Kennedy Center Announces Its Honorees for 2013 肯尼迪中心公布2013年获奖者 Welcome to American Mosaic from VOA Learning English. Im Faith Lapidus. On the show today, we tell all about this years Kennedy Center honorees. And we play music by

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Security is tighter in sea communities around the world a day after police say army veteran Wade Michael Page stormed a temple in the Milwaukee, Wisconsin suburb of Oak Creek and opened fire on worshipers. He killed six people and wounded three other

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A man holds a child at gunpoint after shooting and killing a school bus driver which was our lead story tonight. And another man, walks into a Phoenix office building and opens fire, hitting three killing one. Those are just two headlines from today,

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The Australian Green Peace activist who spent almost three months in a Russian jail is finally home. Colin Russell was one of 30 people charged with hooliganism after a protest at an arctic oil rig in September. Mr. Russell says he has no regrets and

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This is Scientific American 60 second Science, I am Sophie Bushwick, Got a minute? Sharing is one of the hallmarks of human behavior: give me a cookie and Im more likely to give you one later. But our bonobo cousins have an odd variation on the pract

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Lesson 17 Life Beyond Injury 走出伤痛的生活 Words: atrophy n. 萎缩 attach vt. 系,缚 attachment n. 依恋,喜欢;连接物;附件 attain vt. 到达,获得 attend vt. 参加;入学;照顾 attendant n. 侍者,护理人员;adj. 伴随的 attire n. 穿着,装饰(正规服装总称

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Margot Fonteyn was born as Margaret Hookham in England in 1919. Many consider her to be the greatest English ballerina of all time. She received the title of Dame when she was 35 from Britains Queen. Fonteyn had a sparkling career and encouraged arti

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剧情简介 内容讲述一对深爱着对方的母女罗拉和艾玛,但她们之间却一直存在着隔阂和冲突,以致艾玛为了使自己尽量脱离母后的形象和影响,用去了三十年时间,但直到临终之际她才发现自己对母亲的亲情无法让她释怀和割舍。 影片情节感人,思想深刻,是一部不可多得的好作

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1. Power has been restored across India after an historic failure. Wednesday, factories and businesses were up and running after an outage left more than 600 million people without electricity Tuesday afternoon. It was the second power outage in as m

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VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I'm Bob Doughty. VOICE TWO: Northern Lights seen near Palmer, Alaska last year And I'm Barbara Klein. On our program this week, we will tell about the mystery of the aurora borealis, bet

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Newly discovered underwater treasures in the Italian seas near the Pontine Islands A team of marine archeologists using sonar scanners has discovered new underwater treasures in the Italian seas. Trading vessels dating from the first century BC to th

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AILSA CHANG, HOST: Amazon wants to find a home for a second headquarters. The Seattle-born company put out the word about two weeks ago and has set a deadline of mid-October. We'll find out who's in the running on this week's All Tech Considered. (SO

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SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Organic milk is widely available these days, but what does that label really mean? A new Washington Post investigation found that there are considerable differences between the organic milk you can buy in a grocery store and the ki

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美国航天局探秘范艾伦辐射带 One of the first discoveries of the space age, made in 1958, was that the Earth is surrounded with a doughnut-shaped field of highly charged particles. It was named the Van Allen radiation belt, after its disco

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美议员推动心理疾病与枪支暴力提案 The mass killing in Santa Barbara, California that left six people dead has reignited a debate in the U.S. Congress about how to keep guns out of the hands of the seriously mentally ill. Since efforts

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Newtown Connecticut, Aurora Colorado, Tucson Arizona, when a mass shooting happens, like we've seen in the those cities, the issue of gun control often comes up. President Obama has said he wants to take action on this, he's put Vice president Joe Bi

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If you're a night owl and you love the cold then a job in Finland, might be the perfect position for you. 如果你是个夜猫子且喜爱寒冷,那么芬兰有一份工作对你来说可能是完美的职位。 The Arctic Snow Hotel in Rovaniemi

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China's research vessel and icebreaker Xuelong, or Snow Dragon has entered an area of clear water, after more than ten hours spent breaking through the Antarctic ice. The vessel had been trapped in the area since Friday. Last Thursday, its helicopter

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It has now been three months since the tragic events in Newtown, Connecticut. 自康涅狄格州新城的惨剧发生已经过去三个月。 Three months since we lost 20 innocent children and six dedicated adults who had so much left to give. 三个月

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Caring about what other people think of you is part of being a normal human being. 在意别人对你的看法是你作为正常人的一部分。 In fact, scientists in one study found that the reward center in people's brains was active when they w

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