美联社新闻一分钟 2007-02-27（在线收听）

1. Iraq's Shiite vice president escaped an apparent assassination attempt after a bomb exploded in a building where he was making a speech. The force of the blast knocked him to the ground and left at least 10 people dead.

2. A Florida appeals court issued a stay in the dispute over Anna Nicole Smith's body, ruling that her remains cannot be moved to the Bahamas until the court hears a challenge from her estranged mother.

3. Filmmakers and scholars have unveiled two stone caskets they say could have contained the remains of Jesus and Mary Magdalene. Several scholars have already come forward, calling the claims unfounded and contradictory to basic tenets of Christianity.

4. And much of the East Coast is digging out today after a winter storm dropped several inches of snow across the region. It was the same storm system that has wreaked havoc throughout much of the Midwest over the weekend, including a tornado in Arkansas that left a small town in ruins.

WORDS IN THE NEWS

1. unfounded: adj.
If you describe a rumor, belief, or feeling as unfounded, you mean that it is wrong and is not based on facts or evidence.

2. tenet: n-count
The tenets of a theory or belief are the main principles on which it is based. (FORMAL)

3. wreak: verb
Something or someone that wreaks havoc or destruction causes a great amount of disorder or damage. (JOURNALISM or LITERARY)