And I had no idea that Dafen's artist colony - the world's leading center for mass-produced artwork and knockoffs of masterpieces - had been devastated by the bursting of the U.S. housing bubble.

我也没有想到，美国房市泡沫的破裂会让这个美术家聚集地——大芬村是全球最重要的工艺品和名作仿制品批量生产基地——遭遇灭顶之灾。

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Objective To build the colony immune defence and to control the periodic epidemics of hepatitis A after a mass vaccination of live attenuated hepatitis A vaccine.

目的大面积接种甲型肝炎（甲肝）疫苗，建立群体免疫屏障，控制甲肝周期性流行效果评价。

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It could, they suggest, offer an insight into problems like Colony Collapse Disorder, a mysterious cause of mass bee deaths globally.

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Along with millions of other out-of-date and unsecured PCs strung together by the Internet--what Corman calls "the leper colony"--those machines represent a combined mass of computing power responsible for most of the Net's spam e-mails, much of its click fraud, and the vicious "denial of service" attacks that can knock sites offline and even destroy online businesses altogether.

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