AS IT IS 2014-09-23 Rich People Get Their Own Facebook Facebook and other social media sites are free for everyone. But a new social media site launched this month promises to be more exclusive by only permitting people who are rich to join. The site

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Tim Piazza and Marquise Braham told their parents they just wanted to make some new friends by joining college social groups called fraternities. Neither of them got much of a chance. The two young men died after taking part in extreme rituals for ad

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Adam Phillips For many Americans, Memorial Day means the beginning of the summer vacation season. But Memorial Day was set aside as a national day of remembrance for those who have died in America's w

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世界各地学生对神十宇航员的提问 Most of us will never have the chance to experience life in space. So questions like how do astronauts sleep and bathe are common for many. Now lets listen to some of the questions students from around th

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Chinese actress and producer Fan Bingbing joined the eight-member 70th Cannes Film Festival's jury chaired by Spanish director and screenwriter Pedro Almodovar, organizers said on Tuesday in a statement. 戛纳电影节组织方上周二在一则声明

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In an unprecedented rescue effort, success, as the first of the 33 miners emerged from the earth after being trapped underground in Chile for a record 69 days. Family members and the Chilean president were waiting anxiously to greet them. The miners

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Thanks, y'all! That was a cool introduction. Thank you to everyone for tuning in to CNN Student News. First up today, we're making good on a promise we made yesterday to bring you this: In fact, to every young person listening tonight who's contempla

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From NPR News in Washington, I'm Nora Raum. The House and the Senate have approved separate 3-trillion-dollar spending plans while calling on the next Congress to roll back President Bush's tax cuts for wealthier Americans. NPR's Brian Naylor report

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What Is the US Senate? The Senate is one of the two parts of the United States Congress, the legislature that makes the countrys laws. The Congress has two parts because the men who wrote the U.S. Constitution could not agree on details of the new fo

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面试时,我们会面对形形色色的问题,而最令人哑口无言的,往往是一些最简单和最常见的题目,比如请你自我介绍一下.大多数应征者的反应是我应该如何作答呢? 其实要懂得应对此问题,就

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1 Favorite Place My friends and I often go to a small cafe in our spare time. It just locates in our neighborhood so its very convenient for us. For one thing, we can enjoy its famous cappuccino coffee, chocolate ice cream, the cherry cake and cookie

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a show of hands 举手表决 英文释义 A way of expressing a vote among members of agroup by asking for hands to be raised in favor or inopposition to an issue. 例句To determine if we committee members who are gathered here today wish to approve

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Suprises often come in boxes. Birthday presents wrapped in colorful paper, brown paper packages mailed from a friend. No matter what kind of box it is, people like to open it up and see what's inside. In America, and in many other countries, one spec

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1. One day to go into the Florida Republican presidential primary, Florida is the biggest state to vote so far. Polls show Mitt Romney with a lead over Newt Gingrich. 2. The Obama administration is preparing for new talks with Iraq. The top aided def

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This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Army Specialist Jeremy Duncan and Annette McLeod, wife of a wounded soldier, appear at a hearing at Walter Reed Both houses of Congress held hearings this week on conditions at Walter Reed Army Medical Cen

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EU Agrees to 1.3 Trillion Budget欧盟达成1.3万亿预算协议 From VOA Learning English, this is the Economics Report in Special English. 这里是美国之音慢速英语经济报道。 European Union countries have struggled to find common grou

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AS IT IS 2015-03-26 Party Politics in Nigerias Presidential Election 尼日利亚总统选举中的政党政治 Nigeria is holding elections Saturday following two years of political unrest. Voters will elect both a president and parliament. The ruli

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AS IT IS 2016-01-27 Kerry Meets with Cambodian Leaders, Opposition 克里会见柬埔寨首相及反对党成员 Americas top diplomat was in Cambodia Tuesday on the second stop of his trip to Asia. Secretary of State John Kerry met with Cambodian go

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Harvard Tries To Reduce Exclusive Clubs 哈佛大学欲限制男性社团 U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt was a member of the exclusive Porcellian Club. Franklin Roosevelt was a member of the Fly Club. John F. Kennedy was a Spee. Eduardo Saverin, w

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AS IT IS 2016-04-05 Air France Female Crew Members Object to Hijab 法航女性机组人员拒戴头巾 Frances national airline will allow female staff to volunteer for a new route to Iran rather than require them. Air France announced that female f

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