Words and Their Stories: You Do Not Have to Be a Rocket Scientist 词汇典故:这没什么难的 Hello. I'm Phil Murray with WORDS AND THEIR STORIES, a program in Special English. 大家好,我是Phil Murray。今天由我给大家带来美国之音

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Technology Report - Bahrain and Belarus Added to an Enemies of the Internet List This is the VOA Special English Technology Report. A media rights group has added to its list of countries with the most restrictions on Internet freedom. At the same ti

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Activists Urge Lifting of HIV Travel Bans Marma Palma is an Aboriginal HIV/AIDS advocate from New Zealand who has been living with the virus for 19 years. She defiantly traveled to the U.S. six times while the entry ban for HIV-positive persons was i

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Late Cherry Blossoms Disappoint Washington Tourists Snow mixed with rain greeted visitors to the Jefferson Memorial and the adjacent Tidal Basin. Photographer Judy Young was hoping to snap shots of the city's famous cherry blossoms, covered with snow

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[00:00.00]UNIT 3 [00:07.51]Lesson 9 [00:12.46]Exercise 1.3 [00:15.03]I live in a very beautiful country [00:17.52]in Western Europe. [00:19.51]For many people [00:20.91]it is the fashion capital of the world. [00:24.03]There is delicious food here [0

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I went to the dentist to get a check-up and cleaning. I showed up at the dentist's office a few minutes before 10. I gave the receptionist my name and told her that I had a 10 a.m. appointment. She said that the doctor was running a little late and t

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More Than One Way to the Square We were standing at the top of a church tower. My father had brought me to this spot in a small Italian town not far from our home in Rome. I wondered why. Look down, Elsa, Father said. I gathered all my courage and lo

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AMERICAN MOSAIC -July 12, 2002: Balloonist Steve Fossett / Songs by Rosemary Clooney / Question About Actor Bruce Lee HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC — VOA’s radio magazine in Special English. (T

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This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS, in VOA Special English. I'm Bob Doughty. VOICE TWO: And, I'm Shirley Griffith. This week, we will tell about what is said to be the largest study yet of a treatment for Parkinson's disease. We will also tell about a stud

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AS IT IS 2013-05-29 A Call for Citizen Scientists to Help Map CO2 Gas Welcome to As It Is, the daily magazine show from VOA Learning English. Im Mario Ritter. A music video shot in space? That is now a reality. Today, we hear how Skylab led the way f

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Technology Report - Scientists Develop Smartphone App for Eye Exams This is the VOA Special English Technology Report. More than two hundred eighty million people around the world have vision problems or are blind. The World Health Organization says

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A Pakistani court has upheld the detention of nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan and barred him from ever speaking about nuclear proliferation. VOA's Barry Newhouse reports from Islamabad that government lawyers say the ruling silencing the confess

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Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni met with top Egyptian officials, Thursday, amid escalating violence in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip. Livni vowed that Israel would strike back at Hamas, because the situation had become unbearable. Egyptian Pr

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北京国际设计周将揭开序幕 Beijing Design Week will kick off on Thursday, with Florentijn Hofman's Rubber Duck landing in waters of the Summer Palace from Beijing's Garden Expo Park. As one of the main attractions of the week, the Rubber Du

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By Benjamin Sand Islamabad 15 July 2007 A wave of deadly attacks in Pakistan is raising fears of a widespread militant backlash days after government forces raided a radical mosque in the capital. Suicide bombings in Pakistan's tribal areas have kill

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In Somalia, militant Islamist factions are testing the resolve of the country's new interim president, who was sworn in Saturday pledging to restore governance in a society torn apart by nearly two decades of civil war. The parliamentary election of

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London Fashion Week 伦敦时装周 Rags to riches 朱门华裳 British fashion is becoming more hard headed 英国时尚产业跨入高端大气上档次时代 The Delevingne effect 卡拉迪瓦伊的美女效应 WITH its whirl of frocks, models and

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Listen to the statements and fill in the blanks below. 1.My father is 58 years old. He's an accountant in the government financial department. He was born and lives in Mexico. His name is Robert Dias. 2.My best friend is Anderson Brown.She's an Itali

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BEIJING, Oct. 6 (Xinhuanet) -- Secluded in the mountains for hundreds of years, the Kongshen Miao ethnic group remained little known until 1996, when their unique costumes came under the spotlight(聚光灯) at a festival in Rongjiang county, Gui

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The weeks leading up to Christmas are a busy time for most New Zealanders. We celebrate the end of the school year with concerts or prize giving ceremonies. There are office parties too to celebrate the end of year with work mates. Anyone who belongs

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