By Gilbert da Costa Abuja 30 December 2006 Nigeria has confirmed its status as the most populous country on the African continent, announcing its population has exceeded 140 million. Gilbert da Costa reports the announcement sought to avoid some of

发表于:2018-12-07 / 阅读(116) / 评论(0) 分类 2006年VOA标准英语(十二月)

Online Textbooks Update Student Learning History teacher Luke Rosa wheels his cart filled with laptops into a classroom at Falls Church High School in Virginia. He asks his students to look to Chapter 6, Section 1, on Jacksonian America. Rather than

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Kansas Farmers Work to Prevent Depletion of Ogallala Aquifer 堪萨斯农场主努力保护蓄水层 COLBY, KANSAS The Ogallala Aquifer is a large underground water resource that sits below parts of seven U.S. states in the Midwest. The aquifer is us

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By Richard Green Washington 14 September 2006 The U.S. tourism industry is launching an initiative to bring more foreign visitors to the United States, in an effort to improve the nation's declining image abroad. According to a recent survey conduct

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By Margaret Besheer Washington 15 February 2007 Malaria afflicts as many as 500 million people each year around the world. More than 1 million die, most of them children under the age of five living in sub-Saharan Africa. Last June, President Bush l

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By Amanda Cassandra New York 19 November 2006 James Johnson, a 22-year Army veteran, talks with Pat Cooke, left, a recruiter for the Clearwater, Fla. police department, at a veterans job fair in New York The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics says that

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U.S. President George Bush has invited both presidential candidates and the Congressional leadership to the White House in hopes of securing a deal to help the nation's ailing financial sector. VOA's Paula Wolfson reports the president urged public

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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton challenged Kenya's youth Thursday to utilize new media technologies to shine light on public corruption in the country. She continued her message that only Kenyans can solve Kenya's problems. US Sec. of State

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