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The space gets tighter, more claustrophobic as people arrive. The squares quite large, but not enough to hold District 12s population of about eight thousand. Latecomers are directed to the adjacent streets, where they can watch the event on screens

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[00:17.93]Night Shift [00:22.07]夜班 [00:34.64]All this started when I was working as a night guard. [00:39.05]My first two years as a guard [00:41.31]I was working at the control center as an operator [00:44.78]where the entire emergency [00:47.24]c

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You know saving the rainforest is good for biodiversity. But it may also be a boon to human health. That's because less clear-cutting may mean less malaria, according to a paper out this week in the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases. Researchers l

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(MA) We're going to start today talking about congressional aides, that is, the people who work for our congressional representatives both in Washington and in the representatives' local districts. It used to be that members of Congress had a relati

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Romantic Venice 浪漫水都威尼斯 What images come to mind when you think of a trip to Venice? 想到威尼斯一游,你的脑海中会浮现出什么画面? No doubt you imagine yourself taking a romantic gondola ride along narrow canals and

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Like many American high school students, Josh Leong used to eat breakfast while it was still dark outside. But that changed when his high school, McLean, in the American state of Virginia, changed to a later start time two years ago. Proponents of la

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Rice to Face Tough Questions in Congressional Testimony Scott Stearns Ms. Rice has already met in private with the commission for about four hours. But that was before allegations by a former counter-

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By Dan Robinson Washington 03 October 2006 The controversy over a former Republican congressman who resigned amid revelations he sent sexually suggestive messages to male pages continues to reverberate in Washington and across the United States. Pre

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Schools in US Dont Get Same Funding Education spending in the United States differs from school to school. In the southern state of Mississippi, a school in Brookhaven spends $6,417 per student. Just 100 kilometers west, Natchez spends nearly $3,000

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By Bill Rodgers Washington 19 April 2007 President Bush has met with the Democratic Party Congressional leaders to discuss the Iraq war and a pending bill to fund the U.S. military mission through September. President Bush has vowed to veto the bill

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By Dan Robinson Capitol Hill 25 July 2007 The House Judiciary Committee has voted to recommend to the full House of Representatives that President Bush's chief of staff, Joshua Bolten, and his former legal counsel, Harriet Miers, be cited for contemp

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By Dan Robinson Capitol Hill 28 June 2007 President Bush and majority Democrats in Congress are heading toward a constitutional showdown involving the controversy over the firing of federal prosecutors. VOA's Dan Robinson reports, Democrats accuse th

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US Congressional Gold Medal Program Has Long History Aung San Suu Kyi is the latest recipient of the Congressional Gold Medal, the nation's highest civilian award. Congress bestows the honor on an individual for a distinguished contribution or a life

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KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: We start this hour with reaction to President Trump's decision to launch airstrikes on a Syrian airbase. That happened last night in response to an apparent chemical weapons attack by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on civilians

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The US economic outlook has become cautiously (谨慎的) optimistic, according to the latest issue of the Federal Reserve's influential Beige Book. Five of the 12 districts surveyed said there were signs of improvement, with five showing signs of st

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By Dan Robinson Capitol Hill 17 October 2006 With a congressional inquiry into the scandal involving former Republican lawmaker Mark Foley's inappropriate electronic messages to male teenage congressional interns in its second week, there have been

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WASHINGTON, Oct. 19 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. economy continues to expand at a modest pace, but with weaker or less certain outlook, reported the Federal Reserve on Wednesday. In its latest economic performance survey, the central bank saw either modest o

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WASHINGTON, June 3 (Xinhua) -- U.S. economic activities in 12 districts expanded from early April to late May, and the outlook given by respondents was generally optimistic, a survey by the Federal Reserve showed Wednesday. The Fed's rosy outlook sug

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The Supreme Court 最高法院 Drafting laws, vows and maps 起草法案,郑重起誓,划分选区 Obamacare, gay marriage and race: the justices' term is heating up 奥巴马医改,同性婚姻,种族问题:最高法院忙得团团转 TWO

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WASHINGTON, Jan. 12 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. economy ended last year on an encouraging note, as economic activity continued to expand moderately(适度地) from November through December, according to the latest Federal Reserve survey(调查) rel

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学英语单词
a-hunting
acoustic sounding
alnoite
attenuated culture
balance slide valve
Basel Nomina Anatomica
breech loader
centralised
check-raise
continuous saponification
convenience clinic
coronatas
correlation of strata
corrupted
cubital nervure
Daiō-zaki
day-to-day posting
delved into
discharge roller
Discordianism
distance measure
divanadium
down date log buffer
drossing process
egg-mass
El Horno
embraer
epheboepipelagic
fair-sounding
familar
fan performance curve
fess 1,fesse
foliated talc
frequency pattern correlation
futured
genus notorniss
gp41
gratication
ground and lapped seal
guide metal
habitual violator
hannard
helius (helius) rufithorax
immemorial possession
intersomitic furrow
joint returns
KHR
lattice type wave filter
law of imagery
legislative council
limens
living environmental condition
macaloon
machinize
marsh formation
mass integral detector
midnight oil
missile-bearing laser beam
morocochite
Nabari-gawa
nominal director
officeless
operation strength
outjockey
overtrim
parallel by character
path resistance
pavlenko
plutonium peroxide
polyspored
Ponza, Isola di
psychrosphere
quadrantal correction
Qārah, Jab.al
rain gauges
remote-sensing information processing
rice congee
rudolf christian karl diesels
sacrococcygeal abscess
scaphocalanus longifurca
selfer
sergeantship
setenes
sidman
South Negril Pt.
spinal osteoaarthrosis
spore suspension
stabilimeter
Surinamese monetary unit
thunder crack
trollheims
unreciprocating
Usmat
van Leyden
Velardeňa
vessel head storage ring
vinyl chloride poisoning
wellfixed
xenakis
yallah
Yulemonth
Zinsser-Engman-Cole(syndrome)