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发帖数: 5093 | 2 The U.S. gained a whopping 312,000 new jobs in December to bring total
employment gains in 2018 to a three-year high of 2.64 million. Economists
polled by MarketWatch had expected a gain of 182,000 nonfarm jobs. The
unemployment rate rose to 3.9% from a 49-year low of 3.7%, largely because
more people entered the workforce in search of jobs. The average wage paid
to American workers climbed 11 cents, or 0.4%, to $27.48 an hour, the Labor
Department said Friday. The 12-month rate of hourly wage g... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1269 | 3 google了whopping crane和heron。确实更象鹤一些。因为脖子比较直。如果真的是
whopping crane那确实很难得一见，北美只有不到600只，还是从濒临灭绝恢复过来的
。wild的更少了。这个鸟就在瓢泼大雨中站着，我们拍了照还录了段像。后来开车想从
旁边绕过去，人家飞走了。挺古道仙风的。
在濒危物种的网页上有专门报告whopping crane的表格。虽然不知道到底是不是，我还
是填了看到的时间和地点。也希望是别的常见些的鸟。这只好瘦，掉队了不知道能不能
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发帖数: 11530 | 5 Top 10 Most Expensive Auction Mustangs
1402 2008 Shelby Gt500kr Ford Mustang Barrett Jackson
Amie Williams
Associate Online Editor
February 13, 2014
Recently the first retail 2015 Ford Mustang GT crossed the auction block at
Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale and many wondered if it would be one for the
record books. While it did sell for a whopping $300,000 supporting the
Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, it still wasn’t enough to crack the
list of the top ten most expensive Mustangs to ever go to... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4021 | 6 Tesla Motors Joins NASDAQ-100 - Analyst Blog
By Zacks.com, July 10, 2013, 04:56:47 PM EDT
Vote up
According to NASDAQ, Tesla Motors Inc. ( TSLA ) will be a part of the NASDAQ
-100 Index and the NASDAQ-100 Equal Weighted Index before the market opens o
n Jul 15. Tesla will replace technology giant Oracle Corporation ( ORCL ) on
the NASDAQ-100. Oracle will move its stock listing to the New York Stock Ex
change.
The NASDAQ-100 Index includes 100 largest domestic and international non-fin
ancial se... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2939 | 7 ☆─────────────────────────────────────☆
Crocodile1 (鳄鱼宝宝) 于 (Mon Jun 15 16:35:57 2015, 美东) 提到:
迪士尼乐园里的的一顿烤肉要115美元，一盘甜点53美元，迪士尼波利尼西亚度假酒店
靠近七海礁湖的房间每晚要2100美元。美国《华盛顿邮报》报道称，美国中产阶级越来
越去不起主题公园了。
1971年，迪士尼乐园在佛罗里达州奥兰多开业，有美国大街上的乐队巡演，有自动售货
机的便宜游乐场，成年人仅收3.5美元的门票，相当于3加仑(1加仑约合3.8升)牛奶的价
格。但到目前为止，堪称最经典的迪士尼世界魔法王国(Magic Kingdom)主题乐园的票
价已经上调过41次。今年，迪士尼乐园票价首次飙升至100美元，创历史新高。
上涨的票价丝毫没有减少人们戴着米老鼠耳朵进入乐园的热情。仅去年一年，迪士尼
就吸引了1900万名游客，相当于纽约州的总人口。
然而，不断上涨的价格无可避免地使米老鼠家族的亲子卖点受到影响。如今，在佛罗
里达州迪士尼乐园童话城堡的游客会需要花115美元吃一顿牛排晚餐，花53美元... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 23737 | 8 http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2004/01/kim-jong-il
I Was Kim Jong Il's Cook
True stories from the Dear Leader's onetime chef
By Kenji Fujimoto
The author, who writes under a pseudonym, is a Japanese sushi chef. In 1982,
at the invitation of a Japanese-North Korean trading company, he started wo
rking in a sushi restaurant in Pyongyang. In 1988 he agreed to serve as Kim
Jong Il's personal chef—a job he held until 2001. In April of that year, ha
ving realized the extent of the paranoi... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 866 | 10 "These policies and others have contributed to America's trade deficit with
China of a whopping $1.76 trillion annually, the report said."
Huh? 我的阅读理解有问题? |
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发帖数: 42116 | 11 毛主席曾经说过：思想上政治上路线正确与否是决定一切的. 美国是路线正确的, 就看
领导了.
Only the top 5 percent of U.S. households have earned enough additional
income to match the rise in housing costs since 1975.
For the first time in U.S. history, more than 40 million Americans are on
food stamps, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture projects that number
will go up to 43 million Americans in 2011.
Average Wall Street bonuses for 2009 were up 17 percent when compared with
2008.
Despite the financial crisis, the number of millionaires... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 42116 | 12 22 Statistics That Prove The Middle Class Is Being Systematically Wiped Out
Of Existence In America
83 percent of all U.S. stocks are in the hands of 1 percent of the people.
66% of the income growth between 2001 and 2007 went to the top 1% of all
Americans.
Only the top 5 percent of U.S. households have earned enough additional
income to match the rise in housing costs since 1975.
In 1950, the ratio of the average executive's paycheck to the average worker
's paycheck was about 30 to 1. Since t... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4978 | 13 sex drive是推动人类进步的最终动力，这个欲望都没了，日本离灭国也不远了。
Japanese Teens, Married Couples Losing Sex Drive: Report
Now for some frigid news from Japan that has nothing to do with winter
temperatures: a new government-commissioned study finds that young Japanese
men are losing their interest in sex, yet another warning sign in a nation
notorious for its low birth rate.
According to the AFP, a whopping 36.1 percent of teenage boys between the
ages of 16-19 said they had little to no interest in sex, and in some ca... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 30882 | 14 《纽约时报》：揭开西方精英对中国的五大误解
字号:小 大 2011-10-19 18:10 作者：李世默 来源： 四月网 我要评论(1) 分享到
作为世界上最大国家的执政者，中国共产党持续执政已达62年之久。那么迄今为止，中
共的执政业绩到底如何呢？
众所周知，在1949年中共建政以前，由于战火肆虐，外敌横行，中国的国土四分五裂，
满目疮痍；人民普遍食不果腹，人均寿命仅为41岁。但在今天，中国已跻身世界第二大
经济体，成为在全球有重要影响的大国；人民生活迅速改善，人均寿命已达74岁。
但问题还不至于此，对于中共的执政地位，西方的政治和知识精英即使不是直接否定，
也难掩其不快之意。这自然有其原因，在在西方媒体对中国的叙述中，有五大误解流传
甚广，甚嚣一时。以真相揭穿这些误解，已是刻不容缓。
误解一：由于没有选举，中共的执政地位没有得到其治下人民的认可。根据皮尤研究中
心的报告，中国政府享有高度支持，支持率在世界各国中十分靠前；2010年间，中国民
众对国家未来方向的满意度高达87%，这一数字近年来一直保持在80%以上；有66%的民
众相信，未来五年生活会继续改善；有 74%，也... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 17722 | 16 http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/NA06Dj02.html
Ron Paul vote raises alarm
By Jim Lobe
WASHINGTON - Texas Representative Ron Paul, who 24 years ago performed
dismally as the standard-bearer of the Libertarian Party, has begun making
waves in the 2012 presidential campaign, to the extreme discomfort of neo-
conservatives and aggressive nationalists who dominate the foreign policy
rosters of most of his Republican rivals.
While his third-place finish in Tuesday's Iowa caucuses disappoint... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 905 | 17 http://avanworld.blog.163.com/blog/static/598739562009671036131
美国使用RBGH的奶农和奶粉...
ZT:美国使用RBGH的奶农比例在95%以上，美国产的奶粉也挺毒的
转贴：其实中国毒奶远比不上美国的毒奶!
其实中国毒奶和美国的毒奶比起来，算是小朋友了！事实表明中国体制还是保护消费者
的，这点美国差的很远！
美国奶制品有没有中国的毒奶门事件呢？A爷告述大家，其实是有的，而且还非常的严
重，这就是有名的RBGH，重组牛用生长激素事件。
RBGH是一种基因重组的牛用生长激素，它的用处和中国的*不一样，但效果和目的是相
同的,后者是增加蛋白质检验通过率，前者则是生物药用人为刺激奶牛增产激素。
一般来说，使用RBGH的奶牛产量可以达到增产15-20%，是有大利可以图的。在这里有个
特别要说明的是，在目前整个西方工业国家，包含中国，都明确禁止使用RBGH注射性口。
而这在美国使用RBGH的奶农比例在95%以上。美国FDA在公众压力下不得不承认这种生物
工程基因的奶牛注射rBGH疗法，会使奶牛获得增加患乳房感染（乳腺炎）的机会，严重... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 764 | 19 The Confiscation of Savings in Canada? Cyprus-Style “Bail-Ins” Proposed by
Ottawa Government
www.globalresearch.ca
The politicians of the western world are coming after your bank accounts. In
fact, Cyprus-style “bail-ins” are actually proposed in the new Canadian
government budget. When I first heard about this I was quite skeptical, so I
went and looked it up for myself. And guess what? It is right there in
black and white on pages 144 and 145 of “Economic Action Plan 2013″ which
the Harper gov... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 21010 | 20 研究表明胸大的女人更聪明 Created on: March 25, 2011 Last Updated: March 2
7, 2011
A study by a Chicago university sociologist of 1,200 women found that large-
breasted women tend to have higher intelligence. The study divided the women
into five groups ranging from virtually flat-chested to extra-large breasts
.
The results revealed that the big-breasted women had an overall higher I.Q.—
about 10 points—than the lesser endowed members of the study. Women with av
erage-sized breasts also beat out those th... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1544 | 21 早知道了。你们难道都不奇怪美国的猪肉比中国难吃许多？
除了这瘦肉精，美国猪都是工业化生产，猪笼拥挤的不能转身，猪一辈子不见天日，成
天吃抗生素增重防病。
According to the first-ever report by the US Food and Drug Administration (
FDA) on this subject, factory farms used a whopping 29 million pounds of
antibiotics in 2009 alone.
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/12/28/f |
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发帖数: 3780 | 22 A poll this week found that 31% of Americans consider him a patriot while 23
% view him as a traitor. But a whopping 46% say they don't know. |
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发帖数: 36302 | 23 2010年的人口普查，黑人人口净减少了18万。
据说大部分搬到休斯屯，达拉斯。。。等地去了。
黑人口味和WSN一样。
The 2010 Census reveals that Chicago's black population is leaving -- to
Houston, to Dallas, to Atlanta and to the other black talent-magnet cities
of the 21st century. And in some cases, they're moving to the smaller cities
of the Deep South that were once points of origin for the Great Migration.
Muddy Waters, Buddy Guy and Otis Rush all came to Chicago from the Deep
South to make a name for themselves playing the blues, and in turn th... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 36302 | 24 本BBS的WSN比较推崇德州，看来黑人也好这一口。
2010年人口普查，CHICAGO的黑人净减少18万，按媒体说法，都去了休斯屯，达拉斯等
有希望的城市了。
The 2010 Census reveals that Chicago's black population is leaving -- to
Houston, to Dallas, to Atlanta and to the other black talent-magnet cities
of the 21st century. And in some cases, they're moving to the smaller cities
of the Deep South that were once points of origin for the Great Migration.
Muddy Waters, Buddy Guy and Otis Rush all came to Chicago from the Deep
South to make a name for themselves playing the ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 5617 | 25 http://www.cityam.com/article/1393526432/forget-invasion-putin-
Forget invasion: Putin is just four steps from victory in Ukraine
byJohn Hulsman
February 27, 2014, 8:28pm
AS ITS currency collapses, protests flare up in Crimea, and Russia flexes
its muscles on the doorstep, those in the West claiming triumph in Ukraine
should remember the story of King Pyrrhus of Epirus. In 279 BC, this scourge
of the Romans managed to best them at the Battle of Asculum, but at
tremendous cost. Pyrrhus, aware tha... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 8463 | 26 奥巴马看美女太多, 变心了!
The following is from the link
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the first couple’s six-year string of extravagant vacations had already
drained the U.S. Treasury of a whopping $150 million in taxpayers
’ money.
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The costs
Barack Obama, Michelle Obama
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发帖数: 38600 | 27 http://www.sovereignman.com/trends/when-you-see-this-happen-you
by Simon Blackon July 15, 2014
Exactly 70 years ago to the day, hundreds of delegates from 44 nations were
busy at work in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire creating a brand new financial
system.
World War II had just ended. Europe was in ruin.
And since the US was simultaneously the largest economy in the world, the
primary victor in the war, and the only major power with its productive
capacity intact, it was easy to dictate terms: the... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 8463 | 28 A soda a day could be making your skin look older, new research finds.
Moodboard/Corbis You might want to rethink that soda.
Related
Spot the Warning Signs of Suicide
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More in HEALTHY LIVING
Key Takeaways
Sugar can lead to wrinkles, acne, or a psoriasis flare-up.
For a healthy alternative to soda, add fresh fruit to water.
Always read food and drink labels carefully; if an ingredient ends in “ose,
” that’s a good sign it’s sugar.
Wednesday, October 22, 201... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2507 | 29 When government jobs and federal contract jobs are combined, the picture
becomes even more frightening. Only one state, Rhode Island, has less than
15 percent of its labor force collecting wages from taxpayers. Twenty-three
states’ government-employment rates are 20 percent or more, and seven have
rates topping 25 percent — ranging from 25.3 percent in Alabama to a
whopping 31.9 percent in New Mexico, with Virginia, Alaska, Mississippi,
Maryland, and Wyoming in between.
这是拿paychecked，
政府的绝大部分的收入... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4447 | 33 去年中国只能排第四。听说今年中国排第二。
http://www.businessinsider.com/worst-behaved-tourists-2013-5?IR
1. United States: Surprise! Americans are famously bad tourists.
As the stereotype goes, they’re loud, rude, fat and make some pretty
terrible fashion choices (fanny packs? socks and sandals?) But judgments
aside, are they actually the worst tourists?
Well, a whopping 33 percent of respondents (that’s almost three times as
many as the next-worst, Britain) would agree that Americans take the
terrible tourist cake... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4968 | 34 比较恶心的是，无论情况是好是坏，都要把中国拉进来。当初这个航母空壳子迫不及待
的下水，还搞了一个大型的下水仪式。
http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/as-china-upgrades-navy-india-
As China Upgrades Navy, India Misses Deadlines and Busts Budgets
“India's new aircraft carrier, INS Vikrant (named after India's first
carrier), has bust its budget by 600 per cent. It will now cost a whopping
nearly Rs. 19,000 crore instead of the original estimate of about Rs. 3,000
crore.
The warship, India's first home-built aircraft carrier, is presently being
fitted out ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 38600 | 35 Does Chinese president Xi Jinping really earn just $22,000 a year?
http://qz.com/329584/does-chinese-president-xi-jinping-really-e
Chinese president Xi Jinping is getting a raise. According to China’s
ministry of human resources and social security, Xi’s base salary will now
be a whopping 11,385 yuan (about $1,830) a month, up from 7,020 yuan—or
about $22,000 a year. As a comparison, US president Barack Obama earns $400,
000 a year, and Hong Kong’s controversial chief executive makes about $545,... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 42116 | 36 TG一直在修老将反对的高速公路工程.
Dwarfing the Great Wall - a glance at China's latest megaprojects
There is a Chinese saying: “If you want to be rich, you must first build
roads.” China has done just that: a YouTube video explains that China is
working to complete the largest expressway system in the world by 2020. This
National Trunk Highway System, as it is called, spans a whopping 111,950 km
(69,560 mi) to date. That is approximately 37 times the length of the
United States from coast to coast. |
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发帖数: 42116 | 37 TG一直在修老将反对的高速公路工程.
Dwarfing the Great Wall - a glance at China's latest megaprojects
There is a Chinese saying: “If you want to be rich, you must first build
roads.” China has done just that: a YouTube video explains that China is
working to complete the largest expressway system in the world by 2020. This
National Trunk Highway System, as it is called, spans a whopping 111,950 km
(69,560 mi) to date. That is approximately 37 times the length of the
United States from coast to coast. |
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发帖数: 16479 | 38 论起买房，亚裔都不算在少数族裔了。以后贷款利率针对亚裔弄不好要定一个更高的新
利率彰显pussy价值
左B记者吃饱了撑的没事干怎么不说亚裔申请到housing的percentage低是种族歧视啊，
明明是生活方式和种族传统的问题，非往种族歧视上扯，而且还拼命给亚裔招黑。白左
就是癌细胞。
http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/real-estate/homeownership
GETTING SHUT OUT OF HOME: Homeownership remains a pipe dream for New York
City minorities, a new report shows
The so-called American Dream is a dream deferred for minorities in New York
City.
Blacks and Hispanics are increasingly less likely than whites and Asians to
own homes here — a prob... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 38600 | 39 A Tale of two Political System
Good morning. My name is Eric Li, and I was born here. But no, I wasn't born
there. This was where I was born: Shanghai, at the height of the Cultural
Revolution. My grandmother tells me that she heard the sound of gunfire
along with my first cries.
0:32
When I was growing up, I was told a story that explained all I ever needed
to know about humanity. It went like this. All human societies develop in
linear progression, beginning with primitive society, then slave ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 48111 | 40 another one, 好好反思下所谓的“美国top 律师OJ案才charge $500”之类的
可笑言论吧。
anyway, 菌斑这里放眼望去， 就没几个从事正经职业的货。
High-Stakes Litigators Can Cost $1,500 An Hour
By Andrew Strickler
Law360, New York (May 28, 2014, 8:03 PM ET) -- General counsel have to reach
deep into their wallets to fight bet-the-company litigation as top
litigators now command a whopping $1,500 an hour, according to a survey
released Wednesday.
The Billing Rate Reference 2014 report, jointly created by Law360 and BTI
Consulting Group Inc., shows senio... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4016 | 41 另一个Google的三哥Nikesh Arora去了软银也很牛
Tokyo: India-born former Google executive Nikesh Arora has been appointed
the president of Japan's telecommunications giant SoftBank Corp that paid
the "rising star" a whopping $135 million from September last year to March
this year. |
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发帖数: 16479 | 42 帮你补充
Verde Point is a self-described "luxury apartment" complex with a rooftop
pool and "personal wine storage" that is currently accepting public housing
assistance recipients who will live there practically for free, courtesy of
the taxpayers — at least until they become gainfully employed and their
incomes rise. That's when the pool parties and wine tastings end and they
will have to downgrade to a more middle-class abode.
The Gramercy is another luxury apartment, also in Arlington, Va., wher... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 9459 | 43 http://admin.alternet.org/gender/uber-issues-incredibly-lame-re
By Jenny Pierson / AlterNet March 8, 2016
On Sunday, BuzzFeed published a damning report of huge numbers of Uber
customers' comments that mention "rape" or "sexual assault." This discovery
was made after Uber had provided BuzzFeed News with what turned out to be a
severely downplayed report of five rapes and "fewer than" 170 "legitimate
claim[s] of sexual assault" from 2012 to 2015. But BuzzFeed shared a former
Uber employee's scree... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3942 | 44 Hillary Clinton is now handily defeating Donald Trump in two presidential
polls released Sunday — just one month after the same polls showed a tight
race for the White House.
In one poll, fromABC News/Washington Post,Clinton has a whopping 12-
point lead over her raging rival. The survey said Clinton has 51% of voter
support — while Trump is stuck at 39%. It is Clinton’s highest level of
support in the poll this year. |
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发帖数: 4718 | 45 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/07/18/poll-trump-
supporters-see-the-world-very-differently-than-other-republicans/
Attitudes to immigration also diverge. Almost seven out of 10 core Trump
supporters say legal immigration should be decreased, compared with 45
percent of other Republicans. Trump backers are also more than 20 percentage
points less likely to express a favorable view of Middle Eastern and
Mexican immigrants currently in the United States and a whopping 93 per... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4637 | 46 In Canada, the government has set up the Patented Medicine Prices Review
Board to ensure that pharmaceutical prices do not get excessive. They even
have a law that says that the price of a breakthrough medication, the first
of its kind, cannot exceed its median price around the world. A great
example is the new cancer drug, Campath, which sells for $600 to $700 in
countries like Sweden, Britain and France. Its U.S. price? A whopping $2,400
. Now that’s a hard pill to swallow (well, not really, s... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 38600 | 47 Clinton's campaign just issued a press release calling for a whopping new
top rate of 65 percent on the richest estates and 50 percent or 55 percent
on smaller estates. Clinton had previously been backing a top rate of 45
percent, so this is a major shift. |
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发帖数: 7349 | 49 Living in and around rock pools along the west coast of the UK, the bootlace
worm is a species of ribbon worm. It is dark brown in appearance, usually
around 5mm thick, and produces stinky mucus when handled.
That description might make it sound pretty unremarkable, unattractive even,
but when one was found on the shore at St Andrews, Fife in 1864 it got
plenty of attention. It measured a whopping 180ft (55m) long and became
officially the longest animal in the world. |
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