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Congratulations, class of 2014! 祝贺2014届毕业生 Melinda and I are excited to be here. 我和梅琳达很高兴能来到这里 It would be a thrill for anyone 能受邀到斯坦福做毕业演讲 to be invited to speak at a Stanford commencemen

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August 18, 2005—Call it x-ray vision for archaeologists. High- tech scans and computer modeling have offered scientists a noninvasive glimpse inside the delicate burial case of a millennia- old mumm

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This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. Im Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. When it comes to elections, sometimes we vote with our heads and sometimes with our hearts. But scientists at Stanford say we might also be voting with our

NPR 2010-04-07

The Obama administration has released its Nuclear Posture Review, the guideline for how nuclear weapons fit into the nations defense plans. Defense Secretary Robert Gates says its designed to make clear states like Iran and North Korea all options ar

NPR 2012-06-15

The main presidential rivals are tapping into public weariness over the economys slow recovery to make the case to voters to think twice about voting for the other guy. President Obama and Republican former Governor Mitt Romney lobbed a new round of

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From VOA Learning English, this is EXPLORATIONS in Special English. Im Bob Doughty. And Im Faith Lapidus. Today we tell about the growing popularity of Massive Open Online Courses in higher education. The movement toward education by computer is deve

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JUDY WOODRUFF: Back in this country, we turn to a classroom program designed to help young people cope with PTSD, a condition caused not by the shock of war, but by the stresses they encounter in life outside their schools. MAN:We go we start with ou

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My second story is about love and loss. I was lucky I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 bi

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( 00:02:56) I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest Ive ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you

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But reinventing yourself can be very hard. You can face a lot of resistance at times. 但是重塑自己是非常难的。你时常会遇到许多阻碍。 When I was nearly done with my PhD, I got bitten by that entrepreneurial bug. 在我快拿到博

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And that motivates me. 正是这些激励了我. So it's up to you to widen your circle of concern. 你们需要拓宽自己关怀的范围. To care about justice for everybody, white, black and brown. 关心所有人的正义 无论白人 黑人 还是

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You might not think there would be that many people in the world prepared to devote lifetimes to the study of something so inescapably low key, 你或许会认为，世界上不会有多少人愿意花毕生的心血来研究那个不起眼儿的东西