This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. President Richard Nixon used to say that the first civil right of every American is the right to be free from domestic violence. That was forty years ago, a time of civil disorder and high crime. Domestic

发表于:2018-12-07 / 阅读(54) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA慢速英语2009年(二)月

This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS, in VOA Special English. I'm Bob Doughty. VOICE TWO: And, I'm Shirley Griffith. This week, we will tell about what is said to be the largest study yet of a treatment for Parkinson's disease. We will also tell about a stud

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Female Senators Lecture Military Chiefs on Sex Assault A recent documentary alleges the military is crawling with sexual predators, and a new Pentagon report shows a 35 percent rise in cases of unwanted sexual contact in the last two years. Both have

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US Military Officials Call Sex Abuse In Ranks Serious Problem Sexual misconduct in the ranks remains a problem despite recently enacted preventive measures, making it clear that the military alone cannot solve it. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said a

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UN Peacekeeper Immunity Challenged 联合国维和人员豁免权受到挑战 A new initiative has been launched to block U.N. peacekeepers from being granted immunity when accused of sexual exploitation and abuse. At least 50 such alleged incidents

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Review Exercise 1 : To have a friend, be a friend. CD 3 Track 51 Take the repeated phrase in the following application steps. Apply each concept indicated there, oneat a time and in the sequence given. Read the sentence out loud two or three times, c

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MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: We're going to spend the next few minutes talking about one of the other major stories of recent months - excuse me - sexual harassment. In a few minutes, we'll hear a perspective on how religious institutions struggle to deal wi

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RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: When sexual assault is reported to law enforcement, a majority of cases never make it to trial. But student victims have another option. They can report it to their universities under Title IX, the federal law that prohibits gend

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STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Some other news now, jury selection in the criminal trial of Bill Cosby begins in Pennsylvania today. It's a year and a half since Cosby was charged with felony counts of sexual assault over a 2004 encounter, which Cosby contends

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Rape Allegations Against Actor-Director Nate Parker Resurface AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: The Birth Of A Nation, a new movie based on the story of Nat Turner's slave rebellion in 1831, was poised to be one of the breakout films of the year. The same was sai

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He Witnessed A Rape In 1969. He's Finally Ready To Talk About It MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: We're going to return to a difficult and - for some people - a traumatic subject that's been much in the news. We're talking, here, about sexual abuse. We're finall

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By human standards, a few vertebrate species have incredible longevity. Some tortoises live for nearly 200 years. Bowhead whales can live even a decade or two longer. But now theres a new champion: the Greenland sharkwhich conservative estimates have

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Everybody knows that the Catholic Church has been shaken in the past few years by scandals involving the sexual abuse of children. There may even be a general suspicion among some people that Catholic priests are more likely to abuse children than ot

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these prostitudes found themselves extrodinary wealthy in a short period of time . a prostitude claimed that she made 50,000 dollars in a period of just a few month. which is much more so then these gold learners. often times, u found the prostitude

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HEALTH REPORT- World AIDS Day 2004 Focuses on Risk to Women and Girls By Cynthia Kirk Broadcast: Wednesday, December 01, 2004 I'm Gwen Outen with the VOA Special English Health Report. December first

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And theres growing unrest within the prime ministers backbench over the governments plan to change tax breaks, given the property investors. The PM has repeatedly slammed Labors proposed negative gearing changes, predicting they would smash the housi

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The music may be familiar theme songs from movies and TV shows but listen carefully to the lyrics and you will find that they have one thing in common. These songs are used to educate young people about sexual and reproductive health. As the Qixi Fes

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Topic 1-Skyrocketing Housing Price in China A recent property listing shows a 6-square-meter pigeonhole apartment in the city of Shenzhen has been priced at eight hundred and eighty thousand Yuan or a hundred and thirty three thousand US dollars. Yea

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Thailand's Space Agency has released more possible evidence of debris from the missing Malaysia Airlines plane. The satellite images show up to 300 objects floating in the southern Indian Ocean, where Flight 370 is thought to vanished. The search res

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SARAH MCCAMMON, HOST: As the name of our show suggests, we do like to consider all things on this program, which is why we want to warn listeners that the conversation we're about to have might not be appropriate for all listeners because we'll be sp

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