ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: It is the town where Mickey Mantle played his first season of professional baseball in 1949, the hometown of one of the first monkeys to be sent into space, Miss Able, 1959. It is Independence, Kan., a town with a rich past and a

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今天学的词组是block。Block有障碍物的意思。比如road block -- 路障,Police put up a road block to stop the demonstrators, 警察为阻止抗议者设置了路障。作为动词,block也有阻塞,拦阻的意思。比如施工造成

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By Peter Fedynsky Moscow 02 April 2008 Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says Moscow can use its seat on the Security Council to block Kosovo's membership in the United Nations. The statement coincides with the arrival in Belgrade of the first p

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MELISSA BLOCK, HOST: And now let's go to Philadelphia, the first capital of the United States, and retrace the steps of a lesser-known but fascinating Founding Father, a Benjamin who does not have his face on the $100 bill. His name is Benjamin Rush.

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JUBA, July 9 (Xinhua) -- The Republic of South Sudan declared independence Saturday, waiting to be recognized as the 193rd member of the United Nations and hoping to keep peace with the north after decades of war. Speaker of South Sudan Legislative A

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