Americans can keep guns at home for self-defense. Thats according to the Supreme Court who struck down the District of Colombias 32-year-old ban on handguns today. The courts 5-to-4 decision is the first major ruling on gun rights in U.S. history. O

发表于:2018-12-15 / 阅读(118) / 评论(0) 分类 美联社新闻一分钟2008年6月

Education Report - What to Do About 'Reverse Brain Drain' in US? This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Congress is studying how to change immigration policies in an effort to get more foreign students to stay and work in the United States

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AS IT IS 2014-06-02 Connected Cars on the Highway to the Future 高科技使汽车连接未来 Modern automobiles and their drivers are becoming connected through wireless technology to entertainment and information systems. VOA recently visited the

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谷歌眼镜与隐私保护 Google has been selling its newest high-tech device, Google Glass, to a select group to test the technology so it can be improved for the mass market. The biggest criticism has been about privacy. 谷歌公司在美国向一

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John Dillinger held up a bank for 74,000, while you failed to arrest Nelson. 约翰迪林格又从一家银行里抢走了 74000美元,而你们还把尼尔森放跑了。 Sir, I take full responsibility. 长官,责任都在我。 And I would lik

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小米成为全球第三大智能手机制造商 A four-year-old Chinese tech company has become the world's third-largest smartphone maker, behind Samsung and Apple. The company is called Xiaomi Inc. It has also become the world's most valuable tech

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How would you like to sip a glass of cold beer while sitting in the shadow of a Chinese pagoda surrounded by English gardens in the middle of a southern German city? It may sound unlikely, but that is what millions of visitors from around the world e

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An unlikely class of college graduates will walk the stage this coming week. They've gone through an accelerated computer science program that launched three years ago. It had a goal of training the children at California's agricultural Salinas Valle

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Tata Sons首席执行官,掌控96家公司的印度资本巨鳄。 Ratan Tata is the chairman of the Tata Group, India's largest corporation. He is the latest in a long line of Tatas to head the family-owned company. Ratan has revolutionized the co

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Bike-to-Work Day is held every year across North America on the third Friday of May. It was started by the League of American Bicyclists in 1956. Its aim is to promote the bicycle as a serious choice of getting to and from work. In todays world where

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To be living at the start of the new millenium is to exist in the most advanced technological era in history. It is easy2 to forget that we are still surrounded by countless opportunities to get close to the earth, the sea and all the otherwonders of

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China has a huge potential market for mobile communication. 中国移动通讯的潜在市场非常巨大。 China has a huge potential market for mobile communication. 中国移动通讯的潜在市场非常巨大。 Yes, and we're eager to expand t

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GWEN IFILL: Finally tonight, we return to one of another of our periodic essays. There are many hot topics under debate in 2016. Bestselling author Daniel Pink wants us to focus on one issue not making headlines, how the metric system measures up. DA

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The Island of Mauritius God first made Mauritius and from it, he created Paradise. Mark Twain 1896 Where is it? Over ten million years ago, the waters of the Indian Ocean boiled. Massive volcanoes erupted miles underneath the surface. Huge amounts of

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As the worlds top athletes competed at the PyeongChang Winter Olympics, some robots also showed off their winter sports skills. A ski race involving robots was held recently at the Welli Hilli Park ski area near Pyeongchang. Eight teams built and pro

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Small Hollywood Studio Creates Special Effects 好莱坞小型工作室创作特效 Companies like this often have quirky names. This one is Defaultmind studios, meant to suggest that creative thinkin

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The United States has partnered with the United Nations Foundation's Girl Up campaign, Intel Corporation, Google, and other partners to lead the third annual Women in Science Girls STEAM Camp, to enable to girls to study the science, technology, engi

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From Beijing to Shenzhen, mini karaoke houses are being rolled out in shopping malls, cinemas, restaurants and even tourist spots in an effort to win back the past glory of KTV bars. 从北京到深圳,迷你卡拉OK屋在商场、影院、餐厅甚至

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1. The Scooter Libby perjury trial continues in Washington. On the stand today, former White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer, testifying about his discussions with reporters about an outed CIA operative. 2. A Palestinian suicide bomber attacked

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Technology Designed to Help Persons with Disabilities 为残疾人设计的科技产品 The devices talk, and some, with the aid of voice-recognition technology, almost seem to understand. Jodi Johnso

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