2007年VOA标准英语-Potential Ukrainian Election Flaws Identified

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More Funding for Iraq's Minorities

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Preserving Cambodia's Cultural Treasures

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CNN 2010-02-18

How the heck do you miss nearly a million jobs during the recession? Boom, just vanished. Apparently our experts did. Just minutes ago a new measure of just how bad the economy is, and it isn't good, folks. CNN's Christine Romans in New York. So how

CNN 2010-02-06

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SSS 2009-04-06

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. Batteries of the future need to deliver more energy, and they need to be smaller. Researchers at MIT think they have developed a technology that can, a

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VOA标准英语2012--European Leaders Take Partial Step Toward Stabilization

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ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: Rudolph Giuliani, who's being mentioned as a possible secretary of state in a Trump administration, is best known for having been mayor of New York City on 9/11. In fact the terrorist attacks were near the end of his eight-year a

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By Mike O'Sullivan Los Angeles 11 February 2008 Striking Hollywood writers could return to work this week to end a three-month strike that has crippled film and television production. The news raises hopes that the Academy Awards, or Oscars, may go a

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