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SSS 2009-10-29

From Chernobyl to La Oroya, Peru, the world is littered with toxic wastelands, the residue of human industry. For the past two years, the Blacksmith Institute, an environmental health organization based in New York City, has been cataloguing the worl

NPR 2011-01-08

The nation's payrolls expanded in December, sending the unemployment rate down almost 0.5 percent to 9.4 percent, but Danielle Karson reports the economy created fewer jobs than anaylsts were expecting. The private sector added 113,000 jobs to busine

AP 2011-10-21

1. President Barack Obama is breaking up his jobs bill into bite-sized pieces for Senate Republicans. Beginning a three-day bus tour in North Carolina, Obama pushed for Congressional approval of parts of his $447 billion jobs plan. 2. Federal investi

AP 2010-10-21

1. President Barack Obama is back on the campaign trail, trying to bolster the Democratic base as the midterm elections approach. A new AP poll finds just half of the people who voted for President Obama two years ago say they will definitely vote th

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ITS October, a damp day. From my hotel window I can see too much of this Midwestern city. I can see lights coming on in some of the buildings, smoke from the tall stacks rising in a thick climb. I wish I didnt have to look. I want to pass along to yo

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After the bolts of cloth Fee had ordered came on the mail, she sat down at the donated sewing machine and began to make loose dresses in light cotton for herself and Meggie, light trousers and overalls for the men, smocks for Hal, curtains for the wi

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Eighty million tons of rock, moving at more than one hundred miles an hour, just fell off the mountain, 8000万吨岩石以每小时160公里的速度从山上崩塌下来， traveling with such force and momentum that the leading edge of the landsli