1. The Southwestern African country owns over 20 national parks and has the world's oldest deserts.

2. The soaring prices of 2008, when oil reached more than $140 a barrel, will repeat, though not likely in 2014, Mr. Hummel said. The price 'is going to go higher.'

3. 在这欢乐的时节给你我最真的祝福和亲切的思念，愿你今年的新年比往年更璀璨。

4. 据金融数据提供商Wind Information有限公司，列出了去年在整个A股市场共实现净利润2.47万亿元的各家公司。在这些上榜公司中，其中有2000家拟进行现金分红，总额近7000亿元。

5. It's hard enough for NBA defenders to stop Rose, so just imagine how ridiculously hard that must have been back in high school with Rose being nearly the same size that he is now.

6. Prices at China's factory gates fell for a 34th consecutive month in December, pushed down by falling energy and commodity prices.

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1. HEC Paris is not ranked first in any of the individual criteria but registered a strong performance throughout. Its alumni have the fifth-highest salaries three years after graduation at $93,000 and the programme is ranked third for value for money and the international mobility of its alumni. The school also shares the highest score — 93 per cent — for aims achieved.

2. Against: It might be that bit too far from the mainstream to make a huge awards impact.

3. The cemetery was first found in July 2007and was excavated by the Xinjiang Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology,with assistance from local authorities. The research team, led by Zhiyong Yu,director of the Xinjiang Archaeological Institute, published the findings in Chinese in the journal Wenwu. The article was recently translated into Englishand published in the journal Chinese Cultural Relics.

4. 这些，都只是纽约人2015年将会遇到的部分问题。而且，邻居家的儿子在圣诞节收到了新的爵士鼓，你又免不了要头疼了……

5. *Awards presented during the Creative Arts Emmy ceremony Sept. 10-11.

6. Goldie Hawn’s award for best supporting actress in the 1970 film Cactus Flower rests somewhere altogether more zen – in the “India Room” in which she likes to meditate. Hers isn’t the only award to apparently emit good vibes – Russell Crowe’s award for best actor, which he won for his role as the bang-on-trend, leather miniskirt clad Maximus Decimus Meridius in Ridley Scott’s 2000 film Gladiator, is kept in a chicken coop on the actor’s Australian ranch. Crowe apparently thinks it helps the hens lay bigger eggs.

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1. Effective email marketing involves more than occasionally blasting out a newsletter. To build an effective email marketing strategy, you need a tool packed with functionality. MailChimp seems to be the best system out there, offering elegant, intuitive newsletter templates, advanced list segmentation features and marketing automation capabilities.

2. 徐成光在新闻发布会上表示，截至上午10时20分，已打捞出97具遗体。

3. 2012年有哪些品牌通过社交媒体提升了它们的声誉？哪些公司则越来越差了？