Broadcast: September 16, 2003 (THEME) VOICE ONE: I'm Bob Doughty with Sarah Long, and this is the VOA Special English program, SCIENCE IN THE NEWS. VOICE TWO: This week -- reports about tuberculosis .

发表于:2018-12-01 / 阅读(170) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA2003(下)-发展与科学

Karen Kramer with daughter, Stella Grace, shortly after giving birth at home. The use of midwives to help with home childbirths is an ancient and honored tradition in many societies around the world. But in the United States, midwifery began to fall

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(38) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2010年(七)月

It is moving, it is sobering, it is a reach back into history. The tales about the family tree of first lady Michelle Obama and an American map that traces her back to the slaves and slave owners that were in her past. This woman who made it all the

发表于:2018-12-11 / 阅读(58) / 评论(0) 分类 访谈录2009

This is AP News Minute. President Trump says his administration's zero tolerance on illegal immigration will continue. On Wednesday, he reversed the policy of separating families from children, although it's unclear how the new guidelines will take s

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Zika virus infection during pregnancy has been linked to the abnormal brain development called microcephaly. Now a study finds more evidence for the connection. Researchers at the CDC in the U.S. and the National Health Institute in Colombia found th

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This is AP News Minute. Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are set to take the debate stage Wednesday night for one final prime time showdown in Los Vegas. Both candidates facing their own challenges with 20 days to go before the election. For Trump, t

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Fistula Surgery Changes Nigerian Women's Lives Allowing the patient to live a normal life and giving her back some dignity is the objective of this surgery performed in Jahun hospital, in northeast Nigeria. Since 2008, the aid group Doctors Without B

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Report: Best and Worst Places to be a Mother A new report says Norway is the best place in the world to be a mother, while Niger is the worst. The humanitarian group Save the Children has released its State of the Worlds Mothers 2012 report. The repo

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Youve Heard of The Birth of the Blues Heres one of those word-association games. If we said waltz, youd probably think of Vienna, Austria. Closer to our home, if we said Dixieland, New Orleans, Louisiana, would likely rush to mind. Country music? Nas

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Scott Joplin played the piano at clubs and bars throughout Sedalia. He wrote 44 original rags that put an emphasis on the off-beats within scores. He also wrote a complete ragtime opera. Here's one of those word-association games. If we said waltz, y

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Oh,whistle,i thought i hear a whistle here.something extraordinary is happening.Puck uses her unique call to identify herself to other dolphins,Yet strangely there are no other dolphins around.J believes that Puck is calling her unborn calf,if she is

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The evidence suggested that billions of tons of matter from a massive star had shrunk to nothing.So what we are left with here is this mind-boggling idea of mass contained in zero volume, and that just make your head spin, but that's what we call a b

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By Nico Colombant Dakar 07 May 2007 While hospitals and doctors in Africa are few and far between, in the impoverished West African country of Mali, the government takes health care to remote villages, by way of little mopeds. A system of so-called m

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A 30 year old Samoan woman gave birth to a baby on a plane from Samoa to New Zealand. The baby was found by cleaners after the plane landed. It was in the toilet rubbish. The mother was found waiting at immigration because she had lost her passport.

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By Zulima Palacio Washington 17 September 2009 World population is growing - highest in underdeveloped countries A new report indicates that, in less than two years, global population will reach seven billion people, a number that imposes new challe

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Statistics New Zealand released figures of births for the year ending June 2010. The figures show that births are up by 2%. Most of that increase is in Auckland. In 1961, women had an average of 4.3 children but today women have an average of 2.2 chi

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讲解: Today's key word is Birth. Birth 出生,诞生 When a woman gives birth, she produces a baby from her body. 一个人类宝宝到底是从哪里来的呢? 今天呢,我们一起来研究一下,坐月子这个惨无人道的活动。 话

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Topic 1-Graduates Reluctant to Start a Business A recent report reveals that fewer and fewer university graduates plan to start their own business now. And the higher educational background they have, the less willingness to start a business. Why is

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Voice 1 Welcome to Spotlight. Im Ruby Jones. Voice 2 And Im Ryan Geertsma. 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 In ancient times, there was a s

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