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DAVID GREENE, HOST: A half a century ago, a daredevil from Butte, Mont., rocketed into national prominence on a motorbike. Frank Morris of member station KCUR tells us about a new museum celebrating all that is Evel - Evel Knievel, that is. FRANK MOR

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"Checkers"

My Fellow Americans, I come before you tonight as a candidate for the Vice Presidency and as a man whose honesty and integrity has been questioned. Now, the usual political thing to do when charges are made against you is to either ignore them or to

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Today the Crown which means the government signed a treaty settlement with the Tuhoe people for $1.7m. This is the third biggest treaty settlement. The Tuhoe land is in the Urewera area which includes the National Park, Lake Waikaremoana. The area is

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Danny looked at his brown shoes. They looked old and dirty. They needed a shine. It was time to shine his brown shoes. He got a rag. He got a shoe brush. He got a can of polish. He opened the can of polish. He put the rag around his finger. He scoope

英语语法：162 Better Versus Best

Grammar Girl here. Guest-writer Bonnie Trenga will be your hostess with the mostest today, because were looking at how to make comparisons using adjectives and adverbs. Bonnie writes, When you want to modify a noun, is it OK to stick a more or a most

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英语语法：86 Sit Versus Set

Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is sit versus set. When I did a show about lay versus lie many months ago, listeners wrote in asking me to do a follow up show on sit versus set because the problem with sit and set is similar to the problem with lay

VOA标准英语2009年-Iraqi Shoe-Thrower Sentenced to Three Years in

The Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at former U.S. President George W. Bush during a farewell visit to Baghdad has been sentenced by an Iraqi court to three years in prison. Muntader al-Zaidi (File) The trial of Iraqi journalist Muntader al-Zai

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今天我们要介绍给大家的两个习惯用语都有同一个关键的字。这个关键的字就是：Shoe. Shoe就是一只鞋子。要是多数的话，那就是在shoe后面加一个s，成为shoes。好。现在我们先来讲第一个以sh

美国国家公共电台 NPR Ali Velshi: In An Age Of ＂Alternative Facts,＂ How Do We Know What's True?

GUY RAZ, HOST: It's the TED Radio Hour from NPR. I'm Guy Raz. And on the show today, ideas about manipulation, about truth and lies and what happens when sometimes it's hard for people to see the difference. ALI VELSHI: I think manipulation is trying

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新西兰英语 170 Death of Trampers

Two trampers died in the Tararua Forest Park during a snow storm at the weekend. They were 61 year old Dr Seddon Bennington, and 54 year old Marcella Jackson. Dr Bennington had been the CEO of Te Papa, the National Museum, for six years. Mrs Jackson

Treat the Person, Not the Body!

For all our research, resources, technology and collective intelligence theres still way more that we dont know about managing the human body, than we do. We like to think were more enlightened than ever but in many ways were still failing miserably

Personal Productivity in the 21st Century

Personal Productivity in the 21st Century What does it mean to be productive? The gurus have given us a few ideas it means to get things done, to be highly effective, to know who it was, exactly, who moved your cheese. What things, effective at what,

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Simon and Marie hadn't been to a movie theater in years. He didn't like theaters because of certain people. Certain people like to talk during a movie. Certain people like to kick the seats in front of them. Certain people like to eat loudly. Certain

新西兰英语 495 Police drop charges against Tuhoe

In October 2007, 17 people were arrested on Tuhoe land in the Urewera district in the North Island. These people all belong to the Maori iwi Tuhoe or are supporters of the Tuhoe. The police believed they were training for terrorist activities against