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Rob: Hello Im Rob - a Gemini. Welcome to 6 Minute English. Im joined today by Neil. Neil: Hi Rob. I'm a Virgo. So, what does that say about my personality? That's the group of thoughts, feelings and behaviours which make you who you are. It means I a

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Liberal and conservative political groups are bracing for what could be a divisive battle over the confirmation for President Barack Obama's Supreme Court nominee, Judge Sonia Sotomayor. The Senate will take up Judge Sotomayor's nomination sometime

AP 2010-10-23

1. A federal judge has denied a government request to delay her order, halting the military from enforcing its ban on openly gay troops. The judge issued her ruling Tuesday, saying the government had not proven that her order would harm troops or imp

2007年VOA标准英语-British Parliament Report Finds Racial Bias in

By Tendai Maphosa London 21 June 2007 The perception that young black Britons are more likely to get involved in crime is being countered by a recently released report that details racial profiling and discrimination in the British legal system. Tend

VOA标准英语2009年-Republicans Promise Thorough Confirmation

Opposition Republicans are promising thorough Senate confirmation hearings for President Barack Obama's Supreme Court nominee, federal judge Sonia Sotomayor. President Obama and federal appeals court judge Sonia Sotomayor, after her nomination to th

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AILSA CHANG, HOST: Starbucks' plan to close all of its U.S. stores for an afternoon to give their employees racial bias training has a lot of people asking, will this even work? We know little about what the training will include. Starbucks has said

女人的容貌会起到什么作用？

To conduct an experiment, 20/20 hired actorssome great looking, some notand put them in situations to gauge how often the lookers would get preferential treatment. In the first test, we put two women next to cars without gas in Atlanta. The women wor

经济学人60:科学界也有种族歧视

Racial discrimination in science 科学界也有种族歧视 A black and white answer 黑人，白人 In American science, race affects the chance of getting a grant 在美国科学界，种族影响得到拨款的几率 YOU might expect that science

PBS高端访谈:气候变化正在减少雄性海龟的数量

GWEN IFILL: Now we turn to another angle of our continuing of climate change and its impact. Tonight, our science team looks at the toll it is taking on sea turtles and some of their tiniest offspring. We went to the coast of Southern Florida and cam

双语有声阅读:India rapped over birth bias 印度因婴儿

India rapped over birth bias 印度因婴儿性别偏见遭谴责 India is seeking to get population growth down 印度正在寻求降低人口出生率的办法 The United Nations Population Fund has taken India to task over its ratio of females to

CCTV9英语新闻：No official confirmation or explanation from Indonesia yet

Indonesia has released four detained Chinese cargo ships after they got permission from local maritime authorities. But many others are still being held. The Chinese Embassy in Indonesia has said the detainment of over 20 Chinese cargo ships has alre

VOA常速英语2007年-Bush Seeks Mukasey Confirmation for Attorney Ge

By Scott Stearns White House 03 November 2007 President Bush wants opposition legislators to approve his choice for the nation's next top law enforcement official. VOA White House Correspondent Scott Stearns reports, Democrats say the president is no

男女对温度的感受不同?

It happens every summer: offices turn on the air-conditioning, and women freeze into popsicles. But until now, there was no data to understand why women felt cold and were slipping on cardigans while men just rolled up their sleeves at the same tempe

TED演讲:生死自知(1)

I have a question: 我要问大家一件事： Who here remembers when they first realized 在座的各位谁还记得当自己第一次意识到 they were going to die? 自己有一天会死去时那一刻的感受？ I do. I was a young boy, 我还记

【英语语言学习】爱因斯坦的大脑没有特别之处

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Albert Einstein had an enviable mind. So much, in fact, that when he died in Princeton's hospital, the pathologist on-call stole his brain. Dr. Einstein had asked for his brain to be cremated along with the rest of him, but eventua

测测看你有多聪明？

Although a full IQ test takes an hour or more and costs hundreds of pounds, performance on this one simple test is highly predictive of your overall intelligence. 虽然一个完整的智商测试需要一个小时或者更长，并且花费上千元，

美国国家公共电台 NPR Emergency Medical Responders Confront Racial Bias

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: There's a recent study out of Oregon that shows that race comes into play, even when it means administering lifesaving care. Specifically, this study shows black patients are 40 percent less likely to get pain medication than whi

莎士比亚十四行诗全集:第40篇

Take all my loves, my love, yea, take them all; 把我的所爱者夺走吧，全都夺走， What hast thou then more than thou hadst before? 且看你是否比从前多添了朋俦？ No love, my love, that thou mayst true love call; 爱呵，你找不