By David McAlary Washington 28 February 2007 A U.S. spacecraft has taken the closest images of Jupiter since the Galileo probe perished in a programmed dive into the huge planet's atmosphere four years ago. The spacecraft's destination is icy, dista

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The inspector general at the Justice Department says a top aide to former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales used political considerations in screening candidates for employment at the agency in violation of federal law. VOA's Deborah Tate reports fr

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A human-rights group is bringing fresh allegations of torture by Kenya's security forces. In a new report, Human Rights Watch says hundreds of civilians were tortured or beaten during a government security operation to disarm militants last year. Hu

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Climate-Controlled Time Machine Tests Prairie Future Researchers from the University of Oregon have set up a kind of time machine to test how a warmer climate might affect grasslands and prairies around the world. Today, grasslands cover between 25 a

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ENPN NFL insider Adam Schefter joins us now from network headquarters in B Connecticut. Good morning! Adam, can you just give us your take on Incognito's interview.I think we saw yesterday. It's become perfectly obvious.There really are three sizes t

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相信吗?你身上寄生的细菌群有辨识身份的功能。 They say that who you hang out with says a lot about who you are. Well, the microbes that hang out on your fingers can point to exactly who you are. Because scientists [Noah Fierera e

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By Peter Fedynsky Washington, DC 08 June 2006 watch Secret Prisons report There have been vehement rejections in Europe and the United States of a report asserting the existence of secret U.S prisons in Europe. A Council of Europe investigation alle

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AS IT IS 2013-06-14 NASA Scientists Still Dream of, and Plan for, Human Travel to Mars From VOA Learning English, this is As It Is. Welcome back. Im Caty Weaver. On the show today, we look into the future of space exploration. The American space agen

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Dump Provides Livelihood, Brings Perils to Nairobi Poor Sixteen-year-old Joseph is one of the many children working at the Dandora dump site. He has been here since January, when he left school because his family could not afford his school fees. Hes

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Airline Expert: Missile will Show Signature on Debris 航空专家说导弹能显示发射信息 The debris field from Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 is spread over a 21-kilometer radius in eastern Ukraine. It is expected to take investigators months to

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NASA's MAVEN Spacecraft Arrives at Mars 美国宇航局的Maven飞船到达火星 NASAs newest Mars probe, called MAVEN, has successfully entered its designated orbit around the red planet. Scientists will use its sophisticated instruments to try to

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By Carol Pearson Washington 03 July 2007 A second cervical cancer vaccine has passed a key clinical trial and its maker is seeking to use the vaccine in countries around the world. As VOA's Carol Pearson reports, more women may be able to use this ne

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SCOTT SIMON, HOST: The technology that drives science forward accelerates all the time, but science communication - not so much. The basic process still holds many vestiges from its early days - the 17th century, that is. NPR's Richard Harris reports

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DAVID GREENE, HOST: And now we have an update on the fight against the heroin supply. Heroin is made from poppies. Some are grown in Mexico. And the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration recently criticized Mexico's effort to destroy them. The Mexican

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By Jessica Berman Washington 06 February 2008 Researchers say measles, which has been successfully controlled in most countries thanks to vaccination, remains a killer disease in Niger, in part because of migration triggered by the rainy season. VOA'

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The U.N. Special Investigator on the Right To Food says soaring food prices have declined somewhat, but the crisis remains and the problems are exacerbated by the production of bio-fuels. The expert submitted a report to the U.N. Human Rights Counci

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By Lisa Schlein Geneva 14 December 2007 The international group Human Rights Watch has accused the United Nations Human Rights Council of letting Sudan off the hook for continuing human rights abuse in Darfur. The group criticized the Council for pas

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By Lisa Schlein Geneva 09 June 2008 The U.N. Special Investigator into the Human Rights situation of Burma, also known as Myanmar, is calling for an investigation into the alleged killing of prisoners during the early days of Cyclone Nargis. The exp

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The U.S. space agency NASA's Mars probe Phoenix has detected icy snow falling through the Martian atmosphere. The spacecraft has also discovered material in the planet's soil that is leading scientists a step closer in their conclusion that life pro

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The U.N. Special Investigator on the Right To Food says soaring food prices have declined somewhat, but the crisis remains and the problems are exacerbated by the production of bio-fuels. The expert submitted a report to the U.N. Human Rights Council

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