I am standing at the North Pole, the very top of the earth. Up here, it's easy to see why the Polar Regions are so cold. The sun never rises high enough in the sky to warm my back. And those rays that do strike the surface are mostly reflected back f

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Project Mercury: The American Space Program Begins SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: EXPLORATIONS -- a program in Special English by the Voice of America. (SOUND) That announcement was made May fifth, nineteen sixty-one. It was the first manned flight of project Mer

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IN THE NEWS - Barack Obama Begins 2nd Term as President 新闻报道 - 奥巴马开始总统第二任期 From VOA Learning English, this is IN THE NEWS in Special English. 这里是美国之音慢速英语新闻报道。 This week, Barack Obama began

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In Liberia, an Ebola treatment center fully funded and constructed by China has just been completed. Its the first medical aid center built and managed by a foreign country in the disease affected areas. It was designed using a Chinese medical standa

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The Chinese New Year, or the Spring Festival, falls on Feb. 10th this year. Hundreds of millions of people will embark on a journey for family reunion, putting huge pressure on the country's transportation networks. Among them, the railways will hand

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今天我们要学的词是 erosion。 Erosion 的意思是侵蚀、腐蚀。A new high-speed rail station linking Hong Kong and mainland China opened under Beijing authority, raising new worries among Hong Kong residents of a further erosion of the

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英文歌词: Darin Zanyar - One True Flame For the longest time It's been on my mind Was trying to understand I've been looking for that part of me Out of touch and out of hand Everything I thought I knew Love proved me wrong For all the times that I

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英文歌词: In the town where I was born Lived a man who sailed to sea And he told us of his life In the land of submarines So we sailed up to the sun Till we found the sea of green And we lived beneath the waves In our yellow submarine We all live i

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Barack Obama Begins 2nd Term as President From VOA Learning English, this is IN THE NEWS in Special English. This week, Barack Obama began his second term as president of the United States. The public swearing-in ceremony took place on Monday at the

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Romney Begins Vice Presidential Search With his Republican rivals either out of the race or low on money, Mitt Romney now seems to be on a glide path toward the Republican presidential nomination. Romney is increasingly turning his attention to Presi

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...an estimated 1.5 million American children - about 3 percent of the school-age population - won't be going anywhere as schools open for the fall term. Before 1918, when Mississippi became the last U.S. state to require that school-age children att

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(SOUNDBITE OF VALERIE JUNE SONG, JUST IN TIME) SCOTT SIMON, HOST: The passage of time weaves through Valerie June's new album, The Order Of Time. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, JUST IN TIME) VALERIE JUNE: (Singing) Take my breath away and you put me down, teach

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Let's look first. The fresh water that we depend on begins its life in the oceans. As the sun's rays beat down on the surface of the sea, they heat the water molecules until some evaporate. It's the start of an extraordinary journey. Here with water

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By Phillip Wellman Abidjan 24 October 2007 Government authorities in Ivory Coast have announced that an investigation into the country's cocoa and coffee sectors has officially begun. President Laurent Gbagbo called for the inquiry last week, followi

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Colombian authorities on Monday released scores of decomposing cadavers for burial as rescuers continued their race against time to find survivors following devastating floods and landslides that wreaked havoc in the southern city of Mocoa. Desperate

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Beijing is to play host to a ministerial meeting between officials from China and the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States, or CELAC. The two-day forum will begin on Thursday. A dialogue across continents. The first China-CELAC forum will

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By Noel King Khartoum 18 April 2007 Sudan's traditional society paired with a strict Islamic government means that HIV and AIDS are not often discussed in the public arena. Now, in an effort to stem the spread of the disease, the government is partne

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On a bridge across the Severn on a saturday night, Susie meets the man of her dreams. He says that he got in trouble and if she doesn't mind He doesn't want the company But there's something in the air They share a look in silence and everything is u

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Indonesia's presidential election race has begun. Although many voters and political analysts in the country expect the popular President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to win re-election, there are concerns about the running mates of his main rivals. The

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China's first domestically-built aircraft carrier has set out from a port in Liaoning on its maiden voyage to start sea trials. The 50,000-ton vessel, codenamed Type 001A, is the second aircraft carrier launched by China. It follows the carrier Liaon

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