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Russians Head Into Holiday Facing Economic Malaise 俄罗斯人在经济隐忧中庆祝新年 MOSCOW Russian preparations for the New Year holiday are clouded by economic recession and a tumbling currency, the ruble. Nonetheless, people in the Russia
By Nancy-Amelia Collins Jakarta 09 October 2007 The international environmental organization Greenpeace has opened a forest defenders camp on Indonesia's Sumatra Island to bring global attention to the country's destruction of its forests. VOA's Nanc
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. H1N1 flu continues to spread. Currently the virus is most active in the northern half of the world. But experts say it has become the leading influenza virus in all countries. No one really knows how ma
By Jeff Swicord Cambridge, Maryland 21 June 2007 Efforts are currently underway to revive stalled immigration legislation in the U.S. Senate and bring it to a vote before the congressional recess in early July. In the meantime, businesses that depend
By Phuong Tran N'Djamena, Chad 29 August 2007 Mauritanian nomad children, Messaouda and Lala Fatma in Marseique village Decades of drought in the Sahel desert and its vast mineral reserves, have forced nomads to defend their pastures from both farmer
By Phil Mercer Sydney 19 May 2008 Australia will increase its annual migration intake to 300,000 people a year - the biggest rise since the end of World War II. The increase in the annual quota is intended to address the country's chronic skills shor
US Drought Impacts Global Food Security The United States is the leading producer of corn and soybeans two commodities that developing countries rely on. However, over the past two months, prices have risen sharply as the U.S. experiences its worst d
LA Museum Takes Visitors Outdoors to Showcase Nature For some of these young students, it's their first time getting hands-on experience in a garden. Teacher Eva Eng says her students have been learning about plants in science class. Oh, they really
Climate Change Panel Says Expect More Extreme Weather Extreme weather cut a swath across the world in 2011. For Bill Wing, it began a year ago on New Years Day as he surveyed the damage from a tornado that touched down in Cincinnati, Arkansas. It sou
Smoke from forest fires, largely in Indonesia, has shrouded parts of Southeast Asia in thick haze. It is a seasonal problem in the region that will not go away. Putrajaya's landmark Putra Mosque (l) and Prime Minister's building seen covered by haze
Promising Mosquito Repellent Announced美科学家研发新一代驱蚊剂 In many regions of the world, mosquitoes are a seasonal pest. In other regions, they carry serious diseases like malaria. The World Health Organization estimates that almost 6
Global Concern Grows About Deadly Middle East Respiratory Syndrome The new Middle East Respiratory Syndrome strain was diagnosed in Saudi Arabia last year. It is a coronavirus, the same viral family that triggered the outbreak of SARS, Severe Acute R
US Economy Adds Fewer Jobs Than Expected, Unemployment Falls to 6.1 Percent 美国经济增加的就业少于预期,失业率下降到6.1% WASHINGTON U.S. job growth slowed sharply last month with employers adding only 142,000 jobs in August. Thats w
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: A bar in Washington, D.C., has found a way to combine two holiday season staples, cocktails and cookies. NPR's Neda Ulaby visited the birthplace of the cookie dough cocktail. NEDA ULABY, BYLINE: Even in a season spiked with boozy s
By my calculation, it should explode in three, two, one. How did you do that? Magic. Oh, my god. It went everywhere. Next up, time to join the Q. Q is for quagmire. The one disadvantage to working at the bomb range is that when it rains, it becomes a
By Paul Sisco Washington, DC 02 August 2006 watch Viking report An illustration of a Viking landing on the red planet Thirty years after the first successful landing of a robotic probe on Mars by NASA's Viking spacecraft, the search for life on the
By Nancy-Amelia Collins Jakarta 05 February 2007 Indonesians walk through their flooded neighborhood in Jakarta, 5 Feb 2007 About two-thirds of Indonesia's capital, Jakarta, is under water. Heavy seasonal rains have caused massive flooding, leaving a
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 14 February 2006 Maasai cattle walk through an area stripped of vegetation, in the Amboseli national park in Kenya, January 4, 2006 The U.N. World Meteorological Organization fo
脑白金到底是什么? 褪黑素,又名黑素细胞凝集素,俗称为脑白金,是存在于从藻类到人类等众多生物中的一种荷尔蒙,它在生物中的含量水平随每天的时间变化而变化。 Melatonin, sometimes ca
Sometime Cavemen 我们的祖先是否一直生活在一个地方呢?山顶洞人就一直生活在山洞里吗? From the bestselling novel Clan of the Cave Bear to the 1981 movie Caveman, pop-culture tends to misrepresent prehistoric people as c