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14.Loving and Hating New York Thomas Griffith 1 Those ad campaigns celebrating the Big Apple, those T-shirts with a heart design proclaiming I love New York, are signs, pathetic in their desperation, of how the mighty has fallen. New York City used t
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By Carolyn Weaver New York City 24 September 2007 Summer in New York is a season of outdoor festivals, and although summer is mostly over, one arts festival continues to the end of September. The River to River Festival was founded in 2001 to lift th
Immigrant nannies. Stroll through any residential Manhattan neighborhood and you'll see these private child-care providers walking hand in hand with their young charges, feeding them, comforting them, taking them to the park. What is life like for th
By Martin Phillips New York 26 September 2009 An artist's rendering of New York City when it was New Amsterdam Four hundred years ago this month, Henry Hudson, looking for a sea route to Asia, sailed into what is now New York Harbor. His arrival is
Giants Football Team Gets Ticker Tape Parade An estimated one million New York Giants fans lined the streets of Lower Manhattan Tuesday for a ticker tape parade up Broadway. With confetti, office and toilet paper raining from skyscrapers, the winning
New York City's Post-Sandy Cleanup Crawling In the aftermath of superstorm Sandy, New York city is dealing with water in tunnels, electrical conduits, and in the basements of major financial institutions. On Tuesday, the Brooklyn Bridge was covered w
ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: In 2011, the novelist Jennifer Egan won the Pulitzer Prize for her book A Visit From The Goon Squad. Years before it came out, Egan began researching New York City in the 1930s and '40s. And that research wound up in her new nove
Im running over the Williamsburg Bridge in NYC. It connects Brooklyn to downtown Manhattan. Its one of my favorite places to run, cause the views are great. Until you look all the taxis and trucks spewing(喷出) exhaust always makes me wonder, is th
Saber-tooth died out, but another big cat survived. The puma may have been more able to adapt because its diet is more varied and includes small prey. The grizzly bear also lived through the post Ice Age changes and now thrives in North America. Once
Downtown L.A., the ultimate modern American city, but Los Angeles skyscrapers are built over the graves of thousands of extinct Ice Age beasts. Today all we have are memorials to these vanished animals, but imagine if they had survived into the prese
To find the answers, we need to rewind history around 14,000 years to a time when the first people set foot in North America. The continent was about to undergo a profound change, a change these new arrivals may have played a part in. Throughout the
But even on its own, a mammoth was still highly dangerous and an attack required stealth and teamwork. One of the hunters may have acted as a decoy, distracting the animal while others surrounded it. These hunters had another trick up their sleeve. U
The same signs appear in young male mammoth tusks, but those living in North America at the end of Ice Age laid down their stress rings three years earlier than usual. In other words, it seems that young males were leaving the herd at an earlier age.
But there is a problem with the idea that hunting caused the mass extinction. Mammoths were not the only animals to disappear. Camels survived for millions of years in North America, but disappeared around the same time as the mammoths. Wild horses f
...and may trace their ancestry all the way back to the first dogs to enter North America. The Carolina dogs are pack animals with a strick hierarchy topped by an alpha male. Like most wild dogs, they hunt in groups. But many of the kills they make a
By the mid 1800s, the horse and the cowboy had come to symbolize the wild west. And of course, with the cowboys came cattle. As the bison quickly vanished from the landscape, cattle filled their place. Meanwhile increasing numbers of the tame horses
今天我们要学的词是divided。 Divided, 存在分歧的。New Yorkers are evenly divided over whether the five alleged 9/11 plotters should be tried in Manhattan, 策划九一一恐怖袭击的五个嫌疑人是否应该在曼哈顿受审?对此
今天我们要学的词是sound off。 To sound off about something, 有抱怨的意思。 Local residents sounded off about plans to cut library hours, 当地居民对缩短图书馆的开放时间表示不满。 The player sounded off about the te
Todd: Now, Mike, you lived in New York City. That's really, really cool. I think New York's a fantastic city. I've never lived there, but I visited New York many times. What was it like living in New York City? Mike: Uh, like you said, there's a lot