[00:02.28]Dads Mandolin [00:06.89]My father was a self-taught mandolin player. [00:11.14]He was one of the best string instrument players in our town. [00:14.84]He could not read music, but if he heard a tune a few times, [00:19.17]he could play it.

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If you have an album coming out the next day, the last thing you wanna hear is one of your members has swine flu. But thats exactly what happen to the Backstreet Boys. Unfortunately, I was diagnosed with the swine flu. A day before their 7th studio a

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24-year-old Antron Reshaud knows a thing or two about stigma. I found out that I was HIV positive it was around 2004, when my mother found out, it was just one of the reasons why she decided to put me out. Reshaud was diagnosed at age 20 and the disc

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arguement51The following appeared in a medical newsletter. Doctors have long suspected that secondary infections may keep some patients from healing quickly after severe muscle strain. This hypothesis has now been proved by preliminary results of a s

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My third story is about death. 我的第三个故事是关于死亡的。 When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right. 当我十七岁的时候, 我读到了

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Cindy White tells her friend, Eric Ernsberger, about being diagnosed HIV positive shortly after meeting her life partner, Dan Driggers I met Dan, the true love of my life in August of 1990 and about 6 weeks later. This phone call came from my ex-hus

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First on CNN student news today, this is Hadiya Pendleton, 15 years old and honor student at her school in Chicago. This was Hadiya performancing with her school's majorette team during president Obama's inauguration in Washington. And one week later

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And I come here as a daughter, raised on the South Side of Chicago by a father who was a blue-collar city worker and a mother who stayed at home with my brother and me. My mother's love has always been a sustaining force for our family, and one of my

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One afternoon while she was preparing dinner in her kitchen, Anne Peters, a 32-year-old American housewife, suddenly had severe pains in her chest accompanied by shortness of breath. Frightened by the thought that she was having a heart attack, Anne

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1. Bostons longest serving mayor has died. Thomas Menino served for more than 20 years, first elected in 1993. He left office in February, after being diagnosed with cancer. He was 71 years old. 2. A deadly plane crash in Kansas, Officials say a smal

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Mother, Son, Co-Write Childrens Book on Autism 母亲与儿子共同谱写自闭症儿童图书 Eighteen-year-old Burnie Rollinson has Asperger syndrome, an autism spectrum disorder. People with Aspergers have difficulty with communication, eye conta

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Fighting Cancer, One Mustache at a Time Prostate cancer is known to be the most frequently-diagnosed cancer in men, with more than 16 million patients fighting the disease globally. There is now a grass-roots movement to raise awareness about the pro

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MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: An Alzheimer's diagnosis can be so frightening, doctors say, that many people would rather dismiss memory problems than investigate them. As a result, experts think only about half of all cases are actually diagnosed. Recent deve

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JEFFREY BROWN:Finally tonight: a leading lady of musical theater and much more. When Audra McDonald sings of going back home in a song by John Kander and Fred Ebb, she means it. New York is her home, but she spent much of the last four years in Los A

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图片1 I have missed a couple of podcasts this week, oops! So here is the first of the two, a little late. My reason for writing this podcast late is that I've been spending time researching my options, as far as the education of my two youngest. Th

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You make me sick. You took my mum. Cancer, are you scared? Hard-hitting, factual, one in eight women will get breast cancer. And motive. These are the sermons of the many cancer campaigns. Increasing awareness of the diseases is helping at a time whe

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今天我们要学的词是diagnose。 Diagnose, 是诊断的意思。研究人员最近考查了俄亥俄州1万4千个孩子的健康记录后发现,Only one-fourth of children with high blood pressure were correctly diagnosed, 只有四分之一血

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1. A winter storm is sparing the nation's capital from heavy snow. Federal offices were closed over predictions of up to 10 inches of snow. But only an inch or two fell in the DC area and most have melted as soon as it hit city streets. 2. A week of

发表于:2019-02-11 / 阅读(117) / 评论(0) 分类 美联社新闻一分钟2013(三月)

今天我们要学的词组是in remission。In remission,意思是缓解期、有所缓解。A 9-year-old South African child diagnosed with HIV when he was 1 month old has been in HIV remission for 8? years, without regular treatment. 南非一个

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台湾籍旅美老师今天交给我们的句子是: We might be diagnosed for a lack of courage, or a spoiled nature or a hesitation about whether to marry. And we should be prescribed history accordingly. 我们有可能被诊断出缺乏勇气、生

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