We know that a natural gas line ruptured yesterday around 6:24 p.m., but we don't know what caused it or what happened.Here's what we do know right now. The fire has burned 15 acres in the city of San Bruno. It is 75 percent contained, 38 structures

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Nearly 2,000 people have been rescued from flooded or damaged homes in Texas and areas hit by Hurricane Ike. But officials say thousands more who ignored evacuation orders are likely stranded and waiting for help. People who were evacuated are being

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An all too familiar sound to anyone who's been through a hurricane. Those are workers in New Orleans cleaning up storm debris, downed tree limbs and the like. The streets of the city meanwhile remain largely empty at this hour with only rescue and u

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Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi says authorities have now raised the death toll to at least 150 after a powerful earthquake hit a mountainous region of Italy overnight. The quake which struck just before dawn flattened buildings and left at least

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Key Arab nations and western powers have reportedly reached an agreement in principle on a UN resolution will impose a cease-fire in Gaza. That News comes as Palestinian officials say the bodies of 35 people were found beneath rubble in a battle zon

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1. President Bush is spending the night at a heavily fortified US diplomatic compound in Pakistan. The president who just wrapped up a trip to India, plans to meet Saturday with Pakistan's president a

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1. The trial of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein has been put on hold until April after he refused to answer prosecutors' questions and gave a speech to the Iraqi people. 2. Joseph Smith, the man ca

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1. Residents of Greensburg, Kansas are joining search crews picking through the rubble and debris that sits where the town used to stand. A Kansas state trooper says the search that resumed after daybreak is still being called a search and rescue mi

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1. Six people are dead after a shooting in a Wisconsin home. Police also found a two-year-old girl with a gunshot wound to the chest in a nearby van. The toddler is in serious condition. 2. A roof collapse in a busy Indian market has killed at least

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1. A lawyer representing a driver who reported his Toyota Prius sped out of control on a California freeway is sticking by his client's story. A congressional memo raises questions about what happened to James Sikes. The attorney says he's unmoved by

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1. The G20 nations meeting in Seoul, South Korea have refused to call on countries to stop undervaluing their currencies. The dispute is over whether China and the United States are manipulating their currencies. President Obama said that leaders onl

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8) 环保 afforestation n. 绿化造林 afforestation drive n.绿化运动 agricultural ecology 农业生态学 artificial rain n.人工降雨 biosphere n. 生物圈 car exhaust n.汽车尾气 carbon dioxide (CO2) n. 二氧化碳 Carbon monoxide (CO)

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KAILI, Guizhou, Feb. 18 (Xinhua) -- Rescuers have reached the scene of a landslide that buried five people on Monday in southwest China's Guizhou Province, but rescue work was hampered by debris falling from the mountain. More than 400 rescuers have

发表于:2019-01-19 / 阅读(91) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

NASA has accomplished another first. I guess my summary is really cool. Today we kicked up some moon dusts and all indications are.. its going to be a very interesting set of results. As we, uh, approach very rapidly the surface of the Cabeus crater.

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From the sculpted beauty of dessert dunes to the undersea realms of the Persian Gulf, the United Arab Emirates is a study in contrast. And while most people associate Arabia with desert life, the region is in fact teeming with marine animals as well,

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The amount of debris orbiting the Earth has reached a tipping point for collisions, which would in turn generate more of the debris that threatens astronauts and satellites, according to a US study released on Thursday。 NASA needs a new strategic p

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Students in Sri Lanka Attempt Return to Normalcy 斯里兰卡学生尝试恢复照常上课 It's the first day of the new term for students at Sudharma College in the village of Galle on the southwest

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Somewhere in the Mojave Deserts El Paso range there is a strange tunnel that traverses 2,087 feet of solid rock up in Copper Mountain. Whats strange is that it doesnt lead to anywhere special. It simply emerges on the high ledge, in the middle of now

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An unmanned American Falcon-9 rocket has broken apart in flames minutes after lifting off from Cape Canaveral in Florida. 美国猎鹰9号火箭从佛罗里达州卡纳维拉尔角基地发射后数分钟内爆炸解体。该火箭并未载有乘员。

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A typhoon(台风) has made landfall in Japan for the first time in two years, causing widespread disruption. Two people have been killed and more than 40 injured in strong winds and heavy rains. Typhoon Melor struck south-west of Tokyo on the main isl

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