The life is hard for my father: my mother died years ago, and now his children are far from home, our selfish choices taking us from one end of the country to the other.

我父亲的生活很艰难：我母亲多年前就去世了，现在他的孩子们远离家乡，我们自私的选择把我们从国家的一端带到另一端。

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At that time Mr Bush said that harvesting embryonic stem cells crossed a moral boundary that "would support the taking of innocent human life in the hope of finding medical benefits for others".

那时布什说支持逾越了道德边界的胚胎干细胞研究就是支持了为了他人的医疗利益而夺取无辜生命的做法。

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I considered the possibility of taking a job in gomez Palacio and staying there for the rest of my life.

我考虑了在戈麦斯·帕拉·西奥市要从事一项工作和我的余生都要呆在这儿的可能性。

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but for Shrek, the ordinary life of taking out the trash, cooking dinners and changing diapers soon has him longing for the adventures he once had.

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For some, embryonic stem cell research requires the taking of a human life, but for others, it represents the acceptable use of cells from very early stage embryos that would never have developed into a person.

CNN: Looking for middle ground in a minefield

But away from the usual images of the World Cup, another hidden life was taking place for those who followed the roadshow thousands of miles around Japan.

BBC: World Cup memory lane

The tools of industrial fishing (drift nets, bottom trawls, and longlines) compensate for the diminishment of marine life that they cause by taking what little is left all the more intensively.

NEWYORKER: Neptune��s Navy