Auckland Unleashed is the name of the new discussion paper. It is 220 pages long but you can see a quick video of statistics about Auckland at Auckland Discussion Paper. Some of these statistics are positive but many are negative. The statistics give

发表于:2018-12-05 / 阅读(65) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

Downtown Art Walk Provides New View of Los Angeles Central Los Angeles is undergoing a renaissance - at least one night every month. It is both a party - and an artistic pilgrimage. One evening each month, nearly 50 downtown galleries open their door

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AA: I'm Avi Arditti and this week on WORDMASTER: We follow up on last week's advice to parents about the language benefits of talking to babies. Mariah Evans at the University of Nevada, Reno, led a 20-year study which asked adults in 27 countries to

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4The descendants of Judah: Perez, Hezron, Carmi, Hur and Shobal. 2Reaiah son of Shobal was the father of Jahath, and Jahath the father of Ahumai and Lahad. These were the clans of the Zorathites. 3These were the sons of Etam: Jezreel, Ishma and Idbas

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Proposal 求婚 My boyfriend proposed to me. 男友跟我求婚了. As he told me, I thought excited and shy. 当他跟我说的时候,我觉得很兴奋又害羞. We've gone now since 1999. 我们从1999年就已经开始交往. It made me so happy and I decided to marry him in 3 mont

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Robots, becoming increasingly prevalent in factories and industrial plants throughout the developed world, are programmed and engineered to perform industrial tasks without human intervention. Most of today's robots are employed in the automotive ind

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By Zulima Palacio Washington, DC 05 May 2006 watch Hydro Power report For a long time, hydropower was considered the original renewable energy resource. In many countries, hydropower represents a high

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By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 06 March 2007 In Nepal, an ethnic group demanding greater political representation has shut down the south of the country with a campaign of strikes and protests. Anjana Pasricha reports from New Delhi on the new trouble

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By Lisa Bryant Paris 10 January 2007 The Basque separatist group ETA is warning it may launch new terrorist attacks, following its December 30 bombing at a Madrid airport that killed two people. From Paris, Lisa Bryant reports the blast has shattere

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Marriage in Egypt By Lindsay Wise Cairo, Egypt 07 June 2006 Hind El Hinnawy scandalized Egyptian society by dragging a famous actor to court to prove he was the father of her baby. Now, after finally

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12 December 2007 Vietnam has released three of the four Vietnamese-born United States citizens it arrested in November and accused of involvement in terrorism. The release comes a day after the U.S. ambassador criticized the detentions. Matt Steingla

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By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 06 October 2006 Many Kenyans are criticizing a controversial proposal by a Kuwaiti company to develop the historic area of Lamu on Kenya's north coast, saying that the proposal has not followed proper procurement procedures

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By Michael Gutkin and Alona Cherkassky Washington, DC 08 September 2006 watch Russian Candidates report Brooklyn, in the eastern U.S. state of New York is home to the largest Russian speaking community in the United States. Soon, this vibrant neighb

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Each clan had its own separate gods and totems to water and wind, fire and night. They were kept in the caravan town of Mecca, in a shrine of wood, stone and cloth. It was called, the Kaaba, the Arabic word for Cube. Pre-Islamic-Arabs worshiped a num

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A small Islamic sect has been the target of violent attacks and is at the center of a national debate in Indonesia over religious freedom. As Chad Bouchard reports from Jakarta, recent restrictions on the Ahmadiyah sect could signal a shift in gover

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By Margaret Besheer Baghdad 03 April 2007 In February, U.S. and Iraqi troops began new security operations in Baghdad to bring spiraling sectarian violence under control. VOA's Margaret Besheer reports that in one district of the capital, joint U.S.

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By Michael Bowman Washington 09 May 2007 Colombian politicians and human rights activists visiting Washington this week say U.S. aid to their country focuses too much on military and anti-drug assistance and not enough on humanitarian needs. The dele

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Pakistan has offered a joint investigation into terror attacks in Mumbai, after India blamed elements in Pakistan for planning the deadly violence. From Islamabad, Ayaz Gul reports senior government officials also say they will frame a response to N

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Billion People Suffer from Neglected Tropical Diseases A billion people around the world suffer from neglected tropical diseases, and the global health community is working to develop new drugs, vaccines and diagnostics. But experts note that success

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By now, the empire was larger than Rome. It stretched from Morocco in the west to the Indus River in the east where the border of India is today. How had it happened that so small an army could conquer an area so large, so fast, so easily? Islams suc

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