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This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Last week's report on bullying brought so many comments online, we are going to take this time to share some. One person, who gave no name or country, described an experience with a Parent Teacher Ass

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Facebook: Sources Likely in Russia Bought Ads During US Campaign Facebook says an operation likely based in Russia spent $100,000 to buy advertisements promoting political and social issues in the United States. The company said about 3,000 ads were

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This is the VOA Special English Development Report. A few degrees can make a big difference when it comes to food storage. Foods can go bad if they get too warm. But for many of the world's poor, finding a good way to keep food cool is difficult. Re

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Five nations will receive the first grants from a new fund aimed at helping developing-world farms like this one in Haiti. Five nations will receive the first grants from a new and unusual fund aimed at helping developing-world farmers. Bangladesh, H

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The top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan said he has a distinctly different version of the incident Sunday in Farah Province, in which some local officials are claiming more than 100 civilians were killed. Gen. David McKiernan listens to a rep

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Voter lists for weekend elections strongly challenged as inaccurate Joe DeCapua | Washington, DC 25 November 2009 Namibian National Society for Human Rights Namibia holds national elections Friday and Saturday, when voters will choose a president an

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A controversial but still powerful former Afghan warlord has flown back to the country from exile to campaign for President Hamid Karzai. The return home of the Communist-era militia general is seen as a boost for the incumbent president's campaign.

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By Jim Malone Washington 22 October 2007 The latest public opinion polls suggest U.S. Senator Hillary Clinton is widening her lead for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination next year. In the first of a series of reports on the 2008 president

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SYDNEY, June 3 (Xinhua) -- The Oscar-winning Hollywood star Cate Blanchett has come unstuck with her fellow Australians after fronting a television commercial supporting a controversial new tax scheme in her native country. While the federal governme

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By Lisa Schlein Geneva 02 November 2009 The World Health Organization and United Nations Children's Fund say better nutrition and access to immunization can save millions of children from dying of pneumonia. The two agencies are launching a new acti

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学英语单词
Aconitum acutiusculum
along-side
Alpha Centauri
an alarm signal
aneurysm of interventricular septum
aquatourism
battle cruiser
be sick in the car
Bindan
box-on-box type substructure
Briois
bromofenoxim
Bynea
caecus
carceir
central meridian of gnomonic chart
cheroots
cognisances
diazanylidenes
disperse from
dog guide
ecological foot-print
economic entity
error detecting facility
erwitt
finisterres
free camber
Friedreich's spasm
genus Bankia
get sb's hackls up
good standing
goureux yarn
hijabizing
hyoid apparatus
inver
Islip
L'Hermitage
ladle preheater
laminated bending
laying of (pipe)line
leather dye
linacres
lindas
lower lip
masonry shaft
Mekongga, Tk.
mode indication
modified Bessel functions
monoisotopic mass
montanic acid
mountebank
movable scene
Musculus gemellus superior
nitrate mordant
non-virtual hosting
nonrecommended innovation
Novokiyevka
nuddy
obumbilate
odoriferous homing
optical fiber scattering
ordinal scales
oxprenolol
papaveraldine
petromyzonid
political near miss
predetermined time system
radioactive paint
receiving by invoice
regular lightship
rheydt type of ichthyosis hystrix
robert bunsens
rock mantle
Scanlon
screw rotor
Seti I
short-billed
Sieb
silico-manganese steel
student-run
sulfite treating
superposed signal
tape automated bond package
taxors
threo-disyndiotactic
through-balls
torsion torque
tower's liability clause
trinitroxylene
Ulrichia
under-glaze pigment
undergage hole
univocation
usborne
wassermen
wax-myrtle families
weissler
work substance
working-day
wyrmlings
Wythall