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These holes are the unmistakable hallmark of a violent death. Their shape suggest they were made by the teeth of a big cat, but which one? Today theres only one large cat in the region, the Florida panther. Though similar to the cougar at the western

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But how did one man and a spear produce the huge force behind this blow? The answer lies with small bits of ivory like this. They were once part of an atlatl, or spear thrower. An atlatl acts as a sort of catapult, magnifying the strength of a hunter

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By piecing together the evidence these creatures left behind, we can build a picture of this sub-tropical corner of the continent as it was 13,000 years ago. While most of North America was still in the grip of the Big Freeze, Florida was an ice age

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This is Florida, a taste of the tropical, one of the world's most popular holiday destinations. Here mankind's unquenchable desire to explore and colonise reaches astronomical proportions. Eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one. Ignition. Lif

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This creates steam in oasis and a profusion of life. Today, these warm springs are a refuge for one of Florida's most tropical inhabitants. The West Indian Manatee wasn't present during the last ice age, but returned here as the waters warmed up. Eve

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This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Sometimes new health advice conflicts with old advice. Yet new guidelines last week for breast cancer testing in the United States created a storm of debate. The advice came from experts who are appoint

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Online Classes May Force Changes at Universities This is pretty amazing, said the University of Virginia's David Evans, teaching an online introduction to Computer Science. Online classes are now taught by many top universities and offer everything f

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This triggered other dramatic changes. As sea levels dropped, so did the inland water tables. Florida's fresh water drained away through the porous limestone rock. Pools dried up and springs diminished. Florida was on the brink of drought. And animal

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Could it be that drastic water shortage was the reason for the mastodons' epic migrations? Another big piece of this puzzle lies far out to sea. This is the ocean floor. But this isn't rock sprouting out at the bottom. It's wood. It's the remains of

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But despite their name, the mighty Everglades did not exist during the ice age. So what did pre-historic Florida look like? There is one place in northern Florida that has revealed more ice age secrets than almost anywhere else, the dark slow-moving

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The cold climate conifer forests of the north displaced broadleaved woodlands. Plants and animals were gradually pushed south to find a warmer climate. Florida became a refuge from the cold. Down here is where the Ice Age north met the subtropical so

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By Dan Robinson Capitol Hill 18 May 2006 U.S. officials say implementing the Darfur peace agreement requires sustained international attention to Sudan in coming months. A congressional hearing examin

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By Alan Silverman Hollywood 02 April 2006 It's back to prehistoric times for a sequel to the 2002 computer-animated family film that featured a grumpy mammoth and his traveling companions: a quick-wit

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Ocean Floor Reveals Past Climate Changes Time capsule Lamont research professor Maureen Raymo, the director of the Core Repository, slides open a long, narrow drawer from the cabinet. Like thousands of others here, the drawer contains a long, thin cy

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Supernatural Romance, Action Attract All Ages In the Houston suburb of Tomball, these women get together frequently to socialize and chat about the books they are reading. Cathy Clark says many of those books - targeted at teens - also attract adult

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The Science of Climate Change Climate negotiators are meeting in Durban, South Africa beginning from November 28-December 9 to discuss the planet's changing climate. The first decade of this century was the hottest on record. Polar ice is melting. Gl

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By Peter Heinlein Washignton 15 September 2006 George Clooney (left) and Elie Wiesel Actor George Clooney and Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel have met with the U.N. Security Council to plead for prompt action to save lives in Darfur. The Oscar-winning fi

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Though very powerful, shes not a sprinter and she needs to get close to her prey before she strikes. This time shes run too soon and its a fruitless chase. Then her attention is diverted to a slower-moving target, slow but not defenseless. She backs

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SCIENCE IN THE NEWS - November 12, 2002: Oldest Evidence of Jesus? / Mapping Genes that Cause Disease / 2002 World Health Report VOICE ONE: This is Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And this is Bob Doughty with

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By Lisa Schlein Geneva 10 November 2006 The U.N. refugee agency says inter-ethnic violence is increasing in eastern Chad. It says an interagency mission reports a recent spate of attacks in the Kerfi area, southwest of Goz Beida, has also extended t

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学英语单词
-aldrate
a unpleasant quarter of an hour
Abora
acid-tongued
Aconitum ningwuense
Aeschna
antithetic sampling
attributional styles
auxiliary time of production
battery group
beltrans
blepharitis phlegmonosa
bocconia cordata willd.
by pass governor
cardholders
Cassegrain focus corrector
centreless internal grinder
cmos infrared detectors
compass declinometer
cropping machine
database management recovery
diaphragm type level meter
diboron trioxide
dispower
Doppler sonar system
Drummond, Loch
eleutherodactyline
Euthydemus
film transfer function
foot rail
front wiring
functional lines
gel(ling) point
gravity process
growth increment in weight
gwalias
herringbone masonry
hobarts
holistic perspective
horse show
icon bar
inside volume of kiln shell
installation of gaging station
insulating concrete
krishna (kistna r.)
landscape edit
large scale compound integration
left aside
liquid nitrogen system
lithophyllon undulatum
Loolmalassin
loose-fill
LVSW
Mayer-Vietoris sequence
micromedicine infusion pump
microwells
molybdenum wire
multiple access data system
nilprogressions
nitroblue tetrazolium(NBT)
officer's retiring allowance
olyf
outsets
pan-type mixer
parent-child
pattinsonizing
phillippines
plastic toys
polygalacin
Port Dues and Charges
potato plug
prairie smokes
projection camera
prolixness
re enactment
reciprocating positive displacement vacuum pump
recurrent aphthus ulcers
restricted random sampling
rhamnuses
Saxifraga sphaeradena
sealed with a kiss
Shaykh Sa'd
similar class
Sino-European Container Liner Service
skin dried mold
sodium-sulfur
spaceship sterilization
Stagonospora
state prison
Szamocin
tabernaemontana cumingiana dc.
take a long time
team-man
Tihāmah
track hoist
truxillo
turpith
two-way system
universal galvanometer
water chestnut
water quality surveilling
worse things happen at sea