Big Rocks 人生的大石头 One day, an expert in time management was speaking to a group of students and, to drive home a point, used an illustration those students will never forget. 一天，时间管理专家为一群学生讲课。他现场做了
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The Most Important Body Part 身体最重要的部位 人身上最重要的部位是什么呢？或许每个人都会有自己不同的答案：有的人选择脑；有的人选择眼；有的人选择手。但是你为什么选择这个答案呢？仔
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Clinton Not Stopping in North Korea 克林顿不出访朝鲜 President Clinton will not be stopping in North Korea at the end of his upcoming trip to Asia, a White House spokesman said today. However, he may still visit the communist country before l
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Iraq Defies No-Fly Zones 伊拉克挑战禁飞区 Iraq sent domestic passenger flights carrying 154 people into skies patrolled by U.S. and British warplanes today, the first challenge of its kind to the no-fly zones that Iraq considers infringements
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Overseas experts boost fire effort 外国专家赴美救火 Fires rage on despite cooler weekend temperatures 周末气温下降，火势依然凶猛 Seventy specialist firefighters from Australia and New Zealand have arrived in the western United St
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Court rejects'stolen children' claim 澳被偷走的孩子败诉 The policy aimed to civilise Aborigines 当时的政策是为了教化土著居民 An Australian court has rejected a landmark claim for compensation by two Aborigines who claimed they
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The Origin of the Rainbow 彩虹的起源 Once upon a time the colors of the world started to quarrel. All claimed that they were the best. 有一天，世界上的五颜六色彼此争吵了起来，每一个颜色都声称自己是最好的。 Gree
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Germany'closes chapter'on Nazi past 德国欲给纳粹历史划上句号 2.3m people may have survived Nazi slave camps 纳粹集中营可能有230万人幸存了下来 A fund to compensate people forced into slave labour by the Nazi regime during th
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Survivors found from missing ferry 发现印尼失踪渡船幸存者 Relatives of the ferry passengers at Manado harbour 遇难渡船乘客的亲属们守候在万鸦老港湾 Ten survivors from an Indonesian ferry which sank with heavy loss of life
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Dozens die in Balkan heatwave 巴尔干热浪使数十人死亡 Athens may be hit with rotting rubbish as well as heat 腐烂的垃圾可能会与暴热一起席卷雅典 A heatwave scorching the Balkan region this week has killed dozens of people an
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Okinawa curfew after sex charges 驻冲绳美军将实行宵禁 Protests against US bases in Japan are not uncommon 对美军基地的抗议活动在日本并非罕见 The US military said it would impose a midnight curfew and drinking ban on marines
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India rapped over birth bias 印度因婴儿性别偏见遭谴责 India is seeking to get population growth down 印度正在寻求降低人口出生率的办法 The United Nations Population Fund has taken India to task over its ratio of females to
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US and Vietnam enter new era 美越关系进入新时代 For many years the aftermath of war coloured US-Vietnamese ties 多年来,越战的阴影影响着美越关系 President Bill Clinton has announced that the United States and Vietnam have signe
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EU, Japan call for new trade round 欧日呼吁召开新一轮贸易谈判 Worldwide demonstrations disrupted trade talks 世界各地的示威活动中断了贸易谈判 Europe and Japan have called for the resumption of world trade talks by the end
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AOL's billion dollar profits 美国在线利润十多亿 In January, AOL announced plans to merge with media giant Time Warner 美国在线1月宣布计划与媒体巨头时代华纳合并 America Online, the world's richest internet company, beat an
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Genocide prevention body launched 种族大屠杀研究机构成立 Extermination camps turn killing into a production line 种族灭绝集中营将杀人变成生产线作业 The world's first institute for researching the causes of genocide is bein
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Skinny mice defy obesity 瘦老鼠挑战肥胖 Lean mouse: Hope for the clinically obese 精瘦的老鼠：肥胖症的希望 Genetically engineered mice which never put on weight could hold the key to a fat- free future for humans, say scientists. R
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Weather worsens US fires 美国西部大火肆虐 Dry, hot weather will not help the fire-fighting effort 干燥炎热的天气对救火不利 As President Bill Clinton prepares to travel to fire-ravaged western states of America this week, fears are
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Jolo rebels 'paid $5.5m ransom' 菲霍乐岛叛军已得到550万赎金 Some hostages have been held for 15 weeks 部分人质已被扣留15个星期 Muslim rebels holding around 30 hostages in the southern Philippines have reportedly received $5.5m
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Blast rocks Moscow subway 莫斯科一地铁站发生爆炸 A bomb has ripped through an underpass packed with hundreds of commuters and shoppers in central Moscow, killing eight people and injuring about 50. The bomb went off during rush hour in one
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