By Al Pessin Pentagon 24 March 2008 When a roadside bomb killed four American soldiers in Baghdad Sunday night it brought the U.S. military death toll in Iraq to 4,000. It was a symbolic moment, particularly coming during a period of reduced violence

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Some Zimbabwe government supporters say President Robert Mugabe should form a government without the opposition, following an opposition boycott of talks Monday in Swaziland. Tendai Maphosa asked ordinary Zimbabweans in Harare what they think about

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ROME, Dec. 3 (Xinhua) -- Italy lacks the necessary energy(能量,活力) and strength for an economic revival while unemployment and poverty are on the rise, warned a report issued Friday. The 44th edition of the Censis think tank social survey, the

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We're really more into Batman. 我们通常都更偏爱蝙蝠侠(Batman)。 But this guy is really into Red Skull, the supervillain from Captain America. 不过有人却偏偏痴迷于《美国队长》(Captain America)里的大反派红骷髅(

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今天我们要学的词组是shun。 Shun的意思是因为不喜欢、害怕或是其他原因而避开。比如,不能因为人家穷就避尔不见, You should not shun someone because he is poor. 还比如有报道说,联合国秘书长潘基

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You might not think there would be that many people in the world prepared to devote lifetimes to the study of something so inescapably low key, 你或许会认为,世界上不会有多少人愿意花毕生的心血来研究那个不起眼儿的东西

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