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The world celebrates Earth Day every year on April 22. It is a day to think seriously about how our lifestyles and daily habits affect the earth.
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Walk into most any classroom, and you will see a large world map hanging somewhere on the wall. Teachers use maps for subjects like geography and social studies.
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Jason, take back what you said. It really offended me. Oh! I didn’t mean to offend you. I will take it back.
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A tailor makes men’s clothing. When a tailor goes to work, he or she first takes measurements. The tailor then makes clothing for just that individual, not a group of people. We call that kind of clothing tailor-made.
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Low back pain is one of the most common complaints among adults around the world. Researcher Sangwoo Tak from the University of Massachusetts at Lowell set out to look at how often it affects workers.
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The vegetables and fruit will help provide meals for the Obama family, White House workers and guests. The produce will also go to a nearby center that provides food for homeless people.
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Now Americans are on the move again, often out of cities into adjacent suburbs and far into the countryside to distant subdivisions and booming regional cities.
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A “bucket list” is a list of things you want to do before you die. The term “bucket list” comes from an old English expression “kick the bucket.” This idiom is lighthearted way of talking about death.
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A number of companies have used the wind and sun to produce energy. Now, one company is using the force of flowing rivers and ocean currents.
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Arctic sea ice is melting faster than expected, and that means big changes in Earth’s climate system.
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In American English, we have other words for trash such as garbage and rubbish. They all mean the same thing.
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You’d better hurry! You’re going to be late to the airport and you might miss your flight.
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For hundreds of years, visitors to Scotland's Loch Ness have described seeing a creature that some people believe lives deep in the lake.
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The fourth of July is Independence Day in the United States. On that day, we celebrate the decision by early American leaders to declare independence from Britain.
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Researchers have discovered that a compound found in a common vegetable might help treat diabetes.
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Dalits are members of India’s lower caste, or social class. The woman’s attackers were members of a higher caste. Beatings and other violence against Dalits are not new. What is new, however, is the community’s reaction.
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The travel website TripAdvisor used traveler reviews to choose its top 10 World Destinations on the Rise. The list represents 10 cities that saw the biggest increase in positive traveler reviews in the past year.
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So are you going to sell your car or not? Well, I haven’t made a decision yet. I will need to sleep on it.
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The United Nations is calling for urgent action to protect a whistled language used in a mountainous area of Turkey.
