Ex-IMF Chief Released on Own Recognizance Former International Monetary Fund head Dominique Strauss Kahn has been released on his own recognizance as New York state prosecutors reveal doubts about the credibility of his accuser. Dominique Strauss-Kah

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The Chinese offshore oil corporation known as CNOOC has abandoned its bid for UNOCAL. This would have been the largest-ever purchase of an American company by a Chinese firm. CNOOC had put forth a bid that was higher than the competing bid from US o

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By Paul Sisco Washington 28 May 2008 The Goldman Environmental Prize is awarded to environmental activists around the world annually for what the Goldman foundation calls environmental grass roots heroism. The prize carries with it $150,000 and has b

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Juno Spacecraft Launches Toward Jupiter The U.S. space agency launched the Juno spacecraft from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida Friday, beginning a five-year journey to Jupiter. 3,2,1. Ignition and liftoff of the Atlas 5 [rocket] with Juno on a t

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今天我们要学的词是agonizing。 Agonizing, 痛苦的。 It was an agonizing decision to make, 这是一个痛苦的决定。 The team suffered an agonizing loss, 这支球队输了球痛苦不堪。 The agonizing wait was finally over when I

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By Brian Wagner Sao Paulo 11 May 2007 Pope Benedict has canonized an 18th-century Brazilian monk who is credited with helping to cure thousands of people of physical ailments. In Sao Paulo, VOA's Brian Wagner reports that about one million people gat

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