Rescuers searching for scores of people still missing five days after a massive mudslide in Washington state appear to be preparing the public for a steep rise in the death toll. Officially 16 bodies have been recovered and examined, but officials sa

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Women Raise Profile in American Folk Music When people think of musicians in the American roots genre, Allison Krauss is one of the few female stars who comes to mind. For the most part, history remembers the men in old-time country, blues and folk m

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Rodgers and Hammerstein Flop Gets 2nd Chance NEW YORK Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein were the writing team that helped usher in what is considered the Golden Age of American musical theater. By the late 1940s, they had created a string of Broa

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Heres a special episode that doesnt exactly follow our usual format. This time were looking at clipped words, which are words in which the last one or two syllables are not pronounced when spoken, yet the word is still completely understandable. This

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By Larry London Washington 27 April 2007 From the streets of Detroit, a man named Smokey rose to achieve what no one expected. He recorded 36 Top-40 hits during a career with Motown Records that started in 1959, and continues today. A recipient of th

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By Margaret Besheer United Nations 25 March 2008 U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has pledged his personal support to resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and is urging both parties not to let recent violence derail the peace process. From Un

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Both U.S. presidential candidates were claiming victory following the first of three scheduled debates. Commentators, analysts and bloggers appeared split on who may have gained an advantage from Friday's debate. Many believe that both Republican Jo

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One of the most popular books in the United States right now is by an author who has been dead for a century. The Autobiography of Mark Twain is the first of three volumes which make up writer Samuel Clemens' final work. On hold for 100 years This is

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World Team Tennis held its 18th annual Smash Hits fundraising event on November 15, co-hosted by British pop singing star Elton John and U.S. tennis legend Billy Jean King. And for the first time, Washington served as center court. It was a night tha

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伊拉克库尔德战士呼吁美国援助更多武器 Peshmerga commanders say they their weapons are just not good enough. 伊拉克库尔德斯坦自由战士的指挥官表示他们的武器只是不够精良。 Out of four heavy machine guns on

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Justin Bieber has nearly 39 million followers on twitter, 8 million more than the president. But for those of us who aren't as blessed as Bieber, researchers have come up with a few tips to racking up more followers, based on an analysis of over 500

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图片1 Here is your Culips Christmas episode! This time we are trying a new format, with three distinct categories for you! We discuss Christmas Greetings, funny Christmas traditions and Harps worst and best presents from past Christmases. Most peop

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From today adverts promoting gambling will be allowed on British Television screens, ads for arcades, bingo halls, casinos and bookmakers can be shown after the 9 p. m watershed for the first time. Thanks to provisions in the 2005 Gambling Act only

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Thank you very much for coming. Now the supermodel, Kate Moss, will not be charged over claims that she took cocaine. The Crown Crossive, the Crown Prosecution Service (Sorry) says there was not enough evidence to prosecute. Newspapers ran pictures l

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China's chief trade envoy has urged the United States to, in his words, do all it can to stabilize its economy, amid a global financial crisis. The call came on the first of two days of regular, high-level Sino-American meetings. Stephanie Ho report

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By Jeffrey Young Washington, D.C. 22 November 2007 Presidential candidates have been confronting each other in a series of debates meant to give voters a sense of where each aspirant stands on critical issues. In this segment of How America Elects, V

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By Mike O'Sullivan Los Angeles 12 March 2008 The battle between two rival high definition formats for video disks has been decided in favor of Blu-ray, which was jointly developed by Sony, Samsung, Philips and other companies. Mike O'Sullivan reports

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Republicans are trying to change the focus of the U.S. presidential race between their candidate, Senator John McCain, and the Democratic nominee, Senator Barack Obama. A new wave of Republican attacks now target Senator Obama's background and raise

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By Meredith Buel State Department 14 March 2008 Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Defense Secretary Robert Gates are scheduled to meet their Russian counterparts early next week in Moscow to continue their strategic dialog on missile defense an

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Dan Lipman, vice president of the Washington-based Nuclear Energy Institute, said Xi Jinping's words show there is good agreement between China and the United States on the threats that they face. Nuclear security is very critical for the U.S. nuclea

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