By Lisa Schlein Geneva 30 May 2006 A child holds a small hammer that is used to crush stones in a quarry near Dawhenya, east of Accra, Ghana, Thursday, May 4, 2006 Child labor, worker safety and changing patterns in the international workplace are o

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Britain Notes Big Change in Royal Wedding Souvenirs What can a cookie tin, a Rubik's Cube, and a novel tell us about Britain's royal family? Robert Opie has been a collector since before he can remember. Today, his collection makes up a museum in Lon

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British Columbia is the third largest Canadian provinces, both in area and population. It is nearly 1.5 times as large as Texas , and extends 800 miles( 1,280km ) north from the United States border. It includes Canada s entire west coast and the isl

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图片1 Languages are always evolving and changing. Here we look at a pretty modern trend in English, which is to make new words by blending two words together. Sometimes these two words have similar meanings, and sometimes they have opposite meaning

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By Anya Ardayeva Moscow 23 April 2008 There are more billionaires living in Moscow these days than anywhere else in the world. Thanks to a booming economy fueled by record high oil prices, the Russian capital is awash in cash. Modern new buildings ar

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By Al Pessin Pentagon 26 June 2007 In the wake of a series of high-profile incidents in which U.S. and NATO attacks have killed Afghan civilians, a senior American officer with responsibility for both forces says allied procedures for avoiding civili

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By Paul Sisco Washington 20 April 2007 NASA is preparing to launch a mission to the mesosphere, a region at the top of Earth's atmosphere where mysterious night shining clouds are formed. Little is known about the mesosphere, but its unique ice clou

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By Douglas Bakshian Manila 25 October 2006 The Philippine Supreme court has ruled against allowing a referendum on whether the country should change to a parliamentary system of government - dealing a major blow to President Gloria Arroyo who has be

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By Scott Stearns White House 26 September 2006 President Bush says foreign troops that support the government in Afghanistan are changing their tactics to confront a renewed insurgency by Taleban militia. Mr. Bush met with Afghan President Hamid Kar

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MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: If you follow fashion, then I don't need to tell you New York Fashion Week kicked off last Thursday. Now it sounds awfully glamorous, so it might surprise you to know that during these shows, models are expected to change in larg

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MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: And now we're going to spend a few minutes having a conversation about race and Hollywood. We've been having these conversations more and more these days. And one reason for that is that audiences, as well as performers, are star

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SCOTT SIMON, HOST: For most of their history, superheroes were white guys. That's changing. Alongside Superman and Captain America, there are more and more superheroes who are women or people of color or both. But this week, a Marvel Comics executive

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MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: There's a changing of the guard on Capitol Hill coming this summer. And no, we are not talking about a new senator or congressperson. We are talking about the new poet laureate of the United States. Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Tr

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NOEL KING, HOST: The midterm elections are four months away. And there are real concerns about election interference. Yesterday, at the Aspen Security Forum, Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats talked about the threat that Russia poses. (SOUN

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Various animals evolved coloration that keeps them hidden. A jaguar's patterns help it slink undetected across the sun-dappled rainforest floor. The mottled pigmentation on the wings of some let them rest on tree bark undisturbed. And then there are

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A volcano that started erupting on one of the Galapagos Islands last week may be changing the landscape of the island. According to the Associated Press, rangers and tour guides spotted lava flowing down the northeastern flank of the Cerro Azul Volca

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By Jim Malone Washington 11 January 2007 Reaction in Congress and among the American public suggests President Bush has an uphill battle in trying to win support for his new strategy in Iraq, a strategy that includes deploying more than 21,000 addit

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新西兰本土的女歌手Brooke Fraser 今年24岁是位创作才女。有新西兰抒情小歌后之称。 英文歌词: Brooke fraser-shadowfeet walking,stumbling on these shadowfeet toward home,a land that i've never seen i am changing: less and less asleep made of different stu

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STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Most of the stuff around us right now - I don't know - the television screens and microphones in the studio, products in your house, parts of every car, parts of almost every building, were once transported by truck. And the syst

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How Your VCR holds a Note VCR-盒式磁带录像机VCR是Video Cassette Recorder的缩写盒式磁带录像机。就功能上而言,它是使用空白录像带并加载录像机进行影像的录制及存储的监控系统设备。VCR作为许多晚会

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