6. Official: Drinking Improves Thinking It is guaranteed to raise a cheer among those who enjoy a tipple: moderate drinkers are better thinkers than teetotallers or those who overindulge. Research by the Australian National University in Canberra sug

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研究表明,老年人喝酒后会影响行路时避开障碍物的灵活性。 Subjects with an average age of 62 had trouble avoiding an obstacle placed on a treadmill after consuming even small amounts of alcohol. Cynthia Graber reports A signif

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This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Every few years, two groups do a study of how many Americans wash their hands after using the toilet. These groups are the American Society for Microbiology and the American Cleaning Institute, formerly

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In Todays TECH BYTES, the worlds top cell phone maker takes aim at Apple. Nokia has launched its first touch screen phone to rival the iPhone. The express music phone plays music and videos, stores eight gigs of memory and has a slightly smaller scre

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037 free time activities Words Paint dance sing draw cook shop write read Phrases Chat online Surf the net Play football/soccer/baseball/basketball Go swimming/golfing Do tai qi Pool Computer games Tennis Ice skating Bowling Taekwondo Badminton Ping

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ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: If one glass of wine or one beer takes the edge off, why not have a few more? Well, this thinking may help explain new findings published in The Journal of the American Medical Association Psychiatry. As NPR's Allison Aubrey repo

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Voice 1 Welcome to Spotlight. Im Liz Waid. Voice 2 And Im Joshua Leo. Spotlight uses a special English method of broadcasting. It is easier for people to understand, no matter where in the world they live. Voice 1 It was July 8, 2011. Betty Ford had

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Does drinking an alcoholic beverage make you warmer? That's the question Yael and Don discuss on this Moment of Science. Yael: Hey Don, what're you reading? Don: A travel brochure. Listen to this. When the weather turns cold, some people dream about

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How much alcohol the yeast can tolerate depends partly on the type of yeast. And thats another reason wine is stronger than beer: beer-yeast, with a lower tolerance for alcohol, is killed by the time the alcohol reaches about nine percent. Wine-yeast

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It was Anderson's birthday. He was turning 21 years old. His friends planned a party for him. Anderson could now legally drink alcohol, but his friends wanted him to get very drunk. As soon as Anderson arrived, they gave him his first shot of Tequila

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Todd: OK, Shane, why don't you talk a little about why you came to Japan? Shane: Well, I suppose the reason I came to Japan is because, I suppose it's a personal thing. There's many different people in Dublin, different types of people. I do not thin

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By Jeff Swicord Washington 06 August 2007 In 1984 the legal drinking age in the U.S. was raised from 18 to 21 in all 50 states. That was in response to the number of drunk driving fatalities involving young people nationwide. But as VOA's Jeff Swicor

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今天我们要学的词是addiction。 Addiction, 上瘾。Alcohol addiction, 喝酒上瘾,gambling addiction, 赌博上瘾。现在有很多人上网玩游戏上瘾。The first in-patient treatment center for Internet addiction has opened in Wash

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今天我们要学的词是minor。 Minor, 有未成年人的意思。 He was charged with supplying alcohol to a minor, 他被指控向未成年人提供酒精饮料。美国小儿科医生联合会警告说,日光美黑沙龙对未成年人健康有

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Well, yael, the average weight difference between women and men is one reason why women tend to get intoxicated faster, but theres more. Women also tend to have more fat and less muscle than men, even tall women. This is significant because muscle ti

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For over 7,000 years, Asians have been brewing beer. But it's only in the past few years that Asia has overtaken Europe and America to become the world's biggest beer-drinking continent. With an increasingly young and upwardly mobile population, ther

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You are feeling very sleepy... These are not words normally addressed to policemen. But this might well be the sort of language directed to officers in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh. Senior officers there have called in a hypnotist to help

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Voice 1 Welcome to Spotlight. I'm Liz Waid. Voice 2 And I'm Joshua Leo. Spotlight uses a special English method of broadcasting. It is easier for people to understand, no matter where in the world they live. 'I need another drink.' 'I need to smoke a

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