Alabama Airlines has notified its pilots to stop topping off their fuel tanks. Alarmed, pilot Buck Rogers sent a copy of the memo to Time Magazine, which investigated the matter. It discovered that AA was reacting to a 50-percent increase in fuel pri

发表于:2018-12-31 / 阅读(72) / 评论(0) 分类 365个英语简短小故事

The day after Thanksgiving has become Americas wildest shopping day. Closed all day on Thursday, chain stores all across the nation open early on Friday. Some stores open at 12:01 Friday morning, while others open at 4 a.m. Some sleepyhead stores, li

发表于:2018-12-31 / 阅读(52) / 评论(0) 分类 365个英语简短小故事

Wednesday night, Howard asked Glenn if he wanted to go fishing and girl-watching that weekend at Santa Fe Lake. Well leave Friday morning and return late Sunday night, he said. Glenn said he had to clean out his garage, so Howard went by himself. How

发表于:2019-01-07 / 阅读(74) / 评论(0) 分类 365个英语简短小故事

It was chilly outside. Natalie had asked Sonny to come pick her up. She wanted to give him his bimonthly haircut at his place. He said hed be right over. She always cut his hair in the bathroom, so he closed the bathroom window completely. She didnt

发表于:2019-01-07 / 阅读(60) / 评论(0) 分类 365个英语简短小故事

A man and a woman died in an apparent murder-suicide last night in Altadena. The man was 74-year-old Dominic Vittorio. The woman was his 70-year-old wife, Victoria. The couple had been married for 50 years. In fact, their 50th anniversary occurred ju

发表于:2019-01-07 / 阅读(68) / 评论(0) 分类 365个英语简短小故事

It was 10 p.m. Fritz said good night to his wife. She was watching TV. He went to bed. Tomorrow was a big day. It was his last day of work. Thirty years with the federal government. Thirty years of flying out of town for weeks on end. Thirty years of

发表于:2019-01-10 / 阅读(60) / 评论(0) 分类 365个英语简短小故事

Dave needed to pack for Saturdays fishing trip. He went into his hall closet, where he had more than 20 rods and reels. Nowadays he went fishing twice a year at Big Bear, a huge lake in southern California about 7,000 feet up in the mountains. Califo

发表于:2019-01-11 / 阅读(67) / 评论(0) 分类 365个英语简短小故事

On Friday afternoon a judge sentenced lawyer Mickey Mantle to 24 hours in jail for contempt. Mantle had just won a lawsuit against a man who had struck Mantles client. The client had accidentally spilled a diet soda onto the defendants new sneakers,

发表于:2019-01-16 / 阅读(85) / 评论(0) 分类 365个英语简短小故事

The Federal Department of Housing and Urban Development has awarded $5 million to three different local nonprofit organizations. The money will be distributed over a four-year period and is aimed at helping approximately 1,000 homeless people in the

发表于:2019-01-16 / 阅读(67) / 评论(0) 分类 365个英语简短小故事

It had been another hot spring day. By ten oclock in the evening, it had only cooled down to 87 degrees, according to Larry's thermometer in the living room. He rarely looked at his thermometer because he usually didn't care what the exact temperatur

发表于:2019-01-20 / 阅读(89) / 评论(0) 分类 365个英语简短小故事

It was noon on Friday. Friday was wash day, Kerrys least favorite day. Doing the wash was such a pain. He had to gather together all the dirty clothes. He had to turn the shirts and slacks inside out to save wear and tear on the outside of the shirts

发表于:2019-01-26 / 阅读(62) / 评论(0) 分类 365个英语简短小故事

Sara Smith, a Pasadena resident, went shopping. She is 30, and has lived at 3037 N. Foothill Street since 1992. Sara has been married to John for seven years. They have two children; Bob is five years old and Nancy is three. Sara owns a 1995 four-doo

发表于:2019-01-27 / 阅读(71) / 评论(0) 分类 365个英语简短小故事

A man convicted of writing bad checks to casinos has written a book that he predicts will become a national bestseller. Entitled A Casino Is Born Every Minute, the 250-page book details James Duncans successful and unsuccessful attempts to beat casin

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Residents of southern California are trying to get used to skyrocketing prices for gasoline. The average price for 87 octane economy gas is $2.22, almost 30 percent higher today than it was 12 months ago. The lowest gas price in the Southland right n

发表于:2019-01-27 / 阅读(82) / 评论(0) 分类 365个英语简短小故事

Goats are being hired to do the work of men in a neighborhood just outside of San Diego. The fires that occurred in Hillborough four years ago destroyed thirty homes, most of which have been rebuilt. While contractors were rebuilding the homes, natur

发表于:2019-01-27 / 阅读(60) / 评论(0) 分类 365个英语简短小故事

A fifteen-year-old boy was injured in a car accident when the minivan he was traveling in was hit by a pickup truck at an intersection. The boy was taken to a nearby hospital. The paramedics said that it appeared that the boy had nothing more serious

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To serve on a California jury, you must be a U.S. citizen. You must be selected to serve; juror names are selected from state identification cards, drivers licenses, and voting rolls. If selected, you will receive in your mail an envelope marked Jury

发表于:2019-01-27 / 阅读(56) / 评论(0) 分类 365个英语简短小故事

Henry killed a 14-year-old girl. He killed her after breaking her thumbs, kicking and breaking most of her ribs, striking her repeatedly in the head with his thermos, and stabbing her more than 45 times with a #2 pencil. She bled to death. He killed

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Rudy and Brenda were walking on the sidewalk, approaching the coffee shop. A young man was sitting at an outside table. There were four chairs at the table, but he was by himself. Just before Rudy and Brenda got up to his table, the young man spit on

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The three brothers went out on the river almost every day, weather permitting. They tied some rowboats behind their boat to use as floating trash cans. They picked up all the trash they could see floating in the river. Friends joined them. Then frien

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