(France is known for its hundreds of) cheeses. The most famous is perhaps the soft round Camembert, now enjoyed all over the world, but to be considered a real Camembert, the cheese must be made in Normandy, in northwestern France from the milk of No

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This is the VOA Special English Health Report. People since ancient times have used aspirin-like medicines to fight pain and reduce high body temperature. Boxes of aspirin at a drugstore in Chicago Modern research has found other uses for aspirin. T

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By Tom Rivers London 05 October 2009 Three U.S.-based scientists have won the 2009 Nobel prize for medicine for their discovery into how chromosomes are copied and protected. The work casts important light on cancer and the aging process. . Elizabet

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The Anatomy of Fear One nice day youre walking along a wooded path. You come around a corner and there, coiled in the path, is a huge rattlesnake , its rattles abuzz. You are deathly afraid of snakes. Various parts of the brain signal the nervous sys

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