[00:03.79]Becoming a Freethinker and a Scientist [00:06.12]When I was a fairly precocious young man [00:08.98]I became thoroughly impressed with the futility of the hopes [00:12.19]and strivings that chase most men restlessly through life. [00:15.48]

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steer She steered me towards a table in the corner. sticky The floor's very sticky near the cooker. stimulation These youngsters need some stimulation to make them work diligently. strip They stripped off and plunged into the water. stroke The stroke

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September 25th, 1957As hundreds of U.S. army troops stand guard 9 black students are escorted into Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. That happens two days after unruly white crowds force the children to withdraw from trying to enter the a

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Archaeologists in Canada's Yukon have found whats believed to be the only untouched shipwreck from the Klondike Gold Rush, made famous by writers Jack London and Robert Service. Underwater video, taken with a remote operated vehicle, shows the remark

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ESL Podcast 1192 Using a Property Management Company Sonia: Hello, Fickle Property Management Company. Frank: Hello, I own an office building on Broadway Boulevard and Im interested in hiring a property management company. Sonia: Youve called the rig

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Prime Minister's broadcast 10 November 2000 - Pre-Budget Report If your home or business is flooded, or your journey to work badly disrupted because of floods or work on the railways, it's not been a pleasant time. I saw for myself last week the dev

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If you want to watch movies, we also have VUDU. Josh Gilbert was tired of paying for the TV program that he wanted. Anywhere from 50 to 100 bucks a month. So he dumped his service provider and hooked his 50-inch flat screen to his home computer. I ca

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Haiti's government says the bodies of at least 75,000 people have been buried in mass graves since the earthquake struck the island more than a week ago. Workers are carving out graves on a hillside north of Haitis capital. And in Port-au-Prince, the

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1. Officials are making preparations for President Gerald Ford's body to lie in state this weekend at the Capitol Rotunda . A funeral service is expected to take place at the National Cathedral after

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Doron: I'm a bit schizophrenic when it comes to dates actually 'cause ... I'll either do something really boring and cheesy like pizza and a movie. Melissa: That's not boring. Doron: Really? Melissa: Yeah. Doron: Well, it's traditional then. I'll say

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This is AP news minute. 1. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Moscow on Wednesday. The meeting comes amid sharp accusations surrounding the chemical weapons attack in Syria last week. 2. Fans of a Germ

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Accompanied by the Captain and her Aunt Evelyn, Helen went to see Dr. Bell. Her mother carefully curled Helens hair before she left. Helen looked like an angel. She was about six years old now. Helen walked into Bells office, and the two became frien

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AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: On the eve of Tuesday's presidential primary in New Hampshire, we were on the phone to a teacher at a nearby school in Massachusetts, to discuss something other than the election.

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I believe that German-Chinese relations are at their historic best these days. And Germany is obviously the most important partner for China in economic and political things in Europe. German Ambassador Michael Clauss makes the suggestion ahead of Ge

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November 17th, 1973,an embattled President Richard Nixon defends himself during the Watergate scandal. He tells the Associated Press managing editors meeting in Orlando, Florida. People have got to know, whether or not their presidents a crook. Wel

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The South Korean military says North Korea fired another missile off its east coast into the sea just as president Obama hosts the summit in Washington on global nuclear security. The missile launch was the latest in a series carried out by Pyongyang

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and they begin to pluck them long before they are ripe, so that when the crop of white-pine cones is a small one, as it commonly is, 那时松果成熟还早,果实还小,松鼠们便早早开始动手了。 they cut off thus almost everyone of t

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Doron: I'm a bit schizophrenic when it comes to dates actually cause ... I'll either do something really boring and cheesy like pizza and a movie. Melissa: That's not boring. Doron: Really? Melissa: Yeah. Doron: Well, it's traditional then. I'll say

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Women in Colonial North America The status of women in colonial North America has been well studied and described and can be briefly summarized. Throughout the colonial period there was a marked shortage of women, which varied with the regions and wa

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