AMERICAN MOSAIC - Hey, Buddy, Wanna Buy a Piece of the Empire State Building? DOUG JOHNSON: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) Im Doug Johnson. On our show today we play music from rock band Nickelback We also answer a questio

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Republican Senator John McCain has chosen a first-term governor from the state of Alaska to run as his vice presidential candidate in the November elections. Governor Sarah Palin bolsters McCain's message of reform. 美国共和党参议员约翰.麦凯

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Welcome to the show. I'm Carl Azus. Today, we are taking you to Alaska. In his journey to the state-known as the last frontier, President Obama becomes the first sitting US president to visit the arctic. One reason for his trip, his administration is

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美国阿拉斯加发生7.9级地震 已发布海啸预警 AZUZ: Just after midnight on Tuesday, the earth jolted beneath the Gulf of Alaska. This is a Pacific body of water surrounded by southern Alaska. The earthquake that hit there was powerful, m

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Polar Bears Must Work Harder On Faster Sea Ice Treadmill奔跑吧!北极熊 Polar bears live on floating rafts of sea ice, hunting for seals. But in the Arctic Ocean north of Alaska, the cold polar wind constantly blows that ice from east to west. Wh

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Geez, your room is like an ice box. No, it's not. It's just comfortable. Yeah, if you are a penguin. Just look at me. Even my goosebumps have goosebumps. Get out of here. I think you're exaggerating. No, I'm not. Where is the thermostat? By the door.

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Unit 66 Exxon Valdez Oil Spill The Exxon Valdez departed from the Trans Alaska Pipeline terminal at 9:12 pm March 23, 1989. After passing through Valdez Narrows, pilot Murphy left the vessel and Captain Hazelwood radioed the Coast Guard to report the

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On Wednesdays the business report focuses on your work place. And today we continue our Take Two series about people reinventing themselves through their work. This morning NPR's Ketzel Levine profiles a couple who changed their jobs to make a better

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EXPLORATIONS - Hungry for Wealth, Gold Seekers Once Rushed to Canadas Northwest This is Faith Lapidus. And this is Richard Rael with the VOA Special English program EXPLORATIONS. Today we begin the first of two programs about the discovery of gold. H

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Environmental groups call for time out from offshore exploratory drilling Zulima Palacio | Washington, DC 24 May 2010 Environmentalists argue the harsh climate in northern Alaska would make cleaning up any potential offshore oil spill extremely diffi

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By Brian Padden Anchorage, Alaska 10 August 2006 watch Alaskans Feel Heat Native Alaskans have seen many changes in the last century. Many have been converted by Christian missionaries. Their hand-made canoes have been replaced by motorboats. And th

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LAKSHMI SINGH, HOST: A village in Alaska is one of the latest to rebury human remains that have been studied and stored at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. Hundreds of thousands of Native American graves were excavated in the 19th

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LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: The 2018 Tiny Desk Contest has come and gone, but over the next couple of months here at WEEKEND EDITION, we wanted to highlight some of the standouts among the nearly 5,000 who submitted videos like this one. (SOUNDBITE OF

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ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Public health officials and others concerned about the nation's opioid crisis are pleased with President Trump's intention to declare it a national emergency. Trump's presidential commission on opioids said an emergency declaration

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SCOTT SIMON, HOST: The Iditarod sled dog race begins today. Mushers and their dogs will spend the next week or so trying to cross a thousand miles of the Alaska wilderness. But as Alaska Public Media's Zachariah Hughes reports, this year, the iconic

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今天我们要学的词是on the fence。 On the fence, 犹豫不决的。 Many potential home buyers are still on the fence, waiting for the housing market to reach rock bottom, 很多想买房的人还在犹豫不决,等待房地产市场触底。

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