Achoo! AAAAAA-CHOOO! Those were the first sounds the Aldens heard from Edward Munsey. Mr. Munsey was a quilt expert sent by the State History Museum. He had just followed Lina into the attic. The four Aldens had been there all morning helping Lina so

发表于:2018-12-06 / 阅读(105) / 评论(0) 分类 99 The Finders Keepers Mystery

Economics Report - Indonesias 'Technopreneurs' Help Fuel Economic Growth This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Indonesia has one of the world's fastest growing economies, expanding at a rate of six percent this year. Technology is helping

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By Scott Stearns White House 30 March 2007 President Bush has apologized for the poor living conditions for some wounded servicemen and women at a military hospital outside the capital. VOA White House Correspondent Scott Stearns has the story. Presi

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歌曲:Avril Lavigne-When You're Gone Avril Lavigne shows off her slim figure in plunging leather bodice in new Japanese techno inspired video Hello Kitty. Avril Lavigne在她的受日本高科技舞曲启发而创作的新歌视频 Hello Kitty中身

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Steven from Katy, Texas, asked me how to write a good blog comment, and I thought it was a great topic I haven't seen covered anywhere. I don't know any bloggers who don't crave comments, but there are many more places than blogs that you can leave c

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Words and Their Stories: Easy as Falling Off a Log 词汇典故:易如反掌 Now, the VOA Special English program WORDS AND THEIR STORIES. 这里是美国之音慢速英语词汇典故节目。 Every people has its own way of saying things, its own

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AS IT IS 2015-04-12 Technology Center in Moscow Seeks Western Companies 莫斯科科技中心寻求西方公司加入 Russian officials are urging Western companies to open offices in a technology center in Moscow. They hope the center will help the

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Sri Lanka hopes to take advantage of the growing regional demand for information technology graduates. A new training institute opens next year to provide skilled graduates to meet increasing demand. Ron Corben recently visited Colombo and has this

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By Phil Mercer Sydney 30 May 2007 Ministers from members of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum - known as APEC - have decided at a meeting in Australia that development of clean energy technologies should take priority over a carbon-trading

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India seems to excel at making things smaller and cheaper. The $2,500 car and the $35 computer are just two of the country's latest innovations. Now, India increasingly is focused on low-cost solar technology. The front lines of that effort are seen

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SCOTT SIMON, HOST: This summer, NPR reporters are going home, back to the communities where they grew up, to see how their hometowns may have changed. The rural Pacific coast town of Gold Beach, Ore. is where Jeff Brady lived until 1985. On his trip

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The man who is often called Americas greatest president was born on February 12, 1809, in a crude log cabin in Kentucky. Eighteen feet long and sixteen feet wide, it had a dirt floor and no windows. LOG CABIN CABIN INTERIOR ONE ROOM PLUS A LOFT His f

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By David Gollust State Department 06 June 2007 U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Shaul Mofaz discussed Syria, and the Iranian nuclear program, in a meeting Wednesday that opened an annual bilateral strategic d

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By Paula Wolfson Washington 05 September 2006 George W. Bush President Bush is defending his handling of the war on terror as the fifth anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States rapidly approaches. Mr. Bush says th

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Technophobia What? Technophobe: Someone who does not like, trust, or want to use technology, especially computers. (Macmillan English Dictionary)Technophobia is not a new term and technophobes have existed since the Industrial Revolution and probably

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Ive been thinking about starting a blog for a long time now, and after talking to my friend Traver, a popular blogger , Ive decided to take the leap . Traver got me started with a basic template , but I wanted to customize the blog to give it my own

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By Leslie Boctor Cairo 11 November 2006 Archeologists in Egypt have uncovered the ancient tombs of three dentists close to Egypt's oldest pyramid, located just outside Cairo. The tombs were found after a group of thieves was caught digging in the ar

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Since the April 20 explosion and fire that sank the BP Deepwater Horizon off-shore oil rig, about 800,000 liters of crude oil a day have been spewing from the broken well into the Gulf of Mexico. The massive spill is threatening marine life, commerci

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By Paul Sisco Washington 04 May 2007 The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change on Friday plans to issue a third report on ways to offset global warming. Scientists and government administrators from more than 120 countries have bee

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Vanessa-Mae 陈美 Vanessa-Mae has been called a Paganini in hot pants. Or, to put it another way: she dresses to kill, but you aint seen anything yet till you see her pick up a violin. 陈美曾被称为穿热裤的帕格尼尼,或者换种说法:

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