By Derek Kilner Nairobi 17 March 2008 The international organization Human Rights Watch says in a new report that much of the political and ethnic violence that followed Kenya's disputed presidential elections was methodically organized. The organiza

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Search teams are spreading out along the U.S. Gulf Coast, looking for people stranded after Hurricane Ike. Emergency officials in Texas say they have rescued about 2,000 people who ignored evacuation orders and were stranded by Hurricane Ike. They s

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Radio Essays Explore Technological Creativity There are mechanisms in nature as well as in human endeavors like engineering and art. Since 1988, the creative manipulation of these mechanisms has been explored in short radio essays about the history o

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By Peter Heinlein Addis Ababa 16 November 2009 A rebel group in Ethiopia's restive Ogaden region says it has killed 626 government troops in heavy fighting near the border with neighboring Somalia. The government has dismissed the claim as 'a comple

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今天我们要学的词是outage。 Outage指服务或供应中断。Power outage停电。Water outage停水。I was trapped in an elevator when a power outage occurred, 停电时我正好被困在了电梯里。A major power outage caused some flig

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今天我们要学的词是cut-throat。 Cut-throat, 残酷无情的。 Cut-throat competition, 残酷无情的竞争。 Professional football is a cut-throat sport, 职业足球是一项竞争异常激烈的运动。 The cell phone maker declared ba

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