It's a old irish mystical creature half traveller half Shetland pony. It only comes out every 30 full moons and it feeds on the souls of baby goats.
> Ah boys, he's some ginnet!

This is a story of the lake and the three big fish that were in it, one of them intelligent, another half-intelligent, and the third, stupid. Some fisherman came to the edge of the lake with their nets. The three fish saw them. The intelligent fish d

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The United Nations Foundation has raised over $20 million so far and supplied more than 700,000 treated bed nets to families. Transcript of radio broadcast: 27 July 2008 This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Malaria parasites are sprea

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ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: Perhaps you've seen Maira Kalman's illustrations on the cover of The New Yorker magazine or in nearly 20 children's books that she also wrote. Or maybe you read her illustrated New York Times blog, The Principles Of Uncertainty,

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Voice 1 Welcome to Spotlight. Im Anne Muir. Voice 2 And Im Bruce Gulland. Spotlight uses a special English method of broadcasting. It is easier for people to understand - no matter where in the world they live. Voice 1 Aurlie Spadone knows all about

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By Carol Pearson Washington, DC 17 January 2006 watch Grogginess report It takes time for most people to really wake up once they’re out of bed. A new study shows that in the first few minutes after

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Set me free why don't ya babe Get out of my life why don't ya babe 'cause you don't really love me You just keep me hangin'on Set me free why don't ya babe Get out of my life why don't ya babe You don't really need me But you keep me hangin'on Why do

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Jim Malone The U.S. presidential election is eight months away, but the strategies for the two major candidates are already emerging. For the presumptive Democratic Party nominee, Senator John Kerry,

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This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Governments, businesses and other groups have promised to add three billion dollars to the fight against malaria. The promises came last week at a meeting at the United Nations in New York. The money wi

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By Cathy Majtenyi Bujumbura 24 April 2006 Every 30 seconds a child in Africa dies of malaria. Health care workers report a drop in malaria rates with bed net use, but in the tiny central African natio

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High Tech Cotton Gin Offers Secure Future for Farmers Olam International, a leading global integrated supply chain manager, that has been active in Mozambique for 15 years, announced this year, the construction of its first state-of-the-art roller co

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By Lisa Schlein Geneva 27 November 2007 The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria reports nearly every family with children in Africa soon could have a bed net to protect against malaria. The Geneva-based Global Fund says it has delive

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By Jim Malone Washington 11 January 2007 Reaction in Congress and among the American public suggests President Bush has an uphill battle in trying to win support for his new strategy in Iraq, a strategy that includes deploying more than 21,000 addit

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On The SeashoreOn the seashore of endless worlds children meet. The infinite sky is motionless overheadAnd the restless water is boisterous. On the seashore of endless worldsThe children meet with shouts and dances. They build their houses with sand,

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By Nico Colombant Dakar 13 December 2006 As events in Washington mark the U.S. government effort to combat malaria in Africa, West Africans, themselves, are busy applying techniques they were unfamiliar with and trying new drugs. VOA's Nico Colomban

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By Scott Bobb Durban 14 June 2007 South Africa boasts some of the most beautiful beaches in the world,which attract millions of tourists each year. A series of fatal shark attacks in the Durban area in the 1940s led local authorities to install shark

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The Board Meeting had come to an end. Bob started to stand up and jostled the table, spilling his coffee over his notes. How embarrassing. I am getting so clumsy in my old age.Everyone had a good laugh, and soon we were all telling stories of our mos

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ZEIST, The Netherlands, Nov. 9 (Xinhua) -- The 19-year-old Vitesse midfielder Marco van Ginkel received his first call-up for the Dutch national team for the friendly against Germany on November 14 in Amsterdam. Van Ginkel was included in a squad of

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The herring lays its eggs on the rocks at the bottom of the sea. The eggs are then called spawn. In a few weeks a little herring comes out of each egg. Many other fishes eat the spawn, or the sea would soon be full ofherrings. 鲱鱼在海底的礁石上

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Rural broadband 乡村宽带 Going underground 埋入地下 Frustrated country-dwellers build their own internet connections 无奈的乡下居民自行建立网络连接 Hold onI'll try you on Skype 别挂,我再试试Skype FUSION splicing is a te

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Huge! Big! 非常大!我们今天一起来学怎么用最新的美语口语说哇!非常大! 1) doozie 很大 2) gigantic enormous = ginormous 非常大 3) gargantuan 非常大

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