With less than a week until Election Day, the Obama and McCain campaigns are making late pitches to voters in key states like Florida and elsewhere.

距离大选只剩不到一星期了，奥巴马与麦凯恩的竞选团队都在例如佛罗里达州这样的关键州里加紧游说选民。

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One of the key ideas fueling HSR is that the U.S. in the 21st century has grown beyond a country of cities and suburbs to what urban-studies expert Richard Florida calls "mega-regions."

力挺HSR项目的主要理由之一是：21世纪的美国已经不再是一个由城市和郊区组成的国家了，而变成了城市建设研究学者理查德·佛罗里达所称的“特大城市群”。

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The key for Florida, alone among the 50 states, was obtaining a statewide waiver from federal funding rules.

Florida面对的关键问题是如何在50个州中单独从联邦现有法律中获得全国性的豁免权利。

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It is called Highway One. It starts into the Keys from the state of Florida at a bridge that crosses the water to the island of Key Largo.

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Around the same time,Key West, off the southern tip of the Florida Peninsula, became the center of the cigar industry.

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Another source of concern: the discovery of 20 tar balls off Key West,Florida on Monday.

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Rita continued to strengthen as its eye passed through the narrow Straits of Florida between Key West and Cuba and into the warm, open waters of the Gulf of Mexico.

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The maker of lawn-and-garden products highlighted strong increases in Texas and Florida, two key early-season markets.

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There were accusations leveled during the 2012 presidential campaign that black turnout was being discouraged in Florida and other key states by voter ID laws or attempts at deception or intimidation.

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