Unit 13 The Culture Content of Vocabulary One of the earliest word sets that a student will learn is colors. Later on the intermediate student learns that in English yellow signifies cowardice and green signifies inexperience and jealousy. It is impo

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By Efam Dovi Accra 31 March 2007 Ministers from the Economic Community of West African States have agreed to use biotechnology to increase food production in their region. The agreement was reached at the third ECOWAS ministerial meeting on biotechno

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By David Gollust State Department 29 February 2008 A U.S. State Department report Friday said Colombia and Afghanistan remain the world's biggest producers of illicit cocaine and opium. The annual report faults Venezuela and Burma for inadequate effo

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Clinton Pledges Early Action On Free Trade Agreements Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says the Obama administration will soon send the U.S. Congress implementing legislation for free-trade agreements with Panama, Colombia and South Korea. Action o

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Exclusive: No Ebola Treatment at Sierra Leone Holding Center 独家:在塞拉利昂的病毒中心并没有治疗埃博拉的办法 MAKENI, SIERRA LEONE Dozens of very sick people sat on the floor in an empty university building in central Sierra Leo

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Lesson 31 Non-auditory Effects of Noise 噪音的非听觉效应 Many people in industry and the Services, who have practical experience of noise, regard any investigation of this question as a waste of time; they are not prepared even to admit the p

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By Gary Thomas Washington 02 February 2007 A new U.S. intelligence estimate says that the chaotic situation in Iraq could deteriorate further unless the warring sectarian parties compromise. But it says that the current political climate makes such

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By Gilbert da Costa Abuja 19 May 2008 West African agricultural and trade ministers are holding emergency talks in Nigeria's capital, Abuja, to plot strategies for a regional solution to the rising food prices. The Economic Community of West African

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By Scott Bobb Johannesburg 24 October 2006 South Africa's president, Thabo Mbeki, has told organizers of the 2010 Soccer World Cup that his country will spare no effort to ensure a successful soccer World Cup championship in four years. Mr. Mbeki wa

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By Dan Robinson Washington 21 July 2006 A dispute between the U.S. Congress and the Bush administration over a plan to sell F-16 fighter aircraft to Pakistan spilled into the open Thursday during a congressional hearing on Capitol Hill. Some lawmake

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By Tendai Maphosa London 21 August 2007 Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan is in London after meeting in Jordan with Iraqis working on the massive refugee crisis. Four million Iraqis have been displaced by the war. Half are refugees, mostly in Jordan an

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By Peta Thornycroft Harare 27 March 2006 James Murap stands in parched maize crops near Harare (File photo - Nov. 2, 2005) USAID's Famine Early Warning Systems Network, FEWSNET, has listed Zimbabwe as

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U.S. lawmakers are describing as disturbing a report from the Government Accountability Office that says the Defense Department has been unable to account for tens of thousands of weapons supplied to Afghanistan's security forces. There are also con

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Former rebels have gone on trial in East Timor accused of the attempted murder of President Jose Ramos-Horta. He was seriously hurt in an assassination attempt outside his home in February 2008, when gunmen targeted two of the fledgling country's mo

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In India's financial hub Mumbai, a bridge has been built over the sea to ease chronic traffic congestion in one of the worlds' most crowded cities. Updating inadequate infrastructure in Indian cities has become critical as its economy expands. Mumba

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SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Deborah Epstein has spent her professional life fighting for the victims of domestic violence. She's director of the Georgetown University Law Center's domestic violence clinic and in 2014 was asked to serve on the NFL Players Asso

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By Dan Robinson Capitol Hill 11 July 2006 Republicans and Democrats in Congress continue to put forward conflicting assessments of the situation in Iraq. Lawmakers also considered a new report from the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office re

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By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 07 January 2007 Activists of leftist women organizations protest killing of innocent children in Noida, India, 6 Jan 2006 The bodies of 17 women and children who disappeared over the last two years have been discovered i

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A new report says the worst places to be a refugee last year were Thailand, South Africa and the Gaza Strip. In its annual report on worldwide refugees, the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants lists Brazil, Ecuador and Costa Rica among the bes

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By Daniel Schearf Bangkok 09 October 2009 Activists carrying masks of world leaders protest outside the UN regional office in Bangkok, Thailand (File) United Nations talks on climate change have ended in Bangkok with little sign of progress. There a

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