2000年后,世人会记得迪斯尼还是柏拉图? (In 2,000 years, will the world remember Disney or Plato?) LONDON - Down in the mall, between the fast-food joint and the bagel shop, a group of young people huddles in a flurry of baggy combat

发表于:2018-11-29 / 阅读(118) / 评论(0) 分类 四级晨读英语美文

EXPLORATIONS -January 30, 2002: Population and the Environment By Cynthia Kirk VOICE ONE: This is Bob Doughty. VOICE TWO: And this is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program EXPLORATIONS. Tod

发表于:2018-12-07 / 阅读(76) / 评论(0) 分类 Explorations

AS IT IS 2014-03-22 The UN Celebrates Agriculture! 联合国庆祝农业生产 Hello and welcome to As It Is from VOA Learning English! Im Anna Matteo in Washington. On todays As It Is, we will hear two agricultural stories that have something in com

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Aid Worker Kidnapped in Darfur Returns Home After almost three months in captivity, British aid worker Patrick Noonan is going home. Hes very much looking forward to seeing his two daughters, says Bettina Luescher, a World Food Program spokesperson.

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Drought Threatens Turkana Way of Life in Kenya The Turkana region of Kenya is one of the areas hit hardest by drought in the Horn of Africa. A relief organization says while indigenous people are receiving emergency supplies to survive, their traditi

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The Obama administration and congressional law makers are rejecting a plea for clemency from Edward Snowden whose in the sylum in Russia. Snowden met with a German law maker last week and gave him a letter asking the US for clemency for charges of al

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The famine sweeping southern Somalia is posing a painful challenge to humanitarian organizations. Children are dying by the thousands just a few kilometers from warehouses full of emergency food supplies. But the countryside is still a war zone contr

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Eat slowly, chew your food thoroughly, eat with a fork. These table manners dont apply in the world of competitive eating, or sometimes called speed eating. The goal here--eat as much as you can in a short period of time. Ladies and gentlemen, so it

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The online-to-offline, or O2O, catering sector in China is now a multi-billion dollar industry. It's estimated that users will order about 23 billion U.S. dollars' worth of meals online in 2015. This of course wouldn't have been possible without the

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The United Nations is observing World Food Day (Saturday, Oct. 16). Food prices have been climbing in recent months because of bad weather in several major agricultural regions. Experts predict there will be more extreme weather as climate changes, j

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This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. For the past year, the World Food Program has operated a project to prevent hunger in twenty-one countries in Africa. In the project, the United Nations agency works with small farmers to grow more

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This is the VOA Special English Development Report. The latest Global Hunger Index report says the number of hungry people worldwide has fallen twenty-five percent since ninety ninety. Last year the estimate topped one billion for the first time. But

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2011 Saw Challenges of Hunger and Poverty The Worldwatch Institute said in 2011 far too many people were living with less than they needed. It says, for example, nearly one billion people were hungry and just as many were illiterate. Worldwatch Insti

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Five nations will receive the first grants from a new fund aimed at helping developing-world farms like this one in Haiti. Five nations will receive the first grants from a new and unusual fund aimed at helping developing-world farmers. Bangladesh, H

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Carl Lewis blowing the whistle on hunger in Rome to launch the UN's 1 Billion Hungry Project. Carl Lewis dominated the sport of track and field for nearly two decades, earning nine Olympic gold medals in the 1980s and 90s. The athlete still holds the

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Experts say it may be the latest warning of how climate change in some key farming regions could threaten world food supplies. In the new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers examined six years of data from 227 fa

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By Lisa Schlein Geneva 08 November 2009 Sheila Sisulu (file photo) A senior Official at the World Food Program says a pilot project in 21 developing countries, including 15 in Sub-Saharan Africa, to alleviate hunger is showing promising results. In

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By Sabina Castelfranco Rome 16 October 2007 The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization is calling for a renewed commitment to guarantee the right to food for the 850 million hungry people in the world. A ceremony was held at FAO headquarters in Rome

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The United Nations World Food Program says urgent action is needed to prevent what it calls a serious tragedy because of food shortages in North Korea. A bad harvest and soaring world food prices may be creating one of the leanest years in the North

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