But the HEPA filter for Olivers Vibe got dirty very quickly. And, it was not cleanableit was simply replaceable. When it turned filthy brown, Oliver went back to Target to buy a new filter. Oddly, Target sold the F15 belt for the Vibe, but not the fi

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EXPLORATIONS - Bat Populations Are Important for Agriculture and the Environment BARBARA KLEIN: Im Barbara Klein. MARIO RITTER: And Im Mario Ritter with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today, we learn about the environmental and agricultural imp

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The Pakistani government issued a statement late Monday strongly protesting the actions of NATO helicopter crews that reportedly followed hostile targets by air from Afghanistan into Pakistan. The statement said the incidents infringe upon Pakistan's

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by Jason Marshall In the last article, we talked about averages and one specific way statistics can help answer questions without letting emotions interfere. But the type of average value we talked about is just one of manyuseful meanings assigned to

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By Tom Rivers London 22 May 2007 British prosecutors say former Russian spy Andrei Lugovoi should be charged with the murder of one-time Russian intelligence officer Alexander Litvinenko, who died in London after being poisoned last year. For VOA, To

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By Lisa Schlein Geneva 24 August 2007 United Nations aid agencies say the situation in Peru's earthquake affected areas is moving rapidly from one of emergency to rehabilitation and reconstruction. But the agencies say there is still a great need of

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I really think that if we had tried this five, 10 years ago, it would not have worked Social media organizers in Washington have brought World Cup soccer mania to their neighborhood, by screening Saturday's matches on two big screens at a local publi

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Concussions Impact US Teen Athletes There are an estimated 300,000 sports-related traumatic brain injuries in the United States each year. A national study by a major pediatric research center of young athletes 15-to-24 years old reveals that sports

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As International Women's Day is observed worldwide, Kenyan women gathered in Nairobi Tuesday to speak out against the police killings of their loved ones. For women around the world, the March 8 is a day to celebrate and advance the progress of gende

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Georgia's President Mikhail Saakashvili shakes hands with visiting U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton during their meeting in Tbilisi, 05 Jul 2010 U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is calling for an end to the Russian occupation of

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西方的食品和餐饮文化和中国略有不同。在高档餐馆里进行正统的西式晚宴本身就是一种礼仪,它注重的是交谈。 Listen Read Learn The culture of food and dining in the West is a little different from that in China. The proper western dinner at a fine restauran

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Beginners. The U.S. is definitely a shopping culture. There are so many things to buy, and so many advertisements on television that it is hard to not buy. Unfortunately, my children see the advertisements on television, and think that they need all

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By Jim Randle Baghdad 19 September 2007 Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki says the company that provides bodyguards to U.S. diplomats in Iraq has been suspended while the government investigates a deadly shooting incident involving the firm last

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By Cindy Saine Miami 14 October 2006 In Ecuador, the frontrunner in a field of 13 candidates for president is an outspoken outsider with close ties to leftist Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. One of Ecuador's former presidents once described politi

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By Leslie Boctor Cairo, Egypt 07 March 2007 Emotions remain high in Cairo, even after Egypt asked for Israel to investigate whether Israeli soldiers killed Egyptian POWs during the 1967 war. Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit and Israeli For

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By Barry Wood Washington 12 April 2008 The governing body of the International Monetary Fund is meeting Saturday in Washington to discuss a weakening global economy, inflation and proposals to stabilize financial markets still reeling from bank losse

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Many aspects, like its geological past, are a mystery. But some things we do know, this lonely planet has a strange sense of keeping time. Once you arrive, you have to reset your watch for a time zone like no other. It has such an unusual orbit and r

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Reason/ you are going to go to Mercury as a travel destination would be this night sight view because it's going to be highly unique in the solar system. You have sodium thats atoms that are streaming off and giving enough to see yellow light, so you

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And its here in a freezer that Messenger will encounter another puzzle: can ice exist on a planet so close to the sun? It's only when the first radar observations to the surface of Mercury were obtained back in the 90s that it was discovered that Mer

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Northern Central African Republic has large areas controlled by rebels, and road bandits, intercepting vehicles, harassing civilians, and sometimes kidnapping them for ransom or killing them. The undermanned military has little positive impact. Ther

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