President Bush tried to calm investors' nerves this morning, a day after two venerable financial institutions were hobbled by the mortgage crisis. NPR's Dina Temple-Raston reports. The president spoke to reporters just hours after investors began to

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1. Families are settling back in their homes after a fire at a North Carolina chemical plant forced them to evacuate. Authorities had asked more than 17,000 people to leave their homes. Investigators

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1. Police are looking into the shooting deaths of two people at the University of Washington. A spokesman says the two were found in a campus building that houses the Architecture Department. Authorities say it may be a case of murder-suicide. 2. Si

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AS IT IS 2016-02-25 Tornadoes Crush Mobile Homes in South US 龙卷风袭击美国南部 Tornadoes crushed mobile homes and destroyed neighborhoods in the southeastern United States during severe weather Tuesday. At least three people were dead when

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A: How much do you think that I should ask for my house? B: Well, there are a lot of factors involved in setting an asking price. A: What do you look at when setting an asking price? B: We need to look at the selling prices for similar homes in the a

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NOEL KING, HOST: Ten years after the housing market collapsed, a different crisis has emerged. Back then, a decade ago, lots of people were losing their homes. Today people who want to buy or in a lot of cases even just rent are being priced out of t

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SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Home prices are skyrocketing in some places that might surprise you, including remote towns in rural America. And the problems facing those places may be especially hard to solve. As part of our series on the new housing crisis, NP

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This is the skyline of my hometown, New Orleans. 这是我家乡新奥尔兰的天际线, It was a great place to grow up, 这是一个适合长大的地方。 but it's one of the most vulnerable spots in the world. 但这也是这世上最脆弱的地

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Over 260 soldiers are working feverishly to dig a trench to try to drain a local reservoir in Pinggu County in Yunnan which is threatening thousands of people downstream. The dam holding back the reservoir sustained a major crack following Tuesday ni

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And yet, less than 33% of British children ages two to eight have a regular bedtime story read to them. You may not think much of that until you take into account that 75% of their parents DID have that bedtime story when they were that age. 然而英国

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Flooding triggered by heavy rains has forced millions of Pakistanis to leave homes as the disaster has damaged hundreds of thousands of homes and destroyed acres of crops in southern Pakistan. The provinces of Sindh and Baluchistan have been worst hi

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Sorry,there is not text temporarily, Please help tingroom to look for it! 如果您能找到更好的听力原文,请发贴到 听力原文收集区 ,您将会获得10到30积分的奖励! Thank you!

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The housing market is softening up around the country and you would think that the high-end homes will take the biggest hit, but that's not the case. Sales of homes above a million-dollar-mark appear

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Iran Flooding Worst in 200 Years Greg La MotteCairo 14 Aug 2001 12:47 UTC More than 200 people are dead in what is thought to be Iran ' s worst flooding in two centuries. The death toll is expected to

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JUDY WOODRUFF: And now to the devastating effects of the deadly virus overseas.Jeffrey Brown has that. JEFFREY BROWN: As we reported earlier, the director of the World Health Organization, Dr. Margaret Chan, issued a dire assessment today of Ebola's

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Search Continues for Thailand Flood Victims Scott Bobb Bangkok 14 Aug 2001 10:27 UTC In Thailand, the search continues for more than 30 people still missing from Saturday ' s floods that killed at lea

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GUIYANG, Jan. 3 (Xinhua) -- A southwestern Chinese province with the largest impoverished population in the country will relocate more than 100,000 destitute rural residents into modern communities before spring 2013. The move was part of a poverty a

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China Research Center on Aging yesterday unveiled a research report on the development of the country's senior care facilities. The first of its kind, the report highlights the challenges faced by China's current geriatric care sector. The report say

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LONDON, July 14 (Xinhua) -- Stagnant British housing market has made property at the most affordable level in 10 years, bringing more homes within reach of first-time buyers, British mortgage lender Halifax said on Saturday. Halifax, now part of Lloy

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Todd: Rob, when you first came to Japan you said you did construction. Rob: Yes, I was hired as a framer for 2x4 types of homes, so the same style of homes that are built in Canada or America. Todd: OK, so what do you mean by frames? Rob: Framing, th

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