VOA Learning English presents Americas Presidents. Today we are talking about George Walker Bush. He took office in 2001 as the 43rd president. He has a similar name to another president -- his father, George Herbert Walker Bush. To simplify things,

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美国五角大楼仍正常工作 Pentagon Continues to Function Alex Belida The Pentagon 12 Sep 2001 14:56 UTC The deadly terrorist attack on the Pentagon has left the famous building badly damaged.

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He is the son of a terrorist. He says he wants his father to stop the violence. CNN's Aneesh Raman interviewed Omar Bin Laden. At first glance, twenty-six-year-old Omar seems the image of a modern Middle-East. He drives a jeep, has dreadlocks and hi

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hundreds of volunteers and medical workers have converged at the scene of what used to be the World Trade Center Towers to search for victims of yesterdays terrorist attacks. [00:-0.50] [00:-1.00]The Trade Centers Twin Towers are now just mounds of r

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But first, new details on the death of Osama bin Laden, the man behind the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The raid by U.S. forces that killed bin Laden also recovered intelligence information that American officials are reviewing now. Hard drives, computers

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By Leta Hong Fincher Most Americans paid little attention to the dangers of terrorism until al-Qaida 's September 11th, 2001 terrorist attacks on New York and Washington that killed thousands. But pol

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THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. As President, I took an oath to defend the Constitution, and I have no greater responsibility than to protect our people, our freedom, and our way of life. On September the 11th, 2001, our freedom and way of life came un

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英语作文 After The World Trade Center were destroyed by terrorist attack on September 11th ,2001, the USA began to object to the terrorist activities. In the past three years, the USA and Afghanistan and Iraq have broken out two wars. And the one wi

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EDUCATION REPORT - Number of Foreign Students Rises in US By Nancy Steinbach / Broadcast: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 16:00:00 UTC This is the VOA Special English Education Report. A new report says the number of foreign students at colleges and universities i

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AS IT IS 2016-09-05 Most Victims of Terrorist Attacks Are Muslim 恐怖袭击的大多数受害者是穆斯林 Muslim militants tried to create areas governed by Islamic law long before the Islamic State group began its campaign in the Middle East. S

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The 9/11 terrorist attack in New York not only killed people. It also killed local businesses, too, as many residents and companies moved out of the devastated area. 10 years on things are finally recovering. One Chinese restaurant has been part of t

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今天我们要学的一个词是mourn,m-o-u-r-n,意思是哀悼,悼念. 在911恐怖袭击五周年之际,纽约时报说Bush mourns 9/11 at Ground Zero as N.Y. remembers. Bush总统在纽约世贸大楼旧址和民众一同悼念9.11死难者

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JUDY WOODRUFF: We return now to the deadly hostage standoff in Australia.Stuart Cohen is a freelance journalist based in Sydney. He's been reporting the story for NPR. I spoke to him a short time ago via Skype. Stuart Cohen, thank you for talking wit

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FBI Pulls Out of Yemen David Gollust State Department 18 Jun 2001 21:57 UTC The 1)Federal Bureau of Investigation is 2)withdrawing its agents from Yemen who are 3)probing last October ' s terrorist bo

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Police say the anti-Muslim extremist who killed 77 people in Norway last week had considered more targets linked to the government or ruling Labor Party. After a 10-hour interrogation session Friday, authorities said Saturday that Anders Behring Brei

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埃及宣布穆斯林兄弟会为恐怖组织 CAIRO, Dec. 25 (Xinhua) -- The Egyptian government on Wednesday blamed the Muslim Brotherhood for the bombing of the police headquarter in Mansoura city and officially declared the Muslim Brotherhood a te

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Barack Obama's favourite TV shows: Boardwalk Empire, Modern Family and Homeland 奥巴马的最爱美剧:黑帮剧《大西洋帝国》、喜剧《摩登家庭》和反恐剧《国土安全》 Mr Obama admitted his taste in TV is a little darker th

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Nigeria 尼日利亚 Why northerners feel done down 为何感觉完了? A terrorist insurgency has deepened a poor region's already grave problems 恐怖叛乱贫困的北方雪上加霜 THE roads are thick with traffic and pavements throng with ha

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Explanation: Terrorism (or violence that is used against people to try to scare them) used to be something that Americans only read about in the newspaper. They knew that terrorists were dangerous (or could hurt them), but it didnt really happen in t

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