢劫案发生后，他立即被押了起来。

5 joints
接头( joint的名词复数 )；关节；公共场所（尤指价格低廉的饮食和娱乐场所）（非正式）；一块烤肉（英式英语）
参考例句：
Expansion joints of various kinds are fitted on gas mains. 各种各样的伸缩接头被安装在煤气的总管道上了。 Expansion joints of various kinds are fitted on steam pipes. 各种各样的伸缩接头被安装在蒸气管道上了。

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美联社新闻一分钟 AP 2014-04-25