VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: An artist's drawing shows a lawyer giving his closing arguments to the jury during a federal court case in Washington, D.C. in 2007. And I'm Barbara Klein. Thi

发表于:2018-12-07 / 阅读(67) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA慢速英语2009年(八)月

Its been said that clothes make the man, but can a suit make the swimmer? Thats the question at the US Olympic swimming trials today in Omaha, Nebraska. A revolutionary new swimsuit has been getting as much attention as the athletes wearing them. NB

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The World Health Organization says about 500,000 people die every year from seasonal flu. To combat that, doctors recommend getting a flu vaccine at the beginning of each flu season and researchers are now working on a universal vaccine that could pr

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Analyst: After ICC Ruling, Kenya Must Accept Hague Trials A legal analyst says Kenya has no choice but to continue with the International Criminal Court trials now that judges have rejected the country's attempt to stop proceedings at The Hague. Late

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By Kent Klein Washington 26 March 2008 AIDS researchers are discussing where to go next, after a potential vaccine failed in two human trials several months ago. As VOA's Kent Klein reports, numerous approaches were considered at the Summit on HIV Va

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The World Health Organization says it expects the first anti-Swine Flu vaccines to be available in September. WHO says clinical trials to test their efficacy and safety are going on in five countries. Technicians handle samples to be tested for swin

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By Melinda Smith Washington 24 March 2008 Scientists who have worked for decades to find a vaccine for the HIV and AIDS infections will meet next week at the U.S. National Institute of Health in Bethesda, Maryland to chart a future course for researc

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Researchers went to the U.S. Capitol Thursday to plead for more funding so that a breast cancer vaccine could be tested on humans. The doctors from Cleveland Clinic in Ohio say their vaccine has prevented cancer in laboratory mice, but they are unabl

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From time to time, researchers stop clinical trials because the results seem almost too good to be true. A new international study shows that is probably because those results are not true. When researchers end a clinical trial early because the resu

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While the most promising AIDS vaccine trial ever took place in Thailand, Africa is playing a major role in AIDS vaccine research. The International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) works in partnership with African countries in researching the virus wh

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Governments, Competitors Cooperate to Produce Ebola Vaccine 竞争者合作开发埃博拉疫苗 The worst Ebola outbreak in history is in its second year, and scientists around the world are working to develop a vaccine against the virus. Since Dece

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Florida Keys Opposition Stalls Tests Of Genetically Altered Mosquitoes DAVID GREENE, HOST: The fight against the Zika virus has a new weapon, a genetically engineered mosquito. It's recently been approved by federal regulators and may soon be availab

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The Last Nuremberg Prosecutor Has 3 Words Of Advice: 'Law Not War' play pause stop mute unmute max volume 00:0005:04repeat repeat off Update Required To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Fla

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Iraq's interim government says war crime trials of members of the former regime of Saddam Hussein could begin as early as next week. In the meantime, at least two people were killed and as many as 13 wounded early Tuesday when, for the second time in

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New Studies on HIV Treatment as Prevention 最新关于艾滋病毒的预防治疗研究 Recent studies have shown that antiretroviral drugs can be used not only to treat HIV, but also to prevent infection in the first place. Its called pre-exposure

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Faiza Elmasry | Washington, DC 03 December 2009 In 1994, President Ronald Reagan wrote a letter telling the world he had Alzheimer's disease When former President Ronald Reagan designated November as National Alzheimer's Awareness month in 1983, roug

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China's first domestically-built aircraft carrier has set out from a port in Liaoning on its maiden voyage to start sea trials. The 50,000-ton vessel, codenamed Type 001A, is the second aircraft carrier launched by China. It follows the carrier Liaon

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The Minister of Justice, Simon Power, wants to limit trial by jury to serious crimes. At the moment, anyone who is accused of a crime which could bring a sentence of three months in jail, can choose to have a jury trial. The problem is that this take

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Topics: Salem Witch Trials; National Endowment for the Arts; in fact versus as a matter of fact; even versus even though; to look at Words: witch supernatural trial fit to afflict outcast to hang mass hysteria endowment grant subjective to abolish in

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May 3 marks the 70th anniversary of the beginning of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, better known as the Tokyo Trials. To honor the occasion, China released a series of books related to the transcripts of the proceedings in Shan

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