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         3月22日是第18个世界水日。从这一天开始为期一周的时间，将是第23届“中国水周”。人类目前能够利用的淡水资源只占全球水资源总量的0.26%，其中70%以上被冻结在南极和北极的冰盖中，加上难以利用的高山冰川和永冻积雪，有87%的淡水资源难以被人类利用。联合国称，到2025年，30%的国家将面临“水荒”。

　　请看新华社的报道：
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你的新年愿望中，有没有改掉之前的坏习惯这一条呢？我们每年都要花很多时间和精力与坏习惯做斗争，但改掉恶习是一项艰难的任务，并且没有捷径可走。下面就来看看怎样才能尽快和坏习惯说再见吧。

A habit is any action that we have performed so often that it becomes almost an involuntary response. If we consider this habit to be undesirable then we may label it a "bad habit". People spend countless hours and dollars each year attempting to break these bad habits and often do not have any success. Why? Because there is no magic bullet. Change is hard work and there is no short cut to achieving it. The steps a person needs to take, however, can be very simply outlined. To effect a change in habits, one needs to bring the action back into the realm of consciousness and regain the ability to make choices.
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周日吃过早饭后，父亲总会围上印有赛车图案的围裙说：“都走吧，我来洗盘子！”然后哼着民谣快乐地开工。我想，一个男孩的父亲穿上一件围裙一定会让人感觉不习惯。但我没有想到，有朝一日父亲会把这项任务交给我。

那是八月的最后一个周日。在我们从教堂回家的途中，父亲的心情似乎格外不错。“汤米，每个男孩子都需要承担责任，现在到了你承担更多家务的时候了。”

人们经常说在父亲和儿子中间存在着一种特殊的默契。当我马上要发火时他回到厨房中。他的右手拿着那件旧围裙。“我想让你拥有它，汤米。它不会使你的衣服变湿。”在我表示抗议前，他已把围裙系到了我身上。“谢谢你，儿子。你母亲和我都对此很感激。”
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我的继子Brett是个问题青年，屡次光顾少管所，我已经到了崩溃的边缘，但仍打起精神继续教育他。我们把他送进了一家教育问题青年成功率很高的学校。这家学校的教育很严格，在全班20多个学生中，Brett是得以获得毕业的5个学生之一。

在毕业典礼上，每个毕业生都拿着一支长茎的白色玫瑰花蕾送给对他们来说最意义深重的人。

Brett对我说：“无论发生了怎么，你总是在那里。你给了我这么多的爱。我想让你知道这一切让我很爱你。”我站在那里惊住了，Brett把白色的玫瑰花蕾放到了我的手中并紧紧地拥抱了我。
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If you can't be a pine on the top of the hill,

如果你当不成山巅的一棵劲松，

Be a scrub in the valley---but be

就做山谷里的小树吧---但务必

The best little scrub by the side of the rill;

做溪流边最棒的一棵小树；
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IBM is opening a multi-million dollar lab to develop technologies for China's burgeoning smart grid market.

The $40 million dollar Energy & Utilities Solutions Lab will be located in the IBM China Development Labs in Beijing. The company says it expects the lab, the first for IBM worldwide, to generate $400 million in revenues over the next few years.
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NEW YORK - Getting a bit more calcium in your diet could help you live longer, new research suggests.

Swedish researchers found that men who consumed the most calcium in food were 25 percent less likely to die over the next decade than their peers who took in the least calcium from food. None of the men took calcium supplements.
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BEIJING: For Han Deyun, a National People's Congress deputy, a moderate, rational stance is needed from all parties in order for a mechanism requiring officials to declare their assets to succeed.

"National legislation will act as a very powerful signal for all officials, who will in time realize that having their assets open to the public is not only a moral obligation, but a legal duty," he told China Daily in an exclusive interview.
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BEIJING：China's modernization drive and economic reform could risk a failure without political restructuring as the nation's ongoing reforms were across-the-board, said Premier Wen Jiabao on Friday.

Wen, while delivering a government work report to the annual parliament session, said that the government would create conditions for the people to criticize and supervise the government, and let news media fully play their oversight role so as to put the authorities under sunlight.
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Wuhan municipal government's development blueprint for the next decade has been reviewed by the State Department, local newspaper the Yangtze Daily reported Friday.

The State Department gives a clear signal for the central city to be built into "the hub of central metropolises, a national historical and cultural city, a vital industrial and technological base, and a comprehensive transportation pivot".