1. The United Nations mission in South Sudan says it is relocating all noncritical staff from the capital, amid escalating violence. The latest violence in the worlds newest country has killed hundreds and has world leaders concerned about war. 2. Ex

发表于:2018-12-01 / 阅读(141) / 评论(0) 分类 美联社新闻一分钟2013(十二月)

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: We are in the middle of open enrollment for the Affordable Care Act. It goes until December 15. People can sign up for health insurance plans under Obamacare. And holiday health insurance shoppers are finding something new this y

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By Lisa Schlein Geneva 04 August 2007 The United Nations Children's Fund says it is concerned that tens of thousands of primary school children in flood-stricken parts of Pakistan will miss out on school, because it has not received much-needed fundi

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By Naomi Schwarz Dakar 11 December 2007 Education officials and donors are meeting with representatives of international organizations this week in Senegal to discuss plans and progress towards the U.N. Millennium Development goal of universal primar

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This is the VOA Special English Education Report. College enrollment has reached an all-time high in the United States. About forty percent of all eighteen- to twenty-four-year-olds -- or almost eleven and a half million -- were in school in October

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AS IT IS 2013-05-23 Pollution Forces Residents from California Town Hello. Im Jim Tedder in Washington. Welcome to a special edition of As It Is. Seventeen years ago, an American energy company paid hundreds of millions of dollars to settle legal cla

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Humanities Fight to Survive in Hi-Tech World Tim Clark is a senior at Amherst College, a small liberal arts school in western Massachusetts, where hes studied Latin, Greek and archeology. Thanks to those classes, he says, hes not the same person he w

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Kenya's capital, Nairobi, is home to Kiriri Women's University of Science and Technology (KWUST), the only university in East Africa that caters specifically to women. Officials and students say having an all-famale environment better prepares the sc

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Iowa's Make-Believe University Has Fans Worldwide The Midwest farm state of Iowa is so proud of its string of blue-water lakes - the Okoboji Lakes - that it calls them Iowa's Great Lakes. They're ringed by resorts, marinas, and fishing cabins. And th

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Oil Boom Crowding North Dakota Schools 石油繁荣让北达科他州学校拥挤起来 WILLISTON, NORTH DAKOTA The oil boom in North Dakota and Montana has brought a flood of people to once sparsely-populated rural towns. The rapid pace of expansion

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DAVID GREENE, HOST: States are already preparing for changes that might come if the Republican replacement for the Affordable Care Act passes. That replacement bill, known as the American Health Care Act, is still working its way through Congress. An

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ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Open enrollment for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act doesn't start for another six weeks. But the insurance startup Oscar Health launched an ad campaign today aimed at getting young people to enroll. The company decid

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Rates Up 22 Percent For Obamacare Plans, But Subsidies Rise, Too play pause stop mute unmute max volume 00:0003:57repeat repeat off Update Required To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash

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DAVID GREENE, HOST: All right, consumers who buy their insurance through the Affordable Care Act markets might be pleasantly surprised about their premium costs come this fall. The price of premiums could actually drop in several states, as NPR's Ali

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Clinics Provide US Health Care Enrollment Help 美国诊所提供医疗保险注册帮助 HOUSTON The debate over the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, continues. But the White House says improvements to the website have dramatically boos

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Policy Cancellations Threaten Promise of Obamacare 美平价医保令许多人望而却步 While technical problems with the web site have plagued the initial implementation of the Affordable Care Act -- President Obama's health care program, there a

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In India, Mid-Day Meal Deaths Prompt Increased Scrutiny NEW DELHI Police in northern India this week charged a principal with murdering 23 children, who died in July after eating a school lunch contaminated with pesticide. The tragedy has prompted th

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By Barbara Schoetzau New York 13 November 2007 A new study shows significant increases in foreign language study in the United States since 2002. From VOA's News York bureau, correspondent Barbara Schoetzau reports Arabic is leading the surge. The su

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Haiti Struggles to Begin Free Public Education One out of every two Haitians is illiterate. Haiti's President, Michel Martelly, has made free public education one of his top priorities. On the first day of school in Haiti, adding to the normal chaos

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On The Navajo Nation, 5,000 Workers Dependent On A Federal Paycheck SCOTT SIMON, HOST: The Navajo Nation president says that Congress should exempt the tribe from the partial federal government shutdown. Historically, treaties have guaranteed the Nav

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