IN THE NEWS - Obama's Decision to Support Same-Sex Marriage 新闻报道 - 奥巴马宣布支持同性婚姻 成为首位公开支持的在任总统 This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. 这里是美国之音慢速英语新闻报道。 This wee

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Two Brothers Wage Media War for Syrian Rebels Its a dangerous trek across the Turkish border into Syria. With the Turkish military patrolling one side and Syrian rebel fighters on the other, the risk of being caught up in the conflict is extremely hi

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Popular Weed Killer Stirs Health, Environmental Concerns Jamie Jamison produces corn, wheat and soybeans on his 500-hectare farm. To boost production, he uses genetically modified seeds. To control weeds, he uses Atrazine. It gives us good long-seaso

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Lawyers for detained Burmese democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi says she is being charged with violating the terms of her house arrest and will soon face trial. The charges appear related to an American man who also faces charges for sneaking into he

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Misrata Hospital Copes with Libya's War Wounded In Libya, forces opposed to former leader Moammar Gadhafi now control most of the country. But Gadhafi continues to evade capture and fighting continues in several important cities. The central coastal

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South Sudan Oil Dispute Raises Specter of War South Sudan is retooling its armed forces - working to strengthen the former rebel Southern People's Liberation Army into a more formal military. Soldiers here at the Bilpam military base in Juba could be

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Lebanese Take Sides in Syrian Civil War Posters of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad festoon this hilltop neighborhood overlooking Tripoli, Lebanons second largest city. This one reads: The Arab nation will not kneel as long as Bashar al-Assad is thei

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Whos Your Baghdaddy: New Musical Pokes Serious Fun at Iraq War In Shakespeares Hamlet, the Danish prince warns that actors should be well taken care of because, When you die you were better to have a bad epitaph than their ill report while you live.

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Iraq Invasion, Occupation Forged New US War Strategy It was a war that began in a conventional way. U.S. forces went against Iraqi forces with a clear objective: to bring down the government of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. The long, drawn-out war tha

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BBC Learning English London Life Christmas at the Market Jackie:Hello! This is London Life, I'm Jackie Dalton. Christmas is approaching and, as usual, I haven't done my Christmas shopping yet I suppose thats because I hate doing it: the huge crowds,

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By Craig Fitzpatrick Calvert County, Maryland 06 February 2006 watch Tobacco Farmers report In recent months, several countries in Europe have banned cigarette smoking in enclosed public spaces, somet

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Like these sea fans, the last frontier of life on the reef. The divers reach their target-- a massive ridge, 190 feet down. Here, the air they are breathing is under pressure, squeezed down so that there's more gas in every lungful. They have to hope

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Here it is. Got it, I think. A spring. And whats actually coming out of this is fresh water. You can drink. You see this stuff bubbling out? This is what the traditional owners of this place call 'buiur bindi''fresh water in the ocean'. The locals ca

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Daniel needed a new carburetor for his car. Well, not a new one. A new one would cost at least $250. Even a rebuilt one would cost about $110. The cheapest thing to do was to go to a salvage yard. California has about 50 salvage yards. Most of them a

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Did you know that in general we have on the average, i guess, about 26 eletronic gadgets in our house and they are constantly all pluging them and charging them and very little that power actually goes to chargers. Some of it is just regularly runnin

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Complete eradication in Caribbean targeted by 2010 Kane Farabaugh | Atlanta, Georgia 09 December 2009 A pilot program established by the Carter Center in 2008 helped to curb the spread of malaria by donating insecticide treated nets for beds and micr

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5个帅气阳光的男孩于1999年组成了偶像团体 - Dreamstreet(梦幻街少年) 5位成员分别 Christopher Trousdale,Greg Raposo,Frankie Galasso,Jesse McCartney和Matt Ballinger 组成。才十几岁的年纪 , 却在出道的那几年造成不小的炫风。他们在美国人气超旺,首支单曲It H

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By Laura Adams In this episode Ill discuss a legal way to make early withdrawals from your retirement account without having to pay an early withdrawal penalty. Can You Avoid Early Withdrawal Penalties on Retirement Accounts? When it comes to saving

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Both Chinese and Korean people are celebrating the Lunar New Year. This is a three day festival for Koreans called Seollal. The Chinese New Year is the start of the Spring Festival. It finishes with the Lantern Festival 15 days later. For Chinese and

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By Mil Arcega Washington, DC 15 June 2007 Automakers are ramping up their operations in China to take advantage of record-breaking growth in vehicle sales. China replaced Japan last year as the world's second-biggest auto market, and industry experts

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