TODD: So, are you going to come for brunch with us tomorrow? REBECCA: What time? TODD: 11:00. We'll meet at the restaurant at eleven. REBECCA: I'm sorry. I won't be able to come then. TODD: Why not? REBECCA: I go to Mass at 10:30. TODD: Mass? I didn

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In Nigeria today, mourning and terror as a series of bombs exploded in five different cities. At least 25 people were killed in an explosion during Christmas mass at a Roman Catholic church outside the Nigerian capital Abuja. In the central city of J

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Leisure and Leadership Observations and research findings indicate that people in advanced industrial societies are increasingly concerned with opportunities for leisure and what they can do in their

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Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is less versus fewer. Less and fewer are easy to mix up. They mean the same thingthe opposite of morebut you use them in different circumstances (1). The basic rule is that you use less with mass nouns and fewer with

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Nigeria Charges 6 More Men with Treason 尼日利亚指控6人犯有叛国罪 The six men were accused of holding illegal rallies , calling for the breakup of the federal state, and training a separat

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1. At least 80 people have died today from bombings in Baghdad. At least 71 of them were killed when car bombs ripped apart a crowded marketplace which triggered secondary explosions. At least 9 others were killed in another bombing nearby. 2. Anoth

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Christianity 基督教 Christendom 基督教界 Catholicism 天主教 Protestantism 新教,耶稣教 Reformation 宗教改革 Lutheranism 路德宗,信义宗 Calvinism 加尔文宗,长老宗 Ana

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Former US Inspector Criticizes Faulty Intelligence in Iraq Weapons Search Deborah Tate Former chief U.S. weapons inspector David Kay is blaming faulty intelligence for the failure to find weapons of m

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25. In the West,before mass communication and literacy, the most powerful mass medium was the church, which reminded worshippers that their souls were in danger and that they would someday be meat for worms. 【分析】多重复合句。句子主干为

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Science and Technology 科技 Looking for the Higgs 捕获希格斯粒子 Enemy in sight? 敌军现身? The search for the Higgs boson is closing in on its quarry 希格斯玻色子的研究逼近其目标 ON JULY 22nd two teams of researchers base

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Stay Thin by Sleeping More 想苗条多睡觉 A recent study found that people who sleep less tend to be fat,and experts said it's time to find out if more sleep will fight obesity. 最新的一项研究表明睡眠不足的人易发胖。专家们表

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With Mason refusing to survey the mountain, the job fell to Maskelyne. So for four months in the summer of 1774, Maskelyne lived in a tent in a remote Scottish glen and spent his days directing a team of surveyors, who took hundreds of measurements f

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A short period of gorging on junk food has a more permanent effects on body size and the way it stores fat even after the initial weight is lost, the study found. The gluttony changes fat mass the percentage of fat in the body for more than two years

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A-bomb, atomic bomb 原子弹 absorption 吸收 to accelerate 加速 accelerating chamber 加速室 accelerator 加速器 synchrocyclotron 同步回旋加速器 synchrotron 同步加速器 betatron 电子

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Britain's airports are warning travelers they could face major delays Thursday when civil servants and teachers plan to take part in a nationwide strike. BAA, which runs Heathrow, Stansted, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen and Southampton airports, made

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AS IT IS 2016-06-28 Mass Killings Bring New Demands for Gun Control in America When U.S. Congressional Democrats demanded votes on gun control measures last week, Republican leaders turned off the cameras. The action is strangely similar to what cong

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The Norwegian sailor, Jarle Andhoy with three other men, sailed to the Antarctic illegally. One of the men is a New Zealander. They did not have permission from the Norwegian government or from New Zealand. They wanted to know what happened to the bo

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It is all, as you can see, just a little unwieldy, but it is the simplest model that can explain all that happens in the world of particles. Most particle physicists feel, as Leon Lederman remarked in a 1985 PBS documentary, that the Standard Model l

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Theres a simple way to figure out where the center of mass is. If the big kid is two times as heavy as the little kid, then their mutual center of mass will be two times closer to the big kid than to the little kid. Three times heavier and the center

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market-making system 市场作价制度;市场

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