Country and Western Singer Roger Miller Had Many Hit Songs Written by Paul Thompson (THEME) VOICE ONE: Im Shirley Griffith. VOICE TWO: And Im Sarah Long with the VOA Special English program, PEOPLE IN AMERICA. Today we tell about music writer and per

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By Jim Malone Washington 28 March 2006 Navy Lieutenant Commander Charles Swift, lead attorney for Salim Hamdan, leaves Supreme Court Lawyers for a suspected member of al-Qaida argued at the U.S. Supre

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Country Music Album Sales Up in 2011 In 2011, Country album sales increased more than four percent over the previous year and a number of Country artists enjoyed crossover success on the pop charts. In 2011, the Eli Young Band earned its first Number

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THIS IS AMERICA - The State of Vermont: Fertile Farmland, Green Mountains and Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Christopher Cruise. This week on our program, Steve Ember and Barbara Klein take you on a trip through the northeaste

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By Jim Randle Irbil, Iraq 10 October 2006 Saddam Hussein's trial on genocide charges continued in Baghdad, with the former Iraqi leader again getting ejected from the court. When things settled down, witnesses told the court those who did not die in

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Viktor Bout, a former Soviet military officer accused by the United States of offering to sell weapons to terrorist groups, appeared in federal court in New York on Thursday. Bout's lawyer asked the government to provide his client with better prison

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Advice to Youth Being told I would be expected to talk here, I inquired what sort of talk I ought to make. They said it should be something suitable to youth-something didactic, instructive, or something in the nature of good advice. Very well. I ha

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Leif: Ant Shirley, it's being years since we last met. How were you doing in the passing years? Shirley: Pretty well. What about you? Leif: Fine. Where are the other guys? Shirley: It's a bit disappointing that they are all out for a movie. Leif: Bad

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The newly-appointed commander of U.S. forces in South Korea says he is confident an upcoming transfer in command control from Washington to South Korea will leave the two countries' alliance stronger. VOA's Kurt Achin has more from Seoul. N. Korean

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By Steve Herman New Delhi 16 May 2007 Adequate health care remains unavailable to most of India's citizens, especially in rural areas. Even those fortunate enough to have access to good care, however, cannot be certain that a prescription from a reli

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I was vacationing in Miami, Florida, and I went into a souvenir store to get some gifts for friends back home. Lydia: Could you show me where the T-shirts are? Clerk: Sure, theyre on the left, along the wall. Can I help you find something ? Lydia: Id

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Tadashi: Was that Diane you were talking to just now? Helen: Yeah, do you know her? Tadashi: Diane and I used to work together. She looked happy. Helen: Yeah, shes dating a new man. I just got the scoop . Hes not her usual type . Tadashi: What do you

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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has wrapped up talks in Brussels, where she attended a meeting of NATO foreign ministers. She is now Geneva for discussions with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. It seems the two sides have much to talk

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By Bill Rodgers Washington, DC 02 February 2007 watch US Trade Policy President Bush wants the U.S. Congress to extend his so-called trade promotion authority, which expires July first. Also known as fast track, it allows the president to submit tra

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By Barbara Schoetzau New York 04 August 2006 U.N. Security Council President Nana Effah-Apenteng has expressed frustration at the slow pace of efforts to end the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon. U.N. officials also say the humanitar

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By Kurt Achin Seoul 12 June 2008 South Korea is sending its chief trade official to Washington for what he describes as additional negotiations on a controversial beef import deal. However, leaders of mass protests say nothing short of scrapping the

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By Kane Farabaugh Dayton, Ohio 13 November 2009 Like slaves on an auction block waiting to be selected, victims of human trafficking have to perform as they are told or risk being beaten (2005 File) The U.S. State Department estimates that 800,000 h

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By Peter Heinlein United Nations 10 May 2007 Washington's ambassador at the United Nations says most Security Council members back a plan to grant supervised independence to Kosovo. But as VOA's correspondent at the U.N. Peter Heinlein reports, veto-

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听力内容有不详尽之处啊,欢迎大家留言讨论,纠正。谢谢 在线英语听力室http://www.tingroom.com Its a music Friday, so why dont you go to music play day, and were gonna go live now, I wanna play a little clip of this song,

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