远离非理性减肥 We Americans have gone nearly certifiably insane over our weight. 我们美国人已经对于减肥一事已经几近疯狂。 It wasn't enough that the government completely re-designed its food pyramid nutrition guide into col

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Remote US Museum Survives in Hells Canyon The rushing Snake River cut Americas deepest gorge through Idaho in the Rocky Mountains of the American Northwest. Today, its known as Hells Canyon. Every few kilometers along the way, the river widened and s

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1. With the next presidential debate Monday night, the vice-presidential candidates took center stage Saturday. Joe Biden was in Florida, urging people to take advantage of early voting and telling a crowd that Republican Mitt Romney hasn't offer eno

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Vermont: Small in Size, Big in Beauty 小小的佛蒙特,风景多多 From VOA Learning English, welcome to This is America! I'm Steve Ember. 这里是美国之音英语学习,欢迎来到美国,我是斯蒂芬爱明伯。 Today on our program,

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By Lisa McAdams Moscow 27 July 2006 Georgian soldiers sit in truck during an operation in the high-mountain Kodori Gorge, July 26, 2006 Long-running tensions have significantly escalated near the separatist region of Abkhazia in western Georgia, thi

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The Qadisha Valley in northern Lebanon is an area of early Christian monastic settlement where Maronite Christians have been coming to live and pray since the late 7th century. The deep gorge carved by the Qadisha River was deemed a World Heritage Si

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Meat Was Main Dish for Early Humans Modern-day humans eat a lot of meat. Some nutritionists say perhaps too much. But fossils in Tanzania indicate that early humans considered meat a dietary staple much earlier than first thought. Whats more, meat ma

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From their origins of melting glacier in the high Himalayas, thewaters of Ganges descend more than 12,000 feet, carving their way throughprecipitous gorges. There is half a mile drop. Although the Ganges is steepedin history and religious tradition,

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Well, there it is, Molopo Gorge. And that has got to be Norberts little project tucked away. The hot springs were largely funded by a private benefactor and designed to draw all Green Kalahari visitors to Riemvasmaak. Ironically, the town with incons

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But today Riemvasmaak is fully restored -- an unlikely settlement with a famous past, and quite possibly, a future full of visitors like me. But before I head out into the green Kalahari, lets take an aerial look at the route Ive prepared. From the c

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One river has single-handedly created whats known as the Green Kalahari. But my starting point is anything but green. This is true frontier country. That way is Namibia. And there, well, desert emptiness. Luckily for me, the Orange River has sculpted

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I travelled east, following the Yangtze to a small historic site close to the river just outside the booming city of Chongqing. -On my way to meet a guide who's gonna take me across the rest of China, meeting a sacred mountain. Oh, must be Lily. Lily

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-Now people are more and more aware of this issue, because in the past 20 years, Chinese people were really focusing on, you know, develop the economy and get rid of the poverty. And nowadays, lots of people start to really watch the long, long term

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As night fell, Lily and I naturally felt obliged to get a taste of onboard entertainment.-We are here to celebrate China's ancient culture. I've given a happy slapper and a light s*. Some people think of China as unfriendly and a little duller, not a

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Ok. You should keep following a river like this downstream. It will lead to a bigger river, then the coast. Walking has always been a big part of Aboriginal culture. And for them, its about experiencing the landscape and learning to live with nature.

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Coming off these hills is not as easy as I thought. And theres obstacles everywhere you turn. And theres no way Im going to be able to cross this. And thats not the only danger youll face in this wilderness. Ahead are snakes and the most dangerous of

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The Three Gorges Dam has started increasing its discharge capacity ahead of the upcoming flood season. Since last week, the dam has lowered its discharge capacity 3 times. That helped reduce water levels on the Yangtze River for the rescue and salvag

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The army in Tailand has stated a crew suspending the constitution and desolving the government.In its T address,the country's army chief is following to restore peace and impose political reforms.TB broadcasting his suspender and political gatherings

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Former FIFA official Chuck Blazer has admitted to accepting bribes. Now, that related to the selection of France and South Africa to host world cups in 1998 and 2010. The admission was made in a US court in 2013, but the documents have made only now

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Investors in Taiwan looking for the next big thing are setting their sights on Hualien, snapping up hotels in the eastern county in the hopes of striking gold after the highly anticipated arrival of mainland Chinese tourists. Hualien is famed for its

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