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This is the VOA Special English Education Report. More than half the teachers in the Houston Independent School District, the largest in Texas, have earned merit pay awards this year. Marjorie Hunt-Bluford is one of them. The idea seems reasonable.

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VOA标准英语2008年-US Oil Companies Finding More Oil in Old Fields

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By David McAlary Washington 10 January 2007 One of the main weapons to prevent mother-to-child transmission of the AIDS virus during birth is the drug nevirapine. But when nevirapine is used alone just once, HIV starts becoming resistant to it. Rese

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