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When I say telecommuting, do you picture yourself easing into the workday in a pair of fuzzy slippers? Well, so does your boss. But the reality is, youre both dreaming. Because a new study shows that folks who work at home at least some of the time,

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By June Soh Washington, DC 26 January 2006 watch Asian Grocery report Asian food markets in the U.S. are thriving, as they serve a growing number of diverse customers. This report is narrated by Cryst

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Elizabeth Lee 20 April 2010 Demographers say the ethnic makeup of the United States is evolving. They expect to see more Hispanics in the 2010 census. And they say the idea of a majority group in the U.S. will disappear within the next few decades. I

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By Lisa Bryant Paris 05 February 2007 More than half of blacks living in France say they face racial discrimination, according to the first-ever survey on the country's black population. The findings are troubling for a country that has long prided i

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President Barack Obama talks with Gelberg Signs employee Elaine Hart during his tour of the facility, Friday, Aug. 6, 2010, in Washington. President Barack Obama says the U.S. unemployment report for July shows some encouraging signs, even though the

VOA标准英语2010年-Fish 'Cell Phones' Track Marine Life

A unique array of underwater listening devices stretches 3,000 kilometers along the west coast of North America to track marine life along the continental shelf. It's like giving fish a cell phone, says Pacific Ocean Shelf Tracking (POST) executive d

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The European Union representative to the Central African Republic said the commission has made available more than $15 million to fund the country's presidential and legislative elections. This is raising hope the polls will be held in January 2011,

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By Lisa Schlein Geneva 24 October 2009 A refugee girl in Dodel, a Mauritanian refugee camp in Senegal (file photo) The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees says it has begun the final stage of the organized voluntary repatriation of Maurita

VOA常速英语2007-Baby Boomers Make Plans for Retirement

By Priscilla Huff Washington 02 October 2007 The United States is well-known for its youth-obsessed culture, but in reality there is a huge generation of so-called baby boomers --Americans born after World War Two. They number some 80 million people

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The U.S. Labor Department reports the unemployment rate in the United States rose last month to 8.9 percent. It was the highest rate since 1983, but the number of jobs lost was not as large as expected. 美国劳工部报告称，上个月美国的失业

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The new Race Relations Report 2007 shows that New Zealand is becoming more multi-cultural and we are also feeling more comfortable about immigrants from different ethnic backgrounds. Maoris represent about 15% of the population, Asians nearly 7% and

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This year, the number of mobile phones on cell networks is expected to surpass the Earth's population. More people now own cell phones than actually have access to working toilets. James Meadow, a microbial ecologist at the University of Oregon. Hidd

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Scientists on Thursday released results of a landmark study to record the diversity of life in and around Australias reefs. The scientists from the Census of Marine Life have reported finding hundreds of new species of marine life off two islands on

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By Delia Robertson Johannesburg 16 August 2007 South Africa's former Law and Order Minister, Commissioner of Police and three former police officers will appear in court Friday on charges of the attempted murder of a leading anti-apartheid activist

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The Statistics Department has just given us the figures for how people commute to work. They gave percentages of people who drive, walk, cycle or take public transport to work. These figures come from the census in 2006. Every five years, we have a c

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By Derek Kilner Nairobi 10 April 2008 The New York-based organization Human Rights Watch has warned that the Sudanese government may be using militia groups on the border between northern and southern Sudan to disrupt or influence the national census

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By Derek Kilner Nairobi 12 December 2007 Southern Sudan's main political party has said its ministers will rejoin a national unity government. As Derek Kilner reports for VOA from Nairobi, a dispute between North and South over the status of the disp