[00:07.31]UNIT7 [00:12.78]A History of Christmas [00:15.63]Christmas is the most cheerful [00:19.56]and holy of holidays [00:21.86]in the Christian world, [00:23.29]which boasts of an [00:24.93]estimated 1.8 billion people. [00:27.23]Although the ori

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A folk culture is a small isolated, cohesive, conservative, nearly self-sufficient group that is homogeneous in custom and race with a strong family or clan structure and highly developed rituals. Ord

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Syria Rebuffs Egypt's Bid for Negotiated End to Conflict As fighting continues, the Syrian government says it welcomes another attempt to bring an end to the conflict - this time by new United Nations-Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi. But Syria's In

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Europe Spending Cuts Prompt Street Protests Demonstrations are taking place in cities across Britain as hundreds of thousands of public sector workers stage the biggest strike in years against pension cuts. On the other side of Europe in Greece, ther

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Noted Blogger on Mideast Advises US: Intervene Less, Not More 著名博主建议美国在中东减少干预,而不是更多 HOUSTON In 2004, Middle East expert Joshua Landis followed the advice of an academic colleague at the University of Oklahoma a

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More Students Applying to America's Religious Colleges 越来越多的学生申请进入美国宗教学院 These are tense times for many college students in the United States, as they wait to hear wh

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198. The seismologist and the sect地震学家和教派 sect-sensible There was a professor of seismology who was involved in seismic research. After securing permission from his senator, he went to a particular sector of his state to collect sedimen

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This is the VOA Special English Education Report. In Giles County, Virginia, the school board has removed displays of the Ten Commandments in its schools. The county thought that posting the Ten Commandments, along with the first part of the United S

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By Dorian Jones Istanbul 21 July 2007 Turkish voters head to the polls Sunday to elect a new government. From Istanbul, Dorian Jones reports for VOA that the election is viewed by the ruling Justice and Development Party and its nationalist rivals as

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By Challiss McDonough Cairo 25 January 2007 At least two people have been killed and at least 20 others wounded at a Beirut university campus in clashes between opposition and government supporters. The army declared a curfew in an effort to restore

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By Robert Berger Jerusalem 16 June 2008 The United States' top diplomat has concluded a peace mission to Israel and the Palestinian territories. But she has little to show for it, as we hear from Robert Berger at the VOA bureau in Jerusalem. US Secr

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A man browses at pictures of Japanese porn star Maria Ozawa posted on a local Web site at a public Internet service in Jakarta (Sep 2009 file photo) The recent arrest of six people in Indonesia over a nightclub show is raising concerns among minority

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Religious leaders in Kenya have sharply criticized the country's coalition government for failing to tame corruption and to undertake reforms outlined in a power-sharing agreement signed last year to end months of post-election violence. The comment

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A Sudanese government spokesman said that Khartoum will reciprocate a move this weekend by a major Darfur rebel group to release 60 prisoners of war. Discussions between the rebel Justice and Equality Movement group and the Sudanese government have

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STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Let's back away from the news for a moment, back away from individual stories to see a theme that many of them share. It's like we're backing away from a tree to see the forest. The theme is a conflict between core American value

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AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: With songs like Anything Goes and I've Got You Under My Skin, Cole Porter was one of America's greatest songwriters. But unlike those classics, Porter's more political work is rarely performed. Nearly a hundred years ago, he wrot

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By Barbara Schoetzau New York 10 February 2006 Kofi Annan U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan is urging Iran to suspend its nuclear activity and allow talks with Russia to move forward. ----------------

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By Phuong Tran Ingkaka, Niger 10 April 2008 In countries bordering the Saharan desert, ethnic nomad Tuareg have turned their desert expertise into a money maker through tourism and smuggling. Phuong Tran recently traveled with an Algerian gasoline sm

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By Nancy-Amelia Collins Jakarta 12 September 2007 The new moon is here, and across the sprawling archipelago of Indonesia, Islam's most holy month, Ramadan, is officially about to begin. Members of the world's largest Muslim population will begin the

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Turkey's ruling AK Party Thursday defended itself in the country's constitutional court against charges it is undermining the secular state. The party is facing dismantling, and dozens of its leaders, including the prime minister and president, a pol

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