1.The number of confirmed swine flu cases in the US has risen to 91, that includes a toddler from Mexico who is being treated at a Texas hospital and later died. Cases are now being reported in at least ten states. 2.Meantime the World Health Organi

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1. The spread of swine flu is prompting governments around the globe to take action. Cuba became the first country to impose a travel ban today by suspending flights to and from Mexico for 48 hours. This, even though the World Health Organization sa

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1.The Supreme Court is said to hear the second of back to back gay marriage cases Wednesday, a constitutional challenge to the law that prints legally married gay couples from collecting the same federal benefits straight marriage couples will receiv

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Better Coverage of Rape is Needed A recent editorial in the Journal for Public Health calls on the media to do a better job of reporting on sexual violence against women. It says, too often, the media focus on sensational crimes and fail to reveal th

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Rebuilding Liberia Health Care 重建利比里亚卫生保健系统 As Liberia rebuilds a healthcare system severely damaged by the Ebola outbreak, researchers said the nation must provide better medical services in remote rural areas. A report exami

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Group Providing Clothing, Books to Migrant Children A committee of the United States Senate is studying the Trump administrations zero tolerance policy for migrant families. The policy is directed at individuals who crossed the U.S. border with Mexic

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Dzhokhar Tsarnaev will either spend the rest of his life in jail or be executed after a jury today convicted among all 30 counts he faced for his role in the 2013 bombing at the Boston Marathon. Craig LeMoult of member station WGBH went to the site o

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在西非抗击埃博拉的美国军人将撤回 President Barack Obama, noting the decline in the number of new Ebola cases in West Africa, said Wednesday that nearly all of the remaining 1,300 American troops currently fighting the outbreak in the

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Health authorities on Taiwan say they're looking into 42 suspected human infections of the H7N9 bird flu. However, no cases have yet been confirmed on the island. Doctor Pei Chun-Zhan is with the Taiwan Center for Disease Control. The virus cannot tr

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Thinking about getting a new tatoo, Maybe a nice 3D double helix or an I-heart-Higgs Bosons. Well, you might wind up getting some mycobacteria with your body art. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has turned up about two dozen cases of t

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Package and delivery 包装运送 A: Good morning, Mr.Li. Today I am here to discuss the problem of packaging with you. 早上好,李先生。今天我来是想讨论一下包装的问题。 B: Great. It is time to discuss this issue. In fact we ar

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模仿文本: In recent years, debate has been dominated by the arrival of super-rich club owners from the United States, Russia, the Far East, and the Gulf States. Shaikh Mansour of the UAE is a controlling interest in Manchester City, for example

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今天我们要学的词是anonymous. Anonymous形容词,匿名的。An anonymous donor has pledged $9 million for the construction of two new Planned Parenthood health centers in West Texas. 一名匿名捐款人捐赠900万美元,用于在得克萨

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Carried by the female anopheles mosquito, malaria is a disease of the poor. In rural Africa, it is killing the young and the vulnerable. The need for a vaccine which would dramatically reduce mortality has never been greater. Dedicated teams of scie

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What does a food drive mean? It's nothing to do with driving a car, that's for sure. You could also have a clothes drive, or a drive of something else. It is a call for donations, to put it simply. I received a plastic bag in the mail, placed there b

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AMERICAN MOSAIC - October 18, 2002: Music by Heather Headley / Question from China about the U.S. Court System / National Book Festival HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC --VOA’s radio magazine in Spe

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2.A court appearance for Chester Stiles accused of abusing a three-year-old girl an act caught on videotape. During the brief hearing, Stiles only said he can not afford a lawyer. His public defender says he expects Stiles to fight the more than 20 f

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This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Last week a study of one hundred ninety-nine countries and territories confirmed what many people may have already noticed. People around the world are getting fatter. The study found that obesity has al

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AS IT IS 2015-06-04 MERS Cases Rising in South Korea South Korean health officials have confirmed the countrys first two deaths from Middle East Respiratory Syndrome. Officials reported Wednesday that the disease, known as MERS, has infected 30 peopl

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US Ambassador to South Korea Injured in Attack 美国驻韩国大使遇袭受伤 A Korean nationalist stabbed the U.S. ambassador to South Korea on Thursday. The knife attack, which took place in Seoul, has left Ambassador Mark Lippert with 80 stitch

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