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Want to Buy the Empire State Building? Selling the Brooklyn Bridge in New York refers to an American expression about gullible individuals who would buy it from scam artists offering bogus shares in the publicly-owned landmark. But shares in another

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By Nico Colombant Thies, Senegal 16 November 2007 In the largely Muslim West African nation of Senegal, women have been excluded from joining the army as foot soldiers. But that will change next year, as VOA's Nico Colombant reports from a recruitmen

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2007年VOA标准英语-Possibly Hazardous Materials Found in UN Buildi

By Suzanne Presto New York 30 August 2007 FBI agents were called to a United Nation's building near the headquarters Thursday to remove vials of a possibly hazardous material found in weapons inspectors' offices. From VOA's United Nation's bureau, Su

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By Cathryn Curtis Washington, DC 06 April 2006 watch US Iran Policy report There have been no formal diplomatic relations between the U.S. and Iran for decades, and not much interaction among the peop

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By Greg Flakus New Orleans, Louisiana 07 March 2006 watch New Orleans Levee report New Orleans levee repairs are to be finished before hurricane season begins June 1st In New Orleans, where recovery f

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By Dan Robinson Capitol Hill 09 February 2006 A U.S. Senate office building was evacuated late Wednesday after sensors detected the possible presence in the air of what was initially described as a ne

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This is the VOA Special English Education Report. In Giles County, Virginia, the school board has removed displays of the Ten Commandments in its schools. The county thought that posting the Ten Commandments, along with the first part of the United S

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The heads of two U.S.-based charity organizations are this year's winners of the World Food Prize, the prestigious $250,000 award honoring accomplishments that have improved the global food supply. This year's World Food Prize went to David Beckmann,

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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton addresses a meeting in honor of the 15th Anniversary of the UN World Conference on Women in Beijing at the United Nations headquarters on Friday, March 12, 2010. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton i

VOA标准英语2012--Building Relationships in LA Brings Down Crime Rate

Building Relationships in LA Brings Down Crime Rate A quiet afternoon is interrupted with the sound of helicopters as dozens of officers from the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department and California Highway Patrol capture a suspect in a robbery and shooti

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Dating back as far as the early Qing Dynasty, Lanzhou Guzi, the local ballad of Lanzhou, the capital of northwest China's Gansu province, has been passed on from mouth to mouth for about 400 years. Going through ups and downs, this art form has survi