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发帖数: 16484 | 1 It's difficult to convey how oppressive Delhi's air pollution is.
Morning visibility is a couple of hundred metres. Through the eerie filtered
light, figures emerge from and disappear into the gloom.
Some wear masks or handkerchiefs, most blithely dismiss the apocalyptic
atmosphere, shrugging it off as "just fog".
Except it isn't.
Last Wednesday, central New Delhi's count of harmful PM2.5 particles
exceeded a staggering 1,000 on the US EPA's air quality index.
To put that in perspective, the hig... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 897 | 2 KORLA, China — Nobody knows what happened to the Uighur student after he
returned to China from Egypt and was taken away by police.
Not his village neighbors in China’s far west, who haven’t seen him in
months. Not his former classmates, who fear Chinese authorities beat him to
death.
Not his mother, who lives in a two-story house at the far end of a country
road, alone behind walls bleached by the desert sun. She opened the door one
afternoon for an unexpected visit by Associated Press reporter... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4796 | 4 缪乐现在往死里搞裤实纳，驸马爷真进去的话，小嫩橘肯定要保不住了
Exclusive: Mueller's interest in Kushner grows to include foreign
financing efforts
4:00 PM EST February 19, 2018Washington
Special counsel Robert Mueller's interest in Jared Kushner has expanded
beyond his contacts with Russia and now includes his efforts to secure
financing for his company from foreign investors during the presidential
transition, according to people familiar with the inquiry.
This is the first indication that Mueller is exploring Kushner's
disc... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 16092 | 5 China’s Long Arm Reaches Into American Campuses
Beijing is stepping up efforts to inject party ideology into student life.
Some Chinese students are crying foul.
By Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian
Illustration by Eleftheria Alexandri for Foreign Policy
March 7, 2018
When Chinese President Xi Jinping visited Washington on Sept. 24, 2015 on a
state visit, hundreds of Chinese students lined the streets for hours,
carrying banners and flags to welcome him. It was a remarkable display of
seemingly spontaneo... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 621 | 6 https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-rejects-u-s-target-for-narrowing-trade-
gap-1526756661
A last-ditch effort by the Trump administration failed to get China to
accept its demand for a $200 billion cut in the U.S. bilateral trade deficit
, as Chinese officials resisted committing to any specific targets after two
days of contentious negotiations.
The two days of deliberations in Washington ended with both sides arguing
all night on Friday over what to say in a joint statement, people briefed on
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发帖数: 1 | 7 Google is still very white and very male
Business
Google is still very white and very male
Its latest diversity report shows it still has work to do.
Mallory Locklear Mallory Locklear, 2h ago
Google released its annual diversity report today and though strides have
been made in some areas, in others, the company has shown little improvement
. Globally, Google is 69.1 percent male and in the US 53.1 percent of the
workforce is white, 36.3 percent is Asian, 3.6 percent is Latinx, 2.5
percent is bl... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 15 | 8 meritocracy并非普遍真理，这个道理受过好教育的都知道的。
以下来自美国大学基础课优秀高中生学的社会学课
Meritocracy
The concept of meritocracy refers to social stratification based on personal
merit. Because industrial societies need to develop a broad range of
abilities beyond farming, stratification is based not just on the accident
of birth but also on merit (from a Latin word meaning “earned”), which
includes a person’s knowledge, abilities, and effort. A rough measure of
merit is the importance of a person’s job and how well it is done.... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 5309 | 9 HOUSTON — A professor at a top cancer research center who now faces child
pornography charges is also under scrutiny in a federal investigation into
economic espionage on behalf of China, say multiple U.S. officials briefed
on the case.
Until April, Keping Xie, 55, was a gastroenterology professor at Houston's
University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, where the officials say the
FBI is investigating a suspected effort to funnel advanced research from the
facility to the Chinese government.
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发帖数: 1 | 10 Is China Waiting Us Out?
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/is-china-waiting-us-out/
While the U.S. bombs, Xi Jinping is building—one power play at a time.
By MICHAEL HORTON • October 22, 2018
Michael Hogue
The one constant in recent U.S. foreign policy—regardless of which party
occupies the White House or controls Congress—is that it prioritizes
military intervention, both covert and overt, to advance its interests
overseas. While President Barack Obama vowed to move the U... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 61690 | 11 The Justice Department on Tuesday unsealed charges against a group of
Chinese intelligence officers, alleging that they hacked into a series of
private companies’ computer systems in the U.S. and abroad as part of an
effort to steal sensitive commercial aviation data.
Zha Rong, Chai Meng and seven other co-conspirators worked to steal
intellectual property and other sensitive data from over a dozen companies
so that China could develop a turbofan engine "without incurring substantial
research an... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3093 | 12 WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration on Wednesday completed one of
its biggest rollbacks of environmental rules, replacing a landmark Obama-era
effort that sought to wean the nation's electrical grid off coal-fired
power plants and their climate-damaging pollution.
Environmental Protection Agency chief Andrew Wheeler, a former coal industry
lobbyist, signed a replacement rule that gives states leeway in deciding
whether to require efficiency upgrades at existing coal plants.
Wheeler said c... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1 | 13 Stone Cold Word
Longboat Key, Florida4m ago
AG Barr investigating a missing Twinkie is a joke.
So I am reading all these comments laughing and calling out "conspiracy
theories". It's easy to "throw shade"..... getting "shade to stick" is
another story.
I know this. A high profile prisoner, who supposedly tried to kill
himself just two weeks ago, this guy could not get near a 6 inch piece of
thread. Now that's not a "conspiracy theory".
The "shade slingers" want us to believe that this ego ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1 | 14 07 Nov 2019
Just as the clamor about Biogen’s seeking FDA approval for aducanumab with
one positive Phase 3 trial started to die down, a Chinese company garnered a
regulatory thumbs-up for its drug, also with one Phase 3 trial. On November
2, Shanghai Green Valley Pharmaceuticals announced that China’s National
Medical Product Administration (NMPA) had conditionally approved GV-971, aka
oligomannate, for the treatment of mild to moderate Alzheimer’s disease.
Full approval, expected to come in sp... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2469 | 15 The Trump administration is dialing up efforts to 'build that wall,' records
show
By Bob Ortega, CNN Investigates
Updated 12:56 PM ET, Fri November 22, 2019
Private land can be seized to build wall
Pause
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FullscreenNow PlayingPrivate land could be...
Crucial 2020 battleground weighs in on impeachment
Jason Brown
DOJ says Chicago gang leader radicalized by ISIS
Sam Hunt arrested for DUI in Nashville
NEW YORK, NY - NOVEMBER 01: Chairman of Burton Snowb... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1 | 16 2009 H1N1 Vaccination
The emergence and spread of the 2009 H1N1 virus resulted in extraordinary
influenza-like illness activity in the United States throughout the summer
and fall months of 2009. During this period, influenza activity reached its
highest level in the reporting week ending October 24, 2009, with 49 of 50
states reporting geographically widespread disease. A cornerstone of the U.S
. Government response to the 2009 H1N1 pandemic was the launch of the
national influenza 2009 H1N1 va... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4796 | 17 告诉你们了，肯定会爆发了，我能做的也就这么多了。
反正也已经警告过你们了，你也不能说我瞒报什么的
剩下的自求多福吧。
尼玛，民主国家就是这点好啊。全都撇清甩锅了。
Public health officials warn of ‘inevitable’ spread of coronavirus in U.S.
Trump administration health officials urged the public Tuesday to prepare
for the “inevitable” spread of the coronavirus within the United States,
escalating warnings about a growing threat from the virus to Americans’
everyday lives.
The urgent new tone from leaders of the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention and the National Institut... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2108 | 18 Beijing Tells Pompeo It Is Futile to Smear China Over Virus
SHANGHAI (REUTERS) - Top Chinese diplomat Yang Jiechi has told U.S.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo by telephone that attempts to smear China's
efforts to control the coronavirus "will not succeed", Chinese state
broadcaster CCTV reported on Monday.
On the call, Yang told Pompeo that China opposed and condemned U.S.
politicians' efforts to denigrate China's efforts, and said actions that
harmed China's interests would be retaliated again... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 518 | 19 【 以下文字转载自 History 讨论区 】
发信人: shaodian (有熊), 信区: History
标 题: 美国生物实验室泄露
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Sun Mar 22 15:25:05 2020, 美东)
Google翻译一次只能3900字符。
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2015/05/28/biolabs-pathogens-location-
incidents/26587505/
Investigation reveals hundreds of accidents, safety violations and near
misses put people at risk
Alison Young and Nick Penzenstadler, USA TODAY
Vials of bioterror bacteria have gone missing. Lab mice infected with deadly
viruses have escaped, and wild rodents have b... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1 | 20 向前同行
上周， 特朗普总统与习主席就COVID-19全球大流行进行了非常好、富有成效的电话会
谈。另外，周末时，我与郑泽光副部长谈了关于我们两国打击COVID-19的共同努力。我
强调了现在就是向前看的时候，并对中国就出口需要的医疗用品到美国，对我国政府给
予帮助，传达了我的感谢。
美国大使馆已经辛勤工作，为美国和中国公司牵线，以满足美国对关键个人防护用品不
断增加的即刻需求。我们正与中国政府官员紧密合作，加快来自中国的货物运输。没有
一个国家可以独自打这场战役。我有信心，我们两国将继续找出共同合作的方法，抗击
这个威胁所有人生命的共同敌人。
美国驻华使团全体继续支持并关心在北京使馆及五个领馆工作的中国同事，我们现在也
牵挂着在美国的家人、朋友和我们所爱的人的健康安全。我们正在做的工作至关重要，
我鼓励各位继续坚定抗疫。
向前同行。我知道我们必将度过难关。
布兰斯塔德大使
Moving Forward Together
Last week, President Trump and President Xi had a very good, productive
phone conve... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 22092 | 21 策略一， 淡水代替海水冷却反应堆。
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/26_08.html
TEPCO forced to change strategy at plant
东电被迫改变策略抢救核电站
Tokyo Electric Power Company has been forced to change its strategy at t
he quake-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant due to high radiation
levels at the site.
由于目前福岛核电站内强辐射泄露，东电(TEPC)被迫改变其策略。
The plant's nuclear reactors 1 through 4 have all lost their cooling cap
abilities as both external and backup power supplies failed after the qu
ake and tsunami.
在地震和海啸的袭击下，导致福岛核电站... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2474 | 22 http://freebeacon.com/china-to-shoot-at-high-frontier/
China to Shoot at High Frontier
U.S. Intelligence: China to conduct test of more powerful anti-satellite
weapon capable of hitting GPS, spy satellites, but after U.S. election
BY: Bill Gertz
October 16, 2012 5:00 am
China’s military is set to conduct a test of a new and more capable anti-
satellite missile that United States intelligence agencies say can knock out
strategic satellites in high-earth orbit, according to U.S. officials.
However... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 395 | 23 美陆军第一装甲师团200人已被派往约旦。
“They also will provide leadership personnel that could command additional
forces if it’s determined they are needed in the future.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/hagel-us-
Hagel: US sending Army planning unit to Jordan; will enhance effort on
Syrian border
By Associated Press, Published: April 17
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon is sending about 200 soldiers from an Army
headquarters unit to Jordan to assist efforts to contain violence along the
Syrian bord... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1061 | 24 Operation
The mission was initiated at the insistence of Admiral Chester Nimitz who
wanted his naval operations augmented by an extensive mining of Japan itself
conducted by the air force. While General Henry H. Arnold felt this was
strictly a naval priority, he assigned General Curtis LeMay to carry it out.
LeMay assigned one group of about 160 aircraft of the 313th Bombardment Wing
to the task, with orders to plant 2,000 mines in April 1945. The mining
runs were made by individual B-29 Superfo... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 207 | 25 【 以下文字转载自 Biology 讨论区 】
发信人: ipdang (ip), 信区: Biology
标 题: 饶毅致《自然》杂志总编的信
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Sat Aug 4 00:18:14 2012, 美东)
http://blog.sciencenet.cn/blog-2237-598917.html
致《自然》杂志总编的信：有关叶诗文的新闻报道 精选
英文原信附后，大意如下：
斐尔,
你可能因Ewen Callaway对叶诗文的报道而被email狂炸，过去二十小时，给你
email的人里面小部分也给我来信。
如果你奇怪《自然》非本质部分一篇报道为何带来这么大的反应，你应该高兴
中文读者比世界其他读者更看重你们的新闻报道，与科学相关的（即使关系很小）也可
能重于《纽约时报》，中文媒体报道用你们的新闻也远多于一般西方媒体用你们的新闻。
Callaway报道最好也是草率、最差是种族偏见：1)最初的副标题暗示叶可能舞
弊; 2)Callaway用了两件事实说明叶惊人地异常，而两件都错了; 3)Callaway没咨询意... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2330 | 26 ☆─────────────────────────────────────☆
jianglai (Veni, Vidi, Vici.) 于 (Thu Aug 2 02:54:30 2012, 美东) 提到:
http://www.nature.com/news/why-great-olympic-feats-raise-suspic
英帝堕落到什么地步了。。。
★ 发自iPhone App: ChineseWeb 7.3.1
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daye520 (哈哈) 于 (Thu Aug 2 02:56:00 2012, 美东) 提到:
罗切特每次都被拿出来做背景。
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michaelxiaga (南京中山陵) 于 (Thu Aug 2 02:58:53 2012, 美东) 提到:
回复里面有一个哥们写的不错
其实咱们在这里说有啥用, 就得用英文反驳white trash
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发帖数: 4174 | 27 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: 4174 | 28 Posted on Advocate.com August 15, 2011 09:40:00 AM ET
The Most Important LGBT Group You’ve Never Heard Of
By Andrew Harmon
How to conduct an accurate count of the American population — an estimate
that controls congressional seat allocation and the disbursement of billions
in federal dollars to cash-strapped states and municipalities — is a
reliable flashpoint of controversy when the U.S. Census rolls around every
10 years.
What seems to have drawn little controversy in the release of the 2010
C... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4174 | 29 Posted on Advocate.com October 07, 2011 10:45:00 AM ET
Minnesota Republicans Unite Against Marriage Amendment
A prominent group of Minnesota Republicans has formally joined the effort to
fight a proposed constitutional amendment that would restrict marriages to
men and women.
By Julie Bolcer
MINNESOTA FLAG X390 (THINKSTOCK) | ADVOCATE.COM
A prominent group of Minnesota Republicans has formally joined the effort to
fight a proposed constitutional amendment that would restrict marriages to
men and... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3096 | 30 http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-07-25/china-cuts-capacity-in
By Bloomberg News - Jul 25, 2013 8:10 PM CT
China ordered more than 1,400 companies in 19 industries to cut excess
production capacity this year, part of efforts to shift toward slower, more-
sustainable economic growth.
Steel, ferroalloys, electrolytic aluminum, copper smelting, cement and paper
are among areas affected, the Ministry of Industry and Information
Technology said in a statement yesterday. Excess capacity must be idled... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3365 | 31 http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405297020373530457716665
BEIJING—China has announced that people living in its towns and cities now
outnumber those in the countryside, making it a predominantly urban nation
for the first time in Chinese civilization.
Migrant workers and others line up for trains ahead of the Lunar New Year
holiday in Chengdu on Tuesday.
The milestone spotlights a trend that China's government says will be a key
driver of economic growth over the next two decades as hundre... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 10345 | 33 民猪党不亏是一群猪：
House Democrats could have same leadership team despite 60-seat loss
By Paul Kane
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, November 7, 2010; 8:05 PM
House Democratic leaders signaled a desire Sunday to avoid internal
leadership battles in an effort to forge party unity, a move that would
leave the same team in place that oversaw the worst political rout in 72
years.
Rep. Chris Van Hollen (Md.) said that efforts are underway to avert an
ideological leadership campaign that would pit House ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 34 Obama will have to produce birth certificate to run again
Posted: January 25, 2011
7:42 pm Eastern
By Bob Unruh
© 2011 WorldNetDaily
U.S. President Barack Obama greets the media as he walks on the South Lawn
of the White House upon his return to Washington, November 14, 2010.
President Obama is back in Washington after a 10-day trip to Asia. UPI/Yuri
Gripas/Pool Photo via Newscom
It could be a game-changer.
A plan in Arizona to require presidential candidates to prove their
eligibility to o... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 35 By KRIS MAHER and AMY MERRICK
Playing a game of political chicken, Democratic senators who fled Wisconsin
to stymie restrictions on public-employee unions said Sunday they planned to
come back from exile soon, betting that even though their return will allow
the bill to pass, the curbs are so unpopular they'll taint the state's
Republican governor and legislators.
Union solidarity rallies continue outside the Wisconsin Capitol as filmmaker
Michael Moore tells the crowd that America is not broke,... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 36 By Brendon S. Peck
Confronted with an unwelcome intrusion, employees at a Target store in New
York rejected unionization and dealt a blow to the grand plans of the UFCW.
That average Americans continue to stand against these job-killing, profit-
leaching forces is most encouraging. But make no mistake, the fight is far
from over.
Labor unions are in decline and desperate. Today, union membership is under
12% of the U.S. workforce -- it was over 20% in the 1980's. Among retail
unions, like the... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4412 | 37 Taxpayers Rank Behind Solyndra Investors
By William McQuillen - Sep 3, 2011 7:00 AM PT
The Obama administration let $385 million in taxpayer support for Solyndra
Inc. take a back seat to funds from new investors in an unsuccessful effort
to keep the solar-panel manufacturer operating.
The Energy Department decided the January refinancing represented the “
highest probable net benefit” for the government, according to a government
document obtained by Bloomberg News. Investors provided the compan... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 38 Treasury announces 2011 deficit is second highest in history
By Erik Wasson - 10/14/11 02:26 PM ET
The U.S budget deficit for fiscal year 2011 is $1.299 trillion, the second
largest shortfall in history.
The nation only ran a larger deficit for the 2009 fiscal year, which
included the dramatic collapse of financial markets and a huge bailout
effort by the government. The nation's deficit that year was $1.412 trillion.
This year's deficit is slightly higher than fiscal year 2010, when the
nat... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 39 by The Political Palaver
When I was young, I devoted quite a bit of study to Adolf Hitler and Nazi
Germany. The reason for my fascination is now certainly clear, if it was
even the slightest bit murky then. My efforts were to answer that one
question that haunts us all in our attempts to deconstruct such depravity
and horror: "How could this have happened?" How had one man created such an
ideology of militant proselytism, and how could that one man mold a legion
of followers ready to sacrific... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2273 | 40 Nun famous for kissing Elvis prays for miracle
December 23, 2011
By STEPHANIE REITZ
Associated Press
BETHLEHEM, Conn. (AP) — In the little town of Bethlehem, a cloistered nun
whose luminous blue eyes entranced Elvis Presley in his first on-screen
movie kiss is praying for a Christmas miracle.
Dolores Hart, who walked away from Hollywood stardom in 1963 to become a nun
in rural Bethlehem, Conn., now finds herself back in the spotlight. But
this time it's all about serving the King of Kings, not s... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 41 By Thomas Lifson
The Reuters news service once again has made itself a laughingstock by
publishing a mistake-riddled hit piece on Marco Rubio, all but ruling him
out as a vice presidential nominee for the GOP because of alleged financial
problems. Many of which turned out to be untrue. Five corrections were
necessary.
Matt Lewis of the Daily Caller outlines a total of 7 falsehoods or
exaggerations in the story. Dylan Byers of Politico spoke to Reuters staff
who refused to go on the record (an in... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 42 By Trevor Thomas
The NAACP recently decided to (surprise!) side with President Obama and
liberals across the U.S. and endorse same-sex marriage. The board of
directors for the organization released a statement declaring that "civil
marriage is a civil right and a matter of civil law." Roslyn Brock,
chairman of the NAACP's board of directors, declared, "We have and will
oppose efforts to codify discrimination into law."
Of course, one of the most frequent and favorite cries of the left is the
d... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 43 By LORETTA CHAO
Google Inc. has begun warning users in China of certain search words that
may trigger the country's Internet censors, in its boldest challenge in two
years to Beijing's efforts to restrict online content.
Google has begun notifying users in China when they use search terms that
can trigger China's Internet blocks, in its boldest challenge in two years
to Beijing's efforts to restrict online content, Scott Austin reports on
digits. Photo: Google.
The Internet company unveiled on... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 44 August 10, 2012 by David Robertson
In an opinion piece titled “Global Warming Is Here to Stay”, Washington
Post Columnist Eugene Robinson sides with anthropogenic global warming (AGW)
enthusiasts:
Yes, scientists are finally asserting a direct connection between long-
term climate trends and short-term weather events. This was always a
convenient dodge for climate change deniers. There might be a warming trend
over decades or centuries, they would say, but no specific heat wave,
hurricane ... 阅读全帖 |
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b*****d
发帖数: 61690 | 45 【 以下文字转载自 Military 讨论区 】
发信人: brihand (brihand), 信区: Military
标 题: 巴马太黑：派biden在共和党大会期间访问Tampa
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Wed Aug 22 13:40:05 2012, 美东)
有点不讲政治文明了。
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/08/joe-biden-to-show-
As Republicans converge on Florida next week to formally nominate Mitt
Romney, Vice President Joe Biden plans to be in town.
Biden will be in Florida Monday and Tuesday, including a visit to the Tampa
area, site of the 2012 Republican National Convention, the Obama campaign
said tod... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4321 | 46 a medicare fraud.
PPP: Scott's popularity keeps dropping, even within his own party
Public Policy Polling obviously took this survey before last night's
legendary LeBron show, concluding that the polarizing LeBron James is more
popular than the governor. Nonetheless their findings on Gov. Rick Scott are
interesting as they find that the governor's popularity in the midst of the
voter purge is dropping, even within his own party.
Key point: "Scott’s undoing begins with dwindling support in his ow... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 47 By MATT BRADLEY
CAIRO—Protesters breached the walls of the U.S. Embassy on Tuesday night,
pulling down and burning an American flag to protest a U.S.-produced film
they said was insulting to Islam.
Protesters destroyed an American flag pulled down from the U.S. embassy in
Cairo, Egypt, on Tuesday.
The demonstrators who climbed the walls were among about 2,000 mostly male
Islamists who converged outside the heavily guarded mission late Tuesday.
Several young men who scaled the embassy's concrete ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 48 Executives from around the world are profoundly pessimistic about the
ability of companies operating in the U.S. to compete in the global economy
and to pay high wages to U.S. workers, a survey of more than 6,800 Harvard
Business School alumni found.
Some 58% of the respondents expect the U.S. to weaken on one or both of
these two dimensions of competitiveness over the next three years. Only 25%
expect the country to improve on one or both.
"It's not that the sky is falling," said Jan Rivkin, a ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 97 | 49 Billions in Hidden Riches for Family of Chinese Leader
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/26/business/global/family-of-wen
BEIJING — The mother of China’s prime minister was a schoolteacher in
northern China. His father was ordered to tend pigs in one of Mao’s
political campaigns. And during childhood, “my family was extremely poor,”
the prime minister, Wen Jiabao, said in a speech last year.
But now 90, the prime minister’s mother, Yang Zhiyun, not only left
poverty behind — she became outright ric... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3803 | 50 Is Obama Stupid and Lazy?
Although that’s quite a provocative question, evidence is mounting that
Obama may not be as intelligent as his supporters and cheerleaders in the
media constantly assure us. The reality may be that Obama is mostly a
creation of the liberal media. Indeed, the more we dig into his past, the
more we find very little substance and discover how a network of liberal
professors, law firms, and others, gave him a pass on performance while he
pursued his political agenda.
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