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President Barack Obama has announced a $500,000 ____1____ on senior executives of companies receiving federal bailout money. The president says it's the first step of a new plan for spending what's left of the $700 billion bailout Congress created last year.

Federal agents have searched the Massachusetts home of a man linked to the fatal 1982 Tylenol poisonings in the Chicago area. No one was ever charged. But James W. Lewis served more than 12 years in prison for sending an ___2____ note to Johnson & Johnson, demanding $1 million to stop the killing.

A preliminary ruling says a 10-year-old boy reportedly found hanging from a ____3____ at school, took his own life. His mother says school officials haven't given her an explanation for what they described as an accident.

And researchers are calling it a titanic boa. It's the biggest snake ever discovered, measuring up to 45 feet long and weighing a ___4___ 2,500 pounds. Researchers discovered the fossils in northeastern Colombia, and say the beast probably lived some 60 million years ago.

 
 
 
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1. salary cap

2. extortion ( to obtain something by threat )

3. coat hook

4. whopping ( exceptionally large )

 
 

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