Quality of Life in Iraq Still Poor 伊拉克贫困依旧 Virginia-based Dr. Ali Al-Attar left his native Iraq at the onset of Iran-Iraq war. At that time, he says, most Iraqis lived a middle-class lif

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Have you ever gone on vacation and said to yourself, I could live here? On a trip to Jamaica, Kalisa Martin entertained that idea and actually went through with it. 你是否曾经旅行过并告诉你自己:我能住在这里?在去牙买加的一

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Too often I hear people say things like, Things will be better when I or Someday I am going to do 我经常听到人们说,当我时事情会更好,或者某一天我要做 But, some day seldom arrives. 但有一天很少会到来。 It stays in some

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Have you ever gone on vacation and said to yourself, I could live here? On a trip to Jamaica, Kalisa Martin entertained that idea and actually went through with it. 你是否曾经旅行过并告诉你自己:我能住在这里?在去牙买加的一

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08 秘鲁新总统--从贫困中崛起的经济学家 Peru's New Leader Rose From Poverty to Power Bill Rodgers Lima 4 Jun 2001 22:15 UTC Alejandro Toledo, a former shoe-shine boy turned 1)economist,

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[全屏观看] 点击右键- 另存为 可保存这个Flash影片 游戏说明: 键盘方向键移动,当有过不去的门的时候,只要按空格键召唤个人出来,帮你开机关就可以了。看你能否通过全部难关。

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Science and Technolgy. 科技。 Social status and health. 社会地位与健康。 Misery index. 贫困指数。 Low social status is bad for your health. Biologists are starting to understand why. 社会地位低对身体不好,生物学家开始理

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GWEN IFILL: Today marks 50 years since the United States declared a war on poverty, but victory has not yet been declared. Kwame Holman has the backstory. KWAME HOLMAN: When President Lyndon Johnson took the stage for his first State of the Union add

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纽约市政府出台新政策,政府将向低收入非裔家庭提供免费的助产服务,已改善这些家庭的新生儿高死亡率。 Amadoma Bediako is a retired grade school teacher. But she's still dispensing plenty of information - the

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Ousted Comoran Military Leader Flees Anjouan Katy Salmon Nairobi 13 Aug 2001 17:28 UTC The ousted military leader of the 1)breakaway Comoran island of Anjouan has fled the island. Since his overthrow

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TIRANA, Sept. 12 (Xinhua) -- The Statistics Institute of Albania (INSTAT) reported on Thursday that poverty in Albania has increased due to the global financial crisis and the general macro-economic situation of low economic growth since 2008. Accord

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Chinese President Xi Jinping has set himself an ambitious target. He wants to lift all 70 million people living in less than a dollar a day out of poverty within the next five years. That is roughly a million people coming out of poverty every month

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澳洲俚语: Buckley's chance 知道澳洲的历史吧?1788年1月26日,由菲利普船长率领的船队押解770名囚犯首抵澳洲,自此,一个新的英国殖民地诞生。对于一个被戏称为由囚犯创造的国家,澳洲俚语很

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《微笑》是法国作家安东尼圣艾修伯里的作品,圣艾修伯里是名飞行员,二次大战对抗纳粹时被击落身亡,之前他也曾参加西班牙内战打击法西斯分子。他根据这次经验写了一篇精彩的故事―

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Science and technology 科学技术 Social status and health 社会地位与健康 Misery index 贫困指数 Low social status is bad for your health. Biologists are starting to understand why 社会地位低对身体不好,生物学家开始理解此

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1.other: other可用作定语(这样用时有些字典标作形容词,有些标作限定词):表示另外那个(a)或其他的,别的(b): a.He walked across the road to the other side. 他过马路到街的那一边。 I sleep in this

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Leaders 社论 Minimum wages 最低工资标准 The logical floor 多少才合理 Moderate minimum wages do more good than harm. They should be set by technocrats not politicians 实施适度的最低工资标准利大于弊,但是它们应该由技术

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One day she came home with a pamphlet about a course she wanted my stepfather Steve to take. 有一天,她带着一本小册子回家,她想让我的继父史蒂夫上一门课。 Steve looked over the booklet. This is Scientology! he said. A cul

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What would induce a software developer to quit a good job in Silicon Valley and trade California's sunshine for Toronto's wintry skies? 什么可以吸引一名软件开发者放弃硅谷的好工作,用加利福尼亚的阳光换得多伦多的冷冬

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Justin Trudeau, the prime minister, often underlines that in multicultural Canada, diversity is welcomed. 总理贾斯廷特鲁多经常强调多元文化的加拿大欢迎多元化。 Publicly funded health care sometimes gets a mention. All of this

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