VOICE ONE: Im Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And Im Shirley Griffith with PEOPLE IN AMERICA in VOA Special English. Today we remember six interesting people who died in the past year. We begin with two writers. VOICE ONE: John Updike John Updike once said t

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If you want a job that carries prestige, look down the block to the nearest firehouse. Firefighters ranked as the most prestigious occupation according to the latest Harris Interactive Poll. Almost tw

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Angelina Jolie has beaten the likes of Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai, Hillary Clinton and even the Queen to be named the most admired woman in the world. 近日,安吉丽娜朱莉(Angelina Jolie)击败诺贝尔和平奖得主马拉拉

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1. Congress is set to vote today on last week's budget deal which last until September. Next, lawmakers will start the budget battle for 2012, which maybe a tougher fight than this fight that almost shut down the government. Republican and White Hous

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Now, add more, let's, let's continue emotional cheating here for a second, (Yes. )alright? It, it hit a nerve with those people. What'd the women in the poll say? Which would bother them more, emotion

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调查显示:沃尔玛最能代表美国 Half the respondents of a new poll say taxing the richest Americans by at least 50 percent is a great idea, while more than a third consider Twitter a fad that will likely fade. Those are among the findings

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退休后去哪里?澳洲最受青睐 Australia ranks tops for retirement Australia is the country most workers and retirees around the world would like to live in 20 years' time, an international survey found. Australia is the country most workers

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A majority of Americans now say the United States needs a third major party, according to a poll issued last Friday. 据上周五发布的一份民调显示,大多数美国人现在都认为美国需要第三个政党。 Currently, 57 percent of Am

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傻瓜们使用手机请注意 The jury is still out on the relationship between cell phone use and brain tumors. But the American Association of Neurological Surgeons has issued a statement to remind people that cell phones present lots of other r

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TOKYO, Dec. 13 (Xinhua) -- Japan's main opposition party, the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), is likely to win nearly 300 seats in the House of Representatives election held on Sunday, according to the latest poll released Thursday. The LDP, headed b

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British family spends 49 minutes together every day According to the latest survey by NSPCC, busy mums and dads in Britain manage to spend just 49 minutes in every 24 hours with their children and each otherhardly enough time to share a meal. The sur

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At present, the National development and Reform commission conducted a massive online poll. The May Day Golden Week will be cut from three days to one day. Different people have different opinions. Some think that it is necessary to cut the May Day G

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大部分非裔美国人不满社会医疗 WASHINGTON, July 18 (Xinhua) -- Over half of African Americans feel dissatisfied with the societal treatment of their race, though they are more satisfied now than during the time from 2001 to 2008, a Gallup

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Laura Pollan 劳拉普兰 Laura Pollan Toledo, teacher and human-rights campaigner, died on October 14th, aged 63. 劳拉普兰托莱多 教师和人权活动家,于10月14日去世,享年63岁。 THE house at 963 Calle Neptuno, in the centre of

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A woman may not always gets what she wants... but she may stand more chance if she waits until 6 pm to ask for it. This is the time when a man is likely to grant a loved one's wishes, according to a poll。 Men should avoid rowing with their wives du

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WASHINGTON, July 24 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Barack Obama and the U.S. Congress are both seeing a decline in support as rising frustration over the political gridlock in Washington has damaged public faith in them, according to a Wall Street Journa

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WASHINGTON, Sept. 3 (Xinhua) -- The majority of Americans still oppose launching military strikes against Syria while the Obama administration is trying hard to secure lawmakers' support, according to an ABC News-Washington Post poll released Tuesday

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Every year the BBC asks its TV viewers to give money to a special appeal called Children in Need. The money is used to help charities which work with sick or disadvantaged children. The last Children in Need day was last Friday. For the whole evening

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Demian by Hermann Hesse 5) The Bird Fights Its Way Out of the Egg My painted dream bird was on its way searching for my friend. In what seemed the strangest possible manner a reply reached me. In my classroom, on my desk, after a break between two le

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CNN radio, I'm Paul Chambers. Voting in the Louisiana, GOP primary is well under way, CNN's Joe Johns is in New Orleans, and he says so far turn out is light. Very slow, we are in the Jefferson Parish area at *, and we've been watching, actually ther

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