"The current state of the economy has slowed things down a little bit here recently.

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And last year to did we hand students Google maps, Google news, asked them to mash those two very familiar real world products together so that they had a map of the United States, little markers sprinkled throughout, that indicated exactly where there were current events going on.

去年我们给学生提供了谷歌地图和谷歌新闻，要求他们把这两个熟悉的实时世界,产品结合到一起，这样他们就有了一个美国地图,上面到处都是一些小图标，它们能够精确地标记出,当前事件发生的地方。

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The spokesman said it is possible for both sides to negotiate a new Strategic Arms Reduction Agreement in the little time remaining before the current one runs out in December.

VOA: standard.2009.04.02