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Lesson 64 The Channel Tunnel海峡隧道 First listen and then answer the question. 听录音,然后回答以下问题。 Why was the first tunnel not completed? In 1858, a French engineer, Aime Tho
CCTV5 to become Olympic channel since Jan 1, 2008 China's CCTV5, the country's main sport channel, will become a 24-hour Olympic channel starting Jan.1st next year. It will become the major media window on preparations for the 2008 Beijing Olympics
By June Soh Washington, D.C. 24 November 2006 watch Gold Prospecting report Gold has a glittering appeal that fascinates people generation after generation. While the famous gold rush in the middle of the 1800s, in the western U.S. state of Californ
Heavy Rains Bring Raging Floods - and a Debate This spring, so-called 100-year floods swamped many communities along the Mississippi River, America's largest commercial waterway. The flooding was so severe that the U.S. Corps of Engineers, which supe
With the price of gold at all-time highs, a familiar fever is once again sweeping Alaska. Everybody has their own reason why they are into it. Some people, you know, you find what you got and you try at once to find a little bit of gold. This is kind
They could not lose. Resistance movements started. They would take over places like this and opened the sluice gate allowing the water to pour back down into Owens Valley. Irregularly they dynamited the aqueduct. But the city rebuilt it and the game
World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz spent his two years in the job trying to build his credentials as the banker to the developing world. But one of his first decisions back in 2005 put his job on the line. On Friday, the World Bank released documen
He was never implicated in the Siemens bribery allegations, but Klaus Kleinfeld will have to pay the price. After a meeting of the supervisory board, Klaus Kleinfeld announced he would not be available for another term as CEO of the company. An unce
The Dow Jones is the oldest running stock exchange in the United States looming large from Wall Street to your 401(K) . Founded back in 1896, the Dow was set up to track America's big industrial companies. But these days, GE is the only component in
The closing bell rang moments ago and it couldn't have come too soon for many investors after this crazy week on Wall Street. It was another roller-coaster session for the market. Stocks actually edged into the plus column briefly, but by the end it
A divided Supreme Court ruled yesterday that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases are air pollutants under the Clean Air Act. And the court said the Bush Administration broke the law in its refusal to limit emissions of those gases. And accordi
Oliver, there was a strong market reaction when Microsoft announced it was buying aQuantive, what's behind this deal? Well, I think Microsoft knows it needs to get into the advertising business. For years, it's basically made money one way, which is
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Well, the Dow struggled to beat yesterday's record high. Stephanie Elam is in New York with a look at the final numbers and other business news headlines on this Thursday. Hi, Stephie. Hi, Richard. It's struggled but, ah, did really manage to pull i
Script: Now we move to northern Germany where the so-called G8 is underway among the leaders of the world's most powerful nations, and that would include President Bush. The truth is ,however, it's an uneasy gathering and not just beneath the surfa
Yahoo launching a celebrity gossip site, hoping to cash in on the summer of Paris Hilton. This as shareholders seem to have no problem with CEO Terry Semel cashing in on Yahoos flat stock performance. CNBC, Silicon Valley of your trip, Jim Goldman is
A joint play to start the Paris Air Show, with the biggest them all , the airbus A380 the symbols in France. The A380 has had a host technical problems , but Airbus says the production delays that followed are behind now. Weve learned a lot of lesson
He had been upstairs, enjoying the comfort of a featherbed and the warmth of Shae's body beside him, 片刻前,他人还在楼上,躺在柔软舒适的羽毛床上,怀抱雪伊温暖的身体。 when his squire had woken him to say that a rider
By Jamila Trindle Mianyang, Sichuan Province, China 06 June 2008 Three weeks after the earthquake in China's Sichuan province displaced five million people, a few hundred thousand have had to move again - out of the way of a dammed river that poses
It was already dark, and the beach at Lowell Park was closed for the day. Dutch Reagan, the seventeen-year-old lifeguard, was helping the park manager, Mr. Graybill, close up the changing rooms when they heard muffled cries and splashing. A swimmer h