From NPR News in Washington, I am Jack Speer. President Obama today toured the Buchenwald concentration camp and crematorium. The President joined by German Chancellor Angela Merkel said the camp where an estimated 56, 000 people died has not lost i

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UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon calls the flooding in Pakistan the worst natural disaster he's ever seen. The UN chief spent the day flying over the hardest-hit areas. As many as 20 million people are affected. From the city of Multan in the souther

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At least three people were killed today when a car bomb exploded near a bus for pilgrims in the Shiite holy city of Najaf. Insurgents are blamed for dozens of other deaths in the Iraqi cities in the run-up to tomorrow's national elections. Hundreds o

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The House Armed Services Committee is overwhelmingly supporting a 624-billion-dollar defense legislation it calls for construction of a mission defense site on the East Coast, and [to] restore ships and planes that were supposed to be retired early.

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This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. The Web site FarmersOnly.com calls itself an online dating and friendship finder. The idea started in the mind of a man in Ohio. Jerry Miller wondered how farmers could meet new people who understa

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Low Levels of Vitamin D Might Hurt Your Brain 缺乏维生素D影响大脑功能 From VOA Learning English, this is the Health Lifestyle report. Health experts have long known that vitamin D is important for healthy bones and teeth. It may also help

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AS IT IS 2016-02-16 Students Learn Hands-on With Animals 学生学习如何照顾动物 Talking birds, goats butting heads, and a giant tortoise that hangs out with chickens are all part of a living classroom. High-school students at the Career Cente

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Books and Arts; Book Review;Nancy and Lawrence Durrell;Days of heaven; 文艺;书评;南希和劳伦斯德雷尔;天堂里的日子; Amateurs in Eden: The Story of a Bohemian Marriage, Nancy and Lawrence Durrell. By Joanna Hodgkin. 《Ama

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Books and Arts;New cinema; The cradle will rock; 文艺;新片;摇篮将覆; Lynne Ramsay has crafted an elegant adaptation of a tricky book; 琳恩拉姆塞将一本难处理的书精心改编成了一部优雅的作品; What is more taboo t

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There was once an old goat who had seven little ones, and was as fond of them as ever mother was of her children. One day she had to go into the wood to fetch food for them, so she called them all round her. Dear children, said she, I am going out in

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At the age of 12, most girls are battling with their parents to get their ears pierced, learning the ropes at senior school and preparing for life as a teenager. 12岁的年纪,大多数的小女孩都还在向父母争取打耳洞的机会,努力适

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Chronic pain can be a debilitating condition. It can consume a person, leaving him or her incapacitated and unable to perform basic daily tasks. Prescriptions for pain medication have climbed 300 percent in the past decade. This has led to increased

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经典歌曲-如果我是个木匠if i were a carpenter - johnny cash If I were a carpenter And you were a lady, Would you marry me anyway? Would you have my baby? If a tinker were my trade would you still find me, Carrying the pots I made, Following

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WASHINGTON, Dec. 13 (Xinhua) -- China and the United States have held wide-ranging talks on defense and security at the 13th annual China-U.S. Defense Consultative Talks in the Pentagon. The talks, held Wednesday, were jointly hosted by Qi Jianguo, d

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你的生活充满激情吗?你热爱现在的工作吗?如果不是,请看看专家是怎么说的,也许会对你有所帮助。 Some people think that passion and work are not supposed to mix. After all, we work to make a living, not to fe

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WASHINGTON, Sept. 7 (Xinhua) -- Protesters took to the streets of Washington on Saturday, urging Congress to reject President Barack Obama's plan of military action against Syria. The protesters gathered around noon at the White House, loudly chantin

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I believe that there are new, hidden tensions 我相信,有新的,隐藏的紧张关系 that are actually happening between people and institutions -- 发生在人们与制度之间, institutions that are the institutions that people 在人们日

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By the end of this year, 截止今年年底, there'll be nearly a billion people on this planet 这个星球上将有接近十亿人口 that actively use social networking sites. 在很活跃地使用社交网站。 The one thing that all of them h

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Tips for Explaining a Job Loss 在求职面试中,如果被问到以往失业的经历,你是否能应付自如? 电视节目上常用的借口为了得到更好的工作,并不适用于所有人。 Today, the words you're fired have become part of

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The cradle will rock 摇篮将覆 Lynne Ramsay has crafted an elegant adaptation of a tricky book 琳恩?拉姆塞将一本难处理的书精心改编成了一部优雅的作品 WHAT is more taboo than a woman who is repulsed by her own child? This i

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