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【用新聞學英文】Beijing Named City with the Most Billionaires...

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2023/08/23

🌏Article Beijing now has more billionaires than any other city in the world, according to the 2021 Forbes World's Billionaires List. China's capital city got 33 new billionaires in the last year, bringing the number to 100. That's one more billionaire than the city in second place, New York. Before this year, New York had been the city with the most billionaires for seven years in a row. But in the last year, it has only gotten seven new billionaires. New York's billionaires have a combined

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【用新聞學英文】Watch the Planet Change with This Google...

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2023/08/23

🌏Article Google Earth has announced an exciting new update that shows how the planet has changed across nearly 40 years. Google Earth collected 24 million satellite photos from the past 37 years that were used to make Timelapse, a map that shows the Earth changing, both because of humans and nature itself. Using Google Earth, Timelapse lets you choose any part of the planet you'd like to watch and see how it has changed every year since 1984. To help better understand why those changes are

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【用新聞學英文】Strange British Sports: Cheese Rolling at...

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2023/08/20

🌏Article Every May, people from around the world come to the village of Brockworth, near Gloucester in England, to chase after a large wheel of Gloucester cheese as it rolls down a very steep hill. This strange competition is called "Cooper's Hill Cheese-Rolling and Wake," and it has been done for hundreds of years. The goal of the race is to catch the cheese, which gets a 1-second head start and can roll at over 110 kilometers per hour, making it nearly impossible to catch. So the winner is

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【用新聞學英文】More US Companies Offering 3D Printed Homes...

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2023/08/16

🌏Article A growing number of US companies are starting to offer homes built with 3D printing technology. The companies say that 3D printing is a faster, cheaper and more environmentally friendly way to build homes than traditional methods. They say the technology may also help solve America's shortage of affordable housing. But most companies in the industry are still developing their 3D printing technology, rather than building homes. Texan company Icon made news in 2018 by completing the first

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【用新聞學英文】Italian Man Absent from Work for 15...

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2023/08/14

🌏Article Many of us have taken days off work when we probably shouldn't have. Some people might take a three-day weekend for their birthday, or call in sick to recover after a party. But a man in Italy is being called the "king" of absences after being accused of failing to come to work for 15 years. Italian officials say that 67-year-old Salvatore Scumace has received about $650,000 from his place of work since 2005, even though he never actually went to work during that time. According to The

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【用新聞學英文】Lebanese Hospital is World's First to Go...

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2023/08/09

🌏Article Hayek Hospital, just outside of Lebanon's capital, Beirut, has taken meat and eggs off the menu, becoming what it says is the world's first vegan hospital. In 2020, the hospital started offering both vegan and non-vegan meals while giving patients information about the benefits and risks of the diets. However, starting on March 1, Hayek Hospital began offering only vegan food. The hospital's menu now includes vegan burgers, steaks and croissants, as well as traditional Lebanese food that

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【用新聞學英文】Hong Kong Woman Loses $33 Million to Phone...

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2023/08/07

🌏Article🌏 A rich 90-year-old woman from Hong Kong has been scammed out of about $33 million by criminals who said they were Chinese officials, the South China Morning Post reports. In July last year, the woman received a call from a man who said he was a mainland public security official. He informed her that her identity had been stolen and it was being used for crimes in mainland China. The police told the Morning Post that a 19-year-old university student then went to the woman's home and gave

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【用新聞學英文】Georgia Man Receives Final Paycheck in Coins...

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2023/08/02

🌏Article🌏 Months after leaving his job, Andreas Flaten said his former employer owed him $915. But the Georgia man was shocked when he finally saw his last paycheck: a pile of 90,000 pennies covered in an oily substance, with a rude goodbye message on top. "This is a childish thing to do," Flaten said. Flaten said he left his job at A OK Walker Luxury Autoworks in November 2020 due to a toxic work environment. He said he had difficulty getting his final paycheck, and even went to the Georgia

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【用新聞學英文】Three English Dishes That You Have to Try...

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2023/07/31

🌏Article🌏 Traditional English food is often made to keep you warm on rainy days. Here are just some of the dishes from England that you should try. Full English breakfast You might not need lunch if you start your day with a full English breakfast, or "fry-up." This huge morning meal usually includes bacon, sausages, eggs, cooked tomatoes and mushrooms, and toast. The breakfast is often served with tea or coffee. Fish and chips There aren’t many dishes that are more English than fish and chips

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【用新聞學英文】Survey: Brits Get Drunk More Than Anyone...

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2023/07/26

🌏Article A survey has found that, out of people in 25 countries, people in the UK get drunk more often than anyone else. The Global Drug Survey (GDS) tries to find trends among people who use drugs and alcohol. The 2020 survey was answered by over 110,000 people between early November and late December 2019, including over 5,000 people in the UK. The survey found that Brits had been drunk an average of 34 times in the last year. This was more than twice as often as people in some other countries,

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【用新聞學英文】Why Do People Yawn? 為什麼人會打哈欠？

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2023/07/24

🌏Article Even though we yawn almost every day, scientists don't really know why we do it. One theory suggests that people yawn when they need more oxygen in their blood. Another says that the body may yawn to wake itself up because yawning stretches the lungs and increases blood flow to the brain. However, many researchers now believe that yawning may cool the brain when it gets too hot. A 2007 study asked participants to watch a video of other people yawning while holding a towel to their forehead

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【用新聞學英文】Dutch Foods You're Sure to Love你一定會愛上的荷蘭美食

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2023/07/20

🌏Article The Netherlands might not be as famous for its food as other European countries like France or Italy, but there are still lots of things for visitors to try. Here are some Dutch foods you'll love. Fries Dutch fries are thicker than French fries and have a few different names: patat, friet, and frites. They're usually served in a paper cone or box — making them perfect to eat while walking. Bitterballen Bitterballen are a popular bar snack made with beef. To make the Bitterballen, a thick

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【用新聞學英文】Superfan to Get $1,000 to Watch All 24 James...

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2023/07/17

🌏Article A website called Nerd Bear is offering one James Bond superfan $1,000 to watch all 24 Bond movies in 30 days,from 1962's Dr. No to 2015's Spectre. "That's over 51 hours of films, 7 different 007s, and too many martinis!" the website wrote. Nerd Bear says it hopes the job will keep one lucky fan going while they wait for the 25th James Bond movie, No Time to Die, to be released. The movie has been delayed several times because of the COVID-19 pandemic, but should come to theaters in

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【用新聞學英文】Man Without Arms Plays Snooker with Chin....

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2023/07/12

🌏Article Mohammad Ikram, a 32-year-old from Pakistan, has found a way to play snooker without the use of a cue. Ikram was born without arms, but he hasn't let that stop him. Ikram remembers watching other children play snooker outside his home as a 10-year-old child. He always wished he could also play the game one day, but needed to find a way to do so. "At that time I wished I had arms so that I could play the game, too," Ikram told The Associated Press. Eventually, he found his own way of

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【用新聞學英文】UNESCO Adds Couscous to Cultural Heritage...

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2023/07/10

🌏Article Couscous has been added to UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage list. The list includes things such as food, festivals and activities that are important to cultures around the world. Couscous was suggested by the North African nations of Algeria, Mauritania, Morocco and Tunisia. Not only was the food added to the list, but also the knowledge of how to make it. Couscous is usually made from wheat or barley, which is ground using a millstone and then made into very small balls by hand

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【用新聞學英文】Dog Waits Six Days Outside Hospital for Owner...

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2023/07/05

🌏Article🌏 A dog has spent six days waiting outside a hospital in northern Turkey where her sick owner was receiving treatment. Cemal Senturk was taken to a hospital in the city of Trabzon, Turkey, on January 14 with a brain problem. His pet, Boncuk, followed the ambulance there. According to DHA, she then made daily visits to the hospital. Senturk’s daughter, Aynur Egeli, said she would take Boncuk home but the dog would repeatedly run off and return to the hospital by herself. "She comes every

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【用新聞學英文】Website Maps Japan's Noisy Neighbors....

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2023/07/03

🌏Article🌏 Nobody likes noisy neighbors — but one Japanese website is trying to make sure people never have to deal with them in the first place with the Dorozoku Map. The map, released by DQN Today, uses colorful circles to show places with the most noise problems. Complaints include babies crying, elementary school children playing and even adults talking too much. For example, one complaint in Hachinohe, Aomori prefecture, says: "The road and the apartment's parking lot have become a children's

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【用新聞學英文】People in Taiwan Change Names to 'Salmon' for...

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2023/06/28

🌏Article🌏 Almost 200 people in Taiwan changed their names to "salmon" to get free sushi from a restaurant. Japanese restaurant Sushiro offered a two-day promotion on March 17 and 18. The restaurant said that any customer whose name included the Chinese characters for "salmon," or gui yu, would get a free all-you-can- eat sushi meal for themselves and five friends. When many people started changing their names to "salmon" to get free sushi, the government had to ask them to stop. Deputy Interior

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【用新聞學英文】Love and Satire: Who Was Jane Austen?...

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2023/06/26

🌏Article🌏 British writer Jane Austen, one of the most influential and celebrated authors in English literature, was born on December 16, 1775 in the village of Steventon in Hampshire, England. Her first book, Sense and Sensibility, was published in 1811, when she was 35. It was published anonymously as being "By a Lady." In fact, Austen never saw her own name published on any of her books, including her most well-known novel Pride and Prejudice. It wasn't until Northanger Abbey and Persuasion

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【用新聞學英文】Homesick Expats Can Buy Bottled UK Air....

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2023/06/21

🌏Article🌏 A company is offering people from the UK a chance to buy the smell of home in a bottle. Delivery company My Baggage is selling 500 milliliter bottles of air from different parts of the UK for more than $30, with delivery costing almost $7. "Our sense of smell is known to be linked to emotional memories," said the company's managing director, Paul Stewart, speaking to The Guardian. He said that since British people living abroad have been coming home less than usual this year, the

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