Lunch Time Manicure

In New York City, no self-respecting woman would be caught dead without perfectly 1) manicured hands. The reason, hundreds of drop in nail bars all designed to have you 2) buffed, 3) polished now and

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material scientists admire spider silk for being lightweight and strong.now another arthropod product is getting into the act insect cuticle,the tough flexible material is inside insect skeleton.researchers at harvard * institute for biological inspi

国家地理:Mayan Temple Mystery 玛雅神庙之谜

Deep in the jungles of Guatemala lie the ruins of a lost Maya civilization. The culture thought of as the classic Maya flourished across Central America between 250-900 AD. But archeologists are now discovering a Maya society that existed a full thou

4.3 Two drops of oil 两滴油

A merchant sent his son to learn the Secret of Happiness from the wisest of men. The young man wandered through the desert for forty days until he reached a beautiful castle at the top of a mountain. There lived the sage that the young man was lookin

假钞难造,蝴蝶居功(有声)

Counterfeiters and money minters constantly try to outsmart each other. But money could become much harder to forgethanks to butterfly wings. Butterflies that flit through tropical forests often have brightly colored wings that irridesce in the sun.

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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science, I am Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. Counterfeiters and money minters constantly try to outsmart each other. But money could become much harder to forgethanks to butterfly wings. Butterfl

The Oil Painting

An elderly woman decided to have her portrait painted. She told the the artist.... .....Paint me with diamond earrings, a diamond necklace, emerald bracelets(绿宝石手镯）, a ruby（红宝石） broach, and gold Rolex（劳力士手表）. But y

VOA标准英语2008年-US Oil Companies Finding More Oil in Old Fields

The price of oil has dropped around 20 percent in recent weeks, but remains more than double what it was just a couple of years ago. The high price has given oil companies the incentive to revisit old fields long ago abandoned as unprofitable. As VO

Rights Group Rebukes Angola for Alleged Missing Oil Revenues

Rights Group Rebukes Angola for Alleged Missing Oil Revenues Leah Krakinowski A leading human-rights group says the Angolan government cannot account for more than $4 billion in missing oil revenue ,

托福语法攻略:名词词组与动名词

名词词组与动名词 名词短语或动名词主句（或者从句）中做主语或者宾语。 A.语法复习由名词构成名词词组的几种方法 1. n. adj.短语，如the jobs available to women 2. n. 介词短语，如a child with readi

美甲新创意：立体泡泡美甲

When you think you've seen everything that could possibly be done with nail art, manicure devotees prove you wrong. Step forward the new trend blowing up on Instagram for 'bubble' nails, where acrylic is piled up on top of the nail and thinned out to

牛油果成为美丽新宠的四大理由

That's right kids, after argan oil and coconut oil have taken the beauty industry by storm, avocado oil is about to become the It ingredient of the moment. And while you can expect to see it pop up in more and more products, the concept of using it o

Oil Conference Discusses Price, Higher Demand

More than 2,000 representatives of world oil and gas companies, academics and industry experts are in Houston this week for the 30th annual conference(会议) sponsored by Cambridge Energy Research Associates, or IHS-CERA. With prices rising, partly

在家也能轻松美甲 无需费事找美甲店

Secret #1: Cuticle oil is a lifesaver. 秘诀1：指缘护理油是救命稻草。 When your nails look sad and you dont have time for a full manicure, cuticle oil can moisturize dry skin. Olive oil or coconut oil will also work perfectly. 指甲不好

BP discovers new oil in Gulf of Mexico

HOUSTON, Sept. 7 (Xinhua) -- British oil giant BP announced Wednesday it had a major oil discovery in the Gulf of Mexico. An appraisal well the company drilled in a previously untested northern segment of the Mad Dog field in the Gulf of Mexico found

Iran denies crude oil to Greece: local media

TEHRAN, Feb. 26 (Xinhua) -- Iran has refused to deliver oil to Greece in Persian Gulf, the local Fars news agency reported on Sunday. The Islamic republic refused to deliver a shipment of 500,000 barrels of crude oil to one of the refineries in Greec

Saudis Set to Boost Oil Production

Saudi Arabia is signaling that it is going to boost its supply of oil on its own after failing to convince other oil producers to jointly agree to more production. Several news agencies reported Saturday that the Saudis could increase their oil produ

经济学人: 热带疾病 (1)

Malaria killed 435,000 people last year, most of them in Africa. 去年435,000人死于疟疾，其中大部分在非洲。 The parasite that causes the illness is carried by females of some, but not all, species of mosquitoes of the genus Anopheles.

Oil rises on tighter supply outlook

NEW YORK, July 13 (Xinhua) -- Crude prices rose on Friday as supplies tended to be tight on new Iran sanctions and production problems in North Sea. There was news on Thursday saying that the Obama administration expanded sanctions on Iran, in an eff

GRE词汇形近词语汇总

在记忆词汇时，总会出现很多长得差不多的词汇令我们混淆，从而导致GRE词汇记忆不清楚。下面为大家搜集了一些GRE词汇中长的差不多的词语，希望能够帮助大家将其进行区分，加深记忆。