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And it's time again for StoryCorps, we've been hearing from this oral history project as it crisscrosses the country. In New York city, it's gathering interviews with families and friends who lost loved ones at the World Trade Center. StoryCorps w

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daddy sits on the front porch swingin' look in' out on a bacon field used to be filled with burning tobacco now he knows it never will my brother found work in indiana sisters a nurse at the old folks home momma still cooking too much for supper and

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The Japanese military worked furiously on Thursday to cool dangerouly overheated fuel rods at the severely damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant, stepping up their efforts to avert a nuclear disaster. Efforts are also underway to restore electricity

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Have you ever wanted to be lead singer in a band? I mean, have you ever picked up an old cardboard toilet roll, held it to your mouth, and pretended that it was a microphone? Or have you ever found yourself tapping out a beat on the kitchen table wit

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A: Did you need help with something? B: I'm having a problem with my washing machine. A: What is wrong with it? B: The water isn't draining from it. A: Is that the only problem? B: Everything else is working fine. A: I'm available if you'd like me to

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Residents of a Japanese town have broken the world speed record for building snowmen. Citizens at the Iiyama Snow Festival in Nagano made 1,585 of the snowy fellows in one hour to set the new mark. Around 630 people took part in the record attempt. T

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Former Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama has joined a demonstration in Tokyo, protesting a series of security bills currently being pushed through parliament by the current Japanese government. Murayama has taken time to address the crowd of

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By Greg Flakus Merida, Mexico 13 March 2007 Merida, Mexico, is the last stop on President Bush's tour of Latin America. There he will meet with Mexican President Felipe Calderon, who shares many of Mr. Bush's views on free markets, trade and develop

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Feeling stressed and in need of a vacation? You are not alone but more than half of Americans do not take all their vacation days, even though they think they need a holiday more this year than last. And nearly a third of workers who do take a break

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In The Hague, former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic has resumed his own defense in his war crimes trial for what he called Serbias just and holy cause against Muslim aggression during the war in Bosnia in the 1990s. But nearly 20 years after it

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An astronomer used to walk out every night to gaze upon the stars．It happened one night that，as he was wandering in the outskirts of the city，with his whole thoughts rapt up in the skies，he fell into a well．On his holloaing and calling out，

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In what has become a too-familiar experience in Tokyo, a crowded subway train screeches to a sudden halt. From around the car, mobile phones start to ring. The sound is an emergency earthquake warning from an iPhone app that lets subscribers know whe

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Communities from China and Japan have pledged to make further contributions to boost the friendship between the two countries. The pledge came after a meeting between Tang Jiaxuan, head of the China-Japan Friendship Association and Tomiichi Murayama,

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Groups representing both Chinese and Japanese interests have been meeting in more frequency over the past few weeks in an attempt to try to ease tensions between the two countries. The latest meeting has been between Tang Jiaxuan, head of the China-J