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After you graduate do you want to live in your hometown? Why or why not? Can I visit your hometown on the Internet? Do you like your hometown? Why or why not? How many TV channels do you get at home? Do you miss your home country? What do you miss th

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Maternal Health Practioners Advocate Saving Lives at Birth The World Health Organization estimates that every minute, a woman dies during pregnancy and millions of others suffer from infections and disease associated with childbearing. To combat this

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A consortium of United Nations and private aid and financial organizations are calling for urgent investment in the health of mothers and children in Asia and the Pacific. The consortium, called the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child-Health

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So, your great-aunt is one of your grandparents' siblings? 那么，你的姑奶奶是你爷爷奶奶的姐妹吗？ Yes. Great-aunt Pippa is my grandma's sister. 是的。皮帕姑奶是我祖母的姐姐。 Your maternal grandmother or your paterna

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Women have made much progress in gaining equality in work and life over the past half century. In many developed countries such as the US and the UK, women now earn more college and graduate degrees than men do. Women make up half the workforce and a

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Hello I am Jim Lee with the BBC news. China has announced that its economy grew by 6.9% last year. The figure was in line with expectations, but it's the slowest rate of growth for the world's second largest economy in 25 years. Karishma Vaswani repo

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As a new father, I quickly learned the true meaning of maternal instinct. Late one night, I was summoned to the hospital to attend to one of my patients. I quietly got up in the dark but tripped over a toy and crashed to the floor. As I lay there rub