【美国总统电台演说】2009-03-28

Even as we face an economic crisis which demands our constant focus, forces of nature can also intervene in ways that create other crises to which we must respond and respond urgently. For the people of North and South Dakota and Minnesota who live

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RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: There are slightly more than 2 million people who are incarcerated in the U.S. That is nearly equal to the entire population of the city of Houston. Among those prisoners, thousands serve time in solitary confinement, isolated in

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You'll Never Guess One of America's Boom States During a spring of extraordinary flooding in America's Northern Plains, the mostly flat, lightly populated state of North Dakota experienced 17 record river crests. This, after one blizzard after anothe

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美国国家公共电台 NPR As Obama Clean Power Plan Fades, States Craft Strategies To Move Beyond It

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Remarks of President Barack Obama Weekly Address Saturday, March 28, 2009 Washington, DC Even as we face an economic crisis which demands our constant focus, forces of nature can also intervene in ways that create other crises to which we must respo

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This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Farmers may not be able to prevent natural disasters, but they can at least try their best to reduce losses. For example, they can plant crops that are more likely to survive extreme weather. In nor

Bar Riddle

A Norwegian took a trip to Fargo, North Dakota. While in a bar, an Indian on the next stool spoke to the Norwegian in a friendly manner. Look, he said, let's have a little game. I'll ask you a riddle. If you can answer it, I'll buy YOU a drink. If yo