Education Report - Students Try to Cut Federal Budget in Online Game 教育报道 - 学生们在网络游戏中削减预算 This is the VOA Special English Education Report. 这里是美国之音慢速英语教育报道。 Some people think of politi

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By Challiss McDonough Cairo 30 December 2007 The president of France says he will have no further contact with Syria until he is convinced that Syria is really trying to resolve the political crisis in neighboring Lebanon. He spoke on a visit to Egyp

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Poll Watchers Hope to Cut Fraud in Russia Vote Row upon row of Russians take lecture notes in a university classroom on a Saturday afternoon. They are not poor students. They are just 50 faces from an army of 200,000 Russians volunteering to work as

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By Michael Bowman Washington 06 September 2007 Technology aficionados who rushed out to buy Apple's much-hyped iPhone since its debut less than three months ago are expressing buyer's remorse now that Apple has slashed the product's price by one-thir

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By Brian Wagner Miami 04 March 2008 Ecuador's government has cut all diplomatic ties with Colombia after a military attack on Colombian rebels inside Ecuador, which killed 21 people. In Miami, VOA's Brian Wagner reports the Colombian attack also has

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By Peter Fedynsky Moscow 01 August 2007 Gazprom, Russia's state-owned gas monopoly, has announced a 45 percent reduction of natural gas supplies to neighboring Belarus. About 20 percent of the gas Russia delivers to other European countries transits

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By Margaret Besheer Irbil 03 January 2007 An Iraqi official says the person believed to have recorded an unofficial video of Saddam Hussein's execution on a camera phone has been arrested and is being questioned. The video, which shows witnesses tau

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By Paul Sisco Washington 24 March 2008 US airlines, facing sharply higher fuel prices this year, have announced a series of cutbacks in service and staffing, in order to reduce costs. One of the country's largest carriers, Delta Airlines, is offering

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By Scott Stearns White House 22 February 2007 U.S. President George Bush wants to cut America's dependence on foreign oil by increasing the domestic production of alternative fuels. VOA White House Correspondent Scott Stearns has the story. President

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By Barry Wood Washington 10 January 2008 The head of the U.S. central bank, Ben Bernanke, said Thursday that the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates if the economy weakens further. VOA's Barry Wood reports. Bernanke said the housing market is con

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By Douglas Bakshian Manila 24 April 2006 In the Philippines prosecutors have filed rebellion charges against dozens of people, including a former senator and six left-wing lawmakers, accusing them of

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India's finance minister is calling for price cuts, as well as a drop in interest rates, to stimulate demand as growth slows in the nation of 1.2 billion people. Palaniappan Chidambaram says, despite the global economic crisis, a dip in Indian expor

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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization says it plans to withdraw about a third of its force in Kosovo by next year because the security situation has improved. The announcement came during a meeting of NATO defense ministers in Brussels. U.S. Secret

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Executives of major U.S. banks faced tough questions Wednesday from U.S. lawmakers frustrated by the slow pace of lending by institutions that received federal bail out money. Lawmakers also vented their anger over high salaries and bonuses in the f

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MELISSA BLOCK, HOST: Starting November 1, people will be able to enroll in health insurance for next year on the Affordable Care Act marketplace. In Texas, officials from the federal government used to get the word out. This year, though, that work i

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Once more the governor of the Reserve Bank, Alan Bollard, has cut the official cash rate, but this time by a large amount: 1.5%. This brings the official cash rate now to 5%, the lowest in a long time. This is the rate that banks pay to borrow overni

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By Deborah Tate Capitol Hill 16 May 2007 The U.S. Senate has rejected a measure that would end funding for U.S. combat operations in Iraq by April1 of next year. The White House praised the vote, but some Senate Democrats say support is building for

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By Daniel Schearf Irbil 29 February 2008 Iraqi officials say the government has approved the death sentence for Chemical Ali, a cousin of Saddam Hussein, who is widely known for his role in poison gas attacks on the Kurds. As Daniel Schearf reports f

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By Ron Corben Bangkok 21 June 2007 Thai public prosecutors have formally charged former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra with corruption in the first formal legal action against him to reach court since he was ousted last year by a military coup. Ro

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Are you afraid of sharks? What about snakes or spiders? Put those fears aside: because in the U.S. youre far more likely to be killed or injured by a deer bounding across the road. Bambi and his kind cause more 200 humans deaths each year, plus some

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