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AP 2010-12-22

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NPR 2011-01-12

Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords is able to breathe on her own, but doctors says theyre keeping her on a breathing tube to protect her airway, and they have cut back her sedation. Giffords is the only one of the 14 survivors of Saturdays shoo

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You pump it at a high pressure through a nozzle. You create a spray of detergent. 你用高压将它压过一个喷嘴，你制造了清洁剂喷雾。 Then the spray dries. It turns into powder. It falls to the floor. 喷雾干燥后就成了粉末，

CNN Marketplace 2006-04-23

Michelle Wright : In CNN's Gas Price Watch, crude oil prices have reached a record of more than $75 a barrel today amid concern about Iran's nuclear ambitions and declining US gasoline stocks. John Fe

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He was riding the LIRR to Oyster Bay. He saw beautiful scenery everywhere. But he also saw graffiti everywhere. There must be a way to stop graffiti, he thought. He did some research. He developed a design for a graffiti-buster. He presented it to a

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Ninety minutes after the blast, ash began to rain down on Yakima, Washington, 爆发90分钟以后，灰烬开始雨滴般地洒落在华盛顿州的亚基马。 a community of fifty thousand people about eighty miles away. 那是个有5万人口的社