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Abby: hi, my name's Abby. What's your name? Colin: I'm colin. It's nice to meet you. What do you do? A: I'm a freelance English teacher. How about you? C: I'm in between jobs at the moment. A: what kind of job are you looking for? C: I'd like to find

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This is Whats Trending Today. Summer does not officially begin in the United States and other countries in Earths Northern Hemisphere for more than a week. Yet you have probably heard the song of the summer of 2017. That is Luis Fonsis Despacito. Fon

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U.S. Vice President Joe Biden says he is withholding judgment on Iran's presidential election, as protests continue in Tehran over election results showing a landslide re-election victory for President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Vice President Joe Biden,

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By Sean Maroney Islamabad 28 September 2009 The head coordinator for the U.N. Humanitarian Affairs office in Pakistan says his agency is ready to handle what is expected to be a large number of families fleeing the South Waziristan tribal region as

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This week on Why Tell Me Why, we are finding out why the oceans are so salty. So the oceans are salty because the oceans have been around, lets say, for over five hundred million years. And over the course of time what we found out is that weve alway

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On its website, a history of the company makes no mention of leador indeed of Thomas Midgleybut simply refers to the original product as containing a certain combination of chemicals. 在它的网站上，公司的历史没有提及铅──也没有提

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By counting back through these layers and measuring the amount of lead in each, he could work out global lead concentrations at any time for hundreds, or even thousands, of years. The notion became the foundation of ice core studies, on which much mo

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Lead is a neurotoxin. Get too much of it and you can irreparably damage the brain and central nervous system. Among the many symptoms associated with overexposure are blindness, insomnia, kidney failure, hearing loss, cancer, palsies, and convulsions

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If you were going to a restaurant and wanted a healthier option, 如果你去饭店，你想吃得健康一点， which would you choose, grilled or fried chicken? 你会选择哪种食品呢，烤鸡还是炸鸡？ Now most people would answer grill

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First off, I'll mention that at the bottom of the sea there exist veins of zinc, iron, silver, and gold whose mining would quite certainly be feasible. 首先，我对您说，海底有锌、铁、银、金等矿藏，开发并不是不可能的事。