Each year in the United States, hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of unclaimed property - especially stock certificates, jewelry left in safe-deposit boxes, and seemingly forgotten money in checking accounts - are turned over to state government

发表于:2018-12-16 / 阅读(44) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2011年(四月)

By George Dwyer Washington, DC 03 August 2006 watch MTV 25th Anniversary Twenty-five years ago this week, MTV -- short for music television -- premiered on cable television in the U.S. It began by broadcasting music videos from popular artists such

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A California congressman and his wife are in Ethiopia to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Peace Corps at the place where they served as volunteers in the 1960s. John Garamendi leans back in his chair as he recalls the life he and his new wife Pa

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All we have are little paintings on pottery on vases and urns. 我们只见到陶制器皿上、花瓶上和坛子上的小型画像。 Their loveliness tells us what we have lost. 这些画像如此之美以至我们能够想象得出来我们丧失了

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Zimbabwe's Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has returned to Harare after receiving treatment in Botswana for injuries sustained in a car crash that killed his wife. Zimbabwe's PM Morgan Tsvangirai, seen, addressing mourners at his home, in Harare, 0

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TIANJIN, April 4 (Xinhua) -- People in a north China city have been offered a new way to go green -- put the ashes of their loved ones in dissolvable urns and bury them in the soil or in the pond. That is a far cry from the tradition land burial, whi

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