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Following a High-Profile Court Case Danny: Have you been following the Schirru case? Carol: Yeah, I have. I think hes guilty. Danny: Youre kidding, right? Hes innocent and this is a show trial. The district attorney is conducting a witch-hunt for his

Campaign Profile: John Kerry

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Campaign Profile: Al Sharpton

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NPR 2012-03-10

The US is seeing its strongest three months of hiring since the start of the recession. The Labor Department reports an increase of 227,000 jobs in February. The numbers from the previous two months have also been revised upward. But the unemployment

PEOPLE IN AMERICA - We Profile Five Special People Who Died

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SSS 2009-11-13

Algae seem harmless enough. These precursors to plants thrive throughout the world's waters. But these single-celled plants have global consequences. We can thank them for oxygen in the atmosphere, oil in the lithosphere as well as dead zones in the

科学家宣布地质纪元进入“人类世”

The 11,700-year-old Holocene epoch is over. We're now living in the Anthropocene epoch. 长达11700年的全新世结束啦。我们如今正生活在人类世纪元。 编者注：全新世（Holocene Epoch），是最年轻的地质年代，它与更

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By Steve Mort Melbourne, Florida 23 May 2008 The Brazilian aircraft manufacturer, Embraer, is set to build a factory in the southern U.S. state of Florida to make executive jets. The move by the world's fourth-largest aircraft manufacturer comes as t

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TED演讲:探索世界最深洞穴(3)

We're going to be shooting from minus 2,600 meters that's a little over 8,600 feet down at 30 kilometers from the entrance. 我们要从地下2600米处,大约8600多英尺之下--开始拍摄。那个地方离洞口30千米处。 The lead crews will

MESSENGER Probe Sends First Mercury Images

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NASA Messenger Probe Set for Historic Orbit Around Mercury

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科学家宣布地质纪元进入人类世

These are called love tents but they're not what you think. 虽被称为爱的帐篷，但是它们可与你所想不同。 Chinese colleges have come up with an unusual way to help freshmen settle in. 中国的大学别出心裁，以一种特殊的方

TED演讲:地球的年龄有多大(2)

The United States of America's Declaration of Independence would be signed in the last half-inch. 美国的独立宣言签署在最后的半英寸。 Or if we compared geologic time to a woman stretching her arms to a span of six feet, 如果我们将地

Facebook adds new profile feature

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 22 (Xinhua) -- Facebook on Thursday introduced Timeline, a new profile design featuring milestones of one's life on a single page. At Facebook's f8 developer conference, Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg promoted the new fe

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TED演讲:用玩具创造世界(5)

Now, as we pull down here, we still have a whole set of creatures living on the surface of the planet. 现在当我摧毁这里的时候，在这个星球上其实还居住着一系列的生物， There are all these different dynamics going on here.

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Eighty million tons of rock, moving at more than one hundred miles an hour, just fell off the mountain, 8000万吨岩石以每小时160公里的速度从山上崩塌下来， traveling with such force and momentum that the leading edge of the landsli

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