From NPR News in Washington, I'm Jack Speer. The US economy shed 11, 000 jobs in November. That is according to the Labor Department. That's the smallest loss in two years. Economists say its a sign the nation's job market may finally be turning arou

发表于:2018-12-02 / 阅读(74) / 评论(0) 分类 2009年NPR美国国家公共电台12月

VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I'm Barbara Klein. Each year, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington honors performers for their lifetime of work. This year the

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VOICE ONE: Im Shirley Griffith. VOICE TWO: And Im Steve Ember with People in America in VOA Special English. Today we tell about Les Paul, one of the most influential people in modern popular music. He was a skillful guitarist who played an energeti

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Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION -- American history in VOA Special English. By eighteen sixty-three, America's northern states and southern states had been fighting a bitter civil war for two years. Both sides felt the pressure of the costly strug

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This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Information wants to be free, the saying goes. But the debate over net neutrality could define how free the exchange of information is going to be in the future. Net neutrality is the idea that every

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By Alan Boswell Nairobi 29 September 2009 The author of a recently released report says that the international community needs to do more to prepare itself for the likely scenario of a return to conflict in Sudan. Senior U.S. officials are meeting T

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The top US military commander in Afghanistan, General Stanley McChrystal, says that unless more troops are sent to the country, the war there will fail. McChrystal's assessment is detailed in a classified report obtained by the Washington Post. The

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The Senate is working overtime this weekend, trying to make some headway on its version of legislation to overhaul the nation's health care system. NPR's Julie Rovner has more. Among the amendments up for consideration this weekend, is one that would

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Alaska Governor Sarah Palin announced today that she will resign on July 26th and will not seek re-election next year. As last year's Republican vice-Presidential candidate, Palin's move is seen as a potential first step toward a bid for the White H

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VOICE ONE: Im Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: ''Revolt on the Amistad,'' silkscreen print by Jacob Lawrence And I'm Barbara Klein with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. At the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., you can see a colorful and expres

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HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) I'm Doug Johnson. Today, we answer a listener question from China about American lawmakers And we play music from singer Regina Spektor's latest album ... But first, we visit the natio

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VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I'm Bob Doughty. VOICE TWO: And I'm Faith Lapidus. This week, we will tell how some storms might help to prevent large earthquakes. We will tell about the winner of the two thousand nine

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Ethiopian scientist was named on Thursday as the winner of the 2009 World Food Prize in an event at the U.S. State Department. Ejeta, a faculty member at Purdue University in the Midwestern U.S. state of Indiana, was honored for his work on drought

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The U.N. relief agency has suspended operations in Gaza because of the danger posed by Israeli military action. The decision was made as Israel pressed its air and ground offensive amid a rising civilian death toll and international efforts to halt

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Islamist militants in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, launched a pre-dawn raid on African Union peacekeepers Friday, triggering fierce fighting that killed more than 20 people. Meanwhile, government-led military efforts to take control of insurgent-h

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The United Nation's World Food Program says rogue members of Somalia's extremist al-Shabab group attempted to raid its compound late Sunday in the Somali town of Wajid, about 300 kilometers northwest of Mogadishu. World Food Program spokesman, Peter

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By Tom Rivers London 05 October 2009 Three U.S.-based scientists have won the 2009 Nobel prize for medicine for their discovery into how chromosomes are copied and protected. The work casts important light on cancer and the aging process. . Elizabet

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One year ago, Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe, then opposition-leader Morgan Tsvangirai and Arthur Mutambara, leader of another small opposition party, signed a political agreement that led to the formation of a unity government. Its purpose was to

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By Alisha Ryu Near Galkayo, Somalia 06 October 2009 The United Nations is warning that years of drought and conflict are pushing many regions of Somalia toward a new cycle of hunger, devastation, and human suffering. Worse than ever Rotting carcass

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By Tom Rivers London 08 October 2009 To a hushed throng of reporters, Peter Englund, the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy made the announcement. Romanian-born German writer, author Herta Mueller has won the 2009 Nobel Prize in literature (

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