Heavy Rains Bring Raging Floods - and a Debate This spring, so-called 100-year floods swamped many communities along the Mississippi River, America's largest commercial waterway. The flooding was so severe that the U.S. Corps of Engineers, which supe

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With the price of gold at all-time highs, a familiar fever is once again sweeping Alaska. Everybody has their own reason why they are into it. Some people, you know, you find what you got and you try at once to find a little bit of gold. This is kind

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They could not lose. Resistance movements started. They would take over places like this and opened the sluice gate allowing the water to pour back down into Owens Valley. Irregularly they dynamited the aqueduct. But the city rebuilt it and the game

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He had been upstairs, enjoying the comfort of a featherbed and the warmth of Shae's body beside him, 片刻前,他人还在楼上,躺在柔软舒适的羽毛床上,怀抱雪伊温暖的身体。 when his squire had woken him to say that a rider

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今天要学的一个词是:pump。pump,Pump一般是指泵,或抽水机。可是今天讲的pump是指汽车加油站的泵。英国石油公司宣布停止在阿拉斯加的石油开采,《洛杉矶时报》的标题说:Oilfield Closure t

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It was already dark, and the beach at Lowell Park was closed for the day. Dutch Reagan, the seventeen-year-old lifeguard, was helping the park manager, Mr. Graybill, close up the changing rooms when they heard muffled cries and splashing. A swimmer h

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