Diseases can spread quickly. Someone with a cold infects a few casual contacts, who in turn infect others. Ideas can also spread that way, along so-called random networks. But Damon Centola at MIT says that ideas and beliefs spread faster and more ef

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(79) / 评论(0) 分类 Scientific American(九)月

Brazilian officials are confirming that floating debris spotted earlier today in the water including what they say appears to be an airplane seat and an orange buoy are from missing Air France jetliner. Brazil's defense minister says a search plane

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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says an international response is necessary to punish Iran for an alleged plot to kill the Saudi ambassador to the US. This plot, very fortunately disrupted by the excellent work of our law enforcement and intellige

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Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance, Mr Tharman Shanmugaratnam Mr Ho Kwon Ping, SMU Chairman His Excellency Duan Jielong, Chinas Ambassador to Singapore Our Keynote Speaker Professor Justin Lin and panel members Ladies and gentlemen 尊敬的

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英国一家游戏开发公司本周一推出了一款以气候变化为主题的电脑游戏试用版,让每个玩家都能够参与到拯救世界的行动中。据介绍,这款游戏名为世界的命运,每个玩家都是国际环境组织的

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VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I'm Barbara Klein. This week on our program, we take a look at Washington's newly opened museum of news, the Newseum. (SOUND) There's a big story breaking a

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AS IT IS 2016-01-16 Russia Faces Pain Over Falling Oil Prices, Sanctions 俄罗斯面临着油价下跌带来的痛楚 From VOA Learning English, this is the Economics Report. 美国之音经济报道。 Russias economy is struggling at the beginning

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Davos Explores World's Pressing Issues 达沃斯探索世界上最紧迫的问题 From VOA Learning English, this is In The News. Falling oil prices are one reason leading measures of world stock markets have dropped in value this year. Yet a United

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AS IT IS 2016-07-13 Islamic State Gains 'Symbolic Victories' 伊斯兰国家获得象征性胜利 People claiming to represent the Islamic State have claimed responsibility for several deadly attacks in the past two weeks. The attacks came shortly af

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AS IT IS 2016-09-21 Indonesia Strikes Down Plans for Development in Rainforest 印度尼西亚罢工,计划发展热带雨林 Indonesias Leuser Ecosystem is one of the few places where tigers, orangutans, elephants and rhinoceros all live in the wild

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A travel ban was imposed on New York and its suburbs Saturday, with authorities effectively shutting down America's most populous city as a massive snowstorm pummeling the eastern United States gathered pace. New York state Governor Andrew Cuomo impo

发表于:2019-01-16 / 阅读(73) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny says Ireland is aiming to be the first to exit its international bailout and resume financing its government operations on its own. Kenny told an international economic forum Friday in Dublin that Ireland is recovering

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Today will see a resumption of the annual high-level discussions between China and the United States here in Beijing. In opening this year's Strategic and Economic Dialogue yesterday, both China's President and the US Secretary of State have suggeste

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While European investors are becoming increasingly skeptical about Greece, Ireland, Italy, and Spain's ability to recover from the economic crises, EU governments are having a difficult time coming up with a unified stance on how to deal with the iss

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In a brief speech at the airport, Li Keqiang sent sincere greetings and wishes from the central government to Macao compatriots. This is the first time that I've come to Macao and see Macao compatriots here. I'm happy to see the smiling faces of the

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Tender Is the Night - Book Two by F. Scott Fitzgerald Chapter 20 When Dick got out of the elevator he followed a tortuous corridor and turned at length toward a distant voice outside a lighted door. Rosemary was in black pajamas; a luncheon table was

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The WTO and China Hands slapped 世贸组织与中国的交锋 A ruling with ramifications 裁决之意,一石多鸟 Jul 7th 2011 | from the print edition WHEN China joined the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in late 2001, its share of world exports

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Human-rights abuses 人权问题 Nothing new under the sun 日光之下无新事 Some dictators may have fallen, but human-rights abuses continue 也许有些独裁者已然倒下,但侵犯人权之事依旧存续 May 12th 2011 | OSLO | from the pr

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Dear Mom and Dad 亲爱的爸爸妈妈 Bob is almost 29 years old, his friends have already gotten married, and Bob just dates and dates. 鲍勃快29岁了,他的朋友们都结婚了,只有鲍勃还在不停地约会再约会。 Finally a friend

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About the Tercentennial 耶鲁300年校庆 In 1701,the collegiate institution that would soon become well-known Yale was founded. To celebrate the 300th anniversary of this event, President Levin convened a group including faculty, students, admini

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