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Flood-related vocabulary (updated)
Terry Fredrickson, Published on 17/11/2011
» Fully updated with vocabulary from latest flooding reports and links to many flood stories covered previously.
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Flood-related vocabulary: focus on pronunciation
Terry Fredrickson, Published on 17/11/2011
» It seems that floods have been in the news continuously for the past year. We’ve learned a lot of the vocabulary used to describe floods. Now let’s learn how to pronounce it.
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Half of Swedish three-year-olds online: study
AFP, Published on 17/11/2011
» Swedes are among the world's most connected people and are swarming to the Internet at an ever earlier age, a study published Wednesday showed, indicating that half of Swedish three-year-olds have been online.
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Hewlett-Packard unveils its first "ultrabook" laptop
AFP, Published on 17/11/2011
» Hewlett-Packard (HP) on Wednesday unveiled a lightweight laptop computer to take on Apple's MacBook Air in the hot "Ultrabook" arena.
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Staggering surge in Android gadget viruses: Juniper
AFP, Published on 17/11/2011
» The arsenal of malicious code aimed at Android-powered gadgets has grown exponentially, with criminals hiding viruses in applications people download to devices, according to Juniper Networks.
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Hollywood, Silicon Valley spar over online piracy bill
AFP, Published on 17/11/2011
» Hollywood sparred with Silicon Valley in the US Congress on Wednesday at a hearing on a controversial bill intended to crack down on online piracy.
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Thaksin pardon, not floods, dominate news
Terry Fredrickson, Published on 17/11/2011
» For the first time in many weeks, politics overtook the floods in front page interest as a rumoured royal pardon for former PM Thaksin Shinawatra provoked an angry reaction.
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Have a water crisis? Time to call the Dutch
Published on 17/11/2011
» With much of the country at or near sea level, the Netherlands has produced many water management experts. One of them is helping the Thai government tackle the flood crisis.
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Swiss exhibition works to help information junkies
AFP, Published on 17/11/2011
» The Libyan war, the Greek debt crisis and the Dominique Strauss-Kahn scandal have all been rich fodder this year for news junkies -- but is today's information overload healthy?
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Canals of Bangkok's past: Where did they go?
Jon Fernquest, Published on 17/11/2011
» When the canals died, the flooding once briefly endured, became a monster out of control.
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