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American agricultural scientist Norman Borlaug died at his home in Dallas, Texas Saturday at the age of 95. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970 for his work to stop world hunger. Known around the world as the father of the Green Revolution, his eff

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Work begins this month on a new, environmentally-friendly power plant in Liberia that will use old rubber trees to generate electricity. It is part of a plan to make Liberia the world's first sustainable biomass-driven economy. Natural rubber has an

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The International Organization for Migration is running an 18-month project to help reintegrate thousands of returnees, internally displaced and other vulnerable groups in western Afghanistan. IOM says it is particularly critical to provide shelter

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The Prime Ministers of Hungary and Slovakia have agreed to tackle extremism as part of efforts to overcome their countries' worst diplomatic crisis in years. They made the announcement following a meeting at the Hungarian-Slovak border Thursday. Bot

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U.S. President Barack Obama has marked the eighth anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States by reaffirming his determination to defeat terrorism. The president laid a wreath in memory of those who died on that day's attack o

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North Korea has withdrawn its insistence on massive wage increases from South Korea at a jointly-run factory zone in the North. The move is widely seen as part of a broader charm offensive by Pyongyang, but comes as South Korea remains angry at a fl

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Under pressure from the United States to halt settlement expansion, Israel's leader is trying to calm the fears of one of his most important constituents: Jewish residents of the West Bank. Benjamin Netanyahu (file photo) Israeli Prime Minister Benj

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Britain's foreign secretary say he has serious concerns about election fraud allegations swirling after last month's Afghan presidential vote and David Miliband says a thorough investigation is required. David Miliband (File photo) Even before the A

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Eight years after the terror strike on the United States, which prompted an invasion of Afghanistan to oust the Taliban, there are indications that the insurgents are continuing to widen their reach inside the country. Meanwhile, some high-ranking B

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The United States, the four other permanent U.N. Security Council member countries and Germany are seeking an early meeting with Iran to explore that country's willingness to negotiate over its nuclear program. The decision Friday follows an Iranian

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U.S. Special Envoy for the Middle East George Mitchell has begun meetings with officials in Israel to revive stalled peace efforts. Among the obstacles that Mitchell is facing is Israel's continuing expansion of Jewish settlements in the West Bank.

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President Barack Obama's address Wednesday night to a joint session of the U.S. Congress on the issue of health care reform is drawing reaction from U.S. lawmakers. The president used strong language to clarify what reform proposals would do, pledge

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The son of deceased former Philippine President Corazon Aquino has declared his candidacy for president in next year's polls. The decision comes after strong public clamor for Senator Benigno Aquino III to carry on his mother's democratic legacy. Ph

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U.S. special envoy to Sudan Scott Gration returns to the African nation Wednesday for a five day visit. Gration heads to Sudan to continue his mediation of North-South negotiations and to travel to the devastated western region of Darfur. US special

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For the first time in NATO history, one of the alliance's supreme commanders is from a country other than the United States. Air Force general Stephane Abrial of France has taken over the job of Supreme Allied Commander Transformation for NATO. Step

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The World Health Organization says suicide is a leading cause of death worldwide, and one of the three leading causes of death for young people under 25. To mark World Suicide Prevention Day, which falls on September 10, the World Health Organizatio

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Southern Senegal is experiencing some of the worst fighting in years, as violence between separatist rebels and army loyalists flares. The fighting has left one small town in rural Senegal deserted, as farmers are forced to leave their crops to lang

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The president of Somaliland has forcibly closed the breakaway republic's parliament after it began debating impeachment charges against him, just a few days after elections were indefinitely postponed. The speaker of Somaliland's Lower House of Parl

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Hundreds of former rebels have deserted the Congolese army in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, citing complaints about pay and their assigned military ranks. The U.N. mission in Congo says discussions with the breakaway group are ongoing. T

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Australia has played down fears that a police investigation into the deaths of five journalists in East Timor will spark a diplomatic dispute with Indonesia. Australian police have begun a war crimes investigation into the deaths of the five newsmen

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学英语单词
abbreviated version
activity of process
Agion Oros
amount forecast
amount-of-substance concentration
applied factory overhead expense
arabler
atomizing disk
attritioning
auliscus incertus
automatic zero-set circuit
balaenoptera musculuss
ballena
Ban Cang
be present at
belin
betsko
brick with grooves
bumping collision
burnhams
cached
Calices renales
Cantu, R.
Caroni R.
cellulose-nylon blend
chemical composition of meteoroid
cholester n
clockpunk
condensation agent
convey belt
Cornu quartz prism
Delindeite
dicked
do sb's bidding
dust-box
dyscoimesis
electronical time relay
elie metchnikoffs
export agent
fannia leucosticta
follow-up grouting
fuel siphoning
Gewalan
grisemer bound
halichoeres ornatissimus
heavy weight hide
heavy-tailed distribution
hereditary ovalocytosis
hidden text
Isopropylscopolamine
Jones-Cantarow tests
lar lubovitch dance company
lateral convergence shift
left internal carotid vein
Lerbach
longstemmed
maui islands
mcphearson
mean
membrum inferius
microlaryngoscope
middle gimbal angle
middle white
midmovement
misarrangement
mixing pan mill
monthly mean of daily maximum temperature
mortar strength
nandid
Nizarid
Nodi lymphatici iliaci communes mediales
OBF
orgia
oversale
parallel pore filter
pellicularia filamentosa (patonillard) rogow
photochirogenesis
phytophenology
post-metallogenic
printed subject indexes
publicly held
puinde
quarry plant
ragione
releasing of brake
restriction of credit
round head bench mark
santuary
sbses-s
sharp-shooting
Sidney Caesar
spirit of nitrous ether
standard uncertainty
talamasca
Talofofo
tentorium cerebelli
throat of racket
unpersisted
usr (user-to-user information message)
verbalized
vv. subcutane? abdominis
X-ray transducer