文本: In place of the arch, Victoria and Albert commissioned architect Edward Blore to build a new wing right across the front of the building. And at its centre was an important new feature --the now-famous balcony. The first royal public appear

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MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: It's not every day that one of the most famous chefs and restauranteurs in the world shows up at your front door and offers to cook you lunch. But Ruth Rogers has a new cookbook out celebrating three decades since she co-foun

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After Nearly 2 Decades, Californians Revisit Ban On Bilingual Education play pause stop mute unmute max volume 00:0004:17repeat repeat off Update Required To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update you

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If a student does something wrong, how far can schoolsdiscipline that student under the law. The answer to that question has changed a lot in just a lessfew decades. It used to be police officers really wanted in shools thirty years ago, but that all

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今天我们要学的词是time zone. Time zone时区。North Korea readjusted its time zone to match South Korea's last Saturday. 朝鲜上星期六调整时区,开始跟韩国的时区保持一致。The Koreas used the same time zone for decades

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Fidel Castro is a Cuban revolutionary leader who became one of the highest profile figures of the twentieth century. He was Cuba's leader from 1959 until his retirement in 2008. For most of his life he has fought the political and commercial influenc

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By Peter Heinlein United Nations 31 May 2006 A high-level U.N. conference on AIDS opens Wednesday with a report showing progress in fighting the epidemic, tempered by statistics showing that the virus is spreading. Dozens of heads of state and gover

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New government figures show a rise in U.S. unemployment last month, with U.S. employers cutting some 533,000 jobs - the most in 34 years. President George Bush says his administration is taking action to help strengthen the economy. Professional rec

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DAVID GREENE, HOST: Good morning, I'm David Greene. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, DREAMS) FLEETWOOD MAC: (Singing) Thunder only happens when it's raining. GREENE: Thunder only happens when it's raining, or apparently, when Twitter goes crazy over a meme. This

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Decades After An Iconic Protest, Tommie Smith Has Something Else On His Mind play pause stop mute unmute max volume 00:0004:48repeat repeat off Update Required To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or updat

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RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Making decisions about how to honor a loved one who has died is a heart-wrenching task, and there's not a lot of mental or emotional space to think about comparison shopping. There is a federal regulation on the books called the

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China's ruling communist party has announced relax its controversial one-child policy, after decades of strict, sometimes brutal enforcement. Couples now are allowed two children, averting the decades of the policy. The change is designed to address

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Vostok 2018, or East 2018 as some call them, Russia's biggest strategic military drills in nearly four decades, kicked off on Tuesday. With nearly 300,000 Russian troops, 36,000 military vehicles, and more than 1,000 aircraft, the drills are the larg

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今天我们要学的词是level off。 To level off, 是稳定下来的意思。 At some major banks, the number of bad loans is starting to level off, 一些大银行的坏帐案例正在逐步稳定下来。 最新研究发现, U.S. obesity rate

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By Suzanne Chislett London 16 November 2006 watch World Music report 'World music' is a phrase used to describe songs and music that originate outside Western Europe and English-speaking countries. In the past three decades it's become a genre in it

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We now have a summary of our weather for last year. NIWA (the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research) put this summary on their website. NIWA is a company which is owned by the government. Scientists at NIWA do research on climate, the

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今天我们要学的词是mock election。 Mock election, 是模拟选举的意思。虽然孩子们不能投票,但每次大选都是对他们进行选举教育的天赐良机。 In classrooms across the nation, students have been casting ballots

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President Obama hosts Ukraine's prime minister at the White House today. The President is trying to show support for Ukraine amid that country's conflict with Russia. Investigators looking into the disappearance of the Malaysian Airlines plane say th

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Laurel Bowman | Washington 08 April 2010 The United States resettles the largest number of refugees worldwide, allowing roughly 70,000 to enter the U.S. each year. Currently, large numbers of Bhutanese refugees, who lived for decades in camps in Nepa

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今天我们要学的词是norm。 Norm, 意思是标准,规范。气象学家研究显示, Triple-digit summer temperatures will be the norm in a few decades in Texas, 美国德克萨斯州几十年后,夏天气温三位数字将是常规现象。

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