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CNN 2011-11-14

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CNN 2011-11-13

The words of legendary football coach Jeo Pertenal,This is a tragedy,one of the great sorrows in my life ,I wish I had done more Pertenal anouced to be retiring at the end of the season.No charge has been filed against the Penn state coach.But a form

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GWEN IFILL: Now adoption in America in the age of the Web. A new series of investigative reports published this week is raising serious questions about how some adoptive parents who seek help online are encountering unintended consequences. Jeffrey B

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今天要学的习惯用语是：buggy whip。 buggy是小型的轻便马车。这种马车的挡泥板上有插口， 用来插上鞭子。这就是当年的buggy whip。 buggy whip属于悠久的过去年代，人们不用buggy whip已经有好多好

美国俚语: 管教或者提出口头警告 crack the whip

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DAVID GREENE, HOST: Call this the freezing out of frozen food - you know, TV dinners, which were a novelty when they first showed up in national supermarkets back in the 1950s. (SOUNDBITE OF AD) UNIDENTIFIED VOICE ACTOR: It's the first and only three

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