NOEL KING, HOST: There is a frightening new dimension to the opioid crisis. People who are using cocaine are overdosing, not on cocaine but on fentanyl. Fentanyl makes heroin even more dangerous, and now it's showing up in cocaine as well. And that c

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A: Did you get a chance to speak with the sellers about my counter-offer? B: Yes, and I think I have good news for you. A: Did they accept the counter-offer? B: Yes, they accepted your counter-offer, but they want you to pay for the home inspection.

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A: Were you able to contact the owners about my counter-offer? B: Yes, please have a seat, and well discuss this right now. A: I hope that they accepted the counter-offer. B: The counter-offer was acceptable to them, but they want you to pay for the

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'Cash Mob' Phenomenon Supports Local Business What do you get when you mix a store's need for more business with enthusiastic local consumers? A cash mob. Organized through social media, the phenomenon is based on the concept of a flash mob, where la

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KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: Amy Tan is best known for her novels that focus on mother-daughter relationships and Chinese-American culture. Her most famous of course is The Joy Luck Club. Her latest book, Where The Past Begins, is what she calls a writer's m

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《我的第一套自然拼读故事书》是美国创新儿童出版社(Innovativekids)出版的一套用自然拼读法引导和培养孩子阅读兴趣的故事绘本,适合中国学龄前和小学低年级的小朋友阅读和学习。整套书

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By Sonja Pace Ramallah 02 February 2006 Hamas leaders are sending mixed signals - part moderation, part defiance - as they prepare to form a new Palestinian government in the weeks ahead. The militant

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It has been almost forty years since Chinese and Singaporean leaders last met each other - in 1978. At that time, Han Tan Juan was a chief editor for former Singaporean leader Lee Kuan Yew's memoirs. He recalls Lee's meeting with the then Chinese lea

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Saber-tooth died out, but another big cat survived. The puma may have been more able to adapt because its diet is more varied and includes small prey. The grizzly bear also lived through the post Ice Age changes and now thrives in North America. Once

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Downtown L.A., the ultimate modern American city, but Los Angeles skyscrapers are built over the graves of thousands of extinct Ice Age beasts. Today all we have are memorials to these vanished animals, but imagine if they had survived into the prese

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But there is a problem with the idea that hunting caused the mass extinction. Mammoths were not the only animals to disappear. Camels survived for millions of years in North America, but disappeared around the same time as the mammoths. Wild horses f

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...and may trace their ancestry all the way back to the first dogs to enter North America. The Carolina dogs are pack animals with a strick hierarchy topped by an alpha male. Like most wild dogs, they hunt in groups. But many of the kills they make a

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By the mid 1800s, the horse and the cowboy had come to symbolize the wild west. And of course, with the cowboys came cattle. As the bison quickly vanished from the landscape, cattle filled their place. Meanwhile increasing numbers of the tame horses

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By Barry Newhouse Irbil 01 June 2007 Iraqis in a predominantly Sunni neighborhood of Baghdad say Sunni insurgents and al-Qaida militants have been fighting there for the last two days. Few details have been reported about the clashes, but VOA's Barry

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By Kari Barber Dakar 16 December 2006 In the Central African Republic, people displaced by fighting between government forces and rebels are reluctant to return home. Government forces say they have recaptured areas in the north that were seized by

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Last week there was a lot of talk by teachers, parents and MPs about bringing in national standards in primary schools. A national standard is a list of things that children must be able to do each year. Maybe the standard for year 1 is to be able to

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今天我们要学的词是stance。 Stance, 立场。美国第一夫人米歇尔.巴马不允许两个女儿在脸谱网上开帐户。 Many parents approved of her stance, 很多家长都十分赞成她的这一立场。 Maryland Senator Jim Brochi

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By Cathy Majtenyi Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania 09 January 2008 Child trafficking, prostitution and the abuse of child domestic workers are growing concerns in Tanzania. It is primarily girls and young women who fall prey to unscrupulous employers and pimp

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今天我们要学的词是 fentanyl. Fentanyl 芬太尼。U.S. President Trump said he would raise the issue of the flood of cheap and deadly fentanyl when he meets Chinese President Xi Jinping. 美国总统川普说,他见到中国国家主席习近

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Tan Sitong: A Scholar and Martyr 谭嗣同:为国赴难的学者 Tan Sitong(18651898), native of Hunan province. He was a famous reformist who was well versed with both writing and sword. Tan Sitong loved reading extensively and was especially keen

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