THE MAKING OF A NATION - October 24, 2002: Election of 1968 By Jeri Watson VOICE 1: This is Stan Busby. VOICE 2: And this is Rich Kleinfeldt with THE MAKING OF A NATION, a VOA Special English program

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Negotiators on Capitol Hill say they're making progress toward agreement on a plan to rescue the financial system, a plan that includes the key elements proposed by Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson. But House Republicans, including Eric Cantor of Vi

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The tributes are pouring in today for 77-year-old Senator Edward Kennedy, who died last night following a year-long battle with brain cancer. Speaking at his rented vacation home in Martha's Vineyard, President Barack Obama called Kennedy the greate

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模仿文本: Exploraton is always bold and always fraught with risk, from Antarctica to the boundaries of space, from President Kennedy's famous speech at Rice University to the conquest of the Moon less than seven years later, from today's intern

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John Kenneth Galbraith, 1908-2006: He Strongly Influenced Economic Thought in the United States for Many Years VOICE ONE: I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I'm Barbara Klein with PEOPLE IN AMERICA in VOA Special English. Economics is a field based on m

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VOA Learning English presents Americas Presidents. Today we are talking about Lyndon Johnson. He was the vice president under John F. Kennedy. Many Americans recognize Johnson from a photograph of his swearing-in on November 22, 1963. Kennedy had jus

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1.President Barack Obama got down to work today, his first full day in office. Officials say he called a number of leaders in the Middle East, telling them he'll work to consolidate the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. 2.Treasury Secretary-design

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PEOPLE IN AMERICA - Walter Cronkite, 1916-2009: A Trusted TV Newsman STEVE EMBER: I'm Steve Ember. SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: And I'm Shirley Griffith with PEOPLE IN AMERICA in VOA Special English. WALTER CRONKITE: And that's the way it is ... And that's the

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LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: OK. Have you heard the joke about Trump's White House? Every day is take your kid to work day - boom. While that joke is actually making the rounds, it references a real legal issue which has come back into focus because of

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My motherin-law, Eunice Kennedy ShriverI always like to mention her, because it gets me on the good side of hershe, for instance, started an organization called Special Olympics. She stared Special Olympics which is for people with mental disabilitie

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And I think in the final analysis, it depends upon what we do here. September 26th, 1960Millions of Americans tune in to watch presidential candidates debateon television for the first time. Squaring off in Chicago, Massachusetts Senator John F. Kenn

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America and the second world war 美国和第二次世界战争 The workshop heroes 车间里的英雄 A tribute to the unsung workers 致敬无名工作者 MacArthur had help engineering victory 麦克阿瑟将军曾对工程师的胜利作过贡献

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VOICE ONE: I'm Faith Lapidus. VOICE TWO: And I'm Bob Doughty with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today we visit the Arabesque festival at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. This three-week event brings eight hundred

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UN Raises Record Aid Amounts for Tsunami Victims 联合国增加对海啸受难者的援助 The United Nations says international donors have committed $700 million in immediate aid to victims of the

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1.A massive fire North of Los Angeles has doubled in size, burning nearly two dozen homes and threatening thousands more. It's among at least eight fires currently burning in California. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has issued emergency declaratio

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September 26th, 1960And I think in the final analysis, it depends upon what we do here. Millions of Americans tune in to watch presidential candidates debate on television for the first time. Squaring off in Chicago: Massachusetts Senator John F. Ken

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November 29th, 1963, President Lyndon B. Johnson names a commission to investigate President John F. Kennedy's assassination in Dallas. The bipartisan panel,chaired by Chief Justice Earl Warren, becomes known as the Warren Commission. It later conc

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SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Two presidents of Egypt have been ousted after often violent street demonstrations since the Arab Spring, but a law passed in November now bans any protest that is not sanctioned by the Egyptian government as part of the broad crac

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WASHINGTON, June 23 (Xinhua) -- NASA's next Mars rover has completed the journey from its California birthplace to Florida in preparation for launch this fall, the U.S. space agency said Thursday in a statement. The Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) rove

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永恒经典的英语名主题,今天再说一下。不过,今天的新角度,可能是你不知道的;比如Bill, Billy这些名字,其实都是William的小名。而Jack则来自John;Elizabeth这个女王名,更是可以变出10多个相关

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