The U.S. Center for Citizen Diplomacy says individual Americans have the right and responsibility to help shape U.S. foreign relations. This month, it hosted a summit in Washington with the goal of getting more Americans to do just that. 美国公民外

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AS IT IS 2016-09-26 Travel Blogger Criticized for Fun Trip to North Korea A popular travel blogger is being criticized for writing only good comments and posting fun videos from a trip to North Korea. British world traveler Louis Cole posted the vide

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Secret Monitoring Clouds 9/11 Proceedings It was a bizarre twist in a case that has dragged on for years after the September 11 attacks in the effort to bring Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other accused co-conspirators to justice. Prosecutors were

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Alan Silverman Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet co-star in a bittersweet romance from the fertile imagination of screenwriter Charlie Kaufman, whose previous films include Being John Malkovich and Adaptati

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By Aya Batrawy Cairo 21 March 2008 In a weekend-long celebration, Egyptians acknowledge the Prophet Muhammad's birthday late Thursday with prayer and gatherings in celebrations similar to those taking place in other parts of the Muslim world. Aya Bat

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Kenyan soapstone carver Elkana Ong'esa has earned an international reputation for his carvings. His sculptures adorn the entrances of the United Nations building in New York and UNESCO's headquarters in Paris. Now a new work will be unveiled soon at

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In the four centuries since Romeo and Juliet was first performed, Shakespeare's tragic tale of star cross'd lovers has been recast into formats from high school comedy to musical theater. Now, at long last, we have the whimsical Disney version in a n

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Bicycles Brought Sense of Freedom for American Women 自行车为女性带来平等自由 One of the underappreciated but significant developments on the road to women's emancipation in the United States was the introduction of the bicycle. The signi

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纽约市民庆祝中国传统新年 According to ancient legend, a mythical beast would emerge on the night before new year, and devour the inhabitants of a small Chinese village. 相传,每到除夕一头中国古代神话中的怪兽就会出现,

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'He's Not A Leading Man': A Casting Director On Rembrandt's Self-Portraits DAVID GREENE, HOST: Los Angeles is pretty star struck these weeks before the Oscars, as usual. But over in nearby Pasadena, a crowd of art lovers is visiting this 400-plus-yea

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NOEL KING, HOST: Literature often reflects the times in which we live. And there's a recent trend in literature for young people that deals with one of the world's biggest crises - the global wave of refugees. Now, books that tell the story of the re

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BEIJING, Nov. 21 (Xinhuanet) -- Oscar winners Tim Robbins and Adrien Brody will join the cast of Chinese director Feng Xiaogang's famine-themed epic film 1942, according to Variety.com. The production company responsible for the project, Huayi Brothe

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By Katherine Cole Washington 15 December 2007 Two decades ago, Texan Steve Earle rode into Nashville and released a debut album full of songs that set him apart from most of the other performers who wanted to be country music hitmakers. Few in Nashvi

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By Tendai Maphosa London 10 December 2007 The Anglican Archbishop of York took a dramatic step to protest human rights abuses in Zimbabwe, removing his bishop's collar and cutting it to pieces on a live television broadcast Sunday. Archbishop John Se

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As speculation continues over the health of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, there are new signs the North is advancing its decades-old ballistic missile program. VOA's Kurt Achin reports from Seoul. Private sector intelligence analysts have made pu

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This is the simulation of the final moments before President Kaczynski's plane crashed. What you can hear is real. A technical error meant the crew thought there were more than 100 meters above the ground. There were no survivors. The official invest

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An opera company from Belgium will stage a classic one-act opera in Beijing on Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings. The opera, named Midnight in Paris, centers on a desperate young woman who lives in the 1950s. Naomi Beeldens is the young Belgian

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More than 70 people including 29 children are now known to have died in a suicide bombing in the Pakistan city of Lahore. The bomber detonated the explosives near a playground in a park where Christians gathered for Easter Sunday. Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, a

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Although there has been much debate about whether race has a biological or social basis, the bottom line is that race is a psychological reality for many people. That is, many folks assign other individuals to racial categories based on their appeara

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Fairy tales can always bring back our innocent childhood. Hollywood is now going to profit from our nostalgia. The next year, two different versions of Snow White would come out. The one is played by Kristen Stewart and the other princess would be Li

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