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President Barack Obama has taken the world stage at the G20 summit, calming ___1___ over the US economy and jump-starting arms negotiations with Russia. It was also a day of protests in central London where demonstrators clashed with riot police and one man collapsed and died.

Cleveland Browns ____2____ Donte Stallworth is facing up to 15 years in prison if convicted after being charged with killing a pedestrian while driving drunk. The accident happened last month. And he is expected to surrender in court Thursday.

Federal authorities are seizing the Palm Beach mansion of disgraced financier Bernard Madoff. They also seized an antique yacht and a smaller boat from two Florid marinas. It's all part of an effort to recoup assets to ___3___ investors that Madoff has admitted he swindled.

A man who was diving and got a spear stuck in his head is talking about the ___4___ fishing accident just three days after surgery. The spear lodged six inches in his brain. Surgeons say he would've been killed if it had gone in at even a slightly different angle.

 
 
 
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1. jitters ( a feeling of nervousness which you experience before something important happens )

2. wide receiver ( an offensive position in American and Canadian football, and is the key player in most of the passing plays )

3. reimburse ( to pay back money to someone who has spent it for you or lost it because of you )

4. bizarre ( very strange, unusual )

 
 

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