Words and Their Stories: Water Expressions Now, the VOA Special English program WORDS AND THEIR STORIES. Expressions about water are almost as common as water itself. But many of the expressions using water have unpleasant meanings. The expression to

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Ex-IMF Chief Released on Own Recognizance Former International Monetary Fund head Dominique Strauss Kahn has been released on his own recognizance as New York state prosecutors reveal doubts about the credibility of his accuser. Dominique Strauss-Kah

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By Paul Sisco Washington 28 May 2008 The Goldman Environmental Prize is awarded to environmental activists around the world annually for what the Goldman foundation calls environmental grass roots heroism. The prize carries with it $150,000 and has b

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今天我们要学的词是agonizing。 Agonizing, 痛苦的。 It was an agonizing decision to make, 这是一个痛苦的决定。 The team suffered an agonizing loss, 这支球队输了球痛苦不堪。 The agonizing wait was finally over when I

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By Greg Flakus Mexico City, Mexico 07 April 2006 watch Waterless Toilet report At the recently held Fourth World Water Forum in Mexico City, hundreds of governmental agencies, international organizati

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By Brian Wagner Sao Paulo 11 May 2007 Pope Benedict has canonized an 18th-century Brazilian monk who is credited with helping to cure thousands of people of physical ailments. In Sao Paulo, VOA's Brian Wagner reports that about one million people gat

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