Unit 13 Part B Reality TV Around the Globe Reality TV shows have taken the world by storm. 'Survivor', 'Big Brother' and other shows have drawn hundreds of millions of viewers to the screen. It was in Europe that all this started. The first series of

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IN THE NEWS - Anti-Doping Agency Seeks to Ban Four Top Runners By Cynthia Kirk Broadcast: Saturday, June 26, 2004 This is Steve Ember with In the News, in VOA Special English. Tim Montgomery This week

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US Police Officials Examine Use of Force Rules 美国警官审查武力使用规则 From VOA Learning English, this is In The News. 美国之音慢速学英语节目,这里是时事新闻。 The Obama administration has established a federal task f

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A jury has found a man who threw his four-year-old daughter off Melbourne's Westgate Bridge guilty of murder. Arthur Freeman was found guilty after the jury deliberated for five days. The jury members had earlier told the judge they would not be able

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This is AP News Minute. A Baltimore officer was acquitted Monday of an assault and other charges in the arrest of Friddie Gray. The judge in the non-jury trial concluded Edward Nero did not play a large role in Gray's arrest. Gray died from injuries

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1. The NTSB has concluded that pilot mismanagement caused ASIANA flight 214 to crash while landing in San Francisco last year. The board also took the unusual step of faulting the complexity of the Boeing 777s auto throttle, saying confusion over the

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1. Former Vice President Al Gore hopes the Nobel Peace Prize will elevate global consciousness about the challenges of global warming.Gore snare d the prize along with a network of scientists. Advisers say the award is not likely to push Al Gore into

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This is AP news minute. 1. A jury has convicted Dylann Roof in the racially motivated slayings of nine black parishioners in a South Carolina church. The jury will return in January to consider if Roof should be sentenced to death for the June,2015 a

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THE MAKING OF A NATION - American History: The 1990s STEVE EMBER: Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION -- American history in VOA Special English. Im Steve Ember. This week in our series, we take a look at life in the United States during the last decad

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AS IT IS 2014-12-12 Have Police Incidents Hurt Americas Image? 弗格森案有损美国的国际形象 People around the world are again talking about race relations in the United States. Recently, two U.S. grand juries decided not to recommend legal

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New Violence Hits Ferguson, Missouri An American grand jury ruling has resulted in new violence in the city of Ferguson, Missouri. The jurors decided not to charge a white police officer who shot and killed an unarmed African American teenager last A

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June 21st, 1964In Philadelphia, Mississippi, three civil rights workers disappear while trying to help blacks register to vote. Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Chaney are ambushed and killed by Ku Klux Klansmen. Six weeks later, their bod

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Todd: Most countries' lawyers have to pass a certain exam. To be a lawyer in this court system do you have to pass some special exam? Katia: Actually, well first you have to be a lawyer from a particular country. Then after that you study human right

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GWEN IFILL: The uproar over another grand jury's decision not to indict is making itself felt coast to coast.We start in Staten Island, where Eric Garner lived and died, and where members of the grand jury reside. The borough is also home to many of

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The triumph of a culture of honor helps to explain why the pattern of criminality in the American South has always been so distinctive. 荣誉文化的胜利解释了为什么在美国南部犯罪模式一直是如此独特。 Murder rates are higher

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(Thanks) very much. The long awaited inquest into the death of Diana, Princess of Wales and Dodi Al-Fayed has begun at the high court in London. The jury will determine how the couple died more than 10 years ago in a car crash in Paris. Two separate

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今天我们要学的词组是felony。 Felony的意思是重罪, 通常指谋杀, 盗窃财物等判刑一年以上的严重犯罪活动。 切尼付总统的前办公厅主任Lewis Libby被控在中情局特工身份泄密案的调查中撒谎。

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今天我们要学的词是infringe. Infringe 是侵权的意思。A Japanese court ruled that Samsung's synchronizing technology that allows media players to share data with personal computers did not infringe on Apple's patents. 日本一家法院裁

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September 21st 1998They did not constitute sexual relations as I understood that term to be defined.TV networks air President Bill Clinton's federal grand jury testimony about his relationship with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky. During hi

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July 25th, 1956Disaster and rescue on the High Seas of the North Atlantic off the coast of New England. The Italian liner Andrew Adoria collides with the Swedish passenger ship Stockholm, killing at least 51 people. Most on board the Andrew Adoria su

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