SCIENCE IN THE NEWS - Reforms at NIH / Tobacco Smoke a Danger to Children / A New Way to Add Iron to the Diet By Cynthia Kirk and Jill Moss Broadcast: Tuesday, February 15, 2005 VOICE ONE: This is SCI

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US Drought Linked to Climate Change Parched earth In Texas, the earth is parched. Rivers have dried up, and pasture land has turned brown from the heat. Its been this way since January 2011. The southwestern state is the fourth largest producer of ri

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Online Classes May Force Changes at Universities This is pretty amazing, said the University of Virginia's David Evans, teaching an online introduction to Computer Science. Online classes are now taught by many top universities and offer everything f

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为了参加政府举办的风俗文化节,雪莉和好朋友简商量着社区该出个什么样的传统表演节目,一起来看看吧! Listen Read Learn Jane: The government is going to organize a folk-custom activity at the end of the month. And our community is supposed to put on a pe

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George Gershwin: More of the Life and Music of One of America's Great Songwriters Written by - Shelley Gollust (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: Im Barbara Klein. VOICE TWO: And Im Steve Ember with People in America in VOA Special English. Today we continue our rep

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Giving the wrong change 找错钱 The casher short change me 100$. 收银员少找我100美元 I didn't find the situation until I got home. 我直到回家才发现这个情况 I went back to the store quickly for telling the casher. 我急忙赶回商

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James Q. Wilson Changes Policing in America Welcome to This Is America with VOA Learning English. Today, we are talking about political and social scientist James Q. Wilson. Wilson was interested in a great many subjects. But he was best known for hi

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Agriculture Report - Study Links Climate Change to Changes in Crop Yields This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. A new study says climate change has reduced the world's wheat and maize production. The study says rice and soybean yields h

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Global Warming Could Delay Next Ice Age The next ice age could be delayed by tens of thousands of years due to excessive amounts of heat-trapping carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, which disrupts Earths natural cycle of warming and cooling, according

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Somalis in US Optimistic About Changes Back Home After taking office this week, Mohamud said he is ready to lead. The former professor and longtime civil society activist defeated incumbent Sharif Sheikh Ahmed by a legislative vote of 190 to 79 votes

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2011 Saw Challenges of Hunger and Poverty The Worldwatch Institute said in 2011 far too many people were living with less than they needed. It says, for example, nearly one billion people were hungry and just as many were illiterate. Worldwatch Insti

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Democrats in the US Congress are racing to pass health care reform legislation. Currently, people in their 20s are the largest group in the United States without health insurance. With skyrocketing health care costs, those with low incomes often cann

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PursuingAcademicAdequacyinCollege College students are back in class across America. But not all of their courses involve the rigor of, say, paleontology or advanced calculus. Every American college has what are called gut courses. Theyre ones in whi

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Pioneering Reporter Helped Change Face of US TV News Through the first half of the 20th century, as television became a fixture in U.S. homes, the reporters Americans saw on TV were white, and almost all men. That began to change in the 1960s. Africa

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Kurds Have New Hopes Amid Mideast Changes It's lunchtime, and kebabs are on the grill at a newly-opened Kurdish restaurant in the Washington area. Hekmat Bamarni came here from northern Iraq in the 1970s, and he sits at a table in the restaurant with

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New Study Could Change Treatment For Asthma Most adults who have mild or moderate asthma are told to use their inhalers twice daily, even if they don't have symptoms. The medicine in those compressed-air inhalers are corticosteroids, which open a per

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Global financier George Soros will give $100 million to Human Rights Watch. U.S. financier George Soros has made a $100-million matching grant to Human Rights Watch through his New York-based Open Society Foundations. The global recession has taken a

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The Egyptian village of Kafr Torky lies along the banks of the Nile, seemingly a world away from the passions that played out further north, in Cairo's Tahrir Square. Yet even in such a bucolic setting, the demonstrations and ultimate victory of the

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Obama Security Team Faces New Challenges, New Priorities In nominating former Senator Chuck Hagel as defense secretary, President Obama acknowledged that his team will deal with a changing world. Ending the war in Afghanistan and caring for those who

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LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: General Electric is one of the most storied corporations in American history co-founded by Thomas Edison and redefined by legendary CEO Jack Welch. For more than a century, GE's products, from dishwashers to MRI machines, c

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