The idea of tenure has long been important to American higher education. In the 1700s, religious groups operated most colleges in the United States and, before that, Britains North American colonies. Often, college officials would remove employees wh

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This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Most American schools have boys and girls in the same classroom. But a public high school in the small, rural town of Boonsboro, Maryland, offers a special program. Top students in the ninth and tenth

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This is the VOA Special English Technology Report. The world has almost seven billion people. At least two billion are expected to be on the Internet by January. New growth is mostly from developing countries. Yet only twenty-one percent of their pop

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The European Space Agency has launched into orbit, two space observatories that will help scientists understand the information of the universe. A visitor watches an Ariane rocket in an exhibition at the Gasometer in Oberhausen, western Germany, 01

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Legislation 法规 A: Has your company been affected much by government legislation? A:政府法规对你们公司影响大吗? B: Yes, we have. We've had to clean up our production process a lot to meet tough government standards. B:是。为了严格

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In public high schools across America, large classes containing a mix of both boys and girls are the norm. However, in a move that's drawing high marks from students, one public school in Maryland has decided to buck that tradition. Class experimentA

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