Foreclosures continue to rise in Florida and other U.S. states hit hard by the real estate crisis. Several Florida counties are trying to fight back against the problem by bringing banks and homeowners together to find a way to save troubled mortgag

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(52) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2009年(五月)

By Claudia Blume Hong Kong 23 October 2006 Malaysia's renowned Feng Shui expert Lilian Too shows a mobile phone services offer her Feng Shui tips The ancient Chinese practice of arranging space to achieve harmony with the environment, called Feng Sh

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Couple Aims to Preserve Yemen's Past Amid Present Chaos The ancient land of Yemen is known more today for its fight against poverty, tribalism and terrorism. Perhaps it's not the best place for an American couple to build a house. But that's what sch

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By Doug Levine Washington 19 August 2007 One of the many thousands who lost their homes and belongings to Hurricane Katrina was New Orleans music legend and lifelong resident Fats Domino. Although it's been nearly two years since Katrina devastated t

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By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 22 January 2008 An international agricultural research group recently announced a fellowship program to help African women who work in agricultural sciences to advance their careers. The program is based on two earlier pilo

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W.H.O. launches effort to prevent deaths and injuries in the operating room. Transcript of radio broadcast: 01 July 2008 This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Doctors around the world now perform more than two hundred thirty million major o

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This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Women wait near their children as they are treated for diarrhea at the government-run Children's Hospital in Allahabad, India, earlier this year. Diarrhea kills one and a half million children each

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Sri Lanka hopes to take advantage of the growing regional demand for information technology graduates. A new training institute opens next year to provide skilled graduates to meet increasing demand. Ron Corben recently visited Colombo and has this

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Indian Mobile Phone App Aims to Thwart Sexual Assaults Cheena Sikka is typical of the modern, professional Indian woman. She works hard. She works late. When her shift is finished, a company cab takes her part of the way home. But she worries about t

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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told an audience in the town of Kerman that Tehran is preparing a new package of proposals for the West, aimed at resolving a lengthy international dispute over its nuclear program. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahm

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Vietnam Aims to Improve Coffee Supplier Reputation When most people think of coffee they do not usually think of Vietnam. But, this year the Southeast Asian nation surpassed Brazil as the world's biggest coffee exporter. Almost all are robusta beans

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Campaign Aims to Help End Childhood HIV Infections A new campaigns been launched to help eliminate new HIV infections among children by 2015. Its called Believe it, Do it. Its estimated nearly 400,000 children become infected with the AIDS virus ever

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World Prematurity Day Aims to Lower Rates of Premature Births This tiny newborn is one of more than 15 million babies who start their lives with a major disadvantage...being born too soon. Preterm birth is the greatest killer of newborns around the w

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Protest Cleanup Also Aims for Wall Street Cleanup Anti-Wall Street demonstrators in New York City have pre-empted the official cleanup and potential dispersal of their protest by cleaning up the park where the action is taking place themselves. And t

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AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: The Academy Awards are this Sunday. And the playwright and composer Lin-Manuel Miranda is up for best original song for this. It's called How Far I'll Go from the film Moana. (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, MOANA) AULI'I CRAVALHO: (As Moana,

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DAVID GREENE, HOST: We have brought you more than a few stories about the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare. But Modicare, nicknamed for India's prime minister, Narendra Modi, is actually the biggest government health plan in the world. Modi wants to

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Government-funded researchers hope to commercialize an idea called a mobile harbor. The developers aim to expand global shipping options while reining in carbon emissions. Kurt Achin | Seoul 04 January 2010 A computer simulation demonstrates how smal

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By Noel King Kigali 28 October 2007 Heads of state and representatives from some of the world's leading information technology companies have descended on the Rwandan capital, Kigali, for the Connect Africa Leaders' summit set to begin Monday. Noel K

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By Phillip Wellman Dakar 14 October 2007 The United States Agency for International Development and the U.S.-based World Cocoa Foundation have agreed to launch a multi-year partnership aimed at improving education and providing greater opportunities

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今天我们要学的词是initiative。 Initiative, 新方案,倡议。澳大利亚政府最近在护照的性别选择上,加上了一个indeterminate不确定。有关官员说, This initiative is in line with the Australian Government's com

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