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On October 4th, the Iraqi Security Forces supported by the U.S.-led Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS, liberated the town of Hawija and over 150 surrounding villages from ISIS, along with as many as 85,000 civilians who had been trapped there. Hawija w

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When youre looking for a table in a crowded cafeteria, you probably give wide berth to the family that sounds like its sharing a big dish of whooping cough. Well, not if youre a house finch, particularly a male. Because a study in the journal Biology

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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. Some people are worried that the more we learn about genetics, the closer well get to a day when we can choose all sorts of characteristics for our bab

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(THEME) ANNOUNCER: Im Doug Johnson with PEOPLE IN AMERICA in VOA Special English. Today we tell the story of a musician who led one of the most popular American bands during the nineteen thirties and forties. His name was Artie Shaw. Listen for a few

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Finches Seek Out Sick Dining Companions A study in the journal Biology Letters finds that male finches prefer dining next to a sick bird despite the risk of infection, probably because the lethargic companion is less likely to engage in food fights.

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EXPLORATIONS - November 13, 2002: Volcanoes and Haleakala National Parks in Hawaii By Paul Thompson VOICE ONE: This is Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And this is Sarah Long with the VOA Special English progr

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Vice President Joe Biden gave a hint to the Obama administration's attitude toward relations with Russia in a Feb. 7 foreign policy speech in Munich, Germany. US Vice President Joe Biden addresses International Conference on Security Policy in Munic

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The new Obama administration appears to be taking tentative steps towards resuming dialogue with Syria, while the key step of sending a new U.S. ambassador to Damascus for the first time in three years remains up in the air. A visit by Senate Foreig

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在生活中每个人都免不了会有举棋不定、犹豫不决的时候。那就用得上我们今天要学的两个习惯用语来描述这样的局面了。 第一个习惯用语是:hem and haw。在这儿hem和haw这两个词都是模拟人们

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Finches Can Learn to Sing Differently Than Their Genetics Dictate In the most recent podcast we discussed how baby bats learn their callsfrom all the other bats in their crowded colonies. And we mentioned in passing that songbirds usually get tutored

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Jennifer Glasse | London 09 April 2010 Spring is in the air at London's Barbican Center and the birds are making music, literally. A band of zebra finches is playing electric guitars and cymbals in a walk through area of the arts center. These zebra

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Isolated finches still produce what are called innate or isolate songs. A specific tune might be taught, but the instinct to sing seems to be hardwired into a songbird's brain. Innate songs sound different from the cultured songs learned from other f

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amiota (phortica) gigas
ashamed for
brevenals
bruit de pluie
buckle-up
canting piece
carangoids
chrome plated adjustable wrench
chromosomoid
compilatory
contortuosity
cryptoanarchy
curved line
cut cells
de-americanize
depreciation of the currency
diskette operating system
drivel(l)er
dystric planosols
EJB container
electronic chart correction
end discharged furnace
energy content
evergreen credit
external tank of shuttle
f numbers
fencooperite
fictors
firm-type
Fizeau fringes
fuel injection period
G.A.T.E.
gates
genus spathiphyllums
guanosine-5'-phosphate
here comes the bride
hourlies
individual protection
indorsed
jet enriching valve
knetsch
literary works
litmus neutral test paper
make point
mark x signature
materfamilias
medlying
methranee
MHBCN
microcanomical ensemble
microfitration membrane process
Microula pustulosa
midcolonial
minor leagues
Molgula
multi-fiber array
musica ficta
narrow pulse
Nieuwersluis
non-replicable
Novosparol
oleanolic acid
onion digger
P-V diagram
particle absorption
periopathogenic
picture signal polarity
precursories
Prioniodidae
product inhibition
pumping (optical)
rack banking stop tube
radiology
replica plant
resources assessment
roman stripes
Satzuma
sb's face is a picture
schuch
skalled
sperm-binding
spine-chilling
stage twisting system
surgical triangle
tarsal canal
telebanking
Telembi, R.
thermometric indicator
thuelle
tiltometer
to sketch
Tpilisi
Triangluli Australis
tube pointer
turret ice
various amounts of potassium applied
visibility code
Vostochno-Kazakhstanskaya Oblast'(Vostochnyy Kazakhstan)
VWL
wing tip truss
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