2015年ESL之日常生活 29 Getting an Online Degree

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Last week, we talked about Americans taking college classes and completing study programs online that is, with the help of computers and over the Internet. The United States Department of Education has noted the growing popularity of online degree pr

SSS 2011-04-20

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. Are your car bumpers riddled with scars from encounters with tight parking spaces? Did the furniture movers scratch your floor? Wouldn't it be great if t

SSS 2010-03-26

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. Im Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. Buildings consume about a third of the energy and two-thirds of the electricity in the U.S. Roofs are a good place to try to cut those figures. Because

SSS 2010-01-19

Most of us blink without thinking. But people whove sustained strokes or combat injuries can lose their ability to blink. Which is important for lubricating and cleaning the eye. Surgery is an optiona small piece of muscle transplanted from the leg c

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Programs Let Inmates Earn University Degree While in Prison

In 2012, Rena Sard was sentenced to five years in prison at the Maryland Correctional Institute for Women. She was 47 years old. I didnt have five years of my life to wasteSo, every chance that I had to do something that was productive, something tha

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The value of a college education continues to be examined in the real world. In addition to being saddled with student loans, graduates and even experienced workers face a lackluster labor market. 大学教育的价值继续在现实世界中得到检验

SSS 2008-09-01

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky. Got a minute?. [Spray sound.] Killing bugs? No. [Spray sound.] Deodorizing the bathroom? No. [Spray sound.] Checking for explosives, yes. Because chemists at the University of Califor

SSS 2011-02-07

Patients undergoing coronary bypass surgery need implants of new, healthy blood vessels. So do those who receive repeated hemodialysis due to kidney failure. The best option is to use the patient's own veins or arteries, but thousands of patients don

SSS 2011-04-06

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. Solar cells convert sunlight to electricity. But they don't take advantage of all that solar heat, thereby missing out on the majority of the solar ene

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The US economy continues to recover from the tech bubble burst of 2000. But there're certainly many people still left behind. Long-term unemployment which is defined as being out of work for 27 weeks is at record levels. And within that group,the per

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[00:01]M：Where's your bed? [00:02]P：It's not in the apartment? Oh no. [00:05]I can't believe this is happening again. [00:07]M：What? [00:08]P：OK, enough with the third degree! I, I, I don't live here anymore. [00:13]M：What are you talking a

China moves to curb academic degree fraud

BEIJING, July 16 (Xinhua) -- China on Monday began soliciting public opinion on draft regulations for the punishment of fraudulent behavior in granting academic degrees, a move expected to curb fraud and plagiarism in higher-learning institutions. Sp

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