CNN 2010-06-26

Today I accepted General Stanley McChrystals resignation as commander of the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan. I did so with considerable regret, but also with certainty that it is the right thing for our mission in Afghanistan,

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Yellowstone National Park is a giant swatch of terrain. Ninety percent of it barely touched, wilderness. Hidden within, one of the most remote places in the Lower 48. Right here, no road in any direction for 22 miles. It's within the largest ecosyste

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Millions of gallons of fresh water evaporate from the ocean daily, leaving all their salts behind, 每天有几百万加仑淡水从海洋蒸发，留下了全部盐分， so logically the seas ought to grow more salty with the passing years, but the

SSS 2008-05-22

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The apartment doorbell rang. Two men were there to clean out the kitchen and bathroom vents. Lou invited them in. One man took a ladder into the bathroom. The other man took a ladder into the kitchen. They removed the vent grills from high on each wa

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We've got a bunch of poles missing, said my husband *in a huff, as he got in his car to go to a meeting. He had been looking in the storage area above our garage for tents, and all that goes with them. We needed the tents because nine boys had come o

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Now, the going gets tougher. The next stage introduces entities that are significantly more fragile, significantly more vulnerable, 现在，（变化的条件）就更加苛刻了。下一个阶段是初次形成的个体，个体是明显更加弱小

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They have been found living in boiling mud pots and lakes of caustic soda, deep inside rocks, at the bottom of the sea, 我们还发现细菌生活在沸腾的泥潭里和烧碱池里，岩石深处，大海底部， in hidden pools of icy water in t

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It's a kind of genetic photocopying, and it became the basis for all subsequent genetic science, from academic studies to police forensic work. 这一种复制基因的方法后来成了遗传科学的基础，无论是对于学术研究，还是对于

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These are volcanoes so explosive that they burst open in a single mighty rupture, leaving behind a vast subsided pit, the caldera (from a Latin word for cauldron). 这种火山的威力如此之大，它们一下子破土而出，留下一个沉降式大

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Would there be any warning? 会有什么警报吗？ Probably not. The last significant explosion in the park was at a place called Pork Chop Geyser in 1989. 很可能没有。公园里上一次大喷发发生在1989年，在一个名叫猪排间歇泉

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And the answer that occurred to me first, 我首先想到的是 was it looked like another moon peeking out behind lo. 它看起来像是从木卫一后方露出来的另一个卫星 But when she looked closer she realised it 但仔仔观察后她才发

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Voice 1 Welcome to Spotlight. Im Liz Waid. Voice 2 And Im Robin Basselin. Spotlight uses a special English method of broadcasting. It is easier for people to understand, no matter where in the world they live. Voice 3 Over 60% of our planet is covere