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Now, the VOA Special English Program Words and Their Stories.

Many people believe that money makes the world go around; others believe that money buys happiness. I do not agree with either idea. But I do admit that money can make people do strange things. Let me tell you about a person I once knew who like to play card games for money. He liked to gamble.

My friend Bob had a problem because he liked to gamble at all costs. He would play at anytime and at any price to take part in a card game, such as poker. My friend would have to empty up. He would have to pay a small amount of money at the beginning of the game. Bob always played with cold, hard cash, only coins and dollar bills. Sometimes, my friend will clean up. He would win a lot of money on one card game. He liked to tell me that one day he would break the bank. What a feeling it must be to win all of the money at a gambling table.

Other times, my friend would simply break even. He neither won nor lost money. But sometimes, Bob would lose his shirt. He would lose all the money he had. He took a beating at the gambling table. When this happened, my friend would have to go in a hole. He would go into debt and owe people money.

Recently, Bob turned to crime after losing all his money. In his job, he kept the books for a small business. He supervised the records of money earned and spent by the company. Although my friend was usually honest, he decided to cook the books. He illegally changed the financial records of the company. This permitted him to make a fast buck. My friend makes a quick, easy money dishonestly.

I never thought Bob would have sticky fingers. He did not seem like a thief who would steal money. But some people will do anything for love of money.

Bob used the money he stole from his company to gamble again. This time, he cashed in. He made a lot of money. Quickly, he was back on his feet. He had returned to good financial health. His company, however, ended up in the red. It lost more money than it earned. The company was no longer profitable.

It did not take long before my friend's dishonesty was discovered. The company investigated and charged him with stealing. Bob tried to pass the buck, he tried to blame someone else for the deficit. His lie did not work, however, he ended up in jail. Today, I would bet my bottom dollar that my friend will never gamble again. I would bet all I have that he learned his lesson about gambling.

Words and Their Stories in VOA Special English was written by Jill Moss. I'm Faith Lapidus.

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Today's Highlight in History:
On December tenth, 1817, Mississippi was admitted as the 20th state.

On this date:

In 1520, Martin Luther publicly burned the papal edict demanding that he recant, or face excommunication.

In 1869, women were granted the right to vote in the Wyoming Territory.

In 1898, a treaty was signed in Paris officially ending the Spanish-American War.

In 1906, President Theodore Roosevelt became the first American to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, for helping to mediate an end to the Russo-Japanese War.

In 1931, Jane Addams became a co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, the first American woman so honored.

In 1948, the UN General Assembly adopted its Universal Declaration on Human Rights.

In 1950, Ralph J. Bunche was presented the Nobel Peace Prize, the first black American to receive the award.

In 1964, Dr. Martin Luther King Junior received the Nobel Peace Prize during ceremonies in Oslo, Norway.

In 1967, singer Otis Redding died in the crash of his private plane in Wisconsin.

In 1984, South African Bishop Desmond Tutu received the Nobel Peace Prize.

Ten years ago: Czechoslovakia's president, Gustav Husak, resigned after swearing in a coalition cabinet in which Communists were relegated to a minority role.

Five years ago: Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin received the Nobel Peace Prize, pledging to pursue their mission of healing the anguished Middle East. Advertising executive Thomas Mosser of North Caldwell, New Jersey, was killed by a mail bomb blamed on the Unabomber.

One year ago: Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee lined up one by one in favor of impeaching President Clinton; Democrats vowed opposition after lawyers clashed in closing arguments over alleged "high crimes and misdemeanors." Six astronauts jubilantly swung open the doors to the new international space station, becoming the first guests aboard the 250-mile-high outpost. The Palestinian leadership scrapped constitutional clauses rejecting Israel's existence.

每日格言：

"I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing."

                                                                                     -- Oscar Wilde, Irish poet, dramatist, author (1856-1900).


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At least four people have been shot after a gunman opened fire outside a Colorado Springs' church.Te shooting occured hours after two people were killed when a gunman opened fire at a training center / in the Denver suburb.But this is the first shooting told by police gunman was in his twenty ,wearing a dark jacket and a / cap.So far no arrest of the man.


Visitation,/,vigils have begun for several victims of the deadly mall shooting on record in the US.Crowds gathered at the Westroad mall in Oahama Nebraska where four days earlier 8 people were fatally shot by a teenage gunman.

A senior Anglican cleric slipped off his collar cut it to pieces alive on Britiah Television.Born in Uganda.... says he would not wear one again..until Robert Mugaba is no longer leader of Zimbabaweans.He says the African leader has destoryed / indentity.

Thousands of supportors / in this football stadium for Opran win second day campain with democratic presidential / Obama .the two addressed big proud in the 80.000 seat university south stadium,and the next stop is New Hampshire .


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Side-effects include drowsiness, apathy and blurred vision. I'm checking too.

Control is the first film directed by Anton Corbijn, a fashion and celebrity photographer, whose subjects back in the late 1970s included a Manchester post-punk band Joy Division.
It weighed in from a camera like that.

Forget the record. It's gotta put our song.Joy Division, in particular its unhappy lead singer Ian Curtis is the subject of Control. Control pays great tribute to the memory of Ian Curtis and to the music of Joy Division.

I know that I love you.

Ian marries Deborah and also falls in love with a Belgium journalist Annik Honoré.
You are married so young.

I know this is a mistake.

It doesn’t try too hard to delve into subject
psychology or to propose easy explanations either for his songs or for the suicide that ended his life in 1980 when he was just 23 years old.

I never meant for it grow like this. I’ve no control any more.


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Today's Highlight in History:
On December eleventh, 1936, Britain's King Edward the Eighth abdicated the throne in order to marry American divorcee Wallis Warfield Simpson.

On this date:

In 1719, the first recorded sighting of the Aurora Borealis took place in New England.

In 1792, France's King Louis the 16th went before the Convention to face charges of treason. (Louis was convicted, and executed the following month.)

In 1816, Indiana became the 19th state.

In 1872, America's first black governor took office as Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback became acting governor of Louisiana.

In 1928, police in Buenos Aires thwarted an attempt on the life of President-elect Herbert Hoover.

In 1937, Italy withdrew from the League of Nations.

In 1941, Germany and Italy declared war on the United States; the US responded in kind.

In 1946, the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) was established.

In 1961, a US aircraft carrier carrying Army helicopters arrived in Saigon -- the first direct American military support for South Vietnam's battle against Communist guerrillas.

In 1981, the UN Security Council chose Javier Perez de Cuellar of Peru to be the fifth secretary-general of the world body.

Ten years ago: President Bush, facing criticism at home for sending two US officials to China, defended the diplomatic overture despite the Beijing government's crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators the previous June.

Five years ago: Thousands of Russian troops backed by armored columns and jets rolled into breakaway republic of Chechnya in a bid to restore Moscow's control over the region. Leaders of 34 Western Hemisphere nations signed a free-trade declaration in Miami.

One year ago: Majority Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee pushed through three articles of impeachment against President Clinton, over Democratic objections. The Mars Climate Orbiter blasted off on a nine-month journey to the red planet (however, the probe disappeared last September, apparently destroyed because scientists had failed to convert English measures to metric values).

每日格言：

"Almost any man knows how to earn money, but not one in a million knows how to spend it."

                                                                                                  -- Henry David Thoreau, American writer (1817-1862).




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Investigators are trying to establish whether two shooting sprees at a megachurch and a school for missionaries were carried out by the same man. Five people including the gunman were killed and five wounded in separate shootings in 65 miles .

Suspected Atlanta falcon Michael Vick will spend 23 months behind bars on federal dog fighting charges. He still faces state dog fighting charges in Virginia that are punishable by up to five years in prison.

The National Weather Service says more snow and freezing wind is on the way from Nebraska. Ice storm warnings are up from Texas to Pennsylvania as a storm system moves eastward. Missouri's governor has declared a state of emergency and activated the National Guard.

Look, chances are you've never seen this. It’s a long-ear jerboa. And this is the first ever video of the rare rodent . The resident of the deserts of Mongolia and China is in danger with its oversized ears. One of researchers call the jerboa the Mickey mouse of the desert.


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This is Dave Essay, creator of StoryCorps, the project that records the stories of everyday Americans. StoryCorps airs each Friday on NPR's morning edition. Support for StoryCorps comes from AT&T, proudly bringing StoryCorps listeners of America's past, present and future. The new AT&T, your world delivered.

Welcome to the storycorps podcast, I'm Michael Graffiler ,a producer here at storycorp. In this episode, one family story that they never get tired of telling. Sigmund Stahl met Bonnie N. on a blind date. It was the early 70s in New York city, and Stahl was a college professor at the time. Here he tells his grandaughter about that first meeting.

The colleague of mine in my department decided that he was gonna fix me up. And he had a list that i dont know how many people. And he would ask me every week 'did you call anybody,did you?" and i would say, no ,because i wasn't particularly interested.

And i had to get off my back really, so i said, okay, who's the No.1? i'll call that person. I decided if we gonna have a drink and if i dont like it, i'm gonna say 'i have to go home", that'll be the end of it.

So we met ,and we sat down and we talked. And then i said what would you like to do now if you could /anything you want. And she said i'd rather go to an island in the Pacific somewhere where it's nice and sunny, with winter. And i said, well, that's we can't do, that's a little difficult. So she said, i'd like to go see a movie. I said, that's reasonable.we'll see a little movie. She said did you hear a movie called Deep Frozen? And i said no, never heard of it. I don't go to movies so i knew nothing. She looks like a respectable and she was a very well known public relations expert, well, must be a respectale movie for the line or on the block.

It was a porno, it was a biggest porno of its time. I did not have the guts to say let's go, i was gonna sit through that come hell or high water, and then we left and i took her home, and i went back to my apartment in the village. I thought about that and said' what goal of this woman, she doesn't know me from Adam and take me to a movie like that. I wouldn't go to that movie if i'd known what it was if they'd paid me for it. And then i thought, she has that husband and that gull, I'll call her again.

And my granddaughter still laughs about it. that She tells her the story for million times.

Sigmund Stahl with his granddaughter Elizabeth D, in New York city. That awkward first date led to the marriage for Sigmund and Bonnie, when they lasted for 30 years untill Bonnie passed away in 2005.

You can read more these stories in the new storycorps book, listening is an act of love,available now in the local book store. Also look for the companion CD featuring 20 stories recorded all cross the country. Major support for storycorps is provided by AT&T and by the corporation for public broadcasting. This storycorps archives is housed at the America Folklife center at a library of Congress.

Tune in the storycorps broadcast Tuesday on NPR's news notes and Friday's on NPR's morning edition. I'm Michael G. Thanks for listening.



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