This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. (SOUND) Food companies say a new kind of maize could take the crunch out of corn chips and other popular foods. The big Swiss company Syngenta genetically engineered the maize to contain an enzyme c

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AS IT IS 2016-08-16 Are UN Sanctions Against North Korea Working? United Nations economic restrictions ordered against North Korea in March have produced mixed results. Prices for goods in North Korea have remained stable. Reports note that business

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Bank Scandals Fuel Interest in Islamic Finance Recent bank scandals have fueled interest in Islamic banking because it forbids interest or fees on loans. Questions about ethics in global finance could benefit the Islamic banking sector, experts say.

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Dairy farmer, researchers look for ways to power cars with bio-gas from cattle Tom Banse | Bellingham, Washington 23 February 2010 Dairy owner Darryl Vander Haak turns cow manure into 'bio-gas' which burns like natural gas in a small electric power p

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Provide a Better Life for Senior Citizens Now we have a growing population of senior citizens. To ensure happy lives for them has become a focus of attention. Our traditional respect of the aged needs

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It seems that Audi is working on cleaning up the rap sheet of the most polluting car fuel. After building a research center for e-diesel (a renewable resource created artificially) last November, the Ingolstadt firm has announced that the very first

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Good morning, I am Melissa Long. Here at the CNN Center in Atlanta on this Thursday. And here are some of the headlines that are NOW IN THE NEWS. The East Coast is now dealing with severe weather that left behind heavy flooding in several states in

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Investigators later surmised that the Avianca pilots must have assumed that ATC was jumping them to the head of the queue, in front of the dozens of other planes circling Kenedy. 过后调查人员曾猜想,阿维安卡的飞行员一定认为,AT

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AGRICULTURE REPORT — December 3, 2002: Corn, Part 2 By Mario Ritter This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Last week, we told about the use of corn to feed cows in the cattle industry.

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VOA News 16 October 2010 - Tens of thousands of people are marching in cities across France in the latest protests against(抗议) President Nicolas Sarkozy's efforts to raise the retirement age(退休年龄). Workers marched in dozens of cit

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The U.S. space agency is moving ahead with preparations for Thursday's scheduled launch of the space shuttle(航天飞机) Discovery on its mission to the International Space Station. NASA said it was loading liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen into th

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I'm gonna take all this negativity and use it as fuel and I'm gonna find a silver lining. 语音讲解 单词发音 gonna abbr.(美)将要(等于going to) negativity n.否定性;消极性 fuel n.燃料;刺激因素 silver n.银;银器;银

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And what about the waste? Everyone worries about the waste. 那来自核能的废物呢?每个人都在担心废料。 Well, the interesting thing about the waste is how little of it there is. This is just from one plant. 但是有趣的是,产生的

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雾霾爆表。今天我们聊空气质量、环境、新能源这些关乎民生的大事。也看看美国曾经如何治理洛杉矶雾霾。 关键词: Air quality issue: 空气质量问题 Paris Environment Conference: 巴黎环境大会 COP21

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讲解文本: fit like a glove 合身,合适 Her new dress fits her like a glove. 她的新裙子超合身的。 My girlfriend bought me a new computer, and it fits like a glove. 女朋友给我新买了一台电脑,太适合我了。 疯狂练习

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Business 商业报道 Carmakers 汽车制造商 Revenge of the petrolheads 燃油车赢得先机 Fossil-fuel cars are getting much cleaner, making life hard for green ones 燃油汽车越来越环保了,环保汽车日子难过了 THE Chevrolet Vol

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Still, the paper contains essential insights which should frame discussion of data's role in the economy. 尽管如此,这篇论文仍然包含一些深刻的见解,它们应当成为数据在经济中的角色之讨论的框架。 One concerns t

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CHICAGO, April 1 (Xinhua)-- Ford Motor Co. outsold General Motors Co. last month for only the second time since 1998, as higher gasoline prices drove up demand for smaller and more fuel- efficient vehicles, such as the Fiesta subcompact and Explorer

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Kid RockSheryl Crow-Picture (Kid Rock) Livin' my life in a slow hell Different girl every night at the hotel I ain't seen the sun shine in 3 damn days Been fuelin' up on cocaine and whisky Wish I had a good girl to miss me Lord I wonder if I'll ever

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First up,authorities are questioning the captain of an Italian cruise ship that wrecked last Friday.The captain was under house arrest yesterday.He may be accused of abandoning ship.The captain says the rock that the ship hit was uncharted and on his

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