FAO Declared 2014 the International Year of Family Farming 联合国粮农组织宣布2014年为国际家庭农业年 From VOA Learning English, this is the Agriculture Report. 这里是美国之音慢速英语农业报道。 Family farming has been

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By Chad Bouchard Jakarta, Indonesia 13 November 2006 Conservationists in Indonesia have warned that fires set to clear land have killed and injured hundreds of endangered orangutans. Environmentalists are also concerned the burning of rainforest and

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Survival at Stake For Girl, Dad in 'Beasts of The Southern Wild' Beasts of the Southern Wild, the small film from a new director, won the Grand Jury prize at the Sundance Festival and then the prestigious Camera D'Or at Cannes. It's a tale of surviva

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Owner of Crippled Japanese Nuclear Plant Fights for Survival Facing tens of billions of dollars in liabilities, clean-up costs and the eventual decommissioning of its Fukushima power plant, Tokyo Electric Power Company, known as TEPCO, is in a fight

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Yellow Pages Fight For Survival Many of the worlds telephone directories include a section in yellow which lists phone numbers for businesses, not peoples homes. In some places, its pink or another color. In Americas big cities, there are entire yell

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Oklahoma Tornado Victims Share Stories of Survival Among the countless buildings struck by the three-kilometer-wide tornado were two elementary schools - hit just as students were about to be released for the day. Sherry Biddle, a teacher at Briarwoo

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By Wajid Ali Syed Washington, DC 12 September 2006 watch Afghan Boy's Heart Surgery Stories of love and hope emerge amid the violence of every war. For writer Wajid Ali Syed, VOA's Jim Bertel (narrator) introduces us to a young Afghan boy who has ta

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The U.N. children's fund says infant morality around the world has dropped nearly 30 percent during the past two decades. But that improvement in child survival is far smaller in West and Central Africa where growing populations are straining health

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Cancers of the oesophagus kill more than 500,000 people across the world each year. It's the sixth most common cause of cancer death in the UK. The tumours are especially deadly, with five-year survival rates of just 12 to 31 percent. However Dr Shar

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Caterpillar VS Plant 植物大战毛毛虫 If you have kids, youve probably read the children's book: The Very Hungry Caterpillar , see, at least five thousand times. If you havent had the pleasure, heres a brief plot summary. A caterpillar hatch es

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Camels 骆驼,被称做为沙漠之舟,它能够忍耐干燥酷热的环境,并且可以在水源极其缺乏的浩瀚沙漠里长途跋涉,是人们沙漠之旅中不可缺少的伙伴.那么,人们是不是真的了解骆驼呢?曾经有两位美国科

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