AP美联社一分钟新闻 2008-10-16（在线收听）

1. On Wall Street, another volatile day. The Dow Jones Industrial is falling 733 points, the second largest point loss ever. Stocks dropped on disappointing economic news including a big drop in retail sales.

2. Tonight is the last time presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain face-off. This time debating at Hofstra University on New York's Long Island. Topics include the economy and other domestic issues.

3. Vice President Dick Cheney gets treated at a Washington hospital for an abnormal heartbeat. The second time in less than a year Cheney has gotten a procedure. Doctors say Cheney's heart rhythm has returned to normal.

4. High above Newark, New Jersey, a high wire daredevil takes a bike-ride at 135 feet up without a net. He wants a place in the record books for the longest distance and greatest height travelled by a bike on a wire.

WORDS IN THE NEWS

1. Procedure: n.

a medical treatment or operation.

2. high wire: n.

a tightly stretched rope or wire high above the ground that someone walks along as part of a circus performance.