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A group in San Francisco is honoring former President G.W. Bush by proposing to name a new wastewater treatment plant after him. We hope that this will catch on nationwide, said activist Bill Maher. Every state should have a wastewater treatment plan

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Experts See Closer Link Between Earthquakes and Oil Drilling 专家称地震和石油钻探关系密切 Since 2009, earthquake activity has greatly increased in the central and eastern United States. A new report from U.S. earthquake experts links dr

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Pre-Listening Vocabulary binomial nomenclature: a two-part system for naming species (e.g., Panthera tigris) genus: a subdivision of a family of organisms (e.g., Panthera is the genus for tigers, lions and leopards, and a subdivision of the Felidae f

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1. acronym /'krənɪm/ -- name formed from the first letter or letters of other words The word radar is an acronym for Radio Detecting And Range. radar这个词由Radio Detecting And Range 的首字母组成(首字母缩略词)。 2. homonyms /'hɒmə

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Merck of Germany announced plans to buy Swiss Pharmaceutical company Serono for 10.6 billion euros. Earlier this year Merck failed to acquire German competitor Schering, and recently pharmaceutical companies such as GlaxoSmithKline and Novartis had

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China has more plants than anywhere else in the temperate regions of the world. In fact, it has almost twice as many kinds of plants as there are in the United States which is about the same size and about three times as many as there are in Europe.

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(MUSIC) VOICE ONE: Im Shirley Griffith. VOICE TWO: And Im Doug Johnson with the VOA Special English program, PEOPLE IN AMERICA. Today, we tell about the life of writer and reporter, Carl Rowan. He was one of the most honored reporters in the United S

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Yoko Ono Named Co-Writer of John Lennon’s 'Imagine'

This is Whats Trending Today. Forty-six years after its release, John Lennons classic song Imagine is formally getting a co-writer -- his widow, Yoko Ono. The British musician first gained worldwide fame in the early 1960s, as a member of The Beatles

SSS 2008-03-13

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mursky. Got a minute? Orbiting around stars far far away is sand. Astronomers have found sandy particles circling a pair of stars about 2,400 light years from us. And they think they might be

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By Chad Bouchard Jakarta 11 July 2006 Indonesia's parliament has passed a bill to extend political autonomy for Aceh, but human-rights activists and former Achenese rebels say the law does not satisfy a 2005 peace agreement. The conflict has revived

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While I was observing this phenomenal creature, two jets of steam and water sprang from its blowholes and rose to an altitude of forty meters, 当我观察这只奇怪动物的时候，两道水和汽从它的鼻孔吐出来，直喷到叫十米的高度

2006年VOA标准英语-Astronomers Find That Many Milky Way Plane

By David McAlary Washington 12 January 2006 As astronomers detect more and more planets outside our solar system, they are finding that many of them have more than one sun, unlike Earth and its compan

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The light from our glass coils produced magical effects at times, lingering on the wrinkled roughness of some natural arch, 我们的蛇形玻璃管中的光学，照在这些天然的凹凸不平的拱形建筑物上面， or some overhang suspended

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In the first group: organ-pipe coral, gorgonian coral arranged into fan shapes, soft sponges from Syria, isis coral from the Molucca Islands, sea-pen coral, wonderful coral of the genus Virgularia from the waters of Norway, various coral of the genus

The Astronomer

An astronomer used to walk out every night to gaze upon the stars．It happened one night that，as he was wandering in the outskirts of the city，with his whole thoughts rapt up in the skies，he fell into a well．On his holloaing and calling out，

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A triggerfish, I said. 是一条箭鱼。我于是说了。 It's a Chinese triggerfish, Ned Land replied. 尼德兰回答：是一条中国箭鱼。 Genus Balistes, family Scleroderma, order Plectognatha, Conseil muttered. 康塞尔于是低声说：箭

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There I saw again, but not yet pressed and dried like the Nautilus's specimens, some peacock's tails spread open like fans to stir up a cooling breeze, scarlet rosetangle, 我在这里又看到的，不是像在诺第留斯号船上风干的标本，而

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At intervals it hands down decrees, declaring that Zauschneria californica (a common plant in rock gardens) 它不时下达命令，宣布从今以后加州倒挂金钟（一种普通的假山庭园植物） is to be known henceforth as Epilobium can

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歌词： I love you, ONO Diamond ring, CHA CHA Holiday sun, OPQ Planet earth presents you Big money, Big system, Big fame, Big brother I need you, ONO Silver fox, CHA CHA Swimming pool, ZAP ZAP Planet earth presents you Big money, Big system, Big fa