The DOE did not pick Hawaii at random to host the study.

美国能源部不是随机选取夏威夷来做研究的。

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The continental United States (not counting outlying Alaska and Hawaii) measures, 4,500 kilometers from its Atlantic to Pacific coasts, 2,575 kilometers from Canada to Mexico.

美国大陆(不包括远离本土的阿拉斯加和夏威夷)从大西洋沿岸到太平洋海岸的距离为4500公里，从加拿大到墨西哥的距离为2575公里。

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We do not expect harmful levels of radiation to reach the United States, whether it's the West Coast, Hawaii, Alaska, or US territories in the Pacific.

我们认为，有害水平的辐射不会到达美国，无论是西海岸，夏威夷，阿拉斯加还是美国在太平洋上的领土。

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Officials said the organisms are not invasive to Hawaii.

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Yet plainly not painful enough to jolt Hawaii out of its love of the status quo.

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Boyd says she conceived of Schoola when reading about the devastating tax shortfalls and concomitant budget cuts that dropped public school funding by 21% in her home state of California (not to mention Arizona, Hawaii, and South Carolina too).

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