Stephen Foster, 1826-1864: America's First Popular Songwriter He wrote more than two hundred songs during the eighteen forties and eighteen fifties. VOICE ONE: I'm Shirley Griffith. VOICE TWO: And I'm Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program

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AMERICAN MOSAIC - Whitehouse.gov / Question About America's Longest River / Music by Vivian Green By Nancy Steinbach Broadcast: December 27, 2002 (THEME) HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC --VOA’s rad

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John: Nobody's home. Gabrielle: I know, I've been watching. I came to talk to you. Mary Alice: Although she would need to be discrete. Gabrielle: Keep working! What were you thinking, showing up at the hospital? John: I had to see if she was okay. G

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影片对白 Tom: Wow, honey, look, this place looks spotless! Lynette: Thanks. Tom: Listen, I have come up with this killer idea for the Spotless Scrub campaign. Lynette: Great! You wanna run it by me? Tom: No. I'm good. But, thanks. Lynette: Okay. Tom

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影片对白 Lynette: So, he just blew you off ? Susan: I told him another man asked me out. It was the perfect opportunity for Mike to feel jealous, and nothing. Lynette: Did you bat your eyes ? You know, it doesn't work if you don't bat your eyes. Sus

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影片对白 Mary Alice Young: When I was alive, I maintained many different identities: lover, wife, and ultimately, victim. Yes, labels are important to the living. They dictate how people see themselves. Like my friend, Lynette. She used to see herse

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SCIENCE IN THE NEWS -August 20, 2002: U.S. Doctors Separate Guatemalan Sisters Joined at the Heath / West Nile Virus Spreads in the United States Broadcast: VOICE ONE: This is Ray Freeman. VOICE TWO:

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Oh, no! Denzel thought. Whered THAT come from? He was looking at a big red dry stain that was on the carport where he always parked his car. There was only one thing to do: check his power steering fluid and his transmission fluid, both of which were

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By Peter Fedynsky Washington, DC 21 December 2006 watch Iraq Troop Debate In a recent front-page story, the Washington Post newspaper reported the White House and Joint Chiefs of Staff are at odds over sending 15,000 to 30,000 more U.S. troops to Ir

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By Nancy Steinbach HEALTH REPORT -June 26, 2002: Diabetes Research Update This is the VOA Special English Health Report. American medical researchers say that a new drug has been shown to stop the pro

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Technology Report - Steve Jobs Remembered 科技报道 - 缅怀一代巨头乔布斯 This is the VOA Special English Technology Report. 这里是美国之音慢速英语科技报道。 Steve Jobs made technology fun. The co-founder of Apple died last

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AMERICAN MOSAIC - The Jeep - One of the Most Famous Vehicles in the World is Celebrated at its Birthplace MARIO RITTER: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) I'm Mario Ritter. Today, we play music that the television company MTV

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By Douglas Bakshian Jolo 20 February 2007 A special operations platoon of the Philippine Marine Battalion Landing Team conduct a military exercise in Jolo, 05 Feb 2007 The Philippines has recently been on the front line in the war on terror, taking o

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Steve Baragona | Port-au-Prince 22 March 2010 Haitian officials say less food aid and more jobs are needed to get the economy running again. Some major organizations are scaling back donation efforts beginning April 1st. But many Haitians are still i

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First of Japan Disaster Survivors Get Temporary Houses A month after the magnitude 9.0 earthquake and resulting tsunami devastated northeastern Japan, more than 125,000 people remain in evacuation centers. Others are living with relatives. Most of th

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Spock Parenting Book Gets Online Update Books published in electronic form to be read on tablet-sized readers are, in some cases, outstripping sales of conventional hard-copy volumes. E-books on parenting, for example, are, if not flying off the shel

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Cameroonian Develops Mobile Telephone Application To Fight Corruption Baksheesh in Arabic is money offered to crooked officials to get rid of red-tape. And so NoBakchich implies no more bribes. Thats the name of a mobile telephone application conceiv

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今天我们要学的词是evacuate。 Evacuate, 是指撤离危险地带。Passengers evacuated the train due to a fire on board, 由于火车起火,乘客全部下 车。Students evacuated their classrooms because of a bomb threat, 由于炸 弹威

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By Peter Fedynsky Moscow 09 August 2007 Recent news from Russia has involved a flurry of military affairs - the introduction of new weapons, the suspension of a key international treaty, training exercises, and most recently, a missile incident in ne

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今天我们要学的词是obsolete。 Obsolete, 是过时的意思。美国国防部长盖茨在西点军校发表讲话时说, The traditional U.S. Army, with its large units that include tanks and other heavy equipment, is fast becoming obsolete

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