A major boost today for the Obama administration. A federal appeals court has endorsed the Environmental Protection Agency's efforts to rein in greenhouse gases. NPR's Elizabeth Shogren reports the court's unanimous opinion could be seen as a victory

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On Thursday, the Communist Party of China announced a plan to abolish the decades-long One-Child Policy, allowing all couples to have two children. The announcement came amid increasing concerns over China's rapidly aging population and shrinking wor

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[00:-1.00]Lesson 21 A Matter of Taste Chinese Prints [00:-2.00]This exhibition starts on 1 July at the Newman Galleryin Dinham [00:-3.00]and ends on 15 September.At 6:00 p.m.on Friday 3 July [00:-4.00]there will be a talk on Chinese painting by Dr Al

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From NPR News in Washington, I'm Carol Van Dam. President Obama accepted his Nobel Prize today, acknowledging the irony of a war president accepting a prize for peace. NPR's Mara Liasson reports. The president gave the kind of speech that no one on t

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The UN's cultural agency is supporting the Palestinians' bid for full membership despite strong Israeli and US objections. As a result, Washington's cutting off funding to UNESCO. State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland. We were to have made a $

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high school in Fujian Province that has issued rules banning boys and girls from walking together or even chatting to each other has got netizens talking on social media. 福建省一所高中最近出台了一些规定,禁止男女生一起走路、

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精选英语美文阅读::母亲的遗物 母亲去世后,我开始爱上了逛旧货市场。我喜欢在听过的CD、穿过的牛仔裤、围过的丝巾中探寻它们主人曾经的故事,似乎这么一来,这些物品以前见证过的

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Another good candidate would be a government-run plant at Badarpur, less than 50km from the middle of Delhi. 另一个较好的选择便是位于巴达普(距德里市中心不到50千米)的官办工厂。 According to the Centre for Science and

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Nickelback Gets Its Start Brothers, Chad and Mike Kroeger formed Nickelback in Vancouver 1 in 1996 with their cousin Brandon (who is no longer in the band) and their buddy 2 Ryan Peake. Chad Kroeger w

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This town here has sort of been going through clean-up. People are trying to salvage things from their houses, but the reality is when you talk to them, there's nothing they can salvage when has been touched by this red toxic chemical mix. People sho

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As the new year rolls in, taking stock of the one just past can prompt the age-old resolutions, 'eat healthier' and 'make better choices'. 新年伊始,人们在对过去的一年做出总结的同时也会写下自己的新年愿望,如吃得更健

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China's education authorities have launched a campaign to curb school bullying. 为遏制校园欺凌,我国教育主管部门近日对此开展专项治理行动。 The campaign will last until December and targets elementary, middle and secondary

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中美合作应对空气与气候问题 Prior to her visit to China next week, Gina McCarthy, head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, says her country's expertise and advanced technologies will help China deal with environmental challenges.

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A Coke and a Smile I know now that the man who sat with me on the old wooden stairs that hot summer night over thirty-five years ago was not a tall man. But to a five-year-old, he was a giant. We sat side by side, watching the sun go down behind the

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Corporate taxation 企业税务 Death of the Double Irish 计划夭折 The Irish government plans to alter one of its more controversial tax policies 爱尔兰政府计划改变其一项颇具争议的税收政策 BONO may front one of the world's mo

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French voters cast ballots Sunday in the first round of parliamentary elections. Polls show that leftist parties will gain the majority of 577 seats in the National Assembly, the lower house of parliament. This means that the Socialist President Fran

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我们每天忙忙碌碌的,有时候,竟不知自己为什么而忙。不妨多试着问自己,我在做什么?为什么做?明确自己的目标,前路才能更顺畅! Why do you do what you do? 你为什么要做手头上的事呢?

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BEIJING, Jan. 29 (Xinhua) -- Thirty percent of official cars in Beijing should not be used when there is extremely bad pollution, traffic authorities confirmed Tuesday. The order was implemented on Monday evening to help combat the fourth round of he

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BEIJING, Jan. 22 (Xinhua) -- Beijing will strengthen its efforts to treat PM2.5 and slash the density of major air pollutants by 2 percent this year, the municipality's acting mayor said Tuesday. The capital will take 180,000 old vehicles off the roa

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Besides an increase of the wholesale tax rate, cigarette retailers will also have to pay an additional 0.005 yuan for each cigarette they sell. This is estimated to make retail price of cigarettes in 2015 increase by over 10 percent from that of last

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