时事新闻听写071209

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　　2007.12.09

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　新闻文稿
　
Shoppers have returned to the Westroads Mall in Omaha, Nebraska. It re-opened this morning, three days after a shooting rampage. The Von Maur department store where six employees and two customers were killed remains closed.
　
Former Vice President Al Gore has arrived in Oslo, Norway. He is there to formally recieve the Nobel Peace Prize on Monday. Gore and the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change will be honored for bringing attention to the changing global climate.
　
NFL star Michael Vick's house is up for auction. The former Atlanta Falcons quarterback owes nearly a million dollars to pay for the care of pit bulls seized from his dogfighting operation. The assessed value is just under 750,000 dollars.
　
A youth organization in Mexico is trying to set the record for the world's longest clothesline. So far they have 70,000 articles hanging on 29 miles of line.