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24 一个美国卫生团体利用互联网倡导戒烟活动
DATE=3-30-2001
TITLE=AMERICAN MOSAIC #811-Internet Anti-Smoking Campaign
BYLINE=Nancy Steinbach
HOST:
(Start at 57")Health(1)experts say (2)cigarette smoking kills more than four-hundred-thousand people in the United States each year. It kills many more people around the world. A major American health group is using the Internet to help people stop smoking.
ANNCR:
Earlier this year, the American (3)Lung (4)Association launched a web site aimed at helping people stop smoking cigarettes. The Association fights all kinds of lung diseases, including (5)asthma, (6)emphysema and cancer. Officials say using the Internet is the best way to help people save their own lives by helping them stop smoking.
The American Lung Association says the new web site is part of its (7)Freedom from Smoking (8)campaign. People around the world can use the web site twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week.
The program is free of (9)charge. And it is (10)interactive. A person who links to the web site can (11)communicate with other people who also want to quit smoking. They can ask and answer questions, share (12)concerns and tell about earlier attempts to quit smoking. Part of the Freedom from Smoking campaign requires that everyone have a support group. This is a good way to get one.
Support groups are necessary because (13)quitting smoking is very difficult. The main reason people smoke is because they are addicted to the (14)nicotine in cigarettes. Their bodies have developed a need for nicotine.
The Freedom from Smoking campaign recognizes this. People who link to the web site answer a series of questions. These include why they smoke, how long they have been smoking and what causes the urge to have a cigarette. Then the program works with the person to design a successful way to quit. This may include making changes in a person's life or using medicines to help.
So far, more than one-thousand people have begun taking part in the on-line program. To find out more, the computer address is www.lungusa.org.
关于美国的新兵武装部队
DATE=3-30-2001
TITLE=AMERICAN MOSAIC #811 - Armed Forces (15)Recruiting
BYLINE=Paul Thompson
HOST:
(start at 4'15") Our question this week came by e-mail from Vietnam. Nguyen Thanh Binh would like to know what a person must do to serve in the United States Army.
The Army is only one part of the American (16)military force. The others are the Marine Corps, the Air Force, the Navy and the Coast Guard. All of these services are looking for young people to join.
No one in the United States is forced to join the military. However, in time of a national (17)emergency, the United States Congress can ask that all healthy men serve in the military.
Many American young people today enter the military because they want to travel to different parts of the world. Some join because service schools teach good job skills. And many join to serve their country.
The United States military services accept people who are between the ages of eighteen and thirty-four. A man or woman under the age of eighteen must have his or her parents' permission to join a military service. Members of the American military also must be American (18)citizens or be able to prove they live in the United States.
Young men and women must have completed high school before they are permitted to serve in the American military. Some services will accept a person who has passed a national test of high school knowledge. To become an officer, a person must have successfully completed a four-year college. All the services send new members to training schools. These schools teach young members to repair airplanes, for example, or understand (19)electronic equipment. The Armed Forces has hundreds of such jobs that call for special knowledge and skills.
Each person who wants to join signs documents that promise he or she will serve for two, three, four or six years. Some special schools like (20)helicopter pilot training require that a new member agree to stay as long as six years.
The United States Armed Forces will also help young people attend college. Some young people are able to attend college while serving in the military. Others take part in programs that help pay for higher education after they leave the service.
Many people continue to serve in the military for twenty or even thirty years. They become the senior officers and (21)enlisted service members who find they like military life. After they retire, they will receive part of their pay for as long as they live.
二十世纪最好的几首歌曲
DATE=3-30-2001
TITLE=AMERICAN MOSAIC #811 - Greatest Songs of the Twentieth Century BYLINE=Nancy Steinbach
HOST:
(start at 8'06") Earlier this month, The National (22)Endowment for the Arts and the Recording Industry Association of America announced the results of a (23)contest. The contest was to decide the greatest songs of the twentieth century.
ANNCR:
The two (24)organizations released the list as part of a plan to improve music education in American schools. They created a list of more than one-thousand songs that were considered extremely popular and of (25)historical importance. Three-hundred-sixty-five winners were chosen from that list. They were chosen by musicians, (26)critics, industry professionals, elected officials and other people who love music.
The voters named this the third best song of the century. It is "This Land Is Your Land" written and sung by Woody Guthrie.
((CUT 1: THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND))
The second place song was "White Christmas." It was written by Irving Berlin and sung by Bing Crosby.
((CUT 2: WHITE CHRISTMAS))
We leave you now with the voters' choice for greatest song of the twentieth century. It is "Somewhere Over The (27)Rainbow" from the movie "The (28)Wizard of Oz." It was written in Nineteen-Thirty-Nine by Y.P. Harburg and Harold Arlen. It is sung by Judy Garland.
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