VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I'm Barbara Klein. VOICE TWO: Dwayne Speller, 22, waits to talk to a job adviser in Las Vegas, Nevada, earlier this month. The nation's unemployment rate rose to 8.1 percent in February,

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AS IT IS 2014-03-21 Yanukovych Corruption Linked to Current Problems in Ukraine Hello again, and welcome back. Im Jim Tedder in Washington with a program that will help you learn and improve your American English. Today we continue to look at the sit

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Big health news this morning and a wake-upcall about salts. A new study at Harvard says salt plays a role in the death of2.3 million people a year across the world. And it also turns out that 10% ofdeaths here in the U.S.are linked to eating too much

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Health Report - Europe's Economic Problems Linked to Rise in Suicides 健康报道 - 欧洲经济危机导致自杀率上升 This is the VOA Special English Health Report. 这里是美国之音慢速英语健康报道。 A study says more people are

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Air Pollution Linked to Cognitive Decline Several years ago a massive survey of women called the Nurses' Health Study began collecting data on memory, thinking skills and other cognitive measures. Jennifer Weuve of the Rush Institute of Healthy Aging

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Study: HIV, Food Insecurity Closely Linked A new study says Africa suffers from a co-epidemic of HIV/AIDS and food insecurity. Researchers say treatment and better nutrition go hand-in-hand in controlling the epidemic. Dr. Sheri Weiser said when peop

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Researchers have identified a link between dementia and the brain damage that can occur in older people with high blood pressure and other forms of cardiovascular disease. High blood pressure, high cholesterol, and other conditions that affect blood

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A cluster of villages in China's Guizhou province has been plagued by an outbreak of disease that damages teeth and bones. Now, a new study by Chinese and American researchers puts the blame on polluted coal burned in home fireplaces. In small quanti

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Getting a flu shot can help prevent influenza. But now, a large study in Britain indicates that older adults who get an annual flu vaccination are less likely to suffer a heart attack. The study involved more than 78,000 people, age 40 and older. Our

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Ebola Linked to Higher Maternal Mortality The World Bank warns the Ebola deaths of hundreds of healthcare workers could cause maternal mortality rates to soar in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. The disease has killed health workers at a higher rate

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By Melinda Smith Washington 15 August 2007 The Western diet, consisting of high fatfoods, is not beneficialfor cancer patients Worldwide statistics show that colon cancer kills more than 600,000 people every year. Now, a new study confirms that diet

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By Peter Fedynsky Washington, DC 08 September 2006 watch report Bush Speeches President Bush delivers a speech on the global war on terror at a Georgia Public Policy Foundation event at the Cobb Galleria Center in suburban Atlanta, Thursday, Sept. 7

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Feds Charge Russian Student, Linked To NRA, With Conspiracy ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Just hours after the meeting between President Trump and Vladimir Putin, the Justice Department had a surprise. Authorities charged a Russian graduate student with carryin

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今天我们要学的词是dry up。 Dry up, 意思是耗尽,用光。今年年初开始的阿拉伯革命目前的焦点集中在叙利亚,随着西方国家的制裁,As cash starts to dry up, more Syrians see that the current regime is not su

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By Carol Pearson Washington, D.C. 17 July 2006 watch Alcoholism report Most adult alcoholics in the United States began drinking before the age of 21. That's the result of a new survey of 43,000 Americans. Teenage girls in a bar I think girls my age

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By Carol Pearson Washington 10 October 2007 If you have had a heart attack, doctors recommend a good diet and regular exercise in order to prevent another one. But even if you follow your doctor's advice, a stressful job may mean more heart problems

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Just days after Beijing passed a plan to fight air pollution, its neighboring city Tianjin has also passed a scheme to make its sky clearer. The program features two short-term goals. 就在几天前北京通过一项预防污染的议案,现在其邻

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今天我们要学的词是compulsion。 Compulsion, 可以用来指自身难以控制的冲动。最近一项研究发现,智能手机用户查看手机频率高达平均每天34次。 Experts say the 'checking habit' has almost become a compulsio

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A group linked to al-Qaida has taken responsibility for last week's rocket attacks from Lebanon into Israel. Two Lebanese women next to an Indonesian UN peacekeepers' armored personnel carrier on the border with Israel a day after rockets launched f

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By Sarah Williams 08 October 2009 Interview with Mike Parker Pearson, University of Sheffield, UK Download (MP3) Stonehenge British archeologists have found evidence of an ancient site related to the world-famous Stonehenge in southwest England. The

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