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Oscar Pistorius is the South African Paralympic runner famous for trying to compete at the Olympics. He is known as Blade Runner because of the artificial limbs he uses to sprint. He is also dubbed the fastest man on no legs. Pistorius is the double

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Evolution continues today, and sometimes we can watch it happening. Researchers in the November 6th edition of the journal Science say that they caught in the act a population of butterflies in Ecuador potentially diverging into two distinct species.

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PRETORIA, Feb. 20 (Xinhua) -- The second day of paralympian Oscar Pistorius' bail hearing ended on Wednesday without a court ruling on his application. Magistrate Desmond Nair ruled that Pistorius would remain in custody again at the Brooklyn police

Pistorius' bail hearing postponed

PRETORIA, Feb. 19 (Xinhua) -- The Pretoria Magistrate Court on Tuesday postponed Paralympian Oscar Pistorius' bail hearing to Wednesday. Magistrate Desmond Nair ruled that the bail hearing be heard under Schedule 6 Offence of the Criminal Procedure A

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The kind of army which could barely be conceived of, much less encountered in Iron Age Britain. Claudius did succeed where Julius Caesar had failed, through a brilliant strategy of carrot and stick. Yes, he would seize the largely undefended oppidan

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文本： He was rewarded with enough wealth to build himself something fit for a Roman. Only the extraordinary mosaic floors survive, but the place was as big as four football pitches, grand enough for someone who now gloried in the name of Tiberius

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BEIJING, Feb. 19 (Xinhuanet) -- Nike and Oakley, two corporate sponsors of Olympic blade runner Oscar Pistorius, have moved away from the South African sports star, who is charged with murdering his model girl friend on Valentine's Day. KeJuan Wilkin

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