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发帖数: 118 | 1 The Antonov 225 is the largest and heaviest airliner in the world, there is
only one currently flying. It measures in at 84m long, 18.1m high, and
weighs 618,000 lbs empty. It can carry up to 500,000 pounds of payload. It’
s currently being used to haul the world’s largest concrete pump from South
Carolina to Japan to help with their nuclear reactors.
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发帖数: 23939 | 2 【 以下文字转载自 WaterWorld 讨论区 】
发信人: ironboy (tinny), 信区: WaterWorld
标 题: Matthew Shepard的父母饶恕了凶手
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Sun Apr 24 17:57:58 2011, 美东)
1998年的时候一个名叫MATTHEW SHEPARD的同性恋大男生被两个人抢劫，殴打，最后在
医院中死去。本来MATTHEW的父母可以寻求死刑，但是他们还是决定放弃这样做，这是
他们的法庭陈词。最后这两个人被判处终身监禁。
"...My son Matthew did not look like a winner. After all, he was small for his age--weighing, at the most, 110 pounds, and standing only 5'2" tall. He was rather uncoordinated and wore braces from the age of 13 until the day he died. However, in h... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 642 | 3 你不妨以此要求你自己，但是你不能以此评判别人。
his age--weighing, at the most, 110 pounds, and standing only 5'2" tall. He
was rather uncoordinated and wore braces from the age of 13 until the day
he died. However, in his all too brief life, he proved that he was a winner.
My son--a gentle, caring soul--proved that he was as tough as, if not
tougher than, anyone I have ever heard of or known. On October 6, 1998, my
son tried to show the world that he could win again.: On October 12, 1998,
my first-born son--and my h... 阅读全帖 |
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b*****i
发帖数: 849 | 4 yahoo上说老美加砖头了， in a weighed bag |
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发帖数: 2482 | 5 http://finance.yahoo.com/news/China-eases-trade-rules-rb-407455
China eases trade rules, allows U.S. fund sales
By Paul Eckert and Doug Palmer
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - China on Tuesday pledged easier access for U.S.
companies to key sectors of its economy by removing barriers to its huge
market in government contracts and offering a foothold to U.S. mutual funds.
The pledges were made in two days of talks between the world's two biggest
economies which ended with both sides hailing progress in the... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 452 | 6 IMF chief expected to be charged with sex attack
By Christine Kearney and Lesley Wroughton Christine Kearney And Lesley
Wroughton – 43 mins ago
NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – IMF chief and possible French presidential
contender Dominique Strauss-Kahn was taken into police custody and is
expected to be charged on Sunday with an alleged sexual assault of a hotel
maid in New York City, police said.
Strauss-Kahn, a key player in the world's response to the 2007-09 financial
meltdown and in Europe's... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 12853 | 7 本月刚刚心脏病去世的 Omar Ahmad, San Carlos 市长。
Mayor dies of heart attack: San Carlos colleagues shocked at Omar Ahmad’s
sudden death
May 11, 2011, 04:02 AM By Michelle Durand Daily Journal Staff
Andrew Scheiner/Daily Journal
San Carlos Mayor Omar Ahmad died of a heart attack Tuesday.
San Carlos Mayor Omar Ahmad, known for his humor and long history with
Silicon Valley ventures as much as his civic duty, died early Tuesday
morning of a heart attack at age 46.
The news left City Hall shocked, with the f... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 8931 | 8 http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2074
Measuring three ft. long and weighing up to 100 lbs., Asian carp are hardly your average fish. Originally from China, Asian carp are an invasive collection of fish that take over and destroy ecosystems by devouring plankton and disrupting their habitat's existing food chain. They're ravenous (often eating half of their body weight in one day), reproduce often and are difficult to capture. One particular species, the silver carp, can... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 26222 | 9 What is the True Level of U.S. Inflation? Is it as High as 8%?
From Mike Moffatt, About.com Guide March 12, 2008
Sponsored Links
I have been hearing from a number of people that inflation 'feels' higher
than the reported statistics. While I do not believe there is a "true" value
of inflation (because inflation is somewhat of an arbitrary construct), I
do have the same gut feeling. Perhaps it is because the inflation figures
often reported are of "core" inflation, that is inflation for people wh... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1843 | 10 brown bear can weigh from 300 to 780 kilograms (660 to 1,700 lb) and its
largest subspecies, the Kodiak Bear, rivals the polar bear as the largest
member of the bear family and as the largest land-based predator.
Brown bears often use their large size for intimidation when a kill or a
territory is in dispute with another large predator and they are normally
dominant in such interactions. Sometimes, the conflict will escalate to the
point of violence, but usually threat displays are sufficient, s... 阅读全帖 |
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l****8
发帖数: 1843 | 11 brown bear can weigh from 300 to 780 kilograms (660 to 1,700 lb) and its
largest subspecies, the Kodiak Bear, rivals the polar bear as the largest
member of the bear family and as the largest land-based predator.
Brown bears often use their large size for intimidation when a kill or a
territory is in dispute with another large predator and they are normally
dominant in such interactions. Sometimes, the conflict will escalate to the
point of violence, but usually threat displays are sufficient, s... 阅读全帖 |
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c**i
发帖数: 6973 | 12 (1) Robots | Zoobotics; A new generation of animal-like robots is about
to emerge from the laboratory. Economist, July 7, 2011
http://www.economist.com/node/18925855
Note:
(a) phylum (n; New Latin, from Greek phylon tribe, race; First Known Use:
1876):
" a group that constitutes or has the unity of a phylum; specifically : a
primary category in biological taxonomy especially of animals that ranks
above the class and below the kingdom"
www.m-w.com
(b) R2-D2
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R2-D2
(... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3358 | 13 http://news.cnet.com/8301-13645_3-10466722-47.html
Hifiman HM-801 vs. iPod, Zune: A sound winner?
Sure, iPods and Zunes can sound perfectly fine, but no one ever claimed they
were bona fide portable high-end audio devices. Their "good enough" sound
isn't entirely their fault: they're too small to house a battery potent
enough to power a high-quality headphone amplifier and a high-resolution 24-
bit/96kHz digital-to-analog converter.
The Hifiman High Fidelity Music Player HM-801 is the Hummer of ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4825 | 14 http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-08-11/china-s-yuan-strengthe
The yuan strengthened beyond 6.4 per dollar for the first time in 17 years,
supported by the Federal Reserve’s pledge to keep interest rates at a
record low and signs China will use currency gains to help rein in inflation.
The currency rose the most since November and 12-month non- deliverable
forwards climbed to a three-month high after the central bank’s daily
fixing had its biggest jump of 2011. Customs bureau data released yest... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2535 | 15 and senior ministers will hold a second emergency meeting in Whitehall on
Wednesday morning with the leadership of Scotland Yard to consider the
impact of the beefed-up police operation in London overnight.
Amid the first signs of strains within the coalition over the response to
the riots, government sources said the prime minister has called for an
early assessment of the decision to increase police numbers in the capital
from 6,000 to 16,000. Michael Gove, the education secretary, told Channe... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 15836 | 16 From Wikipedia:
The brown bear (Ursus arctos) is a large bear distributed across much of
northern Eurasia and North America. It can weigh from 300 to 780
kilograms。
嗯，看来你是对的。500-700公斤的成年熊我想一般不会被任何虎吃掉的。 |
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发帖数: 6973 | 17 Nathan Hodge, Robots: America's Newest Soldiers. Wall Street Jurnal, Aug 19,
2011.
Note:
(a) There is no need tor ead the report.
(b) The report features
(i) "QinetiQ's grenade- and gun-equipped robot for sentry duty" (photo
caption).
Foster-Miller TALON
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foster-Miller_TALON
(a six barreled 40 mm grenade launcher; Foster-Miller is working on a
successor: the Modular Advanced Armed Robotic System (MAARS))
MAARS is the one displayed in the WSJ photo.
(ii) Lockheed Marti... 阅读全帖 |
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l****u
发帖数: 3130 | 18 weighs one ton and is 21ft long |
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发帖数: 6963 | 19 Prof. Bhabhani Nagchoudhury (Kolkata)
38 mins ago (10:01 PM)
This is no great achievement from a scientific point of view while it might
impress a lay person. It is less impressive launch than the April 19, 1971
launch of the Salyut by the USSR.. It just weighs between 5-6 tons and is
extremely crude. Any space power can do this easily. The Chinese still do
not have crogenic rocket technology. however, they do have several thousand
Jewish and Israeli technicians helping them though in a very sub... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4653 | 20 http://www.metro.us/newyork/local/article/993366--pedestrians-p
The Occupy Wall Street protesters aren’t going anywhere — and neither are
the NYPD barricades blocking Wall Street.
“I hate the barricades. It’s like we’re caged in,” said Janice Weinman,
38, who works in hospitality on Wall Street. “They have to give us our
sidewalk back.”
Chris Richards, 33, who works in finance on Wall Street, said it’s not even
the protesters who annoy him; it’s the blockades that jam the sidewalks.
“I hate thes... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 7490 | 21 的确，马上又要印钱了
QE3 is around the corner
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-11-02
/fed-seen-laying-ground-for-more-large-scale-asset-purchases.html
Fed Lays Ground for Large-Scale Asset Buys
Federal Reserve officials are probably engineering a third round of large-
scale asset purchases, while they are unlikely to announce a decision today,
according to economists in a Bloomberg News survey.
Sixty-nine percent of those surveyed say Chairman Ben S. Bernanke will
embark on a third round of quantitative... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 21731 | 22 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/03/herman-cain-china-nucl
Herman Cain is having a tough week.
On top of struggling to effectively respond to multiple allegations of past
sexual harassment made against him that have resurfaced, Cain stumbled on
foreign policy when he incorrectly claimed China is trying to develop
nuclear capability. In fact, the country's first test on a nuclear device
was back in 1964.
Cain addressed the gaffe in an interview with Ginni Thomas of The Daily
Caller on Wednes... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2897 | 23 Carbon Credits Becoming ‘Junk’ Before 2013 Ban Closes Door: Energy Markets
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-12-06/carbon-credits-becomin
Investors are rushing to sell some United Nations emission credits before
they become almost worthless in 2013, pushing prices to a record low.
With Europe set to stop recognizing credits for projects that destroy
industrial gases known as hydrofluorocarbon-23 and nitrous oxide in little
more than a year, holders are “racing to beat” the ban, according to
Blo... 阅读全帖 |
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M1
发帖数: 2038 | 24 这娃生于2011.11.11.11:11:11, weighs 11 lbs 11 oz. |
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发帖数: 5617 | 25 http://news.creaders.net/headline/subject_details.php?nid=49457
万维读者网 > 中国嘹望 > 万维专稿 > 正文
从解放军的外语看中国的战略
万维读者网 2011-11-23 22:05:45
万维读者网记者江夏编译报道：美国军方《武装部队杂志》(Armed Forces Journal)
2011年11月号刊登韓德森（Scott J. Henderson）的文章说，美国和西方对中国的观察
，通常基于政府政策的演变、外交关系、实力重组等因素，但还有另一个有用的参照物
，那就是军队的外语培训。
早在1949年，中国人民解放军就在洛阳建立了外语学院，作为培养国防语言人才的摇篮
。现在洛阳“解放军外语大学”已经培养了5万多名毕业生，担负起军事翻译、军事外
交、国际反恐、联合国维和行动等各项工作。从该校的课程设置可知，这是一所培训(
能破解密碼的)多种语言人才的军事情报学府。
解放军外语大学出版自己的《外语杂志》。1978年至1987年，以英文、俄文、日文、韩
文为主要出版语种。相对少的外国语种，显示当时中国主要关注的是周边... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 602 | 26 China's Superior Economic Model
The free-market fundamentalist economic model is being thrown onto the trash
heap of history.
By ANDY STERN
Andy Grove, the founder and chairman of Intel, provocatively wrote in
Businessweek last year that, "Our fundamental economic beliefs, which we
have elevated from a conviction based on observation to an unquestioned
truism, is that the free market is the best of all economic systems—the
freer the better. Our generation has seen the decisive victory of free-
m... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 25262 | 27 http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/15/world/asia/chinese-village-lo
Chinese Village Locked in Rebellion Against Authorities
By ANDREW JACOBS
BEIJING — A long-running dispute between farmers and local officials in
southern China exploded into open rebellion this week after villagers chased
away government leaders, set up roadblocks and began arming themselves with
homemade weapons, residents said.
The conflict in Wukan, a coastal settlement near the country’s booming
industrial heartland in Guangdong... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4825 | 28 http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/19/opinion/krugman-will-china-br
Consider the following picture: Recent growth has relied on a huge
construction boom fueled by surging real estate prices, and exhibiting all
the classic signs of a bubble. There was rapid growth in credit — with much
of that growth taking place not through traditional banking but rather
through unregulated “shadow banking” neither subject to government
supervision nor backed by government guarantees. Now the bubble is bursting
— an... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 14194 | 29 see, 碳排放指标正在被清零。
早卖的发财了，哈哈。
祝贺沙钢！
Carbon Credits Becoming ‘Junk’ Before 2013 Ban Closes
Door: Energy Markets
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-12-06/carbon-
credits-becomin
Investors are rushing to sell some United Nations
emission credits before
they become almost worthless in 2013, pushing prices
to a record low.
With Europe set to stop recognizing credits for
projects that destroy
industrial gases known as hydrofluorocarbon-23 and
nitrous oxide in little
more than a year, holders are “racing... 阅读全帖 |
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I******a
发帖数: 3812 | 30 I think that penis pump judge Thompson and Monsanto's Thurgood Marshall
weigh against this "fairness". |
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发帖数: 1840 | 31 http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-02-02/harvard-targeted-in-u-
The U.S. Education Department is probing complaints that Harvard University
and Princeton University discriminate against Asian-Americans in
undergraduate admissions.
The department’s Office for Civil Rights is investigating a complaint it
received in August that Harvard rejected an Asian- American candidate for
the current freshman class based on race or national origin, a department
spokesman said. The agency is looking into a sim... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 17722 | 32
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别做梦了。后清已放弃自己切身利益，倒向以国。
后清更感兴趣继续消气媚外，为坑过自己的以国建铁路。
踏入人家精心设计的陷阱，去得罪伊斯兰世界和其它中东国家。
看以下的连接：
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/NB02Ad01.html
A dragon dance in the Negev
By M K Bhadrakumar
There is no record of dragons in the nomadic life of the Negev desert, which
dates back at least 4, 000 years (some say 7,000). That may be about to
change in the Year of the Dragon.
The Bedouins of the Negev will soon witness the sight of a Chinese-built
railway line snaking its way thr... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2289 | 33 介个原来是爱尔兰足球：Gaelic football
The game is played with a round leather football made of 18 stitched leather
panels, similar in appearance to a traditional volleyball, with a
circumference of 69–74 cm (27–29 in), weighing between 370–425 g (13–15.
0 oz) when dry. It may be kicked or hand passed. A hand pass is not a punch
but rather a strike of the ball with the side of the closed fist, using the
knuckle of the thumb.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaelic_football |
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发帖数: 115 | 34 HONG KONG (MarketWatch) -- China manufacturing activity fell sharply in
March as the rate of booking new orders fell to a four-month low at
factories, leading to weaker generation of jobs, according to an initial
reading of findings in an HSBC survey released Thursday. The so-called "
flash" manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index for March printed at 48.1,
down from a final reading of 49.6 in February, HSBC said. "Weakening
domestic demand continued to weigh on growth, as indicated by a slowdo... 阅读全帖 |
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C****a
发帖数: 139 | 35 While in life Trayvon Martin was barely 17, when it comes to justifiable
homicide his size -- about 6-foot-3 and 150 pounds -- makes him an adult in
death.
Zimmerman, 28, is 5-foot-9 and weighs well over 200 pounds.
facts
blink |
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y****t
发帖数: 10233 | 36 【 以下文字转载自 USANews 讨论区 】
发信人: yourtt (rainmaker), 信区: USANews
标 题: 这两个英国老的命就没有travon那么好.
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Thu Mar 29 14:38:30 2012, 美东)
嘿嘿...
这两吊丝还真以为他们是stephenking了.
Families Of British Teens Murdered In U.S. Lash Out At Obama White House For
Ignoring Them
Before the Obama presidency, it would have been considered ludicrous for the
White House to weigh into every politically relevant criminal act – but
the president has invited this criticism by elevating several local
controversies to national ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 8042 | 37 世界首次发现带毛大型恐龙，特别是恐龙之王，霸王龙。
比较cute的是，这个带毛霸王龙貌似头部还有冠。
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46954385/ns/technology_and_science-
Scientists find the king of the feathered dinosaurs
The discovery of a giant meat-eating dinosaur sporting a downy coat has some
scientists reimagining the look of Tyrannosaurus rex.
With a killer jaw and sharp claws, T. rex has long been depicted in movies
and popular culture as having scaly skin. But the discovery of an earlier
relative suggests the king of dinosaurs may have had ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2088 | 38 coyote weigh from 15–46 lb (6.8–21 kg) |
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发帖数: 18007 | 39 http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/princess-cruis
真他妈虚伪
RIO HATO, Panama — A Panamanian man and his two friends had been drifting
for 16 days in an open fishing boat in the Pacific Ocean when they saw a
huge white ship. They would be saved, they thought, and Adrian Vasquez began
waving a dark red sweater.
Birdwatchers with powerful spotting scopes on the promenade deck of the
luxury cruise ship Star Princess saw a little boat adrift miles away. They
told ship staff about the man de... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 704 | 40 hairy bathroom hole dared to use force because he had little to lose but
enough shitizens to be sacrificed.
No China hesitates to use force because we have too much to consider.
War is only a way to achieve your goal. You have to weigh all the options.
Waging hot war is the worst option to win a war.
China has other weapons to do the same. |
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发帖数: 481 | 41 More US homes facing foreclosure risk in June
By ALEX VEIGA | Associated Press
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Banks are increasingly placing homes with unpaid
mortgages on a countdown that could deliver a swell of new foreclosed
properties onto the market by early next year, potentially weighing further
on home values.
June provided the latest evidence of this trend, as the number of U.S. homes
entering the foreclosure process for the first time increased on an annual
basis for the second month in a row, fo... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 481 | 42 Analysis: In the U.S. housing market, recovery or Lost Decade?
By Michelle Conlin and Leah Schnurr | Reuters – Sun, Jul 15, 2012
(Reuters) - The worst U.S. housing crisis since the Great Depression has
been declared over. But is it?
What some of Wall Street's forecasts for a recovery may be underestimating
are tectonic shifts in the U.S. economy that make the housing market a
different place from a decade ago.
Record levels of student debt, 15 years of flat incomes and the fact that
nearly half ... 阅读全帖 |
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H****g
发帖数: 14447 | 43 真能扯淡。下面就是马克思谈鸦片战争的文章，请你找出那一句能对应上你帖子里的文
字？
Trade or Opium?
By Karl Marx
September 20, 1858
THE NEWS of the new treaty wrung from China by the allied Plenipotentiaries
has, it would appear, conjured up the same wild vistas of an immense
extension of trade which danced before the eyes of the commercial mind in
1845, after the conclusion of the first Chinese war. Supposing the
Petersburg wires to have spoken truth, is it quite certain that an increase
of the Chinese trade must follow upon the multip... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3241 | 44 标题可能断章取义了。
strategic shifts like Mott's are rare. Only 4% of the 513 business
technology pros we surveyed in our 2011 State of IT Outsourcing Survey said
their companies plan to decrease their use of IT outsourcing. Seventeen
percent were weighing their options, and the remaining 79% were maintaining
or increasing their outsourcing.
http://www.informationweek.com/news/global-cio/interviews/24000 |
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发帖数: 481 | 45 Second India blackout in two days cuts power to 670 million
By Frank Jack Daniel | Reuters
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Grids supplying electricity to half of India's 1.2
billion people collapsed on Tuesday, trapping coal miners, stranding train
travelers and plunging hospitals into darkness in the second major blackout
in as many days.
Stretching from Assam, near China, to the Himalayas and the northwestern
deserts of Rajasthan, the outage was the worst to hit India in more than a
decade and embarrass... 阅读全帖 |
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S*********y
发帖数: 481 | 46 Nine Great American Companies That Will Never Recover
By Douglas A. McIntyre | 24/7 Wall St – Wed, Aug 8, 2012
Many American companies have been lauded for their rapid rise to greatness,
a process that sometimes takes less than a decade. These firms become
leaders in their industries, are renowned for innovation, phenomenal growth,
and, in the case of public corporations, their soaring share prices. Google
Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) usually makes the list, as does Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:
AAPL). At the othe... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 481 | 47 用偷盗来的苹果产品通过itune连接因特网，结果被苹果跟踪锁定
Steve Jobs home burglary suspect accused of stealing wallet, driver's
license, special computers with house key
By Mike Rosenberg and Jason Green
Staff writers
© Copyright 2012, Bay Area News Group
Posted: 08/14/2012
PALO ALTO -- Detectives say Kariem McFarlin told them he was desperate for
easy cash when he saw the Palo Alto home being renovated, hopped over the
fence, found a spare key and went inside. No lights, no alarm, no one home.
Then he discovered ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 187 | 48 【 以下文字转载自 Olympics 讨论区 】
发信人: WorldCitizen (世界公民), 信区: Olympics
标 题: 'Lifetime ban' set for Armstrong
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Fri Aug 24 12:12:34 2012, 美东)
(CNN) -- Famed cyclist Lance Armstrong faces the prospect of losing seven
Tour de France titles and his fabled championship legacy after he ended his
fight against charges of illegal doping.
Armstrong, who has consistently denied allegations of illegal doping, made
his announcement to stop battling the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency's "one-sided
and unfair... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3962 | 49 你在市区建weigh station?你在美国见过这样的？呵呵 |
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发帖数: 1815 | 50 UNITED NATIONS, Aug 30 (Reuters) - France and Britain warned Syria's
President Bashar al-Assad on Thursday that military action to secure safe
zones for civilians inside the country was being considered despite the
paralysis of the U.N. Security Council over how to end the 17-month conflict.
While the Security Council impasse between western nations and Russia and
China means a resolution to approve such a move appears impossible,
countries could act outside the authority of the world body and i... 阅读全帖 |
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