Christmas Celebrations Underway Around the World It is an annual tradition in Thailand -- elephants dressed as Santa Claus on parade, handing out toys to school children. And it is not just the children who get excited. Oh this is the best day of the

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This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Over half the world's people now live in cities. The latest Global Report on Human Settlements says the historic change took place last year. The report came out this week from U.N. Habitat, a United

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Discussing donations, fighting fires, and parking withoust people, all that's coming up. We start this Uesday edition of CNN Student News with new developments in 2 stories we've told you about recently. First, the nation of Turkey. Yesterday we repo

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It's the end of the month, the end of the week, and the start of a new day of CNN Student News. I'm Carl Azuz. Firt up. Three suspicious letters. One was sent to President Obama; the other two were sent to New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and to an o

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Death just isn't what it used to be. Once a month, followers attend mass at the Santa Muerte Shrine and pray to the so-called Death Saint, often depicted as a skeleton dressed in a black cloak and carrying a scythe, or in a long flowing white gown.

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NASA Spacecraft to Study the Sun Up Close The United States space agency will launch a spacecraft to explore the sun more closely than ever before on Saturday. NASAs Parker Solar Probe will fly through the hot solar atmosphere and come within just 6

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The United States space agency will launch a spacecraft to explore the sun more closely than ever before on Saturday. NASAs Parker Solar Probe will fly through the hot solar atmosphere and come within just 6 million kilometers of the suns surface. Th

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AS IT IS 2016-05-23 Former Vietnamese Refugees Find Success in US 一越南难民在美国取得成功 David Duong and his family were rescued at sea after fleeing Vietnam in a small boat at the end of the Vietnam war. We almost, you know, died in th

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ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Five years ago, a husband and wife opened a bookstore in Ann Arbor, Mich. Michael and Hilary Gustafson called it Literati. And, almost on a whim, they did something that would make them famous in the town. MICHAEL GUSTAFSON: We bas

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ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: There's a lot about the sun that remains a mystery. NASA plans to send a probe into space Saturday that will get closer to the sun than ever before. NPR's Nell Greenfieldboyce reports it stands out in another way, too. NELL GREENFI

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释义: Thinking alike or understanding something in a similar way with others.与某人想法一致或者在理解事物的方式上一致; 来源: The origins of this phrase are unclear, 这个词组的来源不是很清楚;however, one cou

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Good morning everyone. The world's two biggest bear makers are said to merge in one of the largest takeover deals in the world. South African brewer SAB Millers has accepted a 145 billion dollar takeover offer from Belgium's Anheuser-Busch. SAB Mille

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Death just isn't what it used to be. Once a month, followers attend mass at the Santa Muerte Shrine and pray to the so-called Death Saint, often depicted as a skeleton dressed in a black cloak and carrying a scythe, or in a long flowing white gown. S

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By David McAlary Washington 01 March 2007 The U.S. space agency NASA says two new spacecraft orbiting Earth are giving scientists an unprecedented ability to track storms on the sun all the way to Earth. As VOA's David McAlary reports from Washington

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converge v.会聚,集中于一点 conversant adj.精通的,熟知的 convert v.使改变(信仰等)n.改变信仰的人 conversion n.转变,皈依 convertible adj.可转换的,

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CHONGQING, July 22 (Xinhua) -- A total solar eclipse was viewed at 9:15 a.m. in many places along the upper stream of China's longest river of the Yangtze. The moon shadow fully blocked the sun, and gazers could clearly enjoy the aura of solar corona

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NEW DELHI, July 21 (Xinhua) -- The fully-packed, high-profile visit to India by the United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ended Monday mid-night, with the announcement by the U.S. and India of the inking of some key strategic pacts betwee

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The founder of Corona beer has left 2 million pounds ($3.3 million) to every single resident of the impoverished Spanish village he grew up in, sparking jubilant celebrations. 科罗娜啤酒创始人为他的出生地、西班牙一个贫困的村子里

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Chinese health authorities are moving to quell fears of a possible MERS outbreak in the country, saying the likelihood of a mass outbreak remains low. The Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention has issued a new set of statements, noting th

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The sequencing has been accomplished by the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention in cooperation with the health department of Guangdong Province, where the case was reported on May 29th 2015. The genome map of the virus shows high homolo

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