9-YearOld Politician 9岁小政客 The battle over Social Security has been joined by an unusual lobbyist, a 9-year-old boy from Texas (George Bushs hometown), who has agreed to travel around supporting President Bushs proposal. The boy, Noah McCullo

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Some Republicans Losing Faith in Rick Perry It was only last month that Texas Governor Rick Perry decided to enter the race for the Republican Party's presidential nomination and quickly zoomed to the top of public opinion polls. But in recent weeks

发表于:2018-12-16 / 阅读(57) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2011年(九月)

Spring has just sprung in the Northern Hemisphere, and that means an annual natural spectacular is just a couple of weeks away, deep in the heart of Texas. 春天已经来到了北半球,这也意味着在德克萨斯州的中心地区,一年一度

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V. Lets Talk Texas Police Arrest Oldest Bank Robber Texas police say they have arrested a 90-yeard-old man, Henry Robert, who is accused of robbing a bank, probably making him the oldest bank robber in U.S. history. Police said Robert, who was not ar

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By Yi Suli Carl's Corner, Texas 03 October 2006 watch Carl's Corner report Carl's Corner in the southwestern state of Texas used to be an old-fashioned truck stop. Today it is a city in its own right, a haven for truckers passing by, a frontier for

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1.The United Auto Workers union says it's going to make changes in its contract. The union also says it will delay billions of dollars in payments to a union-run health care trust. It's all an effort to save jobs and help Detroit's Big Three automak

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By Scott Stearns White House 28 May 2008 A controversial new book by former White House Spokesman Scott McClellan says President Bush's decision to invade Iraq five years ago was a serious strategic blunder. VOA White House Correspondent Scott Stearn

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A pair of unlikely league champions begin their duel for Major League Baseball supremacy Wednesday night in San Francisco, as the National League champion Giants host the American League's Texas Rangers at ATT Park (8pm EDT). Neither team was expecte

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AS IT IS 2014-07-17 Bergdahl Returns to Active Duty 贝里达尔返回前线部队 American soldier Bowe Bergdahl has returned to active duty in the United States Army. The Taliban in Afghanistan kidnapped and held Sergeant Bergdahl for five years. A

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STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: And I'm Steve Inskeep with the deeper meaning of water spinach. It's a staple food among some Asian-American families - they use them in stir-fries and soups - but it's grown commercially in only a few parts of the United States.

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(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: And it's Friday, which is when we hear from StoryCorps. Maggie Marquez and Jessi Silva grew up in the town of Marfa, Texas in the 1950s. And we have their story. In the 50s, Marfa's schools were segregated. L

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MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: And now let's go to Texas for a few minutes. It might seem like it was a lifetime ago, but it was just two weeks ago that Hurricane Harvey hit Texas. Our reporters have been trying to get to as many places as they can to report o

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RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: All right. Today in a federal court in Texas, the debate over the Trump administration's immigration policies shifts from separated families to recipients of DACA. Remember, that's the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals progr

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Hurricane Ike is bearing down on the Texas coast with the fourth largest city in the United States squarely in its sights. Houston is preparing for the first direct hit from a major storm in 25 years. Hundreds of thousands of people have evacuated G

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By Greg Flakus Houston 16 October 2007 Mayors of several Texas towns on or near the US border with Mexico are filing legal actions to stop the federal government from building a planned security fence to deter illegal immigrants and drug smugglers. A

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By Greg Flakus Houston 15 January 2007 Wintry weather conditions are causing widespread disruptions in the Great Plains states and as far south as Texas and Louisiana. Hundreds of thousands of people are without electrical power and icy roads have c

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By Greg Flakus Houston, Texas 17 May 2007 High energy prices, coupled with rising demand, are putting pressure on the oil and gas industry worldwide. Many companies are finding and developing new, underwater fields. More than 67,000 representatives o

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By Mary Morningstar Washington 15 April 2008 Humble, unassuming and reliable are words often used to describe Country legend George Strait. Since 1981, the 55-year-old Texan has sold close to 70 million albums worldwide and collected over 50 major in

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By Steve Mort Laredo, Texas 03 March 2008 A plan to build a fence along the U.S. - Mexico border has been one of the hottest controversies in Texas for some time. U.S. President George Bush signed a bill in 2006 authorizing the construction of more t

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On Sunday, U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff and other federal officials toured Galveston, Houston and other areas of Texas ravaged by Hurricane Ike when it made landfall Saturday. Chertoff says the first priority is to help people

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