By Lisa Schlein Geneva 31 May 2008 The World Health Organization (WHO) is urging governments to ban all tobacco advertising. The aim is to protect the world's youth from becoming addicted to a product WHO says could cause one billion premature deaths

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(91) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2008年(五月)

With a loan from a relative and a recipe he found in the basement at the local public library, Ernest Gallo founded what would become, at one point, the world's largest winery. The legendary wine maker died Tuesday at his home in Modesto, California

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By Lisa McAdams Moscow 26 April 2006 Ukrainians participate in a ceremony to commemorate those who died after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, at the memorial to Chernobyl firefighters in the city of S

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By Scott Stearns White House 19 April 2007 President Bush says pulling U.S. troops out of Iraq prematurely would put Americans at greater risk of another terrorist attack. VOA White House Correspondent Scott Stearns reports, opposition Democrats have

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By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 25 September 2009 An image from India's Chandrayan 1 spacecraft shows the distribution of water-rich minerals around a small crater on the surface of the Moon, 24 Sep 2009 India is triumphant at the role played by its in

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Agreement to Resume Iran Nuclear Talks Aims to Prevent Regional Arms Race The agreement to restart talks over Iran's nuclear program includes demands by permanent members of the U.N. Security Council and Germany for concrete and practical steps to re

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Sunday's suicide car bombing at a military camp in the Somali capital is raising alarm about how much foreign support the radical al-Shabab group may be receiving in its ongoing war against Somalia's U.N.-backed government. An explosion at an allege

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The United Nations' World Meteorological Organization says there is a close relationship between weather-climate systems and global pollution. The organization says these relationships also affect people's health. The World Meteorological Organizati

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Premature Babies Have Higher Death Rates in Young Adulthood 早产儿成年后死亡风险高 Premature babies have more than their share of health problems early in life and now a new study finds they also face an increased risk of premature death w

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World Prematurity Day Aims to Lower Rates of Premature Births This tiny newborn is one of more than 15 million babies who start their lives with a major disadvantage...being born too soon. Preterm birth is the greatest killer of newborns around the w

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Low-Cost Incubator May Save More Babies 低成本保温箱为早产婴儿迎来生存希望 Each year, about 1 million babies throughout the world die of complications due to premature birth. Many of them could have been saved if given access to an i

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Africa's First Ladies Promote Women's, Children's Health The risk of death from childbirth is still very real for women in countries throughout Africa. Whether their children will reach adulthood is another worry. The first ladies of Guinea, Mali, Mo

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Revolutionizing Power in Refugee Camps Could Save Lives and Money 改革难民营能源供给方式或能拯救人民生命 LONDON Millions of dollars and thousands of lives could be saved by overhauling the way energy is provided to refugee camps, a

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STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Hospitals around this country have been upgrading neonatal intensive care units to include personal webcams for each tiny patient. But Blake Farmer of member station WPLN in Nashville reports the video streams are for much more t

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By Lisa Schlein Washington 09 February 2006 Anti-tobacco campaigners accuse tobacco companies of undermining a global tobacco control treaty and national policies based on it. They are urging delegate

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By Bill Rodgers Washington, DC 15 September 2006 watch Iraq report The latest violence in Iraq is causing deepening concern in Washington, both in the U.S. Congress and the Bush administration. Lawmakers of both parties are worried that the Iraqi go

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By Cindy Saine Washington 05 March 2008 Senator Hillary Clinton scored crucial primary wins Tuesday in Texas, Ohio and Rhode Island, reviving her campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination. But her opponent, Senator Barack Obama, has more pl

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Weve all been bored from time to time. Sometimes, when were really at loose ends, we might even say were bored to death or so bored I could die! We dont really mean it, of course. But according to one study, it may be true. That is, it seems possible

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Your teenage son wrecks the car. Your daughter shows up with her recently paroled boyfriend. These are the sorts of things that can make your hair turn gray overnight. Actually, it's impossible for hair to completely change color overnight. Hair colo

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The Town That Fought A Volcano, And Won 火山喷发(volcanic eruption)是一种奇特的地质现象,是地壳运动的一种表现形式,也是地球内部热能在地表的一种最强烈的显示。是岩浆等喷出物在短时间内从火

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