2009-02-01&02-03 我要捐出我的大脑

Ted Johnson does not hide in the sun anymore. His head, once as battered as the helmet he wore as a New England Patriots linebacker for ten seasons, no longer hurts every day. Get a nick there. But it took three years to stop. I got some championship

CNN 2011-10-04

Hi, checking stories cross country. A North Carolina man survived 4 days in the Utah dessert after breaking his leg on a solo hike. Wein Richard says that he lost his footing and fell 10 feet to a canyon. He then managed to drag himself five miles ba

CNN 2012-04-06

First up. Severe weather in the Dallas, Texas area. Several tornadoes touched down there yesterday afternoon. Officials urged people to take cover, and they had good reason. As it's a little hot to see clearly because the clouds from the storms made

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Walt Disney is the worlds largest and best-known media and entertainment company. It was founded in 1926 by animator brothers Walt and Roy Disney. They became pioneers in making cartoons and full-length animated movies. Their creations are now an est

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SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Brazil is believed to have one of the largest archives of photographs of slavery in the world. Slavery ended so late in Brazil in 1888 and coincided with the beginning of photography. Many of the pictures are unknown outside of Bra

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I have spent my entire life either at the schoolhouse, on the way to the schoolhouse, or talking about what happens in the schoolhouse. Both my parents were educators, my maternal grandparents were educators, and for the past 40 years, I've done the

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Mengke has changed into his new winter robe. 孟克换上了过冬的新袍子。 Hot tea and milk curd keep him warm. 热茶和奶豆腐，让孟克并不觉得冷。 And the milk products will continuously provide calories to sustain the entire mor

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So what exactly is a successful life? How do you define it? Does being successful require you to amass material possessions or to wield great power? Must you be famous, or even become a celebrity? Perhaps it's more about being devoted to serving othe

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THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. This Memorial Day weekend, kids will be out of school, moms and dads will be firing up the grill, and families across our country will mark the unofficial beginning of summer. But as we do, we should all remember the tru

2007-09-22, Legendary Library

They went up in flames, thousands of original works by some of the world's greatest thinkers, not a single scroll survived. Today, 1600 years after the destruction of the great library, Alexandria has built a new library, the Bibliotheca Alexandrina

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JesseOwens was the son of a sharecropper and the grandson of a slave. But he had theworlds attention at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, when he left Hitlers Aryan supremacytheories in the dust and collected four individual gold medals. Owenswas still at hi

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JEFFREY BROWN: And finally tonight, a woman is attacked and the life of her 13-year-old son, Joe, is altered forever, along with his family. That's the dramatic outline of the new novel The Round House by Louise Erdrich, which has been nominated for

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VOA Learning English presents Americas Presidents. Today we are talking about Franklin Pierce, the 14th president of the United States. He took office in 1853 at age 48. At that time, he was the youngest person elected to the White House. Pierce was

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NPR 2008-04-07

From NPR News in Washington, I'm Craig Windham. Rocket attacks on Baghdad's Green Zone and a US military base in the city have killed 3 American soldiers and wounded more than 30 others. It was one of the deadliest attacks on US forces in Iraq in we

NPR 2009-04-07

Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi says authorities have now raised the death toll to at least 150 after a powerful earthquake hit a mountainous region of Italy overnight. The quake which struck just before dawn flattened buildings and left at least

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