CNN 2010-04-28

Well, we take so many things for granted. Employees will wash their hands before making your food. Police and firefighters will come when you call them and doctors who poke and prod you are using clean instruments. Well, hold off on that last one. On

NPR NEWS 2008-03-23

From NPR News in Washington, I'm Craig Windham. Flood waters are still threatening homes in parts of the Midwest even as some rivers have begun receding. Donald Ray was one of the volunteers helping build a protective wall of sand banks today in the

【有声英语文学名著】CHAPTER FOUR（8）

Democracy in action, it touched peoples lives in the most immediate way, shaped opinions, provoked and entertained and engaged far more effectively than all those books that no-one read or plays that no-one went to see. Emma could say what she liked

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Seamus Heaney Religion's never mentioned here, of course. You know them by their eyes, and hold your tongue. One side's as bad as the other, never worse. Christ, it's near time that some small leak was sprung In the great dykes the Dutchman made To

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By Al Pessin Washington 28 July 2006 US Army soldiers in Iraq(file photo) The top U.S. general in Iraq had hoped to be able to recommend what he called a fairly significant reduction in U.S. troops in the country this year. Instead, on Thursday Defe

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Juventus beat Fiorentina 2-1

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China urges Philippines to halt provocations

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