High-Tech and Low-Tech, Nigerian E-Commerce Starting to Click 电子商务举步维艰的尼日利亚 LAGOS A common complaint in Nigeria is that things just don't work. The phones don't work, the Internet is down and the man who fixes your car is no

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New Wave Tattooists Dedicate Themselves to Skin Art The muscular man with shaved head grimaces at the needle dancing across his broad chest, the machine buzzing maniacally as the inky, Gothic letters of a Latin phrase begin to form on his skin: Amor

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Top 5 Songs for Week Ending May 7 These are the five most popular songs in the Billboard Hot 100 Pop Singles chart, for the week ending May 7, 2016. This week's list gets two all-new titles. It starts in fifth place. Number 5: Mike Posner I Took A Pi

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Uganda Unveils its First Solar-powered Bus 乌干达首次推出太阳能汽车 KAMPALA A solar-powered bus described by its Ugandan makers as the first in Africa has made its public debut. Kiira Motors' electric bus was displayed recently at a stadi

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This is the Top Five Countdown! We're punching up the five most popular songs in the Billboard Hot 100 Pop Singles chart, for the week ending Jan. 27, 2018. Some songs crawl up the chart while others fly this week we meet one of the latter. Number 5:

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Top 5 Songs for Week Ending Dec. 28 Were spotlighting the five most popular songs in the Billboard Hot 100 pop singles chart, for the week ending Dec. 28, 2013. Lorde, 17, dips a slot to fifth place with her 4-million-selling breakout hit Royals.The

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Zoo Animals Show Their Artistic Sides 动物园动物展出自己的艺术作品 The pursuit of happiness is so important, America's founding fathers put it in the Declaration of Independence. Any zookeeper will tell you animals need enrichment, just

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Battling Ebola with Data The World Health Organization recently called for 900 more epidemiologists to join the battle against Ebola in West Africa. Thats triple the current number. Epidemiologists study the patterns of disease outbreaks to determine

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The End of AIDS Could be Within Reach 治愈艾滋病毒将触手可及 WASHINGTON This year's World AIDS Day focuses on how to achieve an AIDS-free generation. The United Nations predicts that if prevention and treatment services are scaled up, the

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Lebanese Shiites Defiantly' Mark Ashura 黎巴嫩什叶派纪念阿舒拉节 BEIRUT Lebanese Shi'ite Muslims marked the Ashura religious commemoration in mass rallies Tuesday, mourning the beheading of the grandson of Islam's Prophet Muhammad 13 cent

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After several exciting weeks, the chart falls asleep today. If you liked our last lineup, you'll love this one, too. Number 5: Imagine Dragons Thunder Let's open in fifth place, where Imagine Dragons holds with Thunder. This Las Vegas band put out it

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Were lighting up the five most popular songs in the Billboard Hot 100 Pop Singles chart, for the week ending April 1, 2017. As has been the case, we welcome one new song this weekand its a big jumper. Number 5: The Weeknd Daft Punk I Feel It Coming T

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Hurricane Sandys Impact: Still Reeling After One Year 飓风桑迪一年后 NEW YORK Its been one year since Hurricane Sandy struck the New York metropolitan area. Reconstruction is ongoing, but for many life is still very fragile. 纽约遭受飓风桑

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California Dance Company Aims to Break Belly Dance Stereotype 加州舞团旨在打破肚皮舞的刻板印象 LOS ANGELES In the United States and some other countries, belly dancing is often perceived as a seductive dance, performed mostly at speci

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ILO: Social Protection a Human Right A new report says while the need for social protections is widely recognized, many people around the world dont have them. The International Labor Organization says less than 30-percent of the population has guara

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Libyas Oil Output Drops Further 利比亚的石油产量进一步下降 Libya has much of the worlds highest quality crude oil. But since the fall of long-time leader Moammar Gadhafi in 2011, production has been sporadic and on the decline. After ass

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CAR Sectarian Violence Rising 中非宗派暴力上升 The human rights group Amnesty International says U.N. peacekeepers must take bold action to protect civilians in Central African Republic. It says theres an escalating wave of sectarian violence

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Top 5 Countdown for Week Ending Aug. 23 Were rolling out the five most popular songs in the Billboard Hot 100 pop singles chart, for the week ending August 23, 2014. Today we get to dust off the welcome mat, because we get a new title. Thats on the w

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Ebola Weakens Liberia Food Security Liberia has been the hardest hit country in West Africas Ebola outbreak with more than three-thousand cases. Fourteen of the countrys fifteen counties have been affected. Some of the first cases in Liberia were rep

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Researchers Experiment With 3-D Printer to Produce Human Body Parts 研究人员用3D打印机制作人体器官 Human organ transplants have become fairly common around the world in the past few decades, but doctors and their patients still face the

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