G******t
发帖数: 1782 | 1 据这篇USDavis的文章说，
Guided by a prominent Washington law firm, the IFCSS conducted a powerfully
organized lobbying effort. Using the Internet to coordinate their lobbying
activities among Chinese students across the U.S., they inundated House and
Senate offices with faxes, jammed White House phone lines, and most
importantly, exploited an insider knowledge of the centers of power in
Congress.
当时有个参议院：
Senator Simpson from Wyoming, in an earlier Senate speech, had warned that
the Chinese students
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r********n
发帖数: 1162 | 2 From Q's blog:
http://www.qesehmk.org/forums/showthread.php?148-EB2-Prediction
Employment-based priority dates will advance again with the March Visa
Bulletin, likely by at least a few months. An advance of six months is
possible, although an advance of one year is not likely. He will know as
this month moves on. With normal USCIS adjustment of status processing times
of four-to-six months, March is the last time for Mr. Oppenheim to get the
AOS cases filed and possibly approved in FY2012. He wi... 阅读全帖 |
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p*****a
发帖数: 3634 | 3 Visa Office Update on Priority Dates and Demand
Cite as "AILA InfoNet Doc. No. 12012349 (posted Jan. 23, 2012)"
On Thursday, January 19, 2012, Business committee chair Mike Nowlan and
Students & Scholars committee member, Roberta Freedman, discussed the Visa
Bulletin, visa demand in the employment preference categories, and
predictions for FY2012 with Charlie Oppenheim of the Visa Office. Notes from
that discussion are:
EB green card usage has been very slow in FY2012, so DOS is advancing the
da... 阅读全帖 |
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H******i
发帖数: 4704 | 4 Numbers USA reports that its members have inundated the office of Sen. Marco
Rubio (R-Fla.) with 100,000 faxes this year warning him that his central
role in pursuing changes in immigration laws could damage his future
political prospects.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/effort-to-change-immigra |
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m******h
发帖数: 5753 | 5 【 以下文字转载自 Fishing 讨论区 】
发信人: massfish (Mass Fishing), 信区: Fishing
标 题: 大风起兮云飞扬
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Mon Aug 29 11:21:39 2011, 美东)
大风起兮云飞扬, 威加海内兮归故乡，安得猛士兮守四方！
不知为何老想这几句词， 其实和hurricane 沾不上边的
MA风吹不到， 雨淋不着，地震也躲着。 真的是老天爷的眷顾， MA 这块风水宝地上发
脾气次数有史以来屈指可数。 家家户户的house 保险低的可怜， 过个大风下场大雨跟
中个奖差不多。 终于盼系星星， 盼月亮， 盼来了大自然破坏力最大的飓风老人家。
机会难得， 一定好好欣赏天气陛下的威颜。听广播， 看电视， 查path，看看到底啥
时候能到咱这疙瘩， 兴奋啊， 哈哈
周五下午， 听天气预报， 政府叫干啥就干啥， 麻小鱼照葫芦画瓢， 搞了个list，
面包啊， 水啊， 十几样， 不过最后就买了一大块ham， 几包面包。
周六： 平静的很啊， 飓风换远着那， 上午：一会儿阴天，一会儿晴天，云过雨似牛
毛， 有点闷热。 中午... 阅读全帖 |
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R**********n
发帖数: 523 | 6 【 以下文字转载自 USANews 讨论区 】
发信人: RichardBiton (Richard), 信区: USANews
标 题: Millions of Broken American Dreams zzz
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Wed Nov 13 16:11:58 2013, 美东)
http://www.weidb.com/voice/index.php?title=Millions_of_Broken_A
Millions of Broken American Dreams -- An Open Letter to the World
November 12, 2013
Dear Fair and Righteous Citizens of the World,
We don't know who you are, but we know you are out there. We are
asking for your urgent help. We have been rendered voiceless, powerles... 阅读全帖 |
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A****h
发帖数: 385 | 7 Here is one reader's review of the book "too soon old, too late smart." I
like this book because, when I first peeked at its cover at B&N, its title
struck me like a lighting bolt. I was totally inundated by the sad, albeit
so true, sentiment illicited by these words.
http://www.amazon.com/Too-Soon-Old-Late-Smart/product-reviews/B |
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g******4
发帖数: 6339 | 8 Of the roughly 40,000 Chinese students applying to universities in the
United States last year, around 200 were accepted into Ivy League schools.
As a Beijing-based consultant puts it drily: “Harvard only accepts seven or
eight Chinese students a year, and one of them is bound to be the offspring
of a tycoon or a leader.”
......
American admissions officers say they are now inundated with videos, photo
albums and even hardback books from Chinese applicants trying to impress
them with their explo... 阅读全帖 |
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wh
发帖数: 141625 | 9 时间地点介绍贴在下面。看上去是从抗战时期、蒋介石炸毁河南郑州花园口的黄河大堤
说起，到1941-43年的河南大饥荒。河南作家刘震云的中篇小说《温故一九四二》说的
就是那个事儿，大批河南人背井离乡逃难，还有很多人吃人的事件，惨不忍睹。建国以
后挖井、修渠，有个很出名的红旗渠。但现在黄河水一年比一年干，水渠的水也比以前
少很多。去年去河南，听当地人说因为挖井、修渠大量开发地下水，破坏了生态环境平
衡。这个讲座似乎还是持积极态度的。有关心这方面的朋友可以去听听。
Monday, April 9, 2012 (4:30 PM)
2011-2012 CEAS CHINA COLLOQUIUM SERIES
War, Water, Power: An Environmental History of Henan's Yellow River Flood
Area, 1938-1952
Micah Muscolino – Associate Professor of History, Georgetown University
4:30 PM, Room 203, Luce Hall, 34 Hil... 阅读全帖 |
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w*******w
发帖数: 2051 | 10 SM 官网发布的
Following the devastating earthquake and subsequent tsunami striking
Northern Japan, the NOAA’s National Weather Service West Coast and Alaska
Tsunami Warning Center has issued a Tsunami Advisory for the coastal areas
of Los Angeles County. A Tsunami Advisory indicates that a tsunami capable
of producing strong currents or waves dangerous to persons in or very near
the water is expected. Significant, widespread inundation is not expected
for areas under an advisory. Currents may be ha... 阅读全帖 |
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a***s
发帖数: 1084 | 11 http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/09/foul-stink-likely
Authorities said the foul smell reported by thousands of Southern California
residents from Palm Springs to Ventura County was mostly likely caused by a
fish die-off at the Salton Sea combined with strong winds overnight that
pushed the smell into the Los Angeles area.
Officials investigating stressed that they have not determined an official
cause — and added they've never heard of the Salton Sea die-off smell
spreading so far. But... 阅读全帖 |
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R**********n
发帖数: 523 | 12 http://www.weidb.com/voice/index.php?title=Millions_of_Broken_A
Millions of Broken American Dreams -- An Open Letter to the World
November 12, 2013
Dear Fair and Righteous Citizens of the World,
We don't know who you are, but we know you are out there. We are
asking for your urgent help. We have been rendered voiceless, powerless, and
hopeless by the American mass media and many Americans. The American mass
media have lost journalistic ethics and objectivity and have been blatantly... 阅读全帖 |
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z****n
发帖数: 5870 | 13 【 以下文字转载自 USANews 讨论区 】
发信人: RichardBiton (Richard), 信区: USANews
标 题: Millions of Broken American Dreams zzz
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Wed Nov 13 16:11:58 2013, 美东)
http://www.weidb.com/voice/index.php?title=Millions_of_Broken_A
Millions of Broken American Dreams -- An Open Letter to the World
November 12, 2013
Dear Fair and Righteous Citizens of the World,
We don't know who you are, but we know you are out there. We are
asking for your urgent help. We have been rendered voiceless, powerles... 阅读全帖 |
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r******e
发帖数: 534 | 14 In two weeks' time I will be going away,
loading years of memories in my car.
Will it be sunshine, or a rainy day?
No matter what, I will travel afar.
Wandering between the corners of lands,
I leave when it begins to feel like home,
like the Earth among stars, a dust in sands,
like clouds driven by wanton winds to roam.
Farewell, the summer breeze that gently blows
over the silent river and the arks.
As the inundant river of time flows,
it surely will wash away all my marks.
Yet I know one imagi |
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l*******r
发帖数: 170 | 15 今天正好看到这个：
http://www.humanesociety.org/issues/exotic_pets/facts/thinking_
Thinking of Getting a Pet Turtle?
Consider the risks to your health, the earth and the animals
The Humane Society of the United States
Turtles and tortoises belong in the wild, not as pets. The HSUS
In true Hollywood style, the success of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
movie has produced plenty of hype about turtles and tortoises. Turtle fans
should think twice, though, before getting one as a pet. Besides requiring
... 阅读全帖 |
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G****a
发帖数: 10208 | 16 【 以下文字转载自 Mathematics 讨论区 】
发信人: justice (i_see_1), 信区: Mathematics
标 题: Re: Boston.com 介绍老张的个人情况
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Thu May 23 21:50:23 2013, 美东)
Obscure University of New Hampshire math professor takes major step toward
elusive proof
By Carolyn Y. Johnson, Globe Staff
42
783
Lisa Nugent, UNH Photographic Services
Yitang Zhang, a math lecturer at the University of New Hampshire
A soft-spoken, virtually unknown mathematician from the University of New
Hampshire has found himself overnight a min... 阅读全帖 |
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m****s
发帖数: 8992 | 17 with the palisades cliffs that HIGH?
no danger what so ever to flooding in general sense.
That said,
when heavy rainfall inundates the drains in terms of flow speed, local
flooding is very possible. particularly in lower points, or areas with
clogged drains. |
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m****s
发帖数: 8992 | 18
TRUE => 一般来说，冬天雪多，春天雨水就少。
(Stationary sum -> seasonal mean reversion)
TRUE => 最怕春天也来个几场暴雨，这些洼地就更没法住人了。
(elevated water level, inundated drain system)
TRUE => 趁早赶紧搬，是个好主意。房子还能卖个不错的价钱。 |
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n*******8
发帖数: 1026 | 19 A group of more than 100 scientists and experts say in a new report that
California faces the risk of a massive "superstorm" that could flood a
quarter of the state's homes and cause $300 billion to $400 billion in
damage. Researchers point out that the potential scale of destruction in
this storm scenario is four or five times the amount of damage that could be
wrought by a major earthquake.
It sounds like the plot of an apocalyptic action movie, but scientists with
the U.S. Geological Survey w... 阅读全帖 |
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G***Y
发帖数: 9698 | 20 以下是转自MT的网站， 估计发布没多久
Statement from MTA Chairman Joseph J. Lhota on Service Recovery
The New York City subway system is 108 years old, but it has never faced a
disaster as devastating as what we experienced last night. Hurricane Sandy
wreaked havoc on our entire transportation system, in every borough and
county of the region. It has brought down trees, ripped out power and
inundated tunnels, rail yards and bus depots. As of last night, seven subway
tunnels under the East River flooded. Metro-Nor... 阅读全帖 |
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f*****E
发帖数: 165 | 21 First time home buyer just got the Residential Disclosure Report. The house
is located in a Liquefaction Hazard Zone and Dam Inundation Zone. Is this
quite normal in the bay area or is it a very special case I need to walk
away? Thanks for all kinds of inputs. |
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d*2
发帖数: 2053 | 22 http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/20110117/us_yblog_thel
By Liz Goodwin
A group of more than 100 scientists and experts say in a new report that
California faces the risk of a massive "superstorm" that could flood a
quarter of the state's homes and cause $300 billion to $400 billion in
damage. Researchers point out that the potential scale of destruction in
this storm scenario is four or five times the amount of damage that could be
wrought by a major earthquake.
It sounds like the plot o... 阅读全帖 |
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m*****y
发帖数: 2424 | 23 Then their freshman classes will be consisted of half white and half asians
with couple black and Hispanics mixed in, and the schools will be inundated
with law suits from ACLU, NAACP, and boat loads of other liberal
organizations. Not worth the attention and risk.
Espenshade |
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R******d
发帖数: 5739 | 24 这个是你自己的臆想。 有的学校就没有接受Affimative action的。
asians
inundated |
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w*****e
发帖数: 215 | 25 买房中，刚才拿到房子的disclosure, 发现是“AN AREA OF POTENTIAL FLOODING
shown on a dam failure inundation map pursuant to Section 8589.5 of the
Government Code” |
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R**********n
发帖数: 523 | 28 【 以下文字转载自 USANews 讨论区 】
发信人: RichardBiton (Richard), 信区: USANews
标 题: Millions of Broken American Dreams zzz
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Wed Nov 13 16:11:58 2013, 美东)
http://www.weidb.com/voice/index.php?title=Millions_of_Broken_A
Millions of Broken American Dreams -- An Open Letter to the World
November 12, 2013
Dear Fair and Righteous Citizens of the World,
We don't know who you are, but we know you are out there. We are
asking for your urgent help. We have been rendered voiceless, powerles... 阅读全帖 |
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z****n
发帖数: 5870 | 29 【 以下文字转载自 USANews 讨论区 】
发信人: RichardBiton (Richard), 信区: USANews
标 题: Millions of Broken American Dreams zzz
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Wed Nov 13 16:11:58 2013, 美东)
http://www.weidb.com/voice/index.php?title=Millions_of_Broken_A
Millions of Broken American Dreams -- An Open Letter to the World
November 12, 2013
Dear Fair and Righteous Citizens of the World,
We don't know who you are, but we know you are out there. We are
asking for your urgent help. We have been rendered voiceless, powerles... 阅读全帖 |
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C**********y
发帖数: 480 | 30 看这篇文章：
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/09/01/friends-israel
有点长，一句话总结：胡萝卜加大棒，各议员的竞选经费10～15%来自犹太人，不听话
，下次对手会拿到这钱，差额就是20到30%！
This was a daunting challenge. Jews made up less than three per cent of the
American population, concentrated in nine states, and they voted
overwhelmingly Democratic. How could AIPAC, with such a small base, become a
political force in both parties and in every state?
Dine launched a grass-roots campaign, sending young staff members around the
country to search for ... 阅读全帖 |
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c*********t
发帖数: 2921 | 31 https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/creeks-rivers-top-banks-latest-california
-storm-085915781.html
U.S.
Hundreds rescued from California floodwaters in San Jose
Kristin j. Bender and Marcio j. Sanchez, Associated Press,Associated Press
30 minutes ago Comments Sign in to like Reblog on Tumblr Share Tweet
Email
Raw: Five Rescued from Flooding in California
Scroll back up to restore default view.
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) -- Rescuers chest-deep in water steered boats full of
people, some with babi... 阅读全帖 |
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L******h
发帖数: 4361 | 32 不知道哪卖减肥药，但是以前无意中发现有一种减肥方式是不用吃药的，很绝，很搞笑
，如下：
Saw this is one of the best sellers in Amazon: one pound fat replica. There
is a five pound one as well.
One review is: "since i can't carry the five pound with me, i keep this one
in my purse to remind myself not to eat out as often and whenever i go and
buy groceries to pick out healthier food. "
Another review: "Never fails to get the point across. Watch peoples' eyes
get big when you say "so you want to lose 20 of these...".
A review with 2 star ra... 阅读全帖 |
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z****n
发帖数: 5870 | 33 【 以下文字转载自 USANews 讨论区 】
发信人: RichardBiton (Richard), 信区: USANews
标 题: Millions of Broken American Dreams zzz
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Wed Nov 13 16:11:58 2013, 美东)
http://www.weidb.com/voice/index.php?title=Millions_of_Broken_A
Millions of Broken American Dreams -- An Open Letter to the World
November 12, 2013
Dear Fair and Righteous Citizens of the World,
We don't know who you are, but we know you are out there. We are
asking for your urgent help. We have been rendered voiceless, powerles... 阅读全帖 |
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m******h
发帖数: 5753 | 34 大风起兮云飞扬, 威加海内兮归故乡，安得猛士兮守四方！
不知为何老想这几句词， 其实和hurricane 沾不上边的
MA风吹不到， 雨淋不着，地震也躲着。 真的是老天爷的眷顾， MA 这块风水宝地上发
脾气次数有史以来屈指可数。 家家户户的house 保险低的可怜， 过个大风下场大雨跟
中个奖差不多。 终于盼系星星， 盼月亮， 盼来了大自然破坏力最大的飓风老人家。
机会难得， 一定好好欣赏天气陛下的威颜。听广播， 看电视， 查path，看看到底啥
时候能到咱这疙瘩， 兴奋啊， 哈哈
周五下午， 听天气预报， 政府叫干啥就干啥， 麻小鱼照葫芦画瓢， 搞了个list，
面包啊， 水啊， 十几样， 不过最后就买了一大块ham， 几包面包。
周六： 平静的很啊， 飓风换远着那， 上午：一会儿阴天，一会儿晴天，云过雨似牛
毛， 有点闷热。 中午，国内导师师兄弟来访， 把酒尽欢， 咱也下厨， sea bass 三
条， 红烧， 清蒸， 茄汁鱼。后院garden 自产tomato， cucumber， 。。。。，外加
几枚鲜桃，担心下大雨有， 客人提前启程。 预报说最早 今晚 hurricane... 阅读全帖 |
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r****m
发帖数: 1264 | 35 CBS archives:
Not all of Notre Dame's problems are in the courtroom
this week. Joe Moore's age-discrimination lawsuit is
only deflecting, for the moment, attention away from
some hard times for those loyal to the Fighting Irish.
Athletic Director Mike Wadsworth came back from summer
vacation in Ireland recently inundated with questions
about the Big Ten. The Ann Arbor News published a story
stating that the Big Ten has had discussions about making
Notre Dame the conference's 12th member.
The rea |
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w******t
发帖数: 356 | 36 From Kent State AD:
There probably aren't a whole lot of positive letters to the editor written
from the opponent after a 41-point loss to open the season, but I would be
remiss if I didn't share a few thoughts following Saturday's Kent State
University-University of Alabama football game at Bryant-Denny Stadium.
When our four student-athletes traveled to Tuscaloosa in July, it wasn't a
media ploy or a publicity stunt, it was simply to help a community that had
been ravaged by the devastating to... 阅读全帖 |
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m******e
发帖数: 536 | 37 An Hour of Running May Add 7 Hours to Your Life
from New York Times by GRETCHEN REYNOLDS APRIL 12, 2017
Running may be the single most effective exercise to increase life
expectancy, according to a new review and analysis of past research about
exercise and premature death. The new study found that, compared to
nonrunners, runners tended to live about three additional years, even if
they run slowly or sporadically and smoke, drink or are overweight. No other
form of exercise that researchers loo... 阅读全帖 |
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j**n
发帖数: 13789 | 38 A new kind of cosmic energy has been released upon us just a few hours ago,
as planet Neptune entered Pisces! This is a momentous event because the sign
of Pisces is the natural "domicile" of Neptune, meaning that in this sign
Neptune finds a very fertile "soil", feels totally unhindered and stimulated
and expresses its full potential!
It takes roughly 165 years for Neptune to run through the 12 signs of the
zodiac. So, the previous time the same event occured (Neptune entered Pisces
) the calen... 阅读全帖 |
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l******m
发帖数: 31446 | 39 【 以下文字转载自 Beijing 讨论区 】
发信人: lanren (inner peace), 信区: Beijing
标 题: 新泽西：鲨鱼在民宅附近出没（组图） (转载)
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Wed Oct 31 14:06:03 2012, 美东)
发信人: wayofflying (小破熊), 信区: Military
标 题: 新泽西：鲨鱼在民宅附近出没（组图）
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Wed Oct 31 13:33:56 2012, 美东)
Hurricane Sandy has already brought wild winds and some heavy surf to the
mid-Atlantic. And, by Monday afternoon it delivered on some truly remarkable
images.
First, a shark was spotted swimming in what was the front yard of someone’s
home. The high surf ... 阅读全帖 |
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l*y
发帖数: 21010 | 40 http://www.starla.org/articles/maker.htm
1. CHEAP TRICK: "I Want You To Want Me"
"They were really popular in Chicago and this song was on the radio once
every hour for months. I remember sitting in my backyard waiting for it to
come on. I think Robert Zander has an amazing voice. I'm from the whiny
school of singing myself. I like the version on ' Live At Budokan'. How many
albums are there with 10,000 Japanese girls screaming all over the place?
Think about it, they had something for everyone ... 阅读全帖 |
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p**********d
发帖数: 7918 | 41 http://www.newrepublic.com/article/113116/zhu-ling-attempted-mu
The 20-Year-Old Crime That's Blowing Up on Chinese Social Media
BY EMILY PARKER
On May 4, the popular Chinese actress Yao Chen posted the following message
to her 45 million followers on the microblogging site Sina Weibo: “Nineteen
years ago, the young Zhu Ling was poisoned. Nineteen years later, this name
has again been poisoned.”
Yao Chen is referring to a nearly two-decades old attempted murder mystery.
The case has again become ... 阅读全帖 |
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R**********n
发帖数: 523 | 42 http://www.weidb.com/voice/index.php?title=Millions_of_Broken_A
Millions of Broken American Dreams -- An Open Letter to the World
November 12, 2013
Dear Fair and Righteous Citizens of the World,
We don't know who you are, but we know you are out there. We are
asking for your urgent help. We have been rendered voiceless, powerless, and
hopeless by the American mass media and many Americans. The American mass
media have lost journalistic ethics and objectivity and have been blatantly... 阅读全帖 |
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w*****g
发帖数: 16352 | 43 这次是右逼，认为练瑜伽是自由是远东宗教对基督教的蚕食，把某小学开的瑜伽健康课
告了，禁了namaste词，双手合十动作，曼陀罗图案。
为毛又是三哥躺枪？什么时候南亚次大陆成远东文明了？擦！
我帝文革运动风起云涌啊。
Ga. parents offended by the ‘Far East religion’ of yoga, get ‘Namaste’
banned from school
Yoga relaxing? Not at this elementary school !
An elementary school in Kennesaw, Ga., has apologized and altered its yoga
program after complaints from some parents who felt it was promoting non-
Christian beliefs. (11Alive.com)
“We need to direct our attention inward and connect to the breath,” yoga
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发帖数: 43471 | 44 这要是北京市长下了30毫米的雨把全城瘫痪了，再来句全我们啥也干不了，公知母知怎
么说
Houston mayor says there's no solution to flooding there
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HOUSTON- As more than a foot of rain deluged the nation's fourth-largest
city, inundating homes, shutting down major highways and leaving at least
five people dead, Houston's mayor said there was no immediate solution.
Heavy flooding has become nearly an annual rite of passage in the
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发帖数: 853 | 45 j点是30毫米吗？
[在 daemonself (mit行为艺术专业博士后导师) 的大作中提到：]
:这要是北京市长下了30毫米的雨把全城瘫痪了，再来句全我们啥也干不了，公知母知
怎么说
:Houston mayor says there's no solution to flooding there
:HOUSTON- As more than a foot of rain deluged the nation's fourth-
largest
:city, inundating homes, shutting down major highways and leaving at least
:five people dead, Houston's mayor said there was no immediate solution.
:Heavy flooding has become nearly an annual rite of passage in the
:practically sea-level city, where experts have long warn... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 5148 | 46 主要是途径很多人口密集的大城市。据说如果
地面是category one，往上25层就要加一个
category.
上次直击东北岸的飓风是在1821年九月，
category four， with a very similar
path as that of Irene.
The Path Of The 1821 Hurricane:
Irene's Path Thus Far:
“This storm, which was a Category Four Hurricane, struck Cape May, New
Jersey on September 3, 1821, and had hurricane force winds go as far west as
Philadelphia while folks in New Jersey experienced wind gusts of up to 200
mph. The storm cut a path of destruction that is similar to that of the
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