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Brazil Closes Latin Americas Largest Landfill When Oscar Niemeyer and Lucio Costa designed Brazils capital, the city of Brasilia, their detailed plans did not include where to put food waste and other garbage. The answer was the Estrutural garbage du

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The humanitarian crisis is deepening in Gaza, following Israel's 22-day offensive that Palestinian officials said killed nearly 1,300 people. Now, Israel says it is considering a prisoner swap to win the release of an Israeli soldier held in Gaza, s

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beet, [bi:t] n 甜菜(其肥大的根和叶子可食用,一般肉质呈红色) 【记】bee蜜蜂。蜜蜂爱吃的菜-一定甜 【参】red beet 红甜菜(用于拌生菜);white beet 白甜菜(用于制糖)

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By Derek Kilner Nairobi 16 June 2008 A battalion composed of troops from Sudan's northern and southern armies is set to deploy Tuesday to the disputed Abyei area on the country's north-south border. As Derek Kilner reports for VOA's East Africa bure

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By Lisa Bryant Paris 16 June 2006 French President Jacques Chirac, second right, gestures while speaking with Austrian Chancellor Wolfgang Schuessel, second left, during a group photo The European Union approved new humanitarian aid to the Palestini

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Next Step After Carbon: Knowing Your Nitrogen Footprint This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. 这里是美国之音慢速英语农业报道。 A carbon footprint is the amount of carbon dioxide pollution that we produce as a result of o

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By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 28 December 2006 Aid agencies say recent fighting in Somalia has taken a humanitarian toll. Hundreds of people have been wounded, thousands have fled their homes and tens of thousands are cut off from food relief they have

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By Catherine Maddux Washington 30 October 2006 The top U.N. humanitarian affairs official says there has been dramatic improvement in northern Uganda since the start of peace talks to end nearly 20 years of devastating civil war. ----- Jan Egeland (

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The International Committee of the Red Cross said Gaza is suffering what it calls a full-blown humanitarian crisis. It said the death toll and number of injured is rising, the infrastructure of the Palestinian territory is shattered and civilians la

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Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak met on Monday with French President Nicolas Sarkozy and a European Union delegation to discuss ways to reach an immediate cease-fire in the Gaza Strip. While diplomatic talks have been unsuccessful in ending the viol

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SCOTT SIMON, HOST: We turn now to Brazil and its modern capital Brasilia. That city was conceived and planned as a kind of utopia, yet its mastermind, the world-renowned architect Oscar Niemeyer, and his fellow planners forgot something critical, whi

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Teen Inventors Fight Tinnitus Irish teenagers Eimear OCarroll and Rhona Togher developed a treatment they hope will help people with tinnitus, an unpleasant ringing in the ears. Cynthia Graber reports Ever get a ringing in your ears after a loud blas

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By Noel King Khartoum 12 November 2006 UN Emergency Coordinator Jan Egeland (L) with Martin Ojul, chairman of LRA negotiating team, in Sudanese town of Juba, November 11, 2006 The United Nations humanitarian chief is in southern Sudan for a meeting

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By Catherine Maddux Washington 01 November 2006 UN Undersecretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Jan Egeland gestures during a news conference in Kenya (File photo - Sept. 12, 2006) The top U.N. humanitarian official says the operating environmen

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By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 02 May 2006 A drying corn stalk in one of many farms in Adinefas in southern Eritrea The U.N. humanitarian representative for the Horn of Africa says Eritrea's government is

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By Lisa Schlein Geneva 20 May 2007 Newly arrived internally displaced ethnic Tamils prepare themselves to be registered with camp officials in Kiran, Sri Lanka (File Photo) The World Food Program warns renewed fighting in Sri Lanka's long-running civ

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When I was a little girl, I used to knit all the time. I used to knit jumpers and hats and scarves. I even used to knit little dolls sometimes: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs for example. When you knit with two needles you can put the thread or the

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Adrienne: So we just had Christmas and I see your knitting bag is out, did you knit anything for anyone for Christmas? Vivian: I started to knit for my granddaughters, but time caught up with me and I was making for them a poncho which consisted of t

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By Lisa Schlein Geneva 15 June 2007 The World Food Program (WFP) says it has been able to successfully feed up to three million internally displaced people in Sudan's conflict-ridden province of Darfur. The organization says it has been able to do th

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By Phuong Tran Goz Beida, Chad 16 May 2007 In Chad, people are still arriving at camps to escape ethnic violence and bandit attacks along the Sudanese border. Humanitarian workers are often the first to reach out to people escaping from burning villa

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abrashiocephalus
adiabatic engine
adiponitrile
all weather remote sensing
anatoxins
arc-drop loss
Bensley's neutral safranin stain
brood capsule
buck for something
building block technique
canalized character
cape fears
choke plug
co-use
completely shrouded impeller
compnet
compulsory trade unionism
computer panel
counter-electromotive force control
cullum
deadshit
decitabine
dehydrosongoring
dilute acid wash
doctor test
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egg coke
endurance performance
ephemeral lake
EUTAENIOPHORIDAE
film mixture
flings off
formation center
free of blowholes
fuel cell detector
gender benders
general valve
Gerolstein
hidden heat
horn-rimmed
huntedly
hydrogen blistering corrosion
I Esdra
inspection copy
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keyboard operator
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Lasiorhinus
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left heart bypass system
leg-pulling
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maximax utility
minimum-damage-fire-control theory
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non commercial expenses
noti
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pararescuemen
pauilion
people pleasers
photo chromism
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placental souffle
prolixness
pseudeponymous
pusher-click spring
radius of sphere
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reduced crude oil
reserved-channel principle
residual-based test
resupinatus
rotary straightening
run heavily
sacculated kidney
sahs
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scahill
single- purpose pliers for gripping and manipulating
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station keeping radar
superficial deterioration
sympathetic neuroblastoma
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trademark act
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