Jim had two separate sheets of paper. He wanted to put the two sheets of paper together. He did not want to glue them together. He did not want to use glue. He did not want to staple them together. He did not want to use a staple. What did Jim want t

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Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is part II of the series on numbers: percentages and decimal points. Percent Versus Percentage First let's get our terminology right. In some cases percent and percentage can be interchangeable (1), but the easiest wa

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AGRICULTURE REPORT – March 5, 2002: Herbs By George Grow This is the VOA Special English AGRICULTURE REPORT. Small plants called herbs have many uses. Some herbs are used in cooking to make foods ta

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SCIENCE IN THE NEWS - Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, 1926-2004 By Broadcast: Tuesday, September 21, 2004 VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS, in VOA Special English. I'm Bob Doughty. VOICE TWO: Graphic Ima

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This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. Im Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. In 2005 two scientists won a Nobel Prize for discovering that a bacterium called Helicobacter pylori causes most stomach ulcers. One of them even chugged a

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[流行美语]又和大家见面了。Michael 是一个在纽约上大学的美国年轻人,他经常 跟中国学生李华一起玩。Michael 向李华学中文,李华向 Michael 学英文。Mich

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Egyptian Islamist Calls for Tolerance of Coptic Christians Violence between Egypt's Coptic Christians and conservative Muslims has led to calls for tolerance from some unlikely sources. The allegiance of the men gathered outside a mosque in central A

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Simon, a college grad, always pointed out the errors in his brother Brevyn's emails. When are you going to stop confusing 'its' with 'it's'? he often asked. Brevyn, a high school grad, said that nobody ever noticed anyway. Brevyn knew that Simon was

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By Mil Arcega Washington 05 July 2007 Sirivat Voravetvuthikun, the Thai sandwich man Ten years after the Asian stock market plunge left him $30 million in debt, a 57-year-old Thai entrepreneur has become a symbol of optimism and perseverance in his c

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Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is part II of the series on numbers: percentages and decimal points. Percent Versus Percentage First let's get our terminology right. In some cases percent and percentage can be interchangeable (1), but the easiest wa

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'Superstorm' Sandy Batters US East Coast Hurricane Sandy, now downgraded to a post-tropical cyclone, has made landfall on the U.S. East Coast, putting some 50 million people in the path of torrential rain, high winds and dangerous tidal surges from o

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Supergrass今年发行了新专辑《Diamond Hoo Ha》,又一次证明了他们的实力。趁着这股劲风,再次回味这张十年精选,个中感情不言而喻。 Artist:Supergrass Song:Moving Moving just keep moving Till I don't know what I'm saying I've been moving so long The days al

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英文歌词: Too alarming now to talk about Take your pictures down and shake it out Truth or consequence, say it aloud Use that evidence, race it around There goes my hero Watch him as he goes There goes my hero He's ordinary Don't the best of them b

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Beginners. As you can see, I'm back from my trip to Lake Roosevelt. We were there from Wednesday until Friday, and the time flew. It took a lot of preparation to get there; typically I overpacked some things and underpacked other things. For example:

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Premier says China's economic growth stablizing BEIJING, Oct.17 (Xinhua) -- China's economic growth has started to stabilize and witness positive changes with economy running well in the third quarter, said Premier Wen Jiabao. China's economy will co

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LOS ANGELES, July 30 (Xinhua) -- Many Hobbit fans were excited or worried when Peter Jackson announced Monday that he will stretch the originally planned two-part adaptation of J. R. R. Tolkien's epic fantasy-adventure The Hobbit into a trilogy, some

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VANCOUVER, Sept. 30 (Xinhua) -- When the Vancouver International Film Festival kicked off Thursday night, Mayor Gregor Robertson gave a special greeting in Mandarin to a delegation of visiting Chinese film producers. Robertson, a distant relative of

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LONDON, Aug. 2 (Xinhua) -- Defending Olympic champion Lin Dan dropped a game to Japanese shuttler Sasaki Sho before winning the hard battle Thursday evening, so as to advance into the semifinal of men's singles. Both left-handed players, their compet

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BEIJING, July 24 (Xinhua) -- China and Russia are satisfied with the Peace Mission-2009 joint anti-terror military exercise, senior military officers of the two countries said here on Friday. Guo Boxiong, vice chairman of China's Central Military Com

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今天我们要学的词是veteran。 Veteran, 是退伍军人的意思。November 11 is Veterans Day, 11月11号是美国的退伍军人节。Veterans Day is a day dedicated to the men and women who have served in America's armed forces, 退伍军人节

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