'Stop Beating Kids!' read the darkly inked headline. After studying the results of a survey it conducted among 250 schools and 1,550 students, the Humanistic Education Foundation (HEF) found as many as 88% of our junior high schools still use some fo

发表于:2019-02-13 / 阅读(103) / 评论(0) 分类 英语时差8,16

Ya?l: My cousin is always falling for these obnoxious, awful men who are just like her father. You'd think she'd learn not to make the same mistake her mother made. Don: Well, you know what they say. A woman will marry the man who reminds her of her

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Expo 2008, themed on the world's dwindling water resources, opened in the Spanish city of Zaragoza on June 14, days after the riverside site narrowly escaped flooding. King Juan Carlos officially opened the 25-hectare (62-acre) exhibition on the nigh

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With commencement exercises happening these days all over the world, today is a good time to write again about the Graduation Pledge Alliance. Nearly 150 colleges and universities and some high schools in North America and Asia have in recent years m

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Meditation isn't just for people seeking spiritual enlightenment. As you're probably aware, many people use meditation to relax. Relaxation isn't simply a state of mind. Meditation produces physiological effects that actually reverse the risk of card

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American Idol alumni came out on top at the American Music Awards last month as Daughtry, the band fronted by Idol loser Chris Daughtry, shared the triple-winner spotlight with Idol champ Carrie Underwood. Daughtry capitalized on its three nomination

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Leave it on the shelf too long and honey begins to crystallize. Heating the honey returns it to its original condition, but if you add water, you could ruin the honey completely. Thats because honey, which is a preservative in its original state, fer

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the previous show Don and Yael discussed communication from other worlds. Well, as it turns out if E.T. does try to phone it will be much more complicated than can you hear me now? D: Okay, Yael, so suppose one day scientists pick up a transmission t

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Kung Fu Panda, directed by John Stevenson and Mark Osborne, is as much fun as can be had at the movies right now. Jack Black is the obvious choice for Po the Panda-a vocal embodiment of the lazy dreamer, whose character's elaborate dream life is fa

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Dear Annie: I am 20 years old and engaged to the girl of my dreams. Liza is beautiful, smart and very loving. We have no problems in our relationship. Before she dated me, Liza dated one of my best friends. In fact, I once witnessed them making out a

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A small but enthusiastic Singapore crowd got its first taste of professional eating as the sport's two titans-Takeru Kobayashi and Joey 'Jaws' Chestnut-made their debut in the city-state. About 300 competitive eating fans roared as local favorite

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Dear Annie: Two years ago, our son's wife asked him for a divorce. No reason was given except that she no longer loved him. After they separated, we found out she had been having an affair with his best friend. Our former daughter-in-law showed up an

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Three yetis, a yak and a couple of yuks. That's all you get in The Mummy: The Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, an extravagant and frenetic third entry in the franchise about adventurer Rick O'Connell (Brendan Fraser) and his continuing fights with the emb

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Some of us don't mind that our hero, playboy Tom (Patrick Dempsey), is one of New York's most notorious womanizers; others consider him incapable of turning a new leaf. But no matter where our hopes and suspicions fall in this man's only shot at true

发表于:2019-03-06 / 阅读(129) / 评论(0) 分类 英语时差8,16

Ya?l and Don wonder if old folks still appreciate humor. Y: Every time I see the old crone living next door to me I joke around a little, you know, to be friendly, and she just scowls at me. Maybe when people get old their sense of humor is the first

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Preecha Jiabyu used to take tourists on a rowboat to see the banks of the Mae Klong River aglow with thousands of fireflies. These days, all he sees are the fluorescent lights of hotels, restaurants and highway overpasses. The firefly populations hav

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Is there any way to prevent or cure dementia? Unfortunately, no: theres no cure for dementia. And theres no sure fire way to prevent it, either. But scientists suspect that some types of foods may help the brain stay healthy longer. Right.For example

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Lets nuke it in the microwave, we often say as we pull a frozen dinner out of the freezer. That figure of speech seems to express the fact that our experience with nuclear power and with microwaves goes back only a few years, while our experience wit

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Every time i go to the grocery stores,i consider buying Organic vegetables because they are supposed to be healthier or something,but they are also moreexpensive. So is it worth it to pay more for the supposed health benefits? Well, it might be w

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Galileo, however, used one of the earliest telescopes to look at Jupiter. He noticed that Jupiter has moons going around it. Apparently everything in the cosmos didnt have to go around the earth! Perhaps, Galileo said, it just looks like everything m

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