An American nonprofit group called Justice Rising is working to educate young people in areas where conflicts are taking place. The United Nations Childrens Fund or UNICEF says the California-based group is one of many organizations struggling to mee

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Topics: The Lenny Bruce Trial; American Cancer Society; to assume versus to guess; turtle versus tortoise Words: satirist to hone obscenity to ban censorship freedom of speech to declare bankruptcy cancer nonprofit screening test to diagnose to fund

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By June Soh Baltimore, Maryland 25 January 2007 watch Mental Health report Michael Freeman, a former Harbor City Services employee, now has his own business Finding a job can be extremely difficult for those who are psychologically disabled or recov

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This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Week after week, we bring you stories about projects to improve lives in the developing world. Projects like banking by mobile phone or low-cost lighting systems or even a toilet bag that recycles i

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By Paul Sisco Washington 26 September 2007 Nicholas Negroponte is the founding director of the Media Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. And he is chairman of a nonprofit organization aiming to provide inexpensive computers to ch

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Almost a century ago, in 1914, the U.S. Congress set up a network of county agricultural agents who showed small farmers how to modernize their methods. This Agricultural Extension Service helped make American farms the most productive in the world.

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Nonprofit Makes Environmentalism Part of Schools' Curricula DENVER Getting teens to do their homework? Good luck! Getting them outside and into the mountains to research solutions for environmental problems? That, it turns out, is not that difficult.

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今天我们要学的词是 nonprofit。Nonprofit 做为名词,意思是非盈利性机构。The financial crisis dealt a blow to the nation's nonprofits. 金融危机使美国的非盈利性机构受到了打击。最新报道显示,YMCA came up

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By Jeffrey Young Washington 12 June 2007 To most Americans, the governments in their towns and regional areas, called counties, are the governments they interact with the most. And alongside these local governments are groups of citizens who work on

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就业难成了困扰毕业生的大问题。为了能得到一份工作,有些同学甚至提出零工资就业。这种方法可取吗?事实上,美国的学生们也面临着同样的问题。 While the idea of volunteering to work for a com

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Despite how hard I try, I have been unable to land a new job. I have been thinking about volunteering to work for a company for free for 30 days so they can see how I perform. Hopefully they will then hire me. Do you think this is a good idea? M.T.,

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今天我们要学的词是 real estate. Real estate 房地产。Real estate heir Robert Durst was arrested last Saturday in New Orleans. 房地产富豪之子罗伯特.杜斯特上星期六在新奥尔良被抓捕。17 nonprofit organizations urged

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