25.Cities or Countryside When asked whether they would prefer to live in a city or the countryside,people tend to have different ideas.People who are in favor of city life may think it is too isolated and rather backward to live in the countryside;wh

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Activists Urge Lifting of HIV Travel Bans Marma Palma is an Aboriginal HIV/AIDS advocate from New Zealand who has been living with the virus for 19 years. She defiantly traveled to the U.S. six times while the entry ban for HIV-positive persons was i

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STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: The agency guarding the southwest border of the United States says it will suspend President Trump's zero tolerance policy. It will stop referring every person caught crossing the border for criminal prosecution. It was the prose

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The US is sanctioning a dozen individuals and five organizations tied in North Koreas nuclear and weapons proliferation efforts. White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest says the international community sends Pyongyang a firm message that North Korea

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By Mil Arcega Washington 25 March 2008 U.S. economic troubles are being blamed for rising energy prices, but it is not just the price of oil that is going up. The average grocery bill is also rising. Twelve eggs now costs about 30 percent more than t

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Acid Attacks Continue in Cambodia Despite Harsher Punishments For Som Bunnarith, memories of the day acid violence changed his life forever are as vivid in his mind as the scars on his skin. When it splashed on me, it felt hot. It even burned through

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Africa Pro-Democracy Advocates Evaluate U.S. Conventions For much of American history, political party conventions were spontaneous and unpredictable, with lively debates between delegates over who should be named to the top of the ticket. Today, par

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US Advocates Political Solution in Mali The Obama administration says it shares French military goals in the fight against Islamist militants in northern Mali and will help the Economic Community of West African States -- or ECOWAS -- send their own

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Hollywood Actor and Director Ben Affleck was in Washington this week, pushing for greater US engagement in the Democratic Republic of Congo. He has founded an organization called The Eastern Congo Initiative. Affleck says the DRC is at a critical jun

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The global health organization that works to combat pneumonia in children says the lung disease is the single leading killer of young children in the world, more than HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis. The Global Coalition Against Child Pneumonia sa

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Recent Announcements Give Boost to Gay Rights Advocates 为同性恋者争取合理的权利 A pair of high-profile announcements, one from the government and the other from an athlete, have bolstered gay rights advocates in the United States. Marrie

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Labor Advocates Celebrate Los Angeles Wage Victory LOS ANGELES Los Angeles is about to become the largest American city to raise its minimum wage to $15 an hour, an increase to be phased in over five years. The wage is more than twice the current min

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KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: President Trump is facing a lawsuit for blocking people from his personal Twitter account. This week, some First Amendment advocates joined the suit, and they are making a novel argument about the right to communicate with the pr

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DAVID GREENE, HOST: With the balance of the U.S. Supreme Court in question, abortion rights advocates are beginning to prepare for a future they hope never to see - one without the protections of the Roe v. Wade decision. The confirmation of Presiden

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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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今天我们要学的词是advocate。 Advocate, 作为名词,是拥护者、倡导者的意思。An advocate of freedom of speech, 是言论自由的捍卫者;an advocate of human rights, 是人权倡导者。 最近,美国玩具商美泰公司第

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By Deborah Tate Capitol Hill 07 December 2007 U.S. Congressional Democrats are asking the Justice Department to investigate whether the CIA's destruction of videotapes documenting the interrogation of terrorism suspects amounts to obstruction of just

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Faiza Elmasry | Washington, DC 03 December 2009 In 1994, President Ronald Reagan wrote a letter telling the world he had Alzheimer's disease When former President Ronald Reagan designated November as National Alzheimer's Awareness month in 1983, roug

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今天我们要学的词是 free of charge。Free of charge 免费。The course is offered to students free of charge. 学生可以免费上这门课。Google's VoIP phone service will remain free of charge within the U.S. and Canada in 2013. 2013年用

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今天我们要学的词是gun control。 Gun control, 枪支管制。 The deadly shooting in Tuscon re-energized gun control advocates, 图森发生的造成多人死伤的枪击事件让主张枪支管制的人重新振作。 The shooting has broug

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