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AS IT IS 2016-07-05 Ghana Women in Business 加纳经商的女人们 In Ghana, some people believe certain jobs are only for men. But some Ghanaian women are starting to do traditionally male work, such as carpentry or jobs that require physical stre

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Is Pasta Good for You? From VOA Learning English, this is the Health Lifestyle report. The Italian actress Sophia Loren reportedly once said, Everything you see I owe to spaghetti. What we see is her great figure a figure she credits to eating pasta.

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AS IT IS 2016-07-26 Verizon Buys Yahoo for $5 Billion 威讯通信以50亿美元收购雅虎 This is Whats Trending Today. 这里是《正在发生》节目。 Many Americans are reacting to news that Verizon Communications will buy Yahoo, one of the

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AS IT IS 2016-07-26 Russian Team Escapes Olympic Ban 俄罗斯代表队摆脱奥运禁令 The International Olympic Committee, known as the IOC, will not ban all Russian athletes from the Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games in August. 国际奥林匹克委员

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AS IT IS 2016-07-26 Study Finds Americans Want Stronger Gun Laws 研究发现美国人希望出台更严格的枪支管制法 A shooting in the American state of Florida has left two young men dead. The shooting took place early Monday outside a nigh

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AS IT IS 2016-07-26 Clinton Struggles to Win Over Sanders Supporters 克林顿奋力赢得桑德斯的支持者 Efforts to unite the Democratic Party behind Hillary Clinton suffered a setback as the party began its four-day convention in Philadelphia

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AS IT IS 2016-07-25 IS Mostly Ineffective, But Threat Is Rising in SE Asia 威胁在东南亚仍在持续上升 The Islamic State terrorist group is not very effective in Southeast Asia right now. But, terrorism experts warn, the group could become s

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AS IT IS 2016-07-25 New Trend in Women World Leaders? 女性领导人,世界新趋势? Britains Theresa May recently took office as the first woman prime minister since Margaret Thatcher. This week, Hillary Clinton will become the first American woma

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Thumbs Up or Thumbs Down? Now the VOA Learning English program Words and Their Stories. Each week we explore the meaning and origin of American English expressions. Today, I want you to look at your hand. The hand is an amazing tool. With it, we huma

VOA慢速英语--大学生与教授因“言论自由”冲突

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AS IT IS 2016-07-24 US Investigates Missing Money in Malaysia 美国在马来西亚调查数十亿美元失窃资金 U.S. attorney general Loretta Lynch says billions of dollars were stolen from an investment fund run by the government of Malaysia. T

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Exhibit Explores Power of Press in 18th Century 展览探索18世纪出版的力量 Clearly, there was no social media or television to spread the word when America declared its independence from Britain in 1776. 在美国1776年从英国宣告独立的

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Two Events Blamed for Dinosaur Deaths Dinosaurs ruled the Earth for about 160 million years. Then they disappeared. Scientists have argued for years about what killed off the dinosaurs. Was it the huge volcanic eruption 66 million years ago in what i

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