The White House says President Obama will nominate Federal Reserve Vice Chair Janet Yellen to succeed current Chair Ben Bernanke when he steps down in January. The president's expected to formally announce the nomination at the White House tomorrow.

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society, that first brought civilization to the desert. Far from just scraping by in this harsh landscape, the Garamantes were flourishing. They grew crops, such as cereals and grapes. They kept horses and pigs. Clearly, they needed large amounts of

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Initial results of an investigation into last month's Air France crash over the Atlantic find the aircraft plunged into the ocean at high speed. French investigators also say they are far from establishing the cause of the crash and the investigatio

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Oh, Brad gets off the ground with a big 5-inch vertical 哦!布拉德跳起了整整12.7厘米 That means LeBron's ups are 8-times better than Brad 也就是说,勒布朗的弹跳高度是布拉德的8倍 Add in King James's 6'8 frame and ridicul

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Do you scream on a roller coaster ride? You slowly climb up a steep slope until an almost vertical drop, and then... Ahhhhhhhh! Thrill-seekers like me are in luck because theme parks are pushing the boundaries of technology to create the fastest, tal

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Without the search for mates or the ensuing courtship rituals, parthenogenesis means big savings in time and energy: in just one season, a single aphid can give rise to billions of descendants.But in the fall, fresh food gets harder to find and there

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