One World I have lived most of my life in the 20th century. You will live most of your lives in the 21st century. What does the future hold for your century? 45 years ago, an American political leader, Wendell Willkie, traveled around the world and t

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3. Tennis's Heritage Everything about tennis, except its essential rules, has changed from the way it was played 100 years ago, when balls, clothes, players and spectators all were white. Andre Agassi's baggy shorts and Serena Williams' bright, skint

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Mrs. Watson had a nephew and a niece. They were lovely,nevertheless,they were naughty. But Mrs. Watson never had a negative attitude towards them. And she never neglected their education. She told them nitrogen forms most of the Earths air; Whats neu

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WHITE HOUSE President Donald Trumps administration wants to shut down U.S. government radio stations that announce official time, a service in operation since World War II. WWV and WWVB in the state of Colorado and WWVH on the island of Kauai in the

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So that's a pretty strong comment there. I said schools as we know them now, they're obsolete. 这里会引来热烈的讨论。我是说我们所知道的学校已经过时了。 I'm not saying they're broken. It's quite fashionable to say that the

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Hi, I'm Bill Weir in for Anderson Cooper, welcome to the 360 podcast. It is judge versus judge on the NASA's phone spying program, big news scare for target customers and big win for Duck Dynasty. Let's get started. Today, a New York Federal Court Ju

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Today we are talking about the UnitedNations General Assembly. This is the biggest group within UN and it includesall 193 member countries. Right now the UN general assembly is holding itsannual meeting in New York and is discussingsome major global

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In the bowels of a mountain of frontier zone, a little boy lived in crude house, which could only accommodate five people of his household. There was not any railroad, freeway, highway or even a pub (an inn) around the mountain. His ancestors and he

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Mo dern-Day Knights Rescue Communities in Distress In days of old, knights fought for damsels in distress, but in the 21st century, they sometimes battle to help small communities raise revenue. Jousting, in which armored knights compete in games of

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BRUSSELS NATO leaders are going to Brussels for a summit meeting on Thursday expecting to agree on key principles. With Monday's attack in Britain overshadowing the meeting, there will be quick consensus on the need to keep fighting terrorism both at

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The other day, I couldnt find my computer charger. My computer is my lifeline to my work, my friends, my music! So I looked everywhere, even in that drawer where this lives. I know you have one too, a tangle of old chargers, the sad remains of electr

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I got the camera angle wrong. 我把相机角度弄错了。 That one is just amateur stuff, but what she was saying, as you could make out, was about neurons, with her hands were like that, 那是张业余作品,但是她说话的内容,你们能听

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defect缺陷 delinquency犯罪 feeble虚弱 flaw缺陷 ignorance无知 illiterate文盲 indulge放纵 inert惰性的 insolent傲慢 invalid无效的 hostile敌视 grudge妒忌 lame跛足 leak泄露 merit优点 nuisance讨厌的事 obsolete过时的 p

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TECHNOLOGY REPORT - Power Still Out For Many in New York City 科技报道 - 桑迪暴露美国基础设施问题 纽约大部分地区仍然断电 From VOA Learning English, this is the TECHNOLOGY REPORT in Special English. 这里是美国之音慢速

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India Marks End of Era with Last Telegram Most Sunday afternoons, one would be hard-pressed to find anyone at the Central Telegraph Office in New Delhi - let alone people lined up in the rain. But this day is different. For engineer Rasmeet Chawla -

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Technology Buffs Brace for 2016 Breakthroughs 技术发展助力2016重大突破 The worlds biggest Consumer Electronics Show, or CES for short, opens Wednesday in Las Vegas and the Internet is abuzz with expectation. We can expect big news about sev

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可穿戴相机有助美国警察执法 Houston Chief of Police Charles McClelland supports the use of body cameras, but he said they also present problems. 休斯顿警察局局长查尔斯麦克兰德支持为警员配备可穿戴相机,但他表示

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2016聚焦电子创新 Major TV manufacturers are going to try to convince buyers that their present HD TVs are obsolete and that they should upgrade to 4K or even 8K-resolution sets. 主要电视制造商正在让顾客相信自己的高清电视已是

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Technophobia What? Technophobe: Someone who does not like, trust, or want to use technology, especially computers. (Macmillan English Dictionary)Technophobia is not a new term and technophobes have existed since the Industrial Revolution and probably

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By Kane Farabaugh New York City 01 August 2007 During the Cold War, Greenland was a strategic location for the United States military to track and detect Soviet aircraft and ballistic missiles. The military established radar and tracking sites throug

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