The descendants of longtime urban dwellers show increased genetically driven resistance to tuberculosis, due to evolutionary selection pressure over millennia. Christopher Intagliata reports 城市长久居住民的后代,经过数千年的自然选择

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Many Remained Displaced in Kenya in 2012 A lot of people were displaced in Kenya in 2012. A year-end report says hundreds of thousands remained or were newly displaced by many causes. The Internal Displacement Monitoring Center says displacement is n

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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 Siberia salamander is one of only a few species on the planet that can survive the deep freeze like this. Moving 15,000 km to Siberia's southern steppes, the landscape dramatically changes. Pine forests give way to what look like African plains.

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The Yakut are an ancient people, thought to have migrated north to Yukutia around 700 years ago. And while most have become urbanized, 400,000 still live as traditional nomadic herders. The herdsmen must get the animals to new grazing before the snow

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On the southern edge of Ngorongoro Swamp, the lake cats have a new opportunity to make a big kill. Buffalo have poor vision. They are only 30 meters away, but in the dim morning light, they can't see the pride. While they don't see very well, buffalo

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Arabian camels and nomadic people are the most recent in a long line of Saharan pioneers. The history of this great region is told in ancient rock art, glimpses of a vanished world. Just a few thousan

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EU Pledges Security Cooperation with African Union Representing the presidency of the African Union, Nigerian Foreign Minister Olu Adeniji made an appeal for EU support, during a press conference afte

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Broadcast: May 27, 2004 Memorial Day weekend is almost here, and with it, the unofficial start of America's summer season. Traditionally, Memorial Day is the busiest day in the year for traveling carnivals with their trained animals, games of chance

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By Selah Hennessy Dakar 27 September 2007 Army troops in Mali have retaken an area in the northeast of the country that was controlled by rebel Tuareg fighters. The largely nomadic, Berber Tuareg have carried out a series of raids in the isolated des

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With tensions mounting just three months before a critical referendum on secession in southern Sudan, deadlock surrounding the status of the Abyei region has presented another threat to the stability of post-referendum Sudan. In an interview Wednesda

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Archaeologists Hope to Solve Ancient Mystery Many archaeologists believe humans first migrated to North America over the Bering Strait 15,000-to-18,000 years ago. They lived a nomadic lifestyle of hunting and gathering. Then, starting about 2,000 yea

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Ok, Jules, I didnt make you walk all this way for nothing. Good. Ah these! So cave paintings. Yes, yes. These are San paintings. You may know them as Bushmen. The San Bushmen. Yes. Youre looking at basically the history of Drakensberg and we call it

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DEVELOPMENT REPORT - 'Paper Architect' Pens Creative Solutions for Refugee Housing By Jill Moss Broadcast: Monday, May 23, 2005 I'm Gwen Outen with the VOA Special English Development Report. Shigeru

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To Muslims, the life of Muhammad is a story revered in its mysteries as much as its certainties that our beliefs held sacred. Whatever we can tell about the prophet, of course, is screened through the filter of what has been preserved over the centur

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By Phuong Tran Dakar 10 August 2007 The rebel group Niger Movement for Justice says it launched two attacks late Thursday in the uranium-rich Agadez region, sparking skirmishes with government forces that ended in the killing of two civilians. A rebe

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图片1 Beginners. Two weeks ago we learned about Andorra, one of the smallest countries on the planet. Today, we will get to know a little about the biggest country in the world, mighty Russia. It measures over six and a half million square miles, a

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The long-running proxy wars between Chad and Sudan could be nearing an end following a rare meeting between the two nations' leaders in the Sudanese capital. The enmity between the two regimes has helped fuel the ongoing conflict in Darfur. Alan Bosw

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青年节、青年人英语怎么说? 青年都和youth这个词有关: Youth Day: 青年节 Youth: 青年 Young people: 年轻人 和中文一样young people比youth更加口语化。 在美国还有一个词更常用来形容现在的年轻人:

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Todd: So Heidi, I was talking with my friend and he actually lives in Mongolia now and he says its a great place. He recommended that I go there. So if I go to Mongolia, what season is the best season to go? Heidi: Fall. Todd: In the fall? Heidi: Yes

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