The chairman and chief executive officer of auto giant General Motors reportedly has agreed to a request by the Obama administration to resign. The news reports come as the White House prepares to announce on Monday whether it will extend more aid t

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NYC Invests Heavily In Biotech Development 纽约大量资本投资生物科技 NEW YORK New York City and the State of New York are investing hundreds of millions of dollars to become a major player in the development of high tech industries. They h

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Like a science fiction time traveler, an arctic plant of the late Pleistocene age, over thirty one thousand years old, is growing again after a long frozen sleep. 犹如科幻小说里的时间旅行者,一种曾存活在更新世晚期的极地植物

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By Mike O'Sullivan Los Angeles 01 May 2008 A new type of business is focused on making a difference in society as well as making a profit. Mike O'Sullivan reports, so-called social businesses are linking investors in the industrial world and entrepre

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By Luis Ramirez Beijing 10 January 2006 The giant Chinese state-owned China National Offshore Oil Corporation, CNOOC, has reached a deal to buy a 45 percent stake in a Nigerian oil field for more than

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By Greg Flakus New Orleans, Louisiana 06 March 2006 watch Housing report Six months later, housing in New Orleans is still uninhabitable Six months after Hurricane Katrina caused massive flooding in t

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By Lauren Comiteau Amsterdam 27 September 2006 Former Bosnian Serb political leader Momcilo Krajisnik has been sentenced by the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal to 27 years in prison for crimes against humanity committed against Muslims and Croats in th

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By Robert Berger Jerusalem 29 March 2008 United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has arrived in Israel, Saturday, on a new Middle East peace mission. But it is an uphill climb, as we hear from Robert Berger at the VOA bureau in Jerusalem. S

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By Tom Rivers London 29 June 2007 A British police forensic officer leaves a blue operations tent that police placed over a vehicle which contains a suspected bomb in the Haymarket area near Piccadilly Circus in central London, 29 June 2007 British p

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By Peter Heinlein United Nations 26 March 2007 The U.N. mediator for Kosovo has recommended independence for the breakaway Serbian province. From U.N. headquarters, correspondent Peter Heinlein reports Serbian officials called the decision unacceptab

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By Luis Ramirez Jerusalem 18 September 2009 US Mideast envoy George Mitchell (L) meets with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, in West Bank city of Ramallah, 18 Sep 2009 U.S. special envoy for the Middle East George Mitchell has left Israel and th

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A United Nations agency is offering what it calls a conceptual breakthrough to uplift the world's poorest people. The U.N. Industrial Development Organization contends selective industrialization offers the best chance for smaller, developing countr

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NASA Looks to Private Sector for Future of Space Flight NASA支持私企涉足未来的太空飞行 LOS ANGELES Many companies are capitalizing on the future of space travel thanks to an evolving partnership with the U.S. space agency, NASA. Forty-si

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By Lisa McAdams St. Peterburg 16 July 2006 G8 Summit in St.Petersburg, Russia, July 16, 2006 Group-of-Eight foreign ministers opened their meeting at the G-8 summit by discussing host country Russia's Number-One agenda item, energy security. Meanwhi

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By Tendai Maphosa Harare 13 September 2006 In Zimbabwe, police have prevented protest marches organized by the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions from taking place. In Harare and elsewhere in the country, the police sealed off the places where marche

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AILSA CHANG, HOST: The comedy world is hurting today. A month after announcing he'd been diagnosed with cancer, the comedian Barry Crimmins has died. Crimmins was one of the reasons Boston's comedy scene burned so bright in the 1980s and '90s. ARI SH

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By Paul Sisco Washington, DC 04 August 2006 watch Energy Independence Some Americans say fossil fuel dependency is a national addiction. But there is one nation that seems well on the way to kicking the habit. Iceland, as seen from space Iceland is

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By Greg Flakus Houston 20 February 2008 Senator Barack Obama won the Wisconsin state Democratic presidential primary, Tuesday, the ninth win in a row for the charismatic junior senator from Illinois. On the Republican side, Senator John McCain was th

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By David Gollust Washington 13 February 2008 U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice Wednesday said she hopes Serbia will accept a resolution of Kosovo's status and move forward to fuller integration with Europe. Kosovo, a Serbian province administe

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By Steve Herman Tokyo 14 December 2006 Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has called for India and Japan, Asia's two largest democracies, to construct an arc of advantage and prosperity across the continent. Analysts have said the two countries ar

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