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Need help ..

I want to start a section called "news" on my mybb forum. When viewing the forum the default display is ex:

Threads | Replies | Views | Last Post Date
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Topic 1 | 5 | 100 | 10-01-2013
Topic 2 | 3 | 200 | 10-01-2013
Topic 3 | 2 | 300 | 10-01-2013

Is it possible to display "Summary" below each Topic. By summary I mean the starting 100 or 200 characters of the text inside that post.

ex:

Topic 1 | 5 | 100 | 10-01-2013
(this is a brief info about this topic. This is the 1st 200 characters of the Message section of Topic 1.)
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Topic 2 | 3 | 200 | 10-01-2013
(this is a brief info about this topic. . This is the 1st 200 characters of the Message section of Topic 2.)
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Secondly, is it at all possible to do this only for my "news" section and not other sections.

Thanks,
Jessica