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President Obama has just arrived in Afghanistan in what was an unannounced trip on this anniversary of the US raid that led to the death of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. Mr. Obama and his Afghanistan counterpart Hamid Karzai are expected to approv

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The New Age of Nuclear Power By Spencer Reiss / Originally published in Wired . Get ready for the mass-produce, meltdown -proof future of nuclear energy 1 A team of Chinese scientists advising the Bei

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Pre-Listening Vocabulary toll road: a road that requires drivers to pay a fee to use it shred: to break up into very small pieces pulp: soft, wet material congestion: high volume; crowdedness absorbent: holds a lot of water Tarmac: a road material ma

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As a whole, the ocean has absorbed almost half the CO2 humans have created in the last 200 years, drastically slowing the rate of global warming. 整体来说,在过去200多年来,人类所制造出的二氧化碳中有将近一半已经被海洋吸

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A Western Australian company has made a hot chip vending machine that deep fries frozen chips while you wait. 澳大利亚西部一家公司设计出一款热薯条自动贩卖机,在顾客等候期间能自动将冷冻薯条烤制成热腾腾的薯条

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Psychology 心理学 How dead is dead? 怎样死才算死? Sometimes, those who have died seem more alive than those who have not 有时,死人似乎比活人更活。 Aug 20th 2011 | from the print edition IN GENERAL, people are pretty good at d

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