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新奇事件簿 比利时挫败新年恐袭图谋
Police in Belgium say they have arrested two people suspected of planning terror attacks in Brussels on New Year's Eve. Police initially made six arrests but later released four without charge. Investigators found military clothing and Islamic State
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新奇事件簿 我的2016新年决心
The year 2016 may go down in history as one of the best years for people to stick to their New Year's resolutions. These are the promises people make to themselves at the beginning of the year to lose weight, save money, stop smoking, etc. Research s
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新奇事件簿 向糖征税利大于弊
Governments in the United States and United Kingdom are waging a war on sugar in the interests of public health. Both countries claim that the overconsumption of sugar by much of the population is detrimental to people's well-being. On Thursday, the
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新奇事件簿 朝鲜宣布成功进行氢弹试爆
The United Nations Security Council says it will begin to work immediately to take action against North Korea. The UN believes a nuclear test that North Korea carried out on Wednesday could be a hydrogen bomb. This was the fourth time since 2006 that
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新奇事件簿 沙特伊朗口水仗升级
A war of words has broken out between Iran and Saudi Arabia following the execution of a religious figure by Saudi authorities on Saturday. The Shia Muslim cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr was among 47 men the Saudi Arabian government put to death on terro
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新奇事件簿 精神疾病时代或来临
Britain's National Health Service (NHS) suggests that up to half of adults have suffered from some form of mental illness at some stage in their life. Data from the Health Survey for England reveals that 25 per cent of all adults have been diagnosed
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新奇事件簿 英国打击骚扰电话
Many people hate nuisance telephone calls. These are the calls we get from companies trying to sell us something that we usually do not want. They are also called 'cold calls'. Britain's government is thinking about taking action to stop these calls.
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新奇事件簿 考试磨灭学生好奇心
Making schoolchildren take tests is harming students interest in science, as well as having a negative impact on kids natural curiosity. This is the conclusion of a British university report into science teaching and testing in primary schools. Resea
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新奇事件簿 女性购物开销高于男性
Women have to pay a lot more in stores than menfor almost the same things. A new study by TheTimes newspaper in Britain found that manyproducts for women cost up to twice as much assimilar products for men. Researchers looked athundreds of goods in t
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新奇事件簿 上司不好影响“心”情
Having a bad boss could be bad for your heart. This is the conclusion of a Swedish study on management styles and health. The researchers concluded that poor managers can increase their employee's risk of developing heart disease. The Stockholm Unive
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新奇事件簿 全球最胖男子成婚
Love conquers all. This is certainly so for the former heaviest man in the world. Mexican Manuel Uribe used to be the worlds most overweight person. He was in the Guinness Book of Records in 2006 after breaking the human weight record. Special weighi
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新奇事件簿 宠物同榻利与弊
New research suggests that sleeping next to your pet increases your risk of getting sick. Researchers from the University of California-Davis believe pet owners have a greater chance of catching diseases as serious as the bubonic plague, an infection
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新奇事件簿 童话故事历史悠久
The famous 19th-century fairy tale collector Wilhelm Grimm suggested fairy tales dated back thousands of years. Scientists now support his theory and claim that many of the fairy tales we know and love could be over 4,000 years old. Anthropologist Ja
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新奇事件簿 健康食物不健康
The salads and healthy pastas we buy to eat well may not be as good for us as we think. Campaigners say a lot of supposedly healthy food should carry a health warning because of the high salt content. The British pressure group Consensus Action on Sa
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新奇事件簿 肮脏的键盘
A British computer magazine has discovered our computer keyboards could be bad for our health. Which Computing asked a laboratory to check 30 keyboards in its London office for bacteria. The results were shocking, and disgusting. The lab scientists s
