British people can now repair their own teeth with special dental kits. They can fix fillings (cavities in the US) and make other repairs. The kits cost as little as $7. People are buying them because they cannot afford to go to the dentist. A fillin

发表于:2019-01-22 / 阅读(49) / 评论(0) 分类 英语生活新闻

Paying for College Chris: Which colleges are you applying to? Marcella: None. I cant afford to go to college. Even if I lived at home, tuition, fees, and books are just too expensive. Chris: You could apply for financial aid. Marcella: I dont want to

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GWEN IFILL: Now: how some Los Angeles schools are trying to improve students' college prospects by focusing directly on their parents. One organization is committing substantial resources to teaching parents how to make higher education an important

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GWEN IFILL: Next: making sure poetry leaves the ivory tower and gets out into the community. Over the past year, Jeffrey Brown and U.S. poet laureate Natasha Trethewey have been exploring that question in various corners of American life. They recent

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Great teaching seems to have less to do with our knowledge and skills than with our attitude toward our students, our subject, and our work. 好的教育并非仅限于我们的知识和技能,更多的是在于我们对待学生、学科和工作的

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Two health experts made the remark in Hong Kong after they joined the WHO mission and studied the MERS outbreak in South Korea. Virologist Malik Peiris says so far there is no evidence suggesting the virus will spread out of the country. It is too ea

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J: I want something more challenging. S: Like what? J: to run my own business and be my own boss. S: why do you want to start your own business? Students of your major can easily land a job nowadays. J: well, I hate being controlled by others,and I d

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LOS ANGELES, Nov. 2 (Xinhua) -- Troubled U.S. actress Lindsay Lohan, who has admitted to having violated her probation in grand theft and drunk-driving cases by failing to show up for court- ordered community-service appointments and therapy sessions

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WASHINGTON, June 13 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. intelligence community assessed that the Syrian government had used chemical weapons against rebels, White House said in a statement Thursday. Following a deliberative review, our intelligence community assess

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NANNING, June 25 (Xinhua) -- Lu Huizhen, director of Shizishan community in Pingxiang of southwest China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, has another role that makes her feel a sense of achievement -- leading a team of women to persuade drug users

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CANNES, France, Nov. 3 (Xinhua) -- Chinese President Hu Jintao met here Wednesday his French counterpart Nicolas Sarkozy on bilateral ties and other issues of common concern, including the Group of 20 summit scheduled for Thursday and Friday. Hu poin

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PHNOM PENH, Nov. 18 (Xinhua) -- The 21st Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit opened in the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh on Sunday with ASEAN Community building high on the agenda. Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, the rotating ch

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本期内容: NewsandcommunitywebsiteReddithaslaunchedanewvideoplayerthatallowsuserstodirectlyuploadvideos. Theplayerhassofarbeentestedinmorethan200ofthesite'scommunitygroups,knownassubreddits. With48millionannualvisitors,Redditistheeighthmostvisit

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16.饮食安全 假如你是一所国际学校校办英文杂志的学生编辑.你看了下面这封信后,也想写一篇关于该信的读后感,内容要点包括:你对此事件的看法;解释你的理由并提出你的建议;向受害者表

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The will to live life differently can start 想把生命活得与众不同的愿望 in some of the most unusual places. 能够在一些不平凡的地方实现 This is where I come from, Todmorden. 这是我的家乡,托德莫登 It's a market town

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This weekend marks 50 years since a bomb attack against a church in the southern US city of Birmingham, Alabama .The bomb planted by racists opposed to the civil rights movement in theUSAkilled four young black girls attending Sunday school. E B here

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FRAIDY REISS: Arranged marriage - where I grew up in the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community, this was just how marriage worked. And it was something I very much wanted to do. Most girls in my community were married at age 18 or 19, tops. And I had no qu

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MRS. OBAMA: Thank you so much. (Applause.) Oh, my goodness. Good evening. Thank you. I am just overwhelmed. And as an honorary degree holder, it is now my pleasure to say, Go Colonels! (Applause.) I want to start by thanking President Whitlock for th

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Brave New World by Aldous Huxley Chapter Twelve BERNARD had to shout through the locked door; the Savage would not open. But everybody's there, waiting for you. Let them wait, came back the muffled voice through the door. But you know quite well, Joh

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JOHN LARSON: Just a look at Main Street in Columbus, Mississippi and you can sense why Travel and Leisure voted it one of America's Great Main Streets. But it hasn't always been this way. As these images taken over the years by Columbus's own renowne

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