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美国国家公共电台 NPR NASA Probe Lands Safely On Martian Surface

MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Mars is about to get a new visitor from Earth tomorrow. If all goes well, a NASA probe called InSight will land near the Martian equator. Its mission is to study the interior of the planet. But, before it can carry out its missio

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VOA标准英语2010年-US Officials Outline Security, Other C

U.S. officials say they are encouraged that Yemen can be a full partner in the fight against al-Qaida, despite uneven counter-terrorism cooperation in the past. The top State Department official for Near Eastern affairs, Jeffrey Feltman, said Yemen's

Japan to Enforce Exclusion Zone Near Nuclear Plant

Japanese officials have decided to legally enforce an exclusion zone within 20 kilometers of the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant starting at midnight Thursday. Japan's Kyodo news agency reports that Prime Minister Naoto Kan will announce the new res

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Matters came to a head when Jobs visited New York in March 1983 乔布斯于1983年3月访问了纽约， and was able to convert the courtship into a blind and blinding romance. 向斯卡利发起了猛烈的攻势，事情的发展到了关键时刻。

经济学人27:云计算 Cloud computing

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经济学人79:南海 非一般钻井

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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) confirms that some of the oil escaping from that ruptured well in the Gulf of Mexico is staying beneath the surface, raising new environmental concerns about the disaster. BP says there is no

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Chile denies exclusion from 2014 Dakar Rally

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From mutated insects and broken-down rescue robots, to cobweb-infested schools that havent been touched in years, the Fukushima evacuation zone - the site of one of the worst disasters of the 21st century - is showing no signs of regaining even a sem

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Frail and dignified at 88, the man leaned on his cane and smiled as the story of his immigration in 1936 flashed behind him on a museum wall. Like tens of thousands of others who managed to come to the United States from China during a 60-year period

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Microsoft launches "Surface" Tablets

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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham at the State Department in Washington, 05 Jan 2010 U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Friday the United States would oppose any new effort to exclude large numbers of Sunni Arab politicians from Iraq's Marc

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Mr Romney can spare the bottom 40% any loss of income from reduced tax expenditures relatively easily. Whereas that group gets the lions share of refundable tax credits such as those for children, for earned income and for university expenditures, th