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VOA标准英语2012--US Army Corps of Engineers Fights Receding Mississippi Waters

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VOA慢速英语--三角洲蓝调:美国音乐的诞生

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NPR 2011-05-12

The burgeoning Mississippi River is forcing residents in the poverty-stricken delta to run for higher ground. Teresa Welsh, a mother of three, says she's trying to keep it together. Knowing full well, her home will go underwater before the river cres

VOA慢速英语2011--The Mississippi River Floods America’s

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VOA标准英语2011--Mississippi Flooding Harms Agriculture i

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VOA标准英语2012--US Army Corps of Engineers Works to Avert Crisis on Mississippi River

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VOA标准英语2012--US Coast Guard Monitors Receding Mississippi River Levels

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美国国家公共电台 NPR The Legacy Of The Mississippi Delta Chinese

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Think of the Mississippi Delta, and you might imagine cotton fields, sharecroppers, blues music. Well, it's been all that. But for more than a century, it's also been a magnet for immigrants. On her road trip to the Delta, NPR's Me

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By Greg Flakus New Orleans 25 April 2008 The Mississippi river, which drains more than 40 percent of North America's river flow into the Gulf of Mexico, is at its highest point in years, leading to concern that levees protecting the city of New Orlea

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AP 2011-05-15

1. Crews are working to shore up levees along the Mississippi River as floodwaters are expected to swell in the next few days in the Mississippi Delta. State officials are urging residents to seek higher ground. The local economy is taking a hit as t