Hunger Crisis in East Africa - Somalia Some 14.4 million people in Somalia, Ethiopia, and Kenya need humanitarian assistance, according to the United Nations. In some places, acute food insecurity could soon deteriorate into famine. Famines are rare,

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一位家庭成员住院了,Chuck、Serena、Blair、Dan、Jenny和Eric面临人生危机。Nate想要帮助父母冰释前嫌重归于好。

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160 印尼面临最关键的时刻 Showdown Looms in Indonesia Patricia Nunan Jakarta 13 Jul 2001 11:58 UTC Indonesian leaders appear ready for a 1)showdown next week. President Abdurrahman Wahid has

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UNITED NATIONS, Aug. 10 (Xinhua) -- Indigenous people around the world suffer high levels of diabetes, drug and alcohol abuse, youth suicide and infant mortality, said UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon here on Monday. Speaking at the launch of the Sta

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AS IT IS 2015-06-25 North Korea Could Face Food Shortage 朝鲜可能面临食物短缺 North Korea could face more food shortages later this year if a drought continues. That is what the United Nations World Food Program (WFP) said last week. A drou

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AS IT IS 2016-09-13 North Korea Faces Condemnation Over Fifth Nuclear Test 针对第五次核试验,朝鲜将面临谴责 The United States and its allies are reacting to North Koreas latest nuclear test. The test, carried out on September 9th, was t

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AS IT IS 2014-11-26 Central African Republic Losing the Next Generation 中非共和国跨倒的一代人 The Central African Republic has been unsettled since 2013. First, the Seleka rebel group ousted the government. The Seleka fighters were mostly

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Express deliveries grew more than 43 percent in the first half of 2015, compared with the same period last year. According to head of China's State Post Bureau, about 14 billion parcels were delivered in 2014, up 52 percent. Song Guowei is a courier

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Northeast Arctic cod, usually found in the Barents Seas, have been traveling up to the archipelago of Svalbard for the past three years. Off the coast of Longyearbyen, a Norwegian city located just 1,300 kilometers from the North Pole, scientists are

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NSA下位负责人将面临挑战 Outrage over the U.S. National Security Agency's widespread collection of telephone and Internet data from American allies could lead to a changed landscape for the spy agency. Allegations the National Security Agenc

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There's an abundance of job seekers around the globe right now, eager to land steady employment. Yet job vacancies in dozens of countries are also plentiful: In the US, for instance, there were 5.4 million open jobs in 2015the highest in 15 years. Ot

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每当身边有人谈起奔三的话题,周围就弥漫着一种恐慌的气氛,把30岁说得好像洪水猛兽一样可怕。究其根源,大概是因为在中国的文化里,三十而立这个概念深入人心,而当下很多年轻人可能

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The class is entitled Ethics and Public Policy in a Globalized World. It starts with a video projection of a song from the 1972 musical movie Cabaret. Yubing Shi looks amused... but also a little puzzled. The song finishes. The professor explains tha

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在求职时,不少单位都会询问女求职者打算什么时间生孩子。职场上的女性,常常面临工作和生育的两难抉择。二胎政策施行后,越来越多的职业女性将面临这一难题。因为各种原因不能生娃

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You can find bubbliness in bits of American finance, including the corporate-bond market, and some nasty off-balance-sheet liabilities like student loans and public-sector pensions, but America does not look like a source of imminent trouble. 你可以

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Just two days after Apple released its latest iPhone upgrade, the iPhone 6S, reporters in Shanghai did a straw poll survey of locals around the city to gauge the reaction. While certainly not scientific, the lack of enthusiasm is quite evident. Apple

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The progress of science and technology is creating new ways things can go wrong for humanity, according to British theoretical physicist and cosmologist Stephen Hawking. 英国理论物理学家和宇宙学家斯蒂芬霍金称,科技的进步正为人

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奥巴马医改法案或面临威胁 While technical problems with the web site have plagued the initial implementation of the Affordable Care Act -- President Obama's health care program, there are other consequences of this complex system of privat

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HARI SREENIVASAN: Thousands of people gathered in the Turkish capital of Ankara today to condemn the worst terrorist attack in that nation's recent history. Families and friends of some victims gathered today to mourn. At least 95 people died when tw

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Science and technology. 科技。 Scientific publishing 科技出版业 Brought to book 好书来了 Academic journals face a radical shake-up 学术期刊面临彻底改变 IF THERE is any endeavour whose fruits should be freely available, that ende

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