CNN 2011-08-30

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VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Im Barbara Klein. VOICE TWO: A shark swims above a diver during a feeding demonstration at the Two Oceans Aquarium in Cape Town, South Africa, in 2006 And Im Shirley Griffith. This week,

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1. A day of remembrance around the country. President Bush laid a wreath at the Pentagon for victims of the 9/11 attacks in the afternoon, and stood with first responders in New York in the morning. 2

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1. University of South Carolina officials say the school is doing what it can for the teachers and friends of the victims of a deadly beach house fire.Six of the seven college students killed in Sunday's fire were South Carolina students. The other w

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1. A Florida boy who was abducted at gunpoint in this Tampa Bay area neighborhood is safe. But the gunman is still at large. The 13-year-old was taken to a remote farm area and police say he was able to untie his hands and walked to get help. The gu

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1. Police say a domestic dispute led to deadly gunfire at a fiber optics company in Albuquerque, New Mexico. They say a gunman opened fire, killing two people and wounding four others before turning the gun on himself. 2. Undersea robots have been lo

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