JUDY WOODRUFF: The U.S. women's soccer team has advanced to the next round of play with a win last night against Nigeria. Veteran player Abby Wambach scored the only goal in a 1-0 win. Nancy Armour is covering the Cup for USA Today, and she brings us

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Inspired by the controversy, in 1796 Cuvier wrote a landmark paper, Note on the Species of Living and Fossil Elephants, in which he put forward for the first time a formal theory of extinctions. His belief was that from time to time the Earth experie

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Supernovae are significant to us in one other decidedly central way. Without them we wouldn't be here. You will recall the cosmological conundrum with which we ended the first chapterthat the Big Bang created lots of light gases but no heavy elements

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By Challiss McDonough The new Pan-African Parliament will open its second session Thursday in South Africa. It is the first time the all-African body will be meeting in its permanent host country. It

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Danish Party Stirs Immigration Controversry Peter Heinlein Copenhagen 24 Aug 2001 12:49 UTC A right-wing political party in Denmark has created an 1)uproar by publishing a list of nearly 5,000 2)immig

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The Swedish Academy awarded one of Swedens most famous living poets, Tomas Transtr?mer, the 2011 Nobel Prize for Literature on Thursday - making him the first Swede in nearly 40 years to win the award. The Nobel prize in literature for 2011 is awarde

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A leading ally of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has resigned as speaker of the country's parliament. Boris Gryzlov announced his resignation Wednesday in a statement posted to the ruling United Russia party website. Gryzlov, who was elected a

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LONDON, Aug. 2 (Xinhua) -- The investigation into the match-throwing scandal in Olympic badminton competition is not over yet. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has asked for further inquiry to know if coaches and team officials were involved

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A Chinese laundry detergent commercial has spurred outrage online, with many social media users accusing it of blatant racism. In a commercial for Chinas Qiaobi laundry detergent, a Chinese woman shoves the product into a black workers mouth in the m

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In the 12 years since Mark Zuckerberg launched Facebook, the global media landscape has changed beyond recognition. This is in no small part due to the social media platform that he started as an undergraduate, which is now one of the biggest global

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The fields of artificial intelligence and machine learning are moving so quickly that any notion of ethics is lagging decades behind, or left to works of science fiction. 由于人工智能和机器学习领域发展得太迅速,以致于任何伦理

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范文: There is an old saying: where there is a will, there is a way. It tells us that a strong will is the most essential quality that anyone who wants to achieve success. It can contribute a lot to ones success. Although All roads lead to Rome,

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1. New images revealed that North Korea has a second long-range missile base. One analyst says the base is a clear indication the country continues to develop its ballistic missile program. An American official says US intelligence has been aware of

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Patrick Nimely Sie-Tuon of the U.S.-based Liberia Human Rights Campaign says the group has nothing personal against President Sirleaf only to end impunity in LIberia James Butty | Washington, DC 08 December 2009 Five months after releasing the unedit

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Idiom: Right up my alley ( someone's expertise ) Hit the book: Metro Revenue Concession Lift ban Prohibit Interior Overkill Controversy Denizen Metro, struggling with declining ridership and revenue, is considering allowing retail and food concession

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Hope youre having a great day, I'm Nicole Lapin at the CNN Center in Atlanta, here's a look at what's happening NOW IN THE NEWS. A day after vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin electrified the Republican Convention, it's John McCain's turn t

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Sepp Blatter, who led world soccers governing body for 17 years and who was regarded as one of the most powerful people in global sports, said Tuesday that he would resign his position, making his announcement in Zurich even as law enforcement offici

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WASHINGTON, Nov. 23 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Barack Obama's administrator in Medicare agency, a key player in carrying out the healthcare reform, will resign after his nomination was blocked by Senate Republicans, local media reports quoted officia

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同位语从句和定语从句很相似,但还是有区别的,区别主要在以下三方面: 1. 从词类上区别 同位语从句前面的名词只能是idea,fact,news,hope,belife,suggestion,proposal ,word,thought,doubt,truth,

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Controversial parts of a textbook for primary school students will be removed from a new edition for the autumn semester, People's Education Press said last Wednesday, adding that the current textbooks will gradually be replaced. 人民教育出版社上

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