The Homestead Act of 1862 is no longer in effect, but free land is still available out there in the great wide open (often literally in the great wide open).

尽管1862年颁布的宅地法已不在生效，但是免费白给的土地仍在广柔的土地上出现(通常是照字面理解的广柔的土地)。

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Helicopters have dumped approximately 30 tons of seawater on the No. 3 reactor building to attempt to cool it down, but officials are still trying to figure out if it had any effect.

为了使三号反应堆冷却，直升机已经在那里倾泻了30多吨海水，但是官方仍然无法知道此方法是否有效。

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Geographical location had no bearing on the results: a portly neighbor had no effect, but a friend who gained weight and lived far away still appeared to raise the risk of obesity.

地理位置对本结果无关：肥胖的邻居对此没有影响，但是一旦有超重的朋友并且居住的还很远仍然似乎增加肥胖的风险。

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Maybe but there's still no empirical evidence that this was a significant effect compared with a continuation of whatever first caused the warming.

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It could be a couple of weeks until we know the true effect of the latest US debt debate in the markets, but there are still no clear signs that a year-end rally has been written off, writes MoneyShow.com senior editor Tom Aspray .

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