One Ohio community remained stunned after this mornings school shooting. A student has died, four others wounded in that shooting at a northeast Ohio high school this morning. From member station WCPN in Cleveland, Bill Rice has these details. Police

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As if our veterans don't have enough to deal with, now an outrageous story from CNN affiliate KSDK. Dental assistants at this St. Louis VA hospital may have been exposed or may have exposed, rather, more than 1800 of our vets to HIV or hepatitis. How

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The Secretary of the US Army delivers a stinging indictment today against those accused of sloppy record keeping at Arlington National Cemetery. And John McHugh tells the families of those resting in that hallowed ground that he is deeply sorry. Toda

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1. Possible bribery and kickbacks at the General Services Administration. The agency's independent inspector general told a congressional hearing that he is leading multiple investigations. Meanwhile, a central figure in the GSA spending scandal asse

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AS IT IS 2015-05-25 Memorial Day: Arlington National Cemetery 阿灵顿国家公墓举行阵亡将士纪念日 Memorial Day is a national holiday observed in the United States on the last Monday in May. It is the day when Americans honor the women an

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AS IT IS 2016-08-23 Memorial Bridge Needs Repairs in America's Capital 美国首都纪念大桥需要维修 A famous bridge over the Potomac River is badly in need of repair. The Memorial Bridge connects Washington, D.C. with Arlington County in Virg

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AS IT IS 2016-07-15 Ocean Swallowing West African Coastline 海洋吞没西非海岸线 Water, the saying goes, will find its way. And so it seems to be the case in West Africa. Rising sea levels and erosion along the coast are threatening the homes

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AS IT IS 2016-06-11 World Bids Farewell to Muhammad Ali The Greatest boxer in history, Muhammad Ali, was laid to rest in his hometown of Louisville, Kentucky on Friday. Friends and family transferred a red casket carrying Ali from a funeral home to a

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Other normal physical differences explain why some may love the dizziness associated with a loop-de-loop, 另外的一些正常生理现象的区别则解释了为何有些人喜爱转圈带来的眩晕感, while loathing the stomach-drop sensation

发表于:2019-01-17 / 阅读(50) / 评论(0) 分类 TED演讲教育篇

From the CNN Center in Atlanta. Im Josh Levs. Thanks for checking in with us. Heres a look at whats happening NOW IN THE NEWS. We are getting some new videos from Pakistan. This amateur video shows former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto just

发表于:2019-01-26 / 阅读(58) / 评论(0) 分类 商业报道2008年(一)月

And now let us go to the opposite end of the world. 现在让我们来到世界的另一端, To India and then to China, so that we can find out what was going on in these vast lands at the time of the Persian wars. 来到印度,然后去中国,这

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To be nearer to their stars, and also to see them better in a misty land, 为了离他们的星星近一点,也为了在这个多雾的地方看星星看得更清楚些, the Babylonians, and the Sumerians before them, erected strange buildings wi

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Graveyard Girl Death is her boyfriend She spits on summers and smiles to the night She collects crowns made of black roses But her heart is made of bubble gum Graveyard girl Dark rags and red stars She's the dirty witch of her high school She worship

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Jim plays golf down in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. The course was built right next to a cemetery. One of the greens is right next to the fence that separates the golf course from the cemetery. One afternoon,

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Hollywood acting legend Elizabeth Taylor was given a small, private funeral(葬礼) Thursday at Forest Lawn cemetery outside Los Angeles, the same cemetery where her good friend, entertainer Michael Jackson was buried. Taylor's family and close f

发表于:2019-02-08 / 阅读(62) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

1. President Bush spent his final Veterans Day while in office, aboard a World War II aircraft carrier. He stood in the shadow of the USS Intrepid and met two veterans there. He'll miss being commander in chief of such a fabulous group. 2. Meanwhile

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And if you don't find the highest expression of your talent, if you settle for interesting, 而且如果你找不到你才能的最高表达,如果你在有意思这里止步不前, what the hell ever that means, do you know what will happen at t

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❤ 模仿文本:Officials in Vienna have announced the discovery of old Jewish tombstones that were hidden underground during the Second World War to preserve them from destruction by the Nazis. 20 headstones have been found in Vienna's Seegasse c

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Hello, everyone, I am Creshon Saunders at the CNN. com newsroom in Atlanta. Here is a look at what's happening NOW IN THE NEWS. Rising waters breach a levee flooding a neighborhood just north of downtown Des Moines, Iowa. About 270 homes and busines

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Hello, and welcome back to As It Is from VOA Learning English. Im Jerilyn Watson in Washington. Today on our program, we note the 150th anniversary of The Gettysburg Address. It is one of the most famous and most beautiful speeches ever given in the

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