The Worldwatch Institute said in 2011 far too many people were living with less than they needed. It says, for example, nearly one billion people were hungry and just as many were illiterate. 世界观察研究所说,2011年全球有太多人生活在

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Opera Tells Story of Pakistani Rape Victim Turned Women's Rights Advocate 歌剧演绎轮奸受害者演变为女权倡议者的故事 NEW YORK An infamous 2002 gang rape in Pakistan is the unlikely subject of a new opera which recently premiered at

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By Jordan Davis Dakar 31 January 2007 U.S. software giant Microsoft this week unveiled the latest version of its operating system, Windows Vista. Soon, African users may be able to boot up their computers using their native tongue because African lan

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- 22 - hoist v.举起,升起,吊起 holder n.持有者,占有者;(台,架等)支持物 holy a.神圣的,圣洁的 homogeneous a.同种类的,同性质的,有相同特征的 honorable a.(honourable)可敬的;荣誉的,光荣的 hook n.钩,吊钩,钩状物 v.钩住 hop v.人单足跳;跳上(车等) n.蹦跳;短程飞

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Lesson 23 The Stuff of Dreams 说梦话的本质 It is fairly clear that the sleeping period must have some function, and because there is so much of it the function would seem to be important. Speculations about its nature have been going on for lit

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April 14th 4月14号 Dear Friend, 亲爱的朋友, How clever and capricious you are, cloaking yourself in anonymity, and I must confess I cannot for the life of me guess which of my many friends you can be. 你是多么聪明和任性,匿名写信

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By Nico Colombant Dakar 21 March 2008 For the first time since 1984, Liberian census takers are visiting dwellings throughout the country to count the inhabitants. Overall estimates of the post-conflict population range widely from two to four milli

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The simplest way to say it is this: I believe in my mother. My belief began when I was just a kid. I dreamed of becoming a doctor. My mother was a domestic. Through her work, she observed that successful people spent a lot more time reading than they

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By Amanda Cassandra New York 17 September 2006 On the eve of the annual meeting of the U.N. General Assembly, First Lady Laura Bush will be in New York Monday to host an international conference on global literacy initiatives. Education officials fr

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By Scott Bobb Johannesburg 28 March 2008 Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe has dissolved his Cabinet prior to national elections on Saturday. Nearly six million registered voters are due to go to the polls but the opposition says there already are s

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In India's eastern Orissa State, spiraling violence between Hindus and Christians has killed at least nine people. From New Delhi, Anjana Pasricha reports on the religious tensions gripping the region. Smoke rises from a church torched by hard-line

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UN: Relocation of Bedouins in Israel Weakens Two-state Solution 以色列贝都因人重新安置削弱两国解决方案 JERUSALEM Rural Bedouins living in disputed lands east of Jerusalem could soon find themselves forcibly relocated. While Israel

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Millions Labor in Pakistan's Informal Economy 巴基斯坦非正式经济中的数百万劳工 ISLAMABAD The World Bank says that in Pakistan, roughly 70 percent work in the so-called informal sector, a part of the economy that is unregulated and unt

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By Kent Klein Washington 21 April 2008 Grammy-winning pop singer Shakira is teaming up with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown to call for more global help in sending poor children to school. VOA's Kent Klein reports from Washington. The glamorous C

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By Michael Bowman Washington 13 April 2008 Dignitaries from around the world gathered in Washington Sunday to launch an ambitious project aimed at ending global poverty among women. VOA's Michael Bowman reports. United Nations statistics show that wo

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Mexico's southernmost State of Chiapas is beautiful and well endowed with natural resources. It has all the elements for success. And, yet, it is the poorest region in the country. The reasons for this are many including a large indigenous populatio

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Dignitaries from around the world gathered in Washington Sunday to launch an ambitious project aimed at ending global poverty among women. 来自世界各地的各界知名人士星期天聚集在美国首都华盛顿,共同启动一项雄心勃勃的

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By Phuong Tran Gaga, Chad 14 May 2007 For years, hundreds of thousands of Sudanese who fled fighting in Darfur have received shelter in refugee camps in neighboring Chad. But having survived the violence, they now face a new threat in the deadly AIDS

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The man there is Justinian, the emperor who 200 years after Constantine completely remade the Roman Empire, the man who made Byzantium. He was a man, they said, who was gentle and approachable, a man who never showed his anger, a man who in the quiet

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