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Sandy Lam has been rising early each day to swim in the waters off Hong Kong Island for nearly 30 years. Lam is 68 years old. He is part of a small community of about 50 people mostly older adults who often use the Sai Wan Swimming Shed. The small bu

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Airline food has a bad rap, but it doesnt completely deserve it. When we fly at high altitude we simply cant taste as much. The main reason is the low humidity in the airplane cabin, which causes our sinuses to dry out. The humidity is kept around 4%

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The cured meat adds to the Chinese tradition of flavour. 中国的味觉史就这样在腊味中延续着。 At a remote place in the Chinese mainland, you can experience a more ancient and aboriginal taste. 在远离香港闹市的内地山区，你可

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Up in the Sierra Madre Mountains, in a bowl-shaped valley, is the capital of Mexico. 在马德雷山脉上有一个碗形的山谷，里面坐落着墨西哥的首都， It is called Mexico City, so you dont have to learn a new name. 叫做墨西哥城

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British Petroleum has put someone new in charge of their operations in Alaska, where they spilled 800,000 gallons of oil in March and where they shut down the biggest oil field in the United States in August because of pipeline corrosion. BP is the

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A: How are you feeling today? B: I have a terrible cold! A: Where do you think you picked that up? B: A lot of people in my gym have it. Maybe I got it from the equipment. A: Have you taken anything for it? B: I think that I am just going to rest and

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Lesson 57 Sulphur 第57课 硫 Did you ever have to take a mixture of brimstone and treacle? This mixture has not a pleasant taste, but it is a useful medicine; and if it will do us good, we should not care much whether it has a nice taste or not. 小朋

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The fumes of burning sulphur will bleach straw, silk, and other things, and make them white and clean. These fumes are also useful for killing the germs which cause fevers and other diseases. 燃烧的硫磺冒出的烟，可以漂白稻草、丝绸和

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JUDY WOODRUFF:Next: how an oil spill near Little Rock, Ark., is casting a shadow over the proposed expansion of the Keystone pipeline. MAN:So that is a pipeline that has busted and has flooded the neighborhood. JUDY WOODRUFF:A local resident describe

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ANA says it will replace the engines on its fleet of Boeing 787s after a series of engine failures caused by corrosion and fatigue cracking of turbine blades. 全日空航空公司表示，由于涡轮机叶片出现腐朽和裂痕造成的一系列引

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Oh, my God, are you choking? Oh, my God, I feel like you're choking! Is anyone here a doctor? What am I saying? I forgot where I am. Has anyone here ever seen What do you do when a girl is choking? I just back up a few inches. What do we do? What do

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Today we will learn some words connected with volcanoes; and we will find out that volcanoes are bad for aeroplanes, and why people in west London can now hear the birds sing. Volcanoes are mountains, or other places, where the inside of the earth co

英闻天下——242 China Timetables Fuel Quality Upgrade

The State Council, China's cabinet, has released its timetable to upgrade fuel quality nationwide before 2017. The new standard for petrol and diesel, with sulphur content within 10 parts per million, is expected to be in practice nationwide by 2017.

经济学人367:通用被迫面对它的错误

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