India Plane Crash

video:
http://edition.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/world/2010/05/22/kapur.india.bpr.cnn.html

transcript:

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1005/21/bn.01.html

The New York Times bans use of word 'tweet'

CNN News:
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/TECH/social.media/06/11/new.york.times.tweet/index.html

The Awl:
http://www.theawl.com/2010/06/new-york-times-bans-the-word-tweet

Portraits help bring closure to fallen troops' loved ones

Portraits help bring closure to fallen troops' loved ones
By Patrick Oppmann, CNN
http://www.cnn.com/2010/LIVING/04/02/war.portraits/index.html?hpt=C1

Gay teen in prom case is local pariah, national heroine

Gay teen in prom case is local pariah, national heroine
By Jessica Ravitz, CNN
http://www.cnn.com/2010/LIVING/03/26/constance.mcmillen.tension/index.html?hpt=C1


Vocabulary:

1. prom 舞會
   
2. tuxedo 燕尾服
   
3. daunt vt discourage 使膽怯;使畏縮
   
4. throw up vt bring to notice 使引人注意;揭示出
   
5. file suit 提起訴訟
   
6. First Amendments rights
7. attorney=lawyer
8. counsel adviser
   
9. transgender 變性
   
10. by virtue of as a result of; by means of 由於;憑...;藉...
    
11. overarching 總體
    
12. groundswell 風潮
    
13. a poster child
    
14. internship 實習
    
15. outreach
    
16. spoiler
17. stipulate vt state as a necessary condition 提出以...為條件;約定;規定
18. talk trash about
19. shore
20. drawl
21. empower
22. spearhead
23. queer
24. rampant
25. compulsion
26. pariah

Related:
Teen suspended over prom dress

Added On April 1, 2010

An Alabama teen misses her prom because school officials thought her dress was too revealing. WBRC reports.
http://www.cnn.com/video/?/video/us/2010/04/01/dnt.suspended.over.prom.dress.wbrc
Source:WRBC

Oxford,Alabama
Darrie DeRamus - mother
Trey Holloday - PRINCIPAL, OXFORD HIGH SCHOOL