The Obama administration is making some changes after finding out that the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is far bigger than initially thought. Up to 19,000 barrels of crude have spilled each day in the last month, surpassing the Exxon Valdez disast

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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. On its opening day, 90,000 tourists traipsed across the London Millennium Bridge. That pitter patter of pedestrian feet caused the structure to visibly r

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On November 5th, 1990, a man named El-Sayyid Nosair walked into a hotel in Manhattan and assassinated Rabbi Meir Kahane, the leader of the Jewish Defense League. 1990 年 11 月 5 日, 一位名叫埃尔塞伊德诺塞尔的男子,走入曼哈顿的

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The Truth about First Impressions First impressions are an interesting phenomenon. Just about every article or book chapter on this topic will tell you that first impressions are extremely important, so you have to ensure that you always make a great

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父亲节在United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom, Father's Day is celebrated on the third Sunday in June and is not a public holiday.United StatesIn the United States, Father's Day is celebrated on the third Sunda

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Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution, or EDGE, is a digital mobile phone technology which acts as a bolt-on enhancement to 2G and 2.5G General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) networks. This technology wo

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Ant Financial, the digital payments affiliate of Chinas Alibaba, has raised its bid for MoneyGram by 36 per cent to $1.2bn a month after Euronet Worldwide gate-crashed its original $880m offer. 在Euronet Worldwide不请自来地加入竞购一个月后

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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I am Steve Mirsky.Got a minute? Talk about your vicious cycles. A new study finds that belly fat could be making you hungrier. Which would lead to more belly fat. The research was performed at the Univ

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Len Matheson is the owner of a small company thats rapidly expanding. Hes getting advice from Mary Carlyle, a business consultant, on developing a functional organizational structure to better deal with his companys expansion. Mary: Mr. Matheson, Ive

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READING: Scientists may have discovered something that could be very welcome news for ice cream lovers around the world. Their discovery is a new ingredient that could slow down the rate at which ice cream melts and gives the ice cream a smooth textu

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Business Retailing The beast goes on safari 商业 零售业 巨兽出击 Can Wal-Mart make it in Africa? 沃尔玛能在非洲得偿所愿吗? FOUR billion dollars doesn't count as an every day low price, but Wal-Mart, the world's biggest retailer

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Citigroup花旗集团Paying up and moving on付讫,前行The perennial basket-case of American banking at last shows signs of life数年崩溃下美国银行业终于显现生机THERE were many reasons why Citigroup's earnings for the second quarte

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Gate15, information C, ready to copy ATC clearance. 86. 停机位15号,通播C收到,准备好抄收ATC放行许可。 Cleared to destination, BK02 RNAV Departure, initially 3000 feet, departure frequency 125.4, squawk 3311. 87. 可以到目的地机

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IETLS考试中关联词起着很重要的作用,熟悉这些常用的关联词,对你的考试会有非常重要的作用。 常用的关联词分为十大类: 一. Addition 此外in addition ,and,similarly,likew瞚se,as well as,besid

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Months after Iranian opposition leaders denounced acts of torture and rape at the infamous Kahrizak detention center, the country's parliament has released a report detailing incidents of mistreatment and suspicious deaths. Notorious former Tehran pr

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我思因我在AnnaIt is impossible to know all the thoughts and experiences that merge together to make a person. Countless images flash through my mind when I think how I have come to find myself. These images are like the 1)shards of a bro

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The first full Congress of North Korea's ruling Worker's Party for 36 years is being held in Pyongyang. Thousands of delegates are at the four-day gathering which is seen as an opportunity for the leader Kim Jong Un to cement his status. About 100 fo

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RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: A Virginia state senator named Creigh Deeds was brutally assaulted by his son last week. The attack put the elder Deeds into the hospital and it left his son, Austin, dead after shooting himself. Just a day before, a judge issued

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Yet, concerned by mounting inequality in America, he thought that more should be done to invest in early childhood education and improve the state of schools. 然而,出于对美国不断上升的不平等的担忧,他认为,应当加大在儿童

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distinct a.清楚的;不同的,独特的 She has very distinct handwriting. 她的字迹非常清晰。 Taiwanese is a dialect (which is) completely distinct from Mandarin. 台语是完全不同于国语的一种方言。 exception n.例外,除外

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