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1. Two more Amish schoolgirls died overnight following a deadly shooting in their one-room schoolhouse in Pennsylvania Monday. That brings the total number of girls fatally injured in the incident to 5.
2. More than 3 dozen people have been killed in violence across Iraq today, including 3 who died in a morning suicide attack in Baghdad. Police also found 7 bodies north of Baquba and said 5 more people preparing to flee their home were killed.
3. The conservative Washington Times is calling for House Speaker Dennis Hastert to resign. The move follows Hastert's decision not to order an investigation into sexually explicit emails from now former Congressman Mark Foley to a former page. Hastert is brushing aside any suggestion of resignation.
4. Two Americans have won the Nobel Prize in physics: John Mather from the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland and George Smoot from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California. With the help of a NASA-launched satellite, the 2 were able to observe the universe in its early stages.
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brush aside : phrasal verb
Disregard, ignore, as in The teacher brushed aside our questions |