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When did sport begin? If sport is, in essence, play, the claim might be made that sport is much older than humankind, for , as we all have observed, the beasts play. Dogs and cats wrestle and play bal
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Global Water Outlook 2025: Averting an Impending Crisis, uses 1) sophisticated computer modeling to project how water demand and availability around the world are likely to evolve. The report includes
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US Nonprofit Working to End Homelessness 美国非营利组织帮助无家可归者结束流浪生活 As many homeless shelters across the U.S. remain at or near capacity, the country faces complicated challenges. In his fiscal 2017 budget, President
VOA标准英语2016年(四月)
在上一讲中我们跟您谈了生产和经济活动中的效率，也就是efficiency，包括： 1 productive efficiency 生产效率 2 allocative efficiency 配置效率 3 dynamic efficiency 动态
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本文看点 凯利发表的《新经济之新规则》一书提示了网络经济中取得成功的丰富法则 ――力量来源于丰富(Power comes from abundance), 这与传统的物以稀为贵(Value comes from scarcity)恰恰相反。一些明智
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Rethinking the Good Life A new report says the global economy that sprang from the industrial revolution may not be suitable for sustainable growth in the 21st Century. The Worldwatch Institute says environmental stress, economic volatility and growi
VOA标准英语2012年(四月)
UN Warns Against Land Degradation A top U.N. advisor said on Friday that every minute, 23 hectares of land are degraded by drought and desertification. He said its damaging the economic, social and environmental pillars needed for sustainable develop
VOA标准英语2011年(十二月)
Steven Solomon's new book, Water: the Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power and Civilization, is a comprehensive look at how societies through the ages have organized around this vital and often scarce resource. Revolutionary advances Solomon describes tra
VOA标准英语2010年(七)月
Children sit in an overcrowded classroom at Dixin Centre 2 primary school in Conakry, Guinea, 6 May 2010 Guinea's Political Parties Debate Deposit to Run in Next Month's Presidential Poll In Guinea, the number of children attending school has dropped
VOA标准英语2010年(五)月
Eye doctors in India are now able to treat patients in remote villages thanks to a new wi-fi video conferencing network. In this eye clinic in Andipatti village in Tamil Nadu state, patients are seeing things a little differently. Patient Rajamanicka
VOA标准英语2010年(五)月
UN: Dont Let Our Future Dry Up June 17 is World Day to Combat Desertification. In 1992, the Rio Earth Summit described desertification as one of the greatest challenges to development. This years theme is drought and water scarcity. Water covers most
VOA标准英语2013年(六月)
The fifth World Water Forum opened on Monday in Istanbul, Turkey. Thousands of people are at the meeting - from heads of state and environmental and business leaders to scientists and activists - to discuss ways to manage and conserve the precious re
VOA双语新闻 2009年3月
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Today we take our control of water for granted. Modern civilization couldn't exist without it. But there is still only a finite amount of water to go around. In many parts of the world, scarcity has led to a bitter struggle for control over the avail
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Climate Change Affecting Water Resources 气候变化影响水资源 Scientists say climate change will not affect all regions of the world equally especially when it comes to fresh water. The latest computer models indicate some places will get a lo
VOA常速英语2013年(十二月)
A large scale water transfer project slated to be completed by October this year is set to alleviate some of Beijing's water shortages. A large scale water transfer project slated to be completed by October this year is set to alleviate some of Beiji
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To Muslims, the life of Muhammad is a story revered in its mysteries as much as its certainties that our beliefs held sacred. Whatever we can tell about the prophet, of course, is screened through the filter of what has been preserved over the centur
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US Adds 103,000 Jobs, Unemployment Still 9.1 Percent The U.S. economy added 103,000 jobs in September, but the nation's unemployment rate held steady at 9.1 percent for the third straight month. Although September's job growth was stronger than most
VOA标准英语2011年(十月)
From VOA Learning English, this is IN THE NEWS in Special English. A new American intelligence report this week predicted Asias economic power rising in the coming years. The report says that by the year 2030, the United States will no longer be the
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We expect companies selling products to make them as available as possible. But now some of them are bringing back rationing. As you might expect, it's all part of a plan to make us spend more, not less. Once upon a time, goods were scarce, and hard
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