CNN 2010-01-31

So what that is is evidence that people are being hired using the stimulus money, but what it leaves out is that someone is gonna have to pay the taxes to pay for that spending. So if you think that the extra spending now pay is creating jobs now, th

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A couple claim their adopted son has turned their home into a house of horrors. They say they love the boy, but he's become too much to handle. And now they wanna give him back and have the state return him to foster care. But the law says they can't

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Chris Huntington believes adoption will make him the father he wants to be I believe in mystery. I believe in family. I believe in being who I am. I believe in the power of failure. And I believe normal life is extraordinary. This I Believe. Once a

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In the 1950s, Jim McFarland's grandmother took him on annual train trips from New York to see relatives in the South. And it's time again for StoryCorps, Americans interview each other. We hear their everyday stories and every week we find out how a

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学个词Learn a Word 第391期 Helicopter parent

今天我们要学的词是helicopter parent。 Helicopter parent, 直升机父母？没错。Helicopter parents, like a helicopter, they hover closely overhead, rarely out of reach whether their children need them or not, 这些直升机父母，真的

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By Matt Steinglass Hanoi 30 August 2007 In March, when Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt adopted a Vietnamese child, they created one of the biggest media circuses the country had ever seen. But while they were surely the most famous foreigners to adopt i

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The scandal also angered Russian officials and prompted the Kremlin to freeze further U.S. adoptions of Russian children. Elizabeth Lee | Washington 24 April 2010 Russian boy Artyom Savelyev, 7, who was sent back to Moscow by his adoptive American mo

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LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Who do we become when we lose a parent? That transformation is at the heart of Zinzi Clemmons' novel What We Lose. The central character, Thandi, grapples with the loss of her mother to cancer, a woman she revered but often

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By Scott Stearns White House 16 November 2007 The President and Mrs. Bush are encouraging more people to adopt children. VOA Correspondent Scott Stearns reports, they marked America's National Adoption Day with a ceremony at the White House. Preside

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By Greg Flakus Guatemala City 13 September 2007 Every year, thousands of people from the United States visit the Central American nation of Guatemala, not just for tourism, but to adopt babies. Last year, more than 4,000 Guatemalan children were adop

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Being a parent is the biggest responsibility we can have in our lives. Its scary if you think about it. You have to look after a tiny baby for years and years. It is your duty to make sure that little baby grows up into a wonderful, happy and respons

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每日一词【391】helicopter parent：直升机父母

今天我们要学的词是helicopter parent。 Helicopter parent, 直升机父母？没错。Helicopter parents, like a helicopter, they hover closely overhead, rarely out of reach whether their children need them or not, 这些直升机父母，真的

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Study: Speaking ‘Parentese’ Helps Baby’s Language Learning

It is common for adults to use baby talk when interacting with very young children. This way of speaking attempts to copy the sounds babies make when they first try to talk. But is this form of communication helpful to a childs development? Several s