The California state assembly recently approved the so-called Paris Hilton bill, which bars dogs from occupying the drivers seat in a moving vehicle. The bill passed because Democrats wanted to make an example of Miss Hilton. They think she is a litt

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Obama Appeals to Public About 'Fiscal Cliff' Obama took his campaign to a toy factory near Philadelphia on Friday, asking middle-class workers and business leaders to press Republican lawmakers to pass his tax plan. And if we could just get a few Hou

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经典语境背诵 May:Daniel casually spits the gum around which makes me angry. Only in Beijing, people consume 300,000 pieces of gum every day. If all the people spit out the gum like Daniel does, the city would become a big trash can. The 2008

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图片1 Are you a chip off the old block? Are you similar to any relatives that came before you? In this episode we are talking about family, and how often family members look alike and act alike. There are many ways to talk about this, and some espe

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Wal-Mart is asking a federal appeals court in San Francisco to dismiss a sex discrimination lawsuit. A lower court ruling allowed a class-action case to move forward. It involves more than 1 million current and former female employees of the world's

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Dialogue. Okay, we're interviewing Robert today about his bubble wand, and the other things that he likes to do outside. Okay Robert, what did you find when you came home from school today, that I had bought you? I found a bubble sword. A bubble swor

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This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. This week, China delayed an order to require Internet-filtering software in all new personal computers. News of the delay turned a planned Internet boycott into an all-day celebration at a restaurant in Be

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By Phuong Tran Dakar 22 May 2007 In Central African Republic, one of the main rebel groups is negotiating to disarm hundreds of its child soldiers. This comes one month after it signed a peace deal with the government to put down its weapons and join

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Firefighters in California are making progress against 30 major wildfires still burning around the state. Since the end of June, crews have contained more than 2,000 blazes in what officials have called the biggest fire episode in California's histo

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With nearly 1.2 million children, the New York City public school system is the largest in the nation. Until recently, the Big Apple had one of the worst per capita high school dropout rates in the country, especially in the city's low-income neighb

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By Scott Stearns White House 28 May 2008 A controversial new book by former White House Spokesman Scott McClellan says President Bush's decision to invade Iraq five years ago was a serious strategic blunder. VOA White House Correspondent Scott Stearn

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Terrorism Fears Prompt Call for Restrictions on Publishing Virus Research 美国政府要求两期刊不公开H5N1病毒研究细节 The U.S. government has asked two scientific journals not to publish key details of a federally-funded experiment tha

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Writing Program Supplements US Public Education For almost 10 years, a unique non-profit organization called 826 has been helping students across the United States become better writers by tapping into their creativity. Founded in San Francisco by th

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Pope Benedict Declares John Paul 'Blessed' More than a million people descended on Rome to take part in the beatification ceremony of the late Pope John Paul II. Throngs of people jammed Saint Peter's Square, the boulevard leading up to it and nearby

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By Peter Heinlein Addis Ababa 25 October 2007 Ethiopia and Eritrea are blaming each other as a commission set up to adjudicate their border dispute prepares to finish its work without finding a mutually acceptable settlement. VOA's Peter Heinlein rep

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By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 24 February 2008 A nascent floriculture industry in India is cashing in on growing demand for roses overseas. Anjana Pasricha has a report from New Delhi. It was just over a decade ago that a handful of entrepreneurs bega

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Facebook To Raise $5 Billion From Initial Public Offering With more than 800 million users worldwide, Facebook is second only to Google as the most visited website on the Internet. But with plans to raise an initial $5 billion from its first IPO, ana

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By Derek Kilner Nairobi 14 March 2008 Kenya's president has announced the formation of a commission to investigate the country's disputed December elections. But as Derek Kilner reports from Nairobi, there are doubts about how effective such an inves

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Young MBAs Compete to Solve Global Problems Solving the worlds most pressing social challenges takes passion, dedication, innovation and a good business plan, which is the idea behind the Hult Global Case Challenge. Hult International Business school

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By Kent Klein Washington 13 November 2009 President Obama speaks to US troops on way to Asia, 12 Nov 2009 President Barack Obama has told U.S. troops he will not send them into conflict without adequate support. The president spoke to a military aud

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