Growing up in Philadelphia, Lieberman started cooking with his stay-at-home dad when he was seven．His food-loving family had two kitchens, and he quickly learned what was the best way to bake his cakes．Lieberman improved his kitchen skills greatly during a year abroad before college, learning from a cook in Italy and studying local specialties(地方特色菜)in Germany, Spain and France．At Yale, he was known for throwing dinner parties, single-handedly frying and baking while mixing drinks for dozens of friends．Just for fun, he and some friends decided to tape a show named Campus Cuisine about his cooking．Lieberman was a real college student showing his classmates how to do things like make drinks out of dining-hall fruit．That helped the show become very popular among the students．They would stop Lieberman after classes to ask for his advice on cooking．Tapes of the show were passed around, with which his name went beyond the school and finally to the Food Network．

　　Food Network producer Flay hopes the young cook will find a place on the network television．He says Lieberman's charisma is key．“Food TV isn't about food anymore,”says Flay．“It's about your personality and finding a way to keep people's eyeballs on your show．”

　　But Lieberman isn't putting all his eggs in one basket．After taping the first season of the new how, Lieberman was back in his won small kitchen preparing sandwiches．An airline company was looking for some one to come up with a tasteful, inexpensive and easy-to-make menu to serve on its flights, Lieberman got the job．

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　　TV is an excellent resource for hearing and listening to English．The pictures help you understand what is being said, and TV news is an ideal way to help improve your listening ability because within a short period of time the same news is often repeated．This means that you can watch basically the same news programme several times within a day, and that every succeeding programme will help you to understand what is being said．

　　These preparatory steps are very important before your listening：

　　*Find out which news report you want to listen to, when and on what channel．CCTV 9 is a good choice because this is China's English channel and has regular news reports．

　　*Just watch the news reports for a few days first, before requiring yourself to understand the stories．Give yourself time to get familiar with the newsreaders and their accents．You should also get an idea of the structure of the entire report as well as the structure of a typical news story．

　　*Watch the news in Chinese first．This will tell you what the main news items are and help prepare you for understanding news reports in English．

　　While listening, you should pay attention to a few things that you may try to do：

　　*You can aim at just getting what a story is about．Give a one-to-two-sentence description after each story．

　　*Put forward a few questions to yourself about a story, and then seek to answer them from your listening．You can do this．by stopping the tape as soon as the headline is read to you．

　　*You may write a full transcript(抄本)of a story to practise intensive listening．This may bring notice to listening problems that have skipped your attention when you only concentrate on the content．

　　Even though the listening part is over, some follow-up activities will help you reinforce(加强)your learning．You may talk about the news with one or more friends．This provides an opportunity to produce a summary or express your thoughts in a brief article．

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　　The Beijing government has set out to recruit thousands of university graduates to work as junior officials in rural areas to both improve rural administration and ease the city's employment problems．

　　The government plans to recruit 3,000 university graduates this year, 1,000 more than last year, to work as assistants to village heads or Party secretaries in suburban areas．

　　People interested in jobs in Beijing's rural villages and townships can submit applications to Beijing Municipal Personnel Bureau or online at www.bjbys.com from February 1 to March 15．

　　“We hope university graduates will seize this opportunity to use their knowledge in rural villages and to start their careers,”Sun Zhenyu, deputy director of Beijing Personnel Bureau, told Xinhua News Agency．

　　The government has promised successful candidates a monthly salary of 2,000 yuan(＄ 250)in the first year, 2,500 yuan(＄ 320)the second year and 3,000 yuan(＄ 385)the third year, provided their performance is up to the required standards, Sun said．

　　Wang Lina, who graduated from Beijing Union University last year, was one of the first graduates to find work in the city's countryside．After majoring in industrial and commercial administration, Wang served as the assistant to the village head of Ertiaojie Village in suburban Beijing's Pinggu District．For one project, Wang contacted people at the Beijing Academy of Agricultural Sciences and arranged for the local farmers to receive training in strawberry planting．Her efforts paid off．The village had a plentiful harvest of organic strawberries earlier this year．

　　Nationwide, about 150,000 university graduates found employment in rural areas last year, according to figures provided by the Ministry of Education．

　　The ministry predicts that 4.95 million students will graduate from universities across the country this year, 820,000 more than last year．About 1.4 million of them are unlikely to find jobs when they graduate．

　　In Beijing, a record 200,000 people are expected to graduate from university this year．Less than half of them are expected to be offered jobs, according to the personnel bureau．

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　　An elderly woman died and several other passengers were critically injured when a crowded Virgin express train crashed in Cumbria last night．

　　A huge rescue operation involving RAF helicopters and dozens of ambulances arrived after passengers were trapped in the train for more than four hours because fallen power line poles made access for emergency workers difficult．

　　Authorities reported up to 80 injuries．Thirteen people were taken to hospital in a“critical or serious condition”．

　　Between 180 and 200 passengers were on the 5∶15pm Virgin service from London Euston to Glasgow Central when all nine carriages left the rails between Oxenholme and Tebay．Witnesses said that the train shook violently before toppling(倾斜)over into an embankment(筑堤)with at least four carriages overturning．Early this morning, authorities confirmed an elderly woman had died and some other passengers had suffered injuries, including back strains, head wounds and broken bones．

　　Ruth Colton, a passenger on the train, said she was reading a book when the journey became uncomfortable．It seemed that the train was being beaten by heavy winds,“as if we were on a plane”．

　　The accident brought concerns that Britain's busiest rail route would be crippled(瘫痪)for some time．The line between Preston and Carlisle was postponed as Virgin Trains promised a rapid investigation into the“serious incident”－the company's first big crash．

　　It is understood that the investigation will examine whether there was an obstacle on the track and the possibility of speeding or mechanical breakdown．The driver, who was injured, will be interviewed and a black-box recorder installed in the train will be examined．

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　　NASA is moving ahead with plans to put a long-armed Lander on Mars' icy north pole to search for clues for water and possible signs of life．

　　The 386 million Phoenix Mars is planned to touch down in the Martian arctic in 2008．The stationary probe(探测器)will use its robotic arm to dig into the icy land and pick up soil samples to analyze．In 2002, the Mars Odyssey orbiter spotted evidence of ice-rich soil near the arctic surface．

　　Scientists hope the Phoenix mission will find clues to the geologic history of water on the Red Planet and determine whether microbes(微生物)existed in the ice．

　　Phoenix will be the first mission of the Mars Scout program, a renewed, low-cost effort to study the Red Planet．“The Phoenix mission explores new territory in the northern plains of Mars similar to the permafrost(永冻土)regions on Earth,”Peter Smith said．

　　True to its name, Phoenix rose from the ashes of previous missions．The Lander for Phoenix was built to fly as part of the 2001 Mars Surveyor program．But the program broke down after the well-known disappearance of the Mars Polar Lander in 1999．The Polar Lander lost contact during a landing attempt near the planet's south pole after its rocket engine shut off too early, causing the spacecraft to fall about 130 feet to almost certain destruction．

　　The Phoenix probe had been in storage at a Lockheed Martin clean room in Denver before it was reused for its present mission．It will carry science instruments that were designed for the Mars Surveyor program including an improved panoramic(全景的)camera and a digging robotic arm．Phoenix will lift off from the Kennedy Space Center in August 2007 and land on the planet nine months later．

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　　British researchers have found that children's IQ predicts their probability of becoming vegetarians(素食者)as young adults．

　　Recent studies suggest that vegetarianism may be associated with lower cholesterol(胆固醇)，reduced risk of overweight and heart disease．

　　“We know from other studies that brighter children tend to behave in a healthier fashion as adults－they're less likely to smoke, less likely to be overweight, less likely to have high blood pressure and more likely to take exercise,”lead author Catharine Gale said,“This study provides further evidence that people with a high IQ tend to have a healthier lifestyle．”

　　In the study, Gale's team collected data on nearly 8,200 men and women aged 30, whose IQ had been tested when they were 10 years of age．

　　“Children who scored higher on IQ tests at age 10 were more likely than those who got lower scores to report that they were vegetarian at the age of 30,”Gale said．

　　The researchers found that 4.5 percent of participants were vegetarians．Of these, 2.5 percent were vegan, and 33.6 percent said they were vegetarian but also ate fish or chicken．

　　There was no difference in IQ score between strict vegetarians and those who said they were vegetarian but also ate fish or chicken, the researchers add．

　　One expert said the findings aren't the whole answer, however．

　　“We don't know the beliefs or attitudes of the parents of the children, nor do we know if there was a particular event that led these children to becoming vegetarian in their teens or adulthood,”said Lona Sandon, an assistant professor at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas．

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　　“I am in and I am in to win,”said Hillary Rodham Clinton, New York State senator and wife of former US President Bill Clinton, when she announced her bid to be the first female president in American history on January 20．Ms．Clinton, 59, formally stated in a video posted on her personal website that she was preparing to run in the 2008 US presidential election．

　　On January 16－four days before Ms．Clinton came forward as a presidential candidate－45-year-old African American senator Barack Obama made it clear he had the same dream．He has decided to form his presidential campaign exploratory committee．“As Americans, we must change our political situation,”he said．

　　If he succeeds in the 2008 presidential election, Obama will be the first black president in the history of America．

　　Although it is still too early to draw conclusions about the 2008 US presidential election, it is widely believed that there is no dark horse, and that either Ms．Clinton or Obama will win．

　　Ms．Clinton's unparalleled prestige and popularity is her greatest advantage．Nearly everyone knows her in the United States．In fact, her popularity has actually grown since her husband, Bill Clinton, concluded his two terms in office．In recent years Ms．Hillary Clinton has become the hottest female politician in the US political arena．

　　Hillary's second advantage is that she has one of the best political advisors in the country at her side－her husband．Bill Clinton, 60, still has the outstanding personal charm that helped him win office in 1992 and remains very popular．Many Americans value the memory of the good times in the Clinton age．This will undoubtedly be of benefit to Ms．Clinton．

　　Ms．Clinton's third“secret weapon”is her outstanding ability to raise money．Former Speaker of the House, Republican Newt Gingrich, once said that Hillary could raise more money than any other Democrat, and that this amount could probably exceed the total raised by other Democratic candidates．

　　Obama's major advantage is that he is young, energetic and charming．Obama is quite unlike the traditional politicians in Washington DC．Both media and the public have lavished(大量地给予)praise on him, reminding people of the years of Bill Clinton or even the Kennedy brothers．This is the so-called“Obama phenomenon”．Secondly, Obama is currently the only black senator in the United States Congress, and just the fifth black senator in US history．His father came to the US as a student from Kenya, which will make him popular with African American voters．Thirdly, Obama is an outstanding example of someone who is living the American dream．He was born into a common family and rose from the bottom of the society．He often claims to be the“poorest person in the Senate”．The common people find this very inspiring．Fourthly, unlike Hillary, Obama has taken a firm attitude against the Iraq war．This will help him to win the anti-war vote．

　　No matter who wins the election, Ms．Clinton or Obama, Americans will face an interesting question－a female president or a black president?Either one would be a new record．

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　　Several years ago, my family gathered on Cape Cod for a weekend．My parents were there, my sister and her daughter too, two cousins and, of course, my wife, my son and me．We ate at one of those restaurants where the menu is written on a blackboard held by a friendly waiter and had a wonderful time．With dinner concluded, the waiter set the check down in the middle of the table．That's when it happened．My father did not reach for the check．

　　In fact, my father did nothing．Conversation continued．Finally it dawned on me．Me!I was supposed to pick up the check．After all these years, after hundreds of restaurant meals with my parents, after a lifetime of thinking of my father as the one with the dollars, it had all changed．I reached for the check and pulled out my American Express card．My view of myself was suddenly changed．With a stroke of the pen, I was suddenly an adult．

　　Some people mark off their life in years, others in events．I am one of the latter, and I think of some events as rites of passage．I did not become a young man at a particular year like 13, but when a kid strolled into the store where I worked and called me“mister”, I turned around to see whom he was calling．He repeated it several times－“mister, mister”－looking straight at me．The realization hit like a punch：Me!He was talking to me．I was suddenly a mister．

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　　How could we possibly think that keeping animals in cages in unnatural environments－mostly for entertainment purposes－is fair and respectful?

　　Zoo officials say they are concerned about animals．However, most zoos remain“collection”of interesting“things”rather than protective habitats(栖息地)．Zoos teach people that it is acceptable to keep animals bored, lonely, and far from their natural homes．

　　Zoos claim to educate people and save endangered species, but visitors leave zoos without having learned anything meaningful about the animals' natural behavior, intelligence, or beauty．Zoos keep animals in small spaces or cages, and most signs only mention the species' name, diet, and natural range．The animals' normal behavior is seldom noticed because zoos don't usually take care of the animals' natural needs．

　　The animals are kept together in small spaces, with no privacy and little opportunity for mental and physical exercise．This results in unusual and self-destructive behavior called zoochosis．A worldwide study of zoos found that zoochosis is common among animals kept in small spaces or cages．Another study showed that elephants spend 22 percent of their time making repeated head movements or biting cage bars and bears spend 30 percent of their time walking back and forth, a sign of unhappiness and pain．

　　Furthermore, most animals in zoos are not endangered．Captive breeding(圈养繁殖)of endangered big cats, Asian elephants, and other species has not resulted in their being sent back to the wild．Zoos talk a lot about their breeding programs because they do not want people to worry about a species(物种)dying out．In fact, baby animals also attract a lot of paying customers．Haven't we seen enough competitions to name baby animals?

　　Actually, we will save endangered species only if we save their habitats and put an end to the reasons people kill them．Instead of supporting zoos, we should support groups that work to protect animals' natural habitats．

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　　Speeding off in a stolen car, the thief thinks he has got a great catch．But he is in for an unwelcome surprise．The car is fitted with a remote immobilizer(远程控制器)and a radio signal from a control center miles away will make sure that once the thief turns the engine off, he will not be able to start it again．

　　The idea goes like this．A control box fitted to the car contains a mini-cell phone, a micro-processor and memory and a GPS satellite positioning receiver．If the car is stolen, a coded(秘密编码)cell phone signal will tell the control center to block the vehicle's engine management system and prevent the engine being restarted．

　　In the UK, a set of technical fixes is already making life harder for car thieves．“The pattern of vehicle crime has changed．”Says Martyr Randall, a security expert．He says it would only take him a few minutes to teach a person how to steal a car, using a minimum of tools, but only if the car is more than 10 years old．

　　Modern cars are far tougher to steal, as their engine management computer won't allow them to start unless they receive a unique ID code beamed out by the ignition(点火)key．In the UK, technologies like this have helped to achieve a 31％ drop in vehicle crime since 1997．

　　But determined thieves are still managing to find other ways to steal cars, often by getting hold of the owner's keys．And key theft is responsible for 40％ of the thefts of vehicles fitted with a tracking system．

　　If the car travels 100 meters without the driver conforming(一致的)the ID, the system will send a signal to an operation center that it has been stolen．The hundred meters minimum avoids false alarm because of some possible errors of the GPS signal．

　　Staff at the center will then contact the owner to confirm that the car really is missing and keep police informed of the vehicle's movements via the car's GPS unit．

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