美国国家公共电台 NPR Pension Funds Under Pressure To Sell Off Investments In Gun-Makers

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Many teachers across the country are calling on their state pension funds to sell their stakes in gun manufacturers. The teachers say they don't want their retirement money invested in these companies. But many people, including th

VOA标准英语2013--Senate Gun Debate Moves to Judiciary Committee

Senate Gun Debate Moves to Judiciary Committee Mass slaughters of children in Connecticut, movie-goers in Colorado, college students in Virginia, and congressional constituents in Arizona have amplified calls for action. First to speak at the hearing

美国国家公共电台 NPR Millennials Are No More Liberal On Gun Control Than Elders, Polls Show

SARAH MCCAMMON, HOST: In the days since the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., there have been calls for more gun control from high school students around the country. There's a lot of polling that indicates young peo

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Athletes going for gold at the 2006 Commonwealth Games While everyone in China, and in fact around the world, is getting excited about the upcoming 2008 Olympics, lots of people in Britain are pleased that two major sporting events will be taking pl

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As the 19th century rolled into the 20th, a young entrepreneur named Henry Ford boasted, I will build a car for the great multitude. He tried and tried, naming each of his models of what was then called the horseless carriage after a succeeding lett

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President Obama Preparing to Receive Gun Policy Recommendations From Learning English, this is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Almost a month has passed since a gunman killed twenty children and six adults at a school in Newtown, Connecticut. The

VOA标准英语2008年-Gun Violence Rising in US Capital City

By Chris Simkins Washington 16 May 2008 Republican Party Presidential candidate John McCain is set to speak to members of The National Rifle Association on Friday, May 16. The powerful pro-gun lobbying group is holding its annual convention in Louisv

VOA标准英语2012--Pentagon's Electromagnetic Gun Awaits Use

Pentagon's Electromagnetic Gun Awaits Use Marines stage a scene that has become more frequent for U.S. forces in Afghanistan. The mock protesters are harmlessly dispersed with a high-tech device. It is called the Active Denial System. Using an electr

VOA标准英语2013--Gun Violence Makes Pakistani-Americans Wary of Future

Gun Violence Makes Pakistani-Americans Wary of Future Events of mass-murder like December's school killings in the state of Connecticut have horrified people throughout the Unites States. But they are especially distressing to immigrants who came her

VOA标准英语2013--Gun Control Debate Firing Up Local Communities

Gun Control Debate Firing Up Local Communities Scenes of Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut are seared in the minds of many. Twenty students and six teachers died in the December mass shooting. Yet it has only been in the past two w

美国国家公共电台 NPR Sorrow, But Little Appetite For New Laws Among Nevada Gun Enthusiasts

MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: The question - the question - that hangs over the investigation here in Vegas is, why? We still don't have a good answer to that, to what motivated Stephen Paddock. But we are slowly gaining insight into another key question.

美国国家公共电台 NPR Treat Gun Violence Like A Public Health Crisis, One Program Says

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: As shootings and homicides continue to devastate some Chicago neighborhoods, advocates are advising people to treat it as a public health crisis. Other cities like New York have embraced this model and say it's helped reduce gun vi

美国国家公共电台 NPR What If We Treated Gun Violence Like A Public Health Crisis?

ELISE HU, HOST: More than 30,000 people are killed by guns every year in the U.S. That's more than those that die of AIDS, and more - and about the same number as those who die in car crashes or from liver disease. But unlike diseases and car crashes

美国国家公共电台 NPR Sharp Increase In Gun Suicides Signals Growing Public Health Crisis

NOEL KING, HOST: All right. Here in the U.S., when we talk about gun violence, we usually talk about homicides. But two-thirds of gun deaths in this country are caused by suicide, by people deliberately harming themselves. As North Country Public Rad

美国国家公共电台 NPR Gun Shops Work With Doctors To Prevent Suicide By Firearm

AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Doctors have become increasingly vocal in addressing gun violence as a public health crisis. That posture has drawn the wrath of the NRA, which tweeted recently, someone should tell self-important anti-gun doctors to stay in thei

美国国家公共电台 NPR Russia's Divisive Twitter Campaign Took A Rare Consistent Stance: Pro-Gun

MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: All right, earlier this year, special counsel Robert Mueller indicted a Russian troll farm known as the Internet Research Agency. We are now learning more about Russia's influence campaign on social media against the United S

VOA标准英语2008年-Big Brown Runs for Horse Racing's Triple Crown

By Jim Stevenson Elmont, NY 07 June 2008 Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner Big Brown runs Saturday in New York in his bid to become horse racing's first so-called Triple Crown winner in 30 years. As VOA's Jim Stevenson reports from Belmont Park, f

学个词Learn a Word 第1157期 Gun control

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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STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: How is it that police officers sometimes shoot the wrong person? That question has grown more urgent after recent police killings of two black men. Emantic Bradford Jr. was killed while running from a shooting at an Alabama mall.