Native American tribes want to begin growing and selling marijuana. They hope it will help end poverty on reservations, the large areas where many Native Americans live. However, there is uncertainty about the future of US marijuana policy. Cannabis

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A car bomb has killed at least 100 people and wounded more than 200 others in a shopping area of the northwestern Pakistan city of Peshawar. U.S. Secretary of State(国务卿) Hillary Clinton arrived in Pakistan just hours earlier for a three-day visi

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There are calls from both sides of politics now for tougher action against Syria. The Government has increased its sanctions against the regime, and Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd is now calling on the UN to bring Syria's president before the Internatio

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Topics: Movies-The Usual Suspects; Tribal Colleges and Universities; effectiveness versus efficacy; to consider and to differentiate; common responses to Thank you Words: usual suspect version limp to round up innocent notorious tribal to force reser

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From NPR News in Washington, I'm Craig Windham. President Bush's in Tanzania, second stop on a five-nation trip to Africa. The trip is part of an administration effort to highlight successful U.S. policies on the continent. Mr. Bush threw his suppor

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[00:00.00]Unit 8 Party animals 3 While you read [00:10.50]Rave to the grave [00:14.65]A rave party nearly ended in tragedy last night, [00:20.72]when over a hundred people fell through the floor [00:25.57]of the fourth-floor flat they were dancing in

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During Jamaica's colonial era, the English capitalized on the island's mild weather and rich soil, planting sugarcane , making Jamaica England's largest supplier. But the riches of the sugarcane came with a price. Thousands of Africans were enslaved

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DEVELOPMENT REPORT – September 23, 2002: Bushmeat Hunting in Ghana By Jill Moss This is the VOA Special English Development Report. An American-based environmental group says hunting wild animals in

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注释: Iraqi insurgent 伊拉克起义军 Sunni and Shiite rebels 逊尼派和什叶派反抗者 assault [E5sC:lt] n. 攻击,袭击 intense [in5tens] adj. 激烈的 helicopter [5helikCptE] n. 直升

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Saving a Critically Endangered Language in Australia People in Australia are leading efforts to save a critically endangered language. At one time, an estimated 300 indigenous languages were spoken on the continent. Only about 90 are still spoken tod

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This is AP news minute. 1. Officials in Oakland say the death toll has risen to 30 from a fire that tore through a warehouse that housed an artist collective. Authorities say crews are starting to get deeper into the building and that as they advance

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Australia Links Aboriginal Aid to School Attendance 澳大利亚改变原住民援助政策 Parents in South Australias Aboriginal lands may lose some of their financial aid if they do not send their children to school. New rules link school attendan

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Putin: Russia Increasing Nuclear Missiles Supply 普京:俄罗斯今年将增加40余枚新型洲际核导弹 Russian President Vladimir Putin says more than 40 new intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM) will be added to the country's nuclear sup

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Victims Relatives to Mass Shooting Suspect: We Have No Room for Hate 教堂枪击案遇难者家属称我们没有容纳仇恨的空间 Relatives of victims of the South Carolina mass shooting addressed suspect Dylann Roof in court Friday. They offer

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AS IT IS 2015-04-07 Analysts Question Plans for Joint Arab Military 专家质疑阿拉伯联合军事计划 For months, members of the Arab League have been calling for a joint military force. The force would try to control the widespread violence in

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AS IT IS 2016-02-03 Pakistans Imran Khan Urges Taliban to Talks Imran Khan Pakistani sports star and now politician says he wants to bring peace to the region through talks. Khan says he wants Afghanistans Taliban to negotiate a peaceful resolution t

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More than 300,000 children in Sudan die every year from preventable causes, about 26,000 mothers die each year giving birth, says UNICEF Lisa Schlein | Geneva 14 June 2010 UN mission dubs Southern Sudan as the hungriest place on earth with a recent s

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This SITE Intelligence Group handout photo obtained November 10, 2009 shows Anwar al-Awlaki, a former US resident living in Yemen and accused al-Qaeda supporter A U.S.-born radical cleric linked to shootings at a U.S. army base and the failed bombing

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Indigenous Peoples Stand Up to Exploitation This month (6-10/12), 600 indigenous leaders gathered in the far north of Norway. They produced a document that called for an end to discrimination and exploitation of their people. The Alta Declaration wil

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援助巴基斯坦流离失所需要帮助的人民 The U.S. Government, through the U.S. Agency for International Development,recently contributed 20 million to support the provision of food to approximately 1.2 million temporary displaced persons o

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