美联社新闻一分钟 2007-06-03（在线收听）

1. Authorities in New York say they've disrupted a terror plot that could have caused unthinkable devastation. Three people are under arrest with investigators looking for a fourth. The plot targeted the pipeline network feeding jet fuel to Kennedy Airport and never got passed the planning stages.

2. Protestors clashed with police in Germany ahead of next week's G8 summit. Thousands of demonstrators gathered in Rostock, but the event turned violent when masked protestors began throwing rocks and beer bottles. Police responded with the water cannon and tear gas.

3. Barry weakened to a tropical depression as it came ashore in Florida, cancelling all storm warnings and watches along the Gulf Coast. The area is getting rain, but probably not enough to end the severe drought.

4. Off the coast of Rhode Island, this catch, a female lobster that's part brown, part orange. The extremely rare coloring means this crustacean isn't headed for the dinner table, but in an aquarium for all to see.

WORDS IN THE NEWS

disrupt: VERB V n
If someone or something disrupts an event, system, or process, they cause difficulties that prevent it from continuing or operating in a normal way.

devastation: N-UNCOUNT
Devastation is severe and widespread destruction or damage.

depression: N-COUNT
A depression is a mass of air that has a low pressure and that often causes rain.

crustacean: N-COUNT
A crustacean is an animal with a hard shell and several pairs of legs, which usually lives in water. Crabs, lobsters, and shrimps are crustaceans.

aquarium : N-COUNT
An aquarium is a building, often in a zoo, where fish and underwater animals are kept.