CNN 2010-05-29

Well, we all know that college degrees don't come cheaply and the price tag is only getting bigger, but when to get your, well, to toss your tasseled cap and collect your diploma, it's all supposed to be worth it, right? Well, Alina Cho live in New Y

CNN 2010-03-27

PHILLIPS: Well, it's spring break at Cornell University and you'd think that students would be celebrating. Their basketball team's unlikely birth in the NCAA's Sweet 16 tournament. But instead, there is a depressing reality at that Ivy League school

2006年VOA标准英语-Deaf Students Shut Down University

By Brian Padden Washington, DC 18 October 2006 watch Gallaudet Protest report Student Megan Malzhuhn In Washington, D.C., a group of deaf students has blocked the main entrance to Gallaudet University, the world's only university for deaf and hard o

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As China tries to graduate from the world's factory to a nation with a strong middle class, its peasants still aren't ready to make the leap. According to official statistics, China's urban-rural income gap reached 3.33:1 in 2009, the widest since 19

VOA慢速英语2016--University Student Drops Out of Ivy League

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VOA标准英语2012--Prestigious US Research University Opens Rwanda Campus

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Films lined up for a sparkling new dimension

BEIJING, Sept. 26 (Xinhuanet) -- One of the world's brightest minds aims to bring to the world a new, advanced three-dimensional image technology that will leave other such technology in the shadows. Our new technology will be better than that used i

清华毕业生当城管

Net users are optimistic that a 25-year-old Tsinghua University graduate who accepted an entry-level position as a chengguan (urban management officer) in Liuzhou, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region can help to reverse the group`s negative image. 近日，

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Universities from Chinese mainland have broken into a global top 100 index in an annual ranking for the first time as Harvard retained its No 1 spot for the 14th consecutive year. 近日，中国大陆的高校历史上首次入围全世界一百强，

2006年VOA标准英语-US University Promotes 'Green Campus'

By George Dwyer Washington, DC 08 May 2006 watch Green Campus report With energy prices rising rapidly these days, consumers, businesses and other energy users are looking for creative ways to cut cos

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Of the many rewards associated with becoming a lawyer wealth, status, stimulating work day-to-day happiness has never been high on the list. Perhaps, a new study suggests, that is because lawyers and law students are focusing on the wrong rewards. 成为

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That's the question at the core of an exhaustive research project by Timothy Judge, a professor of management at the University of Notre Dame's Mendoza College of Business. Despite their many accomplishments, ambitious people are only slightly happie

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The graduation photo of An Yongrui, a paleobiology major at Peking University, has become an internet sensation after he recently posted it online. 近日，北京大学古生物学专业毕业生安永睿在将自己的毕业照发布到网上之后，

清华大学降低国际学生录取门槛引争议

China's Tsinghua University has been bombarded with criticism after it released a new set of admissions requirements for foreign applicants, which critics have deemed discriminatory against Chinese nationals. 近日，在中国清华大学公布了对外

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Students aiming to enter Tsinghua University this year had better be able to swim or be prepared to learn swimming and pass a swim test. 今年打算进入清华大学的学生最好会游泳，否则就得准备学游泳、通过游泳考试了。 L

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TED演讲:被遗忘的美国工人阶级(4)

So if you think about what do you do when you grow up in that world, you can respond in a couple of ways. 想象一下，成长在那样的环境中你该怎么办，可能应对方法有很多种。 One, you can say, I'm not going to work hard, beca

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