Eating Contaminated Food Rachel: This tastes funny. Sergey: Its fine. Theres nothing wrong with it. Rachel: It tastes like its tainted or something. Dont you detect a funny metallic taste? Sergey: No, its perfectly fine. Just eat it. Rachel: I swear

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ESL Podcast 1183 Air and Water Pollution Julia: Stop poisoning us! Stop poisoning us! Robert: Why are you picketing in front of this factory? Julia: This factory is polluting our air and water. Theyre responsible for contaminating the environment wit

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This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. American farmers first planted genetically engineered crops in nineteen ninety-six. Today eighty percent of the cropland for soybeans, maize and cotton in the United States is transgenic. Genetic en

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Sam: Now our count it down to Earth Day. We are showing you how to green in every aspect of your life, how to go green. And we are kicking off this series this morning with Deirdre Imus, the author of Growing Up Green!---Baby and Child Care. Now her

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IBMs own data revealed that its workers making computer chips had 40% more miscarriages, and were significantly more likely to die from blood, brain and kidney cancer. The same thing is starting to happen all around the world. It turns out the high-t

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Azaria Chamberlain's father says another inquest into her death could begin early next year. Northern Territory officials are preparing a new investigation. That's 30 years after the baby disappeared at Uluru. This morning, Doctor Michael Chamberlain

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On her first international trip as Prime Minister, Julia Gillard has admitted the foreign relation is not her passion. The Prime Minister is at the Asia-Europe Meeting in Brussels, meeting with foreign dignitaries there. A state of emergency has been

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The top stories from ABC News. Unions are calling on the Federal government to low ?coal tax to prevent the closure of the x refinery.The company says the plant is too old and small to compete with Asian refineries.330 jobs will be lost when the plan

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This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. President Obama held a White House conference this month to discuss ways to prevent bullying in school. But bullying is a problem not just among young people. Workplace bullying can involve threats, b

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In his last ever government work report, Wen Jiabao is warning China's development model is facing problems which are unbalanced, uncoordinated and unsustainable. The Chinese premier listed several issues in the development of the world's second larg

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A new round of food safety checks is underway in China after reports emerged suggesting a number of egg-processing plants have been using potentially-toxic copper sulphate to help pickle lime-preserved duck eggs. CRI's Li Dong has more details. Gener

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Can Oxygen Be Toxic? 氧气有毒吗? In order for us to live we must have oxygen, so how can it be bad for us? Today we explain how oxygen can be toxic. 氧气是我们生存所必需的,所以它怎么会对我们有害呢?今天我们来解释

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Secondhand Smoke 二手烟 Secondhand smoke is the combination of sidestream smoke (the smoke given off by a burning tobacco product) and mainstream smoke (the smoke exhaled by a smoker). 二手烟包括侧流烟(烟草产品燃烧释放的烟)和主

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Thank you Chad, for those kind words and for the even kinder work that you and the Human Rights Campaign Foundation do every dayespecially on behalf of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender young people here and across America. 谢谢Chad,谢谢

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Rachel Carson (19071964) was a pioneer of the global environmental movement through her writing about conservation. Her 1962 book Silent Spring made her famous. It describes the harmful effects on the environment of using toxic chemicals on farmland.

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United States President Donald Trump has tweeted that Russia should be ready for a missile strike in Syria. In the message on the social media service Twitter, Trump said, You shouldnt be partners with a Gas Killing Animal who kills his people and en

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In the early morning hours of December 3, 1984, deadly gas leaked from a Union Carbide pesticide factory in Bhopal, India. The accident would result in the worst industrial disaster of the 20th centur

发表于:2019-01-03 / 阅读(212) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA2004(下)--世界经济

We begin tonight with breaking news on the eve of the 11th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, a hard-fought win for first responders, those men and women who were exposed to deadly toxins at Ground Zero. They will now finally have health cover for 58 d

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1. Travellers zip through the first Palestinian-run border,the newly opened Rafah gate between the Gaza Strip and neighbouring Egypt. 2. US troops who burned 2 Taliban rebels' bodies face discipline,

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Crews are drilling holes hoping to ventilate toxic gas from a West Virginia mine where 25 miners were killed. Four miners are being missing. Once the mine is ventilated, officials say teams will need four to five hours to reach the area where rescue

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