The death toll has risen in the devastating mudslide in Washington States. Jason Biermann is with the Snohomish County Department of Emergency Management. They have identified one more victim, bring the total of confirmed fatalities to 18 and we also

发表于:2018-12-02 / 阅读(69) / 评论(0) 分类 2014年NPR美国国家公共电台3月

BBC News with Jerry Smit. US media reports say the President Trump told senior Russian officials visiting the White House that the FBI Director James Comey was crazy and that firing him had relieved great pressure on him as President. The White House

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英国每日邮报:坐飞机安全吗?.昨天,又一架阿尔及利亚的客机坠毁.空难死亡率持续攀升,然而专家却说2014年仍可被列进民航史上最安全的年份里. 民航客机 The Daily Mail: Is it safe to fly? As ANOTHER je

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1. President Bush vigorously defends US interrogation practices in the war on terror and lobbies against the congressional drive to outlaw torture. 2. Crews found the body of another apparent victim f

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The historic earthquake that hit Haiti on January 12, changed it's capital city Port-au-Prince forever. And while the American military has secured it's damaged port and streets, international aid organizations supply medical and food supplies and ca

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Joe DeCapua 27 April 2010 Sub-Saharan Africas maternal and child mortality rate remains high despite an overall worldwide reduction, according to The Lancet medical journal. About 350,000 women die annually from child-birth related accidents. As a re

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The border between the Central Asian republics of Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan has been closed amid indications of shooting and explosions on the Uzbek side. Kyrgyz officials say Uzbekistan has closed its border with Kyrgyzstan. Kyrgyz and Russian medi

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RotavirusImmunizationProtectsPeopleWhoDon'tGetVaccine Rotavirus causes severe diarrhea that kills more than a half-million people each year, mostly very young children. A recently-introduced vaccine has proved to be very effective and has shown some

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DAVID GREENE, HOST: We head to New Jersey, where a growing number of babies are sleeping in cardboard boxes. This is an idea borrowed from Finland, where for decades, the government has given expectant moms a package of maternity items to take home,

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Dialogue 1 Jingjing: Hey Mark, did you hear about the plane that almost crashed? 京晶:马克,听说那个飞机差点坠毁的事件了吗? Mark: Which one? You mean the flight in China that was saved by the captain? 马克:哪一个?你指

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Local education officials in China have suspended trips to overseas summer camps in the home city of the two teenage girls who died in the Asiana Airlines plane crash in San Francisco recently. This decision has sparked hot debate on the frenzy surro

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Now you'd think that from a health point of view, lying in a hospital was probably the safest place to be, but More4 News and Channel4 News Online have discovered the number of deaths in hospitals due to medical errors have doubled in the last 2 year

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The Great Depression Increased Life Expectancy A study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences finds that the population life expectancy actually increased during the Great Depression. Karen Hopkin reports Believe it or not, depression

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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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By Stefan Bos Budapest 08 June 2008 At least 37 miners in Ukraine were trapped underground following a powerful explosion during maintenance work at a coal mine in the eastern city of Donetsk. Officials say the blast destroyed the main shaft of the

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The World Health Organization reports it has received nearly 6,500 officially confirmed cases of swine influenza A-H1N1 - including 65 deaths - from 33 countries. While this is serious, WHO says the disease has not yet become a pandemic. 世界卫生组

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Prime Minister Tony Abbott says there is absolutely no evidence to support claims that asylum seekers suffered burns while under direction of the Australian navy. Indonesian police are investigating claims that seven asylum seekers burned their hands

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Workplace Relation Minister Bill Shorten will hold talk with Telstra and its contractors today over the NBN asbestos scare. Several sites in three States have been shut down where asbestos was disturbed while pits were being prepared by workers. The

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今天我们要学的词是picturesque。Picturesque形容词,意思是如画一般的、别具一格的。At least 58 people died when the most powerful earthquake in over eight decades hit Mexico, with most fatalities taking place in the pictures

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Heatwave or Glorious Sunshine? 热浪还是灿烂阳光? However, there is some bad news too. Health agencies confirmed there has been a significant rise in the number of fatalities in the UK since the start of the latest hot spell two weeks ago. A

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