What do all of the over 4,000 colleges and universities in the United States have in common? The answer is not a lot. These schools are all different in many ways. The same is true for their requirements for admitting students. College applications c...
NASA's Cassini Death Dives into Saturn, Ending Mission The spacecraft Cassini ended its 20-year mission on Friday with a final death dive into the planet Saturn. 卡西尼宇宙飞船周五最后一次冲向土星，结束了它20年的使命。 NASA...
Media Should Not 'Sensationalize' Suicide In the United States, September is Suicide Prevention Month. The World Health Organization says that every year about 800,000 people commit suicide around the world. September 10 was international suicide pre...
Delta Blues: The Birth of American Music I look at blues as the way of life its a story, a story told with music. That voice belongs to Jimmy Duck Holmes, a blues musician. He is sitting on an old chair in a dark corner of the Blue Front Cafe playing...
Paris! It was in Paris during the summer of 1840. There and then, I met a strange and interesting young man named August Dupin. Dupin was the last member of a well-known family, a family which had once been rich and famous. August Dupin, however, was...
United States lawmakers stood with undocumented Asian-American immigrants earlier this week to show support for the young students and workers living in the country. Their future is uncertain after President Donald Trumps administration announced pla...
Experts Examine Links Between Brain Injuries and American Football The number of young people who play American football decreased from 2008 to 2016 according to the Aspen Institute, a research center. 据研究中心阿斯彭研究所，从2008年到...
Singer Selena Gomez Reveals Kidney Transplant This is Whats Trending Today Singer Selena Gomez made her name acting in childrens television shows. She was also singer Justin Biebers girlfriend for a while. But recently she is better known for her mus...
US Orders Agencies to Remove Russian Companys Security Products The United States has barred federal agencies from using computer security products made by the company Kaspersky Lab. 美国已经禁止联邦机构使用卡巴斯基实验室制作的计...
In the 1998 film Saving Private Ryan, actor Tom Hanks plays the part of Captain Miller. The fictional Captain Miller was an English teacher before becoming a soldier and fighting in World War II. In one scene, Captain Miller describes how he has chan...
Study: Record Low Numbers of White, Christian Americans The number of Americans who identify as white and Christian now represents less than 50 percent of the United States population. 认定为白人和基督教徒的美国人数量目前不到美国人...
Why We Take Selfies Why do people take selfies? 人们为什么自拍？ Researchers at Syracuse University in New York tried to answer that question.They came up with some surprising answers. 美国纽约雪城大学的研究人员试图回答这个问...
Americans Remember September 11, 2001 This is Whats Trending Today. On the morning of September 11, 2001, terrorists connected to al-Qaida hijacked four passenger airplanes. They flew two of them into the World Trade Center, known as the Twin Towers,...
Irma Weakens After Hard Hits on Caribbean, Florida Hurricane Irma has weakened to a tropical storm after causing widespread damage on Caribbean islands and the U.S. state of Florida. 飓风艾玛在加勒比海岛以及美国佛罗里达州造成大面...
United States congressional committees have rejected proposals to sharply cut spending for U.S. diplomatic and foreign assistance programs. In his first budget, President Donald Trump called for a reduction of nearly one third in the State Department...
