b****a
发帖数: 4465 | 1 先生们、女士们，晚上好：
很荣幸获得Clarke Award for Imagination in Service to Society Award。
这个奖项是对想象力的奖励，而想象力是人类所拥有的一种似乎只应属于神的能力，它
存在的意义也远超出我们的想象。有历史学家说过，人类之所以能够超越地球上的其它
物种建立文明，主要是因为他们能够在自己的大脑中创造出现实中不存在的东西。在未
来，当人工智能拥有超过人类的智力时，想象力也许是我们对于它们所拥有的惟一优势。
科幻小说是基于想象力的文学，而最早给我留下深刻印象的是Arthur . Clarke的作品
。除了Jules Verne和George Wells外， Clarke的作品是最早进入中国的西方现代科幻
小说。在上世纪八十年代初，中国出版了他的《2001:A Space Odyssey》和《
Rendezvous With Rama》,。当时文革刚刚结束，旧的生活和信仰已经崩塌，新的还没
有建立起来，我和其他年轻人一样，心中一片迷茫。这两本书第一次激活了我想象力，
思想豁然开阔许多，有小溪流进大海的感觉。读完《2001:A Spac... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 7521 | 3 Featured comments:
‘Despite growing unemployment, despite ruinous private and public debt,
despite whole states risking bankruptcy, despite the federal government now
paying its bills with nothing but printed paper, Americans keep spending
like good times will roll forever.’
And that’s the problem with the average joe. They grew up being told they
could do anything they wanted with their lives. If it feels good it must be
right. They don’t want to hear the truth about ANYTHING negative if it
cou... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 33562 | 4 下面是英文wiki上门对意大利在战争中的表现的评价：
Allied press reports of Italian military prowess in the Second World War
were almost always dismissive. British wartime propaganda trumpeted the
destruction of the Italian 10th Army by a significantly smaller British
force during the early phase of the North African Campaign.[77][78] The
propaganda from this Italian collapse, which was designed to boost British
morale during a bleak period of the war,[79] left a lasting impression. The
later exploits of Rommel and Germ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4174 | 5 Posted on Advocate.com March 30, 2011
House Reps to Introduce ENDA Today
By Advocate.com Editors
ENDA UPDATE CAPITOL X390 (PHOTOS.COM) | ADVOCATE.COM
Rep. Barney Frank and colleagues will introduce the Employment Non-
Discrimination Act in the House on Wednesday — a bill that Frank described
in a statement as a "difficult but winnable fight."
The prospects of the bill, which would cover sexual orientation and gender
identity in federal employment antidiscrimination laws – are bleak in the
curre... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2113 | 6
管是
哈哈，說的好，政治幼稚病。確實是。
BBC 70年代版的我看了第一集就看不下去了，
也太不現代化了，看得人累啊。
話說BBC翻拍名著都挺好看的。
法學院的時候兩個教授推薦的必讀經典，狄更斯的Bleak House，
我把第一章看了不知道幾遍啊，看不下去。。。
結果發現netflix上BBC拍了8集連續劇。
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发帖数: 1846 | 7 三锅没人饿死，都是喝恒河水喝死的
http://www.firstpost.com/india/no-one-starves-in-india-the-poor
No one starves in India. The poor drink, get sick and die
Being underweight is a “national shame” in India but starving to death,
well, that just does not happen.
When a survey revealed that 42% of India’s children are underweight,
Manmohan Singh called it a “national shame.”
But when a Gita Devi dies of starvation, the village council chief shrugs,
writes Ashwin Parulkar, researcher at New Delhi think tank Centre f... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 8 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/08/AR2010100806139.html
Amsterdam's cannabis-selling coffee shops face crackdown
The drive to shut down many of Amsterdam's cannabis coffee shops coincides
with a tightening of regulations on the sex trade. Both industries thrive in
the city's red-light district.
The drive to shut down many of Amsterdam's cannabis coffee shops coincides
with a tightening of regulations on the sex trade. Both industries thrive in
the city's red-ligh... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 9 By Jeannie DeAngelis
Combine class warfare, demonizing the rich, getting as many people onto the
welfare rolls as possible, and pushing the economic system to collapse and
you have a flawless formula for Cloward-Piven 2.0 -- and a vehicle that
ensures Obama remains in power.
Cloward-Piven is a much talked-about strategy proposed in the mid-1960's by
two Columbia University sociology professors named Richard Andrew Cloward
and Frances Fox Piven. The Cloward-Piven approach was sometimes referred ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 10 人造全球暖化歇斯底里最后花光了其他人的钱：荷兰无力补贴“绿色能源”风力发电了
，去年砸进去45亿欧元
(Reuters) - When the Netherlands built its first sea-based wind turbines in
2006, they were seen as symbols of a greener future.
Towering over the waves of the North Sea like an army of giants, blades
whipping through the wind, the turbines were the country's best hope to curb
carbon emissions and meet growing demand for electricity.
The 36 turbines -- each one the height of a 30-storey building -- produce
enough electricity to meet the needs of... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 11 Recession hits young workers hardest
The number of adults in their 20s without jobs is the highest since record-
keeping began.
Philadelphia Daily News
PHILADELPHIA — Chris Cocchi is nearly 27 years old, unemployed, living at
home in the Philadelphia exurbs with his dad, and spending a good chunk of
his day on the computer.
But he isn't playing video games.
Instead, the West Chester, Pa., resident – who has worked most recently as
a line cook – spends most of his time on Craigslist, hoping to fi... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 12 By Steve McCann
Throughout the history of the United States, whenever the dark clouds of
apprehension, fear, and adversity cast a long shadow over the nation, a
leader has emerged to successfully guide America into even greater
prosperity and achievement. Men such as George Washington, Abraham Lincoln,
and Ronald Reagan understood that among the many duties of the president of
the United States, the most important was to instill faith and an unbridled
confidence -- not only in their leadership ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 13 Steyn哀叹今日美国：每年花5万美元学费上精英大学的Fluke要求纳税人给她提供避孕
药；中学生可以在家长不知情的情况下堕胎，但如果她在家门口卖柠檬水却会被罚款
A Nation of Sandra Flukes
The tragedy for America is that she’s all too typical.
By Mark Steyn
According to Georgetown Law student Sandra Fluke, invited to address the
Democratic convention and the nation, America faces a stark choice this
November. “During this campaign, we’ve heard about two profoundly
different futures that could await women in this country — and how one of
those futures looks like an offensive,... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 10345 | 14 Welfare Reform as We Knew It
It's hard to remember now, but this summer Mitt Romney opened a useful
debate about "dependency"—concerning President Obama's regulation to
rewrite the 1996 welfare reform. Democrats deny any such intent, but as
early as this week the House plans to hold a vote to override the new rule.
So it's a good moment to dissect what the Administration is really trying to
do, because in this case Mr. Romney is right: The Administration has made
welfare's work requirements far ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 15 By: Neeraj Chaudhary,
While Democrats celebrated Barack Obama's re-election on Tuesday, a more
portentous election took place in California.
Often touted as a leader in political and social trends, progressive
California swung even further to the left during last week's election.
Voters in the once golden state tightened their vice-like grip on businesses
and job-creators. Voters approved a series of propositions that make the
state a more difficult place to run a business and provide jobs.
The... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3803 | 16 By CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER AP Economics Writer
WASHINGTON January 30, 2013 (AP)
The U.S. economy unexpectedly shrank from October through December for the
first time since 2009, hurt by the biggest cut in defense spending in 40
years, fewer exports and sluggish growth in company stockpiles. The drop
occurred despite stronger consumer spending and business investment.
The Commerce Department said Wednesday that the economy contracted at an
annual rate of 0.1 percent in the fourth quarter. That was... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 17 奥巴马选民受伤最深...奥巴马治下打击最大的5大奥巴马选民群体：黑人，单身女性，
工会，年轻人，西班牙裔
5 Groups Of Obama Voters That Are Being Crushed By Democrats
By John Hawkins
3/30/2013
Hollywood, the mainstream media and the public school system are all almost
entirely controlled by people and groups friendly to the Democrat Party. Yet
and still, even with that almost overwhelming advantage, Democrats can't do
any better than a rough parity with the Republicans. If the tables were
turned and the GOP controlled what you see on TV, in the ne... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 21627 | 18 By DAVID A. STOCKMAN
GREENWICH, Conn. -- The Dow Jones and Standard & Poor’s 500 indexes reached
record highs on Thursday, having completely erased the losses since the
stock market’s last peak, in 2007. But instead of cheering, we should be
very afraid.
David Stockman
Over the last 13 years, the stock market has twice crashed and touched off a
recession: American households lost $5 trillion in the 2000 dot-com bust
and more than $7 trillion in the 2007 housing crash. Sooner or later —
within a ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1041 | 19 The Ecomonist
Apr 27th 2013
ABOVE the entrance to America’s Supreme Court four words are carved: “
Equal justice under law”. The court is pondering whether affirmative action
breaks that promise. The justices recently accepted a case concerning a
vote in Michigan that banned it, and will soon rule on whether the
University of Texas’s race-conscious admissions policies are lawful. The
question in both cases is as simple as it is divisive: should government be
colour-blind?
America is one of many ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 20 By
MORTIMER ZUCKERMAN
In recent months, Americans have heard reports out of Washington and in the
media that the economy is looking up—that recovery from the Great Recession
is gathering steam. If only it were true. The longest and worst recession
since the end of World War II has been marked by the weakest recovery from
any U.S. recession in that same period.
The jobless nature of the recovery is particularly unsettling. In June, the
government's Household Survey reported that since the sta... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 21 Another ObamaCare Success Story: Sick Kids Denied Specialty Care Washington
by Jammie
If you like your severe medical condition, you can keep it. He’s doing it
for the children. Seriously, if this were a GOP policy failure a story like
this would be leading newscasts across the country for days. But Obama and
the Democrats responsible for this calamity still see to get a pass.
Children requiring specialty care are being denied necessary treatment
at Seattle Children’s Hospital due to strict ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 22 The Full-Time Scandal of Part-Time America
Fewer than half of U.S. adults are working full time. Why? Slow growth and
the perverse incentives of ObamaCare.
By Mortimer Zuckerman
July 13, 2014 6:47 p.m. ET
There has been a distinctive odor of hype lately about the national jobs
report for June. Most people will have the impression that the 288,000 jobs
created last month were full-time. Not so.
The Obama administration and much of the media trumpeting the figure
overlooked that the government nu... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 21396 | 23 热烈祝贺我南方大红州囊括要饭榜三甲。妈的，你们荔波肉不是要滥发Food Stamp吗？
你们只要敢发，我们南方共和党就敢拿。我们看谁狠。
http://wallstcheatsheet.com/stocks/3-states-where-more-than-1-i
SEPTEMBER 27, 2013
3 States Where More Than 1 in 5 People Receive Food Stamps
Earlier in September, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to advance a
measure that would cut $4 billion, or 5 percent, from the food stamps
programs each year for 10 years. The cost-cutting measure comes as the U.S.
faces yet another round of debates over the fiscal budget and debt c... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 24 Sick Man of Europe is Europe; Blame the Socialists, Progressives, Greens,
and the Euro Itself
Joel Kotkin writing for New Geography hits the nail smack on the head with
his assessment Sick Man of Europe is Europe.
Throughout the continent, public support for a united Europe fell
sharply last year. Opposition to greater integration has emerged, with anti-
EU parties gaining support in countries as diverse as the United Kingdom,
Greece, Germany and France.
The new reality is epitomized by ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 25 Posted on October 19, 2015 by Martin Armstrong
The debate for socialism is simply that they regard it as unfair when anyone
has more than another does. The solution is always to rob someone else to
improve your own life. If you take this philosophy as your own, then you rob
others because they have more, which is no different than robbing someone
on the street or breaking into their home (a crime resulting in you living
tax-free in prison). However, if you vote for politicians to degree the v... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 26 http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2015/12/death-watch-
Death Watch Illinois: Despite Massive Stock Market Rally, Illinois Pension
Liabilities Go Up, and Up, and Up
Illinois Pension Problems Mount
Illinois' unfunded liabilities have risen ten out of the last eleven years.
The only exception was 2011. This was despite massive rallies in financial
markets every year since 2009.
One out of every five tax dollars goes to pensions, but that's nowhere close
to enough to stem the tide.
Illinois... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 6571 | 27 August 29, 2016
Some things in life are complicated. This isn’t one of them.
By Carol Brown
The Center for Immigrations Studies (CIS) has released an estimate of the
number of Muslim “immigrants” we can expect in the first term of a Clinton
presidency. Wanna take a guess at the number?
About a million.
And that’s just the beginning. It gets worse. Much worse.
Consider this: once they’ve arrived at our shores, our new little friends
from Islamic lands can bring family members to join them, whi... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 10009 | 29 花钱培训这些弱智都不要，船粉赶紧跟着去挖煤。船铺知道越没文化越好骗。
Awaiting Trump's coal comeback, miners reject retraining
When Mike Sylvester entered a career training center earlier this year in
southwestern Pennsylvania, he found more than one hundred federally funded
courses covering everything from computer programming to nursing.
He settled instead on something familiar: a coal mining course.
"I think there is a coal comeback,” said the 33-year-old son of a miner.
Despite broad consensus about coal's bleak future, a yea... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 7521 | 30 How America Can Rise Again
Is America going to hell? After a year of economic calamity that many fear has sent us into irreversible decline, the author finds reassurance in the peculiarly American cycle of crisis and renewal, and in the continuing strength of the forces that have made the country great: our university system, our receptiveness to immigration, our culture of innovation. In most significant ways, the U.S. remains the envy of the world. But here’s the alarming problem: our governin... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 19 | 31 More than 420 positions to be filled in USC's hospitals
http://www.uscnorriscancerhospital.org/uscnorris/about/press-room/item/view/124661
USC University Hospital, USC Norris Cancer Hospital Expand Workforce Despite
Low Employment Numbers Elsewhere
Despite bleak employment figures around the United States, USC University
Hospital and USC Norris Cancer Hospital are experiencing a substantial
hiring boom, with more growth projected for the future.
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发帖数: 3293 | 32 卖了一台HP ENVY TOUCHSMART SLEEKBOOK的笔记本电脑, WIN8的, 不是那种和TABLET二
合一的,病人是可靠的,不是EVIL.
I have received the computer. It seems like this computer has some kind of
defect in the screen. It is a horrible display. The colors are washed out no
matter what adjustments I make. The entire display looks hazy and the
colors are very bleak. I tried all kinds of adjustments with the contrast,
brightness, and gamma but nothing helps. The display is really bad and I
have never seen such a terrible display before. It ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 155 | 33 It really depends how much you love research, your ability and how confident
you are in your ability. Would it be worth it when you get your grant
rejected for the 5th time, when you may not get tenure, when you don't have
time for anything else but for grant and paper writing?
You need to be careful if your only reason for becoming a faculty is your
love of research. Faculty usually don't do much research. I am mainly a
paper-pusher myself. My postodoctoral advisor told me this long ago but I
d... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 146 | 34 2012 markets: Expect ups and downs
BY Jurrien Timmer, Co-Manager of Fidelity® Global Strategies Fund,
Fidelity Viewpoints — 12/21/11
Consider U.S. stocks, high-yield corporate, and floating-rate high-income
bonds.
It’s been quite a year, one of violent mood swings but little overall
direction. We seem to be in a time warp where everything happens faster and
faster. Everything seems to be correlated. There are very few places to hide
, and even those places don’t feel like good options anymor... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 41 | 35 楼主 看到 你 isDiffByOne 函数就知道你必然要超时
Leetcode免费给你用 就别挑剔了。凡事要先从自身找问题
你那个测试不是大数据
真正的大数据在这里：
start = "nanny";
end = "aloud";
String[] d = {"ricky","grind","cubic","panic","lover","farce","gofer
","sales","flint","omens","lipid","briny","cloth","anted","slime","oaten","
harsh","touts","stoop","cabal","lazed","elton","skunk","nicer","pesky","
kusch","bused","kinda","tunis","enjoy","aches","prowl","babar","rooms","
burst","slush","pines","urine","pinky","bayed","mania","light","flare","
wares","wom... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 975 | 38 WASHINGTON (AP) -- Sales of new homes collapsed in May, sinking 33 percent
to the lowest level on record as potential buyers stopped shopping for homes
once they could no longer receive government tax credits.
The bleak report from the Commerce Department is the first sign of how the
end of federal tax credits could weigh on the nation's housing market.
The credits expired April 30. That's when a new-home buyer would have had to
sign a contract to qualify.
"We fear that the appetite to buy a hom |
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发帖数: 4124 | 39 no one in the public knows what exact disease Stephen Hawking has. neither
he himself nor his physicians discussed his diagnosis in the media. on the
other hand, he discussed how he coped with the disease without saying what
it actually was. even though the general public speculates it is ALS, the
course doesn't fit.
if the patient you referred to really has ALS, the prognosis is bleak. the
median survival is about 3 years. there is not much you can do except for
support therapies. riluzole is a... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 7460 | 41 brutal! bleak! bu-xue-le! |
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发帖数: 292 | 42 The hit to the export-oriented industry caused by RMB appreciation might
be worth it. At least, I still think it is much better than the bleak
prospect of sky-high inflation caused by RMB depreciatioin.
How many people are employed in the export-oriented industry? What is
its percentage of the total labor force? I suppose not much. Plus, China
has always had a very high unemployment rate (especially among poor
farmers in the country side) for a very long time, and the unemployment
rate among the... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 6122 | 43 一个从没听说的机构
Dow Jones] Macquarie analysts recommend staying "on the sidelines" when it
comes to US power companies with regulated and merchant businesses because
of weak power prices, uncertainty over regulatory climate. Downgrades Exelon
(EXC), FPL Group (FPL), Public Service Enterprise Group (PEG), while
keeping Constellation Energy (CEG) as top pick in group. "Market valuations
are driven by '11 and '12 earnings (EBITDA), which look bleak when marked to
forward power curves," Macquarie says.
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发帖数: 904 | 44 U.S. refining stocks declined Wednesday due to the build in product
inventories reported by American Petroleum Institute late Tuesday, which was
then supported by an equally bleak report by the EIA at 10:30 a.m. Tesoro
Corp. (NYSE:TSO, $13.34, -$0.78, -5.52%), Valero Energy Corp. (NYSE:VLO, $18
.02, -$0.19, -1.04%), Sunoco Inc. (NYSE:SUN, $27.06, -0.30, -1.08%), Alon
USA Energy Inc. (NYSE:ALJ, $7.20, -$0.12, -1.64%), Western Refining Inc. (
NYSE:WNR, $5.18, -$0.01, -0.19%) and Holly Corp. (NYSE: |
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发帖数: 1978 | 45 Maria: What's your sense of the European banking situation? Would you put
any new money to work in any of the European banks given this selloff?
Meredith: Not in a million years. The European banks are still underfunded,
still carry assets that are worse marked than even the US banks. You have
hundreds of billions of dollars of recaps that need to take place in Europe.
Maria: What kind of second half are you expecting for the stock market.
Meredith: I think it's going to be bleak. I think that y |
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发帖数: 312 | 46 Lol. Maybe people on this board should trade against you. If JPM release
a good earning next Thursday morning and give a decent or a not too bleak
guidance, financial will keep going back up. |
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发帖数: 312 | 47 I don't think the market will think of a retreat until it tests 1100. If
the financials provide not so bleak guidances, the bulls will charge the
market ahead. Already in C, JPM and I am watching GS right now as I think
the expectations have come down alot in the last couple of weeks. |
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发帖数: 349 | 48 我是觉得图难看，两个都曾是牛股，最近breakdown。（声明啊，我是低手）
没有大新闻，yahoo有：
On Wednesday, the U.S. July consumer credit report showed that Americans
reduced their borrowing for the 23rd consecutive month as the slowing
economy and bleak employment picture kept them from using their plastic.
Borrowing on credit cards fell by 6.3% in July after dropping 7.5% in June.
Consumer credit outstanding fell at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.8
%, down by $3.6 billion to $2.42 trillion, a Federal Reserve report said.
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发帖数: 8367 | 49
俄400头狼组超级狼群捕猎 当地居民恐慌(组图)
Local Access打往中国电话卡1.3￠/分种
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俄400头狼组超级狼群捕猎 当地居民恐慌(组图) 每日邮报
一名猎人展示一头被打死的狼的尸体。400头狼组成的俄罗斯超级狼群使俄罗斯西伯利
亚维科扬斯克的居民陷入恐慌。
当地居民已组成了24个猎人小组以消灭这些狼，每杀死一头狼可获得210英镑的奖金。
Bleak: Temperatures in Verkhoyansk can plummet to -49C and experts said the
wolves may have been forced together through a lack of food
据英国《每日邮报》2月7日报道，一个由400头狼组成的俄罗斯超级狼群在4天内杀死了
30多匹马，这使俄罗斯西伯利亚维科扬斯克的居民陷入恐慌。
当地居民在维科扬斯克的周边地区... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3883 | 50 Bernanke Admits Economy Slowing; No Hint of New Stimulus
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke Tuesday acknowledged a slowdown in the
U.S. economy but offered no suggestion the central bank is considering any
further monetary stimulus to support growth.
He also issued a stern warning to lawmakers in Washington who are
considering aggressive budget cuts, saying they have the potential to derail
the economic recovery if cuts in government spending take hold too soon.
A recent spate of weak economi... 阅读全帖 |
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