ENVIRONMENT REPORT - December 13, 2002: Bush Proposes to Ease Rules on Industrial Pollution By Cynthia Kirk This is the VOA Special English ENVIRONMENT REPORT. The Bush administration has announced ne

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By Peter Heinlein Zelanbesa, Ethiopia 12 February 2008 United Nations is set to begin withdrawing peacekeeping forces from Eritrea as early as Wednesday. Sources close to the U.N. Mission say the troops will be relocated to the Ethiopian side of the

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BBC Learning English Weekender Carbon Neutral Al Gore Callum:Hello, I'm Callum Robertson and this is Weekender. Al Gore was the vice president of the United States under Bill Clinton from 1993 to 2001. He very nearly became the President in a contro

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Getting a Firm Grip on Weed Control This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. When is a plant considered a weed? Experts at Penn State University have a simple answer: When the undesirable qualities outweigh the good qualities. Consider the

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THIS IS AMERICA - Americans Debating Gun Control From VOA Learning English, welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in Special English. Im Kelly Jean Kelly. And Im Jim Tedder. This week on our program, we talk about one of the most intense debates in America: gun

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Health Report - Why Sleep Apnea Raises Risk of Stroke, Heart Attack This is the VOA Special English Health Report. (SOUND) Loud snoring can be a problem -- and not just for other people trying to sleep with the noise. It can also be a sign of sleep a

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This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Rheumatoid arthritis is a painful disease that can destroy joints. Women are three times more likely to get it than men. Rheumatoid arthritis is considered an autoimmune disease, a disease where the body

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By Ade Astuti and Susy Tekunan Washington 21 September 2007 Muslims around the world are in the midst of marking the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. It is a time when Muslims fast from dawn to dusk while focusing on prayers, charity and personal accou

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Men in Mauritania's capital, Nouakchott, say they are finding it harder to find a wife or stay married if they do. Mauritanian men say their lives and those of women around them are on a difficult straddle between traditional rules and more modern p

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Pro-tobacco Forces Still Strong in Many Countries A study that compiled data on three billion tobacco users worldwide, including thousands of face to face interviews, shows that global tobacco use is greatly influenced by the pro-tobacco lobby. The s

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An elderly victim holds a poster and waits for the verdict in the premises of Bhopal court in Bhopal, India, 07 Jun 2010 The Indian government is looking at the need for tougher laws to deal with industrial disasters, amid outrage in India about puni

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From time to time, researchers stop clinical trials because the results seem almost too good to be true. A new international study shows that is probably because those results are not true. When researchers end a clinical trial early because the resu

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Charities Struggle to Cope With Rising US Poverty Recent U.S. Census Bureau figures show that more than 46 million Americans now live in poverty. Thats the highest amount on record since the agency began tracking poverty rates in 1959. Additionally,

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Control of US Senate Up for Grabs Republican George Allen is scouring Virginia for votes, including the states Asian-American community. His core message: boosting the economy. I just want to make sure that every American, regardless of background or

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Afghan Resort Struggles to Recover from Taliban Attack Like many of the Taliban's high-profile sieges, the Qargha Lake attack played out on TV. Viewers who witnessed it will never forget the images of people clinging to the wall of the Spozhmai resta

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Residents of War-Battered Aleppo Struggle to Survive Government snipers have been shooting people in the streets. Thousands have been killed in Aleppo in the past few months. Parts of the Old City, a UNESCO heritage site, have been heavily damaged as

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US Colleges Struggle to Keep Up with New Technical Skills Northern Virginia Community College near Washington has several campuses and 75,000 students. It offers a two year associate degree. Many of its students, including Marc McCarthy, hope to turn

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By Paul Sisco 07 December 2007 The Mount Washington observatory in (the northeastern U.S. state of) New Hampshire is a non-profit, scientific and educational institution with a mission to advance understanding of the Earth's climate systems. It also

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Troye Sivan是谁?但《金刚狼》你一定知道。幼年金刚狼的扮演者Troye Sivan已经长成了19岁的、小伙子,当你还在沉迷于小金刚狼粉嫩の颜的时候,小伙子已经超越了自己很远,这首新歌《Happy L

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National Confederation of Guinean Workers Secretary-General Rabiatou Serah Diallo speaks to journalists in Conakry (2007 file photo) Over a decree on state radio late Monday, Interim President Sekouba Konate said Rabiatou Serah Diallo would be presid

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