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美国科学家在哥伦比亚发现了目前世界上最大的蟒蛇残留化石，科学家估计这种蛇的长度约在10.64米到15米，重量可达730公斤至2.03吨。
带领这次考古发现的佛罗里达大学科学家布洛克称，这条巨蟒的大小超越人们的想象力，即使在好莱坞电影《狂蟒之灾》出现过的巨蟒都不及他们发现的这条大。
President Barack Obama has announced a $500,000 salary cap 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 extortion 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 coat hook 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 whopping 2,500 pounds. Researchers discovered the fossils in northeastern Colombia, and say the beast probably lived some 60 million years ago.
词汇注解：
salary cap 薪水，工资
whopping 巨大的，天大的
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