Remember, a name is for life In Sao Paulo, a baby boy is chortling away, unaware that a court is deciding his fate. If it finds in his father's favour, he is in all kinds of trouble. There may be a law in Brazil against giving your child a name that

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Three Australians and a New Zealander were killed when their charter plane burst into flames in Papua New Guinea. The Trans Air plane overshot the runway on Misima Island and crashed into trees. One of the men killed was a 61-year-old marine pilot fr

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One night a motorcyclist crashed into a bridge. The rider was on his way home from a party. Traveling at about 70 mph on the unlit, two-lane road, he lost control on a curve. He lay next to his motorcycle for 20 minutes before a passerby noticed the

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The lunar cycle affects the night sky, the tides, and even the fertility of certain marine species. And it turns out, we can add your shuteye to the list. According to a new study, humans sleep poorly on nights near full moon. The work is published i

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LESSON ONE For this lesson,you'll need a pencil and a piece of paper. Listen to this conversation.Let's go to a movie tonight! Oh,good idea.Let's look in the paper for the movie shedule.Where is it? It's in Section B.On page 8. What's the matter?Why

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Pre-Listening Vocabulary evolve: to change over time drastic: very noticeable; extreme appealing: likeable satisfactory: acceptable sarcastic: not sincere; opposite of ones true feelings tasteful: having an appropriate sense of style or fashion clich

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FBI Heads Investigation into Wisconsin Shooting Prakash Singh, 39 years old, male. A member of the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin read the names of those who lost their lives in Sundays shooting. Ranjit Singh, 49 years old, male. Harpreet Singh could not h

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US Music Flop Emerges as Anti-Apartheid Anthem Segerman is talking about Rodriguez, a folk-rock troubadour from the American midwest city of Detroit who cut a couple of albums in the 1970s. But they flopped and he went on with his life. As Stockholm-

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South Africa University Students Ponder Future At the end of last year, about 350,000 Grade 12 students in South Africa passed their final exams. While some celebrated, others pondered their next move. In reality, a very small group of those who had

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Gadhafi Death Marks End of NATO Mission NATO's operations against Moammar Gadhafi's forces began in March, with French and British airstrikes on Libyan army positions. And it was French warplanes that ultimately brought the mission to an end, bombing

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Free Ramadan Meals a Blessing for Many in Pakistan ISLAMABAD After suffering for years from a stagnant economy and inflation on basic items like food, even middle-class Pakistanis are feeling the economic pinch. As the Muslim holy month of Ramadan be

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GUY RAZ, HOST: On the show today, Speaking Up. We're talking about when people choose to speak up and what happens if they don't. So when Clint Smith was a high school teacher, he wanted the students to understand the importance of speaking up and th

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Walden Media's latest, Nim's Island, has a terrific premise from the book by Wendy Orr. Abigail Breslin stars as Nim, a smart, independent 11-year-old who lives with her microbiologist dad, Jack (Gerard Butler) on an uncharted South Pacific island. A

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Every week millions of Britons use computers to access the internet but how many of them actually know their ipods from their IMs? Not many it seems. A recent survey from Nielsen/ NetRatings a global internet, media and market research company - show

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Silent Strokes Tied to Memory Loss Among Older Adults The results of a stroke are painfully evident as this patient struggles to get out of a wheelchair and walk again. Sudden numbness, physical weakness, difficulty speaking and comprehending and los

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U.S. First Lady Laura Bush says the United States will do all it can to help the victims of the cyclone that hit Burma on Saturday. Mrs. Bush also said it is troubling that many Burmese learned about the cyclone only when foreign broadcasters like th

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Top stories tonight, Australian drug smugglers Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran have arrived on the prison island where they are scheduled to face the firing squad. The men were taken out of Balis Kerobokan Prison in a police-armed vehicle for dorm t

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By Brian Wagner Miami 13 December 2007 U.S. prosecutors have announced the arrests of four men linked to a scandal involving an alleged campaign payment from Venezuela to Argentina. In Miami, VOA's Brian Wagner reports the governments of the South Am

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Two months later, testimony from a certain Commander Bowen, aboard the Albemarle, 但两个月后,从指挥阿伯马尔号船的船长,名叫波温的这个人送来的报告知道, alleged that rubble from shipwrecked vessels had been seen on

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Finishing his investigations, Dillon stayed at the site of the casualty until the month of October. 狄勇为了使自己所获得的材料更完备起见,他在这遇难的地方留下,一直到同年十月。 Then he left Vanikoro, headed towar

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