美联社新闻一分钟 2007-03-11（在线收听）

1. A search in Texas for a newborn abducted from a Lubbock hospital. Police are looking for the woman seen in this surveillance tape who posed as a hospital worker. The woman drove off in a red Dodge pickup truck.

2. President Bush visited Uruguay touting American diplomacy as quiet and effective aimed at helping people and elevating the human condition, a response to Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez who led an anti-American rally in neighboring Argentina.

3. A groundbreaking meeting in Iraq among Islamic nations and the United States. Iraq's prime minister warns sectarian violence will spill across the Middle East unless networks aiding terrorists get severed.

4. It's Michael Jackson in Japan -- the pop singer greeting thousands of troops at a U.S. army base and taking the opportunity to show his gratitude for their service.

WORDS IN THE NEWS

1. pose: verb
If you pose as someone, you pretend to be that person in order to deceive people.

2. tout: verb
If someone touts something, they try to sell it or convince people that it is good.

3. sever: verb
To sever something means to cut completely through it or to cut it completely off. (FORMAL)