Broadcast: Jan 28,2003 Four schools around the United States are taking part in a project that honors women pioneers in the arts, sports, media, and other fields. The program is designed to inspire st

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Wedding Celebrations Held in Streets Across Britain For those not lucky enough to get an invitation to the royal wedding itself, there were thousands of street parties across Britain on Friday. With the day declared a public holiday, many people dres

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ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Tiffany Studios is known for its stained glass lampshades. But Louis Comfort Tiffany and his artisans did a lot more than that. One of the lesser-known aspects of their work is on display at the Corning Museum of Glass in western N

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Unit 93 Metrosexual Man If you haven't heard the term yet, one of the hottest buzzwords in the media today is metrosexual. Arnold Schwarznegger is a metrosexual -- as are Brad Pitt, and soccer superstar David Beckham. And some social observers believ

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Above, because the Ice Bank's underbelly spread over us like an immense ceiling. 船上面,因为冰山的下层冰面遮起来,像宽阔的天花板。 Below, because the somersaulting block, shifting little by little, had found points of purcha

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By Michael Bowman Buenos Aires 29 October 2007 Argentina has, for the first time, elected a woman president. Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, the current first lady and a senator, will take the reins of power from her husband, outgoing President Nesto

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By Teresa Sullivan Washington 30 May 2006 US football goalie Kasey Keller The U.S. Men's National Soccer Team heads to Germany this week for the 2006 World Cup to compete with 31 other nations for the sport's ultimate prize. This will be the first t

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SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Police departments across the U.S. are using electronic databases to store intelligence on gang activity. These databases have been heralded by police as a crime fighting tool. But some activists in Chicago claim they do more harm

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Japans government says the total cost of the damage caused by the tsunami could reach 25 trillion yen or U.S. $309 billion. 日本政府说,这次地震海啸造成的经济损失可能高达3千零90亿美元。 Reconstruction could boost economy

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It's been 50 years since the classic novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, was published. Set in a fictional town in the American South in the 1930s, Mockingbird is one of the best-loved books in the United States. Its story of a failed quest for racial just

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As African communities develop and modernize, proponents of traditional medicine are evolving new faces of the practice to keep up. Naomi Seck reports from a holistic healing center in Senegal's capital, Dakar, where traditional healing practices ar

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By Penelope Poulou Washington 03 October 2009 Michael Moore in a scene from his new movie, Capitalism, A Love Story In his new documentary Capitalism: A Love Story, Director Michael Moore turns his lens on one of the most contentious subjects in Ame

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