INTRODUCTION TO ACT I Today on TUNING IN THE U.S.A., were on the road with Richard Stewart and Andreas Pappas. Andreas is a visitor from Greece, and he is a cousin of one of the Stewarts friends, Alexandra Pappas. Richard and Andreas are traveling to

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Sudanese Refugees Victims of Air Raid At least one Sudanese refugee was injured and 14 others are missing following an air raid Monday in South Sudan. The U.N. refugee agency says the attack occurred in Upper Nile State where Sudanese refugees have s

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The Farnborough International Airshow, held every two years in Britain, is a key event where new planes are displayed and flown and where orders are placed. This year there are indications that commercial aviation may be recovering from a year of los

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People mourn deaths of their family members at a local hospital in Islamabad, Pakistan, 28 Jul 2010 Pakistan is observing a day of national mourning after 152 people were killed in the country's worst-ever air disaster. Officials say weather is imped

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AmericanQuizShowOnAirfor50Years The longest-running TV quiz show in the world is beginning its second half-century on the air. It's Academic is a Washington program that lets high school students showcase their brainpower. It's a Saturday morning, an

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By Ted Landphair Washington, DC 04 June 2008 Subject a caged laboratory rat to unrelenting stress, and bad things happen. It snarls, bites its tail, trashes its cage. U.S. domestic airline passengers are starting to feel like trapped rats, paying mo

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LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: This past wildfire season, there were unprecedented amounts of wildfire smoke in communities across western Montana. Instead of just issuing warnings, public health agencies tried something new - actually making the air cle

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China's energy production relies heavily on coal-fired power stations. As the world's highest emitter of greenhouse gasses, China consumed more than 400 million tones of coal last year. As many parts of China have been shrouded in a gray haze over th

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Local education officials in China have suspended trips to overseas summer camps in the home city of the two teenage girls who died in the Asiana Airlines plane crash in San Francisco recently. This decision has sparked hot debate on the frenzy surro

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Multinational firms, including PricewaterhouseCoopers, J.D. Power and WPP, have spent thousands of dollars installing air filtration systems and real-time monitoring devices. These are booming times for the clean air industry. Louie Cheng, Chief Exec

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With major pollution days becoming more frequent, students are staying home, often without supervision. Their parents say it would be better if their children were in the classroom, and that's why schools need to install air purifiers. Our school bou

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Air NZ and Virgin Blue airlines may become partners to fly across the Tasman Sea between Australia and New Zealand. First, however, the Transport Ministers in both countries have to agree. In 2002, Air NZ and Qantas had talks about becoming partners.

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今天我们要学的词是impair。 Impair是损害、损伤的意思。一项最新研究建议美国军方全面禁止吸烟。According to the study, tobacco use impairs military readiness in the short term, 研究显示,吸食烟草短期内有损

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The global air industry and Asia's carriers, in particular, will see industry losses increase sharply this year because of the global recession this according to according to the latest report from the International Air Transport Association (IATA).

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The Beijing Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau said on Wednesday that it fined local polluters 183 million yuan, or roughly 28 million US dollars last year, witnessing a drastic increase from 2014. Captain of the bureau's environmental supervi

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Friday has marked the first anniversary of the opening of the first direct Chinese air-postal route linking the eastern province of Zhejiang with Russia. The logistics link - which is helping feed the growing e-commerce ties between China and Russia

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Its been almost three months since I got a haircut and I went to the barbershop where I always get it cut. But when I got there, the barbershop had been replaced by a hair salon. Shinobu: Hi, I used to get my hair cut at the barbershop that was here.

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Hamburg has become the first city in Germany to impose a partial ban on some older diesel vehicles. The move comes as a blow to the federal government as well as the country's automotive industry. TRT World's Ira Spitzer reports. Diesel engines were

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Pre-Listening Vocabulary rage: anger lose ones temper: to express anger and frustration suddenly cut someone off: to enter another drivers lane in a dangerous way outburst: a sudden expression of emotion baggage claim: the area where you pick up your

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Professor Gilbert Van Kerchhove from Belgium is the President and founder of a Beijing-based management consulting firm. He was deeply involved in the preparations of for the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. Van Kerchhove says one of the main issues leading

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