From NPR News in Washington, I'm Barbara Klein. Bernard Madoff whose multi-billion-dollar Ponzi scheme cost many investors their life savings was sentenced to 150 years in prison today in a New York courtroom. NPR's John Ydstie reports. U.S. Distric

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U217 Turn off the music please. I've forgotten turning off the water. But the advanced course of French literature turns me off. People with loud voice turn me off. Hurry to turn on the radio. I've tu

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After informing Gasse that Apple was buying NeXT, Amelio had what turned out to be an even more uncomfortable task: telling Bill Gates. 在通知加西苹果要收购NeXT之后,阿梅里奥还有一个更难完成的任务:通知比尔盖茨。 H

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A Fruitful Experiment in Land Conservation 橘子皮的神奇作用 In the fight to conserve tropical rainforests, here's a tool you don't often hear about: orange peels. Specifically, 12,000 tons of them, dumped on the land. You don't usually associ

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Brazilian lawmakers have voted to back the impeachment process for President Dilma Rousseff. The lower house of Congress voted late Sunday to send the matter to the Senate, which will consider whether to put Rousseff on trial. A two-thirds majority,

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More than 15,000 education staff in Turkey have been suspended after last week's failed coup, as a purge of state officials widens still further. 随着土耳其针对国家官员的清理行动进一步扩大,该国逾1.5万名教育工作者在上周

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Cheaters Prospered in Historic US Land Rush A couple of boundaries between U.S. states have special historical significance. The Mason Dixon Line between Pennsylvania and Maryland, for instance, informally divided the slaveholding South from the anti

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243 印尼军方改革整顿 Indonesian Military's Actions Examined Stephanie Mann Washington 26 Jul 2001 01:29 UTC Indonesia's military is going through a period of reform trying to become more profe

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Books and Arts; Book Review;Pakistan's future;Resilient mess; 文艺;书评;巴基斯坦未来;扑朔迷离的未来; The Future of Pakistan. By Stephen Cohen and others. 《巴基斯坦的未来》,斯蒂芬柯恩著。 It seems optimi

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JUDY WOODRUFF: The giant retailer Target confirmed today that hackers stole encrypted pin numbers during a major data breach that began at Thanksgiving. Some 40 million accounts are potentially affected. Target said it believes the encryption will ke

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Mali's President Amadou Toumani Toure has officially resigned weeks after being toppled in a military coup that came just months before his term was to end. A mediator for ECOWAS, the Economic Community of West African States, said he received Mr. To

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BANGKOK Thailand's ruling military has detained a minister in the ousted government, minutes after he denounced last week's coup as illegitimate. Soldiers burst into the Foreign Correspondent's Club of Thailand Tuesday and took former education minis

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埃新宪法草案获公投高票通过 CAIRO, Jan. 18 (Xinhua) -- Egyptian voters overwhelmingly approved the country's new constitution by 98.1 percent of votes saying yes to the military-backed charter, the High Election Commission (HEC) officiall

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WASHINGTON, Dec. 24 (Xinhua) -- The United States urged South Sudanese President Salva Kiir and former Vice President Riek Machar to end hostilities and begin mediated political talks, according to a statement issued by State Department on Tuesday. U

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More than 150 people have been killed in a series of coordinated terror attacks in the heart Paris which have paralysed the French capital. 在法国巴黎市中心一系列连环恐怖袭击中,已有超过150人遇难。这起恐怖事件已经对法

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五月一日是众所周知的国际劳动节,那么你们知道其实这是一个与法国有关的日子。五月一日在英语里叫做May Day,把这两个单词连起来写就是mayday,mayday是遇险的飞机、船只等使用的国际无线

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Humanitarian Guidelines Help Refugees Get Back Land, Property 人道主义指南帮助难民收回土地及财产 Their name is long but precise: The UN Principles for Housing and Property Restitution for Refugees and IDPs. Relief groups and lawyers

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Separatist Tuareg rebels in Mali attacked the northern garrison town of Gao on Saturday, one day after taking the town of Kidal. The advances come as the military government scrambles to avoid sanctions by the regional bloc ECOWAS. Residents of Gao t

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HARI SREENIVASAN, PBS NEWSHOUR WEEKEND ANCHOR: Today, Turkey again deployed tanks inside Syria to target positions held by Islamic State militants. Twenty Turkish tanks backed by artillery entered northern Syria, about 35 miles from where Turkish for

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challenging a.有挑战性的 Writing in a foreign language is very challenging. 用外语写作很有挑战性。 remote a.偏僻的;久远的 No gas station can be found in such a remote town. 在如此偏远的小镇,一间加油站都找不到。

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