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1.Gulf Coast residents begin hurricane cleanup the day after hurricane Dennis hit the storm-weary Florida Panhandle and Alabama coast with less force than feared.
2.The death toll from London's terrorist bombings continues to rise as workers search for more bodies and Londoners return to riding subways and buses.
3.President Bush expressing solidarity with Britons says terrorists are trying to break the will of the world's democracies by killing innocent people.
4.World leaders join 50,000 marking the anniversary of the Serb massacre of 8,000 Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica 10 years ago.
5.And for the first time since the 2003 Columbia disaster, a NASA countdown is under way for Wednesday's lift-off of the Space Shuttle Discovery.
WORDS IN THE NEWS
1.clearup:n.a process by which you get rid of dirt or waste from a place.
eg.The cleanup of the oil spill took months.
2.weary:adj.very tired or bored, especially because you have been doing something for a long time.
eg.She found Rachel in the kitchen, looking old and weary.
3.solidarity:n.loyalty and general agreement between all the people in a group, or between different groups because they all have a shared aim.
4.countdown:n.the period of time before something happens, such as a spacecraft being launched, when someone counts backwards until the event happens.
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