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发表于:2018-12-02 / 阅读(348) / 评论(0) 分类 CNN美国有线新闻2016年8月

Music Fans Mourn Country Legend George Jones In 1955, Jones recorded Why Baby Why, his first hit for Starday Records. Born in Saratoga, Texas, he began performing in local clubs at age 10. In the late 1940s, he worked as a disc jockey at various radi

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New Earth-Size Planet Found 地球大小的新行星被发现 Not too big, not too small. Not too hot, not too cold. A newly discovered planet looks just right for life as we know it, according to an international group of astronomers. 不太大又不太

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RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: As President-elect Donald Trump prepares for his inauguration, the federal ethics laws are showing their age. They were written for an earlier time, when rich politicos invested in commodities like paper or just stocks and bonds.

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By Doug Levine Washington 03 April 2007 A string quartet that plays jazz? How about a Grammy Award-winning string quartet that plays jazz? VOA's Doug Levine fills us in on the Turtle Island Quartet, whose latest album pays tribute to jazz legend Joh

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Welcome to my living room. It's not a womb, it's not a tomb, not a June bright over December gloom. Carole King is about to embark on a Living Room tour. Miss King intends to try to make large concert venues like Radio City Music Hall, Cape Cod's Me

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Korea has strong Buddhist and Shamanist roots. For many centuries, it was known as the hermit kingdom because of its resistance to outside influences. But in the last 50 years, Christianity has taken hold in South Korea. The number of Christians has

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By Rory Byrne Phnom Penh 28 April 2007 The first textbook written by a Cambodian on the history of the Khmer Rouge has been published by the Documentation Center of Cambodia. Previous accounts of the Khmer Rouge era have all been written by foreign s

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By Shilpi Jha Washington, DC 27 September 2006 watch Indian Comics report Millions of comic books are sold in the United States each year. Some are bought by children, but many are sought by young adults who grew up reading about their favorite supe

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A former U.S. diplomat and a leading analyst on Somalia says the power and influence of the al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab group are diminishing, not increasing as some U.S. intelligence officials have recently warned. In an article featured in this mont

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The United Nations refugee agency says it is concerned about the fate of hundreds of irregular migrants, including asylum seekers and refugees, following the closure of a makeshift camp in the Greek city of Patras. The UNHCR says it fears many of th

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By Scott Bobb Johannesburg 16 January 2007 In Botswana, several dozen San, or Bushmen, have returned to their ancestral homeland after a court ruled that they were wrongly evicted by the government. The government says it will respect the court's de

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By Michael Drudge London 15 May 2006 British Prime Minister Tony Blair says his country's criminal justice system is in disrepair, after judges gave freedom to a group of Afghan hijackers, and a convi

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Beginners. It's very interesting going to another country and experiencing the culture, even if the people from that country speak the same language. Among English speaking nations, there are well known differences. Our accents are different, of cour

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Indonesia has denied final appeals for three men on death row convicted for deadly bombings on the island of Bali in October, 2002. Chad Bouchard reports from Jakarta. Imam Samudra, Ali Ghufron and Amrozi Nurhasyim at jail in central Java, during de

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By David Gollust Washington 03 January 2007 Bush administration officials said Wednesday the United States raised concerns about the procedures and timing of the Saddam Hussein execution last Saturday. But they insisted also that justice was done in

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A Word Warrior: Maxine Hong Kingston 文字勇士:汤婷婷 Kingston was born in Stockton, California 1940, she was the 3rd of eight children to a Chinese immigrant parents, and the first to be born in America. Her American name, Maxine, was after a

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Here! Boy 乖乖,看这! Point at a ball and a dog will look at the ball, whereas a cat will probably look at your hand. Dogs seem to have a ready understanding of how human beings direct attention by pointing, and can follow our gestures almost

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Ultraviolet Fish 带紫外线的鱼儿 So you want to attract a mate . After all, passing on your gene s is what evolution is all about. To do that you need offspring , and to get a lot of those you need to be attractive. The flash ier the better. He

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Pareidolia 幻想性视错觉(Pareidolia)是一种心理现象,主要表现为将模糊、随机的图像赋予实际意义,比如看到像动物的云朵、像中国地图的石头、像人脸的树干纹理等等。简单来说就是会把一

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