A key national home price index released today shows a rise of nearly 3% during the second quarter although the SP/Case-Shiller index is still down 15% from last year. NPR Yuki Noguchi reports. The index is a composite of monthly prices in 20 major

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NASA Successfully Tests Hypersonic 1 Jet Three years after its first test flight ended in an explosion, NASA on March 27 successfully launched an experimental jet that the agency believes reached a re

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It lost that distinction to HP about 3 or 4 years after I left, unfortunately, but when I left it was the largest printer company in the world. 只过了三四年惠普就追上来了,真可惜 Did you envision desktop publishing, was that a no-bra

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Not rocket science? 不是什么深奥的技术? Its not rocket science. 不是 Now...when you were first coming in contact with these computers and inventing them before the HP1900, 最早接触HP1900时 you do talk about writing programs. 你谈到

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Dialogue 2: (The manager takes her offending employee,Mr. Gao, to her office to share the complaint) (经理带着她被投诉的员工高先生到她的办公室谈话) Jingjing: Alright, Mr. Gao, do you know why you're here? 京晶:高先生,

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A: I haven't finished reading this book and it is due in two days. B: How far are you, Joe? A: I only read half of it. B: Why don't you check it out again? A: I think I want to read another one. B: You can check out more than one book. A: I know, but

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Gagarin went into space on a Soviet rocket. Shephard and Armstrong went up in U.S. spacecraft. Tito rode on a Russian vehicle. But all of those were government-run space agencies. With the space shuttle program getting ready to end, NASA is turning t

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AS IT IS 2016-08-11 Vietnam Moves Rocket Launchers into South China Sea 越南在南海岛礁部署火箭发射器 Officials say Vietnam has moved mobile rocket launchers to several islands in the South China Sea. The move is likely to raise tensions

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You will only hear this on Storynory because its top secret. Natasha exclusively reveals that before Bertie was turned into a frog, he worked as a secret agent. He was sent by his father, the king, on a mission to a far away kingdom called Wales. His

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Todd: Jonathan we are talking about conspiracy theories. What about the one where the sound? That when the rocket lands, they have actually audio of the rocket landing and you can't hear the rocket engine, and the rocket engine should be making a rea

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Hey, can I show you something? These are White House passes. Your dad has a job interview with the Secret Service. No way! It's really cool. John Cale. Why do you wanna be in the Secret Service? I can't think of a more important job than protecting t

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By Chris Simkins Washington, DC 19 January 2006 watch Pluto Mission report The U.S. space agency NASA delayed the launch Wednesday of a rocket carrying a probe that will study the planet Pluto and its

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18 物理学家、火箭专家戈达德罗伯特 DATE=3-21-01 TITLE=EXPLORATIONS #1944 - Robert Goddard BYLINE=Staff VOICE ONE: This is Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And this is Shirley Griffith with the VO

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'Cause really I'm a psycho.因为我真是个疯子 You know I am a psycho,你知道我是个疯子 I told you I'm a psycho, psycho, psycho, psycho,我告诉过你我是个疯子,疯子,疯子,疯子 psycho, psycho...疯子,疯子 You know I'

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An unmanned American Falcon-9 rocket has broken apart in flames minutes after lifting off from Cape Canaveral in Florida. 美国猎鹰9号火箭从佛罗里达州卡纳维拉尔角基地发射后数分钟内爆炸解体。该火箭并未载有乘员。

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Science and technology 科学技术 Reusable spacecraft 可重复使用的航天器 Jet-set rocket-man 乘喷气式火箭的乘客 A small British firm is working on a nifty new jet-rocket hybrid engine 英国一家小公司正在研发一款轻巧的新

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讲解 Todays key word is Musk Musk 麝香 Musk is a substance with a strong smell which is used in making perfume. Here is an example: Musk is used for perfumes and stimulant(兴奋剂). 麝香可以用作香料和兴奋剂。 今天我们要说的这

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Elon Musk's rocket company, SpaceX, announced last Wednesday morning it planned to send one of its spaceships to Mars by 2018, the most ambitious goal set to date by the burgeoning private space travel industry funded by billionaires instead of gover

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JERUSALEM Israels military offensive in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip is continuing for a fifth day, and there has been no let up in the Palestinian rocket attacks on southern Israel. In all, at least 53 Palestinians have been killed, including 24 civil

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Still less could we send up a shipload of space cowboys to do the job for us, as in the movie Armageddon; 我们更不可能发射一飞船警察去为我们干这个活儿,就像电影《善恶大决战》里的场面那样; we no longer possess

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