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Syria 1)rebels behind 2)chemical attack: Putin

-Courtesy of The China Post

Thursday, September 12, 2013
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Wang’s KMT 1)membership 2)revoked 3)as per Ma request

-Courtesy of Taipei Times

TARNISHED IMAGE:：The 4)KMT’s disciplinary body said it 5)expelled Wang from the party as he had 6)‘damaged’ its reputation through his alleged influence peddling

1)Influence peddling case ‘2)persecution’: DPP
民進黨認為關說事件是迫害
Courtesy of Taipei Times
Tue, Sep 10, 2013

新聞短播(20130902)小心慎防落石流

1)Vigilance 2)urged against 3)rockslides

-Courtesy of The China Post

Mastectomy Surgery乳房移除手術（學名）

Breast Removal Surgery（口語）

Preventive Surgery 預防性手術

裘莉的紐約時報投書：

This is the VOA Special English Education Report.

Americans use the term "college students" to mean students either in colleges or universities. Not only that, Americans almost never say "going off to university" or "when I was in university." That sounds British. Instead, they say "going off to college" and "when I was in college."

College, university: what's the difference? We answer that this week in part three of our Foreign Student Series on American higher education.

Texas 1)blast 2)levels homes, kills up to 15 -Courtesy of The China Post

By John L. Mone and Michael Brick ,AP  April 19, 2013, 12:02 am TWN

WEST, Texas -- A massive explosion at a Texas 3)fertilizer plant killed as many as 15 people and 4)injured more than 160, shaking the ground with the strength of a small 5)earthquake and leveling homes and businesses for blocks in every direction. 6)Rescuers searched 7)rubble early Thursday for 8)survivors.

The Day the 1)Marathon Stopped: 2)Tragedy in Boston’s Back Bay--Courtesy of The Time Magazine

By Jay Newton-Small / BostonApril 16, 2013Add a Comment       

As the sun set in Boston on Monday, April 15, the marathon clocks along the race 3)route still 4)ticked off the time for runners who were long gone and who would never finish the race. Boylston Street in the city’s Back Bay remained 5)sealed off, the immediate area around the two 6)blasts deemed a crime scene. Runners 7)packed area hotels — especially the hotel bars — 8)swapping stories, hugging, many crying. There were no 9)rowing teams out on the Charles River. A couple of geese pecked on the pitch of a soccer field that was usually full of practicing teams at dusk. Dozens of emergency vehicles lined Storrow Drive’s grassy 10)embankment, 11)sentries over the 12)crawling traffic, 13)snarled by the city’s 14)lockdowns.

N. Korea warns foreigners to leave South-Courtesy of The China Post

North Korea 1)intensified threats of an 2)imminent 3)conflict against the United States and the South on Tuesday, warning foreigners to 4)evacuate South Korea to avoid being dragged into “5)thermonuclear war.”

The North's latest message 6)belied an atmosphere free of anxiety in the South Korean capital, where the city center was 7)bustling with traffic and offices operated normally. Pyongyang has shown no sign of preparing its 1.2-million-strong army for war.

The warning to foreigners in the South, reported by the KCNA news agency, said once war 8)broke out “it will be an 9)all-out war, a merciless, sacred, 10)retaliatory war to 11)be waged by (North Korea).