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The Supreme Court itself has already endorsed limits after 24 weeks, the point at which a fetus is considered to be viable outside the womb, putting it squarely alongside public opinion. 最高法院本身已赞同怀孕24周后禁止堕胎，因为此

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Youre not wanted here! Go home! 这里不欢迎你！回家去！ No, not the reproaches of immigration officers as they set about deporting incoming Iranian PhDs or Iraqi grandmas as per the instructions of Donald Trumps travel ban, but a beer comme

VOA标准英语2010年-US Officials Outline Security, Other C

U.S. officials say they are encouraged that Yemen can be a full partner in the fight against al-Qaida, despite uneven counter-terrorism cooperation in the past. The top State Department official for Near Eastern affairs, Jeffrey Feltman, said Yemen's

Japan to Enforce Exclusion Zone Near Nuclear Plant

Japanese officials have decided to legally enforce an exclusion zone within 20 kilometers of the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant starting at midnight Thursday. Japan's Kyodo news agency reports that Prime Minister Naoto Kan will announce the new res

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Matters came to a head when Jobs visited New York in March 1983 乔布斯于1983年3月访问了纽约， and was able to convert the courtship into a blind and blinding romance. 向斯卡利发起了猛烈的攻势，事情的发展到了关键时刻。

经济学人27:云计算 Cloud computing

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The South China Sea南海Not the usual drill非一般钻井Tensions mount dangerously in contested waters争议水域局势紧张BARACK OBAMA'S tour of four countries in Asia late last month was supposed to reassure America's friends of its commitmen

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Chile denies exclusion from 2014 Dakar Rally

SANTIAGO, Feb. 28 (Xinhua) -- Chile's Deputy Sports Minister Gabriel Ruiz-Tagle Thursday said he was confident his country will form part of the 2014 Dakar Rally circuit, dismissing rumors a possible route change could shut Chile out. Chile is not go

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From mutated insects and broken-down rescue robots, to cobweb-infested schools that havent been touched in years, the Fukushima evacuation zone - the site of one of the worst disasters of the 21st century - is showing no signs of regaining even a sem

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It seems like everyone is using Twitter these days. You know, sharing little messages with each other on phones and computers. It turns out that all these little messages, if you look at them all at once, become an easy way to find people, news and t

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Frail and dignified at 88, the man leaned on his cane and smiled as the story of his immigration in 1936 flashed behind him on a museum wall. Like tens of thousands of others who managed to come to the United States from China during a 60-year period

让简历更有吸引力

According to Ric Edelman, author of Ordinary People, Extraordinary Wealth, the purpose of a rsum is not to get a job, it's to get an interviewyou will get the job. A rsum should not list all your skills, but rather tease the employer with your achiev

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The purpose of a letter of applicationis to help the applicant obtain the job he is interested in. It should state clearly what position the applicant wants, and should tell what his abilities are and what he has to offer. It should provide a quick,

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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham at the State Department in Washington, 05 Jan 2010 U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Friday the United States would oppose any new effort to exclude large numbers of Sunni Arab politicians from Iraq's Marc

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Mr Romney can spare the bottom 40% any loss of income from reduced tax expenditures relatively easily. Whereas that group gets the lions share of refundable tax credits such as those for children, for earned income and for university expenditures, th

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Larry告诉李华他连续几天给他哥哥打电话，可是总也找不到他。 LH: Larry， 你那么急着找你哥哥，有要紧的事吗? LL: No, not really. I just want to chit chat. LH: Chit chat是什么意思啊? LL: To Chit Chat is to t