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1. Floridians line up for water, gas, ice and generators outside the few stores opened after Hurricane Wilma cuts a costly deadly swath across the peninsula.
2. Election officials say Iraq's constitution was adopted by a majority in a fair vote during the October referendum with Sunni opponents failing to defeat it.
3. Rosa Parks, whose refusal to give up her bus seat to a white man sparked the modern Civil Rights movement dies of natural causes. She was 92.
4. The White House sidesteps questions about whether Vice President Dick Cheney passed his top aide the identity of a CIA officer central to a federal grand jury probe.
5. And a thrill-seeking grandmother in Australia celebrates her 92nd birthday in high style by making her very first tandem skydive jump
WORDS IN THE NEWS
1. swathe
4 swathe
If a person or thing cuts a swathe through something, they pass through it causing great destruction or change.
The storm cut a swathe through southern England.
Keegan's team have been cutting an irresistible swathe through the first division.
PHR: V inflects, PHR n The noun is also spelled swath
2. thrill
1 thrill thrills
If something gives you a thrill, it gives you a sudden feeling of great excitement, pleasure, or fear.
I can remember the thrill of not knowing what I would get on Christmas morning.
It's a great thrill for a cricket-lover like me to play at the home of cricket.
...the realization that new adventures, new thrills, and new worlds lie ahead.
N-COUNT: usu sing, oft N of n/-ing
3. tandem
3 tandem
If one person does something in tandem with another person, the two people do it by working together.
He is working in tandem with officials of the Serious Fraud Office.
PHR: usu PHR after v, oft PHR with n
4. skydiving
skydiving
Skydiving is the sport of jumping out of an aeroplane and falling freely through the air before opening your parachute.
N-UNCOUNT
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