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College Makes Human Rights a Major Issue For years, Southern Methodist University Professor Rick Halperin pushed for a human rights degree program. The former chairman of Amnesty International USA taught his first human rights on campus 21 years ago,
VOA标准英语2012年(一月)
British forces turned over command of military operations in the southern Iraqi city of Basra to US troops on Sunday. A truck bomb that exploded Tuesday in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, however, indicates that the military situation in many plac
VOA标准英语2009年(四月)
Conservation Project at Risk from Mai Mai Attack The hunt continues for the Mai Mai militia that attacked a DRC conservation project in June. Six people were killed, as well as 14 endangered animals called Okapi, or forest giraffe. The attack occurre
VOA标准英语2012年(七月)
A top American military commander says there could soon be a further reduction in the U.S. troop presence in Iraq, based on recommendations from commanders in the field. The head of U.S. Central Command, General David Petraeus, spoke to reporters in
VOA标准英语2009年(一月)
Durban Climate Conference Drags On With Few Signs of Progress The United Nations climate conference in Durban, South Africa has gone into overtime, as delegates met Saturday to try to reach agreement on several deals to fight climate change. Observer
VOA标准英语2011年(十二月)
Somalia's militant al-Shabab group has promised to launch more attacks against African Union peacekeeping troops a day after 11 soldiers from Burundi were killed in blasts claimed by the group. On an Internet website, al-Shabab posted pictures of th
VOA标准英语2009年(二月)
A United Nations agency is offering what it calls a conceptual breakthrough to uplift the world's poorest people. The U.N. Industrial Development Organization contends selective industrialization offers the best chance for smaller, developing countr
VOA标准英语2009年(二月)
Property prices in Nairobi and elsewhere in Kenya have skyrocketed in the past few years, partly because more money may be finding its way there from pirate activities in neighboring Somalia. A local analyst says buying property is a popular and eas
VOA标准英语2009年(三月)
Minority Groups Show Solidarity With 'Occupy' Protest Movement Hundreds of African Americans and Hispanics marched the nearly 18-kilometer length of Manhattan on Monday, to show solidarity with New York's Occupy Wall Street protest. Although the Occu
VOA标准英语2011年(十一月)
Yemen Opposition Rejects Gulf Proposal on Power Transfer Yemen's opposition rejected on Monday a Gulf Arab initiative for President Ali Abdullah Saleh to step down because the proposal appears to offer him immunity from prosecution, while Saleh himse
VOA标准英语2011年(四月)
Most Accurate Projection of Polar Ice Melt Produced to Date Measuring ice sheets is a tricky business. Over the last two decades, dozens of studies on ice loss have come up with conflicting results. Now, a global scientific team, reporting in the jou
VOA标准英语2012年(十二月)
Some Iraqis Profit from Economic Progress; Most Suffer Baghdad's Stock Exchange opened one year after the fall of Saddam Hussein as a private non-profit organization - replacing the government-owned Iraq Stock Exchange. Director Taha Ahmed al-Rubaye
VOA标准英语2013年(三月)
The U.S. ambassador to Kenya has angrily denounced print and broadcast advertisements placed by the government of President Mwai Kibaki, which accuses the United States and other Western countries of contributing to post-election violence in the coun
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Lindsay: Look at this designer bag I bought. It was such a steal ! Rafael: Let me see that. You do know that this is an imitation , not the real thing , right? Lindsay: What do you mean? Of course its real. Rafael: Where did you buy it? Lindsay: Well
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(The) military strike in '64 was...the worst thing that ever could happen to this country, because until today, we have never recovered from that. It was bad times. It was bad times. But at the same time, I think that the opposite of that was, that /
自然百科2012年
By Brian Padden Washington, DC 04 May 2006 watch Immigrantion report In the debate over illegal immigration in the United States, the Catholic Church has been a prominent voice in support of immigrant
2006年VOA标准英语（五月）
By William Eagle Washington 04 July 2007 In Africa, experts say the deaths of thousands of infants each year from low body temperature, or hypothermia, pneumonia and other illnesses that can strike a child within days of delivery. One way thats gaini
2007年VOA标准英语（七月）
By Kane Farabaugh New York City 19 March 2007 watch Richard Branson report Richard Branson sits on the top-ten list of the United Kingdom's richest citizens, with an estimated wealth of roughly eight billion dollars. As the company he founded -- Vir
2007年VOA标准英语（三月）
By Brian Padden Paris 21 June 2007 The airline industry has long sought to develop new technology to offset the rising cost of fuel, but the industry also has looked to make flying more energy efficient. This year at the Paris Air Show many companies
2007年VOA标准英语（六月）
By Benjamin Sand Burmel, Afghanistan 18 May 2006 Foreign security guards stand near scene where car bomb exploded in Herat, May 18, 2006 A
2006年VOA标准英语（五月）