Women Deliver Conference Opens The Women Deliver conference opens Tuesday (5/280) in the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur. Organizers call it the largest global meeting of the decade on the health and well-being of women and girls. About 7,000 people h

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We're airborne with the five most popular songs in the Billboard Hot 100 Pop Singles chart, for the week ending April 14, 2018. If you liked last week's lineup, you'll like our new one ... we do get a bit of shuffling just for variety's sake. Number

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Nigeria Oil Spills Double Risk of Infant Mortality, Research Shows Babies are much more likely to die in their first few weeks of life if their mothers live close to the site of an oil spill, according to new research. Scientists studied data on infa

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For some time now, there has been a growing market in Britain for organic food. But with the credit crunch forcing thrifty shoppers to cut back and with food prices generally rocketing, could our love for organics be starting to wilt? During her preg

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At 38, sales manager Nick Armstrong is among a growing number of women who are freezing their eggs in hope of getting pregnant late in life. Hey, Tamie. Its Nick Armstrong, It is Friday morning. Sales manager Nick Armstrong is among millions of wome

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AS IT IS 2015-02-03 India to Change a Culture of Valuing Boys over Girls 印度要改变重男轻女的文化现象 For many years, Indian families seemed more interested in having boys than girls. This choice of boys has led to many illegal abortion

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Study: Women Prefer to Go to Female Health Workers 研究发现女性更喜欢女性卫生工作者 Researchers recently completed a study of a new method of giving health care to women in Northern Nigeria. They found women and children would use hea

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Those mothers who marry younger were significantly more likely to have ... infant and child malnutrition. - Anita Raj Child marriage has been outlawed in India for years. Women cannot legally marry before they reach the age of 18. Yet the practice pe

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Donald Trump suits and ties are made in China Donald Trump blasts companies like Ford and Apple for manufacturing products outside the United States. He even threatened to stop eating Oreo cookies after he learned some production was moving to Mexico

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Maybe we could use those motions to tell us something about our thoughts or our emotions. 也许这可以告诉我们,我们的想法或情绪。 We can also magnify small mechanical movements, 我们同样也可以方法微小的机械运动, li

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BBC News. Tens of thousands of Venezuelans are taking part in the latest demonstrations in cities across the country against President Nicolas Maduro. A student protester has been shot dead in the capital, Caracas, where security forces fired teargas

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Topic1-Should single women have babies out of wedlock A non-profit organization conducted a survey which looks at public opinion over single women's pregnancy. Results showed approximately 90 percent of respondents support single women to have a baby

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But could this effect be transmitted to their offspring? They found nearly 200 women of whom a number had actually been in the Twin Towers. About half of them developed post-traumatic stress disorder.

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DEVELOPMENT REPORT – December 2, 2002: Afghanistan and Maternal Deaths By Jill Moss This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Afghanistan has one of the highest death rates in the world am

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IN THE NEWS - Nomination of Chief Justice Heads to Committee Vote By Jerilyn Watson Broadcast: Saturday, September 17, 2005 I'm Doug Johnson with IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. This week in Washi

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During early pregnancy, miscarriage may be more likely among women with high levels of the stress hormone cortisol, according to a study published online in the Proceedings of the National Academy of

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影片对白 Chandler: Ooh, Lambchop. How old is that sock? If I had a sock on my hand for thirty years it'd be talking too. Ross: Okay. I think it's time to change somebody's nicotine patch. Monica: Hey. Where's Joey? Chandler: Joey ate my last stick o

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DEVELOPMENT REPORT – July 15, 2002: US Money for AIDS in Africa By Jill Moss This is the VOA Special English Development Report. President Bush has announced a new five-hundred-million dollar plan t

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1. Police in Washington say a security guard for a conservative Christian lobbying group has been shot. The guard and others wrestled the man to the ground and he was taken into FBI custody. 2. Starting today, illegal immigrants who came to the Unite

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This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Deep inside each cell in our body is all the genetic information needed for life. Human genes are normally organized along forty-six chromosomes -- twenty-three from each parent. David Petersohn of Libe

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