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1. Following a wave of school shootings, the White House hosted the conference Tuesday on school safety. President Bush called the recent violence incredibly sad and challenged the nation to become proactive in preventing another tragedy.
2. A former congressional page at the center of the scandal focused around former Congressman Mark Foley was questioned by the FBI Tuesday. Foley abruptly resigned last month when ABC News confronted him about lurid instant messages he had allegedly sent to a former male page.
3. Members of the UN Security Council have been looking at a US draft resolution on North Korea following its reported test of a nuclear device. China's ambassador says North Korea must face some punitive action for the reported test.
4. This video from a school bus security camera shows an aggressive attack on a student in New Mexico. Two teenage sisters were charged with battery and disorderly conduct.
WORDS IN THE NEWS
1. proactive:adj. creating or controlling a situation rather than just responding to it.
2.abruptly: adv. suddenly; without continuity; steeply
3.lurid:adj. (of a description) shocking or sensational.
4. battery:n.[Law] the infliction of unlawful personal violence on another person, even where the contact does no physical harm.
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