Today is December 21st. It is the first official day of winter, but the weather was not looking at the calendar, the seasons first blizzard hit the Midwestern U.S. Early this week, it was headed and expected to move into New England today. Tens of th

发表于:2018-12-02 / 阅读(80) / 评论(0) 分类 CNN2012年(十二)月

This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. 这里是美国之音慢速英语经济报道。 Americans have been watching the protests in the Middle East and North Africa -- and closer to home. Workers in Wisconsin, and now some other states, h

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Two great waterways, a world apart, face similar conservation issues Mike Simonson | Boscobel, Wisconsin 28 May 2010 The River Spirit Exchange took students down the Kickapoo River, a tributary of the Mississippi, past towering sandstone outcroppings

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Not long ago, a VOA colleague of ours was building a cabinet, and he wanted to put wheels on it so it could be moved easily about the room. This got us thinking. We hear a lot about the struggles of America's manufacturing sector - automobiles, appli

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From NPR News in Washington, I'm Paul Brown. European Union Ministers are to meet today to determine how to react to Kosovo's declaration of independence yesterday and the UN Security Council plans to meet again. A number of countries in Europe are

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Time again for StoryCorps, this oral history project collects interviews between everyday people talking about their lives. Today, a husband and a wife remember how they met. He was from Slovakia, she was from Wisconsin. A job brought them together.

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An official in Wisconsin says at least five people have been killed in a shooting rampage in northern Wisconsin. It happened in Crandon about 225 miles north of Milwaukee. President Bush paid honor to the men and women who put their lives on the line

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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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NOEL KING, HOST: The curtain rises today on Act 2 of extreme partisan gerrymandering, a play in three acts currently onstage at the U.S. Supreme Court. NPR's legal affairs correspondent Nina Totenberg updates the plotline of the biggest legal controv

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STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Companies that provide cell phone service race one another to offer the most reliable signals in order to retain customers. Sometimes to do that, they turn to a surprising option to get the job done. (SOUNDBITE OF HORSE NEIGHING)

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LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: On Tuesday, Wisconsin goes to the polls. And the primary election will be an early test of voter enthusiasm ahead of the November midterms. Democrats in the state are trying to hang onto their Senate seat, take back the gov

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ENVIRONMENT REPORT -May 17, 2002: Whooping Crane Recovery Project By Cynthia Kirk This is the VOA Special English ENVIRONMENT REPORT. Scientists are trying to create the first migrating group of whoop

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By Jim Malone Washington 20 February 2008 In the U.S. presidential race, Barack Obama has now won10 straight contests in his battle with Hillary Clinton for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination. Meanwhile, John McCain moved another step clo

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This is AP news minute. 1. The US military released cockpit video of Thursdays bombing in Afghanistan. The MOAB bomb, nicknamed the Mother of All Bombs, was dropped on a network of tunnels used by Islamic State fighters. Its the largest non-nuclear b

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By Kent Klein White House 04 November 2009 President Barack Obama at a middle school in Madison, Wisconsin, 04 Nov 2009 President Barack Obama is challenging the 50 U.S. states to reform their education systems. The president says the U.S. needs bet

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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 the winner. The two frontrunners are targe

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This is AP News Minute. President Donald Trump arrived at a Texas border town to make the case for his long-promised border wall after negotiations with Democrats to reopen the government blew up over his funding demands. U.S. Secretary of State Mike

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