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VOA标准英语2009年-Astronaut Armstrong Remembers Historic Apo

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By Vidushi Sinha Washington, DC 10 February 2006 watch Spinning Wheel report Spinning wheel The old-fashioned spinning wheel is making a comeback, not just to make yarn -- but to relieve stress. The h

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VOA标准英语2010年-30-year-old Pakistani American Charged

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What makes the sun shine? For a lot of folks, this is the kind of thing that doesn't even require explanation: it just does. But just being a commonplace phenomenon in no way explains it. Something must cause the sun to shine. And, in fact, there is

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The British actor Alan Rickman has died of cancer at the age of 69. In movies, he won fame for his role as Severus Snape in the Harry Potter series and before that in films such as Truly Madly Deeply, Love Actually, Die Hard, Sense and Sensibility an