By Lisa Bryant Paris 02 January 2008 The French government has begun enforcing the country's new smoking ban in bars, restaurants and other public places. The ban has left some French delighted and others grumbling. Lisa Bryant reports from Paris the

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RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: The cafe industry can be cutthroat at times. You got to have the thing - right? - a gimmick to distinguish yourself, maybe an avocado latte or a cafe where you can nap. NPR's Elise Hu checked out a cafe in South Korea where you c

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Chinese officials on Monday said they shut down 12,575 Internet cafes between October and December of last year, as part of what the government calls a campaign to protect children from violent games and pornography. Officials said most of the locati

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模仿文本: Now the total number of veggie restaurants hasn't increased that much. Maybe it's about 500 or 600, and a few more BBs. But within that, the proportion of vegan has shot up much faster. So there're now around 30 vegan restaurants and ca

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As the deadlines for midterm papers and postgraduate entrance exams draw closer, seats in campus libraries and classrooms are a scarce commodity. 期中论文大限将至,考研也迫在眉睫,校园里图书馆和自习室可谓一座难求。 C

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Topic 1-Crowd Funding Coffee Shops Closed down One after Another Once the most fashionable thing in the investment circle was to crowdfund a coffee shop, but in the last 2 years, we've seen a series of closedowns of these cafes. The most recent and p

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