After dinner that night, the family gathered in the den. Henry said, How can we go about trying to find out more about Celia? Even Mr. Farley doesnt know and he was her neighbor. Well, in her letter to her father she said she was going to Bromley to

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Suddenly, Benny sniffed. I smell something sweet like perfume. I smell it, too, Jessie said. Its like roses, Henry said. Its coming from the living room, Violet said. The children hurried into the living room. There they saw something they didnt expe

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[00:51.32]So tell me. How was Hawaii? 夏威夷好玩吗? [00:53.76]- It was unbelievable. - Oh, yeah? -太赞了 -是吗? [00:57.68]- Well, what happened? - I met this guy. -有艳遇啦? -我遇到一个男人 [00:59.52]It was the best week o

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Economics Report - Nobel Prize in Economics Recognizes 'Market Designer 经济报道 - 2012年诺贝尔经济学家认可市场设计领域 From VOA Learning English, this is the Economics Report in Special English. 这里是美国之音慢速英语经

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Starting things for us this September 18th, the United Nations General Assembly. It's a branch of the U.N. and it's the big one. All 193 members of the United Nations are part of the general assembly, and they're having their general debate starting

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The next morning, the Aldens got up and fixed a breakfast of orange juice, cold cereal, toast with strawberry jam, and milk. When they had eaten and cleaned up the kitchen, they ran down to the boxcar. It was almost the same as when they had lived in

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By Matt Steinglass Hanoi 30 August 2007 In March, when Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt adopted a Vietnamese child, they created one of the biggest media circuses the country had ever seen. But while they were surely the most famous foreigners to adopt i

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VOICE ONE: I'm Shirley Griffith. VOICE TWO: And I'm Steve Ember with the Special English Program, PEOPLE IN AMERICA. Every week, we tell about a person who played an important part in the history and culture of the United States. Today, we tell abou

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AS IT IS 2016-09-22 U.S. Mistakenly Offers Citizenship to Hundreds 美国错误地向数百人提供公民身份 A United States government agency mistakenly offered citizenship to over 800 immigrants who had been ordered to leave the country. 一家美

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First Lady's New Hairstyle Creates Buzz When Obama took the official oath of office Sunday, the gray in his hair was noticeable. But it was the first lady's hair that was creating all the buzz - with her new haircut featuring bangs. People magazine d

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Global financier George Soros will give $100 million to Human Rights Watch. U.S. financier George Soros has made a $100-million matching grant to Human Rights Watch through his New York-based Open Society Foundations. The global recession has taken a

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Conversations Between 2 20th-Century Icons Inspires A New Play AILSA CHANG, HOST: Andy Warhol and Truman Capote were giants in their respective fields, but you might not know that they started working on a Broadway play together. They never finished,

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ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: We're going to hear now how doctors in Europe used genetically engineered skin cells to treat a child who was on the verge of death from a rare inherited disease. The treatment represents a notable success for the field of gene t

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ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: This is the day in 1954 that the Supreme Court issued its famous ruling desegregating schools, Brown versus Board of Education. Today, schools remain largely segregated, and the author Richard Rothstein argues that's because housin

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RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: It would be one of the Washington area's biggest construction projects in years. The FBI is hoping to move out of its aging headquarters and into a safer, more modern campus somewhere in the D.C. suburbs. One of the real estate c

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ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Even if you're prepared for it, there's a moment of shock the first time you hear Anthony Roth Costanzo start to sing. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED BROADCAST) ANTHONY ROTH COSTANZO: (Singing) Oh, round desire... SHAPIRO: Costanzo is a co

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By Larry London Washington, DC 09 August 2006 watch Dobbie Brothers report Dobbie Brothers For more than 35 years, theDoobie Brothers have been Taking it to the Streets with their unique style of guitar driven rock music. VOA's Larry London recently

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By Rory Byrne Phnom Penh 14 April 2008 Cambodia has temporarily banned marriages between foreigners and Cambodians because of concerns over the rising number of brokered unions involving poor, uneducated women. The move follows the publication of a r

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An estimated eight million people in Britain enjoy rambling in the Peak District every year. But what many who enjoy outdoor pursuits don't know is that their right to roam was won by men who sacrificed their own freedom to gain access to the country

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Though studies show that telling people that payment encourages organ donations increases support for legalising payments, other examples work in the opposite way. 尽管研究表明,告诉人们付款鼓励器官捐赠增加了对合法化支付的支

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