VOA标准英语2010年-Food Comforts in War Zones

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Perhaps you've seen or heard of David Copperfield and other illusionists who seem to make entire buildings disappear right before your eyes. Well, some people in St. Louis, Missouri - and in other U.S. cities as well - are going them one better. They

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Malnutrition Devastates Horn of Africa Drought Areas Malnutrition rates are skyrocketing in certain areas of the Horn of Africa, which is experiencing the worst drought in decades. To treat malnutrition, aid workers choose from an array of powders, p

VOA标准英语2011--Ice Hockey a Hit in Beijing

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VOA标准英语2013--Enthusiasm Lingers After Iran Election

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VOA标准英语2014--南苏丹的战争罪行

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VOA标准英语2013--Device Keeps Internet On When Power Goes Off

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VOA标准英语2013--Cyber Threat Top Concern for NATO

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VOA标准英语2010年-Our World - 1 May 2010

This week on Our World: Geneticists find new clues to a puzzling disease ... the fungus that's killing off bats ... and the coming increase in hazardous electronic waste... WILLIAMS: By around 2030, we're looking at potentially a billion e-waste comp

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VOA标准英语2010-Senegal Says It Remains Committed to Try

Senegal has said it wants all $38 million of the trial's proposed three-year budget up front, a demand the international community is reluctant to agree to, especially because Senegal has not offered a clear plan on how it will conduct the trial. Ann

VOA标准英语2013--战争是不可避免的吗?

Is War Inevitable? 战争是不可避免的吗? Throughout human history, war has taken countless lives, cost untold sums of money and brought great cities to ruin. But despite the long list of conflicts from ancient times to modern day, psychologist

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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