For more than two decades a Belgian man named Rom Houben was misdiagnosed as being in a vegetative state, following a car accident. Then doctors discovered through a brain scan that he was conscious and possessed normal brain function. At first it se

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People hold placards bearing images of Iranian Neda Agha Soltan during a demonstration against Iran's clampdown on opposition activists, at the Trocadero near the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France, 25 Jul 2009 Iran last weekend blocked VOA's airing of a

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US kids raise money, collect goods for their East African pen pals Jan Sluizer | Gulu, Uganda 02 August 2010 Photo: Courtesy Diane Kroska A Ugandan student reads a letter from her American pen pal. She says the stories she heard about the widespread

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Lisa Bryant | Paris 10 April 2010 French director Roselyne Bosch takes part in a special tv show on The Rafle du Vel'd'Hiv (the great round-up or great raid of the Vel'd'Hiv) on the occasion of the release of her movie La Rafle, 15 Feb 2010, in La Pl

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March 8 is International Women's Day, a national holiday in Burkina Faso. One way of celebrating is by making new clothes from Women's Day cloth that is designed with a new pattern every year. Burkina Faso is Africa's largest cotton producer, but the

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托福考前必看:口语重要七大标准 在开始复习新托福口语之前,考生们需要首先看一下新托福口语要求的七个方面的标准,具体如下: 1. 中心是否切题: 解释:考察考生所表达的口语内容是

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Dozens of ethnic-Somali youths in northeastern Kenya, have returned home amid a parliamentary inquiry into allegations they were recruited by the Kenyan military and taken to a military training camp under false pretenses. As our correspondent report

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Scientists target tiny fossils in Martian soil in NASA's search for extraterrestrial life Rosanne Skirble | Washington, DC 30 April 2010 A proposed robotic lab would carry instruments for identifying and measuring the chemical building blocks for lif

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By June Soh Washington, D.C. 17 October 2006 watch Youngest Imam report Two teenagers who used to spend their time playing computer games after school are suddenly finding themselves as spiritual leaders. Their role relieves a U.S. Muslim community'

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Peta Thornycroft | Johannesburg 04 April 2010 African National Congress Youth League leader Julius Malema, at a rally in Harare in neighboring Zimbabwe, 3 April 2010 South African President Urges Calm Following Murder of White Supremacist Leader The

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今天我们要学的词是set the bar higher。 Set the bar higher, 意思是提高标准,严格要求。The web site set the security bar higher, 这家网站加强了安全防护措施。The school set the bar higher for providing healthy lunche

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Kenyan Farmers Going Green As scientists and political leaders around the world grapple with the issue of climate change, many farmers are looking at technologies that rely on renewable energy for their operations. Farmers in Kenya are now using two

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One year ago, Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe, then opposition-leader Morgan Tsvangirai and Arthur Mutambara, leader of another small opposition party, signed a political agreement that led to the formation of a unity government. Its purpose was to

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President Barack Obama's decision to deploy another 30,000 U.S. troops to Afghanistan - and to also ask for more troops from coalition partners - has far-reaching strategic implications for the global effort to defeat violent extremists like the Tali

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Russia has stopped delivery of natural gas to Ukraine after the failure of last minute talks to reach agreement on a price for 2009. Both sides offer assurances that gas will continue to transit from Russia through pipelines in Ukraine to consumers

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Volunteers equipped with nothing more than digital cameras are taking part in an unusual bee hunt. It's part of an environmental study that has amateur photographers documenting the impact of climate change, pollution and other factors on the interpl

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In the remote village of Dugba-yeima, hundreds of people gather around a bonfire for fambul tok a special reconciliation ceremony where victims and offenders alike speak openly about the atrocities committed in their community during eleven years of

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Puerto Rican Tainos were nearly wiped out after arrival of the Spanish Lydia Crafts | Austin, Texas 05 April 2010 Cacike Caciba Opil, a Taino chief, hopes Puerto Ricans will regain pride in their native heritage. Related Links: Tainos in Puerto Rico

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VOA's weekly science and technology radio magazine Art Chimes | Washington, DC 09 April 2010 Related Links Space Shuttle (NASA) Counterfeit drugs (Nature Medicine) Climate's Influence on Human Evolution (NRC) Fossil finger (Nature) Library of Congres

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Sara Schonhardt | Jakarta 01 April 2010 Ginan Koesmayadi, HIV advocate, soccer coach Because drug users often engage in dangerous behaviors like sharing dirty needles, they are at more risk of becoming infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. M

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