MIT Scientists: Robots Will Soon Be Able to Run Like Cheetahs 麻省理工学院研制出动如猎豹的机器人 Scientists have been experimenting with four-legged robots for years, trying to see if they could be used as pack animals for carrying h

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Yoohoo! someone called. Is it morning already? Benny asked. Henry crawled out of his sleeping bag and looked out the tent window. Its Doris, he told the others. The children piled out of the tent. Well, good morning, Doris said. She set a box down on

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Youth Group in Nairobi Illuminates Homes, Schools A youth group in one of Nairobi's many teeming slums has found a brilliant way to light up dark houses. Drawing upon an innovation from Brazil, the young people have installed so-called water bulbs in

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The best inventions of 2009 from a light bulb that may be worth ten million dollars to an electric eye, that sees for you. The list is out; this is it right here, from Time magazine, Time website, Time.com, which is a partner of CNN.com. They say the

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He turned on the light switch. The hall light went on. Then he heard a popping sound because the light bulb blew out. It was time to change the bulb. He went into the kitchen. He opened a kitchen cabinet. He looked at five different light bulbs. One

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By Parke Brewer Munich 13 June 2006 Allianz-Arena stadium in Munich Twelve different cities are hosting the 2006 World Cup football finals in Germany. Of those 12, nine had existing stadiums undergo reconstruction for the month-long tournament, whil

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Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I'm Faith Lapidus. Roanoke Island is off the mid-Atlantic coast of the United States, in North Carolina. In fifteen eighty-seven, more than one hundred people arrived

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Dialogue Helps LA Residents, Police Build Bridges 对话有助于搭建洛杉矶居民与警察的沟通桥梁 LOS ANGELES Tensions have flared between police and African Americans around the United States, after a series of confrontations and contro

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美国研究人员尝试从微风中获取能源 Solar chargers are effective only when the sunlight is relatively strong,but researchers at the Construction Engineering Research Laboratory in Illinois turned to the wind as another natural source of

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气候变化对健康的影响 WASHINGTON The impact of climate change is so great that it could undermine the last 50 years of gains in global health, according to the Lancet Commission report. 柳叶刀委员会的报告指出,气候变化的影响

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AILSA CHANG, HOST: The young adult bestseller Ready Player One is about the search for an Easter egg - not the kind that kids will search for this weekend, Easter egg in the sense of an unexpected bonus feature, the kind found in video games. Filmmak

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Tough Love: Kwame Alexander Remembers Tupac play pause stop mute unmute max volume 00:0000:00repeat repeat off Update Required To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin. RACHEL MARTI

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ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby is one of the most beloved American novels. It's set in the roaring 20s about the messiness of chasing the American dream. For the author Stephanie Powell Watts, something about the novel neve

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Shams 1, which opened on March 17th is Abu Dhabi's latest step towards achieving seven per cent renewable energy production by 2020. By that date, Abu Dhabi plans to produce 1,500 mega watts of electricity from solar power alone. Various types of sol

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You've probably seen pictures of Greek villages, where every house is painted bright white. The paint reflects the intense sunlight of the Mediterranean. And it works pretty well to keep the houses from heating up in the sun. But it doesn't actively

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You've probably seen pictures of Greek villages, where every house is painted bright white. The paint reflects the intense sunlight of the Mediterranean. And it works pretty well to keep the houses from heating up in the sun. But it doesn't actively

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In Valerie Plame's Blowback, Reality Grittier than Fiction The 2010 drama Fair Game, starring Naomi Watts and Sean Penn, catapulted the 2003 leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame onto the silver screen. Plame's life took an unexpected turn after having

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Hispanic Group Preps Houston's Emerging Leaders HOUSTON, TEXAS Thanks to a Houston-based foundation, 34 emerging young leaders have completed a course aimed at bolstering their skills and giving them the confidence to help mold the Texas city's futur

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By George Dwyer Washington, DC 07 March 2006 watch Merger report Shares of the U.S. regional telephone firm BellSouth rose sharply in value Monday after the company agreed to an acquisition offer by A

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Even with the right to vote, even with the right to sit anywhere on a bus or eat in any restaurant, black people were struggling. Too many did not have jobs. And those with jobs werent making enough to live decently. They lived in homes with no heat

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