This is AP News Minute. With a high-stakes hearing just a day away, President Donald Trump says Democrats are playing a con game against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. Trump is seeking to cast doubt on sexual misconduct allegations lodged aga

发表于:2018-12-01 / 阅读(161) / 评论(0) 分类 美联社新闻一分钟2018(九)月

Someone says that Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, and to be needed. I have no objection to that, only wondering how to grow happiness. Welcome to Faith Radio Online-Simply to Relax, I'm Faith. Fortuna

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Its unclear exactly how this happened, where this happened but Erins lawyers say she was the victim of a crime and they have vowed to prosecute, but unfortunately, that may not be so easy. Why were you guys able to jump on in the way they did? Erin A

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Maybe the most violent giraffe fight ever caught on tape for those of you who keep track of such things.Stunning video from the discovery channel shows two giraffes using their 6-foot long necks as weapons to go after each other. ABC's Paula Faris ha

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Plants can choose where their seeds end up. Some float on the winds, others on the water. Many seeds hit the ride on or inside animals. And the farther seeds get from their parents and any predators of the disease the parent might have, the better ch

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Further south still, unstooped, shrouded figures end the flat monotony of the Tundra. This is the tree line, the first place on our journey with sufficient warmth and liquid water to enable a tree to grow。 Surviving here is so crushingly difficult

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Its seaweed. Kelp is not wildly exciting, but it does contain carbohydrates and some protein too. The cub must find acrobatics rather strange. Hungry bears eat virtually anything. Its a question of making the most of whats around, and its never too s

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Larger than any lion alive today, this would have been an awesome predator. These caves were probably its winter den. With such abundant game down on the plains, this hunter's life must have been pretty good. Sheer size and power and the benefit of l

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Even without the guidance of organized religion, some animals instinctively know that its a good thing to help others. 即使没有类似人类宗教的指引,有些动物仍能本能地救助处于危难中的其它动物。 A Helping Hand 伸出援

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All animals are part of the food chain: they are listed on someone else's menu and always run the risk of ending up as someone else's lunch, dinner or snack. To protect themselves from being eaten and to survive in the wild, many animals have develop

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Heres an episode about taking risks. Sooner or later, we all take a risk at work or in our personal lives. To go out on a limb and to stick your neck out can be used to talk about taking a risk. You can also put yourself in jeopardy when you take a r

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Hot water scorches and drowns the roots of trees encroaching on the valleys. It can keep the forests in check and the rich pastures / open. Those pastures now produce the new grass needed to make rich milk and feed a bison baby boom. The few calves b

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By Margaret Kennedy Shenandoah Valley, Virginia 30 August 2007 Sheep producers in the United States face a growing problem with coyotes -- the wild dogs native to America's southwest that in recent decades have extended their range eastward. Agricult

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This Caterpillar Whistles While It Irks 毛虫会吹口哨?还是一种恐吓战术? Songbirds produce a rich repertoire of sounds: songs, of course, but also chatter calls, flight calls and alarm calls: like this high-pitched warning from a blac

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Thats a wave of energy that could knock over a predator or at least discombobulate it, scramble its brains. Despite holding a deafening secret weapon, a Parasaurolophus, like other plant eaters, knows that the best way to stay alive is to keep predat

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Thats what it wants to hear, because that sound is gonna mean thats where lunch is. A battle with Triceratops is more often than not a fight to the death. This herbivore has evolved into a tank. Now, as a Tyrannosaur specialist, I dont like to admit

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Attacking another T-Rex may seem like suicide, but a creature with such a voracious appetite has to find food by any means. Cannibalism is the rule. Its not the exception. If youre a carnivore and theres meat there, you take advantage of it. In fact,

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Nothing this large would achieve powered flight until the 20th century, 65 million years later. And Quetzalcoatlus still may hold the record for flight duration. Probably stay aloft for a week. Probably it could have gone for 25, 26,000 miles in a si

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By Phil Mercer Sydney 17 September 2007 Conservationists have started a campaign to urge the Australian government to formally protect the Coral Sea, one of the country's last tropical marine wildernesses. A coalition, led by the World Wildlife Fund,

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A recent broadcast on Chinese state television CCTV praising the global reach of the countrys armed drone or UAV program, its developers say they have just sold the one hundredth model of this drone named the Wing Loong. VOA cannot confirm the accura

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