Victims of childhood sexual abuse are gathering in Rome this weekend and will attempt to march on Saint Peter's Square in the Vatican to demand the Catholic Church do more to protect children and hold abusers accountable. A few hundred people from a

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(61) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2010年(十)月

Thousands of babies are abandoned in Morocco every year because their single mothers are too afraid to face family and friends. Instead of just taking in abandoned children, one nonprofit has begun working with families to help single mothers find wa

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Economics Report - A Big Ruling for Wal-Mart in Sex-Discrimination Case 经济报道 - 沃尔玛逃过大规模性别歧视集体诉讼 This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. 这里是美国之音慢速英语经济报道。 In the American

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Unit 7 Help for Single Moms 第7单元 帮助单亲妈妈 Donald works in a bank and day after day he sees women come to his till and cash government issuedassistance checks. Most of these women are single moms who receive money from the government t

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By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 01 August 2007 Several Indian states have suspended a sex education program designed for school students by a government body fighting to combat the spread of HIV/AIDS. The program has stirred an emotional dispute, betwee

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German Housewife Hailed as Euro Solution In the parks of Stuttgart, the regional capital of Swabia, there are few signs of a crisis, and the economy is growing. In a speech, at the start of the global financial crisis, German Chancellor Angela Merkel

发表于:2019-01-13 / 阅读(77) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2012年(八月)

Pope Benedict says it is difficult to understand the perversion that has been revealed in the priestly ministry. He addressed the clerical sex abuse scandal that has engulfed the Roman Catholic Church in comments to journalists on the plane from Rome

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MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: The Nobel Prize in Literature will not be given out this year. The Swedish Academy was thrown into turmoil last fall when sexual harassment allegations surfaced against the husband of one of its members. The academy says it w

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DAVID GREENE, HOST: White evangelicals helped fuel Donald Trump's run to the White House, but now there are increasing concerns among some evangelical leaders about sex scandal allegations swirling around the president. They are worried that they cou

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STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Americans said goodbye yesterday to Mary Tyler Moore, who died yesterday at the age of 80. She won seven Emmy Awards for her work on TV, but that number doesn't quite describe her place in the culture. She played characters to wh

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LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Across Pennsylvania, Catholic churches are celebrating Mass this weekend for the first time since a devastating report. In that report, the state attorney general detailed the sexual abuse of minors by hundreds of priests.

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LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: In the new film Unlovable, we witness Joy, a woman played by Charlene deGuzman, hit bottom because of an addiction to sex and love. And a quick warning. As you can imagine, this conversation may be unsuitable for younger li

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The sexual evolution would not have taken place, or certainly not taken it turn without the automobile and without the teenager. After World War II, American experienced an economic boom. For the first time, teenagers had spending money on what they

发表于:2019-01-23 / 阅读(79) / 评论(0) 分类 探索与发现2014年

And many of the white girlfriends are actually prostitutes because he hangs out in the vice district. At the height of Jim Crow, crossing race lines for sex was considered a huge threat to social order. Authorities begisn to think about ways to bring

发表于:2019-01-23 / 阅读(74) / 评论(0) 分类 探索与发现2014年

Eventually Jack Johnson is convicted of violating the Mann Act on May 14th, 1913. He is slapped with 366 days' sentence in prison and a one-thousand-dollar fine. so he decently has the book thrown at him for crime that he didn't commit. and then subs

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So, Ben and Deber just decided to live as common long man and wife. With his personal life stabilized, Franklin jumped into the newspaper business. He buys the Pennsylvanian giz and becomes the founding father of another American tradition--- the sex

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Okinawa curfew after sex charges 驻冲绳美军将实行宵禁 Protests against US bases in Japan are not uncommon 对美军基地的抗议活动在日本并非罕见 The US military said it would impose a midnight curfew and drinking ban on marines

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By Scott Bobb Johannesburg 16 November 2006 South Africa this week became the first African country, and only the fifth in the world, to legalize same-sex marriages. The law was passed overwhelmingly in the national assembly, because of support by t

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By Barbara Schoetzau New York 12 March 2008 New York Governor Eliot Spitzer has resigned following a sex scandal that rocked the state and stunned political observers across the country. From VOA's New York Bureau, correspondent Barbara Schoetzau rep

发表于:2019-02-02 / 阅读(91) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2008年(三月)

今天我们要学的词是single out。 Single out, 是选出,挑出的意思。 He was singled out as the person who started the fight, 据说这场架是由他挑起的。 He claimed that he was singled out for criticism because of his race, 他声

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