The Senate will take up a Democratic plan denied to raise the debt limit high enough to get passed next year's election. NPR's David Welna reports House Republicans are proposing a rival plan that would require an increase to the debt ceiling early n

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The US and Russia have an agreement for each nation to scale back nuclear arsenals by a third. After months of deadlock, today president Obama announced a landmark deal to replace the 1991 Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty which expired in December. To

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From NPR News in Washington, I'm Giles Snyder. President Obama heads to Congress tonight for his first State of the Union address. The economy will dominate but the speech also comes during a difficult time politically for the president. NPR's Don Go

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The Gulf Coast is still not recovered from Hurricane Katrina, which struck five years ago today. President Obama spoke at Xavier University in New Orleans a short while ago and made this promise. On this fifth anniversary, I wanted to come here and t

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A German official said Tuesday the country can sustain up to 500,000 or more newasylum-seekers or more every year, a comment that comes as hundreds of thousands of people from war-torn countries across the Middle East and Africa are making their way

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Lesson Twelve Pre-class Work Read the text a third time. Learn the new words and expressions listed below. Glossary altitude n. the height of a place above sea level anticipate v. to expect that sth.

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Leaders in Europe are trying to prevent another debt crisis with the new money plan. This is needed because some European countries are spending much more money than theyre taking in. Theyre running on huge debts. And because they are using the same

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10.Current Challenges and Risks 10.目前的挑战和风险 The world economy is going through the most challenging economic and financial stress in generations. 世界经济正在经历多年来最具挑战性的经济和财政压力。 The Internat

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Schroeder: Germany Ready to Contribute to Iraq's Reconstruction Ruth Elkins In a short news conference after a working dinner in Berlin Thursday evening, Mr. Schroeder said Germany is ready to contrib

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Vaccines are desperately needed in the developing world. Even when theyre available and inexpensive, theres still a major problem: most vaccines need to be refrigerated. Reaching the relevant populations often means traveling to areas where electrici

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1. It's the latest storm to threaten the southeast. Hurricane Ike is barreling toward islands near the southern Bahamas. Florida's governor says he's making sure relief supplies are ready in case Ike hits the state next week. 2. Tropical Storm Hanna

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Japanese officials have decided to legally enforce an exclusion zone within 20 kilometers of the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant starting at midnight Thursday. Japan's Kyodo news agency reports that Prime Minister Naoto Kan will announce the new res

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So, you're going to see Apple proactively focusing much more on these two markets where it is very relevant. And both of these markets are growing over 20% a year. Now Apple share is shrinking in these markets slowly, but I think you're going to see

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Russia, once the world's third largest wheat exporter, is returning to the international grain market after a one-year gap caused by severe crop losses. Moscow stopped selling wheat last year after catastrophic fires and drought destroyed one-third o

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A new political party is taking power in Japan on Wednesday. The Democratic Party of Japan defeated the Liberal Democrats in the general election last month, making party leader Yukio Hatoyama the first prime minister from outside the LDP in nearly 1

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Chinas foreign currency holdings remained above $3 trillion in December even as the yuan capped its steepest annual decline in more than two decades. 即使今年中国的外汇储备处于最近20多年以来的最大幅度下跌中,12月仍然维持

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Chinese President Xi Jinping and his Mexican counterpart Enrique Pena Nieto say they'll be lifting the bilateral relationship to a comprehensive strategic partnership. Here's Wei Tong with the details of the announcement, made in Mexico City. This wa

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学习GRE词汇首先是为了通过GRE考试,因此研究GRE对词汇的考法就显得很有必要。 GRE考试的Verbal部分(也就是我们通常叫做语文的部分)主要考查考生4项能力:阅读、填空、类比、反义。其中,阅

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BEIJING, Jan. 4 (Xinhua) -- Senior Chinese leader Li Changchun on Wednesday called for more efforts to strengthen the Internet construction and management and promote a healthy online culture. Li, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political B

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Chinese government's growth target, as well as details of plans to shore up the economy, is being closely watched for at this year's CPPCC sessions. CPPCC National Committee member Liu Shijin says economic growth is a leading concern among the public

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