But most significant of all, the jaguar has a tell-tale trademark. Instead of going for the neck or snout like most cats do, it kills with a crushing bite through the skull into the brain. This makes the jaguar prime suspect in this case. Even the gl

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This is AP News Minute. Attorney General Jeff Sessions was pushed out Wednesday as the country's chief law enforcement officer, after enduring more than a year of blistering and personal attacks from President Donald Trump over his recusal from the R

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In the sprawling grounds of China's Forbidden City, once home to the imperial palace of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, one small shop is in the midst of a brewing controversy----Starbucks, that poster child for American mass marketing and a growing num

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今天我们要学的词是 vanity. vanity的意思是虚荣,浮华,自大。Harrison Schmitt, the man who walked on the moon in the last Apollo mission, says returning to the moon is more than a national vanity project. 哈里森-施密特是在最

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The torrent of mergers in the health-care industry kept flowing. 卫生保健行业的合并计划接连不断。 IMS Health and Quintiles agreed to combine in a 9 billion transaction that will integrate the wide range of data services they provide t

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Marilyn Monroe was born Norma Jeane Mortenson in the charity ward of a Los Angeles hospital in 1926. Her career as an actor and singer made her an icon of the twentieth century. Her trademark looks helped her become one of Hollywoods greatest ever se

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Yulia Tymoshenko is Ukraines prime minister and one of the worlds few female leaders. She is head of the All-Ukrainian Union Fatherland party and the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc. She was born in 1960 and spent her teenage years rising through the Soviet Co

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Scraps of metal, broken glass, this is what it looks like in China when a company falls apart. Proview was once know for its LCDs, now it's famous for litigation. It's taken Apple to court here in China over the trademark of the word iPad. I spoke wi

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In the town where commentator Carol Wasserman lives, there is someone who is trying to redefine his status. He is new to the area, but he'd still like to have the title of old friend. John and I like to sit on the floor together, in the meeting room

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By Doug Levine Washington 21 January 2008 San Francisco, California is one of America's premier rock and roll towns, once home to such legendary groups as The Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane. But, as VOA's Doug Levine tells us, the Bay Area also

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Temporary Olympic Park McDonalds Company's Busiest The company says it is the biggest and busiest McDonald's in the world. The two-story restaurant inside the Olympic Park is around 300 meters from the Olympic Stadium and has been flooded with visito

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STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Today the United States Supreme Court considers just what you can trademark. Most familiar names and logos are registered trademarks, from the McDonald's golden arches to the apple on an iPhone. RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: In the last t

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By Doug Levine Washington 02 June 2008 Early rock 'n' roll guitar wizard Bo Diddley died near Jacksonville, Florida, Monday, 2 June, of heart failure. He was 79 years old. One of the most primitive of the early rockers, Bo took the blues and folk mu

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By Rory Byrne Phnom Penh 07 March 2008 A festival aimed at promoting disabled artists in Cambodia has just ended in the nation's capital, Phnom Penh. Despite having one of the world's highest rates of disabled people, social, political and economic d

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By Barbara Schoetzau New York 04 March 2008 Top corporate leaders from around the world gathered in New York Monday to unveil new strategies to fight worldwide piracy and counterfeiting. From VOA's New York Bureau, correspondent Barbara Schoetzau rep

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Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic made his first appearance before the international tribunal in The Hague which is to try him on charges of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity linked to his role in the Bosnian war of the 1990

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By Doug Levine Washington 16 April 2006 Jazz Appreciation Month got underway with the unveiling of donated items from the families of two jazz legends and a famous jazz photographer to the Smithsonian

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By Lisa Bryant Paris 06 December 2007 French President Nicolas Sarkozy again marked his hands-on diplomatic style by personally requesting the head of Colombia's FARC guerrillas release 45 hostages the group has been holding for years. For VOA, Lisa

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Why Teflon Is Slippery? 1954年,法国工程师马克格雷瓜尔(Marc Gregoire)的妻子柯莱特(Colette)突发奇想,觉得丈夫用来涂在钓鱼线上防止打结的不粘材料特氟龙(Teflon)如果可以用在煎锅上,效果一定不错

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