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From NPR News in Washington, Im Louis Givorni. As midnight deadline approaches, President Obama is signaling that a budget deal to avert the fiscal cliff is within side, but NPRs Scott Horsley reports that there are still details to air out. Presiden

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EXPLORATIONS - The Erie Canal Helped America Grow BOB DOUGHTY: Im Bob Doughty. MARIO RITTER: And Im Mario Ritter with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. In the early eighteen hundreds, traveling in the United States was dangerous. Business and trad

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In the isolated Torajan valley, this is the season for death. Most funerals come after the rice harvest in late summer, early fall. For Torajans, funerals are their most important ceremony. After a person dies, months go by before the actual funeral.

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During this period the fish Conseil and I observed differed little from those we had already studied in other latitudes. 康塞尔和我在这个期间所观察到的鱼类,跟我门在别的纬度下研究过的,并没有多大差别。 Chief am

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2、名词复数的不规则变化 沿用古英语复数形式,例如: toothteeth牙齿 footfeet脚 goosegeese鹅 oxoxen牛 mousemice老鼠 womanwomen妇女 manmen男人 childchildren孩子 louselice虱子,寄生虫 单复同形,常见的单复

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By Parke Brewer Phoenix 01 February 2008 The National Football League continues to try to grow the popularity of its sport outside the United States. VOA Sports Editor Parke Brewer reports from Phoenix that the league has announced that team owners h

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1.The families of those who died in the crash of flight 3407 are getting a look at the site where their loved ones perished.50 people were killed last week when the plane dropped out of the sky onto a house near Buffalo. 2.President Barack Obama and

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This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Next week is the one hundredth anniversary of the Paris Air Show, the biggest in the world. It takes place every two years, and organizers say even with the economic downturn they expect a full house. Airb

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This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. In nineteen ninety-four, animal health experts started a worldwide campaign to end rinderpest. This disease is closely related to the measles virus but it does not infect people. Yet for thousands o

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Pro-tobacco Forces Still Strong in Many Countries A study that compiled data on three billion tobacco users worldwide, including thousands of face to face interviews, shows that global tobacco use is greatly influenced by the pro-tobacco lobby. The s

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Youve Heard of The Birth of the Blues Heres one of those word-association games. If we said waltz, youd probably think of Vienna, Austria. Closer to our home, if we said Dixieland, New Orleans, Louisiana, would likely rush to mind. Country music? Nas

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Authorities think so, and they've designed simulators that shake, rattle, and roll Ted Landphair | Washington DC 25 March 2010 U.S. space agency simulators help prepare airplane pilots for crisis situations. But critics say they don't adequately repl

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ManVersusBeastinRemoteCornerofRwanda Nearly seventeen years after civil war and genocide devastated Rwanda, the country is mostly peaceful, and the economy is growing fast. But in the eastern countryside, a kind of conflict still rages. Wild animals

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September 9th, 1971Inmates seize control of the Attica Correctional Facility in upstate New York. After a four-day siege, police and guards storm the maximum security prison near Buffalo. The ordeal leaves 32 inmates and 11 prison employees dead with

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Day breaks in Sanaa, Yemen as the call to prayer rouses the inhabitants of this ancient city as it has for hundreds of years. This capital city, nestled at an elevation of over 7,000 feet in the Yemeni highland, is one of the oldest continually inhab

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U.S. President Barack Obama has offered his condolences to the families and friends of the 50 people killed in Thursday night's plane crash near Buffalo, New York. Mr. Obama addressed the tragedy in a speech to business leaders. 美国总统奥巴马向

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Cockroach Milk: Yes. You Read That Right SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Is there a time in the future when the voice of a barista might ring out, latte with cockroach milk? Pour a cup of coffee while we tell you about the female Pacific beetle cockroach. She doe

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September 9th, 1971Inmates seize control of the Attica Correctional Facility in upstate New York. After a four-day siege, police and guard storm the maximum security prison near Buffalo. The ordeal leads 32 inmates and 11 prison employees dead with h

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Topics: Buffalo Soldiers; Famous Songs: Oh My Darling, Clementine; to be concerned about/in/with; to erase versus to delete; how do you say... for written English Words: buffalo regiment park ranger prejudice to disband darling miner to drown to exca

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