You might say they're loosening the Bible belt in this midsouth neighborhood, ladies cutting lawns , wearing bikini, showing their bodies , offering more attention to your lawn than it's ever seen. Oh, they honk and yell , they do everything you can

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Tombstone, Arizona: "The Town Too Tough To Die" 亚利桑那州的墓碑:鬼城 From VOA Learning English, welcome to This is America. Im Steve Ember. The United States has thousands of ghost towns. [Wind and prairie sounds] These are communiti

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LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Now to California, where thousands of people wake up in cars, tents and shelters and then get ready for work. The state is facing a huge shortage of affordable housing, and that means even full-time workers can find themsel

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Model 3 We should create harsher sentences for bootleggers. Jane: Its about time that the government got tough with bootleggers. Their fake liquors have already killed several people. Peter: Yeah, thats too high a price to pay. Its almost a rip-off.

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The economy is bad. People are out of work. People are losing their jobs. People are getting laid off. People are getting fired. People want to work. But nobody is hiring workers. Nobody needs workers. Everyone has less money. Everyone is spending le

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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has named Steve Biegun as special representative for North Korea. He will direct U.S. policy towards North Korea and lead efforts to achieve President Donald Trump's goal of the final, fully verified denuclearization of

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All over the world, working class and poor families bear the brunt of rising food and fuel costs. In Bangkok, Ron Corben visits a slum area to see how people are coping. He reports that charities are stepping up efforts to help families, as fears gr

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No Doubt回归了!阔别乐坛十年,No Doubt的这次回归真是名符其实的万众期待!新单曲《Settle Down》是新专辑《Push and Shove》的首支单曲 歌词: Get get get in line, and settle down 來來來 排排隊然後安定

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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad waves to the media as he arrives for a press conference in Tehran, Iran, 28 Jun 2010 (file photo) Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and other top officials used tough language against new EU sanctions adopted

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French President Nicolas Sarkozy, center, delivers a speech next to French Justice Minister Michele Alliot Marie, left, and French Interior Minister Brice Hortefeux, right, in Grenoble, French Alps, 30 Jul 2010 (file photo) French President Nicolas S

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Probably only one or two Americans in a hundred could tell you the name of the nation's toughest, seemingly most escape-proof prison. It's the Marion federal penitentiary in Illinois. But for the better part of three decades, from the mid-1930s to 19

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Australia's first minority government for 70 years has started work following the closest election result in the country's history. Now Labor Prime Minister Julia Gillard must get her coalition to address a range of issues ranging from immigration to

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Life Coaches Help With Tough Decisions Youve probably heard about sports coaches, fitness coaches, voice and music teachers, career counselors, psychiatrists and other specialists who teach skills and help us cope with daily life. But theres a rapidl

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Obama Faces Tough Choices on Egypt Two days after his ouster, supporters of Egypt's ex-president clash with demonstrators who want him out - reflecting that nation's division and the quandary left for U.S. policymakers. A military officer announced t

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A Return To The Rosebud Reservation Finds Tough Times Have Gotten Tougher SCOTT SIMON, HOST: This summer, NPR reporters are going home, back to the communities where their families are from, to see what's changed. NPR's Kirk Siegler travels back to t

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A tough immigration enforcement law scheduled to take effect in Arizona at the end of July is touching off debate and controversy far beyond the southwestern state. As a consequence, immigration reform is moving higher on the list of issues Americans

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This is very peculiar. The Tourist Office is locked tight and it doesnt look as if its been open for business, well, I dont know, for a very, very long time, if ever. Theres a feeling that Riemvasmaak doesnt quite fire on *. They advertise walking tr

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By Peter Heinlein Addis Ababa 18 March 2008 Ethiopia's Prime Minister Meles Zenawi has introduced tough measures to stabilize soaring prices, including a crackdown on what he called economic criminals, but he says the African nation's economy is esse

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Todd: So, Mark, um, you mentioned that your wife is Japanese. Mark: Thats right. Todd: Ok, and how long have you been married? Mark: We finally got married in April of 1998 but it took us a while to get to that stage. Todd: Ok, well,whats it like bei

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ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: CVID is an acronym you're about to hear a lot. The Trump administration has been using it in the run-up to next week's summit with North Korea. And those four letters have meant different things to different people, as NPR's David

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