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发帖数: 22064 | 1 http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/06/25/korean-war-anniversary-why-
Beijing's support for Pyongyang during the Korean War tells us why it still
backs Kim today.
Sixty-five years ago, on June 25, 1950, the Soviet-equipped North Korean
army struck south of the 38th parallel. The ensuing three years of seesaw
warfare turned much of the Korean Peninsula into ashes: Up to 3 million
Koreans were killed or wounded before the two sides signed a cease-fire in
July 1953. Millions more were left to pick up pie... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4400 | 3 5.0 out of 5 starsVery different, but very deep. Thank goodness for
translations or I'd never have enjoyed this excellent work.
ByJOHN P BACKon November 8, 2015
Format: Kindle EditionVerified Purchase
Straight off - I'm not rating this five-stars because it's flawless,
beautiful prose. It's a translated work and while the English is excellent,
there is an underlying 'restraint' to the pace of narrative that I suspect
is unique to the solemn calm of a schooled Chinese author.
So why 5? Because IM... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 8210 | 4 美国昨天表态，说的很清楚， 如果法院判决生效，形成ruling，中国必须遵守。
U.S. warns China against provocations once court rules on sea claims
June 22, 2016
By David Brunnstrom and Matt Spetalnick
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States warned China on Wednesday against
taking "additional provocative actions" following an impending international
court ruling on the South China Sea that is expected to largely reject
Beijing's broad territorial claims.
A senior State Department official voiced skepticism at China's claim that
doz... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1 | 5 12月 谈谈间谍问题
我一直感觉Reuters 有日本的间谍，他们会通过报道来传递针对华人屠杀的计划，和发
布不利于华人的报道，制造舆论。最重要他们后边的势力和犯罪集团有关。有必要好好
调查这个组织。
How top U.S. colleges hooked up with controversial Chinese companies
By Steve Stecklow and Alexandra Harney
Filed Dec. 2, 2016, noon GMT
New Oriental, China’s biggest private educator, has been accused of
academic fraud. Thanks to two enterprising Americans, it has also gained
access to leading U.S. college admissions officers.
SHANGHAI/SHELTER ISLAND, New York - Thomas Benson once ran a small... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 16484 | 6 FBI Urges Universities To Monitor Some Chinese Students And Scholars In The
U.S.
June 28, 201910:16 AM ET
U.S. intelligence agencies are encouraging American research universities to
develop protocols for monitoring students and visiting scholars from
Chinese state-affiliated research institutions, as U.S. suspicion toward
China spreads to academia.
Since last year, FBI officials have visited at least 10 members of the
Association of American Universities, a group of 62 research universities,
wi... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 11162 | 7 Mainland China was the big winner in the newly released scores on the
Program for International Student Assessment, which tests 15-year-old
students in dozens of countries in math, reading and science every three
years. With 600,000 students from 79 countries and school systems taking the
exam in 2018, four provinces in China — which for PISA constitutes
mainland China — were collectively ranked No. 1 in all three subjects.
But there is good reason to view the scores from mainland China with
ske... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 857 | 8 【 以下文字转载自 Military 讨论区 】
发信人: muce (muce), 信区: Military
标 题: 国家点火装置面临失败
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Mon Oct 8 17:54:56 2012, 美东)
So Far Unfruitful, Fusion Project Faces a Frugal Congress
NY Times
By WILLIAM J. BROAD
Published: September 29, 2012
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/30/science/fusion-project-faces-
For more than 50 years, physicists have been eager to achieve controlled
fusion, an elusive goal that could potentially offer a boundless and
inexpensive source of energy.
The laser uses blasts of con... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2330 | 9 ☆─────────────────────────────────────☆
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: 19713 | 10 Magician James Randi: I’m Gay
Magician and skeptic James Randi came out on his blog Sunday.
By Julie Bolcer
James Randix180 (JREF) | Advocate.com
James Randi, the stage magician turned skeptic challenger of pseudoscience
and the paranormal, says that he is gay.
The 71-year-old Canadian-American came out Sunday on Swift, the blog of the
James Randi Educational Foundation.
”Well, here goes. I really resent the term, but I use it because it’s
recognized and accepted. I’m gay,” wrote Randi.
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发帖数: 4174 | 11 By TOM RAUM, Associated Press Writer Tom Raum, Associated Press Writer – 19
mins ago
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama took a significant step toward
retooling his presidency with a challenge to lawmakers to rise above
partisan differences to tackle economic and budget problems "decades in the
making."
And while there remained stark differences in approach between the president
and the Republicans with whom he now shares power, Obama made some striking
concessions in the name of national unity... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4174 | 12 Golinski Has Her Day in Court, DOJ Sends Senior Lawyer To Argue DOMA's
Unconstitutionality
Posted by Chris Geidner |
December 16, 2011 5:10 PM | Permalink
The Department of Justice sent one of its top lawyers to federal court in
San Francisco today to argue that the Defense of Marriage Act's federal
definition of marriage unconstitutionally limits Karen Golinski's ability to
secure health insurance for her wife.
Golinski's case, which began as an ordinary request to include her wife, Amy
Cunning... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4174 | 13 http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jun/01/how-will-do
How will Doma fare in front of the US supreme court?
Despite the Roberts court's conservative lean, there is reason to hope it
will rule the Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutional.
On 31 May, a three-judge panel of the first circuit court of appeals held a
key provision of the Defense of Marriage Act (Doma) unconstitutional. It is
nearly certain, however, that the case will be headed to the supreme court,
and because the decision ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 14 President Obama’s path to a second term may rely on states shaped by the
same social forces he embodies.
By Ronald Brownstein
Friday, January 7, 2011 | 6:05 a.m.
By any standard, white voters’ rejection of Democrats in November’s
elections was daunting and even historic.
Fully 60 percent of whites nationwide backed Republican candidates for the
House of Representatives; only 37 percent supported Democrats, according to
the National Election Poll exit poll conducted by Edison Research. Not even
i... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 15 By LAURIE GOODSTEIN
Published: May 7, 2011
Colleges and universities have long offered majors in religion or theology.
But with more and more people now saying they have no religion, one college
has decided to be the first to offer a major in secularism.
Starting this fall, Pitzer College, a small liberal arts institution in
Southern California, will inaugurate a department of secular studies.
Professors from other departments, including history, philosophy, religion,
science and sociology, will... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 16 The phony ‘consensus’ on climate change
The end is near ...
... that is, for the myth that scientists have reached "consensus" on global
warming and climate change caused by humans.
The theory (more accurately called a religion for the redistribution of
wealth) has taken a number of body blows in recent times -- although the
climate-change lobby is still straining to impose its view on the world. For
example, Time magazine issued a screed headlined "Who's Bankrolling the
Climate-Change Deniers?"... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 17 posted at 10:50 am on December 7, 2011 by Ed Morrissey
Two years ago, the Obama administration practically staged an airlift of
leading Democratic officials to the UN climate conference in Copenhagen.
Barack Obama himself made an appearance, as did Nancy Pelosi, Hillary
Clinton, and even Republican Senator Jim Inhofe, who went to represent the
AGW skeptics and demand answers to the then-breaking Climategate scandal.
In the end, Obama could only produce a non-binding agreement that even he
didn... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 18 Jamie M. Fly — April 2012
Following the killing of American soldiers and the recent protests sparked
by the accidental burning of Korans by coalition forces, Republican
presidential candidate Newt Gingrich went so far as to suggest that the
United States should abandon Afghanistan unless the Afghans apologize,
adding that we should tell them, “figure out how to live your own miserable
life.” This is the increasingly frequent refrain of war-weary
conservatives who question President Barack Obama’... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 19 Speedbump and Mommy Dearest Collected Welfare and Food Stamps While on
Terror Watch List
by Jammie
They have a so-called right to privacy, so this is the most we may ever find
out thanks to Governor Deval Patrick. Remarkably, at least one Democrat is
looking to get to the bottom of this, asking how many other perps are on the
dole.
Linsky told the Herald, “I would be extremely upset on behalf of the
taxpayers if people who are not in Massachusetts, let alone in the country,
are receiving ben... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 20 By Noel Sheppard | September 15, 2013 | 11:00
CNN’s Candy Crowley did her best Hillary Clinton Sunday.
During a State of the Union discussion about the American-Russian agreement
concerning Syria, Crowley asked a skeptical Congressman Mike Rogers (R-Mich.
), "Who cares" that "Russia got the diplomatic edge?" (video follows with
transcript and commentary):
CANDY CROWLEY, HOST: I'm joined now by Mike Rogers, he is chairman of
the House Intelligence Committee. What do you think of the plan?
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发帖数: 29846 | 21 Most Americans don't understand Obamacare, and even people who don't have
insurance believe the law won't do them much good, a new Wall Street Journal
/NBC News poll taken as the law's core provisions are about to roll out
shows.
Overall, 70 percent of respondents said they either don't understand
Obamacare or understand only parts of it, The Wall Street Journal reports.
Of those polled, 44 percent, think the healthcare overhaul is a bad idea,
while 31 percent think the plan is good and 25 perce... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 22 It begins: New NYC schools chancellor will push ‘progressive agenda’
10:16 AM 01/02/2014
Now that New York City Mayor and far-left Democrat Bill de Blasio has chosen
Carmen Farina to become chancellor of NYC schools, city residents can
expect a sharp turn to the left on education policy.
Farina, a former teacher and long-time adviser to de Blasio, shares the
mayor’s desire to foist a “progressive agenda” upon NYC schools, she said
at a news conference earlier this week.
“This progressive agenda ... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 23 This Is What Government-Run Health Care Looks Like
Posted 01/13/2014 06:24 PM ET
Socialized Medicine: More than two-thirds of the public don't think the
government can be trusted to run the nation's health care system
successfully. ObamaCare is proving these skeptics right.
The public might not agree on much these days, but one thing it
overwhelmingly believes is that government is ill-equipped to manage one-
sixth of the economy — 67% said so in the January IBD/TIPP poll.
This distrust has only... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 24 May 8, 2014 - 6:36 PM
By BOB MOEN, Associated Press
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Wyoming, the nation's top coal-producing state, is
the first to reject new K-12 science standards proposed by national
education groups mainly because of global warming components.
The Wyoming Board of Education decided recently that the Next Generation
Science Standards need more review after questions were raised about the
treatment of man-made global warming.
Board President Ron Micheli said the review will look into wh... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 25 Climate Science Defector Forced to Resign by Alarmist 'Fatwa'
via Breitbart Feed
Professor Lennart Bengtsson - the leading scientist who three weeks ago
signalled his defection to the climate sceptic camp by joining the board of
the Global Warming Policy Foundation - has now dramatically been forced to
resign from his position.
His views on the weakness of the "consensus" haven't changed. But as he
admits in his resignation letter, he has been so badly bullied by his
alarmist former colleagues t... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 10469 | 26 估计希拉里不尿这帮子落水狗
National Review to Endorse Hillary?
By Mike Stopa
- Satire -
Word is out that the National Review, known as the soul of intellectual
conservatism since its founding 60 years ago by conservative icon William F.
Buckley Jr., is planning to endorse Hillary Clinton for President.
According to a possibly informed source claiming to be close to the magazine
’s editorial board and demanding anonymity, assuming that businessman
Donald Trump is crowned the Republican nominee at the upcoming... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 33224 | 27 很中垦
The heating levels have not tracked the climate models exactly, and the
skeptics have had a heyday with that. It’s all within the error-bar range.
To me, it’s pretty clear that there’s nothing that relieves this as a big
problem. But when people act like we have this great certainty, they
somewhat undermine the credibility. There’s a lot of uncertainty in this,
but on both the good and the bad side.
By overclaiming, or even trying to ascribe current things more to climate
change than to othe... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 6571 | 28 Voters Don’t Trust Media Fact-Checking
Friday, September 30, 2016
Most voters believe news organizations play favorites when it comes to fact-
checking candidates’ statements, but this skepticism is much stronger among
voters who support Donald Trump than those who back his rival Hillary
Clinton.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that just
29% of all Likely U.S. Voters trust media fact-checking of candidates’
comments. Sixty-two percent (62%) believe instead that... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 239 | 32 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_Equinox#Skepticism_of_EPA_fuel_economy_ratings
Skepticism of EPA fuel economy ratings
Several road tests have led to skepticism about the front-drive four-
cylinder Equinox's EPA fuel economy ratings. After achieving 18.8 mpg-US (8.
0 km/l) in a road test, Edmunds InsideLine stated, "...our testing didn't
come close to achieving [the EPA's numbers], even though we're usually
within 1 mpg of the EPA combined number."[8] Car and Driver recorded another
18 mpg |
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发帖数: 451 | 33 IRA FLATOW, host:
This is SCIENCE FRIDAY from NPR. I'm Ira Flatow.
Unlike NASA or NOAA or the NIH, the mission of the National Science
Foundation is to push no particular mission. It's an agency that doles out
billions every year for basic research in all fields of science: technology,
engineering, math.
Two hundred thousand engineers, scientists, communicators - including this
program - receive NSF's support. But in the face of mounting national debt
and bipartisan proposals to cut government s... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1 | 34 【 以下文字转载自 ME 讨论区 】
发信人: beats (beats), 信区: ME
标 题: Harvard professor John W. Hutchinson is accused of plagiarism
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Mon Sep 12 16:12:16 2016, 美东)
from: Liang Xue
to: John Hutchinson
cc: Tomasz Wierzbicki
date: Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 12:12 PM
subject: Re: No winners--follow-up
Dear John,
Thank you for your email. I had a difficult time to understand the
message you want sent. My guess is that the central message you would like
to emphasize is that you can develop the sa... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 19398 | 35 A Florida district has become the largest player in a national movement to t
each chess in public schools by providing weekly lessons to all of its 34,00
0 second- and third-graders. "I was skeptical of it in the beginning," teach
er Justine Maver said. "But you can put (chess) with anything, math, science
-- it really works."
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(Reuters) - Leaning over chess boards in the middle of classes, seven- and e
ight-year-olds in one of Florida's largest school districts furrow their bro
ws... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 114 | 36 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/07/education/07education.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print
December 7, 2010
Top Test Scores From Shanghai Stun Educators
By SAM DILLON
With China’s debut in international standardized testing, students in
Shanghai have surprised experts by outscoring their counterparts in dozens
of other countries, in reading as well as in math and science, according to
the results of a respected exam.
American officials and Europeans involved in administering the test in about
65 countri... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 962 | 37 这种会被摘牌吗？
http://seekingalpha.com/article/275262-harbin-electric-loan-fra
The Harbin Chairman/CEO Has A History Of Fraudulent Loan Guarantee Documents.
We have obtained a settlement agreement reached between Harbin CEO Tianfu
Yang and China Construction Import Export Corp. In 2004, Mr. Yang, along
with his brother, fellow Harbin board member Tianli Yang, fraudulently
obtained the official seal of China Construction Import Export Corp. (CCIE)
to guarantee a loan for Tinafu Yang’s company.
In the s... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2717 | 38 The thing is the it's not a graph for any stock. I just make it with the
following R code,
require(TTR)
ret<-cumsum(rnorm(252,sd=0.036))
ret2<-exp(ret)
p<-50*ret2
ma20<-SMA(p,20)
ema20<-emaTA(p,20)
ema50<-emaTA(p,50)
plot(p, type="l")
lines(ema20, type="l",col='green')
lines(ema50, type="l",col='red')
and I used lognormal distribution for the returns, textbook assumptions
for
a big group of models.
skeptic(as exists everywhere), yes, I borrowed this idea from ET. Please
don
't rush to criticize,... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 430 | 39 http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405297020355410457700340
Doubts Rise on EU Deal
Bond Investors Skeptical as Attention Shifts to Italy; High Rates for New
Debt
BY TOM LAURICELLA AND MATT PHILLIPS
Initial relief over Europe's latest attempt to end its debt crisis faded on
Friday as investors fretted about the plan's lack of detail and grew more
skeptical about Italy's turnaround effort.
One day after European leaders announced a series of measures aimed in part
at enticing investors back to... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 11265 | 40 5 Reasons Apple Could Defy Skeptics In 2013 Despite Q1 Earnings Miss3
comments, 0 called-out Comment Now Follow Comments Following Comments
Unfollow Comments
Comment Now Follow Comments Following Comments Unfollow Comments 423
Apple CEO Tim Cook (Photo: Getty Images via @daylife)
Thanks to a rare earnings miss in its fiscal first quarter, Apple shares are
falling nearly 11% in after-hours trading, to $458, after rising almost 2%
Wednesday before the close. Investors were disappointed in partic... 阅读全帖 |
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T**y
发帖数: 1024 | 41 Oil Prices: Four Experts Size Up the Energy Market
Four experts explain what’s ahead and highlight the best investment
opportunities in the energy sector.
February 14, 2015
Perhaps the biggest surprise of 2014 was the sharp decline in oil prices.
Black gold fell almost 60% from its summer peak of $107 to a low of $44 in
January, before enjoying a nice bounce to a recent $53. The reverberations—
good and bad—are being felt around the world, from the oil kingdoms of the
Middle East to Argentina, R... 阅读全帖 |
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y***n
发帖数: 2318 | 42 5 Principal Reasons Why I'm Still Short Tesla
Aug. 8, 2017 5:29 PM ET|
https://seekingalpha.com/article/4096526-5-principal-reasons-still-short-
tesla
Amit Ghate
Long/short equity, value
Summary
I review my long-standing TSLA short position.
Despite a large run-up in price, I find the reasons to be short the stock
more compelling than ever.
In particular, corporate governance, emerging competition, bloated
valuations and a slow change in sentiment toward the company may help
reverse the stock ru... 阅读全帖 |
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b*****d
发帖数: 61690 | 43 Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) is the big prize in the quest for more than 70
votes for immigration reform, but the Gang of Eight is split over whether he
’s worth wooing.
Cornyn told Republican colleagues at a meeting Wednesday that he would
consider making changes to his amendment to bolster the border-security
provisions of the Senate bill.
His willingness to negotiate left some Republicans convinced after the
meeting that he would strike a deal with the Gang of Eight and vote for
final passage. ... 阅读全帖 |
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b*****d
发帖数: 61690 | 44 Every Senate Republican leader will vote against the immigration reform bill
this week.
Those votes will increase Speaker John Boehner’s (R-Ohio) leverage with the
White House and Senate Democrats. But congressional experts say the Senate
GOP’s opposition decreases the chances that President Obama will sign an
immigration measure into law this year.
The unified leadership front against the pending Senate bill will help
Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) fend off calls to schedule a House vote on it.
... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 61690 | 45 Republican Reps. Kristi Noem of South Dakota and Kevin Cramer of North
Dakota separately stood up at a GOP meeting Wednesday and confronted their
leadership about its bumbling legislative strategy and inability to figure
out a way forward on the massive legislation, according to multiple sources
at the meeting.
Noem, who once served in Republican leadership, took aim squarely at
Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.). She reminded him that he controls the
House floor, and she drilled Cantor hard on... 阅读全帖 |
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L*****s
发帖数: 24744 | 46 I am a scientist, but not one to treat science as a religion.
I am skeptical about everything, but realistic in the face of my own
skepticism.
I love playing hoops, but am not in love with the sight of my terrible shots
.
I want to know almost everything, but concede that nothing can ever be known
for sure.
I believe that everything is changing, but never can I change what I've done
wrong.
I understand that chance is unpredictable, but predict that I will have
another chance. |
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L*****s
发帖数: 24744 | 47 I am a scientist, but not one to treat science as a religion.
I am skeptical about everything, but realistic in the face of my own
skepticism.
I love playing hoops, but am not in love with the sight of my terrible shots
.
I want to know almost everything, but concede that nothing can ever be known
for sure.
I believe that everything is changing, but never can I change what I've done
wrong.
I understand that chance is unpredictable, but predict that I will have
another chance. |
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a*****i
发帖数: 4391 | 48 however, seems like all of them who admitted using HGH used injury as a
smoke screen.... so hard to believe who to trust now.
And here is a good article on HGH:
http://www.healthandfitnessadvice.
com/the-healthy-skeptic/the-healthy-skeptic-human-growth-hormone-and-pro
-athletes-perfect-together.html |
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a*****g
发帖数: 19398 | 49 A Florida district has become the largest player in a national movement to t
each chess in public schools by providing weekly lessons to all of its 34,00
0 second- and third-graders. "I was skeptical of it in the beginning," teach
er Justine Maver said. "But you can put (chess) with anything, math, science
-- it really works."
－－－－－－－－－－－－－－
(Reuters) - Leaning over chess boards in the middle of classes, seven- and e
ight-year-olds in one of Florida's largest school districts furrow their bro
ws... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 6053 | 50 DAVID GREENE, HOST:
On a Monday, it's MORNING EDITION from NPR News. I'm David Greene.
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST:
And I'm Steve Inskeep.
Today in Your Health, we report on the most common reasons people go to the
doctor: back pain. More than 1 of every 4 adult Americans say they've
recently suffered a lower back pain, and that figure is on the rise.
Billions of dollars are spent every year treating that problem. But many
specialists say less medical treatment is usually more effective.
As part of our ... 阅读全帖 |
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