An internal review prepared by the staff of President-elect Barack Obama acknowledges that one member of his transition team Rahm Emanuel had a discussion with Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich about Mr. Obama's vacant Senate seat. However, accordin

发表于:2018-12-02 / 阅读(79) / 评论(0) 分类 2008年NPR美国国家公共电台12月

Angering the US government, the whistleblowing website Wikileaks has published hundreds of thousands of military documents which show as many as 15,000 more Iraqi civilians were killed than previously knowledged. Larry Miller reports Wikileaks defend

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The death toll in Haiti's cholera epidemic is increasing. More than 250 people have died. Health experts say 3,000 people are infected, but the BBC's Laura Trevelyan says fewer diagnoses were reported today. Outside the main gate of the St. Nicholas

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The president of South Korea is ordering more troops to the island that North Korea attacked on Tuesday, killing four and injuring 18. NPR's Louisa Lim reports from Yeonpyeong that some people are spending this day sifting through charred debris. Amo

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Andrew Jackson was the seventh President of the United States. He was born in a backwoods settlement in the Carolinas in 1767. His Irish-Scottish parents had immigrated to the USA from Ireland two years earlier. He was the youngest of three brothers

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Better health security for Haitians is the goal of Haiti's National Specimen Referral Network, or NSRN, which is part of the National Public Health Laboratory and the Directorate of Epidemiology, Laboratory and Research in Port-au-Prince. U.S. Ambass

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This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Someday, rice plants might not only provide food but also a way to prevent cholera and other diseases. Cholera is a bacterial infection of the intestines. Today it is found mostly in Africa, Asia a

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A 25-year-old service member from Iowa is the first living recipient of the Medal of Honor since the Vietnam War. Moments ago at a White House ceremony, President Obama couldnt contain his pride in bestowing the highest military honor on army staff S

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跟踪流感的新手段 As influenza season peaks in the United States, one researcher is working to bring the public into tracking the epidemic. Using new technology, he may be able to provide public health officials with useful information more qu

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This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. Im Steve Mirsky. Got a minute? Bad blood pressure and cholesterol numbers are predictors for future health problems. You wont definitely have a heart attack, for example, but your risk is higher. Now re

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模仿文本: But first, this month Haiti is marking the third anniversary of the devastating earthquake, in which a quarter of a million people died. Recovery since that time has been frustratingly slow. More than 300,000 Haitians are still in tem

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詹姆斯波尔克是安德鲁杰克逊的忠实门徒,有小山核桃之称,他在1844年大选成僵局时,异军突起,成为第一个黑马总统。在短短的四年任期内,完成了对选民的四大承诺:降低关税;恢复独立

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Broadcast: May 5, 2003 By Jill Moss This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Each year more than two-million people die from diseases caused by drinking dirty water. That is the estimate of

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It's a great day for the Constitution today. Today, a Federal Judge here in Richmond ruled that individual mandate that every citizen, nearly every citizen, must buy government-approved health insurance. It's ruled unconstitutional. We disagree with

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President-elect Barack Obama told state governors today upon his swearing-in he will be willing to help them come up with ways to create jobs and deal with declining revenues. At a meeting of the National Governors Association in Philadelphia, Mr. O

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President-elect Barack Obama's choice for White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel says Senator Obama will push for a middle class tax cut soon after taking office. President Bush welcomes the President-elect and Mrs. Obama to the White House tomorro

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This is the VOA Special English Health Report. There are low-cost vaccines, taken by mouth, that can protect against cholera. The vaccine is commonly provided to international travelers, but not to communities that suffer cholera epidemics. There ar

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By Cathy Majtenyi Kenya 07 November 2009 The scourge of so-called flying toilets - where human waste is put into a plastic bag and tossed into the air, landing on roads or in gutters - has plagued the slums of Kenya's capital Nairobi for decades. Bu

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ZANU-PF Prepares for Annual Conference as Cholera Deaths Soar 津巴布韦霍乱死亡人数继续上升 ?? Download MP3 Audio Harare's streets are busy as hundreds of delegates to President Robert Mugabe's annual ZANU-PF conference converge from all

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BBC news with Johnson Izard. Russia says it's prepared to back a 48-hour ceasefire in the city of Aleppo following an impassioned appeal by the UN envoy to Syria,Staffan De Mistura who welcomed the Russian move but warned the challenge now was for Mo

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