The Changing Face of America 美国不断变化的面孔 Springfield, a community in the state of Virginia, is about 24 kilometers down the road from the U.S. Capitol building. There you will find what could be the face of the next generation in Amer

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AS IT IS 2015-03-17 Will the US Become a Bilingual Country? 美国将成为一个双语国家吗? In the U.S., speaking more than one language fluently is not very common except in Los Angeles, California. The city has one of the largest populations

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Schools in US Dont Get Same Funding Education spending in the United States differs from school to school. In the southern state of Mississippi, a school in Brookhaven spends $6,417 per student. Just 100 kilometers west, Natchez spends nearly $3,000

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Where Are the Best Educated Americans? 受过最好教育的美国人分布在哪儿? The best educated Americans live mainly in the northeastern United States or in California, a new study finds. Zippia.com, a career resource website, studied educat

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So they spread out all the census data, 他们分析了所有的人口统计数据, and what they found, the guy described to me as a shocker, 他们发现,他的描述对我而言是一个震惊, which is that in 1,997 out of 2,000 communities

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Off the coast of Boston, scientists scan the horizon for something largehumpback whales. In the busy waters of the Stellwagen Bank, National Marine Sanctuary, whales must navigate around submerged fishing gear. And on the surface, collisions to the s

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They are mini-masterpieces, built with microscopic elegance, the small and hard-to-see life of the sea, microbes, larvae, burrowers, and they've been photographed and catalogued as part of a massive marine collaboration of scientists from across the

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The middle class in America's cities has shrunk dramatically in the 21st century. 美国城市的中产阶级阵容在本世纪大幅萎缩。 A Pew Research Center analysis of Census Bureau data looked at the state of the middle class in America's m

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SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF The late CAPTAIN EZEKIEL HARDY,Who in the bows of his boat was killed by a Sperm Whale on the coast of Japan,AUGUST 3d,1833.THIS TABLET Is erected to his Memory BY HIS WIDOW. Shaking off the sleet from my ice glazed hat and ja

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In this April 18, 2011 file photo, a woman at a job fair in New York talks to an employer. For the first time, American women have passed men in gaining advanced college degrees as well as bachelor's degrees, part of a trend that is helping redefine

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Do birthdays really make people happy Happy birthday! Do birthdays really make people happy? Of course they do. Birthdays celebrate the day we were born. Moreover, that extra candle on the cake represents another year of growth and maturity-

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The number of students from the Chinese mainland being educated at British boarding schools is booming as their parents seek to prepare them for entry into an elite UK college or university. 由于中国大陆的父母试图使子女对进入英国的精

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People Born in Autumn Live Longer People born in the autumn live longer than those born in the spring and are less likely to fall chronically ill when they are older, according to an Austrian scientis

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Asian-Americans have largely been ignored by U.S. politicians, but they could provide a valuable edge in the upcoming presidential election, says new polling data. According to recently released census data, Asian-Americans are the fastest growing mi

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Researchers are now pretty certain there's a ninth planet in the solar system. 研究人员如今相当确定,太阳系中存在着第九颗行星。 Konstantin Batygin and Mike Brown, two CalTech scientists, say the new planet is about 10 times th

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Hello, I'm Naamua Delaney at the CNN Center in Atlanta. And here's a look at what's happening NOW IN THE NEWS. Defense Secretary Robert Gates is warning Russia to step back. He says its relationship with the US is on the line with its aggression in

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WASHINGTON, Sept. 16 (Xinhua) -- U.S. poverty(贫困) rate climbed to 14.3 percent in 2009, the highest level since 1994, as households' incomes were squeezed by the deepest recession(衰退) since the 1930s and high unemployment(失业率 )

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Britain Measuring diversity 英国 衡量种族多样化 The London effect 伦敦效应 Britain is becoming more like its capital city 英国渐渐成为一个大都市 Milton Keynes, a new town of 249,000 people some 50 miles from London, is famous

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Official statistics 官方统计 Con census 反对人口普查 Britain's decennial population count has been saved. Now make it work better 英国十年一度的人口普查被保留,如今需改良运作状态 WHEN the first results of the 2011 ce

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So that there are instances among them of men, who, named with Scripture names-a singularly common fashion on the island 所以,在男人中间便有许多以《圣经》上的名字来做名字的情形...这是这个海岛特别普遍的风尚... a

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