By Parke Brewer For an athlete who had hoped to be a baseball player, Felix Sanchez is doing quite well. He had to turn to athletics after breaking his hand in an off-season wrestling match. The injur

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(106) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA2004(下)--雅典奥运

Studies: Americans Sicker than Citizens of Other Developed Countries 研究表示美国人花在看病的钱比其他发达国家公民多 WASHINGTON Americans have the most expensive health care system in the world, although they don't have the most

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??Have you ever played Follow the Leader? Its a game where one child is the leader and the other boys and girls have to follow him in a line and jump if he jumps, and turn around if he turns around, etc. Whatever they see the leader do, the follo

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By Kari Barber Bensonville, Liberia 30 May 2008 African countries have some of the worst maternal mortality rates in the world. Lack of hospitals, lack of road access and transportation and lack of trained medical personnel are all reasons cited by h

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SCOTT SIMON, HOST: George Moses Horton published a book of poetry in 1829, when he was still a slave in North Carolina. He went on to write several volumes, which never earned enough money for him to buy his freedom. He was finally set free by the Un

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I salute combatants of Umkhonto we Sizwe, like Solomon Mahlangu and Ashley Kriel, who have paid the ultimate price for the freedom of all South Africans. 我向民族之矛的战士们如所罗门马赫兰古和艾希莉柯瑞尔致敬,他们为了全

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AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: What does prenup mean? That's a question from listener Muhammad Ali in Karachi, Pakistan. RS: A prenup is a prenuptial agreement, a contract between two people before they marry a

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2nd Corinthians哥林多后书_2Co_03 1Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or do we need, like some people, letters of recommendation to you or from you? 2You yourselves are our letter, written on our hearts, known and read by everybody. 3You sh

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Art seems to be a very personal thing, as far as what a person does and doesn't like. You must have found that, at some point in time, you have been in a place where all of a sudden you come across a piece of art that you absolutely love. That happen

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97 反奴役压迫的女性领袖哈瑞特·塔伯曼 PEOPLE IN AMERICA - September 30, 2001: Harriet TubmanBy Jeri Watson VOICE ONE: I'm Shirley Griffith. VOICE TWO: And I'm Ray Freeman with the Spec

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By Paul Sisco Washington, DC 30 August 2006 watch Katrina Rescued Animals One year ago thousands of people fled New Orleans and surrounding areas because of Hurricane Katrina. Many left behind beloved pets. This is the story of one, named Faith. ---

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Kenyan Vivian Cheruiyot Ready for Olympic Gold At one-point-six meters and barely 39 kilos, Vivian Cheruiyot may not appear to be much of a threat. But she has proven to be ferocious on the track. The 28-year-old Kenyan is the current womens world ch

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KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: City planning is portrayed as a contact sport in the new documentary Citizen Jane: Battle For The City. The film is about activist Jane Jacobs, who fought New York's master builder, Robert Moses, when he was at the height of his

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Topics: Famous Americans: Grandma Moses; GED Tests, since versus from, is to do (something), calligraphy versus penmanship Words: rural folk sporadic postcards to pick apples nave primitive Moses equivalency dropout home schooling is to do (something

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The Story of Moses, the Leader of the Jewish People 犹太民族领袖摩西的故事 Some time during the twentieth century before our era, a small and unimportant tribe of Semitic shepherds had left its old home and moved westward, trying to find n

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