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AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: language in action. We have two reports. RS: We start with a program in the International Business School at Brandeis University near Boston, Massachusetts. It helps introduce for

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AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: language in action. We have two reports. RS: We start with a program in the International Business School at Brandeis University near Boston, Massachusetts. It helps introduce for

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Thousands of Africans who came to the United States to escape Ebola virus disease might have to return home as another Ebola case has been found in the continent. The World Health Organization says a second case of Ebola virus disease has been confir

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DAVID GREENE, HOST: Monsanto, the pioneer of genetically modified food, likes to say it is rooted in science, but some leading scientists are accusing the company of denying evidence about the risks of its newest weedkilling technology. NPR's Dan Cha

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RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Farmers in parts of the South are fighting each other over a weed-killing chemical. Some are using it in combination with a new generation of genetically engineered crops. Others are angry because it's blowing in the wind and dam

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Luiz Gonzaga you can compare him with Bob Marley in reggae, because he really did the melting of the style, you know. And it became very well known because he recorded it, he played it on the radio in the 40s, / 50s, so he came up with the new rhythm

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In 1888, Brazil became the last major country in the world to officially abolish slavery, 66 years after breaking away from Portugal to become an independent state. Black workers were at last free to leave the plantations. Many headed south to Rio de

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In Rio, African rhythms began to mix with European styles. And it was at the house of a Candomble practitioner, a priestess named Tia Ciata, Auntie Ciata, that the first song widely recognized as Carioca samba, samba from Rio, was performed in 1916.

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Racial discrimination was now banned in Brazil, but prejudice and the belief in white supremacy was still widespread. So there was outrage in the press that black musicians like Pixinguinha should be allowed to represent Brazil when he and his band O

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Some said she wasn't a true Brazilian, because she was born in Portugal. But Carmen Miranda conquered Brazil during the 30s and then moved on to the States. Her songs came from the finest writers of the days, including Dorival Caymmi and Ary Barroso,

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President Vargas gave Rio the Carnival for which the city became world-famous, but less than two years after his death, a new form of samba emerged that reflected a new political era in Brazil and would bring Rio even more international exposure and

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He was the best lyricist. He never made a mistake with a song of mine. And he would come later with the perfect lyric for the song. He was very successful with women and he was not exactly a good-looking man. He was fat, short, bald. But women, I've

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Garota de Ipanema, Girl from Ipanema, had been written by Jobim and Vinicius in 1962 as they sat in this bar off Copacabana, watching the girls walk by. They wrote that song just because they saw the same girl passing by the bar, going towards the be

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By Kari Barber Kinshasa 26 November 2007 The president of the Democratic Republic of Congo has announced changes in his government, naming 10 new ministers, while at the same time reducing the number of government positions. Kari Barber reports from

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India's richest man is rolling out a $20 billion mobile network that could bring lightning-fast Internet to hundreds of millions of people. 印度首富正斥资200亿美元建设移动网络,或可使十亿人高速连接互联网。 Indian consum

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By Sarah Simpson Lagos 15 June 2007 Military officials say gunmen have abducted more foreign nationals working in Nigeria's oil-rich Niger Delta. News of the hostage-takings come a day after the release from prison of a prominent militant leader, hai

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The United States has told Venezuela that its ambassador to Washington will be expelled in the latest chapter of a growing diplomatic dispute. The U.S. also slapped sanctions on Venezuelan officials for allegedly supplying arms and helping drug traf

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A landslide near Kaikoura blocked the road and railway from Picton to Christchurch on Friday night. While small landslides on the narrow road near Kaikoura are quite common, this is the biggest one ever in this area. It is about 100m long and covers

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Sunny: Did you hear the news? Nancy and Brian are splitting up. Igor: How long have they been married? Sunny: Eight years. Im sure it was the seven- year itch. I bet Brian was unfaithful to Nancy. Igor: How do you know? Maybe it was Nancy who had a w

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今天我们要学的词是glitch。 Glitch是小的故障或是瑕疵。A technical glitch, 是指技术上的故障,a security glitch, 是指安全方面的漏洞。The developers postponed the release of the new software due to a technical glitc

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know one's goods
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