Chen is in America. His American friend, Daisy, suggested having lunch with him at a restaurant. C: Why's that waiter so angry? D: Those people who just left didn't seem to give him any tip, which mad

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by Mignon Fogarty People often ask how to use ellipses, those little dot-dot-dots you often see in e-mail messages. For example, Mitra from Michigan asked, When is it appropriate to use '...' in writing? People use it all the time, and it seems like

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By Tendai Maphosa London 28 May 2008 Amnesty International marks the 60th anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights with a report finding, among other things, that, despite decolonization, Africa has not seen many promi

发表于:2019-01-07 / 阅读(113) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2008年(五月)

By Dan Robinson Capitiol Hill 16 March 2007 Former undercover CIA officer Valerie Plame, who has been at the center of a controversy involving the role White House officials played in revealing her identity, has testified in public for the first tim

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By Robert Raffaele Washington, D.C. 23 July 2007 Baseball fans around the world have watched Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants pursue a date with destiny. The Giants' home run slugger first eclipsed Babe Ruth's home run total of 714, then set h

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Russia's U.N. envoy has defended his government's decision to recognize two breakaway Georgian provinces, saying Tbilisi's attack on South Ossetia earlier this month canceled existing U.N. resolutions that assure Georgia's territorial integrity and

发表于:2019-01-13 / 阅读(119) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2008年(八月)

A young Afghan journalist, convicted of blasphemy, has had his death sentence overturned. But the appeals court ordered the reporter to spend 20 years in jail for distributing an Internet article criticizing the Prophet Mohammed's views on women. VO

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Southern African ministers Thursday opened a meeting in Cape Town, South Africa aimed at drafting a plan to help Zimbabwe's economic recovery. The recently installed unity government reportedly has requested $2 billion in aid for this year from the

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Bolivian President Evo Morales has declared victory in a recall vote, in which exit polls showed he received more than 63 percent of ballots. Initial returns also indicate that five of eight governors in the recall also won the votes needed to remai

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By Jim Randle Irbil, Iraq 06 October 2006 U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice held talks Friday with Massoud Barzani, president of the Kurdistan Region in northern Iraq. The secretary's stop in Irbil was a continuation of her effort to get Iraq

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GUIYANG, April 26 (Xinhua) -- The extraordinary effects of Chinese herbal medicines have fueled foreign interest in launching research projects into the profitable and interesting field in recent years. Xia Wen, director of the academic department of

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By Tom Rivers London 06 December 2006 Initial reaction from London has been positive to the 79 recommendations outlined by the bipartisan U.S. Iraq Study Group, which presented its report to U.S. President George Bush. For VOA News, Tom Rivers repor

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SYDNEY, Jan. 25 (Xinhua) -- Huawei Technologies, on Monday asked a U.S. District Court to prevent Motorola(摩托罗拉) from illegally transferring Huawei's intellectual property (IP) to Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN), officials of Huawei told Xinhua

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By Brian Padden Irbil, Iraq 17 August 2007 The death toll from a series of suicide attacks on Iraq's Yazidi sect on Tuesday continues to rise. Officials now estimate at least 400 people were killed and hundreds more wounded when four truck bombs expl

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Flip Reverse Blazin' Squad [All] Hey (yeah) i wanna see you work it baby, I want you to be my lady, I love the way you move your body, ooooh you drive me crazy... [Flava] I'm a do it real good if you know how i felt, we could take it downstairs, like

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By Lisa Schlein Geneva 08 October 2007 The World Health Organization says more than three-quarters of a million people in 19 countries, most in Africa, will receive life-saving anti-tuberculosis drugs over the next year and a half. It says UNITAID, a

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By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 06 March 2008 In Sri Lanka, an international panel invited to monitor the investigation of human rights abuses has quit. Another human rights group has also attacked the government for its rights record, calling it one of

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Lippi denies Drogba move GUANGZHOU, China, Oct. 11 (Xinhua) -- Chinese super league champions Guangzhou Evergrande coach Marcello Lippi denied the link with Shanghai Shenhua and Cote d'Ivoire striker Didier Drogba, the Italian said on Thursday. I kno

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Cuban judoka wins Ippon trophy HAVANA, Oct. 29 (Xinhua) -- Cuban judo star Maricet Espinosa won the Ippon trophy at the 2012 World Team Judo Championships held over the weekend in northeastern Brazil's city of Salvador de Bahia, local media reported

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By Alisha Ryu Nairobi 12 October 2009 Somalia's al-Shabab extremists have renewed their threat to launch attacks on Kenya. This time, the threat follows allegations the Kenyan government is recruiting ethnic Somalis in northeastern Kenya to fight al

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