AP 2011-07-24
时间：2018-12-15 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2011(七月)
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[1]Shuttle Atlantis touchdown the Kennedy Space Center put the final time early this morning. The landing ended NASA's 30-year space shuttle program. The shuttle grand finale comes 50 years to the day after Gus Grissom became the second American in space.
[2]A debt showdown in the Senate today, lawmakers have made a house bill that will mend a balanced budget and cut trillions in spending. Democrats 1 say the measure will not pass.
[3]Minnesota State Police are back on the job today. Some 22 thousand state workers have been laid off for nearly three weeks. Governor Mark Dayton signed a budget deal yesterday that ended the nation's longest state government shutdown in a decade.
[4]And a 12-year-old African tortoise that recently had a trans-leg amputated is now moving just fine. The 23 pounds tortoise named Gamera had a swiveling wheel attached to his shell by doctors at Washington State University veterinary hospital. Gamera is gaining weight, thriving with his new appendage 2.