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By Paul Sisco Washington, DC 02 June 2006 watch Hurricane Predictions Hurricane season in the Atlantic Ocean began June first. Alberto will be the first named Atlantic hurricane in 2006. Paul Sisco re

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By Lisa Bryant Paris 03 May 2006 A man pushes a cart filled with collected cardboard boxes past posters of former Bosnian Serb army commander Ratko Mladic The European Union has suspended talks on clo

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By Sabina Castelfranco Rome 23 March 2008 Thousands of pilgrims gathered at the Vatican's Saint Peter's Square for Pope Benedict's open-air Easter Mass. In his Easter message, the Pope urged solutions to world trouble spots including Sudan's troubled

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By Michael Drudge London 22 February 2006 A U.N. prosecutor says accused Bosnian war-crimes suspect Ratko Mladic remains at large in Serbia. The prosecutor, Carla del Ponte, spoke with reporters at Th

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By Alisha Ryu Nairobi 28 March 2007 The al-Qaida terrorist organization has issued a call for Islamic extremists around the world to come to the aid of Somalis fighting the country's Transitional Federal Government (TFG) and its chief backer in the r

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And the other reason it's kind of urgent is because it's not just happening in the U.S. 这件事情比较紧急的另一个原因是因为它不仅仅发生在美国。 It's happening all over the world. 它发生在整个世界。 In India, poor wo

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I should say, before getting to this, 我事先声明，我要说的， something about sexual intercourse, although I may not have time. 是关于做爱的事情，但我的时间可能不太够。 And so, if you would like me to -- yes, you would?

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But I want to jump up to shallow water now and look at some creatures that are positively amazing. 不过我现在还是想说说浅水里的世界，来看看那些神奇的生物。 Cephalopods -- head-foots. As a kid I knew them as calamari, mostl

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And if we want to talk about male victims, 还有如果我们要谈男性受害者 let's talk about male victims. 让我们谈谈男性受害者 Most male victims of violence are the victims of other men's violence. 很多男性受害者被施暴于其

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Another example: 还有一个例子 a few years ago I got a call from a man who was 19 years old, 几年前，我接到一个十九岁的男孩打来的电话 who was born a boy, raised a boy, 他生下来是个男孩，也被当作男孩来养 had a

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The next reason that boys' cultures are out of sync with school cultures: 第二个原因是男孩文化与学校文化相脱节： there are fewer male teachers. 有很少的男性教师。 Anybody who's over 15 doesn't know what this means, 任何超