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Screen Test 1. Every year millions of women are screened with X-rays to pick up signs of breast cancer. If this happens early enough, the disease can ...
English and English Community 1. There is no denying that English is a useful language. The people who speak English today make up the largest speech ...
Heartbeat of America1. New York—the Statue of Liberty, the skyscrapers, the beautiful shops on Fifth Avenue and the many theaters on Broadway. This is...
A Baby’s Growth1. To describe a baby's growth, the old saying “one thing leads to another” should really read, “one thing leads to an explosion.” ...
Optimists Really Do Live Longer, Say Scientists1. For the philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer optimism was fundamentally wrong, banal and corrupting, whil...
The Mir Space Station1. The Russian Mir Space Station, which came down in 2001 at last after 15 years of pioneering the concept of long-term human spa...
Watching Microcurrents Flow We can now watch electricity as it flows through even the tiniest circuits. By scanning the magnetic field generated as el...
Tests Show Women Suited for Space Travel（理工类） Between 1997 and 1981, three groups of American women, numbering 27 in all, between the age of 35 and 65...
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