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Written by Jill Moss (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: Im Barbara Klein. VOICE TWO: And Im Steve Ember with People in America in VOA Special English. Today we tell about a writer who helped influence modern culture. Her name was Susan Sontag. (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: Sus

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ROME, Dec. 28 (Xinhua) -- Italy's caretaker Prime Minister Mario Monti said Friday that he would head a coalition of centrists after meeting a group of business and political moderate figures who have expressed support for his reform program. Monti t

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2nd Digital Revolution is Potential Bonanza for Innovative Startups The buzz was palpable at Internet Week New York, a digital culture festival. With more than 300,000 workers employed in New York's technology sector, and nearly $2 billion in dot-com

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MRI-like Scan May Help Identify Alzheimer's Alzheimer's disease normally gets a definitive diagnosis only after the patient dies, and an autopsy finds certain distinctive structures in the brain. Recently, though, scientists have been seeking some so

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Scientists, Regulators Look to Save Smaller Fish in Marine Food Chain Perhaps you've had salmon, tuna, or swordfish for dinner recently. Or maybe it's on the menu tonight. Every big fish that lands on your plate got that big by eating lots of little

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New Treatment Potential Found in Popular TB Drug Scientists say new insights into a common tuberculosis drug will make it possible to shorten the treatment period for patients infected with TB. The drug pyrazinamide is widely used in combination with

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Jess: Right, Tom, tell me, what three things could you not live without? Tom: Well, I guess you say me playing with my new toy just now. It's my iPod touch and it is fantastic. I often take long bus journeys at the weekend and on this little electron

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By Joe Bavier Cotonou 03 March 2006 The last day of campaigning for Benin's presidential election opened Friday with concerns over whether the vote will live up to democratic hopes. Some fear for the

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A: Hello. You've reached Albert. B: I'm Jack. Are you still interested in renting a room? A: Yes, very much so. B: Would it be all right if I asked you some questions? A: Fire away. B: I just want to make sure that we are compatible. A: That's a good

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A: Hello, this is Albert. B: Hi. I'm Jack. You called about the room for rent. Are you still interested? A: Yes, I am. B: I was wondering if I could ask you a couple of questions. A: Shoot. B: I just want to be sure that we get along. A: I agree with

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-Everyone loves a good ghost story. The gruesome, the spiritual and the supernatural arouse an instinctive curiosity in all of us. In the west, ghostly fervor reaches a peak with Halloween on October 31. In Thailand, the spirit-world comes closest to

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By Benjamin Sand Islamabad 14 June 2006 The U.S.-led military coalition in Afghanistan has launched a massive combat and reconstruction operation in the country's southern provinces. Officials say thousands of troops are sweeping through the Taleban

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A: Hello, Albert here. B: Hi, Albert. I'm Jack. Are you still thinking about renting a room? A: Yes, I need a room badly. B: Can I ask you a few questions? A: I'm an open book. B: I want to make sure that we get along okay. A: I'm with you. We both n

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A: Hello, Albert speaking. B: This is Jack. Are you still interested in renting a room? A: Oh, yes. B: Would you mind answering a couple of questions? A: No problem. B: Since we might be roommates, I want to make sure there's no friction. A: You are

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A: Hi, this is Albert. B: Hi, my name is Jack. You called about a room for rent. Are you still interested? A: Yes, more than you know. B: I don't mean to pry, but could I ask you a couple of questions? A: Ask away. B: I don't want us to be roommates

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今天我们要学的词是confidential。 Confidential, 秘密的。 Shredding is one of the easiest ways to get rid of confidential information, 纸张打碎机是处理保密信息最简单的办法之一。 The investigator said that all informat

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BEIJING, July 15 (Xinhua) -- China's top meteorological authority on Sunday issued a blue warning for heavy rain as the country's southern regions are forecast to be pounded by downpours over the next three days. Torrential rains will hit parts of An

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今天我们要学的词是influential。 Influential, 是有影响力的意思。美国民主党联邦参议员肯尼迪星期一宣布支持民主党总统参选人巴拉克.奥巴马。Of all the endorsements in the Democratic Party, Mr. Kennedy's

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Lets be real. Willpower is a hard thing to learn. And, now that summer is over, our drive to stay fit for the beach has started waning. As the beautiful leaves start turning and fall rolls in, it feels really nice to start wearing pants again and hid

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Car Index Indicates Growth Potential High in Developing Nations The International Monetary Fund hints it may cut global growth forecasts again next month when it updates its projections for the world economy. The global lending institution says world

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acetidine
acid Bessemer pig
al-barra
alienate
arsenic chloride
automatic contingency selection
average tonnages per vehicle
back induction
Ban Huai Sai
barosperse
border facies
brown calcareoul soil
capricciosa
Cardaria
come off duty
compensatory error
continuous systems simulation language
cordingly
cottagely
crosspollinating
cysticercus tubercle
deadweight tonnage freight
downrating
electromagnetic oscillation refrigerator
enjailing
environing
environmentabilities
extraembryoniccoelom
finitises
floral border blanket
forced sitting position
Gas Leak Detection
gigging machine
Gwangyang
hereyesterday
heritance
hide one's head in the sand
in-sack drying
incomplete quenching
input/output control system (iocs)
kleptocracy
Krivyachka
lamentabilis
Lasiocaryum munroi
latern
lindeberg's condition
long-notes
long-term trend research
M. L. R.
mayorally
minus charge
Mongolian beef
Muang Liap
multi operated
multiwheel trailer
myxazin
non-linear filtering
obeah doctor
obstats
occasional host
one-writing system
outcrop map
passed through
pear fruit sawfly
Penninic
plough deflector
pocket cleaner
possession of drug
Potgietersrust
professoriate
prolyleucylglycinamide
pseudoileus
pump off control
pves
rhipipterous
running postmen
samaki
scalar enumerated type
seal'd
Sellotaping
sex play
Sexagesima Sundays
shifting taxation
shock vulneralis
sikkens
sootied
sopper
spacecraft dynamics with flexible appendages
stretchsuit
submergenic horizon
symmetry concentration
syndrome of cold pathogen of Taiyang
tresp
ULF (ultra-low frequency)
unobservability
value type
vepss
wages floor
wave-particle interaction
wiechert-gutenberg discontinuity
Yabassi
yoke current