DAVID GREENE, HOST: Noel, I've got a kind of funny way to introduce our next guests. NOEL KING, HOST: OK. GREENE: The category is game show host. KING: Game show host. GREENE: Do you want to buy a vowel? (SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, WHEEL OF FORTUNE) UNIDE

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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Sophie Bushwick. Got a minute? The shortest distance between two points may be a straight line, but try telling that to electrons: when current flows down a wire, these particles zig and zag, movin

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But we must leave the pin, for it is the pin itself that holds the parts together. 但是必须把大头针留下,因为两块东西就是让大头针来固定的。 Pins are made of many sizes, and are either black or white in colour. They are pre

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今天我们要学的词是down to the wire。 Down to the wire, 是直到最后一刻的意思。美国总统大选已经进入倒数计时,星期二一大早,全美各地的投票站就要开门了。 Presidential candidates McCain and Obama ar

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