By Faiza Elmasry Burlingame, CA 17 June 2008 The first postage stamp in history was issued in Great Britain in 1840. In the years since then, tens of thousands of different designs have been issued by the world's nations, and tens of thousands of pe

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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. Mosquitoes carry nasty diseasesdengue fever, west nile, malaria. But the microbes that cause those diseases dont attach themselves to the mosquitoes an

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Why are dogs'noses so wet? 狗狗的鼻子为什么总是湿的? Humans and dogs share a special relationship, moulded over millennia of reciprocal love and companionship. 数千年来,人类和狗狗都有十分特殊的关系,相互喜爱,相

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一个富家子弟,一个面包师的女儿,一段发生在哈佛校园的现代灰姑娘的故事成就了七十年代这部轰动一时、清新动人的电影《 爱情 故事》(Love Story),也使她的同名主题曲捧回了奥斯卡最佳原创 音乐 金像奖。电影中,两个年轻人的生活刚刚稍有起色,年轻俏丽的女主角却

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BBC Learning English People and Places Hoglands Amber:Hello, Im Amber and youre listening to bbclearningenglish.com In People and Places today, we meet Mary Moore, daughter of the renowned British artist and sculptor, Henry Moore (who died in 1986).

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I think that, from a biological standpoint, human life almost reads like a poem. It has its own rhythm and beat, its internal cycles of growth and decay. It begins with innocent childhood, followed by awkward adolescence trying awkwardly to adapt its

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