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1. What is this? 2. What is that? 3. What's this? 4. What's that? 5. What are these? 6. What are those? 7. Where is Mr. King? 8. Where is Ms. Knight? 9. Where's Johnny? 10. When's the movie? 11. When's lunch? 12. How is the food? This is a table. Tha

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From VOA Learning English, this is the Health Lifestyle report. From Asia to Europe to North America, poor air quality is making people sick and, in some cases, killing them at an early age. Air pollution causes six million premature deaths every yea

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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Amy Kraft. Got a minute? Out of control drivers aren't the only thing city cyclists have to worry about. New research suggests that cyclists are at increased risk of lung damage because of soot. A

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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. There's a huge, gunky brown cloud that lingers over south Asia and the Indian Ocean each winter. Its been known to cause respiratory diseases and even

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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky . Got a minute ? We live in a nice neighborhood. Of the galaxy, that is. The sun is about halfway toward the outer edge of the Milky Way. But the sun may have migrated vast distances t

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The male usually leads. If the female is sufficiently impressed, the pair seal their relationship with a vocal duet . King Penguin rookeries are very busy places. Every morning at about 6:00, the adul

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President Obama is spending the night in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia after a day of meeting there with King Abdullah. Tomorrow, the president heads to Cairo for the most important speech of his trip. NPR's Don Gonyea reports. The speech will be delivered b

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9Then the Lord said to Moses, Go to Pharaoh and say to him, 'This is what the Lord , the God of the Hebrews, says: Let my people go, so that they may worship me. 2If you refuse to let them go and continue to hold them back, 3the hand of the Lord will

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科学家宣布地质纪元进入人类世

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科学家将污染物变成打印机墨水

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The photo of a French rugby player with a moko design on his face and back, upset many Maori. The moko is a tattoo on the face and other parts of the body. Originally, it was done with a chisel, not a needle, to make grooves in the skin. Soot from bu