1. The woman accused of intentionally plowing a car carrying her child through crowds of pedestrians on a Las Vegas Strip sidewalk was in court Wednesday morning. Lakeisha Holloway appeared in court on charges of murder, hit and run and child abuse.

发表于:2018-12-01 / 阅读(85) / 评论(0) 分类 美联社新闻一分钟2015(十二)月

装上充足墨水,一台打印机足够使用两年 Are you fed up with paying extortionate sums of money for ink cartridges that run out soon after you buy them? Help may be at hand. The Japanese printer company Epson has just released a new line

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unit07_newwords_b |■ |1workaholic |n. |[C] sb. who chooses to work a lot so that they do not have time to do anything else |工作狂 ||||Modern life, with its stress on maximizing efficiency, encourages people to be workaholics. |现代生活强调的

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See you all later, Rebecca said, picking up her bag and slinging it over her shoulder. Benny looked at Violet. Rebecca was about to leave, and she still had their petition! Before Violet could stop him, Benny blurted out, Rebecca, isnt that our petit

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How To Set Up Your Life A great life doesn't happen by accident. A great life is the result of allocating your time, energy, thoughts, and hard work towards what you want your life to be. Stop setting yourself up for stress and failure, and start set

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Today's topic is active voice versus passive voice. Here's Brian from Iowa: It drives me crazy when people write in passive voice. How can I teach people how to tell the difference between passive and active voice and stay away from passive voice? Th

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Hundreds of ships are switching off their tracking devices and taking unexplained routes, raising concern the trafficking of arms, migrants and drugs is going undetected. Ninety percent of the worlds trade is carried by sea. Every vessel has an ident

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Stuart Lane is terminally ill. He isn't sure how long he has to live but hes absolutely sure how he wants to die, quickly, peacefully, no suffering. --Im petrified. I am petrified of suffering. But if Stuart's doctor gives him medication which he the

发表于:2018-12-11 / 阅读(96) / 评论(0) 分类 万花筒2010年

by Mignon Fogarty Today's topic is active voice versus passive voice. The podcast edition of this article was sponsored by GoToMeeting. With this meeting service, you can hold your meetings over the Internet and give presentations, product demos and

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This is AP News Minute. 1. Justin Trudeau was elected the new prime minister of Canada. His Liberal party won in a landslide on Monday defeating outgoing prime minister Stephen Harpers Conservative party. 2. Former Olympics star Oscar Pistorius was r

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What Are You Doing That Bugs People? 做哪些事会招人烦? What is the number one thing people do that bugs you? 别人做什么最招你烦? Think about it for a moment. Do you have something in mind? 花点时间想想看。想出来了吗? How

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fence n.栅栏,围墙,剑术 vt. 用篱笆围住,防护 vi. 击剑,围以栅栏 例句:One end of the garden was fenced off for chickens. 花园的一端已用篱笆隔开来养鸡。 defense n. 国防部,防卫,防卫物 vt. 谋划抵御

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Interdependent interaction from insurmountable to interject The board meeting of International intercom inc. was proceeding at its usual pace: a boring meeting. The chairman was holding forth: My fellow board members, we have achieved much over the

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by Michael W. Flynn First, a disclaimer: Although I am an attorney, the legal information in this podcast is not intended to be a substitute for seeking personalized legal advice from an attorney licensed to practice in your jurisdiction. Further, I

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By David McAlary Washington 22 June 2006 Archeologists have identified what might be the world's oldest known jewelry. It consists of 100,000-year-old shells from the Middle East with holes bored in their centers. If the shells were used as beads fo

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While women continue to advance in American society, many little girls still get stuck in a world of fairytale princesses and frilly pink dresses. That does not sit well with journalist Peggy Orenstein, who mused about her young daughter's obsession

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ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: Applebee's announced this month that more than 130 of its restaurants will close by the end of the year. The reason - millennials. AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: The casual dining chain rebranded itself in the past few years as a modern ba

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By Amy Katz Washington, DC 10 February 2006 watch Firefighting report Wildfires are again burning in the Western U.S. state of California. There is concern that the high temperatures and high winds wi

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Dear Annie: My adult son, Nick, has been hospitalized more than a dozen times and treated in emergency rooms nearly 100 times over the past 18 years. He has shot himself, stabbed himself in the liver (both accidental) and has had innumerable bouts of

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Pro-Russian activists in eastern Ukraine have decidedto go ahead with a referendum on self-determination on Sunday, ignoring a call fromPresident Putin to postpone it. Steve Rosenbergreports from Moscow. His proposal yesterday to postpone the referen

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