Thai Muslims Create Thriving California Mosque AZUSA, CALIFORNIA A mosque in suburban Los Angeles that began as a center for Muslim immigrants from Thailand now serves Muslims of many backgrounds. The thriving religious center in Azusa, California, i

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(66) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2014年(十月)

Hangzhou-based Keer Group became the first Chinese textile maker to set up a subsidiary in the US 7-months ago. Its US branch, the Keer America Corporation, is located in Lancaster County, South Carolina. Its establishment has created a new series of

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Script: In the frozen arctic region of the East Siberia, teams from the Russian oil company Rosneft, work in numbing -40 degree cold, digging exploration wells. The massive Vankor field promises to be one of the largest in Russia. Russias oil and ga

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By Terry FitzPatrick Cape Town 05 June 2008 The global food crisis can be solved, and at the same time African countries can prosper, if the world invests in Africa's agricultural sector. That's the assessment of experts meeting this week in South A

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美国有两个主要的政党,共和党和民主党。一般来说,共和党代表保守派,而民主党代表自由派。自由派和保守派在英文里就是:liberals和conservatives. Lib

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By Paul Sisco Washington, DC 30 August 2006 watch Touchable Science report Glenn Mills is part teacher, part scientist, and part inventor. We think you'll enjoy what he calls his touchable science. Inventor Glenn Mills Meet Glenn Mills. For nearly 5

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By Peter Fedynsky Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan 24 September 2007 It is said that it takes money to make money. Last year, an economist from Bangladesh won the Nobel Peace Prize for an innovative program called micro-lending that enables poor people to borrow

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With two of America's major automobile companies reportedly weeks away from financial collapse, there continues to be little agreement in Washington on how to craft a government rescue package that would stave off bankruptcy. The White House is weig

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New Ebola Vaccine Proves Effective in Mice U.S. scientists have developed a new vaccine against the deadly ebola virus which has the potential to remain potent after years of storage. Ebola is one of the deadliest viruses known. It kills about nine o

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The Democratic Republic of Congo's speaker of parliament has resigned, after he opposed the government's decision to invite Rwandan troops into the country to pursue a militia. Rwandan troops have since left the country, while U.N. peacekeepers and

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US Cities Brace for Looming Fiscal Cliff Like many American towns, Dixon, Illinois, is still struggling to recover from the 2008 financial crisis and economic recession. Here, unemployment exceeds the national average. Residents are casting a nervous

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LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: A new social network has grown quietly in recent months. It's called Gab, and its users are invited to speak freely and appeal attractive to many members of the far-right and others who feel their views are stifled by mains

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LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: And now to some economic news. South Korea's economy has been thought of as an Asian tiger with high growth and productivity. But momentum there has slowed, and these days, unemployment is at its highest level in 17 years.

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AILSA CHANG, HOST: The graphic novel My Favorite Thing Is Monsters is huge in size and scope. Writer and artist Emil Ferris fills the pages with inky, scratchy drawings done in ballpoint pen. There are loose sketches, recreations of famous paintings

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MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: We are going to end this program where we started it - by remembering a towering figure from American life. On Friday, the Greater Grace Temple in Detroit embodied the spirit, the fierceness and the joy of Aretha Franklin. Thousa

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We have a few other IT-infrastructure software products that I'd like to discuss today, but in somewhat less depth than HP OpenView. HP OpenMail provides the backbone for messaging in a mission-critical, high-availability environment. Most people thi

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Zara Taimoor is making different herbal products using plants and vegetables she grows in her backyard. She says that social media has made it easy for entrepreneurs like her to create and sell organic products. The market for organic products is ver

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Former U.S. President Bill Clinton says that the Caribbean nation of Haiti is well positioned to pull itself out of the grinding poverty that has ranked it as the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere and create a bright future for its citizens. M

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Hollywood Studio in Crisis 好莱坞制片厂陷入危机 Sam Worthington, the lead actor in the worldwide hit Avatar, is being tipped as the next James Bond. The bookies' favourite, born in the UK but raised in Australia, has recently achieved pheno

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Pre-Listening Vocabulary involuntary: occurs without ones control (e.g. a reflex) contagious: spreads from one person to another empathy: the understanding or acknowledgment of another persons feelings phenomenon: an observance in nature (often causi

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