Billie Holiday, 1915-1959: The Lady Sang the Blues She was one of the greatest jazz singers in America. VOICE ONE: I'm Shirley Griffith. VOICE TWO: Billie Holiday And I'm Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program, PEOPLE IN AMERICA. Every week

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By Mil Arcega Washington 21 February 2008 Japan's Toshiba Corporation effectively ended the format war over the next-generation DVD players after announcing this week that it would no longer manufacture HD DVD players and recorders. The announcement

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今天我们要学的词是rip-off。 Rip-off, 做为名词,指一件产品、服务要价过高,或质量太差。 Our credit card company hiked the interest rates to 24%. It's a total rip-off, 我们的信用卡公司把利率提高到24%,太宰

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Nu-Blu Celebrates a Decade of Music With 'Ten' Bands come and go so quickly these days that its not often you find many celebrating five years of togetherness, let alone a decade. But thats just what North Carolinas modern bluegrass band Nu-Blu is do

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By Mike O'Sullivan Los Angeles 12 March 2008 The battle between two rival high definition formats for video disks has been decided in favor of Blu-ray, which was jointly developed by Sony, Samsung, Philips and other companies. Mike O'Sullivan reports

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Presenter/producer: Vicki Sullivan Chen Li: 大家好,我是陈黎. Vicki : Im Vicki. Today were going to look at words and phrases that have recently become part of the English language. Chen Li: 在今天地纯正英语节目里,我们要学习那个新词? Vicki : Todays n

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