Oxfam: Power, Water Shortages in Goma As fighting continues in the eastern DRC between government forces and M23 rebels, the humanitarian crisis is growing worse. Oxfam says its stepping up efforts to help about 80,000 people in and around Goma, the

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Lucy preheats her oven and then takes out a package of ready-made cookies. 露西预热她的烤箱,然后拿出一包现成的饼干 。 To preheat, preheat, means to heat, in this case, the oven to get it ready to cook something. 预热,预热,

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Well, I clean off the kitchen counter after I put away the groceries. 好了,在把食物放好之后我便清理了一下厨房柜台。 The groceries, groceries, (plural) are the food that I buy at the market. 杂货(groceries)(复数)是我

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By Gilbert da Costa Nasawara 16 February 2007 Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter is known in Nigeria as the architect of a sustained campaign to rid the country of Guinea worm disease. Guinea worm is a water-borne worm infection that is contracted w

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By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 29 May 2006 Experts from around East Africa are meeting this week in Kenya's capital to discuss how to supply one of the continent's most basic needs, clean water. In many East African cities large areas have no access to r

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Achieving the Perfect Shower There are two types of people in this worldshowers and bathers. (Well, I guess a third category would be those who do neither, but Id rather not explore that.) Im a lifelong devotee to the nighttime shower; for me, theres

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