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(Movie Toy Story: To infinity and beyond!) Oh, to be free as a bird. It’s been the 1) stuff of fantasy, and of reality. Sort of. 2) A self-contained flying man. This jet pack from the 1960s had bare

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SSS 2009-01-12

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. Thousands of medieval European books survive to this day. Authors and scribes carefully handwrote the works on parchments made of animal skins. But the

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By Cindy Saine Washington 14 February 2008 The Defense Department says it is planning to shoot down a defunct U.S. spy satellite before it is expected to hit the Earth in early March, because of potential danger to human beings from its unburned rock

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By Lisa Schlein Geneva 24 March 2006 The U.N. refugee agency says it is concerned about the situation of Palestinians in Baghdad. It says over 100 Palestinian families reportedly had received written

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Hurricane Dolly made landfall just north of Brownsville, Texas as a Category Two storm with winds more than 160 kilometers per hour and heavy rains. Although Dolly passed over some oil and gas rigs in the Gulf of Mexico, the hurricane had minimal im

VOA标准英语2013--Emergency Response Grows in Chad

Emergency Response Grows in Chad Emergency water supplies are being rushed to southeastern Chad where about 50-thousand people have fled fighting in Sudans Darfur region. Several Arab tribes have been battling for control of mining operations there.

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Acrophobiacs beware Chinas newest bridge isnt for the faint of heart. 恐高症人群注意了中国新造的这座桥可不适合胆小的人。 Stretching 380m across a section of Zhangjiajies Grand Canyon, the new pedestrian bridge will have a com

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Oh, to be free like a bird. It's been the stuff of fantacy, and of reality. Sort of .A self-contained flying man. This jet pack from 1960s had barely enough fuel to fly 30 seconds. So the dream languished for decades. Everyone agreed it was completel

Dutch Prince in coma shows "minimal consciousness"

THE HAGUE, Nov. 19 (Xinhua) -- Dutch Prince Friso, who has been in a coma since February this year, has shown occasional signs of minimal consciousness, the Netherlands Government Information Service RVD reported on Monday. The RVD emphasized that th

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You may hit the gym at lunchtime or go for a run when you get home. But such efforts will have minimal effect if you spend the rest of your time doing what you are probably doing now - sitting down. 你或许在午休时会去健身房，或许下班后

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So we know that in primate hierarchies, if an alpha needs to take over, 灵长动物的社群阶级里，如果一个强势雄性想要夺权， if an individual needs to take over an alpha role sort of suddenly, 如果一个雄性突然想要争取首