1. A police raid of an illegal food store in southern China has exposed tonnes of rancid, decades-old chicken feet being 'processed' to be sold to unassuming customers.

2. AFI Movies of the Year

3. Mr. Anderson wanted an abundance and a variety of facial hair on the men, with no beard or mustache adorning each actor’s face in quite the same way. It’s a veritable hipster’s row of styles, from pencils to handlebars to a black-and-gray goatee worn by Jeff Goldblum.

4. Fiat will seek to renegotiate the terms of its investment in Chrysler.

5. What’s in a shade? If you are Pantone, the “color authority” and the dominant color trend forecaster, and you get to choose a “color of the year” every year, potentially a lot. It could include determining fashion’s direction (these are the hues that inform the fabrics that get bought by designers that get made into your clothes), influencing interiors, and even affecting how food appears. Still, I don’t think I’ve ever seen quite so much political and philosophical import attached to a color decision as I have for the 2016 “Color of the Year.”

6. Transport Ministry spokesman Xu Chengguang told a news conference that no further signs of life had been found and the chance of finding anyone else alive was "very slim."

应用

1. The December budget deal was hardly the kind of confidence-boosting agreement Washington has been debating for years. But at least it hit the pause button on the serial brinkmanship that threatened to derail the recovery each of the past three years.

2. Price is not everything, it is true. But even the bears would agree: everything has a price.

3. 这两部纪录片都使用标准工具——资料影像、人物采访，悉心选择的音乐资料——在目前的紧张局势中书写历史。在“黑人的命也是命”(Black Lives Matter)的时代，关于黑豹党和爵士歌手兼行动分子妮娜·西蒙妮的影片确实意义重大。尼尔逊和贾巴斯精彩地讲述了他们的故事。

4. 17. Most Complex Hurdle As of Dec. 7, seven out of 20 domestic top-grossing movies released this year had female-driven stories, according to the website Box Office Mojo. By contrast, five out of 20 female-driven stories topped the international market, which accounts for some 70 percent of the industry’s revenue. This may look bad, but the numbers appear marginally better than they have in recent years.

5. Only the US-based MIT Sloan School of Management, in fifth place, prevented French institutions from sweeping the top five positions.

6. 去年年末，世界卫生组织宣布，寨卡病毒不再是全球紧急公共卫生事件。然而，人们才刚刚开始认识到这种病毒对婴儿及其未来几十年生活的影响。在巴西东北部，人们首次发现了病毒与小头畸形等出生缺陷之间的联系，家庭竭力为患病婴儿提供最好的生活。研究人员希望通过研究在巴西出生的一对双胞胎，来寻找病毒对胎儿影响的线索。这对双胞胎中，一个有出生缺陷，另一个没有。

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1. Overall, live and recorded content achieved equal scores overall of 8.8 out of 10, while online interaction and team-work were rated marginally lower.

2. 'People in the community are affected by what I write, ' he says.

3. 但事实上，作为一项新技术以及新运动，比特币在2014年表现出了猛烈的势头，而且在新的一年有望征服更多怀疑论者。诸多领域的指标证明了这一点：与比特币相关的初创企业和就业岗位数量大增；接受比特币的机构数量也大大增加；开发人员间的活动也较此前增强。