After a year of gut-wrenching losses, stock markets around the world recorded a positive day amid light trading to close out 2008. A trader talks on the phone at the Shanghai stock market on New Year's Eve in Shanghai, China, 31 Dec 2008 Modest gain

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By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 22 October 2006 Children infected with tuberculosis light candles at a march to mark World Tuberculosis Day in New Delhi, March 24, 2006 The World Health Organization says there has been considerable progress in the figh

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By Lisa Schlein Geneva 22 March 2007 A new report says the global tuberculosis epidemic has leveled off for the first time since the World Health Organization declared TB a public health emergency in 1993. WHO's Global Tuberculosis Control report fi

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英语新词:这些meter后缀单词 你理解对了么? anemometer n. 风力计,[气象] 风速计。 audiometer n. [耳鼻喉] 听度计,听力表;测听计;音响测定器。 barometer n. [气象] 气压计;晴雨表;显示变化的事物

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I never considered myself unique, but people are constantly telling me, you are a miracle. To me, I was just an ordinary guy with realistic goals and big dreams. I was a 19-ye ar-old student at the University of Texas and well on my way toward fulfil

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By Carol Pearson Washington 18 May 2007 The technology that helps drivers to navigate roads and soldiers to map their positions is now helping doctors repair worn-out knees. The medical procedure is called navigational knee surgery. VOA's Carol Pears

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