第三十篇:First Inaugural Address(Excerpts) 就职演讲(节选) First Inaugural Address We observe today not a victory of party, but a celebration of freedom, symbolizing an end, as well as a beginning; signifying renewal, as well as change

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India's government is requiring documentation from people to prove they are legal citizens. Some critics of the policy say it discriminates against a local minority Muslim population. The policy is being carried out in Indias northeastern state of As

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Prisoners in California Help Fight Wildfires Welcome to American Mosaic from VOA Learning English. Im June Simms. Today on the show we play summery music suggested by listeners. We also look a New York City program that provides information to immigr

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Senior Citizens Express Anxiety About US Budget Cuts The volunteers and staff at Meals on Wheels in Takoma Park, Maryland feed two meals a day to between 30 to 40 home-bound senior citizens and disabled clients. Many of the volunteers are seniors the

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We have been through a long season of war 我们经历了漫长的战争 We have faced trials that were not foreseen 我们面临过无法预见的考验 And we've seen divisions about how to move forward 也产生过关于如何前进的分歧 But t

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What you do is as important as anything government does. I ask you to seek a common good beyond your comfort; to defend needed reforms against easy attacks; to serve your nation, beginning with your neighbor. I ask you to be citizens: citizens, not s

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Photo: AP Security guards man a gate outside the bombed Ritz-Carlton hotel in Jakarta, Indonesia, 22 Jul 2009 The United States Embassy in Jakarta has warned Americans that an attack may occur on the resort island of Bali on New Year's Eve. According

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Shedding Light on Extraction Industries Europe is a step closer toward curbing corruption in extraction industries in developing countries. A European Parliamentary committee has approved proposed legislation that would require European companies to

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Critics say new airport rules could be discriminatory Mohamed Elshinnawi | Washington, DC 18 February 2010 There are a whole lot of things that could be done without sacrificing people's privacy, without - however inadvertently - sending a message th

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Future US Senior Citizens Face Big Changes Analysts at the U.S. Census Bureau have a provocative forecast for America's population in 2050, when today's 25-olds will be knocking on the door of age 65. If projections hold, not only will there be more

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US Reflects on Civil Rights 美国公民权利回顾 WASHINGTON U.S. President Barack Obama and former president George W. Bush participated Saturday in the 50th anniversary observance of the beating of peaceful civil rights demonstrators by police i

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Under the new visa policies, Chinese citizens who get a 10-year visa will be able to travel to Israel on multiple occasions, and will be allowed to stay for up to 90-days at a time. The Chinese government is adopting the same policy for Israeli natio

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Citizens' Access to Information Limited in Many Countries Everyone wants access to unlimited and unobstructed information but not everyone gets it. Seeking and receiving information is a fundamental human right, stresses Joel Simon, Executive Directo

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By Phil Mercer Sydney 02 January 2008 Australia's new left-of-center Labor government says it will review a controversial citizenship test. Some people are critical of the test's high rate of failure by applicants, who are quizzed about Australian hi

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Topics: Ask an American - Participatory Science; to attend versus to take part in versus to participate in versus to join; standalone versus to stand alone; hair of the dog that bit me Words: limited taxa citizens science project sample to involve th

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By Peter Fedynsky Moscow 18 October 2007 Russian President Vladimir Putin's sixth annual citizen call-in show on Thursday garnered an estimated three million questions from across Russia as well as from neighboring Kazakhstan, which has a sizable Rus

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The European Union is lashing out at the travel ban imposed by Russia on 89 European citizens, calling it totally arbitrary and unjustified. The formerly undisclosed list was revealed to European diplomats based in Moscow on Thursday. It includes the

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1792 snoop 今天我们要学的词是snoop. Snoop 是动词,意思是窥探,暗中调查。最近,Government snooping 成了美国的热点话题。NSA snooping has triggered the first civil case against the Obama administration. 美国国安局

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The plan is due to be sent to the Legislative Council for review on Wednesday. A vote will then follow, possibly on Thursday at the earliest. Chief Secretary for Administration Carrie Lam says a no vote will surely disappoint millions of Hong Kong ci

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A Beijing resident surnamed Chen struck a chord on the Internet when in April he posted his experience online. He was asked by a travel agency to provide a certificate to prove that his mother is his real mother, as he put his mother as the emergency

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