There is something fascinating about reading other people's mail if you are allowed to. Here is your chance to read the letters of American writer Sylvia Plath, which she wrote home to her mother from a hotel where she had a summer job as a waitress

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Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is the word xeriscape. This is kind of a self-indulgent podcast for me. I've been house hunting lately, and I swear if one more real estate agent tells me about a property's wonderful zeroscape, I'm going to rent for

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图片1 Photo courtesy of Laura Herman, Tampa, Florida Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is the word xeriscape. This is kind of a self-indulgent podcast for me. I've been house hunting lately, and I swear if one more real estate agent tells me about a

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By Scott Bobb Johannesburg 28 June 2007 In South Africa, one the longest strikes since the end of apartheid has ended. Unions representing workers in public schools, hospitals and government offices said they would accept a government package of wage

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By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 07 November 2006 Kenyan Environment Minister Kivutha Kibwana opens talks at UN Climate Change Conference in Nairobi, November 6, 2006 Experts at the United Nations' Climate Change conference in Kenya's capital have warned T

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By Phuong Tran Praia, Cape Verde 09 March 2007 Located far off the western coast of Africa, the tiny islands that make up Cape Verde are mostly barren volcanic rock. But the lack of natural resources has actually benefited the country in one way: it

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