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SSS 2008-09-22

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. Fingers are pretty nifty. They let you to grab a latte, type on a keyboard, even pull up your pants. But did you ever wonder: where do fingers come from?

SSS 2010-06-21

Have you been having some trouble getting some digits lately when you ask a girl out? Maybe you should check what music is playing. Thats what French psychologists found. They published their research in the journal Psychology of Music. First the res

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Kids learn to count on their fingers, because theyre so, well, handy! And it makes sensemost number systems originally developed as people counted using their fingers. 小孩通过数手指来学习计数，因为这样确实非常方便。由此，最

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Dreamed Up Number Leads Man to a Bride 谁是我的梦中情人？ A British man has met and married a 22-year-old woman after, by his own account, dreaming of her phone number and then sending her a text message. David Brown, 24, says he woke up one

NPR 2010-03-13

President Obama is putting off next week's trip to Indonesia, his first overseas trip of the year to stay close to the latest action on healthcare. Democratic leaders in the House are looking to pass an overhaul bill this month, but President Obama i

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HARI SREENIVASAN: One factor contributing to poverty, stagnating wages. As this graphic shows, wages adjusted for inflation have been virtually flat for 45 years, but consumer prices have been rising sharply during that same period. For more about th

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AS much as we love our digital devices, many of us have an uneasy sense that they are destroying our attention spans. We skitter from app to app, seldom alighting for long. Our ability to concentrate is shot, right? 我们喜爱我们的数码设备，

Ireland Cricket team edge out Kenya in tense batting

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Asia has overtaken Europe as the world's second-richest region, according to an annual report by the Boston Consulting Group (BCG). 波士顿咨询公司的年度报告称，亚洲已经超过欧洲成为世界第二富裕的地区。 The Asia Pacifi

AP 2010-07-10

1. Oil giant BP says its cost for containing the big oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico climbed nearly half a billion dollars in just one week. Its tab, now just over three billion dollars. 2. Much of the East Coast is scorching with temperatures way ab

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Life begins at forty - and don't you forget it THE belief that life begins at 40 is a myth. Research has found that the fourth decade heralds the beginning of the end. A study of 2,282 people aged 18 to 87 found that hitting 40 was synonymous with fo

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Dreamed Up Number Leads Man to a Bride谁是我的梦中情人? A British man has met and married a 22-year-old woman after, by his own account, dreaming of her phone number and then sending her a text message. David Brown, 24, says he woke up one mo

英语美文：谁是我的梦中情人

Dreamed Up Number Leads Man to a Bride谁是我的梦中情人? A British man has met and married a 22-year-old woman after, by his own account, dreaming of her phone number and then sending her a text message. David Brown, 24, says he woke up one mo

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