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Topics: In the News: The Nobel Effect, dangerous bicycle helmets; to talk someone out of something vs. to have it out with someone; Ill wait for you vs. Ill be waiting for you; mixture Words: Nobel Prize to stick around bragging rights to be buffeted
Topics: How to ruin your computer, how much things cost in the US, secret vs. confidential vs. private, clich vs. touch Words: laptop to ruin versatile to spill fried to take something in (for repair) to salvage to back up model spies secret private
Topics: Native rate of speech, to preach to the choir, common sense, though at the end of a sentence, possess vs. own, allow you to vs. allows you to, pronouncing twenty and ninety, picking a suitor, a make-out scene Words: native rate to preach to t
Topics: American folklore: Bigfoot; Whos on First?, to tear apart, Cliff Notes, to fall out of love Words: UFO folklore Pacific Northwest hoax sighting creature comedy routine duo nickname play on words to tear apart (someone or something) Cliff Note
Topics: Ask an American: Socially Responsible Companies case study, to be at sea, to knock (someones) socks off, to take ones time Words: bottom line impact sustainable shareholder stakeholder to inch up behind the scenes pension investors commonplac
Topics: Route 66, playground games for children, on time versus in time, counting seconds using Mississippi, to knock yourself out Words: allergies a frog in your throat route interstate prosperous to get your kicks to celebrate to be it playground t
Topics: Famous Authors: Edgar Allen Poe; womens colleges; business versus commerce versus trade; thank goodness; to be keen on Words: tale macabre to lament narrator knock raven nevermore descent into madness calculated model co-educational to questi
Topics: Area 51 and Roswell; American Cities: Baltimore; that versus which; right away versus straightaway Words: conspiracy theory civilian tight-lipped UFO extraterrestrial to recover cultural center Midwest philanthropist refurbished black history
By Paul Sisco Washington, DC 06 July 2006 watch Rip Tides report The beach is a popular place in the summertime. But there are dangers beneath the ocean surface. Here is a look at rip tides, also known as rip currents -- the science, the danger, and
As African communities develop and modernize, proponents of traditional medicine are evolving new faces of the practice to keep up. Naomi Seck reports from a holistic healing center in Senegal's capital, Dakar, where traditional healing practices ar
今天我们要学的词儿是outpace。 Outpace是跑得更快,超过的意思。Supply is outpacing demand, 意思是供大于求。联合国的报告说,在非洲大陆,去年开始服用艾滋病药物的人数跟艾滋病新感染者人数的
By Douglas Bakshian Manila 06 December 2007 A Philippine court has convicted 14 militants of kidnapping 20 people in a 2001 incident that eventually left two Americans dead, including one who was beheaded. Douglas Bakshian reports from Manila. A Mani
Topics: Movies - The Maltese Falcon; Napa Valley, California and wine country; usage of bit; abuse versus assault; to put (someone) in the picture Words: falcon private detective unscrupulous antihero hardboiled fiction cynical femme fatale suspensef
Topics: Famous Playwrights August Wilson; low-income housing; to keep in mind versus to bear in mind; goose down blanket and other bedding; beauty is only skin deep Words: firsthand experience African American experience aspiring public housing resid
Topics: Redshirting; Mesa Verde National Park; to wrap up; to bother versus to interrupt versus to disturb; blind spot Words: to redshirt to count toward kindergarten cutoff to hold back peer prevalence cliff dwelling outcropping cave artifact to wra
Topics: Famous Authors - Ray Bradbury; foreign languages taught in U.S. schools; to repair versus to fix versus to mend; to the north versus north of; food versus meal versus repast Words: to emulate Fahrenheit to spontaneously ignite science fiction
Topics: Cigarette advertising and cigarette icons; how local government works; to assist in versus to assist with; calf versus cub; to hold forth Words: cigarette to sponsor slogan catchy icon rugged detrimental explicit county mayor city council jur
Ghost towns of the Wild West; dime novels and pulp magazines; kidding versus joking versus teasing; television show versus television series; phrase Words: Wild West boomtown bustling ghost town to seek (ones) fortune saloon prostitution dime pulp to
Topics: Movies - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid; Mount Rushmore; threat versus menace versus peril; using should with have to; role reversal Words: loosely based on outlaw to flee sculpture to carve granite to draw to depict from the waist up to
Topics: American Authors - Ernest Hemingway; the United Nations; you lost versus youre lost; expert in versus expert on versus expert at; geez Words: foreign correspondent to shape expat to toll pithy concise emasculation filth to emulate to commit s