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Is 3D Food Printing the Future of Cooking? 3D食物打印机替你下厨？ Lunchtime in the office. Perhaps you've brought some of last night's leftover stir-fry from home, or some takeaway dumplings from a stall. Or perhaps you're sitting around th
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Will the Rabbit Year Bring Wealth and Happiness?兔年能带给你财运和幸福吗？ Articulate, ambitious and affectionate - maybe a little timid - but overall very lucky. These are some of the characteristics usually associated with people born
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Pig Farmers Needed to Satisfy Pork Demand 养猪农户需要满足市场的猪肉需求 Today's Britain is full of TV shows like Fame Academy, which claim to offer young hopefuls an instant passport to fame and riches. But a very different kind of ac
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Reading 1: Can a Tweet Ever Be a Grand Romantic Gesture? 一条推特信息能否成为一个经典的浪漫之举？ Picture the scene. It is dark except for the dim yellow candlelight; it is silent except for the scratching of a pen. A young lover
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It's the wedding of the year and everybody is invited! Well, that's not quite true. We can't offer you an actual invitation to Prince William and Kate Middleton's big day all 1,900 of those have already been allocated but we are offering you a very s
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In the UK a tiny animal has kicked off a big debate. 'Rastamouse' is a much talked-about new animated BBC children's show. The star of the programme is a cute Rastafarian mouse who, together with his reggae band, solves crimes. The show has caused a
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How far have British women come in their journey for equal rights? A new survey gives a mixed picture. The poll was done to celebrate the 100th anniversary of International Women's Day, which is today. It was commissioned by a group of UK charities a
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Buying and Selling 购买与销售 Will Usain Bolt set another Olympic record? And will 2012 be Liu Xiang's year again? Now you can make sure you will be in a perfect position to answer these questions. Tickets for the 2012 Olympic Games have gone on
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Charities and Giving 慈善和捐助 Some of the world's top music stars are coming together in the name of charity. A special album will be released at the end of this week to raise money for victims of the recent massive earthquake and tsunami in J
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What's that loud, droning noise? Is it a telephone? Or maybe a pigeon? No, it's Smokey. This English cat might soon be named the world's loudest purrer after she made an official attempt at a world record. Smokey's strident purr was recorded as being
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Britain is sometimes called a nation of collectors. This is never more true than when a royal wedding is about to take place. Plates, T-shirts, a comic book, stamps... there is no end to the pile of royal memorabilia being created in celebration of P
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Lunchtime Botox anyone? Would $25,000 (164,000 yuan) for IVF treatment be helpful? How about an on-site nursery place... for your pet? Fortune Magazine has revealed that top companies offer some pretty fancy perks to attract employees. Staff sweetene
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St James's Palace has announced that while Miss Middleton will wear a wedding ring, Prince William has chosen not to. Rings are typically exchanged by couples during their wedding to signify commitment to each other. Does it matter if husbands don't
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How do you gauge a country's well-being? The usual approach is to look at economic indicators like GDP or employment figures, or social ones like literacy levels or crime rates. But in Britain politicians are seeking a much more basic measure of the
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Sony has hired private investigators following the theft of personal data belonging to more than 100 million online gamers. On Tuesday the company admitted that there had been a cyber attack on the Sony Online Entertainment (SOE) network in April. Th
