RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Hugh Hefner has died at the age of 91. He created Playboy magazine at his kitchen table in Chicago in the early 1950s. It became not only a brand but it came to symbolize a lifestyle, both glorified and despised, of lavish partie

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by Jason Marshall Weve spent the last few articles building our numerical vocabulary from the ground up. Today, were going to talk about something that sounds hard, but is actually pretty easy...and very useful too: the commutative property of additi

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This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Manute Bol played ten years in the National Basketball Association. But he will be remembered as much for his shot-blocking in the NBA as for his charity work in Sudan. He died June nineteenth from

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Survivors found from missing ferry 发现印尼失踪渡船幸存者 Relatives of the ferry passengers at Manado harbour 遇难渡船乘客的亲属们守候在万鸦老港湾 Ten survivors from an Indonesian ferry which sank with heavy loss of life

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By Peter Heinlein United Nations 12 September 2006 Sheika Haya Rashed Al-Khalifa (file photo) The U.N. General Assembly has opened its 61st session and for the first time a Muslim woman is in the president's chair. From U.N. headquarters, VOA's Pete

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RIO DE JANEIRO, March 13 (Xinhua) -- Brazil and Bolivia will play a friendly to honour a 14-year-old fan killed by a flare in a Copa Libertadores match last month. The Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) said Wednesday proceeds from the April 6 ma

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