Technology Report - IBM Says Minds Will Control Machines Within Five Years This is the VOA Special English Technology Report. Controlling a device with your mind. Powering your home with the energy of your own activities. These are two of the develop

发表于:2018-12-16 / 阅读(64) / 评论(0) 分类 2012年VOA慢速英语(一)月

By Joseph Mok and Zhan Jun Juneau, Alaska 30 May 2006 watch Glacier Trekkers report Juneau, the capital of Alaska, was founded as a gold-mining camp 200 years ago. Today, it is filled with cruise ship passengers and people known as trekkers, who are

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Technology is constantly narrowing the gap between science fiction and reality, bringing fundamental changes into our lives. 日新月异的科技不断缩小科幻小说和科学事实间的差距,还给我们的生活带来根本上的改变。 A

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Korean War POW Wayman Simpson remembers the Korean officer who led the Tiger Death March, a brutal trek that claimed nearly 100 lives. This is Dave Isay, creator of StoryCorps, the project that records the stories of everyday Americans. StoryCorps a

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The Sneaky Danger of Space Dust暗藏威胁的太空微尘 Aside from all the satellites, and the space station orbiting the Earth, there's a lot of trash circling the planet, too. Twenty-one thousand baseball-sized chunks of debris, according to NAS

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Basking in the Land of Smiles 泰好玩! What do you look for when choosing a travel destination? We all have our own ideas about what makes a great vacation, but no matter what you are looking for, there is a good chance that you will find it in T

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Hundreds of thousands of southern Sudanese who fled their homeland during Sudan's civil war are signing up to vote absentee in the January 9 independence referendum. Former war orphans, the so-called 'Lost Boys', are leading the absentee vote campaig

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By Alan Silverman Hollywood 26 September 2007 The short life of 24-year-old self-styled adventurer Chris McCandless, chronicled in a best-selling book by Jon Krakauer, became an inspiration for young people seeking to reconnect with nature and face t

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Three people have been killed and more than a hundred others injured in violent clashes that have erupted in Indian Kashmir, surrounding the controversial transfer of land to a Hindu shrine trust. Anjana Pasricha has a report from New Delhi on the l

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Koreans Ecstatic Pyeongchang Will Host 2018 Winter Olympics The South Korean resort of Pyeongchang has been selected to host the 2018 Winter Olympics. It took only one round of voting in Durban, South Africa, for Pyeongchang to defeat Munich, Germany

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Kids Making Horror Movie Uncover Mystery in 'Super 8' Writer-director J.J. Abrams teams up with producer Steven Spielberg for a sci-fi adventure set in the 1970's about kids who dream of making movies when they grow up. Things get exciting when their

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Brad Paisley Pays Tribute to Country Music Entertainment Weekly's review of Brad Paisley's new album, This Is Country Music, reads, The whole record plays like a best-of sampler - not just for Paisley, but for the history of the art form. Brad Paisle

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Undocumented Immigrants Face Perilous Journey to US, No Guarantees RIO GRANDE VALLEY, TEXAS Every day, hundreds of undocumented immigrants from Central America attempt the arduous journey through Mexico and turn themselves over to U.S. border patrol

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知名饮料公司太阳能集装箱净水屋为肯尼亚提供安全饮用水 Kajiado gets little rainfall.The Kenyan capital, Nairobi, is 125 miles away from Esther Kume's homestead.The mother of nine has to buy 10 jerry cans of water a day from lo

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German Program Helps Migrants Overcome Traumatic Experience at Sea 德国帮渡海移民摆脱重建自信 Migrants fleeing poverty and violence in parts of Africa, the Middle East and Asia risk life and limb to reach safety in Europe. After a long a

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LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: This is Lulu's log, stardate November 4, 2018, where we consider matters of space, the stars and the universe. (SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) GARCIA-NAVARRO: When looking up at the stars, it's hard not to wonder what else or even who

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Dias and his crew were the very first northern hemisphere sailors to make it around the Cape of Good Hope, making Mossel Bay a start point for 500 years of European involvement in South Africa. Dias merely stopped here to replenish supplies and met p

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At the peak of the dry season in the Kalahari, water arrives in the Okavango. It fell as rain a thousand miles away in the highlands of Angola and has taken nearly five months to reach here. The water drives out insects from the parched ground which

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By Brian Padden Anchorage, Alaska 09 August 2006 watch Alaska Global Warming Global warming is considered a cause of glaciers melting While there is still an ongoing debate about the extent and impact of global warming worldwide, many scientists bel

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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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