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I Wish I Could believe by C. Day Lewis The best lack all conviction, While the worst are full of passionate intesity. Those two lines of Yeats for me sum up the matter as it stands today when the very currency of belief seems debased. I was brought u

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2007年VOA标准英语-Sect Spreads Fear in Kenya

By Alisha Ryu Nairobi 29 May 2007 Fear is spreading in cities and villages throughout Kenya, following a series of horrific murders committed by the followers of a banned sect called the Mungiki. With presidential elections scheduled for December, lo

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STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: It's easy to just assume this as fact - as a society becomes more modern, it becomes more secular. People separate their religion from their institutions and from parts of their lives. Sociologists have a name for this idea. They

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Understanding Muslim Opinion

By Freshta Azizi America's troubled relationship with the Islamic world was the topic at a recent conference held by The World Affairs Council of Washington along with the League of Women Voters and t

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Sufi clerics in Somalia have declared their support for the new unity government led by a moderate Islamist. The declaration is raising the possibility of a wider sectarian war between adherents of the Sufi order and the powerful al-Shabab group in

VOA标准英语2014--US Rejects Syria Vote as 'Sham'

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2006年VOA标准英语-US Muslims Say They Face Prejudice, Growing Acc

By Mike O'Sullivan Los Angeles 08 September 2006 US Muslims at news conference in Los Angeles American Muslims say they have faced increased suspicion since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. But some say the dialogues that began after tho

乔布斯传 第46期:探寻(3)

To Jobs, this seemed preferable to talk therapy because it involved intuitive feeling and emotional action rather than just rational analyzing. 在乔布斯看来，这一疗法比谈话疗法要好，因为这其中包含了直观的感受和情感上

经济学人34:非理性信仰 Irrational belief

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2006年VOA标准英语-Five New Bird Flu Cases Confirmed in Turke

Turkish health minister Recep Akdag says preliminary tests show five more people are infected with the bird flu virus. The cases were detected in four provinces, raising the number of suspected and co

VOA常速英语2008年-1960s Guru Icon Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Dies

By Steve Herman New Delhi 06 February 2008 A reclusive Indian mystic who became an influential figure in 20th century popular culture around the world has died. As VOA correspondent Steve Herman reports from New Delhi, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi was far m

Al-Qaida Names Egyptian Zawahri as New Leader

A Jihadist website has announced that Ayman al-Zawahri, Osama bin Laden's deputy, is the new leader of al-Qaida, as had been expected since the killing of bin Laden in May. A web posting Thursday said Zawahri has assumed responsibility for the group,

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I was unwilling to interrupt the course of this debate, while it was carried on with calmness and decency, 我不愿意中断这场辩论的进程，这场辩论以温和而高雅的方式进行， by men who do not suffer the ardor of opposition to

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The Murchison meteorite was found to be 4.5 billion years old, 人们发现，默奇森陨石的年代已达45亿年， and it was studded with amino acidsseventy-four types in all, eight of which are involved in the formation of earthly proteins. 上面

美国国家公共电台 NPR The Spirit Tells The Story In 'Orchestra Of Minorities'

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Chigozie Obioma's latest novel has an unusual narrator. Chinonso raises chickens and is profoundly alone in life till he sees a young woman who's about to hurl herself off a bridge. She is Ndali, who's despondent from a broken enga