Foreign News: Blitz Score

About a quarter of London will have to be rebuilt after the war. Bombs (Blitz I) and robombs (Blitz II) have left few streets in the world's largest city without ruins or cratered lots, few buildings undamaged. Last week Reconstruction Minister Lord Woolton totted up the damage. Blitz I killed 42,000 Britons, injured 50,000, destroyed 84,000 homes, damaged 1,500,000. Blitz II killed 10,000, injured 28,000, destroyed 23,000 homes, damaged 1,104,000. Most Londoners preferred bombs to robombs. At its peak the robomb blitz destroyed or damaged 17,000...

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News 1 (you) Bloody Pursuing It happened just before one o'clock Friday morning on a stretch of US-220 near the Franklin County line.The pickup that police were pursuing showed evidence of the gun battle... so did two patrol vehicles back at the Roanoke County Public Safety building. One officer was injured and one man at the pickup was dead. The pursuit began when an offi  cer tried to stop the driver for speeding, but investigators say they don't know why he opened fire. Adapted from www.news.bbc.co.uk News 2 (your partner) Twins Rays Today...

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 Fire officials say the blaze that ravaged the federal records storage facility in Selma Valley is now under control.More than 40 fi  re fi  ghters battled the fl  ames  that erupted late Wednesday night. TV-3's John Jacobs asked fi  re fi  ghter Jennifer Carry if the blaze may have been the work of an arsonist.Because the fi   re involved federal records , the FBI has been called in to investigate. Earlier...

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Dialoque_Care about the Environment

Sinta doesn't go to school because she is sick. She is consulting a doctor about her sickness. Sinta  :  Good morning, Sir. Doctor  :  Good morning. What can I do for you? Sinta  :  Yes, doctor. I couldn't sleep well. Could you examine me? Doctor : 1 . Okay, open your mouth!       When did you feel that you have a problem with your sleeping? Sinta  :  About two days ago, and then I also had a cough. Doctor :  Okay. 2 ? Sinta  :  Yes, but it sometimes happens. Doctor ...

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 Many hundred years ago there lived an honest old woodcutter and his wife. One fi  ne morning the old man went off to the hills with his billhook, to gather a faggot of sticks, while his wife went down to the river to wash the dirty clothes. When she came to the river, she saw a peach fl  oating down the stream; so she picked it up, and carried it home with her, thinking to give it to her husband to eat when he should come in. The...

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