VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I'm Faith Lapidus. VOICE TWO: And I'm Bob Doughty. This week we talk about the lung disease asthma. (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: A boy in Lima, Peru gets treatment for asthma Asthma is a serious l

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This is AP News Minute. President Donald Trump has wrapped up his nine-day overseas trip after delivering a speech to US troops in Italy. G-7 leaders at the summit in Sicily have been pressuring Trump to stay in the Paris climate agreement, a decisio

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Dream vacations may become a reality once again for European travelers. Scientists in Iceland report the volcanic eruptions that have disrupted air travel across Europe for more than a month appear to be calming down and the ash cloud that has threat

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The closure of airspace over Britain, Northern Europe and Scandinavia is having economic repercussions around the world. It has halted the transport of goods, stranded hundreds of thousands of passengers and dealt a severe economic blow to the airlin

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今天我们要学的词是 destination. Destination 目的地。Spain has overtaken Italy as the No. 1 destination for migrants crossing the Mediterranean to try to reach Europe. 西班牙取代意大利,成为移民穿越地中海,投奔欧洲的

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今天我们要学的词是joint venture. Joint venture合资企业。U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said the U.S. can block companies from forming joint ventures in China if there are critical technology transfers involved. 美国财政部长姆

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ECONOMICS REPORT - Economic News in 2005 By Mario Ritter Broadcast: Friday, December 30, 2005 I'm Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Economic Report. Today, we look back on some top stories of t

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(52) / 评论(0) 分类 健康与经济

First US Face Recognition Terminal Opens at Atlanta Airport A United States airport has become the first in the nation to permit passengers to use facial recognition technology to get on flights. 美国一个机场成为全美首个允许乘客使用人

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今天我们要学的词是overdue。 Overdue, 过期的,延误的。 The book is two weeks overdue, 这本书已经过期两周了。 Boeing will finally deliver the 787 Dreamliner, to Japan's All Nippon Airways, three years overdue, 延迟三年后

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1. The official death toll from the typhoon in the Philippine is nearly 1800 and authorities say it could rise considerably. An AP reporter in the devastated city of Tacloban saw dozens of bodies and no evidence organized aid delivery. 2. The Justice

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1. U.S. Airways and American Airlines say they will use all legal options to fight back against a challenges to their merger plans. The Justice Department joined a half dozen states in filing a lawsuit to block the merger in federal court, saying it

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This is AP News Minute Rescuers used a crane to hoist the fuselage of a wrecked Trans Asia Airways plane from a shallow river in Taiwans capital late Wednesday as they searched into the night for 17 people missing in a crash that at least killed 26 o

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This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Next week is the one hundredth anniversary of the Paris Air Show, the biggest in the world. It takes place every two years, and organizers say even with the economic downturn they expect a full house. Airb

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A senior government official says Pakistan's top civilian and military leaders had planned to dine at Islamabad's Marriot Hotel when a suicide car bombing struck it, killing 53 people. While an investigation is under way into the country's deadliest

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An aircraft is seen after takeoff at the airport in Frankfurt, Germany when German air traffic control opened the airspace after it was closed for days due to the volcanic ash cloud that came from Iceland, 21 Apr 2010 The closure of airspace over Bri

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New Study Could Change Treatment For Asthma Most adults who have mild or moderate asthma are told to use their inhalers twice daily, even if they don't have symptoms. The medicine in those compressed-air inhalers are corticosteroids, which open a per

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The TransAsia crash is Taiwans first deadly civil aviation accident in more than 10 years. It left 48 people dead. And their grieving relatives gathered at a funeral home on Penghu island on Friday to mourn their loved ones. Full story Rescue and rec

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Federal and state antitrust officials are suing to block America and US Airways for merging into what it said to be the worlds largest airlines by passenger miles. Attorney general Eric Holder argues that if the $11billion deal goes through, air trav

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Secretary of State John Kerry began talks with his Russian counterpart in Geneva today, saying the world is watching to see if two major powers can work together to rid Syria of chemical weapons. NPR's Michele Kelemen reports Kerry is testing how ser

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The data recorded by the two black boxes onboard GE222 of Taiwan has been successfully downloaded in full. Officials from Taiwans aviation safety council said at a press conference Saturday that this is fortunate news, because both black boxes were s

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