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VOA标准英语2015--Young Women Bear HIV Burden

Young Women Bear HIV Burden The head of PEPFAR, the Presidents Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, says young women and girls are disproportionally affected by HIV. Dr. Deborah Birx said seven thousand young women are infected each week with the AIDS vir

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Official campaigning has begun in Ivory Coast's long-delayed presidential race, as election officials continue preparations for the vote on October 31st. This weekend, Ivory Coast's 14 presidential candidates officially hit the campaign trail, raisin

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Looks like the auto on the right, which already looks the worse for wear, is about to get zapped once again. There's a really destructive form of entertainment being staged in many parts of the United States. It's called the demolition derby. The der

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By Ernest Leong Washington 25 July 2007 She is a Persian-American athlete who was both a state and national Tae Kwon Do champion, and one of the top amateur boxers in the world. Now, barely two years after having her second child, Kina Elyassi has se

VOA标准英语2012--PEPFAR Goes Beyond HIV

PEPFAR Goes Beyond HIV U.S. efforts to help those infected with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa have saved millions of lives. But theyve had another benefit as well better care for pregnant women who are not HIV positive. Theres been a great deal of concer

VOA标准英语2012--Bottles to Flake: Plastic’s Journey Continues

Bottles to Flake: Plastics Journey Continues They traveled hundreds of kilometers before today. Now begins the next leg of a journey that spans the entire globe. Welcome to one of the United States largest plastic recycling plants. On an average week

VOA标准英语2012--Definitions of Autism Are Changing

Definitions of Autism Are Changing The Perromat family has three beautiful boys: Lucas, Philip and Thomas. Philip is the middle child. By the time he was a toddler, Kim and Carlos Perromat had already suspected that Philip's failure to make eye conta

VOA标准英语2012--More Malians Flee to Mauritania

More Malians Flee to Mauritania Theres a growing number of Malian refugees in neighboring Mauritania. Most are being taken to a camp about 30 kilometers from the border. However, a medical aid group says theres an increasing demand at the camp for cl

VOA标准英语2012--Opposing Approaches Will Determine Senegal's Second-Round Vote

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VOA标准英语2012--Saving the Lives of Mothers and Babies

Saving the Lives of Mothers and Babies A medical aid group says every day about one thousand women worldwide die in childbirth or from complications related to pregnancy. Doctors Without Borders says most of those deaths can be prevented. Its release

VOA标准英语2010年-Support Spreads Beyond the Poor in Tha

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Activist launches worldwide campaign to fight climate change Rosanne Skirble | Washington, DC 19 April 2010 Bill McKibben at a rally in New York's Times Square - one of over 5,200 events in 181 countries organized by 350.org for the 'International Da

VOA标准英语2010-Leading from Behind

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Different combinations of sniffing in and out can be used to control a wheelchair. Reasearchers in Israel have developed an electronic controller that allows severely disabled people to control their wheelchairs or computers with a simple sniff of th

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Russian nationalists in Crimea have burned Ukrainian history textbooks to protest what they say are distortions of the past by the administration of former President Viktor Yushchenko. The recent transfer of power in Kyiv has raised hope among Russia

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The World Health Organization (WHO) lists colon cancer among the deadliest diseases. In 2004, some 639,000 people around the world died from colon cancer. If caught in time, surgery and chemotherapy are effective treatments. But a new randomized tria

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