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Gareth: So, Rebecca, where are you from? Rebecca: I'm from America, actually, yeah. Gareth: I've never been to America. What's crime like in America? Rebecca: I think it probably depends a lot, city to city. It varies a lot, depending on the city. I

英语博客：Airsoft beebees.

It's no secret that boys of a certain age like guns, even if they are *make-believe. I remember that before my boys ever had any plastic weapons, they would use other toys, or even sticks, and pretend that they were guns. Perhaps they were influenced

IN THE NEWS - Missing Explosives in Iraq

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SSS 2008-09-01

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ESL Podcast 534 – Types of Guns and Weapons

Bobbie: Ive always pegged you as the non-violent type. Whats with your fascination with guns and that sort of thing? Emmanuel: I come from a long line of military officers and I grew up with all of it. Believe it or not, I learned how to fire pistols

VOA标准英语2009-US Federal Agents Crack Down on Mexico Gun Smugg

Mexico has been the focus of the H1N1 flu outbreak, but the rash of killings carried out by the country's drug trafficking gangs continues to be an urgent problem. Many of the guns used by hit men working for the drug cartels have been traced back t

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美国有线新闻 CNN 2013-02-12

The special 360 town hall, guns under fire from the George Washington university in the nation's capital. In the nearly 7 weeks, since the rampage in Newtown Connecticut silenced 27 lives, a national debate over gun has only grown louder and more urg

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SW China colliery blast kills 3, injures 4

GUIYANG, Feb. 19 (Xinhua) -- Three people were killed and four others injured, including three who were seriously injured, in a coal mine blast in southwest China's Guizhou Province, local authorities said Tuesday. The blast occurred around 5:25 p.m.

2006年VOA标准英语-Ivory Coast Militiamen Feel Excluded From Disar

By Franz Wild Guiglo 04 August 2006 Western Ivory Coast militia who fought alongside government troops in the country's 2002 civil war have been handing in their weapons for over a week now. But many combatants feel they have been excluded from the

英语杂谈：80 Juvenile Delinquency 2

The only crime I have ever been connected with was unsuccessful. One summer night I went to bed, leaving my bedroom door open because it was very hot. During the night I was woken up by the sound of a match being struck. For a moment I thought it mus

2007年VOA标准英语-Bush: Change in Iraq Strategy 'Ideological Stru

By Scott Stearns Washington 11 January 2007 U.S. President George Bush is sending more troops to Iraq as part of what he says will be a new way forward. VOA White House Correspondent Scott Stearns looks at the president's changing approach to the co

德克萨斯州机场恢复航班

HOUSTON, July 12 (Xinhua) -- A regional airport in the U.S. state of Texas has reopened Friday after a bomb threat closed the airport for a few hours, local media reported. The Lubbock Preston Smith International Airport, located in Texas's northwest

巴勒斯坦驻布拉格使馆被发现12把冲锋枪和手枪

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